India largely cut off from the wider world. The 18,000 students have two things in common. They come from indias socalled tribal communities and theyre extremely poor. Brown and we close with a conversation about race, culture and identity in the wake of the not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman, charged in the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin. Ifill thats all ahead on tonights 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, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. 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. Brown the reputed leader of one of mexicos most vicious drug gangs was behind bars today. But it was unclear just how much that will do to ease drug violence that has raged for years. A mexican newspaper headline this morning said it all intelligence action decapitates the zetas. A macabre method. The man named z 4 was captured monday without a shot being fired, in the violence wrakd city of nuevo laredo. Detained Miguel Angel Trevino morales, 40 years old, hes accused of organized crime, hom size, crimes against health, torture, money laundering, and s used by armed forces. The zetas have earned a special reputation. Beyond the want and killings of police, military, politics and civilians, zetas have left a bloody trail of dead bodies, often left with profane messages to their rivals and to the mexican public. The newshour Margaret Warren err interviewed, one woman would not even utter the word zetas. If i tell you on an International Network the name of the criminal organization, its going to cost my may lfe. My life. The zetas were formed by former Mexican Special forces as the security arm of another cartel. From there they muffled their way to the top of the ruk ra tiff lucrative drug are business. Nuevo leon, home to mexicos second largest city and its business capital. Many mexicans caution today against expecting immediate improvement. I dont think it will be over by catching one. Because they arrest one and 20 crop up. On the other hand, the government also knows who they are and i imagine know where they are. Its believed that Trevino Morales older brother will assume the leadership. He will oversee the eastern drug corridors into the United States. The only rival is the sinaloa cartel, the rest of troafn tro t least 60,000 people have been killed. When the number have disappeared and presumed dead is added that figure is more than 100,000. And for more brown for more, we hear once again from Alfredo Corchado, Mexico Bureau chief for the dallas morning news. How significant is this arrest, how big a configure is he . This is a huge deal. I mean, i think the few people, i cant think of anyone else who defines the decade like Miguel Angel Trevino morales. As far as the headlines weve gotten accustomed to in the United States and in mexico this man was largely responsible, he and his cohorts, the zetas, a paramilitary group. Some of the violence in the state of texas. So no shots were fired. What do we know so far about exactly how he was captured . This was i think the most surprising thing. He had told several people, associates and friends, that he would never be caught alive. That he would in fact it was known that he carried a bullet just in case they ever surrounded him he would take that bullet and kill himself. What we know is there was a chase a helicopter did a maneuver over the vehicle. Stopped and then suddenly other vehicles showed up. It was i think a monthlong investigation headed by the Mexican Marines with some helps of u. S. Intelligence. So tell us a little bit more about this particular cartel, what kind of activities and as you were starting to say, how deep a reach into the United States . Well, he was i mean itwa much more than just a mexican drug cartel. He was in charge of the piracy, prostitution, human smuggling, anything that had that made money through the illicit route. Mr. Trevino morales was in charge. Beginning in the early 1990s. Where in nuevo laredo he worked for a drug cartel leader, washing cars and later cleaning chimneys. And his brother was a truck driver who would haul marijuana from nuevo laredo to west texas. One of the guys who was hauling the marijuana from mexico to the texas market. The question about what happens now and how much this impacts the cartels ability to operate, what do we know about the cartel, its structure, its leadership, can somebody like his brother step right in and things go on, or does this have an impact . I think its been significantly weakened but i think that its expected that number 42 would try to fill in the void. But it is also known that other cartel, his son who the zetas were associated with, hector de san leva and the cartel were the ones who recruited the zetas as enforcers and theres been a big rivalry. Its expected or feared that in the weeks to come or the months to come that the violent will spike, as they retake what they still claim is their own distribution route, i mean it is one of the most lucrative in the entire mexican border. People expect things to get bloody before they get calm again. Brown thats what i was wondering. How does this particular cartel, we mentioned the sinaloa constantly in competition i assume and how does what happened today fit into the rest of that overall picture . I think the hope if you talk to mexican authorities and u. S. Authorities is that whoever takes over in the end because as long as you have u. S. Demand for drugs there will be a flow. But the hope is that whoever takes over is much more of a business minded leader. And not a vicious person like Trevino Morales has been over the years. Brown of the relatively new administration of pena, he promised a different strategy not a war like approach. Does this tell us something about that . Well you know he has been in office six, seven months. Its too early to tell. What people keep insisting is this is not necessarily an administration victory, more the Mexican Marines. But, i think the capturing of morales will go a long away to achieving that goal at least in the short term. They are expecting more violence in the weeks to come, months to come but i think this arrest has captured in the long term people hope that somehow will calm things along the u. S. Mexican border and things will resume at a slower pace. The bloodshed will come down and for a lot of druggers, he basically forced them into silence and censorship. A lot are breathing a sigh of relief but they also know there is a long way to go before they can claim and think victory. Brown let me ask you, mexicos president had put some limitations on u. S. Operations. Is there anything known about whether the u. S. Played any role in providing information or otherwise in this arrest . Well, weve been told that the u. S. Did play a role in the intelligence, and i think we can also kind of see that the 12 years under the Opposition Party that they were able to that a lot of the contacts in the regional level at the local level continue. In spite of trying to limit the role of the United States. I mean, from everyone that we talked to today, there was a role of the u. S. Government. Although its understandable i think at least on the u. S on the United States side theyre trying to down play that as much as possible. Brown all right, are Alfredo Corchado from the dallas morning ifill online, you can find our guide to mexicos drug cartels. And still to come on the newshour, the showdown in the senate over rules; the violent clashes in egypt; a huge school for desperately poor children in india; and a conversation about race and identity. But first, with the other news of the day, heres kwame holman. Holman negative reaction to a florida jurys finding that George Zimmerman broke no law when he shot and killed 17year old Trayvon Martin continued today. There were more rallies around the country. No peace. No justice, no peace. For a second day and neither there were protests against the verdict. Most were peaceful. In washington crowds rallied outside the white house against the acquit am of zimmerman. And in houston activists staged a mock funeral in the streets. But as night fell demonstrations turned violent. Protests in oakland, police made nine arrests and used flash grenades to disperse crowds. And in los angeles 13 arrests after some demonstrators broke away from a rally. Charlie beck. We want people to speak up in a peaceful and honorable way. We cannot allow that activity to infringe on the Property Rights and the physical safety of the residents of this community. Reporter meanwhile one of the six jurors who returned the not guilty verdict told cnns anderson cooper, the panel was split at first and getting to a decision was painful. I want people to know that we put everything into everything to get this verdict. We didnt we didnt just go in there and say, were going to come in here and just do guilty, not guilty. We thought about it for hours. And cried over it afterwards. Reporter in the end, the juror known only as b37 says she believes zimmerman did fear for his life but that he should have stayed in his car and that Trayvon Martin should have kept walking. I think both were responsible for the situation they had gotten themselves into. I think both of them could have walked away. It just didnt happen. For his part, George Zimmerman remained out of sight today but new demonstrations began in houston and elsewhere. This afternoon u. S. Attorney holman this afternoon, u. S. Attorney general eric holder charged that standyourground laws in florida and elsewhere encourage violent situations to escalate. He addressed the n. A. A. C. P. Convention in orlando. There has always been a Legal Defense for using deadly force, if and the if is important if no safe retreat was available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and ageold requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely. Holman holder gave no indication when the Justice Department will decide whether to charge George Zimmerman with federal civil rights violations. The man who leaked information on u. S. Surveillance programs, edward snowden, formally asked today for temporary asylum in russia. Hes been in the moscow airports transit zone for the last three weeks. If hes granted asylum, snowden could work and travel in russia for at least a year. A north koreanflagged ship is being held by panama after authorities there apparently found Ballistic Missile equipment. The ship had sailed from cuba on its way to the pacific via the panama canal. President Ricardo Martinelli says his government originally was tipped off that the vessel carried drugs, hidden beneath bags of sugar. Instead, they found weapons. Its extremely sophisticated. It appears that these are aerial or defense missiles. We dont know whats in the other containers but we will have to take out all the sugar to determine whats in this ship. Holman martinelli said the ships north korean crew 35 in all resisted efforts to divert the vessel into port. They were taken into custody. On wall street today, investors turned cautious a day before the chairman of the Federal Reserve gives his latest report on the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 32 points to close below 15,452. The nasdaq fell nearly 9 points to close at 3598. Those are some of the days major stories. Now, back to gwen. Ifill with a midmorning deadline looming, Senate Leaders reached an agreement today to avert a showdown over changing the chambers rules. Ifill senate major liter harry reed emerged from tense negotiation to declare the senate has achieved a new normal. I think it is something that is good for the senate. It is a compromise. And i think we get what we want. And they get what they want. Not a bad deal. A compromise which cleared the way for Senate Confirmation of five white house nominees and the replacement of two others ended a partisan standoff that could have ground the senate to a halt. Good afternoon everybody. Ifill senators moved to confirm richard cordray, his nomination has been in limbo for two years. An early procedural vote cleared the way. On this vote the yeas are 71, the nays are 29. Next up. Thomas perez, gina mccarthy, Fred Hockberg as head of the Export Import Bank and mark gaston pierce, slated to step in as head of the National Labor relations board. Two other nominees, Richard Griffin and sharon block. Partisan rancor heated up in recent days as reed vowed to change senate rules and vowed to quash filibusters. But distrust remained. I do hope that members on the other side will note this goodfate effort. I dont think its healthy for this body to constantly have potential rules changes hanging over the issues of our nation. While disagreement addresses the immediate need for the president of the United States to have his cabinet and his senior staff confirmed, this agreement today only addresses one symptom of a seriously dysfunctional senate. Ifill a showdown was averted only after senators gathered last night for a rare bipartisan closed door meeting in the Old Senate Chamber. Today, leaders from both parties said the crisis was avoided only after the other side gave in. The understanding is that none of our rights will be waived. I mean for example, 60vote thresholds on controversial nominees will still have to be achieved. So in a sense, thats the regular way that we handle business here in the senate. Theres a feeling around here. Now feelings dont last forever. And i understand that. But were not theyre not sacrificing their rights to filibuster and we damn sure are not change are our right to change the rule if necessary. Ifill 60 votes will still be needed to overcome future filibusters and todays agreement does not apply to judicial nominees. But for now the senate plans to continue voting on president obamas being nominations, a logjam years in the making. We are joined by general plan merkley and mississippi roger wicker. Gentlemen, why did it take for a bipartisan agreement for this to come about . It comes to listening to one another. I made the point last thursday to leerd reed, oftentimes its the leerdz speaking to an empty chamber and rank and file members like jeff and i dont talk enough. I think its a matter of listening learning what the grievances were. And talk about common ground. Lets talk about the grievances, senator merkley. What did each side get in this case . This case seven or eight up or down votes, and we hope this will be a model for returning to the norms and transitions of the senate, certainly, if neither side gave ground on the future, neither of the republicans saying they wont filibuster, and democrats, that we wont come back to this conversation again. Ifill all of the americans watching the way the senate functions might ask a question. Senator reed said it earlier today, ill put it to you senator merkley and i want to hear from you senator wicker, is this a new normal or a vacation on the old . We certainly hope that it will be the new normal because essentially, there is a way to summarize the senate. Its supposed to be a deliberative body, sometimes called a cooling saucer as president washington, weve also adopted these nutritious and i say this in the best con these new traditions. Around from the period of time from president eisenhower to president ford there wasnt a single filibuster of executive determination. Returning to that power of advice and consent was not obstruct and destroy is very important. Ifill is that where we are today, senator wicker, obstruct and destroy instead of advise and consent . I think thats in the eye of the beholder. Ofteoftentimes a leader will cal that a filibuster. Let me make this point about the appointment. President obama has appointed some 1500 executive and agency nominations. Hes gotten all of them through except for four. If he were a Major League Batter hed be batting 999. So its one thing to say we have had a lot of filibusters. I think the result has been protection of the right of the minority to get some information. To have some facetime with nominees. But in the long run, the vast overwhelming majority of them get confirmed, and weve still protected the executives prerogative and the right of the minority, and we still have a senate that reaches consensus, and conciliation. Ifill senator wicker youre not including judicial nominations in your figures, are you . Theres never as a matter of fact since the gang of 14, back in 2005, there have been only two judicial nominations stopped through the filibuster. So i think our record is pretty good. Oftentimes, we use that, to get extra information, to give us a little extra time for more consideration. But in eight years time, only two judicial nominations stopped by this filibuster, but it actually was a practice begun by the democrats. Still a pretty good record of confirmation overall. Ifill senator merkley, at adistance it looks like the well is pretty much poisoned by the democrats and republicans in the house. And in the senate, what does this agreement for ten portend . I think this is a time when democrats and republicans sit down, lis