Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Thanks for joining us. The fight over funding for the department of Homeland Security starts all over again on capitol hill tomorrow. Congress has given itself until midnight friday to come up with some kind of agreement. But the rift among republicans continues to endanger any deal. A contingent of House Republicans is refusing to fund the agency unless the bill moves toward blocking the president S Immigration reform plan. The intraparty division puts House Speaker john boehner in a tough position side with house moderates and Senate Republicans to fund the agency, or side with more conservative members to challenge the immigration policy. But this morning boehner told face the nation his party is united in its goal to stand up to president obama. I made it clear were going to do everything we could to block the president s executive overreach, and thats the basis of the problem were trying to deal with. Sreenivasan democrats still hope to vote on a longterm funding bill without ties to immigration. We want a clean bill. We have past taken votes on a clean bill, its well known. And i see nothing else happening, other than a clean bill. Sreenivasan israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu left for the United States this morning, preparing for his controversial appearance before congress on tuesday. House Speaker Boehner invited netanyahu to speak, and this morning, secretary of state john kerry called it odd that the administration wasnt included in the process. But he told abcs this week the white house doesnt want to turn the visit into a political football. The Prime Minister of israel is welcome to speak in the United States. Obviously we have a closer relationship with israel right now in terms of security than in any time in history. Sreenivasan tens of thousands of russians marched through the streets of moscow today, mourning the death of one of president Vladimir Putins most vocal critics. Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down just outside the kremlin friday night. Today mourners passed through metal detectors, then marched near the crime scene amid a Massive Police presence. Russian officials are investigating several motives including whether nemtsov was assassinated because of his criticism of president vladimir putin. Doctors in sierra leone are reeling from a new wave of ebola victims. Sierra leone had seen a drop in cases and even planned to lift travel restrictions and reopen schools. But last month, sick fishermen returned to shore, setting off a new series of 21day quarantines. The countrys own Vice President has quarantined himself after one of his security guards died of the disease. Here in the u. S. , ebola survivor, nurse nina pham, plans to sue the texas hospital where she contracted the disease. Attorneys claim the hospital didnt properly train the staff to deal with the outbreak. European counterterrorism investigators believe at least sixty british women and schoolgirls may have traveled to syria to join isis. Five of them are reportedly 15 or 16 years old. Three of those british teens were spotted on security video while travelling in turkey last month. Turkish police are searching for the girls, but investigators fear theyve already crossed the border into syria. Well have more on the fight against isis here in the United States in a moment. A new report from the United Nations says at least 1,100 iraqis were killed in february. More than 600 of them were civilians. The u. N. Blames isis and is calling on fractured iraqi leaders to join forces to fight back. But theres also some good news out of baghdad tonight iraqs National Museum has officially reopened, 12 years after it was vandalized in the aftermath of the u. S. Led invasion. Looters stole the museums antiquities during the fighting, but many of the objects have been found and returned. The opening comes just after isis released video of militants destroying statues in mosul. Hyundai is recalling almost 205,000 cars because the power steering could suddenly stop working. The recall covers the 2008to 2010 elantra and the 2009to 2010 elantra touring. Hyundai did not mention any accidents or injuries related to the steering problem. You can find the specific cars getting recalled on our website at pbs. Org newshour. Sreenivasan federal investigators believe theyve managed to capture three suspected isis sympathizers before they launched an attack. On wednesday, u. S. Law enforcement charged three brooklyn men with providing Material Support to a foreign terrorist organization. Two of the suspects allegedly planned to travel thousands of miles to fight under the flag of the islamic state. If that didnt work, they threatened to carry out attacks in the United States. New York City Police commissioner William Bratton characterized the arrests saying, this is real. This is the concern about the lone wolf. we are joined now from washington, d. C. By Andrew Grossman who has been covering this story for the wall street journal. Test so andrew, how did these arrests go down, what kind of tools did they use to get them. What we saw here was a fairly common pattern that Law Enforcementment in. U. S. Has been using against people who might be plotting to catch isis or other foreign terrorist groups. They first attracted authorities attention online with a post on an uzbek language web site about threatening to kill the president. That got the attention of the secret service. Other Law Enforcement in new york and they began to keep an eye on these guys eventually put them in touch with an informant without worked with them sort of s, ssed out what their intentions were, as they got closer and closer, at one point one of these men was going to go get on a plane at j jfk that is when they came and made the arrests. What about the possibility that they didnt make a threat to the life of the president that they could have gone undetected all together. Thats the big worry here. I think the proliferation of online propaganda is really a double eqed sword here. Its luring people like this into it gets them interested if going to join one of these groups. But on the other hand authorities can see a lot of that traffic. They can see when people are getting in touch with someone overseas who might want to help them travel. So you know it is that is the big worry is these lone wolves as opposed to known wolves as Law Enforcement started calling them. The known wolves, at least they can see and keep an eye on. The lone wolfs who might be radicallized about the propaganda and carry out an attack here are the big worry for Law Enforcement. Srennivasan theres also concerned that the known wolves list is so large that we just dont have the bodies to keep up and do surveillance on all these potential threats. Right. I think its hundreds of thousands on the u. S. s terrorist list alone. And the fear also is, you know the u. S. Has about 150 people who have attempted to travel or traveled it to fight in syria, not all for isis but for various groups there. The europeans, for werners its about 3400 and now thats a worry for Law Enforcement because a lot of those people are from countries that have visa waivers that can easily come to the u. S. Or they can carry out attacks in europe is so its a much bigger problem for Law Enforcement and allied countries as we saw in france not too long ago. Srennivasan is this a shift in Law Enforcement approach. We were talking in the newsroom this morning t almost seems like the Precrime Division from the movie minority report trying to figure out, before you commit a crime, stopping you. This has actually been somewhat controversy. This use of informants. The fbi has been doing this to some degree since not long after september 11th. A lot of these cases, you know, there have been cases where an informant or an undercover fbi op rattive gets in touch with someone who appears to be interested in doing carrying out some sort of attack. And really walks them through the steps necessary to get them to the point where theyre almost in certain cases have their hand on the trigger of what they think is a bomb, as we saw, for example in a case in chicago. And once they go push that trigger it turns out that the whole thing is a settup. And you know, some of that has been controversial. The fbi says they really try to stay they do stay on the side of letting the target the suspect drive the operation. But you know its a very close fine line between that and entrapment. All right Andrew Grossman from the wall street journal, joining us from washington thanks so much. Thanks, hari. Sreenivasan we turn now to our signature segment. Thieves have been hitting states from california to pennsylvania stealing metal. Its a National Problem thats become an increasing threat to public safety. The thefts have caused blackouts and traffic accidents. In this updated segment that originally aired in July Newshour correspondent rick karr traveled to ohio where a new state law aims to tackle the problem and prevent the thieves from cashing in. Reporter angela days landline kept going dead in 2012. She didnt have a cell phone she could use instead because cell coverage is spotty in the Appalachian Region of ohio where she lives. And at the house where she was living with her daughter and her parents, theres no cell signal at all. So whenever she had to be away from home, she worried especially about her father. He had a heart condition, and he had had several openheart surgeries. He had triplebypass surgery. Reporter a few days after christmas, he said he wasnt feeling well. He called over to talk to a nurse, and he was having problems with the phone. Reporter his condition deteriorated, and finally he said he needed an ambulance. The family called 911, but the line was so bad that they finally gave up and days brother rushed their father to doctors. But it was too late. He died that evening. It was really frustrating close to the whole week afterwards we couldnt even call out to plan the funeral. We couldnt even call and tell family that he had passed. I had to go to my workplace to use the phone to even call the funeral home. Reporter angela days phone didnt work because thieves were stealing telephone wires all over the county. Its one of the poorest in ohio, and the copper in the lines was valuable. There could be hundreds of dollars worth in the cables strung between two utility poles. At the time, thieves were stealing all kinds of metal throughout ohio parts from Farm Equipment and electrical substations, manhole covers, grave markers. For five years running, the state has led the nation in metal thefts. And from one corner of ohio to another, thieves have put the public in danger. According to police here in akron, there was an accident on that interstate highway behind me because of an attempt to steal copper wire from the high tension lines beyond it. The wouldbethieves climbed up and cut the line so it dangled over the interstate under thousands of volts of tension. When an s. U. V. Got too close, there was a bright flash that blew out the windshield and knocked the driver unconscious. The driver survived, but thieves themselves arent always so lucky. Im struck by the idea of somebody climbing up a utility pole and cutting Something Like this down. I mean this is going to be carrying a lot of juice. This is going to be a dangerous crime to commit. Let me be very clear on this. We have people dying regularly for this. Reporter commander bob meaders been dealing with metal theft for more than two decades as a columbus cop. Metal prices have come down recently, but copper is still more than twice as valuable as it was a decade ago. In 2007, columbus became the first city in the state to crack down on metal theft. Police couldnt keep an eye on every piece of metal thieves might steal. But the city could make it harder for them to sell it. We know that its not going to go to the center of the city and put a sign out and say, i have scrap metal for sale. Theres one location in the state of ohio, and throughout the United States, that they can get money for it, and that is a scrap yard. Reporter columbus enacted a new ordinance requiring scrap yards to follow rules a lot like the ones that apply to the citys pawn shops. Scrap dealers have to check every customers i. D. Against an online database of convicted thieves, who might be trying to sell what theyve stolen. Dealers have to record every detail of every purchase they make so that Law Enforcement can investigate thefts. Columbus Officials Say those steps are helping to reduce metal thefts. Last month, there were only 57 thefts reported in the city, compared to more than 100 a year ago. Ohio legislators decided to implement what columbus did statewide. The new law fully kicked in last month. Now, more than 400 scrap yards from cleveland to cincinnati to toledo are required to record every customers information in a Law Enforcement database, and check to see if their names are on a list of more than a quarter million conviction records. Ohio scrap dealer josh joseph says when columbus cracked down, thieves went to scrap yards outside the city limits. Now that the whole state is cracking down, theyll just go to scrap yards across the state line. For someone to steal it, drive someplace where they know there are really laxed laws or laxed enforcement of the laws, and sell it, is a really easy thing to happen. The uniformity of the law, the uniformity of the way that it is enforced from an industry perspective, we see as paramount to the success of the law. Reporter joseph has a lot of other concerns about the law. For one thing, he worries about what the cost of complying with it will do to familyowned Small Businesses in the industry. Its anywhere from probably 20,000 or 30,000 up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. You know, weve spent six figures to, to maintain upgrade, and train our people in order to be compliant. Reporter and training might not be enough to keep some employees honest. How can you be sure that if somebody steals, say, a bunch of copper wire, brings it in, slips one of your employees 100 bucks, how do you ensure that your employees not susceptible to that . I would say that our employees are susceptible to that. We think weve had some instances of that happening in the past. Reporter have you ever had to fire anybody . We have. Reporter there could also be consequences to the environment, according to scrap dealers. Theyre in the recycling business. The metal they take in gets melted down and reused. The law in ohio makes it a crime for scrap dealers to buy certain items unless sellers can prove somethings theirs to sell electrical lines, for instance, and telephone cables. But the list also includes items homeowners might bring in. And that could end up in a landfill if a scrap dealer refuses it to stay on the safe side of the law, according to robin weiner, who runs the scrap industrys washingtonbased trade group. Ive gotten emails from citizens whove complained that theyve gone to one of our members and the members, and then the member asked for proof of ownership and they dont have that. You know, how are they going to they want to do the right thing and recycle. Reporter josh josephs familys been in the scrap business for four generations. He doesnt like his business being compared to a pawn shop. And hes not sure his industry should have to bear the burden of cracking down on metal thieves. Thieves will keep stealing metal, according to angela day, as long as its valuable. A couple of months after her father died, Police Arrested two men who were charged with stealing phone lines, including the one that Law EnforcementOfficials Say affected the call to 911 the day her father died. Shed known one of the men as a kid. And she understands what motivated the crimes. Growing up here you realize how desperate people are and how much in need this area is. I mean, theres not a lot of resources. Theyre still going to be stealing things. I mean, thats just a part of life. I dont care where you live in the United States. Youre going to have that. Youre going to have people desperate or stealing, to make you know, to survive. Reporter both men are serving prison terms for stealing the telephone lines. Sreenivasan how much can you legally make scrapping metal . Visit pbs. Org newshour for answers. Some cuttingedge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, im joined by dr. David hyman, an oncologist with memorial Sloan Kettering cancer center. So as we talk about cancer, as we talk about hope lets jus