flames nationwide. >> ifill: ray suarez has the story of newly released documents revealing how the milwaukee archdiocese dealt with dozens of catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children. >> woodruff: as president obama ends his africa trip, we look at the administration's outreach to the continent to bolster trade and investment and build on former president bush's efforts to combat aids. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown talks with the lead guitarist of the band phish, trey anastasio, about the art of the jam, and life as a music man. >> a lot of the people that come see us have been coming for 20, 30 years. as strange as it sounds, i have relationships with people who stand like ten rows back and dance. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: egypt's political crisis deepened today as the military pressed president mohammed morsi to make concessions to the opposition. massive crowds took to the streets again today keeping up the pressure on the embattled morsi. the military deadline energized many of them. >> the army and the people are united. the army is supporting the people not any regime or any government. >> egypt's state news service reportedded that military general said the elected parliament should be dissolved, the constitution suspended and an interim administration created if the egyptian president is unable to create a road map to wreck son sill iation with opponents by tomorrow. he was pictured meeting with morsi. egypt's prime minister was seed between them. but his political isolation has increased. in a statement released overnight morsi's office said he was not insulted by the military about its ultimatum. we will not allow egypt with all forces to return backwards under any circumstances, the sphaiment read. we all chose democratic means as the only safe way to manage our differences of opinion. president obama also phoned morsi last night. a white house statement released afterward read in part the president told president morsi that the united states is committed to the democratic process in egypt and does not support any single party or group. he stressed that democracy is about more than elections. egyptian army attack helicopters circled tahrir square today. many protestors who saw it as a sign of solidarity welcomed the military's move. >> no, the army did not carry out a coups. this is the people's will. the muslim brotherhood has failed. they failed to government. >> the military statement yesterday was a great statement and made all the egyptian people honor and salute our supreme council of the armed forces. >> outside the aviation ministry armored vehicles showed military force. soldiers stood by as observers. but morsi supporter vowed to resist any efforts to drive the egyptian president from office. >> the general yesterday did a great service to the revolution because he readied the islamic forces once more. they say it is in they say it isn't a military coups. in fact it is a liberal secular coups against the egyptian revolution. >> ifill: the opposition agreed to designate mohammed al bar day as its delegate to any political negotiations. meanwhile, senior member of the muslim brotherhood denounced the military's edict as a mistake. >> it failed to mention the word "constitution" or "law." i think there were many external and internal powers behind the were spent to back alio coterrelution aga t egyptian revolution. that toppled hosni mubarak and his regime. >> ifill: with tensions at a breaking point this afternoon, there were reports of armed clashes and casualties between morsi-backers and opponents in cairo. a short time ago, president morsi announced via twitter that he will be holding "onto constitutional legitimacy" and called on the egyptian military to withdraw its ultimatum. for more i'm joined by nancy youssef of mcclatchy newspapers in cairo. nancy, this is unfolding even as we speak. we also heard via twitter this afternoon that president morsi said he is not going to give into this ultimatum by the military. what is the health of his regime tonight? >> well, as you mentioned earlier at least five of his ministers resigned. two government spokesmen, a cabinet spokesman, and the streets are as packed as they were yesterday and the day before. and it shows no signs of subsiding. tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. the army deadline will be here. and we expect that the burden will fall on the military to resolve this impasse which, from morsi's speech so far, he's not giving up any ground to the opposition. he's blaming remnants. he's blaming corruption. he's calling himself the legitimate leader. while he asks for more time he hasn't laid out any specifics about how he's going to address the needs and the demands of literally hundreds of thousands of people currently on the streets. >> ifill: nancy, we can hear those hundreds of thousands of people behind you even as you're speaking to us tonight. i wonder what they are telling you when you go to the square and you observe this close up. what are people saying? >> well, it's interesting because there are certain things that they agree on. which is that morsi should no longer be the president, even though he was democratically electedded just 367 days ago. and his muslim brotherhood, the party through which he ascended to the presidency should no longer have the grip on egyptian political, economic and even in a sense identity that it does right now. and after that, there's no clear answer from the opposition. there are people who are saying there should be an early presidential election. there are people who are saying the army should take over for a period of six months, one year. i talked to a man today who said they were be in charge for three years. there are people who are saying there should be a referendum on the constitution, that a new constitutional committee put together. and it's that variety of responses from the opposition that makes finding a resolution to this very difficult, even in the best-case scenario. there's some compromise which is reached by tomorrow, it doesn't look like the sort of core issues will be resolved. there will always be people who are opposed to morsi and who are looking for a different kind of representation from the opposition than they get. >> ifill: surely there is the presence of some pro morsi forces in tory or elsewhere today. >> right, what's interesting is the pro and anti-morsi rallies try to stay away from each other because when they do meet, it ends violently. i was caught in a gun fire today in giza, a district very close to here, in which the pro morsi rally had started and residents allegedly shot at the pro morsi rally. ity rupted into street fights and gun fights. it turned violent very quickly. so there was a concerted effort by both sides to sort of stay apart. that said, when you go to the biggest anti-or excuse me pro morsi rally which is in the western part of the city, they're marching, they're forming sort of platoon-sized military units with i guess you could call them combat exercises. some are wearing life vests to serve as bullet-proof vests for the rubber bullets while wearing construction hats and marching in formation wearing flip flops and carrying sticks and they're trying to show that they're prepared to defend their president. some see it as an islamic mission. i heard over and over again at the pro morsi rally that they were prepared to martyr themselves in defense of this president. that the defense of this president, the defense of their faith were tied together. >> ifill: we know that president obama called president morsi last night and that secretary of state john kerry has been in touch with leaders as well. if the u.s.... is the u.s. perceived to be between a rock and a hard place on this? they supported morsi's democratic election. now they apparently are suggesting that he should listen to the people in the streets. >> well, it depends on who you ask. ann patterson, u.s. ambassador here, said last week that she did not think that protest was the way to bring about a solution. that it was to be brought about politically. a lot of opponents were angry about this. we started to see people burning pictures of her in the square. but i have to tell you in the last couple days, you don't hear as much about the united states. some people will say that the united states is going to make sure that morsi stays in power. that's one of the sort of conspiracy theories amongst the opponents. but the american role here is really quite ancillary. this is really an egyptian-led movement and about finding egyptian solutions. ers not an effort by either side to turn to the united states as a broker in this political stalemate. >> ifill: is there any concern among egyptians that whatever happens to morsi that they might be taking a turn away from their hard-won democracy? >> there are because since hosni mubarak had served here for three decades resigned, egypt has been led by a military council for 18 months and now morsi for a year. this persistent change of power isn't seen as bringing about the core things that people say they want: better security, better economics, a situation for themselves personally and nationally. that this repeated turnover cannot bring about those very core things. so when you talk to people, particularly those who support morsi they argue that. statement morsi is such a diive gure, he has treated the presidency from the opposition's perspective as... that he only has one moment of accountability. that was on election day. and those who oppose him can speak up again four years from now and not before that. it's that friction between what constitutes public accountability, what should be public... what should a president be publicly accountable for? it's that division. i don't think egyptians want to see thisy peteed turnover, but statement what we're hearing on the streets is they want to be heard and not to be excluded in the political process. >> ifill: nancy use receive in cairo for us tonight. thank you so much, nancy. >> thank you. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, connections between record heat and deadly wildfires; details about sexual abuse in the milwaukee archdiocese; president obama's africa initiatives; and rock and roll star trey anastasio. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. the obamaed administration announced it is is delaying the employer portion of the mandate law for pun year. the law requires businesses with more than 50 employees to either provide health insurance or pay a penalty. the administration said it was responding to employers' concerns about the complexity of the law. the national security agency leaker, edward snowden, ran into a number of hurdles today as he tried to find a place to go. for more than a week now snowden has been stuck inside a transit area at this moscow airport. he no longer has a u.s. passport and american officials want him extradited for releasing classified documents. according to the website wicky leaks snowden has applied for asylum 20 countries. and in a statement the 30-year-old criticized u.s. efforts to keep him in limbo. it read in part, quote, the obama administration has now adoptedded the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. although i am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport leaving me a stateless person. one of the nations snowden reached out to venezuela. the president there discussed snowden's case today during a trip to moscow to meet with russian president slam mere putin. he gave no sign that he would accept snow dep as asylum application but he applauded his actions. >> the revelations of this young man have great value. he must be protected by international human rights. what crime has he committed? did he kill anyone? did he plant a bomb and kill anyone? >> no. much better. he has preventd wars. >> reporter: he also avoided questions so whether he would fly snowden back with him to venezuela. snowden had asked for asylum in russia but today he dropped that request because russia wouldonly if he stopped the in brew my snowden was also a topic of conversation between secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister sergei laborov. >> we will (mumbling). as snowden awaits his fate in moscow several nations were quick to deny his big for atime up including india and poll land. there was more fallout from the n.s.a. leaks today there was more fallout from the n.s.a. leaks today with an apology from the national director of intelligence to congress. in march, james clapper was asked if the n.s.a. gathered data on millions of americans, and answered that it didn't happen wittingly. he acknowledged in a letter today that was "clearly erroneous." about 2,500 syrians are believed to be trapped inside the embattled town of homs as fighting there raged for another day. that's according to u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon, who urged both sides to avoid any further civilian casualties. elsewhere, new shelling was reported in a rebel-controlled district on the outskirts of the capital, damascus. thick plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the area. at least 11 people were killed. bombings and clashes killed more than 50 people across iraq today. seven militants also died. most of the attacks targeted shiite areas. there was no immediate claim of responsibility. iraq has seen a spike in violence in recent months. at least 2,000 people have died since the start of april. taliban suicide bombers attacked the gates of a nato supply compound in the afghan capital today, killing seven people. the force of the explosion carved a massive crater into the ground and damaged a nearby guard tower. it was the latest in a series of incidents targeting key sites around kabul, in spite of the taliban's move to take part in peace talks. more and more airline passengers are going to the airport with guns, many of them loaded. that was the finding of an associated press analysis of transportation security administration data from 2011 to the present day. in the first six months of this year, t.s.a. screeners found nearly 900 guns on passengers or in carry-on bags. that's a 30% increase over the same time last year. cars and trucks raced off the sales lots in june at a pace not seen since before the recession. ford led the pack with a 14% boost in sales compared to a year ago. chrysler gained 8%, and general motors was up 6.5%. japanese automakers also did well, with nissan up 13% and toyota up 10%. the soaring sales were attributed to low interest rates, wider credit availability and new models. home prices in the u.s. jumped the most in 7 years. in may, they were up more than 12% over a year ago according to a real estate data provider. initially, the good economic news had a positive impact on wall street, but then stocks headed south as turmoil in egypt grew. the dow jones industrial average lost 42 points to close at 14,932. the nasdaq fell a point to close at 3,433. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: investigators on the ground in arizona are still trying to determine why so many firefighters died in sunday's tragedy, even as other crews are struggling to slow the blaze. the morning brought calmer winds in yarnell, arizona today. but the deadly fire that started friday remained largely uncontained. fire spokeswoman karen takia warned afternoon thunderstorms and winds today could bring more threats to the parched landscape. >> not a lot of large timber, but the vegetation out there, that me keet is extremely oily. wants that starts, an ember gets into those extremely dry fuels, that fire is going to rip. it's very difficult to control that, at that degree, especially with the winds that we're having out here. >> the dangerous conditions which claimed the lives of 19 prescott arizona firefighters sunday. they died when the raging fire, fueled by sudden and changing wind gusts, overcame the crew. last night fellow firefighters paused to remember their fallen comrades. >> andrew ascraft, 29. (bell tolling) anthony rose, 23) bell tolling). >> woodruff: and more than a thousand people grieved the loss in a prescott gymnasium. (bag pipes playing "amazing grace)" the city's mayor paid tribute to the crew. >> the city of prescott, you and i, we lost 18, 19 wonderful individuals, family men, and it was like that. >> woodruff: elsewhere family members of those killed spoke of their loved ones. kevin was recalled by his sister as a third-generation firefighter who wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. >> my parents lost a son. my brother lost his best friend and i lost my guardian angell. it's never going to be forgotten. >> woodruff: and andrew ashcraft who leaves four children, was mournd by his wife. >> we celebrate who he is and will always be. he's an angell for us now. >> woodruff: an investigative team is being deployed to the area where the firefighters died. this fire is part of a larger trend. >> we are in a long-term drought. that keeps on being repeated. but that's what we're seeing with these mega fires that's throughout the southwest. not only here but other areas. >> woodruff: in addition to the yarnell hill blaze 15 other major wild fires continue to burn in the western united states. in light of the fires out west, many questions are being asked about weather conditions, land use, forestry practices and what role they play. michael kodas is an author and journalist who has been covering the wildfire in prescott. his book, "megafire," is due out next year. i spoke with him a short time ago. michael kodas, welcome to the newshour. first of all, how is is the climate in which these wild fires are occurring changing? >> well, we've seen a pretty distinct increase in temperatures throughout most of the west and particularly here in arizona. a recent report identified arizona as having more warming than any other of the 50 states in the united states. and we've also seen a pretty prevalent and deep drought throughout most of the west that has lastd in some areas for many years. those really affect the fuels that drive these fires. >> so you're saying that the combination of the two is having an effect. you also talked to us about conditions in the community. the fact that more people are building homes into areas that were previously all forests. >> yeah. development is a big part of what's driving our fire problem. we have, you know, thousands of people moving in to forested and flammable landscapes. that adds fuel to the forest. the houses, the propane tanks and things like that. but it also brings a lot of sparks into the land disai disaipscape. there's all kinds of starts of fire that occur when people move into the forest. you know, from everything from sparks from vehicles on roads to arcing power lines to serve those communities. >> woodruff: and one of the other elements you talked to us about, michael kodas, was the role that... the policy that the united states has in the way it treats forests. >> yeah. well, we've been putting out fires in the united states for more than a century. we've been putting out forest fires. the problem is that in many landscapes, that has made future fires worse. every time you put out a fire, you usually end up leaving that fuel in the forest. so if you have a landscape that normally had fires come through