Episode #11052 Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECH - President Obama will address the nation tonight to outline his plan to confront the Islamic State militant group. Gwen Ifill debriefs with PBS NewsHour political editor Domenico Montanaro and chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner. (Note: the 6pm broadcast on KQED 9 will include the speech itself.)
RESPIRATORY VIRUS - Children across the country have fallen ill with a rare and potentially severe respiratory illness. Jeffrey Brown explores what is behind the mystery virus and its rapid spread.
MENTAL HEALTH - Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts to bridge the gap between science and spirituality to treat mental illness in India as part of our "Agents for Change" series.
GAME ON - The video game Minecraft has attracted millions of players. Now Microsoft is in talks to buy the company behind the game for over two billion dollars. Hari Sreenivasan has the story.
FOLEY POET - Poet Daniel Johnson recalls the life and legacy of his close friend, journalist James Foley, who was beheaded by the Islamic State militant group in August.

Episode #11053 Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)

OBAMA'S SPEECH PART I - In his address to the nation last night, President Obama called for a comprehensive strategy to degrade and contain the Islamic State militant group. Gwen Ifill debriefs with White House National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and the House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon.
OBAMA'S SPEECH PART II - Judy Woodruff discusses the strategy Obama outlined in his speech with Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor during the George W. Bush administration, Richard Haass, former director of policy planning at the US Department of State, and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Michele Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the first term of the Obama administration, and current chief executive officer at the Center for a New American Security, and Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel and professor of international relations at Boston University.
NFL - The NFL has appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to conduct an investigation into how the league handled the evidence in the Ray Rice domestic abuse case. Hari Sreenivasan analyzes the latest developments with Kavitha Davidson, who writes about sports for Bloomberg View.
9/11 MISSING PAGES - In the 13 years since the 9/11 attacks, not every question about that day has been answered. Pressure continues to mount to declassify pages of the 9/11 investigation that spell out Saudi Arabia's ties to the al-Qaeda hijackers. Jeffrey Brown explores why the pages remain classified with Lawrence Wright, who wrote a story on this topic in this week's New Yorker magazine.

Episode #11054 Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)