Also ahead this monday, the risks and rewards of private Space Exploration after two recent accidents raise new questions. Ifill plus, rare 1960s recordings from bob dylan and the band holed up in a barn, are released for the first time. Dylan described it. He said, its the way music should be made with the windows open, a dog lying on the floor and your friends the basement just doing what you want to do. Woodruff and, a West Virginia teenager campaigning out of her dorm room hopes to become the youngest person ever to serve in a state legislature. One of the biggest problems is people my age get their high school and College Education here and then they leave because they cant get a good paying job and so i want to be a part of making sure that my generation stays in West Virginia. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff american hopes of having moderate rebels in syria prevail against the Islamic State group have suffered new setbacks. The rebels lost a series of towns over the weekend to yet another group, linked to al qaeda. And today, fighters from that same militant group massed near a crossing at the turkish border. The crossing controls a key supply route. Ifill the Islamic State group kept up a campaign of atrocities against a sunni tribe in iraq today. An iraqi official said 36 men, women and children were lined up and publicly killed in a village in anbar province. The militants have slain more than 200 people from that tribe since friday. Woodruff theres been another large cyberattack, this one targeting the u. S. Governments top security clearance contractor. The Associated Press reports the breach at u. S. I. S. Went on for months before the company noticed. It compromised the private records of at least 25,000 workers at the department of homeland security. Ifill korean auto makers hyundai and kia will pay a record 100 millionpenalty to settle claims they inflated gas mileage figures in the u. S. A Justice Department investigation found the companies violated the clean air act. Attorney general eric holder. Because they used inaccurately low numbers to demonstrate compliance with emissions standards, conducting tests in the way that did not reflect good engineering judgment. Hyundai and kia calculated higher fuel economy and lower Greenhouse Gas emissions than the vehicles actually have. Ifill the two companies denied any legal wrongdoing. They said federal rules for gas mileage testing are complex and hard to interpret. Woodruff falling gasoline prices boosted u. S. Auto sales last month. Chrysler reported a 22 bump for its largest october gains since 2001. Japanese automakers nissan and honda reported their best u. S. Sales ever for the month. Only ford had a sales decline, down two percent. Ifill regon woman who sparked new debate over decisions about dying, passed away in portland, oregon, over the weekend. 29yearold Brittany Maynard ended her life on saturday as she had said she wanted to by taking lethal drugs. She had terminal brain cancer. Maynard had moved to oregon to take advantage of the states death with dignity law. Woodruff magliozzi, cohost of nprs longrunning car talk show,died today of complications from alzheimers disease. The weekend callin show Went National in 1987, combining car repair advice with the quick witted banter of magliozzi and his younger brother, ray. If i had my own law of marriage and it is more important to be happy than to be right. Now you may know that youre right. I mean, im always right. When my wife and i have an argument, im always right, but being the clever fellow that i am, i never try to prove to her that im right. And she thinks that im a dummy, that im always wrong, but she loves me. laughter well, i tell ya everybody else thinks youre a dummy, too letting you in on a little secret as long as i know im always right, i dont have to tell her that woodruff the brothers retired two years ago but the show returns in reruns. Tom was 77 years old. Ifill its been more than 13 years since the 9 11 attacks, and today, the newly built one World Trade Center opened for business. Its built at the ground zero site where the twin towers were destroyed. This time lapse shows the new building under construction over eight years, at a cost of nearly 4 billion. At 104 stories, it is the tallest building in the United States. Publishing giant conde nast was the first tenant to begin moving in today. Woodruff wall street failed to gain any traction after lackluster reports on manufacturing in china and europe. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 24 points to close at 17,366; the nasdaq rose eight points to close near 4,639; the s p 500 lost a fraction, to finish at 2,017. And oil prices closed below 79 dollars a barrel in new york, the lowest in two years. Ifill still to come on the newshour. The high stakes of kentuckys costly senate race. What races to watch on election day. Separatist rebels in ukraine name a new leader for their breakaway republic. The future of private Space Exploration. Rare recordings of bob dylan from the 1960s. And, a College Freshman runs for office in West Virginia. Woodruff on the eve of election day 2014. Candidates from one end of the country to the other, scrambled to reach every voter who could put them over the top. Races for the u. S. Congress and for one third of the governors, along with thousands of state level contests are on the ballot. But nowhere is more at stake than in the 36 campaigns for the u. S. Senate, where republicans have a chance to take the majority away from democrats. One of the most closely watched involves a sitting senator who could get a big promotion if that happens, and if hes re elected. Its the bluegrass state and its where i spent this weekend. What i found is, in a year awash in negative campaigns, it doesnt get much more negative than kentucky. After six years weve seen the slowest recovery since the great depression. These people have run the country into the ground and they need to be stopped. applause were tired of somebody who is just interested in self promotion and self preservation, and stopped being a Public Servant when he was only worried about his own job instead of the jobs here in kentucky. Woodruff its a scorched earth race, pitting the second most powerful republican in washington, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, against a hardcharging 35yearold democratic challenger, kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan grimes. About the only thing both camps agree on is that theres a lot at stake. But clearly more so for mcconnell. With a real chance that republicans may the majority in the senate, he stands on the cusp of an even bigger job. A prize many republicans can already taste. Thats why we need to elect Mitch Mcconnell as the next majority leader of the United States senate. applause but theres a wrinkle, despite the five terms under his belt, or for many, because of them mcconnell is not viewed favorably by most kentucky voters. Hes extremely unpopular. Woodruff university of kentucky Political Science professor, stephen voss, says mcconnells critics are made up of two very different groups. We have democrats, liberal democrats, theyre not happy with him for being the g. O. P. Leader. But then he has voters on the right who want him obstructing the president , and when he finally stitches together a compromise, theyre angry that he didnt stick to principles and didnt hold the line. Woodruff voss says the most conservative voters zero in on his role shaping a lastminute bipartisan budget deal last year. Mcconnell himself acknowledges his unpopularity. You get targeted, if you are the leader of one of the parties, harry reid had the same thing in 2010, you become a target of the other side. Woodruff whatever the reason, kentuckys only democratic congressman, john yarmuth, concedes theres someone on voters minds here this year, whos even more unpopular than mcconnell. Mitch mcconnells disapproval ratings are extremely high. Hes been upside down for several years. People are not happy with him, theyre not excited by him. I hate to say it, because i support the president , but if it werent for president obama, i think hed have no chance at all of being reelected. Across kentucky, there are a lot of people who are irrationally critical of the president. Woodruff irrational or not, the president has been mcconnells main target, more so than even grimes. Who are these people . In the white house theres a bunch of College Professors and Community Organizers telling us how to do things. They think they are smarter than all the rest of us. And starting tuesday, well be pushing back against that thing applause woodruff mcconnell says a vote for grimes is a vote to enable the president. Grimes has the tricky job of fending off criticism and keeping her distance from mr. Obama. Its just another falsehood that Mitch Mcconnell has put out. It shows he has no record to run on. They know my record, they know my work. An independent Problem Solver that will put the people of this state first. Not the millionaires and billionaires that Mitch Mcconnell has bought and paid for by. Woodruff grimes, the daughter of a wellknown figure in kentucky politics, has been taken seriously because she raised more money than any democrat ever has in the state. And because shes been able to remain competitive in the polls. Shes also been helped by long time family friends, who unlike the president , are highly popular in kentucky. Both bill and Hillary Clinton returned to kentucky in the closing days of the campaign. Woodruff prompting mcconnell to take a swipe at them as well. I was amused that Hillary Clinton said businesses dont create jobs good grief laughter theres not a dimes worth of difference between obama democrats and clinton democrats. Woodruff grimes, whos refused even to say whether she voted for the president , in our interview avoided mention of obama, and praised the clintons. They were here because kentucky is clinton country, despite what Mitch Mcconnell might believe. Under president clinton we had the largest economic expansion that this nation has ever seen. It was the jobs president coming to endorse me. The jobs candidate. Woodruff it may be a preview of coming National Democratic divisions as 2016 draws closer, if a split develops between clinton democrats and president obama. But for now democrats are on the same page, invoking issues like a higher minimum wage. Raise the minumum wage applause woodruff whether its enough to push grimes over the finish line in kentucky is another matter. Some voters are attracted to the idea that mcconnell could be moving to a powerful new position. Michael brennan heads a company that makes coal mining machinery. We have a unique opportunity in the state of kentucky to have the leader of the senate, and that doesnt happen very often. He can do very good things for this state. Woodruff but others, like estelle bayer, say theyre tired of having a senator who is known for blocking change, rather than encouraging it. If you dont get anything done in 30 years, we dont need you. We need somebody new and fresh and intelligent. Somebody who is willing to work with other people. Not just obstruct. Woodruff mcconnell and outside groups supporting his campaign have raised and spent a record amount of money almost 55 million swamping by better than two to one the impressive haul raised by grimes. In the closing days, his tv spots are visibly outrunning hers. Political scientist stephen voss says the ads helped bring many kentucky republicans who dont think mcconnell is conservative enough, back under his tent. These are people who are mobilized voters, who turn out. So forced to choose, once they show up at the polls, Mitch Mcconnell is ideologically closer to them far closer than grimes could be. Woodruff but those who want mcconnell to take on president obama, may be surprised to know what he says his priority will be if republicans do win control of the senate. If the Senate Changes hands, you become the majority leader. Is it mainly then about overturning the policies of the obama admin . Its a combination of things. First we need to look at potential areas of agreement. The president , for example, has called for trade agreements. I wish he would send them up. The president has talked about how outrageous it is that we have the highest tax rate in the industrialized world, i agree. Woodruff that talk of compromise may appeal to wavering voters in the middle, who arent yet sold on grimes. Even democratic congressman yarmuth says she has been hurt by waiting too long to introduce herself to those voters who were open to an alternative to mcconnell. She was hit with the situation of trying to establish a campaign, raise money and do all those things before she could do it. Woodruff consequently, the onslaught of mcconnells negative tv ads have taken a toll, with only hours to go before polls open on election day. Ifill for more on the tightening Political Races and what to be watching on Election Night. We are joined by amy walter of the Cook Political Report and stu rothenberg of the rothenberg political report who will be part of our Election Night team. Kentuckys interesting to watch. Where is the momentum in this race tonight, amy . What are you watching . The momentum seems to be shifting to republicans especially in the last week and were even seeing movement in state like georgia where its been a very tight race. Some new polls out suggesting Republican David Perdue may be opening a digger lead, getting closer to 50 , the the magic number you need to avoid runoff in that state. I still think its close. You still see in the polling and talking to folks on the ground, the feeling is this momentum is moving now to republicans. Ifill what are you seeing . Agree. I think judys piece is excellent because it focused on a race where early on it was a candidate who wanted to nationalize and another who wanted to localize and the whole argument about Alison Lundergan grimes is no legislative record, candidate for change, good contrast with an older washington figure, somebody associated with congress and d. C. And, for a while, was running ahead of them. But as voters focused on the general election, they focused on the larger picture, not just the candidates, but what it meant for kentucky and coal and barack obama and thats when the race turned. Ifill take that it theory and let it play out someplace else like candidate where an older candidate the running against an older incumbent and pat roberts isnt doing nearly as well as Mitch Mcconnell so far. True, but its about internal struggle within the Republican Party in that state as opposed to a choice between a democrat and a republican. In fact, the candidate running against pat roberts is an independent, so its not quite as clear. But he has been shown to make that race. Gwen, you picked the exception at the that proves the rule. In that race the republican pat robert made the race about himself. Mcconnell didnt do that. Mcconnell kept the focus on the president and grimes and the beating grimes and the president. Perdue made the race about himself and is trying to turn it around and in the final days is saying its all about barack obama i same with North Carolina. N income with is another place where democrats tried to localize it. Did a great job early on. As the race focused on the president , the numbers shifted i ifill kay hagan, North Carolina, seems to be solidifying a small lead. No, each one of the states is different. The difference with North Carolina is president obama won it once, mitt romney won it once, its a swing state now. Ifill we can talk about the senate. New hampshire, colorado, kind of slippery here at the last minute. They are. These are place where is the president did well in the past but the big difference is this is not a 2012 electorate. Not only are the same kind of people showing up but the kinds of people supportive of the president in 2012 are soured on him. So no enthusiasm in the democratic states even where obama carried. Ifill and gene shaheen in New Hampshire . The race tightened. Apparently the voters in New Hampshire are not certain about scott. I would put my nickel on shaheen but closer than expected. Ifill a lot of the populations in southern New Hampshire are people who have moved there. New england, the governors races there have turned out to be surprising. They have. Republicans do well in new england. Believe it or not, for governors races. Many times its because voters there want to put a check on a democraticcontrolled legislature and republicans can help to do that. In this case, too, in a place like rhode island, its not simply putting a check on a Democratic Legislature but its a Democratic Base that is split because the democratic candidate basically ran against labor and in a state where you need labor to come out and vote growr, that could be the deciding factor. Governors races are a lot about local issues, local coalitions, personality and it is remarkable when you look at rhode island, connecticut and massachusetts, states the republicans are almost never competitive in, in federal races, theyre very competitive. In maryland, larry hogan, jr. The republican is competitive and in kansas a very republican state may go democratic for governor and alaska may go democratic for governor. Governors races are harder for me to predict because, on senate races we look at, first of all party. You cant quite look as much on party in governors races. Its hard to depict house races that tell us more about that district. Any place youre watching . New hampshire is a state in the past that went where the mood was. In 2006, two congressional seats to democrat. 2010, two seats went to republicans. Seeing how those states react in this elect may tell us what to expect. Im looking at races that have been close the past few cycles, maybe seats that switched back and forth. Maybe maloney, a democrat north of new york city, going back and forth. See what happens there. A district on northeastern long island, a democratic zeldin, always a 5149 race. I wonder if the environment is Strong Enough for the republicans this time. Ifill amy used the word wave. Is there going to be a wave election tomorrow night . My definition of a wave is seats that go that shouldnt have gone. That it was more than simply a good candidate running a Good Campaign and at the last minute the race broke for them. It is unexpected candidates winning. I dont see that coming. If there is a wave, it would be somebody like al franken in minnesota, or democratic mark warner in virginia loses. Ill stick with atmospherics and talk about a breeze. A good breeze behind republicans. Ifill well talk about it tomorrow night. See you then. Thanks. Woodruff now to another election, this one held by pro russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine. Winners were declared this morning putting washington and moscow at odds once again, and prompting new questions about ukraines ability to remain intact. With the Voting Results in, rebel Election Officials asserted that the eastern region, known as donbass, is indeed independent of ukraine. translated kiev must come to terms with the fact that donbass is no longer a part of ukraine. It is selfevident. One can, perhaps, disagree with this but one cannot argue with this. Whether kiev recognizes the expression of our will, that is their problem. Woodruff sundays election followed months of a violent prorussian separatist movement in Eastern Ukraine. The breakaway regions consist of the donetsk peoples republic, which accounts for about one Million People and the smaller luhansk, with about half a million. Together, they make up three percent of ukraines overall population. As a result of sundays balloting, alexander zakhar chenko will head the donetsk peoples republic, while Igor Plotnisky will lead luhansk. Despite no formal recognition by russias president vladimir putin, russian officials said the new leaders have a mandate to negotiate with the ukrainian government. But officials in kiev denounced the vote, saying it was in direct violation of a september 5 agreement that the russians signed. The u. S. Agreed state department spokeswoman, jen psaki the United States deplores and does not recognize yesterdays socalled separatist elections in Eastern Ukraine, nor do we recognize any of the leaders chosen in this illegal vote. Woodruff still, the turn of events echoes an earlier territorial loss when russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula through a referendum in march. And all the while, fighting in the area has raged on, despite the september 5th ceasefire agreement. On saturday, a large convoy of military vehicles was sighted near donetsk. Kiev said they came from russia. In addition, russian fighter jets and larger aircraft have lately been crossing into european air space without warning. Natos top commander, general Philip Breedlove spoke today at the pentagon. What you saw this past week was was a larger, more complex formation of aircraft carrying out a little deeper, and i would. I would say a little bit more provocative flight path. And so it is a concern. Woodruff back in kiev, ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has called a meeting of his top security chiefs tomorrow. To discuss what the election means for ukraine, the u. S. And russia, joining us are, andrew weiss, he was director of russian, ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the White House National security council. Hes now with the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. And Stephen Cohen is Professor Emeritus of russian studies at New York University and of politics at princeton university. We well come you both back to the program. Andrew weiss, to you first, are the leaders of this group, this rebel breakoff group, they say they are now independent of ukraine, are they . I think they are stating what we all know which is the Central Government of ukraine has lost sovereignty and control over this part of its territory. Where it ends up and what happens next is still completely unclear. Russia doesnt seem like its about to annex the territory. Kiev doesnt seem like its about to launch a new set of hostilities to try to seize it back. Woodruff Stephen Cohen, what does independence mean, then . Well, i think we have to put this in context and understand where we are. I think this is a fateful moment, a tipping point, even. Were in a cold war with russia. The ukrainian civil war is a proxy war as well with the United States supporting the kiev and russians supporting where the elections were. Theres a lofto talk in kiev and washington that kiev should go against donbass. I think there will be a more dangerous war that might draw on russia and the United States. So the question is, now, will these elections abet negotiations between what you call these breakaway regions and kiev or not. And we dont know the answer, but i think the answer is not in ukraine itself. The answer probably is in washington. Woodruff do you agree the actors on the ground are not whos going to decide this . I dont. I think this is, at this point, a dynamic which is being led largely by the russians. Ukrainians have tried very hard in the face of the military defeat they saw at the end of august, Early September, to find a way to get through this situation, to find its way to have a political settlement where they decentralize it did authority of the Central Government in kiev and provide greater autonomy to the government of the regional sections of ukraine where the russians have been trying to foster an idea these parts of ukraine want to separate. Thats not the case. What weve seen really is an ukrainian effort in good faith to have a serious negotiation with the russians and the russians every step of the way since september 5 have basically reneged. So these pseudoelections in Eastern Ukraine is one more indication moscow isnt serious about a cease fire and thats why the west is reacting so angrily. Woodruff Stephen Cohen, sounds like youre saying that washington, though, has more to say about whats happening here, that its not that the separatists havent cooperated in moscow. Andrew wont mind if i disagree because weve done so before and he wont be surprised. Putin, if we want to personalize this, desperately wants negotiation. He does not want more war in the donbass, and many reasons this is. So the problem is there are war parties or war factions in kiev, in washington and in n. A. T. O. That dont seem to really want these specified negotiations to take place. The elections create, as you pointed out or suggested, a problem. If kiev does not recognize the people elected yesterday in donbass, with whom do they intend to negotiate . With whom do they intend to discuss the future of ukraine . Both washington and moscow have made clear that they do not want to be seen as themselves deciding the future of ukraine. So, at the moment, kiev doesnt recognize any negotiating partners in the donbass and that is a recipe for war. Woodruff but i hear you saying you think kiev has done everything it could to try to get negotiations. I think thats the case. Basically the Ukrainian Military had its back broken the end of august, Early September, so professor cohen is banding theres going to be a renewed ukrainian assault on the donbass, i think its not really there. What we have seen is a cease fire process that from the beginning was very shoddy. We basically set this process up to fail. The western governments did not provide the kind of support that weve seen in the bal balkans or postconflict areas. Were going into winter, the breakdown, the economic collapse, lack of basic services, electricity, heating in this part of ukraine makes it a nomans land and that to me is a big problem, well have a humanitarian crisis that plays out through winter and be very probablproblematic for both rusd the west. Woodruff Stephen Cohen you said a moment ago that the russian leadership or a big part of it wants negotiations. How do you explain the military incursion on the ukrainian territory, what weve heard from general breedlove from nato, what he called provocative overflights over western europe by the russians . I dont know how to put this gently and i dont want to sound disloyal to the people who represent our countries, but we have had quite a few reports, not only from gen. Breedlove but the swedish and british about socalled russian incursions that have turned out not to be true. In the last few days, were told the russians are doing all sorts of provocative military things. Unmentioned is the fact is that n. A. T. O. Is Building Military forces close around closer to russia. Do we expect the russians not to react . Can we trust the reports we constantly get out of brussels and kiev . I think these are the utterances of people who want to escalate the crisis. What we need now is the kind of leadership that sees war as so dangerous in the sense it might bring in russia and the United States that all the energy and all the public statements are directed toward negotiations. I simply dont agree with an drew that kiev has made a good faith effort toward negotiations or is it maintaining a cease fire. Woodruff we hear you. You have been vigorously shake your head no while hes been talking. If you look back from recent weeks and months, president obama said in Early September he was committed and western n. A. T. O. Was committed to the defense of its Member States including the baltics. Theyre testing the west, showing theyre in great power and take they are power seriously and see if there will be push backso the idea the west is goading the russians is misplaced. Woodruff we thank you. Ifill these past few days have been sobering ones for the small but growing industry of commercial space flight. A pair of accidents, one of which was deadly, are prompting questions about cost, safety, oversight and even the wisdom of this shift in space travel. Newshour science correspondent, miles obrien, has the story. Reporter federal investigators are still combing through wreckage, as well as multiple data and video streams in the wake of a deadly test flight high over californias mojave desert. Virgin galactics spaceship two broke apart in flight on friday scattering debris over five miles. Investigators now believe the ships feathering system, which rotates the tail boom to create drag and slow descent, deployed early, and without a command from the pilots. The National Transportation safety boards chair Christopher Hart spoke last night. The spaceship was released normally, and after it was released, shortly after it was released the rocket engine ignited. About nine seconds after the engine ignited, the telemetry data told us, showed us that the feather parameters changed from lock to unlock. Reporter a two man crew was on board the spacecraft for the test flight. The copilot, michael alsbury, was killed. Pilot, peter siebold, who parachuted to the ground, is hospitalized with serious injuries but hes expected to recover. It was the fourth powered flight for spaceship two. The first using a fuel derived from nylon. But the engine and the fuel and oxidizer tanks show no signs of an explosion. While there is no doubt that feathering during ascent would cause the vehicle to breakup, the n. T. S. B. Will spend months trying to determine precisely what caused it to happen and what other factors might have contributed. Well be looking at training issues. Well be looking at was there pressure to continue testing. Well be looking at safety culture. Well be looking at the design, the procedure. Weve got many, many issues to look into much more extensively before we can determine the cause. Reporter Virgin Galactic says it has more than 700 customers on a waiting list, willing to part with as much as 250,000 for the short sub orbital trip to the edge of space. Today, the companys owner, the flamboyant billionaire richard branson, denied reports that his company cut corners on safety because of pressure to start paying flights, which he first promised would begin in 2008. I find it slightly irresponsible for people for have no idea what they are saying to be saying things before the n. T. S. B. Makes their comments. Reporter in a separate interview, branson told british Broadcaster Sky news hes still optimistic about the future of Space Tourism and he still says he will be on the first flight. We can move forward. But we will not start taking people until we finish a whole massive series of test flights and until myself and my family have gone up and until we feel that we can take, safely say to people we are ready to go. Reporter fridays crash came just three days after another big blow to the commercial space industry. An unmanned cargo rocket bound for the International Space station exploded shortly after liftoff from wallops island, virginia. It was owned by Orbital Sciences corporation. Ifill and miles joins me now. Ifill what is the latest on this feathering device you talked about . The idea is you should never deploy going up and always deploy it going down. So finding a Safety System that answers both of those needs has been tricky. They have been tinkering with some ideas on how to go through some various failure scenarios and looking at ways to potentially unlock it sooner. That might have been part of the test in this case. In any case, when the rocket is firing, you dont want that thing to fold over on itself which is the ideal reentry configuration. Ifill you have been all over twitter today saying dont jump too fast to the conclusion the pilot was in error. Yeah, i think there is a tendency in these cases to impugn deceased pilots. In this case, we dont know that the pilot did anything wrong. He might have been responding to some sort of anomaly in the engine which made him think we might need to go into feather mode or part of a test to unlock it and see what happens. This is all what test flying is about, expanding the envelope. Ifill what ntsb investigations are all about, ultimately. Between this and the accident on a launch bad in virginia last week with another private space company, how much of a blow does this bring to the private space industry . Its a onetwo blow the entire industry is reeling over. Theres a lot of people who care greatly about the idea of making a real business of going to space and these two incidents december pit in every way but in the realm of Rocket Science and commercial space travel hast have taken the wind out of peoples sails. It will press on but its a setback. Ifill it raises questions about whether a governmentsponsored Space Program is safer. Well, we had one and we lost 114 shuttle astronauts and three on the space pad. Its difficult to say how much has to do with it being commercial and how much government. When youre trying to make a buck, its difficult to square that with safety. Ifill the tourism, is it a thrill ride or science . Its a thrill ride. This is for people who can spend a quarter Million Dollars for five minutes. Ifill thats how much it cost . Yes. Ifill 50,000 a minute, for bragging rights that you went to spay. Could it lead to technology to mack it possible to fly from tokyo to new york in a couple of hours . Yes. Worth doing on a technological standpoint, but were at the ford motor days not the triple boeing days. Ifill we have apple, google and virgin all involved, but might investment slow now . I think it will have a chilling effect. But the people behind this are true visionaries. Theyve drank the space koolaid if you will and true enthusiasm for pursuing this, so i think it will press on. But maybe its a good idea to stop, they can an unvarnished look, have the ntsb weigh in and have an idea of whats going on beyond the hangar doors. Ifill miles obrien, thank you as always. Youre well come. Woodruff bob dylans been one of the most influential voices in music for more than five decades now and an artist frequently considered an enigma all his own. One of the big mysteries surrounding his work, and biography, is a series of recordings he made that were never fully made public. The socalled basement tapes. Now theyre about to be released in their entirety. Jeffrey brown looks at what they tell us about dylan and the era. Youre welcome. Brown by 1967, bob dylan had dropped from public view, retreating to woodstock new york to recover from a motorcycle accident and sheer exhaustion of years in touring and gained in his music. He recorded twice for popularizing the folk songs of the 60s and taking electric hoping to launch the folk rock era. In the basement of big pink joined by a group of musicians later to be known as the band, dylan recorded songs that have intrigued fans and critics ever since. singing until now, only limited often boot legged portions of the sessions have been able but tomorrow sonys legacy recorders will release basement tapes tapes complete along with a companion book. We turn to the contributing editor. What are the basement tapes . The basement tapes are a series of recordings that bob dylan made in 1967 and into the beginning of 1968 when he retreated to woodstock, new york. There was a sense in which, you know, dylan had so much cultural heat around him and he went 90 miles north of new york city and disappeared. But who disappeared along with him were members of his Backing Group and in the basement they would just record. They would record old folk songs, new songs dylan was working on and really anything that came to mind. That sense of relaxation and fun and just the sheer enjoyment of making music with your friends in a casual way is something that really comes through on the basement tapes. Brown and why have they come to be considered so important . The basement tapes are important because they reveal a side of dylan that is impossible to find anywhere else which is dylan just relaxing and making music. You know, ever since you know, certainly after he made the free will and bob dylan in 1963, he was a figure, a voice of a generation, somebody whose every move was analyzed. Well, this is a situation where because he was essentially in hiding, there was he was just doing what he wanted to do. So that element of getting a peek behind the screen, getting a look at this iconic figure just having fun with music is something that is simultaneously, seems, very down to earth and extremely mysterious. The nature of the music, the nature of the types of songs he was writing, their meaning is very hard to pin down, but it was also very different from what was going on at the time. I mean, the beatles were doing sergeant pepper at this time, whereas bob dylan is in somebodys basement in upstate new york recording old folk songs and new songs that sound like old folk songs. It couldnt be more out of tune with the times and consequently has only gained meaning as time as gone on. Brown theres a lot of music on these tapes. What do we hear . What type of music . The music on the basement tapes, in a certain way, its unlike anything else throughout dylans career. Some of it is traditional folk songs he and members of the band would try out. They would play some of them, start them, stop them, do variations on them. But then dylan started writing allot and started writing with members of the band and thats when you start getting songs like tears of rage. Tears of rage. The mighty quinn. Youll not see nothing like the mighty quinn this wheels on fire casual dylan fans might not know all these songs. But for people following his career, theres an antic element going on in the basement tapes, a sense of fun. Dylan is restoring himself in part by turning back to folk music and by music that is informed by the trays of folk music, and thats really comes across in these recordings. Its a sense of mood and fun and just sheer delight e both of your own talent and the joyce that music can bring. And, you know, to this day, bob dylan remains this inigmatic figure of rock and roll. Every aspect of the history is looked at. Absolutely and very much hidden in plain sight. Dylan tours every year, does between 120 and 125 dates, hes out there all the time. But still, whats motivating him, driving him, what hes thinking about, what hes going to do, even now as hes well into his 70s, theres a sense in which none of those questions can be definitively answered. Back to the basement tapes, that was really one of the most mysterious. The songs are very mysterious, theres a genial surrealism about them. They have a fun, mysterious aspect thats very difficult to pin down, but thats one of their joys. Its the kind of thing that dylan fans revel in is interpreting all these songs. Brown Anthony Decurtis on bob dylans basement tapes. Thanks so much. Thank you. Ifill on this election eve we end our broadcast with an unusual profile. Political editor Lisa Desjardins introduces us to a firsttime candidate and frontrunner. Who is only 18yearsold. Reporter in the afternoon, in the blair family dining table is a tiny battleground. Another round that will go out right before the election to the district about 4,000 of them this time. Reporter 4,000 handwritten campaign letters, handwritten by a person whose age group communicates mostly with keyboards. This is why 18yearold saira blair may become the youngest person ever to serve in the West Virginia state legislature and one of the youngest ever in u. S. History. If i throw it away they might throw it away 15 seconds later but at least theyve seen i put the work in and i really care about their vote and making sure they get out to vote. Would you guys want to do the Elementary School like you did for the primary . I dont care. Okay. Reporter saira and the Homegrown Team won state delicate by 144 votes by actually touting her age. West virginia has had the same population since about 1980. Were the only state that has a decreasing population. One of the problems is people my age get their high school and College Education here and leave because they cant find a goodpaying job. So i want to be a part of making sure that my generation stays in West Virginia and we help to cultivate Economic Growth that right now isnt there. She knew what she was getting into when she stepped into the arena. Im not concerned about that. Reporter craig blair is father and Campaign Manager and the areas state senator. He grew up in this state and this spring he watched her. I couldnt actually be there because doing commentary on the election that night, but i was the won who proclaimed she had won her race on the radio. I said, can i make the call on this . They said, you sure can. I called the election for saira blair. I was running because i wanted to represent my generation and i wanted to represent the people of morgan county. Reporter the two counties are a mix, on the eastern edge of West Virginia. Maryland is down the road in one direction and the Appalachian Mountains in the other. Both in the eastern part of this district are incomes well above state average. Those near the mountains and well below. In all saira would represent about 18,000 people. Garrett yes, maam. Reporter she ran on a roughly 17,000 budget. 3,600 came from saras college fund from working on the apple orchard. I think it was well worth it and i received a lot of scholarships for college and i was able to manage to pay for both. I think it doesnt just makes you grow up faster but puts your life in perspective. I would rather be doing this than be with my friends. Reporter you may wonder how she plans to be a lawmaker and fulltime student. If she wins, shell only attend college in fall semesters, reserving spring for lawmaking when the legislature is in session. Iamber, trying to get involved. Reporter just over a year ago, this kind of command was not there for sa sara. Up through my junior year, i would panic and it was nerve racking every time i went in front of a crowd. It definite helped me grow as a person. Ive gotten better at it. Its not as difficult. Reporter shell get plenty more practice if she wins and she is the frontrunner in her delegate race, an 18yearold frontrunner. You can be skeptical but she insists, after college, she didnt want to be a politician. Im all worried about november 4 at the moment. Its too soon to say, but im going to school for a major in economics and i would like to be a financial advisor. Thats where i see myself in ten years. Not on the steps of washington, d. C. By any means. Reporter Lisa Desjardins, pbs newshour. Ifill again, the major developments of the day. Candidates nationwide scrambled for votes on this Midterm Election eve. Republicans talked of taking the senate, while democrats worked to keep down their losses. And u. S. Tensions with russia surged again on sundays election in rebelheld Eastern Ukraine. Moscow backed the vote, but stopped short of formally recognizing the region as independent. Woodruff on the newshour online right now for nearly two years, our ask larry column has been answering your Social Security making sense questions, but as one of our readers pointed out, most of those questions have been directed at married retirees. What about those who have never been married . Our benfits guru breaks down the four things they need to know. Thats on our making sense page. All that and more is on our web site, pbs. Org newshour. Ifill and thats the newshour for tonight. On tuesday, election day is finally here. Join us for analysis and the latest results onair and online. Plus, well bring you a special report at 11 00 p. M. Eastern. Good thing we got that extra hours sleep over the weekend. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Well see you online and again here tomorrow evening. 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