. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the standoff from jonathan rugman of "independent television news" in cairo. >> brown: then, tom bearden reports on retailers pushing the start of black friday shopping to today. >> i think it's repulsive. >> reporter: why so? >> because thanksgiving is supposed to be a family holiday. >> warner: we have a food story on this thanksgiving day. judy woodruff looks at what's on the menu in schools. >> brown: hari sreenivasan follows occupy wall street from new york to washington, where the activists have settled in. >> this looks a lot more permanent than just a-- an occupy at the present time. >> yes, definitely. i want to be comfortable because i'm in it for the long run. >> warner: as the aftermath of the financial crisis persists, ray suarez examines the question of who was punished for their roles and who wasn't. >> brown: and we close with a conversation with author colin woodard about his new book-- a different take on america's poli

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest on the standoff from jonathan rugman of "independent television news" in cairo. >> brown: then, tom bearden reports on retailers pushing the start of black friday shopping to today. >> i think it's repulsive. >> reporter: why so? >> because thanksgiving is supposed to be a family holiday. >> warner: we have a food story on this thanksgiving day. judy woodruff looks at what's on the menu in schools. >> brown: hari sreenivasan follows occupy wall street from new york to washington, where the activists have settled in. >> this looks a lot more permanent than just a-- an occupy at the present time. >> yes, definitely. i want to be comfortable because i'm in it for the long run. >> warner: as the aftermath of the financial crisis persists, ray suarez examines the question of who was punished for their roles and who wasn't. >> brown: and we close with conversation with author colin woodard about his new book-- a different take on america's politi

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the newshour tonight, we get two views on striking a balance between the activists' right to protest and city officials' concerns about public health and safety. >> brown: then we update the congressional gridlock over reducing the deficit with eight days to go and no sign of a deal. >> warner: we get the latest on the penn state scandal, as the former defensive coach denies the sex abuse charges and as new allegations emerge. >> brown: betty ann bowser reports on the lack of access to dental care, a problem that affects millions of americans. >> there's about 170,000 dentists in the country. the problem is they're not distributed evenly in relationship to the population. >> warner: ray suarez examines the state of play for professional basketball, as players and league officials agree on one thing: the entire season could be wiped out. >> brown: and we close with the story of john brown's raid on harper's ferry, as told in a new book by author tony horwitz. >> i think brown is sti

margaret warner has our report. >> warner: dover air force base in delaware receives america's war dead in solemn ceremony with presidents and top brass paying their respects. but now, after a year-long investigation, the air force has acknowledged gross mismanagement of some remains within the base's military mortuary. lost body parts in two instances in 2009; fragments of ankle bone and human tissue of servicemen killed in afghanistan and the severing of a dead marine's arm bone in 2010 to fit him into a dress uniform for viewing without getting the family's consent. still, the air force concluded there'd been no violations of law, or procedure. and air force chief of staff general norton schwartz yesterday defended the decision to discipline but not fire the three senior mortuary officials in charge. >> this was not a deliberate act in my personal view and that of the commanders who exercised authority in this case. >> warner: but separately, the independent office of special counsel criticized the air force's conclusions and disciplinary decisions saying they demonstrated a pattern

margaret warner has our story. >> warner: young people and police clashed in bahrain again today. the skirmishes came as an independent commission released its findings on the upheavals that shook the tiny gulf kingdom earlier this year. the demonstrations led by bahrain's shiite majority began february 14 in the capital manama's central pearl roundabout. protesters called for greater political freedoms and more opportunity for the shiite majority. the police and army reacted quickly and forcefully against the protestors in the roundabout, killing three. but despite the crackdown and arrests that followed, the protests didn't entirely stop. this oil-producing kingdom of three-quarters of a million people is sandwiched between the two major gulf powers-- sunni- ruled saudi arabia and shiite- ruled iran. on march 14, amid a continuing standoff, bahrain's royal family welcomed 1,000 troops and dozens of military vehicles from saudi arabia and the gulf emirates onto the island. within days, bahraini forces drove all the protestors out of the roundabout, using bulldozers to clear the a

margaret warner has our story. >> warner: young peopland police clashed in bahrain again today. the skirmishes came as an independent commission released its findings on the upheavals that shook the tiny gulf kingdom earlier this year. the demonstrations led by bahrain's shiite majority began february 14 in the capital manama's central pearl roundabout. protesters called for greater political freedoms and more opportunity for the shiite majority. the police and army reacted quickly and forcefully against the protestors in the roundabout, killing three. but despite the crackdown and arrests that followed, the protests didn't entirely stop. this oil-producing kingdom of three-quarters of a million people is sandwiched between the two major gulf powers-- sunni- ruled saudi arabia and shiite- ruled iran. on march 14, amid a continuing standoff, bahrain's royal family welcomed 1,000 troops and dozens of military vehicles from saudi arabia and the gulf emirates onto the island. within days, bahraini forces drove all the protestors out of the roundabout, using bulldozers to clear the a

margaret warner has our update. >> warner: it's been nearly 15 years since leaders from 37 industrialized countries agreed to reduce their carbon emissions as part of the so-called kyoto protocol. but countries would no longer be bound by the accord after december, 2012, even as greenhouse gases are reaching record levels in the atmosphere. foits rt, e u. never participated in the kyoto treaty after congress refused to ratify it. in 2010, house democrats passed a cap-and-trade bill to reduce heat-trapping emissions in 2009, but it collapsed in the senate last year. today, negotiators from around the globe kicked off a meeting in durban, south africa, to tackle the issue. but disagreements were apparent at the outset. for more, i'm joined by juliet eilperin of the "washington post." welcome back. >> thanks so much. >> warner: give us a flavor of the disagreements that were immediately on view on day one of this two-week conference. >> you can see how far apart the major countries are when you have, for example, the canadian environment minister back in t.w.a. saying that kyoto is the past

margaret warner takes the story from there. >> warner: and sebastian joins us now. welcome. quite a fine piece of work. remind us how crucial david headley was to the planning of these mumbai attacks. >> he's absolutely crucial because he does the key reconstance for a period of 20 months, mapping out the blueprints of the killing zone meticulously, in-depth undercover reconnaissance which he's able to do effectively because he's not just a terrorist but a spy. he's being directed by the i.s.i.-- parkinson's intelligence service, there's strong evidence of the that, in addition to lashkar-e-tayyiba. he's essentially a joint operation. so he's working for both. >> warner: and he was, as your title says, the perfect terrorist. by accident of birth he was the perfect man for the job. >> i think that's right. he's grown up with a foot in both of these worlds in the u.s. and in pakistan. he was able to sort of change shapes and change identities and function in both worlds with remarkable effectiveness. >> warner: and he even had one of your interviewers mentioned this, one blue

margaret warner has our update. >> warner: it's been nearly 15 years since leaders from 37 industrialized countries agreed to reduce their carbon emissions as part of the so-called kyoto protocol. but countries would no longer be bound by the accord after december, 2012, even as greenhouse gases are reaching record levels in the atmosphere. for its part, the u.s. never participated in the kyoto treaty after congress refused to ratify it. in 2010, house democrats passed a cap-and-trade bill to reduce heat-trapping emissions in 2009, but it collapsed in the senate last year. today, negotiators from around the globe kicked off a meeting in durban, south africa, to tackle the issue. but disagreements were apparent at the outset. for more, i'm joined by juliet eilperin of the "washington post." welcome back. >> thanks so much. >> warner: give us a flavor of the disagreements that were immediately on view on day one of this two-week conference. >> you can see how far apart the major countries are when you have, for example, the canadian environment minister back in t.w.a. saying that kyoto is t

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest from athens as the government teetered awaiting a vote of confidence tomorrow and from the economic summit in cannes. >> brown: then, we examine the rise and concentration of poverty in america, including its increasing impact in suburban life. >> warner: judy woodruff reports on the growing generational divide among voters, one year before the presidential election. >> there are huge value differences between the youngest and oldest voters in the country, that almost seem baked in >> brown: gwen ifill talks with condoleezza rice about her new memoir on her time as secretary of state, including what she calls a creepy video made for her by former libyan leader moammar qaddafi. >> it was actually just scene after scene of me where vladimir putin or jintao but then set to this song black flower in the white house that he had written by libya's best composer, he said. >> warner: and we have another in our "economist film project" series. this

margaret warner has our story. for a second day voters acrossed egypt lined up in overwhelming numbers for a chance to make history. >> i think it's a good experience for all egyptians to have a true election and to give his voice to the one who deserves it and to begin a new time of democracy. >> warner: for some, that meant a wait of seven hours or more on monday in the country's first parliamentary election since president mubarak was ousted last february. voting hours were ex-extended to midnight in some precincts to cope with the crowds. >> we were surprised at the high turnout of voters. it was higher than expected. >> warner: the voting procedured peacefully both days with no reports of violence at polling places as had been feared. generals of the ruling military council said the voting validated the way they've managed the political process since mubarak left office. but just last week they faced huge protests in cairo by impatient egyptians accusing the eastern region is still controlled by militias an

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we get the latest from m hehe a a the g gererent teeterededwawaing a a ototof confidence t tmomooww and from the economic summit in cannes. >> brown: then, we examine the rise and concentration of poverty in america, including its increasing impact in suburban life. >> warner: judy woodruff reports on the growing generational divide among voters, one year before the presidential election. >> there are huge value differences between the youngest and oldest voters in the country, that almost seem baked in >> brown: gwen ifill talks with condoleezza rice about her new memoir on her time as secretary of state, including what she calls a creepy video made for her by former libyan leader moammar qaddafi. >> it was actually just scene after scene of me where vladimir putin or jintao but then set to this song black flower in the white house that he had written by libya's best composer, he said. >> warner: and we have another in our "economist film project" series. t

margaret warner has our book conversation. >> warner: in november, 2008, computer security experts began detecting a new highly sophisticated computer worm. they called it conficker. ultimately it invaded at least 12 million computers worldwide. the story of the campaign to defeat it is chronicled in a new book, "worm: the first digital world war. the author is journalist mark bowden. he also wrote the bestseller "black hawk down," about the 1994 u.s. raid in somalia that went awry. welcome back. >> thank you, margaret. >> warner: every day we're hearing about a new virus or worm. what made conficker so special that you wrote an entire book about snit. >> well, it demonstrated a very high level of sophistication in a number of different areas. but what really intrigued me bass the gamesmanship that went on. the people who were trying to defeat it would make a move to shut it down. whoever the mysterious creators were of this bot-net would make a countermove to stay alive. it got, you know, it really became a chess mass at the cutting edge of software technology. >> warner: you have to ex

margaret warner has our story. for a second day voters acrossed egypt lined up in overwhelming numbers for a chance to make history. >> i think it's a good experience for all egyptians to have a true election and to give his voice to the one who deserves it and to begin a new time of democracy. >> warner: for some, that meant a wait of seven hours or more on monday in the country's first parliamentary election since president mubarak was ousted last february. voting hours were ex-extended to midnight in some precincts to cope with the crowds. >> we were surprised at the high turnout of voters. it was higher than expected. >> warner: the voting procedured peacefully both days with no reports of violence at polling places as had been feared. generals of the ruling military council said the voting validated the way they've managed the political process since mubarak left office. but just last week they faced huge protests in cairo by impatient egyptians accusing theg. eastern region is still controlled by militias

margaret warner has the story >> warner: president and mrs. obama were thousands of miles away in san diego last friday night, when shots rang out on historic constitution avenue just south of the white house. but it wasn't until tuesday that the secret service discovered two bullets had actually hit the white house. the exact location wasn't confirmed. but yesterday workers were on the second-story truman balcony examining a window of the president's living quarters. the bullet was stopped by ballistic glass. investigators now say they believe the shots were fired from about 750 yards away by a gunman in a car on constitution avenue between the white house and the washington monument. shortly after the shooting, police found a car abandoned a few blocks away. an a.k. 47-style assault rifle and empty shell casings were inside. by sunday, they had linked the car to oscar ramiro ortega- hernandez, a 21-year-old man from idaho. u.s. park police issued a warrant for his arrest on a charge of carrying a deadly weapon. >> this is a man who discharge

margaret warner has our story. >> warner: it was a major turnaround for the united states. at a summit of south east asian nations in bali, indonesia, president obama today announced he's sending secretary of state hillary clinton to myanmar. >> after years of darkness, we've seen flickers of progress in these last several weeks. we want to seize what could be an historic opportunity for progress, and make it clear that if burma continues to travel down the road of democratic reform, it can forge a new relationship with the united states of america. >> warner: for years, the isolated myanmar-- previously known as burma-- has been subject to u.s. and western sanctions for its repression of political opponents, ethnic minorities, and even buddhist monks. the news that now, for the first time in more than 50 years, a u.s. secretary of state will visit was welcomed by soe aung of the forum for democracy in burma. >> i think it is an opportunity for the u.s. to ensure that the release of the political prisoners, as well as the ending attacks in ethnic areas in north and eastern

. >> woodruff: margaret warner examines the mounting pressure on syria's leaders from the arab world to put a stop to the violence. >> brown: and we close with gwen ifill's conversation with singer, actor and civil rights activist harry belafonte. >> i brought with me this mission of activism what attracted me to the arts was that i thought theater as a social force, as a political force. >> 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. from cars to retail signs to hospitals, creating new enriching experiences. through intel's philosophy of "invest you for the future," we're helping to bring these new capabilities to markets. we're investing billions of dollars in r&d around the globe to help correct the technologies we hope will be the heart of tomorrow's innovations. i believe that by investing today in technological advances here at intel, we can make a better tomorrow. chevron. we may have more in common than you think. >> and by the bill and melinda g

. >> woodruff: margaret warner examines the mounting pressure on syria's leaders from the arab world to put a stop to the violence. >> brown: and we close with gwen ifill's conversation with singer, actor and civil rights activist harry belafonte. >> i brought with me this mission of activism what attracted me to the arts was that i thought theater as a social force, as a political force. >> 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. from cars to retail signs to hospitals, creating new enriching experiences. through intel's philosophy of "invest you for the future," we're helping to bring these new capabilities to markets. we're investing billions of dollars in r&d around the globe to help correct the technologies we hope will be the heart of tomorrow's innovations. i believe that by investing today in technological advances here at intel, we can make a better tomorrow. chevron. we mayave re icomm than you think. >> and by the bill and melinda gates fou