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>> well, hari, it's clearly tv rights. every major sports team and sports league, now, is getting tremendous amounts of money from national and local and regional tv contracts and, in the case of the clippers, not only is the nba going to be renegotiating its national tv contracts in 2016, but the clippers will have a new regional contract then. so they can ask for a tremendous amount of money and the second biggest market in the united states, they're probably going to get it. >> sreenivasan: i'm not a huge nba fan but this is the clippers. something i've heard throughout the day, they don't have an m.v.p. or a championship. it was written when the l.a. clippers step out on the field in dodgers stadium they get booed, they're not even the favorite team in their own hometown. how that is this valuation increased in the past couple of years? >> they're clearly not the number one team in town, the lakers have been for years. the clippers have been a pretty terrible team in the three decades donald sterling owned the team, bu

good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. also ahead, the widening racial gap in survival rates from breast cancer. and what health officials in one city are doing, to make sure more black women fighting the disease get the treatment they need. >> i'm trying to get a person from a, to b, to c, to d. i'm not going to leave you, until we know what has to be done for you. so you need to go in early, and i need to stay with you. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday, mark shields and michael gerson are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged. they are not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is, "how did i end up here?" i started schwab with those people. p

>> well, hari it's clearly tv rights. every major sports team and sports league now, is getting tremendous amounts of money from national and local and regional tv contracts and, in the case of the clippers not only is the nba going to be renegotiating its national tv contracts in 2016 but the clippers will have a new regional contract then. so they can ask for a tremendous amount of money and the second biggest market in the united states they're probably going to get it. >> sreenivasan: i'm not a huge nba fan but this is the clippers. something i've heard throughout the day, they don't have an m.v.p. or a championship. it was written when the l.a. clippers step out on the field in dodgers stadium they get booed they're not even the favorite team in their own hometown. how that is this valuation increased in the past couple of years? >> they're clearly not the number one team in town, the lakers have been for years. the clippers have been a pretty terrible team in the three decades donald sterling owned the team, but it'

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy is away. also ahead, it's an instinct all parents have: to keeptfeir kids safe, but have we gone too far? we conclude our parenting series tonight by asking if this has become the age of "the overprotected kid." >> we've become so preoccupied with safety that we're basically robbing our children of the chance to take risks, the kind of physical, emotional risks, the kind of risks they need to become independent adults. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. those are just some of the stories we're covering on aour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ç ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.ç >> i've been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged.ç they are not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is, "how did i end up here?" i started sc

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good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. also ahead, the widening racial gap in survival rates from breast cancer. and what health officials in one city are doing, to make sure more black women fighting the disease get the treatment they need. >> i'm trying to get a person from a, to b, to c, to d. i'm not going to leave you, until we know what has to be done for you. so you need to go in early, and

i'm hari sreenivasan. judy is away. also ahead, it's an instinct all parents have: to keeptfeir kids safe, but have we gone too far? we conclude our parenting series tonight by asking if this has become the age of "the overprotected kid." >> we've become so preoccupied with safety that we're basically robbing our children of the chance to take risks, the kind of physical, emotional risks, the kind of risks they need to become independent alt

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which would be very exciting but i don't think you're going to see very far, and on the fateful day, hari cain -- hairy cane and they got 25 miles off the coast, now souther towards charleston, and harry said he saw a cloud layer at a thousand feet, and he thought to himself, i can hide in that. and so up they went. against all doctrine. and they're flying along in the clouds, kind of popping down every now and then, and they saw this thing way off in the distance, this thin little line in the water. what happened in the summer of that year, was u -- boats operating off cape hatteras had an advantage and a huge liability. the advantage was the depth of the water drops off relatively -- in a relatively short distance from shore so they could go out there and hide during the day and then pop up and come in shore at night in shallow water, with minimal chance of being detected. unfortunately in the summer of 1942, the water temperature off cape hatteras is in the 70s and sometimes 80 degrees, which doesn't sound bad but when you're counting on cold ocean water to cool off the heat in a u-boa

. >> l hari matasi reporting. >>> south china sea region. relations have been disputes by disputes and aildz ove islands . hagel says lon term progress. >> china has called the south china sea a sea of process and cooperation. that is what it should be. but in recent months, china has undertaken destabilizing unilateral actions, destabilizing the south china sea. we also whether from military or civilian vessels from countries big or small. the ufts will not look the other way when fundamental principles of the international order are being challenged. >> hagel was speak in an international summit, and from there scott heidler has more. >> reporter: blunt language, they see the ultimates administration sees this as destabilizing in the region that could possibly have international ramifications. the secretary welcomed a move by japan at these same talks that say they want to become more involved in peace in this region. upping its pivot to l asia. 60% of army and navy from the u.s. will operate out of this area soists very important for them

that is a half a billion for a movie, one movie, that opens friday night in the world, people create hari-kari if it does not work. >> are right, peter you, might have a futao*ur in i future in d thing. >> thank you. neil: when we come back, russia and china keep laughing at us? is it me, or don't we have anything to laugh back at them? we do, but you wouldn't know it. that helps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden mptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain, or problems passing urine. other side effects include dry mouth and constipation. nothing can reverse copd. spiriva helps me breathe better. does breathing with copd weigh you down? don't wait

that is a half a billion for a movie, one movie, that opens friday night in the world, people create hari-kari if it does not work. >> are right, peter you, might have a futao*ur in i future in d thing. >> thank you. neil: when we come back, russia and china keep laughing at us? is it me, or don't we hav ♪ [ male announcer ] tora bora fallujah argonne khe sanh midway dak to normandy medina ridge the chosin reservoir these are places history will never forget but more important are the faces we will always remember. ♪ neil: now i think it is just getting childish, this china tit-for-tat. indict the top military officials from a half world away, and tell them to come to u.s. court because they are wanted on cyber charges, then we hear from chinese they ink a deal with russian, for a big old energy contract, timing looks suspect. but it is what it is. we hear this from china just now, that banning use of windows 8 on government computers, because, get this -- they don't like our cyber security policies. so why should they beholden to microsoft 8? we have the former microsoft ceo, the theme is

that is a half a billion for a movie, one movie, that opens friday night in the world, people create hari-kari if it does not work. >> are right, peter you, might have a futao*ur in i future in d thing. >> thank you. neil: when we come back, russia and china keep laughing at us? and china keep laughing at us? is it me, or don't we hav predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. and china keep laughing at us? is it me, or don't we hav but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. carsthey're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we make life less complicated. it's about people. we are volvo of sweden. my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's wh

so anything from letters about why did you drop the atomic bomb for hari truman to letters from bankers saying thank you very much for your pouters' him writing back saying i couldn't have done this without you. so all sorts of things you find and you get into this mode of being in that time and that president with those people. going through just this immense amount of documents and then typing everything up while you're there typing it apt night. editing throughout the process, and then going on to the next location and the next president. >> were there any libraries that were -- that you deemed too be somewhat reluctant to share information? >> guest: well, a lot of -- until reagan actually -- from fdr through the reagan library era there's a certain code under which everything is classified. military information, finance information. economics, personal relationships and a very clear code with very clear identifications identifications and it's almost easy to access the action. in the carter library, i went there shortly after the film "oaring" came out there had been a team of "arg

our own steve hari is there. what can these unmanned robots do so i don't know you and i can go sit on the beach and do nothing? >> reporter: a lot of this technology was military and now being adapted pretty quickly dhthe civilian side to do things either too tedious for civilians to do or too dangerous and they will be used in the world cup for security this summer. >> it has fantastic reach, grippers. it can open doorknobs and packages and allow you to look inside. it can also carry tools to allow you to disrupt the explosives so they can't explode. >> as much as 80% of the drones will be used for agricultural. some countries like japan already using them for crop dusting. gretchen. >> commercial growns not even legal yet. there was an incident with an airplane last week. are they going to be legal, these types of things down there? >> reporter: a lot of lobbyists for different businesses are pushing the legalization. some real concerns. we've seen some tiny drones you can fly with your ipad up to a mile away.

and there would be anything, like hari truman, why did are you drop the atomic bomb, from letters from bankers for saying thank you for your support, and him writing back, keep it have done it without you. so all sorts of things you find and you get into this mode of being in that time and that president with those people. going through just this immense amount of documents and typing it up at night, editing throughout the process, and then going on to the next location and the next president. >> were there any libraries that were -- that you deemed to be somewhat reluctant to share information? >> guest: well, until reagan actually -- from fdr through the reagan library era, there was a certain code under which everything is classified. military information, finance information, financial, personal relationships, and it's very clear and almost easy to access the information. the carter library, i went there shortly after the film ""argo"" came out and there had been a team of "argo" researchers down there before the movie looking up information about the iran hostage crisis and what h

hari sreenivasan has that story. >> this is intolerable. the findings of this report are troubling and grave, of course, they are unacceptable, unconscionable and unworthy of the service of our men and women in uniform. >> reporter: the reaction of house minority leader nancy pelosi spoke for politicians from both parties today, after an inspector general's interim report on the v.a. medical center in phoenix, arizona. it alleged v.a. staffers there cooked the books using various ploys to make wait times appear closer to the goal of just 14 days. in fact, the i.g.'s findings revealed phoenix-area veterans seeking care had to wait an average of 115 days for a first appointment. and 1,700 veterans were kept off any official waiting list and were at risk of being lost or forgotten. the report did not conclude whether long wait times have contributed to any patient deaths because that part of the investigation is still ongoing. but the findings struck sparks at a house hearing last night with top department officials. tennessee republican phil

hari sreenivasan has our story. >> i'd like to introduce to john barry. >> hi john-- >> sreenivasan: john barry, the award-winning historian and writer, and a man who's normally holed up in a book-lined office by himself, has lately become one of the busiest men in louisiana. >> this is no just another piece of legislation. >> sreenivasan: he's been talking to rotary clubs. >> i'm john barry. >> sreenivasan: testifying before the state legislature. >> there is no debate, scientifically, about that fact. >> sreenivasan: why? barry is fighting a controversial legal and political battle to try and force the powerful oil and gas industry to pay billions for the role their dredging and drilling has played in the erosion of the coast of louisiana. >> sreenivasan: barry is best known for his book "rising tide," an account of the devastating 1927 flood in louisiana. that bestseller made him something of a local celebrity, and has given him a platform to sound the alarm about the current land-loss crisis in the state. >> we've lost close to 2,000 square miles of land, that loss continues ever

government's extraordinary means to improve the leader's vote count, many egyptians stayed away from the polls hari sreenivasan has more on this story. >> sreenivasan: joining me now to talk about the voting in egypt is borzou daragahi of the financial times. >> borzou there is little doubt on who is going to win the egyptian election but let's talk about the turn utt. it seems it was surprisingly low. >> it was recorded to be low. right now authorities are saying that they are considering it about a 44% turnout which is not as much as the election that pitted the former president mohammed morsi in 2012 but what they consider rather respectable at this point. but they had huge troubles trying to get people out to the polls and even went through the labor of adding a voting day to the two already in place. they canceled the stock market yesterday and they closed all government ministries and urged the private seconder to release workers to let them go home and vote. >> so even with all that you are talking about 44%, is the percentage of turnout important to have what's perceived as a mandate or to

. >> woodruff: next, hari sreenivasan talked with an author who wrote about the impact one man had on the success or failure of a company. >> sreenivasan: when the one man is steve jobs, it's a question worth asking. it's been more than two years since he died at age 56. since then, more than 200 people inside and outside the company have been interviewed. the upshot, who knew apple after steve jobs. welcome. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: you ended up with a story about apple having seen its best days. why? >> how apple is handling the transition at a time when it's trying to stay at the top of its game and i just thought that it was a fascinating period to be watching them really closely because, you know, i think of them as this empire and it's an age-old question, right? it's been asked many times what happens to an empire when your great leader dies, and that, to me, was a fascinating story. >> sreenivasan: you're saying the empire is not doing so great? >> i'm saying the empire is struggling to find a new identity after the loss of somebody around which it revolved for a very lon

hari sreenivasan has more. >> reporter: the "u.s.a. freedom act" is congress's attempt to codify some proposals made by president obama earlier this year after he received recommendations from a review board on the country's surveillance program. joining us to discuss what's in the bill, what's not and what it all means is new york times correspondent charlie savage. so let's talk about the legislation it is,s with's in there, as it is its working its way through congress. >> sure. so this bill which is passed with over 300 votes in the house today and heads to the senate aims to reform surveillance law and the foreign intelligence surveillance act in several ways. but its center piece is to replace the program that has been systemically correcting records of american phone calls going back to shortly after 9/11 and which was brought under the secret court orders in 2006. and it does that by allowing the nsa to obtain records of callers up to two links removed from a terror suspect but the bulk records would remain in the hands of phon

the biggest names have to be hollywood in the sports world -- hari waldstein -- harvey -- harvey weinstein, magic johnson, alonzo mourning, and alan horn. talk about bringing in big names, that is the democrats see him as most effective, even as ratings are low. >> what? no big oil companies? i am shocked. [laughter] bell,ld reports after the and that is after the controversial "blackfish" movie. in fact, it has been a fabulous 18 months for blackstone. nothing unless she has more. -- cristina alesci has more. >> blackstone did an excellent job of taking advantage of the ipo window when it was wide open, and what that means for private investors is they got a lot of cashback, $11.8 billion in the first quarter. >> oh, my gosh. >> huge amounts of money, and they did that at huge valuations. we look at a company like helton, we thought it would be -- hilton, we thought it would be a terrible deal, but it has been performing pretty well. those are the sellers. >> tone was the seller. what about the by -- blackstone was the seller. what about the buyer? they are doing well. to 15%.s are up 12%

travis, i know my colleague gave a kind introduction and associated you and i together as friends but hari truman was right, i know you have a companion at your side. if you need a friend in washington, get a dog. but you've got one. i'm honored and no one i would rather stand with. it's not often you get the opportunity we're going to discuss the intent of congress, the spirit and the letter of the law. today you got the folks in the room that wrote the law. the first in the room that advocated for the funding, and we worked together. i'm reminded and i pulled it up, you would probably appreciate this, travis, a "usa today" story said a military center devoted to treatment of eye care has been -- because of a squabble between dod and the pentagon over who i would pay for it. that was january 28, township, and we hear this, how long this issue of electronic records has been going on and seamless transition, i can say my entire adult life we haved a vote indicated for this, both within the military and then after. it's an important point itch also think it's important to note, though, becau