PBS NewsHour; September 4, 2019 3:00pm-4:00pm PDT

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>> Woodruff: GOOD EVENG, I'M JUDY WOODRUFF. ON THE NEWSHOUR TONIGHT, HURRICANE DORIAN CARVES A CATASTROPHIC PATH THROUGH THEDS BAHAMA ISLND NOW THREATENS STORM SURGES FROM FLORIDA TO THE CAROLINAS. THEN, BLOCKING BREXIT-- BRITISH LAWMAKERS CONFRONT THE PRIME MINISTER, COMPLICATING PLANS TO BREAK FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION. PLUS, FARMING THE FLAMES-- AS THE AMAZON FORESTS BURN AA RECORD BREAKING PACE, HOW AGRICULTURE IS FUELING THE FIRES THAT THREATEN THE GLOBE.

>> THE AMAZON PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE IN STORING CARBON SO IT'S CRUCIAL MAINTAINING THE AMAZON FOR THE STABILIZATION OF THE CLIMATE GLOBALLY.

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>> Woodruff: THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. SHORELINE IS KEEPING VIGIL TONIGHT, WATCHING HURRICANE "DORIAN" PLOW RTH, NOT FAR OFFSHORE. THE STORM IS PACKING WINDS OF 105 MILES AN HOUR, DOWN SHARPLY FROM THE POWER THAT BLASTED THE NORTHERN BAHAMAS. JOHN YANG REPORTS FROM NASSAU,GE ON A DISSTILL COMING INTO FOCUS.

>> Yang: CRUSHED HOMES, TOPPLED YATREES. T ASHORE. HAANE PARTS STREWN AROUND WHAT WAS THE GRAND BA AIRPORT. ALL OF IT, WRECKAGE IN THECAAKE OF HURRI "DORIAN"-- SCENES THAT ONE OFFICIAL CALLED "APOCALYPTIC." AS THE STORM CHURNS AWAY FROM THE HAMAS, SURVIVORS FACE A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. MARVIN HANLON DAMES IS THE BAHAMIAN NATIONAL SECURITY MINIER.

>> WE ARE NOW IN THAT STAGE WHERE WE'RE BEGINNING NOW TO GET ON THE GROUND AND GET OUR PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT PLACES AND BEGIN TO FOCUS ON THE NEEDS AND THE CONCERNS OF THOSE PERSONS IN DISTRESS.

>> Yang: SO FAR, T RESCUE EFFORT INCLUDES MORE THAN 600 POLICE OFFICERS AND MARINES DEPLOYING ACROSS HARD-HIT GRAND HAMA ISLAND. THE U.S. COAST GUARD IS ASSISTING AROUND THE EQUALLY DEVASTATED ABACO ISLAND. THE RED CROSS SAYS MORE THAN 13,000 HOMES ON THE TWO ISLANDS, SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. SANDRA COOKE'S FAMILY WAS HOURS.D IN THEIR HOME FOR 17 ALL OF MY FAMILY LIVES IN MARSH HARBOUR AND EVERYBODY LOST EVERYTHING NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE A HOME TO .IVE OR ANYTHING LIKE TH IT'S TERRIBLE.

>> Yang: MEANWHILE, "DORIAN'S" WIND SPEEDS CONTINUE TO DROP ASF IT SWIRLS NORT THE U.S. IT BEGAN TO LASH TRIDA COASTLINE TODAY, AND IS ON TRACK TO CONTINUE PAST THE CAROLINAS, CRHAPS MAKING LANDFALL ALONG THE NORTH CAROLIST BY FRIDAY. THE STORM ANNOUNCED ITS ARRIVAL NEAR JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA WITH WHIPPING WINDS AND CRASHING WAVES. MAYOR LENNY CUY URGED PEOPLE TO STAY VIGILANT.

>> I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE ARE TIRED. WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS STORM FOR ALMOST A WEEK, THE MODELS HAVE CHANGED A NUMBER OF TIMES, COMING, SO THIS IS NO TIME TO LET YOUR GUARD DOWN AND GO OUT AND WALK AROUND OR DRIVE AROUND.

>> Yang: IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAYOR JOHN TECKLENBURG ECHOED ORDERS TO EVA DANGEROUS ARS, AND PREDICTED A "QUADRUPLE THREAT".

>> WHAT'S OF GREAT CONCERN IS THAT TRIPLE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN, HIGH TIDES, AND STORM SURGE. IN ADDITION TO THE TRIPLE THREAT, NOW MORE SO WE FEEL THERE'S A THREAT OF WIND A HIGHER RISK OF WIND THROUGHOUT, SO IT'S REALLY A QUADRUPLE THREAT.

>> Yang: AND IN NORTH CAROLINA...

>> HURRICANE DORIAHAS ITS SIGHT SET ON NORTH CAROLINA.

>> Yang: ...GOVERNOR ROY COOPER ..DAY WARNED OF STORM SURGES AND INLAND FLOODING.

>> NORTH CAROLINIANS ARE USED TG FATORMS, BUT PLEASE DON'T LET FAMILIARITY GET IN THE WAY OF GOOD JUDGMENT. IF YOU'RE IN AN AREA WHERE AN EVACUATION HAS BEEREORDERED, LEAVE NOW.

>> Yang: IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE'S KEEPING AN EYE ON THE STORM FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.

>> IT'S A VERY ERRATIC A VERY SL VERY POWERFUL HURRICANE IT'S BUILT UP TREMENDOUS WATER AND WATER SUPP LIKE FEW HAVE EN.

>> Yang: AND MR. TRUMP PROMISEDA THE U.S. WILL IT CAN TO HELP THE BAHAM' RECOVERY EFFORTS. THIS GENERAL AVIATION TERMINAL EC THE NASSAU AIRPORT HAS E A HUB OF A RELIEF EFFORT BUT MEDICAL PERSONNELRCH AND END. GATHERED HERE FROM THE UNITEDLL STATES AND OTHER PLACES BUT IT CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THY JUST CAN'T GET YO ALL THIS OUT. ONE LOCAL ORGANIZER SAIHE'S O STORY OUT OF SPACE T ALL THE MEDICAL SUPPLI THAT ARE ARRIVING BECAUSY CAN'T GET IT OUT. GREAT FRUSTRATION HERE THAT THERE ARE SMANY RESOURCES HERE TO HELP BUT THEY CAN'T GET IT OHE FINAL 130ILES OR SO T WHERE IT'S NEEDED. JUDY.

>> Woodruff: JOHN, WHAT IS EPING THEM FIM GETTING THS MATERIAL TO THESE -- THESE MATEEALS TO THE PLACE WHS THEY'RE NEEDED?

>> Reporter: IT'S CONDITIONS. I MENTIONED EARLIER THE GRANDHA BA AIRPORT IS UNDBAER WATER. THE ENTIRE ISLAND, 60% OF THE ENTIRE ISLAND IS UNDER WATER. THE HIGHEST POINT ON GRAND BAHAMA IS 30 FEET ABOVE SEA THE STORM SURGE, NOT COUNTING THE WAVES, 23 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. THERTHERE ARE SIMY NOT ENOUGH SPACES TO LAND HELICOPTERS THERE TO GET THE AID IN. STARTING TOMORROW SOME GROUPS LIKE PROJECT HOPE ARE GOING TO TRY TO RCH THERE BY WATER, BY SHIP, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY JUST CAN'T REACH THEM.

>> Woodruff: SO HARD TO IMAGINE, FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE EVER BEEN TO ANY OF THE BAHAMAS. YOU JOHN, WHAT ELSE ARE HEARING ABOUT THE CONDITIONS ON THESE ISLANDS THAT HE BEEN MOST DEVASTATE

>> Reporter: WELL, YOU KNOW, THE BEST WAY TO ANSWER THAT MAY BE TO PLAY FOR YOU A LITTLE CONVERSATION I HAD EARER TOD WITH DAVE MELDO FROM ORLANDO, FLORIDA. HE'S HERE TRYING COORDINATE THE HELICOPTER EFFORTS TO THE VARIOUS ISLANDS. HE GREW UP ON ABACO ISLAND AND, JUST YESTERDAYFLEW OVER IT IN A HELICOPTER.

>> UM... U JUSTDEVASTATION. COMPLETELY -- I DIN'T RECOGNIZE IT. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE ISLANDS I WAS FLYING OVER AND I HAVE BEENR LIVING HE AND COMING HERE MY T OLE LIFE. THEY JUST DON'OK THE SAME. IT'S BAD. IT'S LIKELY BD. WE NEED HELP.te

>> Rep YOU KNOW, THE TOTAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM IS IN RUINS. HOSPITALS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, EVEN THE SHELTERS THAT WERE SET UP TO PRTECT RESIDENTS FROM THIS STORM, ALL UNDER WATER. Woodruff: AND, JOHN, I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK BACK T PUERTO RICO, HOW DEVASTATED IT WAS BY HURRICANE MARIA A FEW YEARS AGO. DO YOU HAVE E SENSE THAT THERE IS ENOUGH HELP THERE WAITING TO GET TO THESE ISLANDS ONCE THEY ARE ACCESSIBLE?

>> Reporte YOU DO GET AT SENSE. THERE IS A LOT OF MATERIAL, PERSONNEL. YOU JUST GO INSIDE THIS TERMINAL, IT IS WALL-TO-WALL AIDE WORKERS, MEDICAL PERSONNEL, NURSES, DOCTORS, ALL JU CHOMPING AT THE BIT TO GET OUT THERE AND HELP, BUT THEY JUST CAN'T GET, THE APPROVALOR THEY CAN'T FIND A WAY OUT THERE BY AIR.

>> WN,druff: FINALLY, JOHT SOUNDS AS IF THERE'S GOINTO BE AN ENORMOUS INFRASTRUCTURE, REBUILDING JOB THAT LIES AHEAD FOR THESE ISLANDS.

>> Reporter: ABSOLUTELY. SO MUCH OF THE PUBLIC FRASTRUCTURE, GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN DEVASTATED AND DESTROYED. THE COMMUNATIONS SYSTEMS HAV GOT TO BE REBUILT. POWER, HOSPITALS, ALL HAVE TO BE REBUILT NOW.

>> Woodruff: JOHN YANG, SUCH A TERRIBLE STORY. WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE THERE FOR . JOHN YANG REPORTING FROM NASSAU IN THE BAHAMAS. LET'S HEAR MORE NOW ABOUT HOWS RELIEF GRORE APPROACHING THIS DISASTER WITH THE PERSPECTIVE OF A COORDINOR WHO HAS OANIZED RESPONSES IN PREVIOUS CRY SEESHS. S SUSAN MANGICARO. SHE HEADS UP THAT EFFORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MECAL CORPS, A NONPROFIT GROU VOLUNTEER DOCTORS AND NURSES WHO DELIVER EMERGENCY HEAL CARRY AND OTHER SERVICES. SHE JOINS US FROM ORLANDO VIA YPE BEFORE SHE HEADS TO THE BAHAMAS. SOSAN MANGICARO, THK YO MUCH FOR TALKING WITH US. NRST OF ALL, TELL US WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION, INSHELL, WHAT IT DOES IN THESE SITUATIONS.

>> HI. WELL, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US ON. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS PROVIDES EMERNCY DISTER ILIEF AND HUMANITARIAN AD ACROSS THE GLOAFNLT IN A SITUATION SUCH AS WITH DORIANER WHA DISASTER STRIKES ANED IMPACT AREA, WE WORKHE VELY WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE AFFECTED AREA AND PROVIDE AND CORD MADE FOR MEDICAL CARE TO BE DELIVERED IN THE MOST IMPTHACTED ARE.

>> Woodruff: SO THIS POINT, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE NEED IS IN THE BAHAMAS?

>> WELL, VERY EARLY STAGES, A THERE'S A BIT OF A LACK OF NOMMUNICATION AT THIS POINT I TIME. HOWEVER, WE DO KNOW, AS MOST ARE AWARE,HE ISLAND HAS BEEN DRAMATICALLY IMPACTED. MOST HEALTHCARE SYSTEMSRE NONFUNCTIONING, WITH MINIMAL SUPPORTS.SO OURSELVES AS WELL AL OTHER AGENCIES ARE COORDINATING TO BE SURE THAT CAN PROVIDE THE RELIEF WITH DOCTORS, NURSES AND HEALTHCARE SUPPLIES IN THE MOST IMEDPAREAS.

>> Woodruff: ARE YOCONFIDENT AT THIS POI YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE BAHAMAS?

>> YES, WE ARE. WE ARE WORKING BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS. WE HAVE A FLIGHT SCHEDULED TOMORROW FOR A SIX-PERSON TEAM -- DOCTORS, MYSELF, MEDICAL COORDINATORS AS WELL S LOGIC WORK WITH THE COORDINATING AND AGENCIESANO THE BAHAMA GO BY BOAT OR PRIVATE FLIGHTS OR COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS WHN AVAILABLE.

>> Woodruff: WE WERE SPEAKING ON THE "NewsHour" WITH OUR CORRESPONDENT IN NASSAU TELLING US ABOUT THE BOTTLENK THERE. AGENCIES, OTHER INDIVIDUALSELIEF THERE WHO WANT TO GET THE HELP,D THE ND OTHER MATERIAL THEY HAVE OUT, BUT THEY JUST DON'T HAVE A WAY TO LAND ON PLACES LIKE ABACO BECAUSE THE WAER IS STILL VERY HIGH.

>> YES, ABSOLUTELY. THAT'S WHY WE WORK COHESIVELY GOVERNMENT BOTH WCAL ANDHE INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES TO COORDINATE CARE. NOT UNCOMMON INITIALLY. THIS HAPPENS OFTEN IN IMPACTED AREAS BY FLOOD OR TORDOES, HURRICANES, AND WE COORDINATE EFFECTIVELY SO THAT WE MAKE SURE WE'RE BRINGING RESOURCES AS P QUICKLY ASSSIBLE. IT OFTEN TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO GET INTO THE AREA, AS YOU MENTIONED, WITH AIRPORTS BEING UNDERWATER, BUT EVENTUALLY, WE WERE ABLEO COORDINATE EFFORTS THROUGH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONE WHO DOESOURCES TO GET US TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE TO TAKE CARE OF THE P TPLE THAT NEEE CARE THE MOST.

>> Woodruff: YOSOUR DOCTORS AND NURSES WILL LITERALLY BE TRYING TO GET TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, ETHER ON ABACO OR GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND OR SOMEWHERE ELSE?

>> YES, INITIALLY, AS I MENTIONED, WE'LL FLY INTO NASSAU AND DETERMINE WHERE THE GREATEST NEEDS ARE, WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GOVERNMENT, WE'LL DETERMINE VIA ASSESSMENT, WE HAVE OUR ASSESSMENT TEAM GOING OUT TO SEE WHERE THE GREATEST NEEDS ARE, WHERE TH GREATEST IMPACT IS, AND WHERE WE CAN DISTRIBUTE RESOURCES EFFECTIVELY. AS I MENTION, WE HAVE BEEN INE CONTACT, ALREADY, WITH SEVERAL DIFFERENT AGENCIES THAT HAVE BOATS TO KIND OF BRING US TO THE VARIOUS DIFFERENT ISLANDS AND BE SURE THAT WE'RE SAFELY BNGING OUR STAFF WHO WILL BE SELF-SUFFICIENT INTO REGIONS TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE THAT ARE IMPACTED.

>> Woodruff: AND JUST QUICKLY, DOOU TRY TO SET UP CLINICS WHERE YOU GO OR CAN YOU JUSTS WORK BALLY IN A VERY LIMITED SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES?

>> YEAH, WE CAN DO JUSOUT ANYTHING. WE HAVE THE ABILITY AND WE'VE OFFERED THE ABILITY TO SET UP A CLINIC SEEING 100 PATIES A THAT'S SELF-STANDING. WE CAN SET UP MOBE CLINICS, WE CAN SEND SMALL STRIKE TEAMS. WE'RE VERY FLEXIBLE BECAUSE EIR STRONGEST SINCE THE 2001 U.S. INVASION. BUT IN BRUSSELS, THE NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL SOUGHT TO ALLAY FEARS OF A HASTY PULLOUT.

>> WE WILL NOT LEAVE TOO ETRLY E REPORT COMES FROM THENT.RERT CONGRESSMAN NOT SEEKING RCTEEN. THAT IS AHEAD OF THE PACE IN THE 2018 ELECTION CYCLE, WHEN 34 HOREUSE REPUBLICANRED. MICHIGAN WILL BE THE FIRST STATE IN THE NATION TO BAN SALES OF FLAVORED, NICOTINE VANG PRODUCTS. DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR GRETCHEN WHITMER ORDERED THE MOVE TODAY. SHE SAID E-CIGARETTE MAKERS ARE USING CANDY FLAVORS AND MISLEADING ADS TO, IN HER WORDS, "HOOK CHILDREN ON NICOTINE." YOUTUBE HAS AGREED PAY $170 MILLION OVER CHARGES THAT IT COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA ON CHWIILDRENOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND NEW YORK STATE SAY THE COMPANY USED THE DATA TO TARGET KIDS WITH ADVERTISING. UND YER THE SETTLEMENTUBE ALSO AGREES TO LIMIT ITS DATA COLLECTION. AND, ON WALL STREET, GAINS IN TECHNOLOGY STOCKS FUELED A RALLY. TNDHE DOW JONESTRIAL AVERAGE GAINED 237 POINTS TO CLOSE AT 26,355. THE NASDAQ ROSE 102 POINTS, AND THE S&P 500 ADDED 31. STILL TO COME ON THE NEWSHOUR: BLOCKING BREXIT-- BRITISH L MAKERS MOVE TO STOP AN ABRUPT BREAK FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION. PROTESTS TURN TO POLICY IN HONG KONG, AS A CONTROVERAL EXTRADITION BILL IS WITHDRAWN. HOWHE AMAZON RAINFORESTS BEAR TBRHE BRUNT OIL'S BOOMING AGRICULTURE BUSINESS, AND MUCH MORE.

>> Woodruff: WE RETURN LONDON, AND THE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER AND PARLIAMENT OVER BREXIT. AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MALCOLM BNTRAEPORTS, WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTHS UNTIL THE BREXIT THE UNITED KINGDOM REMAINS NO CLEARER.

>> Reporter: THE MOOD IN PARLIAMENT WAS SPIKIER THAN USUISAL FOR BOHNSON'S FIRST EVER QUESTION TIME AS PRIME MINISTER.

>> ORDER, ORDER, ORDER!

>> Reporter: DESPITE LOSING HIS PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY AND BEING TORPEDOED BY AN INTERNAL PARTY REBELLION, JOHNSON ADHERED TO HIS BREXIT MANTRA.

>> THIS GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE THIS COUNTRY OUT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION OOCTOBER E 31st.

>> Reporter: BUT THE PLEDGE HAD A HOLLOW RING. JOHNSON'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEEN TORN APART. THE NEW PRIME MINISTER KICKED OUT 21 LAWMAKERS WHO IGNORED HIS PLEAS TO SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT. TEDHEY REBEY BACKING AN OPPOSITION LABOUR PARTY BILL DESIGNED TO PREVENT BRITAIN FROM LEAVING THE E.U. WITHOUT A DEALH JOHNSON LAMBASTED WHAT HE CALLED THIS SURRENDER BILL.

>> MR. SPEAKER, LET US BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, THIS GNGOVERNMENT IS GO GET A DEAL FROM OUR FRIENDS IN BRUSSELS. WE WILL GET THE BACKSTOP OUT. WE WILL GET AN AGREEMENT WHICH I THINK THIS HOUSE COULD APPVE. THE ONLY THING THAT IS STANDING IN OUR WAY IS THE UNDERMINING OF THOSE NEGOTIATIONS BY THIS SURRENDER BILL WHICH WOULD LEAD TO MORE DITHER AND DELAY.

>> porter: BUT LABOUR LEADE JEREMY CORBYN MADE IT CLEAR HE DIDN'T BELIEVE THE PRIME MINISTER.

>> THESE NEGOTIATIONS THAT HE TALKS ABOUT ARE A SHAM. ALL HE'S DOING IS RUNNING DOWN THE CLOCK.

>> Reporter: JOHNSON ACCUSED ReCORBYN OF UNDERMINING BRITAINS NEGOTIATING POSITION AND OF BEING SCARED OF A GENERAL ELECTION.

'S THENLY ONE CHLONATED CHICKEN THAT I CAN SEE IN THIS H TOUSE AND HE'S T BENCH.

>> Reporter: BUT CORBYN WAS IN A FEISTY MOOD.

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>> YESTERDAY HE LE VOTE, HIS FIRST VOTE IN PARLIAMENT, AND HE NOW WANTS TO DISSOLVE PHARLIAMENT. E'S DESPERATE, ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE TO AVOID SCRUTINY.

>> Reporter: AFTER PRIME MINISR'S QUESTION TIME, THE HSE BEGAN DEBATING THE LABOUR PARTY BILL. ONE OF THE MOST POIGNANT SPEECHES CAME FM A REBEL SACKED BY JOHNSON, SIR NICHOLAS SOAMES, THEWRANDSON OF SIR INSTON CHURCHILL.

>> MR, SPEAKER, I'M NOT STANDING ON THE NEXT ELEION AND I AM THUS APPROACHING THE END OF 37 YEARS SERVICE TO THIS HOUSE OF WHICH I HAVE BEEN PROUD AND HONORED BEYOND WORDS TO BE A MEMBER. I'M TRULY VERY SAD THAT IT SHOULD END IN THIS WAY.

>> Reporter: OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT, HARDLINE CONSERVATIVE BREXITEER NIGEL EVANS HAD THIS REACTION.

>> I JUST HATE TO SEE THE FACT AHES IFDIDN'T KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES. IT WAS EXPLAINED TO THEM BEFOREHAND NE THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

>> Reporter: EUROPEAN UNION EXPERT PROFESSOR CATHERINE BA'SRNARD BELIEVES JOHNSON BRUTAL CULL COULD BE A SELF INFLICTED WOUND THAT WILL REDUCE BRITISH PEOPLE WANT IT TO HAPPEN. WE VOTED TO LEAVE. WE HAD A REFERENDUM. AND WE SHOULD BE LEAVING.

>> Reporter:ABOUR M.P. TAN SON FORAS UPSET WITH JO DISPARAGING MUSLIM WOMEN EARLIER IS YEAR AND HIS DISDAIN HAS GROWN OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS.

>> WE HAVE MINIMAL TRUST IN THIS PRIME MINISTER. I THINK MANY OF HIS OWN COLLEAGUES, HIS OWN M.P.S DON'T LOOK TO HIM TO UNITE US ACROSS THE CHAMBER IN TO THE OPPOSITION PARTIES AND HOW CAN WE ENTRUST HIM TO UTE OUR FRACTURED SOCIETY, OUR FRACTURED COUNTRY.

>> Reporter: ON THE GREEN OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT, RIVAL FACTIONS KEPT UP THEIR CHANTS. THERE'S A SENSE HERE THAT THE DEBATE IS BECOMING MORE RAUCOUS AND IMPOLITE. NIGEL EVANS. BRITISH PEOPLE WHO VOTED IN 2016 WHO VOTED TO LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM JUST SIMPLY CAN'T ACCEPT IT.

>> Reporter: AND THIS IS STEVE BRAY, WHO HAS BEEN OUTSIDE PARLIAMENT FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS YELLING STOP BREXIT AT EVERY PASSG POLITICIAN.

>> BREXIT IS IN FREEFALL. LAST NIGHT WAS ANOTHER NAIL N. THE COF AND THIS IS THE END OF BREXIT. WE'RE NEVER LEAVING THE EUROPEAN UNION. BORIS JOHNSON SAID OCTOBER 31st DO OR DIE. NOVEMBER THE FIRST BIG FUNERAL.

>> Reporter: IT'S NOCLEAR IF SUCH OPTIMISM IS JUSTIFIED. BOLSTERED TONIGHT AS, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NOW SACKED REBEL CONSERVIVES, THE LABOUR PARTY PASSED THAT CRUCIAL BILL

>> COMPEING THE GOVERNMENT TO ABANDON PLANS TO LEAVE THE E.U. WITHOUT A DL.

>>RU N MY VIEW AND THE VIEW OF THIS GOVERNME, THERE MUST NOW BE AN ELECTION ON TUESDAYTE THEA 15th OF OCTOBER.E

>> Reporter: THE SHORT TIMEM AGO, HIS BAD SAY GOT WORSE. HE LT THAT VOTE AS WELL.E,Y THERE A HOWEVER, SEVERAL OTHER WAYS OF TRYING TO TRIGGERO AN ELECTION.ST BORIS JOHNSON REALLY NEEDS A ITIL MARY PASS IF HE'S TO FULFILL HIS CONT TO LEAD THE EUROPEAN UNION ONY OCTOBER 31. HE'S GAMBLING ON A GENERALOT ELECTN. POLITICAL ANALYSTS HERE BELIEVEF THAT IF HE SHOULD WIN SUCH ANVE ELECTION, HE MAY TRY TO REPEAL THE BILL THAT WAS PASSED TONIGHT. BUT THE FEELING IS THAT HEY MAY HAVE DAMAGED HIS ELECTION PROSPECTS BY EXILING SOME OF THE HEAVYWEIGHTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY. FOR THEFO FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR, I'MSP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MALCOLM BRABANT IN WESTMINSTER.

>> WoodruffHONG KONG'S CHIEF

>>EX EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE SHE WILL FORMALLY WITHDRAWA A BILL THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED EXNG KONG RESIDENTS TO BE EXTRADITED TO MAINLAND CHINA FOR TRIALS. PR THIPOSAL HAS SPARKED MONTHSOF OF LARGE SCALE, SOMETIMESVI VIOLENT, PROTESTS. BUT AS NICK SCHIFRIN TELLS US, PROTESTERS REACTION WAS NEGATIVE, SAYING THE MOVE IS TOI LITTLE TOO LATE.Sc

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>>frin: JUDY, IT WAS THE BILL THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSANDOT PROTESTS.SI SINCE APRIL, PROTTORS HAVEFI FILLED HONG KONG'S STREETS,CL CLASHING ON SOME OCCASIONS WITH RALICE, AND AT ONE POINT RANSACKING THE BUILDING WHERETH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONVENES. HONG KONG IS AN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CAPITAL, BUT IT HAS I STRGLED TO STAY OPEN FOR BUSINESS: LAST MONTH THE AIRPORT 96WAS SHUTDOWN BY SIT-INS ANDRT CLASHES.OF OFFICIALS IN BEIJING LABELED THE PROTESTORS CRIMINALS A TERRORISTS. TODAY HONG KONG CHIEF EXECUTIVE CARRIE LAM SAID SHE WAS TRYINGEO TO RESTORE STABILITY.

>> OUR FOREMOST PRIORITY NOW IS

>> TO END VIOLENCE, TO SAFEGUARDLE THE F LAW AND TO RESTORETH ORDER AND SAFETY IN SOCIETY.AS AS SUCH, THE GOVERNMENT HAS TOST STRICTLY ENFORCE THE LAW AGAINSL

>> Schifrin: LAM ISCUSSEDIN

>> INVESTIGATING POLICE TACTICS,AN AND HOLDING TALKS WITH PROTEST AND PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS. I'M NOW JOINED BY A PRO- DEMOCRACY LEGISLATOR, ALVIN YEUNG, A MEMBER OF HONG KONG'SLE ALGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ALVIN YEUNG, THANK YOU FOR JOING US, IS WHAT CARRIE LAMAN ANNOUNCED TODAY ENOUGH?

>> SAT CARRIE LAMID TODAY IS TOO LITTLET TOO LATE.I IF SHE HAD DONE IT THREE MONTHS AGO, HONG KONG PEOPLE WOULD NOTH HAVE SUFFERED SO MUCH, AND, BY NOW, THIS SO-CALLED WITHDRAWAL, OF COURSE, IS ONE OF THE FIVE DEMANDS HONG KONG PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR, BUT SHE DID NOT AND FAILED TO ADDRESS THE POLICE BRALITYUT. LET'ST' MAKE IT CLEAR HERE, THEN SYSTEMHONG KONG, THE SO-CALLED POLICE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, HAS NONVTIGATIVE POWER. THERE'S NO WAY THAT THIS COMMITTEE WOULD REQUIRE ANY WINNERS TO ATTEND AND TO TELLT THE TRUTH.

>> LAM SPOKE ABOUT DIALOGUE WITO COMMUNITY LEADERS AND UNIVSALS SUFFRAGE, SOMETHING PROTESTERSHA HAV PBEEN DEMANDING ANDR REFERENCED IN THE 1977 DEAL WHEN THE BRITILEFT HONG KONG, WAS IT A POSITIVE SIGN THAT SHENT MENTIONED THIS?

>> THE SO-CALLED DIALOGUE THAT WE HAVE WITNESSED FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE THAT THIS GOVERNMENT CKONLY P AND CHOOSE PEOPLE FROMI THEIR OWN CAMP TO HAVE AAL DIALOGUE WITH, AND EVEN WHEN THEY PICK SOMEBODY FROM THE OTHER SIDE, THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE, THEY'REIMPLY THERE TO LISTENWI WITHOUT TAKING ANY ACTION. LISTENING OR WATCHISPRY WHO ISL PROGRAM, FIVE YEARS AGO, THERE HONG KONG.RELLA REVOLUTION INHO CARRIE LAM, WHO WAS THEN CHIESE SECRETARY, THE NUMBER TWO PERSON OF THE GOVERNMENT, SHE HAD AAL DIALOGUE WITH THE THEN STUDENTAD LEADERS AND, GESS WHAT? FOUR STUDENT LEADERS WEREAR ARRESTED.

>> Reporter: WE WERE BACK WHENPRN JULY AND SAW PROTESTERS RANSACKED THROU THEL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. BEIJING HAS CALLED PROTESTERSCR CRIMINALS, EVEN TERRORISTS. ARE THERE ANY CRIMINALS INSIDE THE PROTES AND THAT VIOLENCE, IS THAT A CONCERN OF YOURS?

>> MY CONCERN, RATHER, IS BYWI WITHDRAWING THE BILL IS LAYINGFO FOUNDATION FOR CARRIE LAM TO PUT FORWARD SOMETHING CALLED EMERGENCY REVELATION, WHICH I TOTALLY UNCHECKED, WHICH ISTA TOTALLY A VERY POERFUL PIECE OFL LEGISLATION THAT EMPOWERS THE CHIEFIS EXECUTIVE -- THAT CARRIE LAM, OF COURSE -- TO MAKN ANY REGULATION TO RESTRICT BASIR FREEDOMS, INCLUDING TO BANEE FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY, AND THIS IE SOMETHING THAT LIKELY CONCERNSN NOT ONLYPE HONG KONGLE BUT ALSO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. WE FEAR THAT, OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, WE HAVE WITNESSED,IN INCLUDING HONG KONG OFFICIAIJ AND BNG OFFICIALS, THE ACCUSED HONG KONG PROTESTERS AS TERRISTS OR EVEN HAVING A TOTAL REVOLUTION, WHICH IS TOTALLY GROUNDLESS ANDNFAIR. Reporter: YOU BROUGHT UPCO COLOR REVOLUTIONS, OF COURSE,RE REFERENCING THE EASTERN EUROPEAE MOVEMENT THAT OVERTHREWMM COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS.AR ARE YOU SAYING THAT AHAT YOUA ASKING FOR IS ACTUALLYLIMITED AND THAT YOU'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANY KI OF INDEPENDENCES FROM MAINLAND CHINA?RE

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>> WENOT ASKING FORI INPENDENCE. WE ARE ASKING FOR UNIVERSALFF SUFFRAGE TO REALLY ELECT ACH CHIEFLY EXECUTIVE AND OL LEGISLATURE AS PROMISED BY BEIJING. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR THE MOON.W WE ARE BEING VERY REASONABLEHE HERE.

>> Reporter: YOU STARTED BYS SAYING THAT THIS WAS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE.DO ESHAT MEAN THE PROTESTS WILL CONTINUE?

>> THE HONG KONG PEOPLE CANNOT TAKE IT AS A VICTORI IN FACT, THEY'RE STILL FAR, FAR FROM VTORY. WHEN POLICEW BRUTALITY CANNOT BE DEALT WWHEN HONG KONGP PEOPLE ARE STILL ASKING, DEMANDING FOR SOMETHING THAT W ERE SUPPOSED TO BE GRANTED YEARS AGO, THAT IS UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE, TO ELECT LEADERS, I'M SURE HONG KONG PEOPLE WILL NOT VE UP.

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>> Reporter: ALVIN YEUNG,TH THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: STAY WITH US,C COMING UP ON THE NEWSHOUR: GUNS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND MONEY-- HOW KEY POLITICAL FLASHPOINTS ARE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY.SEN AND REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS OFTH THE LATEST MASS SHOOTING INOD ODESSA, TEXAS. THE AMAZON FORESTS ARE BURNINGA AT A RECORD BREAKING PACE,AR SPARKING SERIOUS CONCERNS AROUNT THE WORLD.CE THE SOTHEY ARE MAINLYBE BEING SET BY RANCHERS ANDFA FARMERCLEARING THE LAND FOR CULTIVATION. WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE PULITZEN R, AMNA NAWAZ AND PRODUCER MIKE FRITZ RECENTLY TREKKED DEEN INTO BRAZIL TO W WHAT IS DRIVING THIS DEFORESTATION.OFIT IT IS PARUR ONGOINGSE SERIES, BRAZIL ON THE BRINK. I R

>> ReporteS AN ENVIRONMENTAL TREASURE STRETCHING ACROSS MORE THAN TWOI MILLION SQUARE MILES, ABOUT 60 PERCENT OF WHICH IS HER BRAZIL. BUT THE AMAZON, THE WORLD'SBULA LARGEST RNFOREST, AND A VITAL LINE OF DEFENSE IN THE FIGHTAG ASSAULT.CLIMATE CHANGE, IS UNDES

>> THIS WAS ENTIRELY FOREST, 304 TO 40 YEARS AGO.

>>

>> Reporter: MIKE COE SCIENTIST AT THE WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL.AZHE HE'S BEEN STUDYING AND VISITINGH SAE AM FOR 20 YEARS. THESE TREES, HYS, ARECR CRUCI NOT JUST FOR HOW MUCH CARBON DIOXIDE THEY ABSORB BUTAL COOLING THE PLANET.HEY PLAY INCO

>> THE THING ABOUT THESE FORESTS IS, THEY'RE BASICALLY A GIANT AIR CONDITIONER.ES THEY TAKE OUT SOMETHING LIKE ATH THEY ARE INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AT TAKING IN SUNLIGHTATER AND PUTTING IT BACK IN THE ATMOSPHERE, AND THAT LEADS TO COOLING.

>> Reporter: SINCE THE 1970'S, THE AMAZON HAS BEEN STEADILY ARFORESTED. A T

>>TH NEARLY 20% HAS ALREADY BEEN WIPED OUT. AND THIS YEAR, THE REGION HAS SEEN RECORD-BREAKING FORESTF FIRES. ENGULFED VAST SECTIONS OF THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON.TH THE EFFECTS, COE SAYS, AREC CLEAR. , SO WHAT WE END UP WITH OUT HERE, IT'S ABOUT 10 DEGREES WARMER ON AVERAGE THROUGHOUT THE UTYEAR THIS INSIDE THERE FOREST.

>>

>> Reporter: TEN DEGREES WARMER OUT HERE IN THE DEFORESTED AREAS?Y.

>> ABSOLUT

>> Reporter: THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE DECLINE OF THE AMAZON IN BRAZIL?TH THE RISE OF THE COUNTRY'SBO BOOMING AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR.UN UNLIKE ST OF BRAZIL'S ECONOMY, AGRICULTURE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN GROWING. IT'S BEEN GROWING STEADILY OVERH THE LAST FEW YEARS. FUELED MOSTLY BY SOY, COTTON,AN AND CORN CROPS LIKE THESE.BU BUT CRITICS SAY THAT GROWTH HAST COME AT EXPENSE OF THEAZ AMAZON.IN IN FACT, AN ESTIMATED 80% OF THE DEFORESTATION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON IS DUE TO AGRICULTURE-- E REULT OF DECADES OF PERMISSIVELA LAND USE POLICIES AT TRANSFORMED HUGE SWATHS OF THISE REGION INTO CHEAP FARM ACREAGE.

>>

>> THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR HASAL ALWAYS BEEN A MAJOR PLAYER BR BRAZILIAN POLITICS, GOING BACK G TO EVEN BEFORE THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC.

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>> Rerter: MONICA DE BOLLE ISA A LATIN AMERICAN EXPERT AT THEP PETERSON INSTITUTE OFON INTERNATI ECONOMICS, A NON-SH SHE SAYS SINCE THE 196BRAZIL HAS GROWN INTO AN AGRICULTURAL GIANT, NOW THE WORLD'S LEADINGEX EXPORTER OF BEEF, CHICKEN, AND SOYBEANS. T

>>

>> RE'S A LOT OF POLITICALIN INFLUENCE THERE, THERE'S ALSO AO LOTF ECONOMIC POWERBECAUSETH THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR IS THESP OKET, THE ONE BRIGHT SPOT IN THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY RIGHT NOW.

>> Reporter: WHILE G.D.P. INBR AZIL HAS REMAINED SLUGGISH IN RECENT YEARS, GROWING BY ONLY 1% ANNUALLY, AGRICULTURE HASST 20EADILY SPIKED, RISING BY ASMU MUCH AS 13% IN . ANHEWHILE DEFORESTATION IN TAM AMAZON SLOWED FROM 2004 TO 2012, IT'S PICKED BACK UP OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AS NEW ROADS ANN INFRASTRUCTURE PUSHEDDE CEVELOPMENT FURTHER INTO R REMOTE AREAS. IN JANUARY, A NEW THREAT TOHE AMAZON CAME WITH THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO, A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER. HE HAS REPEATEDLY PLEDGED TO OPEN UP MORE OF THE RAINFOREST FOR BINESS...

>> ( translated ): LET'S USE THE RICHES THAT GOD GAVE US FOR THEI WELL OF OUR POPULATION.

>> THE GOVERNMENT HASN'T UNDERSTOOD YET, THE RISKS OF THE INCREASING DEFORESTATION FOR THE REPUTATION OF BRAZIL, FOR OUR MARKETS, FOR OUR FUTURE.

>> Reporter: ANDRE GUIES IS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TH AMAZON ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE. FURTHER DESTRUCTION OF THE AMAZON, HE SAYS, THEIR CHIEF CONCERN.

>> FOR THE GLO, IT WOULD BE A THE AMAZON PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE ROIN STORING CARBON EVERY TREE S SO IT'S CRUCIAL MAINTAINING THE AMAZON FOR THE STABILIZATION OF THE CLIMATE GLOBALLY.

>> Reporter: IT'S IMPORTANT AL NOTE THAT NODEFORESTATION IS ILLEGAL-- FARMERS CAN CUT UP TO 20% OF TREES LIKE THESE ON THEIR LANDS, BUT THE PROBLEM SCIENTISTS SAY IS THAT THE BOLSONARO GOVERNMENT HAS WEAKENED LICENSING, MONITORING, MAKING IT HARDER TO ENFORCE THE L. SINCE PRESIDENT BOLSONARO TOOK OFFICE IN JANUARY, ROUGHLY 1,000 S SQUARE MILES OF FOREST EN LOST, A NEARLY 40% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR. BACK IN MATO GROSSO, COE AND HIS COLLEAGUES ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF ALL THAT STRUCTION, MEASURING AND MONITORING TRACKING TRENDS IN A SHIFTING ENVIRONMENT.

>> AN AVERAGE YEAR TODAY IS LIKE AN EXTREMELY HOT, DRY YEAR 30 YEARS AGO. SO THE CLIMATE HAS CHANGED DRASTICALLY BECAUSE OF DEFORESTATION AND BECAUSE OF ST THE GENERAL CLIMATE CHANGE.

>> Reporter: COE SAYS THEY ARE STUDYING WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FOREST BECOMES FARMLAND-- IN THS CASE, A SOYBEAN FIELD.

>> WHAT IT'S REALLY DOING IS MEASURING HOW CONDUCTIVE THE THERE IS, THE MORE CONDUCTIVE IT IS.

>> Reporter: WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? CAN GET A PICTURE OF HOW MUCH WE WATER THERE ACTUALLY IS.TO SO OUT IN THE SOYBEAN FIELD,.. THERE'S A LOT MOR SOIL.PON THEES THE RAIN COMES IN, IT ALL GOES INTO THE SOIL. THE TREES USE A GREADEAL OFUR IT. THE SOYBEANS REALLY DON'T,, BECAUSE FOR NINE MONTHS OUT A YEAR, THEY'RE REALLY NOT DOINGN. ANYTHING.OL T SO IT SITS SOIL, THEN ITAT GOES INTO THE STREAMS AND JUSTT GETS FLUSHED OUT INTO THE OCEANP WITH FEWER TREES, LESS WATERHA ACTUALLY GOES BACK INTO THEAR ATMOSPHERE AFTER RAINFL, WHICHLA IN TURN LEADS TO SHORTER RAINYTS SEASONS, AND MORE FREQUENT DROUGHTS.AR SO THE TREES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PUSHING A LOT OF THAT WATER BACK UP INTO THE ATMSPHERE LEADING T TO MORE OF THE RAIN. YOU'VE GOT LESS RAIN HERE NOW TOO, RIGHT? I WHAT DOES AT MEAN?S

>> EXACTLY. F THE DRY SEASON'S SOMETHING LIKE FIVE MONTHS LONG, SO ALREADY BY THE END OF THE DRY SEASON, C THEY'RE RUNNING OUT OF WATER.AL SOIL.CA IIN THE THAT'S A LOT MORE STRESS ON THEG REST.R MORE IT DIES.

>> Reporter: THIS IS JUST ONE OA MANY MULTI-YEAR PROJECTS BEINGTH DONBY COE AND HIS TEAM ATEF TANGURO RANCH, A SPRAWLING 200UL THOUSAND AC INDUSTRIAL FARM THAT SITS AT THE VERY EDGE OF THE SOUTHERN AMAZON.SO SOYBEANS, CORN, AND COTTON ARE ALL GROWN HERE, BUT IT'S ALSO AE EXACTLY THE IMPACT LEFT BEHIND.S IT'S A RARE PARTNERSHIP BETWEENI IBUSINESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY THAT DATES BACK 04 2004, WHEN A FEW AGRRELE LEADERS IN BRAZIL REALIZED ABA BALANCE BETWE GROWTH AND CONSERVATION WAS NEEDED.O DIVINO SILVE A SCIENTIST T ON THAT TEAM, OFTEN TASKED WITH CLIMBING HIGH ABOVE THE TREE- WHAT'S BEING LOST FROMEXACTLYAT DEFORESTATION.RE I I M HERE IN THIS TOWER THATLO ALLOWS US TO MEASURE HOW MUCHCA CARBON THAT THIS FOREST IS ASSIMILATING OR EMITTING INTOTH THE ATMOSPHERE. R

>> Reporter: BORN AND RAISED IN THE AREA, SILVERIO IS THE SON OF SUBSISTENCE FARMERS.

>> ( translated ): IT WAS VERY NATURAL FOR UTO TRANSFORMNA NATURE, TO CUT DOWN THE FOREST.H THAT WAS NORMAL FOR ME.T BUT WHAT I LEARNED IN SCHOOL HELPED ME HAVE A BETTERUN UNRSTANDING OF THEN CONSEQUENCES OF THESE TYPES OFTI ACTIONS, ANIT'S IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT AGRICULTURE IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. WE HAVE TO PRODUCE FOOD. T BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S ALSOO IMPORTANT TO PRESERVE NATURE AS IT IS. I

>> Reporter: SAFEGUARDING THE FOREST DOESN'T HAVE TO COME AT THE EXPENSE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, ACCORDING TORC MERCEDES BUSTAMENTE, A BIOLOGIS AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA. B T

>> THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY THAT NEEDS MORE ENVIRONMENTALPR PROTECTION IS AGRICULTURESE ITSELF.EC BECAUSE WHEN WE NEED WATER, WENE NEED GOOD SOILS, WE NEEDLL POLLINATORS, WE NEED PEST CONTROL, WE NEED A VERY STABLECL CLIME.CL

>>

>> Reporter: YOU'RE SAYING IT COULD ACTUALLY BE BETTER FOR THAT AGRIBUSINESS?CO

>> YESD AND ACTUALLY IF YOU SEE THE LAN USE IN BRAZIL WE STILL HAVEAI AVAILABLE LAND FOR AGRICULTURALE DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO FOR ACONSERVATION.

>> Reporter: THE FUTURE OF THE AMAZON NOW DEPENDS ON FINDINGF S THIS BALANCE SAYS THASLO LOVEJOY, AN ECOLOGIST WHO HAS STUDIED THE RAINFOREST SINCE TH0 1960'S.

>> WE ARE SEEING, I THINK, THE FIRST FLICKERINGS OF THE TIPPINN POINT WITH HISTORIC DROUGHTS IN5 2005, 2ND 2016.

>> Reporter: IF THAT TIINGPO POINT IS REACHED, WHICH LOVEJOY BELIEVES COULD HAPPEN IF MORETH THAN 20 TO 25% OF THE AMAZON IS DESTROYED, IT WOULD BE DEVASTATING TO THE REGION'S ECOSYSTEM, CREANG HOTTER,IE DRIER WEATHER PATTERNS THAT WILL TRANSFORM LARGE SECTIONS OF THEN JUNGLE INTO A SAVANNA.

>> YOU CAN GO DOWN IN HISTORY AE BEING THE UIVALENT OF THE PERSON WHO CREATED THE DUST BALT IN THE UNITED STATES. TTHE DIFFERENCE IS BETWE DUST BALL AND WHAT THE SITUATIOS IS IN THE AZON AND IN BRAZIL IS WE ACTUALLY SCIENTIFICALLY S UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON, AN CAN AVOID THOSE TIPPING POINTS.R

>> Reporter: AND FOR SCIENTISTS LIKE DIVINO SILVERIO, AVOIDINGAT THAT TIPPING POINT IS NOT ONLY CRUCIAL FOR E AMAZON BUT ALSOR FOR A PLACE HE'S LONG CALLED HOME. (

>> ( translated ): IT'S WHERE I GREW UP, WHERE MY FAMILY LIVES.M TO ME, THIS REGION IS PART OF ME.. IT'S ALSO SCIAL BECAUSE OF ITSEX EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN PART OF MY LIFEO SO, THERE IS AN INTENSE FEELINGL OF LOSS WHEN WE SEE THE CHANGEST THAT ARE HAPPENING.

>> Reporter: FOR THE PBSOUWS NEW I'M AMNA NAWAZ IN MOTO GROSSO, BRAZIL. W

>> Woodruff: TOMORROW WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE THREATS FACED BYLM ANIMALS THAT CALL THE AMAZONOTME HOME ANDTIAL SOLUTIONS. S Woodruff: THE WORST FE ARE COMING TRUE ABOUT THE

>> DEVASTATING NATUREHEOF HURRICANI DORIAN. A NEW REPORT THIS HOUR IS THEDE DEATH TOLL IN THE BAHAMAS IS NOU TO 20 PEOPLE. THE HURRICANE AND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ALONG WITH GUNS IN THE AFTERMATH OF REPEATED MASS SHOOTINGS IN THISO CO AND, YET, MORERE RETIREMENTS BY REPUBLICAN ST AERS OF CONGRESS ARE FEW OF THE ISSUES WE WANT TO RAISE NOW WITH TWO PEOPLE WHO WATCH PUBLIC OPINI CLOSELY FROM THE MIDDLE OF AMERICA. THEY ARE CHRIS BUSKIRK, EDITOR THE CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL ANDB WEB SITE "AMERICAN GREATNESS."'S HE'S IN PHOENIX. AND COLLEEN NELN, SHE'S THE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR FOR THEAN "KANSAS CITE STARPAPER ANDE SHE JOINS US FROM KANSAS CITY,SS MISSOURI. HELLO TOBOTH OF YOU.WE WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE ON THIS WEDNESDAY. I WANT TO START BY TALKING ABOUT HURRICANE DORIAN. I KNOW THAT SO MUCH OF THEAT ATTENTION HAS BEEN ON THEUT SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COAST, BUT, WITH THEEVERITY OF ONEHU HURRICANE AFTER ANOTHER, THEY'RE GETTING BIGGER,HEY'RE DROPPINGRE MORE RAIN, THEY'RE CREATING MORE DEVASTATION, I WONDER, CHRIS BUSKIRK, THERE IS MORE ANVERSATION NOW ABOUT CLIMATECH CHANGE, THE CONNECTIONETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT'SPP HAPPENING TO HUMANS ON THEAN PLANET. IS IT YOUR SENSETHAT THIS ISRE MORE OF A VOTING ISSUE FOR AMERICANS THAN IT WAS?

>> I THINK THAT DIVIDES A LITTLI BIT ONG PARTYAND IDEOLOGICALFI AFFILIATIONS, SO IT CERTAINLYIS IS, I THINK, FOR DEMOCRATS, IIN THINK IT MAY BE A BIT MORE FOR WREPUBLICANS. T I CAN SAY,S. THOUGH, WITH REGARD TOG REPUBLICANS IS THAT R THE -- HOW DO I WANT TO SAY THIS, THERE IS SORT OFFR A FRUSTRATION ABOUT THE DISCUSSIOC OF CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT DO WE BELIEVE IT ORO WE NOT BUT IN THE SENSE THAT IT SOMETIMES GETT IN THE WAY OF DOING -- OFEN ENACTING LEGISLATION THAT ISSI POSSMIVE ENVIRONMENTA IN OTHER WORDS YOU DON'T HAVE TE BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE INCL CLIMATE CHANGE FOR INSTANCE TO THINK IT'S GOOD IDEA TO GETE THE PLASTIC OUT OF THE OCEAN,D AND SOMETIMES THESE THINGSBE BECOME AN IMPEDIMENT TO WHATCO COULD ACTUALLY BE POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION EVERYBODY COULD SUPPORT.

>> Woodruff: YOU'RE SAYINGER SOMEME REPUBLICANS ARE RELUCTANT TO SUPPORT MEASURES EVEN THOUGHH THEY MAY NOT HAVE ANY CONNECTIOT TO THE TERM OR THE IDEA OFIM CLIMATE CHANGE?

>> YEAH, I GUESS -- I HEAR THIS A LOT. FIVE YEARS AGO, I PROBABLY NEVEO WOULD HAVE HEARD IT. T IN THE PAST YEAR OR SO, I HEAR IT MORE AND MORE.IT IT'S, LIKE, WHY IS DEBATEAL ALWAYS STALLED OVER WHO BELIEVS ILI MANMADETE CHANGE AND WHO DOESN'T AS OPPOSED TO, HEY, THIS WOULD BE GOOD POLICY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE OR DISBELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE TOH THINK THAT SOME OF THESE POLICYD ARE GOOD POLICY IDEAS AND ACTUALLY WOULD PROMOTE AAL HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT FORER EVERYBODY.

>> Woodruff: COLLEEN NELSON,IS IS THERE REALLY A DIFFERENCETH THERE? HOW DO YOU SEE THIS? W

>> WELL, I THINK YOU'RE HEARINGO MORE AND MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS ISSUE, AND THERE ARE DEEPENING CONCERNS ABOUT CLIMATN CHANGE, AND AT, LEA THECA LOCAL LEVEL, THIS IS BECOMINGSS LESS OF A PARTISAN CONCERN ANDRR OF A PRAGMATIC ISSUE AND, T IN THE ABSENCE OF ACTION INSH WASHINGTON, D.C., YOU ARE SEEING MORE AND MORERE LOCALMO LEADERSI SAYIN OKAY, WE NEED -- WE'RE THE FOLKS GOVERNING ON THE GROUND, WE NEED TO DEVELOPPO POLICIES THAT CREATE AST ADDRESS THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AND, SO, AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUSTN KINOF SETTING DEMOCRATI DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN PARTY UB AND SAYING AS MAYORO OF KANSAS CITY, AT KANSAS CITYHA HALL WT SHOULD WE BE DOING TO AD SO THERE'S NOT THE SAME TENOR OF POLICY DEBATE AN AND DIVIDE YOUE

>> Woodruff: CHRIS, YOU SAID

>> IT'S MORE OF AN ISSUE FORDE DEMOCRATS. DO YOU SAY THAT'S CHANGING?

>> AT IT'S CHANGE AGO BIT. WHAT I'VE HEAR ABOUT AND THOUGHT ABOUT MYSELF FORG THEST LAST COUPLE OF YEARS IS WHATES DOES -- WHAT IS AN ENVIRONMENTALISM OR ACO CONSERVATION MOVEMENT LOOK LIKE THAT COULD BE SUPPORTED BY PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY ASNS CONSERVATIVES? THE I START TO THINK ABOUT POLICY INITIATIVES AND THINGS THAT COULD ACTUALLY BE DONE INRE REAL LIFE, AND YOU TALK ABOUTONE REFORESTA INITIATIVES OROW OWNS CLEANUP WITH REGARDS TOICAS PLATHESE SORTS OF THINGS, THERE ARE A LOT OF CONSERVATIVES THAT WOULD GET BEHIND TH DISCREET POLICY PROPOSALS IN A HEARTBEAT, YETS THE CONCE SEEMS TO BE ALWAYS STYMIED ON DU YOU BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE OR NOT? IN A CERTAIN SENSE, AND I KNOWIS THIS IS IMPORTANT PEOPLE ONTH THE LEFT, BUT WE SHOULD TAKE THE WINS WHERE WE CAN GET THEM WHERE PEOPLE AGREE REGARDLESS OF WHY PEOPLE THINK THEY' GOODLI POLICY.

>> Woodruff: COLLEEN, I WANT TO TURN TO ANOTHER SUBJECT THAT HASOME UP AND THAT GUNS INE THE WAKE OF THESE ALMOST WEEKLY, NOW, MASS SHOOTINGS, ANOTHER NOW IN THE LAST FEW DAYS IN TEXAS,E THE THIRD SHOOTING IN THATST STATE -- OR SECOND IN THAT STATE IN THE MATTER OF 30AYS.IS THE CONVERSATION CHANGES AROUND THAT? ARE YOU HEARING MORE OF ALL WILLINGNESS BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN OPPOSED BY GUN CONTROL TONS CONSIDERIT NOW?

>>

>> THE CONVERSATION IS CHANGING IN THAT WE'RE HAVING SERIOUSNV CONVERSATIONS BOTH IN KANSAS AND IN MISSOURIBOUT IS THERESO SOMETHING THAT WE CAN AGREE ON WHHER IT'S RED FLAGAWS ORCK BACKGROUND CHECKS AND BUT THERE'S STILL REALLY A TOUGH ROW TO HOE THERE. SO WHILE FOLKS A CONCERNEDAB ABOUT THE MASS SHOOTINGS, THIS OF HUGE PROBLEMS WITH GUNS INOP KANSASNS CITY AND ST. LOUIS, AND DE G YOU SEE A REAL URBAN DIV ON GUN VIOLENCE WITH A LOT OF RURAL LAWMAKERSL BASICALLY SAYN WE'RE NOT WITO DO ANYTHING, WE'RE GOING TO STICK WITH VERYTH LOOSE GUN LAWS WEAVE IN PLACE IN MISSOURI, WHILE YOUV HAVE KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS T CITIES IN TERMS OF HOMICIDE RATES IN THE COUNTRY. SO THERE'S REALLY STRONGVI DIVIDE THERE. AND THE CONVERSATION IS SHIFTINI A LITTLE BIT, BUT NOT TO THEO POINT WHERERE ACTUALLY SEEING ACTION, MUCH LIKE IN TEEE SEE.IN IN MISSOURI, AGROUP OFWM LAWMAKERS ASKED THE GOVERNOR TO CALL A SPECIALESSION ON GUN VIOLENCE AND SO FAR HE'SCL DECLINED.

>> Woodruff: AND, CHRIS, WHAT ABOUT THAT? AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, A LOT OF CONVERSATI, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS URGING THE PRESIDENT TO DOS SOMETHING,ITCH McCONNELL, THE LEADING REPUBLICAN, THEMA MAJORITY LEADER IN THE SENATESA YING I'M NOT GOING TO DO SOMETHINGOW UNLESS I KOR ACT FACT THE PRESIDENT'S GOING TOSI SIGN IT. Y

>> YEAH, WHAT I HEAR AOT IS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, THESE MASSO SHOOTINGS ARE HORRIFIC ANDOP PEOPLERE REALLY STRUGGLING WITH A COUPLE OF THINGS.E ONE IS HOW DO YOUYC PSYCHOLOGICALLY DEAL WITH THEFE FEAR THAT'S COMING OUT OFME ND RM?ATG SO THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE, I THINK,VE HAVE A HARD TIME, MYSELF INCLUDED, BY THE TIME YOU GETYO YOUR MIND AROUND SOMETHING YOU CAN'T PREDICT AT ALLCA AND TRYIG TO BALANCE THAT AGAINST SENSIBLE POLICY. YOU HAVE, FORLI INSTANCE, 2018U YOU HAD10 ABOUT PEOPLE KILLED FROM THESEOM SORT OF RANDOM MASH SHOOTINGIN THE UNITED STATES, 110. ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU WANT TO PEOPLE'SHAT AGAINST LEGITIMATE RIGHT TO PROTECTEM THEMSELVES. E WERE SOMETHINGNG LIKE3 1.3 MILLION DEFENSIVE USES OF IN THE UNITED STATES LAST YEAR.D AND YOU SAY, ON THE ONE HAND, WA WANT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS, BUT IS ITH THE GUNS, IS IT THE PEOPLE? IS IT THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE?I I THINK WE NEED TO UNDERSTANDTH THOSE ISSUES BETTER AND THAT'SIO SOMETHAT EVERYBODY WANTSTO TO DO, AND FOCUSING ON THE GUNS, I THINK, IS MAYBE ONE PART OF, IT, BUT THERE ARE OTHERRI VARIABLES THAT NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON ASCU WELL.

>> WHE ARE WE ON THIS? SOUNDS LOKE YOU'RE BTH SAYING YOU DON'T NECESSARILY SEE MOVEMENT L TO DO ANYTHI ABOUT GUNS. T

>> THERE'S NOT IMMEDIATE MOVEMENT IN MISSOURI OR KANSAS AND, OBVIOUSLY, THE ENTIREUN COUNTRY IS WATCNG AND WAITINGON ON MITCH McCONNELL AND DONALDUM TRUMP. CLEARLY, STAT STATE LAWMAKERS CD ACT, BUT KANSAS AND MISSOURI VMA REMARY RED STATE.UM MISSOURI BY 19 AND 21 POINTSSP RESPECTIVELY, SO THE FOLKS LEADING KANSAS AND MISSOURI AREN'T INCLINED TO ENACT A LOT G OF GUN CONTROL MEASURES. SO THOUGH THIS ELEVATED THE CONVERSATION AND CREATED A SENSF OF URGENCY, THAT ISN'T LIKELY TO OLLOWED WITH ACTION MIDDLE EAST.

>> Woodruff: LAST THING I WANT TO QUICKLY RAISE WITH BOTH OFYO RETIREMENTS YOU'RE SEEING FROM REPUBLICAN MEMBERS. CHRIS BUSKIRK, WE LEARN JIMSE FROMISCONSIN, SERVING 40ARMAKERM YEARS, HE'S NOT RETURNING.E THE NUMBER IS UP TO 14 OR 15 ATS THIS POINT. WHADOES IT SAYBOUT YOUR PARTY -- NOT YOUR PARTY -- THERE REPUBLICAN PARTY, A WHAT DOESIT IT SAY ABOUT THE PRESIDENT?

>>

>> I THINK -- I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE PARTY.SE 4NSENBRENNER, YOU KNOW, 4 YEARS, HE DID HISAR TIME.ME SOME OF THESE OTHER RETIREMENTS ARE I THINK LITTLE BIT MOR ON POINT FOR WHAT YOU'RE ASKINGAB ABOUT.LO LOOK, B IT'S TOUGH TO IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW, IT'S TOUGH B TO BE IN D.C. IN GENERAL, ESPECIALLY FOR THE HOUSECI IF YOU'RE IN THE MINORITY, YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO. SO IF YOU DON'T SEESO A PROSPECO OF GETTING BACK INTO THEJO MAJORITY, YOU THINK, WELL, YOUKN KNOW, WHAT AM I G WNG TO DOH MY LIFE? AND SOME OF THESE GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GO O CK INTO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, AND IN CAN HARDLY BLAME THEM.TH I THINK THELL CHGES FORPU REPUBLICANS NOW IS HOW DO YOU GET GOOD CANDIDATES TO REPLACE THEM? THAT'S REALLY GOING TO BE TOUGH AND I THINK IT MAKES 2020 AN UPHILL BATTLE FOR REPUBLICANS TO RETAKE THE HOUSE, WHICH I KNOW W IT'S NOT GETTING EASIER. DO, BUT

>> Woodruff: 15 SECONDS,CO EEN, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE FOR REPUBLIORNS IN THESE RACES

>> REPUBLICANS PARTICULARLY IN SUBURBAN AREAS ARE LOOKING AT THE REALITY OF H TRUMP IS PLAYING IN THE SUBURBS, PARTICULARLY WITH WOMEN, AND THEIR PROSPECTS DON'T LOOK GOOD. THEY SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER 2018, AND THEY FEAR TH, WORND LOOKING AHEAD, ANOTHER YEAR AND A HALF OF POTENSION WILL CONGRESS DOING NOTHING, THAT DOESN'T SET THEM UP WELL HEADING INTO THE 2020 ELECTION, SO CERTAINLY MAKESAT SENSE SOME OF THESE NG ABLICANS WOULD BE MA CONGRATULATION THAT IT'S SIMPLYO WORTH RUNNING AND LOSING.

>> Woodruff: SEEMS LIKE WE'RE DAY.NG ALMOST AN ANNOUNCEMENT A AT THIS RATE, WE'LL SEE WHERE IT GOES. COLLEEN NELSON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, CHRIS BUSKIRK JOINING US FROM PHOENIX. THANK YOU

>> OTH. ANK YOU.

>> Woodruff: FINALLY TONIGHT, WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WEST TEXAS SHOOTINGS OVER LABOR DAY WEEKEND, WITH THE WORDS OFRI FAMILY AND FDS WHO ARE MOURNING THEIR LOVED ONES.U 15 YEAR OLD LEILAH HERNANDEZ HAD JUST CELEBRATED H QUINCEANERA. HER BROTHER, NATHAN, TRIED TO SHIELD HIS YOUNGER SISTER FROM THE GUNFIRE AND WAS SHOT IN THE ARM. NATHAN WROTE ON TWITTER, "I DID MY BESTO PROTECT YOU, I'M SORRY." JOE GRIFFITH, WHO WAS 40, WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN HIS CAR, SITTING AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. HIS FRIEND RICK, ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATION, SAID, "FORH ALL O TO BE THERE ANBE WITNESS TO THAT IS JUST UNSPEAKABLE." 0 YEAR OLD KAMERON BROWN JOINED THE ARMY IN 2007 ANDCT SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN.CU

>> HE HAD TO GO FIGHTN A WARG AND COME BACK HERE TO BE KILLED' SENSELESSLY.NO THIS IS SO UNFAIR.H

>> Woodruff: MARY GRANADOS WAS A LETTER CARRIER WITH THE U.S.GO POSTAL SERVICE.RO THE 29 YEAR OLD WAS FINISHING UP HER SHIFT WHEN THE GUNMAN HIJACKED HER VEHICLE.ER HER TWIN SIROSIE, WAS ONTH THE PHONE DURING THE ATTACK ANDO WENT LOOKING FOR HER.RA SHE TOLD REPORTERS, "SHE WAS LAYING ON THE FLOOR WHEN I GOTD, THERE. SHE WAS ALREADY GONE."US 35 YEAR OLD RAUL GARCIA WAS ATT LONG STANCE TRUCK DRIVER ANDIC FATHER OF FOUR FROM EL PASO. O HE WAS HEADED TO SAN DIEGO BUTK UP HIS SONS SO THEY COULD JOINHI HIM ON THE FINAL LEG HI THETR TRIP.

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