AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening.

I'm Amna Naw GEOFF BENNET On the "News immunity, with major implications for his election interference case.

AMNA NAWAZ: The mother of a Michigan mass shooter is found guilty of manslaughter, the first parent in the country held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack.

GEOFF BENNETT: And a look at the slow recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria one year after a devastating earthquake.

ABDO QUTAISH, Camp Res see how earthquake survivors are living in the camps, the conditions and needs we face.

We only dream of a life in which we have a small portion of dignity.

(BREAK) GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "NewsHour."

A federal appeals court in Washington has rejected Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity for actions he took in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

AMNA NAWAZ: has become citizen Trump."

This clears the way for his federal trial on c forward, but Mr. Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which could further delay the case.

William Brangham h me now.

William, it' WILLIAM BRAN AMNA NAWAZ: What do we need to understan WILLIAM BRANGHAM: This was a clear setback for the former pre This was a unanimous ruling from this three-judge panel.

And it was really the first time an appeals qu estion about presidential immunity.

And the judges very forcefully pushed They ruled, in essence, that Donald Trump has to face trial in federal court on these charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election that he lost.

His argument all along, as we have reported, is that all of the actions that he took leading up to January 6 were part of his official duties, and thus he should be immune from that.

The judges f And I'm going to read you a qu They wrote -- quote -- "It would be a strikin with the constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity."

This ruling is right in line with a poll that we are about to release tomorrow, NPR, "NewsHour," and Marist poll that's coming out tomorrow.

It showed that 65 percent of Americans polled said that Donald Trump sho from prosecution.

Strong majorities of Democrats In terestingly, the partisan flip on that is nearly the reverse.

Republicans, 68 percent of them think Donald Trump should be immune.

AMNA NAWAZ: So what happens next now?

We have reported previously Mr. Trum What happens there?

What does th WILLIAM BRAN Court for them to take it up.

Everyone believes that he's goin The question is, will the Supreme Cour If they decline, this immunity ruling stands and the case goes back to Judge Tanya who could then restart it.

It has been fr Special counsel Jack Smith has said that case could take approximately two months Let's look at the calendar here, because this is where things start to get complicated.

If the Supreme Court declines -- I mean, again, March 4, that's when this was su start.

That has bee If the court dec But if they decide to take that up, then things get really crowded.

Remember, later this summer, in July, six months from now, presidential campaign is well under way.

In July, the Republican Fo ur months after that is November 5, Election Day.

If that trial date gets slid down, then Donald Trump is in the middle of the presidential campaign, by law required to be in court facing these federal charges.

There would be enormous pressure on the judge to try to punt or to push that off or to accommodate his campaign.

Very little indication she So, one of the arguments that legal analysts have b Trump has wanted to delay this all along, to push these off as far as he can, so that a ruling and or verdict could happen after the election and wouldn't impact voters, or, in Trump's ideal world, push them into the next year, so that, if he were reelected, he could then determine his attorney general could dismantle the federal cases against him.

AMNA NAWAZ: William, thank you.

WILLIAM BRAN AMNA NAWAZ: President Trump's immunity claim.

That's at PBS.org/NewsHour.

GEOFF BENNETT: In the day's other headlines: Southern California tonight is keeping watch for more flooding and landslides as a record rainstorm starts to ease.

Los Angeles saw more than half its yearly average rainfall during the two-day deluge.

The downpours also triggered nearly 400 mudslides.

Today, some of those inspecting the damage said the storms are a reminder change is real.

DEBORAH PUET and then these incredible storms that we have never had before that they're calling once-every-100-year storms, and we have had two of them since August.

GEOFF BENNETT: So far, the storm has blamed for six deaths across California.

In the Middle East, Hamas has reacted to a new proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, and a key mediator says it's generally positive.

The deal would include an extended pause in fighting and The prime minister of Qatar announced the Hamas response today alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is in the region.

Blinken said there's still a lot more work to be done ANTONY BLINKEN, U.S. Secretary of State: I will p Israel when I'm there, and we will be working as hard as we possibly can t agreement so that we can move forward with not only a renewed, but an expanded agreement on hostages and all the benefits that that would bring with it.

GEOFF BENNETT: Blinken did not characterize th Biden called it -- quote -- "a little over the top."

He did not elaborate.

Meantime, The New 32 of the 136 remaining hostages in Gaza have already died.

Authorities in Kenya charged cult leader Paul Mackenzie today with the murders of 191 children.

They were among more than 400 bodies found buried in a forest.

Today, Mackenzie and 29 co-defendants deny the charges in court.

Prosecutors say he urged followers to starve themselves and their children so they could go to heaven before the world ends.

Back in this country, President Biden headed toward an easy w presidential primary.

The Republican contest was o Instead, all will be decided in Thursday's caucuses, when former President Trump is the only major candidate taking part.

And on Wall Street, stocks moved slightly market.

The Dow Jone The Nasdaq rose 11 points.

The S&P 500 also added 11.

And a passing of note.

Country music star Toby Keit The singer-songwriter rose to fame in the 1990s with overtly patriotic, at times controversial lyrics and outspoken personality and scores of hits.

Here he is performing "Should've Been a Cowboy" on TV in Nashville back in 1995.

It became the most played country song of the decade.

(MUSIC) GEOFF BENNETT: Toby Keith was 62 years old.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": the Senate's bipartisan deal to fund Ukraine, Israel and border security teeters on the brink; investigators unveil new details about what caused the Alaska Airlines blowout; and Joy-Ann Reid's new book on the extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders Medgar and Myrlie Evers.

For the first time ever, a parent has been convicted in a mass school shooting.

Jennifer Crumbley today was found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Her teenage son, Ethan, killed four students, Madiyson Baldwin, Tate Myre, Hana St. Jul and Justin Shilling, and injured seven others in 2021 at Oxford High School in Michigan.

The gunman was sentenced to life in prison without parole back in December.

His mother now faces up to 60 years in prison and will be sentenced in April.

For more on the verdict and broader legal questions, we turn to Ekow Yankah, law professor at the University of Michigan.

Thank you for being back with us.

And Jennifer Crumbley told of the gun.

She said she How were the prosecutors able to convince the jury that her beha into recklessness, a conscious disregard, and ultimately involuntary manslaughter?

EKOW YANKAH, University of Michigan Law School: You're right that she in some ways tried to blame what we call the empty chair, that is, point at a defendant who's not around.

And perhaps that's not surprising.

The trial of the Crumbleys was mo ment.

So, many of the other could be held more liable or be painted in a worse light.

Ultimately, though, what Jennifer just couldn't convince the jury of is that, even given the legal principle that you're not responsible for someone else's acts, when she had so many years of notice, so many troubling moments, so many really damning facts, when she walked out of that schoolhouse knowing that her son had a gun, and having had administrators ask her if she wanted to take him home, that she could not have intervened somewhere along the way and saved four lives and saved seven others from injury.

GEOFF BENNETT: The Crumbleys are the first parents in U.S. history to stand trial for a mass school shooting.

James Crumbley, Jennifer's hu What precedent does her conviction set?

EKOW YANKAH: I think we want to look at th Certainly, for him, this is a -- as big a punch to the gut as you can no t just because his wife has been convicted, but given the closeness of the facts, it's ominous for his legal chances.

Indeed, I will be interested to see whet he decides that there are some facts that are sufficiently distinguishing that he doesn't -- isn't looking at the same thing, obviously, different case, different jury, but pretty close facts.

For people more genera facts were, but also underscores how really worrying it might be for any set of parents, the parent who's working hard to keep their son out of gang violence or keep their son who's struggling with drugs or alcohol from taking a joyride.

And how that's going to play out once prosecutors have this new tool is something that I think the defense really hoped that juries would hold onto.

And, lastly, I want to point out that there are goin that we never hear of, people who, with this precedent facing them, would rather plead to a lesser charge now that prosecutors have this new tool in their arsenal.

GEOFF BENNETT: Let's hear from Craig Shilling.

He's the father of one of the victims, Jus the verdict came in.

CRAIG SHILLI It is your choice to have a child, and you cannot choose to not take care of y You cannot choose to not nurture your child.

You cannot choose to take your own interests to mental health.

GEOFF BENNETT: S means for parents.

I would, I g What does this mean for gun-owning p EKOW YANKAH: Yes, I mean, part of what's going ab out the role guns play in our lives.

I think there's some set of families that he gift, especially a young man who's been struggling with mental health issues, and you didn't keep it under lock and key?

That for some families is shocking.

Indeed, it led t For other people, guns are much more part of their lives.

Guns are kind of part of the background firmament, and it's, frankl unusual to get your kid their first gun.

I think we as a country are going to have to really wrestle with how ordinary we se guns.

And, certain have to think about whether or not they have been sufficiently careful about the way their child can access that gun, especially as the child gets older.

GEOFF BENNETT: And this case also represents an effort to w responsibility for mass shootings.

What other implications might that have?

We saw recently in -- efforts to fil EKOW YANKAH: Yes, those have been ongoing lawsuits, although every time there's a really visible event, we wrestle with the question anew.

I think you're right.

As much as we wrestle with is unprecedented, there have been a few smaller instances of parents pleading guilty to negligence when they left the gun around.

I think you're right that these Am erican experience.

And, frankly, they're going to make pro litigate, find somebody who's guilty and you might even think, in the worst cases, for them to make themselves known in their community for career reasons.

GEOFF BENNETT: Ekow Yankah is a law professor at the University of Michigan.

Thanks so much for your insights.

EKOW YANKAH: Thank you for having AMNA NAWAZ: The Senate border compromise unveiled fewer than 48 hours ago has already hit a legislative wall.

Senate Republicans today announce address the border crisis and provide aid to Ukraine and Israel.

The bill drew sharp opposition from House Republicans, who spent much of today debating whether to impeach the homeland security secretary.

Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins and our team have been working source both chambers.

She joins us now live Lisa, this bill has not even been debated.

The debate hasn't even begun over the border deal.

Republicans are blocking it already.

Why is that?

And also how final is that LI SA DESJARDINS: This is a r It does seem that the votes technically are there to open up debate on this when Senate Republicans met behind closed doors last night and today, they decided they would not support actually opening up this bill.

There are a few reasons for that, and part of it has to do with the pressure on them over the border.

A lot of it has There is a debate still over the roots, of course, of the borde it comes to the reasons that this bill offering a solution was pulled, Republicans today looked at each other and sort of blamed each other for it.

SEN. RON JOHNSON That is why we are voting no.

This does more harm than That's Leader McConnell's fault.

SEN. MITCH MCCONN perfectly clear by the speaker that he wouldn't take it up even if we sent it to him.

And so I think that's probably why most of our members think we ought to have opposition.

REP. MIKE JOHNSON They didn't.

They sent us border security reform, and so that's why it's a nonstarter.

LISA DESJARDINS: A waterfall of blame here, some blaming M the speaker blaming the Senate.

But, clearly, there is something else at work De mocrats, for their part, including President Biden, say what happ JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: All indications are this bill won't even forward to the Senate floor.

Why?

A simple rea Because Donald Trump thinks it's bad for him politically.

He'd rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it.

LISA DESJARDINS: Now, there is not a plan B for either how to deal or for Ukraine funding.

The House tonight may ta That may not pass.

So we're not clear what happens any of them in coming days or weeks.

AMNA NAWAZ: Lisa, meanwhile, as we mentioned to day to impeach the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas.

Where does that stand?

LISA DESJARDINS: Amn I am speaking to you at the exact second that even bring up this vote.

They have teed it up.

This is the previo They are expected to bring up this impeachment vote next.

But I have to tell you, from my reporting Amna, I don't think House Republ the vote, the majority vote, to pass it.

As we have said on this program, there is Republicans.

They can los We know of at least two members who are against this.

And, today, the National Fraternal Order of Po Mayorkas in their view has actually helped things, that he is someone who respects law and order.

Now those Republ disregard for federal law.

And, indeed, they say he lied to Congress Ma yorkas denies that.

He says this i A real test for Hous We should know in the next hour or so what happens.

AMNA NAWAZ: That's congressional correspondent Li Hill.

Lisa, thank Now, to discus joined by Republican Senator Kevin Cramer from North Dakota.

Senator Cramer, it's good to see you, sir.

Thank you for joining us.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER Thank you fo AMNA NAWAZ: About a week And you had this to say.

You said: "I of those swing voters in swing states for whom the border is the number one priority have every right to look at us and go, you blew your opportunity."

So you will vote to block this bill.

In your own words, are you blowing your opportunity SE N. KEVIN CRAMER First of all, a So this is something I have stressed from the beginnin This process has been bad from the beginnin It's been too secretive, too closed, not transparent thro be.

But all of t do it better, in negotiating what ends up being a bill that's got some -- obviously, anything that's between two sides that are narrowly divided, some things we like and some things we don't and some things the other side likes and things the other Al l of that said, now we have the text, we have the opportunity to look at the text.

But as I think Leader McConnell said so well in your piece there, in Lisa's piece, is that this bill is not going to become law, because the speaker of the House says it's dead on arrival.

Ironically, would be dead on arrival over here.

But if dead on arrival is -- a lot more political capital, when there are other priorities, even in this own -- this bill, that have to get funded like support for Israel and support for Ukraine.

So, it's a combination of politics, moving parts, changing narratives, for sure.

But the biggest issue is the process.

And that's what bothers me, is that four months of negotiating in go in secret, leading to final text, and then Chuck Schumer wants to put it on the floor right away.

Let's move - to read the text, to compare it to either H.R.2 or current law.

AMNA NAWAZ: Well, Senator, if I may, if I may... SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: I mean, yes, in the room.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: the way.

You had some But I do want to put to you what the president of the Border Patrol Cou SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: can argue it's not better than wh Why wouldn't I support it?"

is what he says.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: Go ahead.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER No, I agree change in th I think the substance of thi an awful lot of generosity for legal counsel, for example, for illegal aliens, open-end dollar amounts that could be problematic.

Sanctuary cities, I mean, here, we're going to reward the pull factor that in the first place to run this risk.

So it's not a layup one way or the other.

I would agree with Brandon Judd that it's an increment in the it keep us from doing more good things in another format?

I don't give up on this.

I would love, frankly, t amending it.

But that pol The pragmatic approach is -- in my view, would Is rael and the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East in general.

We have got lots of demands on our own military that we have to meet, and then maybe ta the border piece and work on it a little bit, along with the National Border Patrol Council.

I mean, according to them -- and I met with them today, as a lot of members did -- this is much better than H.R.2.

There are no resources in H.R.2 to do the says they want to get done.

So I think there's still room Democratic friends.

And I think we should co But I do think i (CROSSTALK) AMNA NAWAZ: Let me ask y has had an outsized influence, both SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: SEN. KEVIN CRAMER But, again.. (CROSSTALK) AMNA NAWAZ: Would it cha SEN. KEVIN CRAMER I have been process moving forward, of rewarding that, trying to get some tweaks to it al l while Donald Trump was saying no, no, no.

So it's not so much for me.

But I do think, in t by the way.

It's not irr contrasting with the current president, who's now going to be his opponent, who's done nothing except to let 10 million people illegally into the country and wave them on through.

I mean, this is pretty clear-cut when you look at the two men that are running for president and who does the better job.

I'm just saying that, the ground.

And I think has been very, by the way, involved with the committee that was working on this, the ad hoc committee that was working on this, which is why you see the types of resources and the support that they have for the bill.

AMNA NAWAZ: Yes.

Senator, let to the border funding.

It was back in Decem and you said, you were quite strident with the administration leaders and military l there saying that they should push Democrats, convince Democrats that Ukraine was a vital national security issue, and therefore Democrats should give on immigration concessions.

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER AMNA NAWAZ: to agree to this?

SEN. KEVIN CRAMER with Ukraine support apart from this.

Remember, the reason that we have the border pi who didn't want to support Ukraine insisted on it.

And I love that.

I love the fact th Both are really important, either together or separately.

And I remain committed to that.

And I think the ad Ukraine, or maybe they would have won this war by now.

It's still in our national best interest to provide them the let I'd like to see us strip the -- some of the humanitarian aid and the direct government support for funding their government and rather focus on helping them win the war.

That's what's in America's best interest.

That's what's in the Wes AMNA NAWAZ: That Senator, thank you.

Good to see SEN. KEVIN CRAMER GEOFF BENNETT: Boeing is one of the two aerospace manufacturing giants in th So its troubles are a major issue for the aviation industry.

And they were once again front and center today.

Concerns are growing over Boeing's 737 MAX jetliners following a series of safety and quality control issues.

Last month, a door panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet off from Portland, Oregon.

No one was seriously injured.

The FAA grounded Boeing 737 MAX To day, the National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report into that incident.

Investigators believe several bolts frame that had been damaged in the production process.

But the missing bolts were never replaced.

The weeks since that incident have brought other issues On Sunday, Boeing said a supplier found improperly drilled holes on windo their undelivered MAX planes.

And, in December, Boeing alerted airl bolts after two planes were missing the parts in their rudder control systems.

Back in 2018 and 2019, the 737 MAX's MCAS flight control software systems led to deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.

Boeing fixed the system, but that issue grounded the MAX jets for nearly two years.

This morning, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Whitaker, faced questions before a House committee about his agency's oversight.

REP. GARRET GRAVE I can't help but think that the FAA had a lot of trouble walking I think that they really struggled with being able to carry out all of their duties and responsibilities.

GEOFF BENNET to provide better oversight.

MICHAEL WHITAKER of a surveillance co stations, where inspectors are actually on the ground talking to people and looking at the work that's being done.

GEOFF BENNET Washington.

He was invol What exactly did you witness?

ED PIERSON, Form pressure, extreme pressure being placed on manufacturing employees, those employees that worked on the factory floor by executives.

And we saw that pressure leading to process breakdowns in our production GE OFF BENNETT: And what was the response from senior leadership when you raised those concerns?

ED PIERSON: Oh, they didn't want to hear it.

The only thing they wanted to And so that was their metric.

And, unfortunately, it's the sa We have seen this for the last six years.

GEOFF BENNETT: In an interview ab out the company's safety issues and oversight of its suppliers.

DAVE CALHOUN, CEO, Boeing: We're going to learn from it.

And, yes, the subject of how we interact with a subject that we will be working at for quite a long time.

GEOFF BENNETT: And we should say that Boeing declined the "NewsHour"'s reques with its CEO, Dave Calhoun.

But shortly after the NTSB -- "An event like this must not happen on an airplane that leaves our factory" and said it was putting new inspections in place for the door panel assembly and with its suppliers throughout the manufacturing process.

Let's turn now to our aviation correspondent, Miles Miles, it's always great to see you.

So, Boeing is facing s issues with its corporate culture.

You had this blowout of the Alas You had those two deadly crashes some five years ago.

What accounts for it?

MILES O'BRIEN: Wel market share.

And, right n Certainly, since the twin MAX ac So there's a lot of pressure to produce aircraft.

And any time you have that pressure to go fast, it almost always runs And when you have a situation where a door is taken off, and there's not a checklist, there's no paperwork or virtual paperwork pulled, that the parts aren't even properly cared for or inventoried, you have got a system that's just broken.

And the company admits it.

GEOFF BENNETT: And t the FAA chief told lawmakers today the current system is not working because it's not delivering a safe aircraft.

So what's their role in MILES O'BRIEN: At the heart of this, Geoff, is something they call organization designation authorization, ODA.

And what that means is, em and certify the aircraft.

Well, there's an obvious co This has to do as anything with the fact that the FAA does not have the resources to inspectors on those factory floors actually looking over the shoulders of these workers.

So there is a fundamental concern here about whether the FAA needs to have congressional authority, which is to say, appropriations and a little more money, to put more inspectors in the field or at least create some kind of third party that doesn't have a dog in the hunt.

GEOFF BENNET I spoke with in that report, he said that he wouldn't fly a Boeing MAX plane under any circumstances, and he advises his family and friends against it as well.

Does the flying public have reason to be concerned about flying on one of these Boeing jets?

MILES O'BRIEN: Well, I suppose you could make an argument, Geoff, that right now that aircraft is among the safest in the fleet, given the amount of scrutiny it's had since that incident.

I worry more about the system, writ large, Geoff.

Coming after the pandemic, we have had a colossal brain drain in aviation, in control towers on flight decks, and on the factory floors at Boeing.

A lot of experience is no longer there.

You couple that with unprecedented demand for aviation, air travelers wa on those planes and seeing the world, and then added to that, you have the regulatory failure of the FAA.

They should have people looking over those shoulder back in, hopefully.

And, ultimately, they need to modern They have delayed for many years, for lack of money and impetus, to modernize the sy to make it safer.

So I worry about GEOFF BENNETT: Miles O'Brien, thanks so much for putting this all into context for us.

We appreciate it.

MILES O'BRIEN: You're welcome, Geoff.

AMNA NAWAZ: One year ago today, a devastating earthquake laid waste to large parts of Southern Turkey and Northwestern Syria.

Tens of thousands of people were killed, and recovery in Syria, where more than a decade of civil war had already made life nearly unbearable.

Leila Molana-Allen reports on how Syrians on both sides of the border are struggling to survive.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: In this in last year's earthquakes, which struck in the middle of the night.

But with few resources and all access to the area controlled by Turkey and blocked by the Assad regime, there's been limited recovery.

Half-destroyed buildings still loom.

Overwhelmed and underfunded medical teams Ha mza al-Ahmad lay pinned beneath the rubble of his home for 35 hours before local volunteer rescuers, known as the White Helmets, managed to dig him out alive.

He was one of the lucky ones.

With the border closed, rescuers had little So most Syrians who were buried under collapsed buildings died waiting for help.

It was too late for Hamza's parents and four brothers.

HAMZA AL-AHMAD (Injured and Displaced in Earthquake) (through transla was very sad.

But my greatest My life with my family was beautiful.

I had a little brother.

We used to do everything together But he died.

Now, whenever I see small ch I miss him so much.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Hamza lost his leg from the Now he needs multiple surgeries he can't afford.

At just 15, Hamza is learning to live with only half of his body fully He knows he's fortunate to have a prosthetic leg, which cost hundreds of dollars and which many others are still waiting for.

But the rudimentary model is incredibly painful to use.

HAMZA AL-AHMAD (through translator): Before my injuries, I used to play football.

I loved it.

Now, when I wake up It's a prosthetic limb, and I'm not used to it.

So I end up just using crutches.

I'm trying to get used the limb, but LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Hamza's only surviving brother, Abdul Hadi, now cares for him.

There's no work, but they have found a small room to stay in.

The alternative is a life spent under a thin tarp, like their neighbors.

Much of the worst-hit area remains in ruins.

With the economy already destroyed after 13 years of war, there's no money import controls mean scant materials to rebuild with; 800,000 people are still waiting to be rehoused.

They live in filthy, in a toxic smoke from burning whatever they can to stay warm.

This isn't the first time Nofa and Abdo's family has been displaced.

They fled the Idlib countryside after her son was killed in a Russian airstrike.

Since then, they have raised their three young grandchildren, Jinan, Ufran and Ibrahim, alone.

The town of Jindires wasn't home, but at least they had a roof over their heads.

But when the earthquake hit, that new home collapsed.

ABDO QUTAISH, Camp Resident (through translator): He heaven to hell.

Camp life, yes, is hell, but Where do we go?

Where should we es LEILA MOLANA They can barely afford to look after the kids, let alone pay for the specialist care he needs.

NOFA QUTAISH, Camp Resident (through translator): My husband helps me in our daily life in the tent and brings me everything I need, because I cannot walk.

And if I want to move, I crawl on my hands and feet.

The children are deprived of many of their rights and want of clothes, food and I wish they could live a better life.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Drinking water is scarce, while in the freezing weather, soaking everything inside the tent.

Even before the earthquake, most of the people living in this beleaguered enclave needed humanitarian aid to survive.

The huge influx of donations and aid in the earthquake's aftermath soo The World Food Program is ending its main Syria assistance program later this year.

And last year, the U.N.'s Syrian aid budget only got a third of the funds that it needed.

The family has had no help in months.

They feel forgotten.

ABDO QUTAISH (through su rvivors are living in the camps, the conditions and needs we face.

We only dream of a life in which we have a small portion of dignity.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Thousands of Syrian refugees who had been living in Southern Tu the earthquake fled back across the border in its wake.

But conditions for those who stayed aren't much better.

Antakya in far Southern Turkey was leveled.

There's little left of this proud, ancient city.

Far more reconstruction has taken place on this side of the border, b to no help available for Syrians.

The dust from building debris here is so thick that it's very difficult But just a few meters away, dozens of Syrian refugees are living in the middle of the rubble that used to be their homes.

When the earthquake struck Omar Om ar tried to rescue his wife, Judy, and 2-year-old infant son, Taim, but couldn't lift the heavy ceilings labs that crushed them.

OMAR BARAKAT, Syrian Refugee (through transla Taim stayed stuck that way for five days with the same rock on top of his head, and he didn't move at all.

I stayed awake tal I fell asleep and my wife was alive.

I woke up and she was dead.

I started calling her name, but she didn't LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: They died next to him, but his 3-year-old son, Ahmed, had For weeks, Omar searched hospitals across Southern Turkey.

His former home had been destroyed and the rubble cleared.

But there was no sign of Ahmed.

As thousands of other families searched for missing lo unit tested a DNA sample and said Ahmed's body hadn't been identified amongst those killed.

OMAR BARAKAT that collects the rubble, and he was covered up by the rocks because he's But I don't believe it.

My heart believes that he's LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Omar is fr Like many Syrians here, his permit to be in Turkey has now have cracked down.

But if Omar returns to Syria OMAR BARAKAT (through translator): I'm very afraid, but if they want to deport me while my son is missing, they would have to kill me to get me to leave without him.

What worse can they do to me now that I have lost my precious boy?

My future is already long gone.

LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN: Shrouded in his grief, he family's last moments, comforted by mementos of his former life, but against all odds, he's determined Ahmed is alive.

And so he waits, hiding in this tent bought on the black market, surroun after street of crumbling masonry.

OMAR BARAKAT (through translator): I always I go for a walk.

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LEILA MOLANA-ALLEN Living through yet another nightmare, Syrians on both sides of the border here fear suffering is all they have left.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I' GEOFF BENNETT: It's a love story that helps paint a fuller picture of the civil rights movement, that of Medgar and Myrlie Evers.

On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, a pioneering civil rights activ supremacist outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

His murder thrust his wife, Myrlie Evers, into the national spotlight, beco fighter in her own right.

I spoke with author and MSNBC in her new book out today, "Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America."

Joy Reid, we JOY-ANN REID America": Geoff, it is so good GEOFF BENNETT: Of course.

So, Myrlie Lou What drew them together?

JOY-ANN REID He was very aggressive.

He ran up to her as she was leaning sort of ag you're going to get shocked.

You need to walk awa And she's like: "W trying to be haughty because she was raised in Vic a certain way toward men.

So it was partly his appro There were a lot There was something about him.

He was older 7 yea She didn't know exactly how much older, but he jus And I think it was because he was a World War II veteran and a football player Each of those things were the things that her grandmother and her aunt told her to absolute stay away from.

So, in some GEOFF BENNETT: And you use their relationship as for justice, equality, the civil rights movement.

JOY-ANN REID: Yes.

GEOFF BENNET JOY-ANN REID: You know, what's interesting is rights leaders, we tend to think of them as sort of just icons in is lives.

But what the None of those sort of greats that we think of in the civil rights movement even lived to be 40.

And they lived whole lives that incl spouses.

And so what to put it in the context of the two kinds of love that it took, right?

You needed to have the loving family that would support you and allow you th ing that could get you all killed, a wife that was willing to live in a house that could be firebombed, then knew how to train your children to understand that their father c die, that their mother could die, that they could die.

GEOFF BENNETT: As field secretary for the NAACP, that made him a target who at the time terrorized Black people in Mississippi with impunity.

And after his tragic death, his assassination, Myrlie Evers committed herself to the fight.

I mean, she became an activist in her own right.

She wrote a book about Medgar Evers.

She ran for Congress.

She ultimately led Tell me more about her second act.

JOY-ANN REID: You know, Myrlie ri ghts leaders.

She had no d She just wanted to be wi She was a literal 1950s housewife an help her raise their children and go to the movies and enjoy their romance.

But that was not in the cards for her.

When Medgar died, she was in her early 30s.

She was a very young woman who has three children And one of the things that really struck me as I interviewed Myrlie Evers is, she still can -- she can still access that sense of palpable rage.

She wasn't just sad that Medgar was dead.

She was angry.

And she chan She was determined to make sure his killer, who was tried twic 1960s, in '63 and '64, she wanted to see him imprisoned for the rest of his life.

She eventually got that.

It took her But she also fight with Medgar about what he was doing.

They didn't agree with direct action.

He did.

And she want many ways failed her husband.

And so her goal when he died wa husband from her.

GEOFF BENNET much of their story and their sacrifice has been overlooked by history.

Is that what drew you to this project?

JOY-ANN REID: Absolutely.

James Baldwin called Medgar, Malcolm an movement.

But people k He's sort of a -- when you land in Jackson, Mississippi, you land in Medgar Evers A lot of people don't know why.

If you're in Bro A lot of people just don't know who that is.

They maybe have heard of the name, but they really And to my mind, he was in many ways the most heroic civil rights leader in th because he was operating in the most difficult state to do civil rights.

And that was Mississippi, the most lynchings per capita, the most aggressive Klan that killed Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and many, many more, the most aggressive statewide apparatus that was sort of the Klan in suits, a literal spy organization that operated out of the governor's office and the state legislature to spy on the citizens of Mississippi.

That existed nowhere but that state.

And he was not just the field secretary.

He was the first, the inaugural field secretary.

And I can remember Vernon Jordan, the wonderful, great Vernon I interviewed him for my first book, for "Fracture," and saying to me that he could remember -- he was very close to Medgar.

And he said he could remember being on the phone with Medgar, and Medgar li and saying: I can't do this.

They won't sign up to vote.

They're terrified here.

People in the Delta are so Th ey don't want to put their names on an NA And my bosses want me to do this, and they're insisting that's all for membership in the NAACP and register them to vote.

But they don't understand.

They're in N And this is almost impos to walk into a department store.

It's so terrifying that just talking to a white lynched here.

And I think, for a to operate, not in Georgia, not even in Louisiana, not even in South Carolina, but Mississippi.

GEOFF BENNETT: What would the civil rights movement have been without the influence, example, and sacrifice of Myrlie Evers-Williams and Medgar Evers?

JOY-ANN REID: I actually think it would have been completely different.

Number one, you have to remember that the fight for the Civi Rights Act, it rolled through Mississippi.

The most violent sit-in at a Woolworths at a lunch counter in the the Jackson Woolworths.

This was the fam group of people that were trying to desegregate that lunch counter They were beaten.

They were beaten story.

And that pro say, enough is enough.

The violence that went throu unlike anything the country had ever seen, and they saw it on the nightly news.

And so the incidents that took place in Mississippi, combined with the Alabama stand at the schoolhou door, were the sort of final, last straw for the Kennedy administration, and Kennedy, who had been a very reluctant friend of the civil rights movement, because he needed Southern votes.

Remember, ba He had been very reluctant.

He really wanted to do a big tax cut.

That was his thing.

He finally said, And the thing that I think people don't know, used some of Medgar's language when he did that speech.

They shared that they were World War II veterans.

He understood the heroism and sacrifice of a fellow v veteran's status.

And when he promised to do t him giving this historic televised speech, the person that he gave the first draft of that bill, the physical draft, was Myrlie Evers.

GEOFF BENNETT: Really?

JOY-ANN REID She was in the White House with her ch gave her a copy of that bill.

And he promised her And when that bill started to languish and take a long time, the March on Washington in August was to push him to get back on track and get that bill done.

And Dr. King talked about Medgar Evers and Emmett Till as two of the inspirations for that march.

And there's talk about the sacrifices.

His original version of the in Detroit.

And there wa -- one day in the future, we will come to a day when the sacrifices of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers wouldn't have to be made.

That was the first version of "I Have a Dr That was the dream he spoke of.

It was ultimately cut out of An d Myrlie Evers was the only woman initially invited to speak along with the big six.

She just wasn't able to be there because of another commitment.

But Medgar Evers is infused in the civil rights movement.

And his contemporaries knew it.

It's just that, today, he's sort of fallen out of the GEOFF BENNETT: Well, this book will certainly help change that, "Medgar Love Story That Awakened America."

Joy-Ann Reid, always a pleasure to spe JOY-ANN REID: Geoff, thank you.

GEOFF BENNETT: Online right th at Myrlie Evers-Williams shared with the late Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz.

You can find it on our YouTube and Instagram accounts.

AMNA NAWAZ: And an update now to our earlier reporting.

A vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has failed.

Republicans had accused Mayorkas of not complying on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A handful of Republicans joi And that is the "NewsHour" for tonight.

I'm Amna Nawaz.

GEOFF BENNET Thanks for joini have a good evening.