now that you have arizona democrat kyrsten sinema saying she's not going to vote for it, and you need democrats. >> i have spent my time working on this bill. as soon as we get this out of the senate, we will focus on the reconciliation bill which is $3.5 trillion. when i go home i hear about housing, childcare, senior care, all the time. depending on how this is structured, how it is paid for, which we don't know, that will determine whether we are going to support. i have full confidence in the leadership in the senate. we will be able to get a bill that is good for this nation. the proof will be in the pudding. we will see and we will analyze every step of the way. judy: thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we will return after the latest headlines. an update on the infrastructure bill which has overcome its first hurdle late this afternoon . the senate voted 67-32 to move the bill forward to debate. 17 republicans joined all democrats in voting yes. in the days other news, the cdc reported reported two-thirds of all u.s. counties are now covid-19 hotspots w

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, from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the rise of new covid infections is prompting evermore questions about how people should respond. the cdc added to the sobering picture of the pandemic impact in u.s. life expectay has fallen by 1.5 years. the largest one-year decline since world war ii. black and hispanic americans were hit the hardest. at times, dropping by more than three years. a big decline is mainly due to the pandemic. john yang looks at some of the key questions people are asking as the delta variant spreads. reporter: while new cases are rising in all 50 states, the heaviest concentrations are being reported in the deep south and a few other states, like missouri. more than a 99% of new hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated. even though deaths remain very low, there is new anxiety about where the pandemic could be headed in this country. a professor of family medicine at georgetown university, and senior medical advisor to physicians for human rights, also advises weta, which own

from weta studios in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: there are two stories today that show the threat of governments using cyber tools to target adversaries, both internationally and within their n borders, and to discuss that i am joined by nick schifrin. first on china, tell us what it is that the u.s. and its allies are saying. nick: this is an international naming and shaming of chinese hacking and espionage. for the first time, nato along with the eu, japan, australia, new zealand joined the u.s. and accused china of using cyber criminals to conduct hacking. the accused china of the big microsoft exchange hack earlier this year. i talked with james lewis from the think tank the center for strategic and international studies about the scope of the challenge posed by china, and today's announcement. >> they are the most aggressive espionage opponent we have come a more aggressive than russia. this is a huge step forward because we have many countries joining the u.s. in condemning china for its rampant espiona

they went and worked on the railroad in winslow, arizona. my grandfather was a diesel train mechanic for 45 years. that is what they wanted to do, was get native americans off of their lands, out of their communities. and my grandparents did that. but, instead, my grandfather protected our traditions, even in a place that was not his homeland. so that i could no and learn -- know and learn what it means to be a pueblo woman. i am so grateful they persevered through all of that history. judy: as we know, canada established an independent, what they called a truth and reconciliation commission, to investigate this and get to the bottom of it. to try to, and to issue a report. in our country we have what you just mentioned, the indian boarding school initiative. it is being run under your department, the department of the interior. but it was the federal government that was in charge of this system. so my question is, can we be confident, that we are going to get to the bottom of it, when it is the government, in effect, investigating itself? s

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from weta studios in washington and from our bureau at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. ♪ >> pati narrates: behold the beloved sinaloan tomato, one of sinaloa's biggest exports. every day thousands of pounds of tomatoes just like these are sent down the conveyor belt into packaging to be shipped off all over mexico and the u.s. but look closer. this belt is rigged with highly sensitive lasers trained to search for only the ripest, most perfect tomatoes. only those will make it to your table. think of the technology that went into this! and not just tomatoes. i don't ink i knew that blueberries grew in sinaloa. all produce here in sinaloa is big business. sinaloa is known as mexico's breadbasket. here in northern mexico conditions are just about as perfect as it gets for farming throughout the year.

more than half are located in arizona, idaho and montana. in northern california, large blazes are burning in the sierra nevada hills and forests, and right near the nevada border. thousands have fled their homes. been evacuated. the largest fire in the country right now is in southern oregon. it's known as the bootleg fire. it's already burned more than 150,000 acres, or an area twice the size of portland. there are two other smaller but still significant fires in the state too. we look at the state of the situation there with rich tyler of the oregon state fire marshall's office. >> brangham: rich tylo, very good to have you on the "newshour," especially amidst what you're dealing with right now. can you just give us a sense of the bootleg fire we know has been doubling in size every couple of days. it sounds lik an awful thing you all are having to deal with. what is it like right now? what are conditions like? >> currently, the bootleg fire, they are reporting 201,923 acres that are burned. and zero percent containment. >> brangham: zero

pbs newshour" from w eta studios in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: now to the crisis in haiti. it's been less than a week since the shocking assassination of haiti's president by gunman who broke into his home. now a possible conspiracy involving a haitian-born doctor living in florida has further roiled an already fraught situation, all this as political rivals jockey for power. there is now a new lead suspect in the assassination of president jovenel moise. haitian authorities said over the weekend that he is this man, 63-year-d christian emmanuel sanon, a haitian american who lives in florida. in 2011, he appeared to promote himself as a leader for haiti. >> with me in power, you are going to have to tell me, at are you doing with my uranium? what you going to do with the oil that we have in the country? what are you going to do with the gold that you want to exploit? judy: police chieleon charles said sanon had arrived in haiti in june. in a search of sanon's home, officers found weapons, bullets, and a hat with an emblem

is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. ♪ judy: as we reported, haiti is leading an international investigation into the assassinatioof president jovenel moise. john yang has the latest. john: judy, the investigation is generating as many questions as answers. the 15 colombian nationals under arrest are former members of that nation's armed forces. eleven of them were captured after breaking in to the taiwanese embassy in haiti. meanwhile, the political storm is intensifying with competing prime ministers claiming the right to run the country. afr moise was assassinated, prime minister claude joseph announced a fifteen day state of siege. but a new prime minister appointed by moise -- ariel henry -- was supposed to have taken over that very day and says he's the rightful ruler. to help us try to sort through this, we are joined by pamela white, a former u.s. ambassador to haiti. and garry pierre pierre, the founder of the haitian times, a newspaper serving the haitian diaspora. thank you to both of you f

we had the supreme court decision last week upholding arizona's laws around more restrictive voting. and you heard former president carter say that we'll just have to grin and bear it, this situation, as it is around the country. we are -- given what has gone on in the congress and in the state legislatures, this is a situation that we're looking at for years to come. >> it is. that's why i thought it was so interesting, that president carter said we have to grin and bear it until the time comes to change it. to me, judy, that's the real big issue here because democrats and republicans feel very differently about what needs to change. we saw this in that most recent "newshour" pbs maris poll, when asked, what do you think is the bigger problem in america, that not everybody can vote or that people are voting who are ineligible? overwhelming percentage of democrats say it's that people don't have access to voting. very few republicans feel that way. overwhelming percentage of republicans feel the big issue is people who are ineligible shouldn't be able to vote. very few democrats feel

newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy: for more than a week, rescue teams have worked tirelessly to clear and search the rubble of that collapsed condominium building in surfside, florida. amna nawaz has this conversation, recorded this evening before news of the emergency order to demolish the remainder of the partly collapsed building. >> judy, rescue efforts resumed late yesterday, after a 14-hour pause, over concerns that parts of the building that remain standing could fall and endanger workers. weather issues including heavy rain and lightning storms have also slowed or halted work in recent days. and now, as we reported earlier, hurricane elsa is on course to reach the florida coast this weekend. all this, as rescue workers continue their mission around the clock. we turn to michael fagel. he served as a safety and logistics officer after both the oklahoma city bombing in 1995 and the world trade center attacks on september 11, 2001. he now teaches disaster management and has written a number

kagan, who said the majority undermined the voting rights act by upholding two restrictive laws in arizona. she wrote, "what is tragic here is that the court has (yet again) rewritten-- in order to weaken-- a statute that stands as a monument to america's greatness, and procts against its basest impulses." john yang takes a look at another justice who delivered historic dissents while on the court, during the jim crow era. >> yang: judy, the name of a supreme court justice, john marshall harlan, may not be widely known these days beyond law students and constitutional scholars. during his tenure from 1877-1911, the high court enshrined racial segregation in american life. in the biggest of those cases, harlan's vote was the lone dissent. he alone staked out positions that decades later would become the law of the land. those visionary opinions led him to be known as the great dissenter, which is also the title of a new biography of harlan by peter canellos, the managing editor of "politico." peter, thank you for being with us. what drew you to write about john harlan? >> well, it started b

the supreme court upholds arizona's controversial voting restrictions, highlighting the court's ideological divide. then, incted. a top official in the trump organization surrenders to authorities, as the first charges are filed in the investigation of the former president's business. plus, leaving afghanistan. we discuss the many implications of the impending troop withdrawal with the u.s. special envoy for reconciliation in the country. and, work shift. a son of immigrants brings the tech industry to the often floundering economies of middle america through apprenticeships. >> we can solve skilling and growth problems, as well as the equity problem that we face in america by creating jobs and skills for people that typically were left behind from the tech economy. judy: all that and more on tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪ >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> before we talk about your investments, what's new? >> audrey is expecting twins. >> changing plans. >> at fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. >> johnson & johnson. bnsf railway. consumer c

" from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite studio of journalism at arizona state university. judy: the u.s. is on the verge of completing a unilateral and unconditional withdrawal from afghanistan, nearly 20 years after it invaded, and the outgoing u.s. military commander has delivered a stark warning about the future of the country. nick schifrin is back right now, and he joins me. good to have you with us to talk about this. what are military leadersaying they believe could happen? nick: this is perhaps as blunt and pessimistic statement as the military has ever made about afghanistan.it's the first time the biden administration or military has publicly acknowledged the ultimate risk of this withdrawal. this is general scott miller, the u.s. commander in kabul, saying civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized if this continues on the trajectory it is on right now. that should be a concern to the world, and it is a concern to the region, for creating an environment where there is even more violence than there is today. what is behind this warning