captioning sponsored by newshour prodtions, llc >> nawaz: good evening, i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is on assthnment. on newshour tonight, containing an outbreak. how the trump administration pre nparing theion for the threat of coronavirus, while china mounts a "people's war" against the disease. then, after another bising democratic primary debate, wre do the presidential hopefuls snd with less than a week to go before super tuesday? and, not just a headache. a lifelong condition and the lack of a cure. the symptoms and the stigma of >> this isn't the life i imagined for myself. this isn't what i thought i would doing. but at the end of the day, i'm doing everything that i can to treat it. >> nawaz: all that and more os tonight's pbnewshour.

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instead, he accused news outlets and, he called a onference to outline the administration's efforts. meanwhile, senate democts pushed for $8.5 billion in emergency funding, more than three times what the president proposed. agreed on the need for action. >> i think we need to apropriate some additional resources for certain. i think this is a serious enough issue that the president shou be addressing the country and reassuring the american people what efforts are under way at the.d.c. and within his administration to protect the american people. >> our nationas more resources than any other nation in the world to be able to addre whatever threat coronavirus poses. butnn it's require bipartisan action this is not a time for partisanship pathogens do not respect party nes. >> nawaz: around the world, today, for the first time, more new coronavirus cases were inside.de of china, than one was a u.s. soldier in south

korea. that is the first case among some 28,000 americans stationed there. brazil also reported its first confirmed case, making it the first case in latin america. in italy, infections continue to rise, leading soldiers to blockade some hard-hit northern towns. but in china, the outbreak con restrictions are easing, we'll take a closer look at the situations in china, and here at home, later in thprogram. a shooter attacked workers rs the moslon crewing company in milwaukee today. the mayor said multiple people were killed, but there were no other details. police and emergency crews swarmed to the site where at least 600 people are employed. some texted that they had taken shelter in locked rooms. a federal appeals court in nes york led the trump administration can legally withhold federal funding from states over immigration enforcement. a lower court had said federal grants may not be kept from so- called sanctuay cities and tes that refuse to cooperate

with immigration authorities. thrrtee other appeals chave issued conflicting rulings. the prime minister of india appealed for calm in new delhi today after the city's worst sectarian violence in decades. the death toll climbed to at least 24, with nearly 200 hurt in the last three days as hindu mobs have attacked muslim homes, businesses, and mosques. more of the injured arrived at hostals today, and armed police patrolled the streets, amid cha stores.cles and burnt >> (ts translated ): the rnd arson started in the morning, and the cars that were parked here were set on fire so people were not coming out of their houses due to fear. people living in the streets were so scared that they did not leeven and most of the people are not stepping out of their homes. naz: the violence erupted during president trump's visit to india this week, and grew out of protests over a new law, granting citizenship for refugees of every major south asian religion except muslims. ingypt, a military funeral with full honors was held today

fo mubarak, as the country began three days of official mourning. mubarak's coffin, carried on a hoe-drawn carriage, made i way as part of a procession through the streets of cairo. mubarak died yesterday, at 91, from heart and kidney problems. back in this country, president trump's re-election campaign is suing "the new york times" for libel over an opinion column it published last year. the piece, written by a former "times" executive editor, alleged russia helped the trump campaign in 2016, in exchange for foreign policies that would benefit russia. in its filing, the campaign said the "times" intentionally printed false information. "the times" rejected the allegation. and on wall streeietoday stocks in on wall street today, stocks tried in vain to rally after two major sell-offs. the dow jones industrial average ended up losing anotherin23 to close at 26,957. aqthe naked out a gain of 15 points, but the s&p 500 slipped 11 points.

and, best-selling adveliure novelist cussler has died. he passed away monday at his a.home in scottsdale, ariz cussler wrote more than 80 books, including "night probe!," "cyclops," and "raise the titanic!" many of his novels featured the intrepid explorer dirk pitt. clive cussler was 88 years old. ill to come on the newshour: how to fight a global outbreak-- the u.s. and china try to contain the spread of covid-19. key takeaways from last night's democrat debate as voters across the cousury prepare for r tuesday. a chronic condition, and chronically undertreated-- an inside look at migraine dih ase. plus mucre.

>> naz: as we reporter earlier, the spread of the coronavirus in china has stabilized. t chinese activists who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak and the official response are still missing. nick schifrin has more on the battle over information between the chinese people and their government. q>> schifrin:shi chen took china what the chinesen to show government wouldn't show. >> ( translated ): i'm afraid. in front of me is the virus, and behind me is the legal and administrative power of china. but as long as iive in this city, i will continue to report. >> schifrin: for two weeks chen cunted hospitals that were overwhelmed. a pool of vomit on the waiting room floor. patients on stretchers unattended. in ano video, he criticized the care at a makeshift hospital >> (utranslatedv): puttingte

everyone into a space like this one, where patients aren't ercompletely separated, the will definitely be the possibility of cross-infections. thisaemporary hospital looks lot like a military field hospital, or an emergency shelter set up in response to an earthquake or a flood. but it's not great for housing patients with an infectious disease. >> schifrin: the world health organization says thdisease's spread in china has stabilized. and today some other regions have begun to normalize. but chen documented the beginning of the outbreak in wuhan, and knew the risks were medical and political. >> ( translated ): i will only report what i see, what i hear. i right?ant to be blunt, today, i'm going to say something blunt: mother ( bleep ) i'm not even afraid of death. you think i'm afraid of the communist party? >> schifrin: that language apparently got qiushi detained. he hasn't been seen since. chen's mother took to social >> (atranslatedr): i have not been able to get in touch with

him. i'm here pleading that all netizens, especially those in wuhan, please help me find my son. help me find out what happened to him. >> schifrin: qius is only one of the critics arrested in the last two months, in a battle authorities detained lawyer and human rights activist xu zhiyong after he accused chi president xi jinping of trying to cover up the coronavirus oureak. a wuhan resident told pbs newshour residents critical of the government's response, suddenly disappeared. but activists continued their work, posting videos of overcrowded wuhan hospitals, ts lying unattended on t corrider floor. >> the chinese government is not only trying to contain the virus, they're also trying to contain the coverage of this entire story. >> schifrin: xiao qiang is the heeditor in chief of.s. based china digital times, a news site that focuses on recontent supped by china's state censors. he says the chinese government could have decreased the outbreak's size.

>> by containing the coverage, denial and information withheld, and propaganda, it destroys the public trust very much needed at the time to fighting with the epidemic. >> schifrin: the chinese government describes all of its efforts as vigilance and necessary. and this is what chine e media highlirgized health workers fist bumping patients. the formerfl sick, cured, ers in their hands, thanking hospital staff. nurses shaving their heads to increase hygiene. chinese media called them ar"beautifulors." and people back in factories, protecting their fellow workers. there is now a message of cautious optimism from the top. kelast w president xi jinping congratulated health woers, chinese army commanders, and masses of people he called united in a "people's war." the phrase harkens back

to communist party founder mao zedong mobilize the masses to defeat aommon enemy. xi has acknowledged the virus posed a serious threat. more than 760 million people have had restricd ons on when w often they can leave their homes. thousands of neighborhoods onross he country have bee lockdown. visitors to office and residential buildings scan q.r. ndcodes,ill in forms about travel history and body temperature. the world health organization ass praised china's effort successfully reducing the virus' spread. >> those measures on movement restriction have delayed the dissemination of the outbreak of two or three days within china, and a few weeks, outside china, >> schifrin: but inside china, residents know state media portray only the positive. sand that has helped fuial media videos that question the government's respect for human rits. this cliapparently shows a woman arrested for leaving her home without a face mask.

another shows a group of people dragged out of their home to be quarantined. and this clip shows officials deplishing a game room to s group gatherings. these tactics create an enronment of mistrust and resentment, says qiang. understanding his now reached an government failed them. this disaster, by large, is manmade, and the authority, both d the local authority e central authority, bear a big responsibility for what's happening. n schifrin: fang bin was a wuhan businessmaen he picked up his phone and began filming the city. he secretly filmed this video outside a wuhan hospital. fang posted anher video saying government officials could sweep up anyone. >> ( translated ): maybe they won't go after me. it's possible. but i can't stay silent. if they don't come after me, th will come after you. if>> sn: another of fang's

videos was just twelve seconds ollong-- a sof paper with the words "all citizens resist, hand power back to the people." the same day, he was arrested and hasn't been seen since. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> nawaz: the president is expected to speak about the u.s. response to coronavirus at the white house shortly. we will bring you the latest and examine the administration's response later in the program. >> nawaz: democratic thesidential candidates hit the trail in sarolina today, on the heels of last night's raucous debate. as lisa desjardins reports, the candidates left it all on the stage. >> south carolina chooses presiden i. >> reporte the palmetto state today, a 2020 democratic blitz. >> i am ready toht. >> please, bring your friends,

your neighbors, your family members. >> i am here to ask for your vote. >> reporter: vermont senator nationally, g to pullder off a surprise win here, adding event after event. >> now, to defeat trump you cannot run a conventinal campaign. same old-same old is not going to do it. >> reporr: but former vice president joe biden has long led the pack in the state and for him, south carolina is a mue-win. today,cored a coup-- the endorsement ofouth carolina representative jim clyburn, the highest ranking african american in congress. n>> i kow joe. we know joe. tbut most importaly, joe knows us. >> reporter: if nothing else, it is intense here ade eed last night. >> mr. sanders, let me-- >> hold on, look-- >> reporter: when the candidates debated i charleston. al tom, i think she wasng about my plan. >> repoter: sanders got the frontrunner treatment, meaning atcks from alsides.

>> as one prominent democrat once said, we shoul pay attention to where the voters of this country are, bernie. that prominent democrat was barack obama. >> bernie and i agree on a lot make ar president than i would bernie. >> i am not looking forward to t scenario whereomes down to donald trump with his nostaia e social order of the 1950s, and bernie sanrs with the nostalgia of the 1960s.tionary politics of >> reporter: but sanders was undaunted, using his final statement to push back at the criticism. >> misconception-- and you're hearing it here tonight-- is the ideas i'm talking about are radical.they're not. in one form or another they world.in countries all over the >> reporter: the candidates also went after the two billionaires on the stage. senator elizabeth warren struck at former nw york city mayor p ae bloomberg, bringing u lawsuit alleging he spoke

harshly to a pregnant employee worried about balancing her job and a future chit. >> at le didn't have a boss who said to me, "kill it," te way that mayor bloomberg is alleged to have said. >> i neverid hat. >> to one of his pregnant employees. >> oh, come on. >> pchple want ce to hear-- ( booing ) people want a chance to hear-ha >> you, senator. >> to hear from the women who-- >> i never said that. de>> reporter: and billionaire tom steyer faced off over steyer's pasnet bu with private prisons. >> wel my good friend on the enof this platform he, in fact, bought a system that was a private prison system, after, after he knew that in fact wht happened was they hog-tied young men in prison here in this state.to >> i've workednd the use of private prisons in my home ste, and we've ended it. i've started a bank to support black ownership of businesses, women ownership of businesses, and latino owners of businesses because this financial service

industry is prejudiced. i have worked tirelessly on this, and you know i'm right r >>orter: the raucous debate wasn't all fighting. senator amy klobuchar ofnn ota stressed the need for health care and health workers outside of cities. >>e're going to have a million openings for home health care workers, particularly in rural areas, that we don't know how to fill. we're going to have over 100,000 openings for nursing assist arndts. >> reporter: there was also one piece of unity over decriticizing the pret. bloomberg slammed the administration's response to concerns about the coronavirus. >> theresident fired the pandemic specialists in this country two years ago, so there's nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. >> elizabeth warren. >> reporter: what the candidates, and some of their high-profile backers, are now doing is sprinting. south carolina democrats vote in three days on saturday. bsfor the newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. > >> nawaz: for more politics coverage, head to the newshour website, where you can watch judy woodruff at today's knight foundation media forum.

she led a discussion on democracy in the age of the internet, featuring teddy ff, digital director of president obama's re-election campaign, oranrinat, the chief digital officer for the trump administration. plus, tune in tomorrow when judy sits down with michael bloomberg, right here on the newshour. >> nawaz: stay with us, coming othe newshour: a pick from our bookshelf-- one whistleblower's account of sexual harassment in silicon valley. plus collides with the f.b.i. in the new movie "seberg." it's often dismissed as "just a headache," bigraine attack is much more than that. a15% of americans aected, but as stephanie sy reports, the rastigma associated with me disease hameant fewer resources for desperat patients.

series on tading edge" ofregular science, thnology and health. >> reporter: for jenn tingwald, playing "go fish" with her family could be a metaph for the past five years-- fishing for relief from the pain of chronic migraine. >> we never thought that the e sickness would cfore the health in our marriage. tand sot's that's been really hard. >> reporter: tingwald had her first migraine attack when she was 31 >> that's really where my journey began. and to some degree, my head pain has not left since that day. so like in my left temple, i always have pain. the intensity changes, but it's healways. it's always present. >> reporter: the once-aspiring nurse now spends hours a day managing her pain. an ice pack has become a near permanent fixture over her left temple. she frequently receives a cocktail of migraine and pain

medication administered through i. >> at minimum i'm here three ondays a. at maximum 15 days a mth. >> reporter: tingwald is on the severe end of the migraine spectrum. but she's just one of 47 million americans who have the disease, 75% of whom are women. the symptoms can be debilitating. three generations of shirley kessel's family have migraine. >> i have ringing in my ears 24/7. i have light sensitivity. i have sensitivity to sound and when the headache comes, it's just like an explosion in my head. >> reporter: angie glaser gave up her dream job as a national park ranger because of migraine. >> my brain kind of feels like it's in a bowl of water, kind of like sloshing around. but sometimes i'll get these waves of vertigo where i'll move my head and the whole room will just flip. >> it is a striking stabbing

pain. so almost like somebody has like and they're just stabbing straight through my temple. >> reporter: doctor amaal starliats jenn tingwald at the mayo clinic in arizona. for her, the search for an lleffective treatment is s ongoing. starling says the last few years have seen more options become available, but most work on only 50% of patients. a>> stress can rigger. a lack of sleep can be a trigger. different foods, different all these things can be potential triggers, bue they are not use. the cause is it isog genetic neur disease. daughter deborah ayna cyb,d migraine has been a part of their lives since alayna was in the third grade. ou10% of school-age children have migraine. >> i don't know if you noticed, but her spee t. thatt's a symptom of migraine.

>> like your speech is kind of. can you explain the thing that happens? >> my tongue just feels like it's like too big for my mouth. >> reporter: another example of this phenomenon was captured on camera with this local news reporter, serene branson. starling explains what's happening in the brain to cause these symptoms. >> the trigeminal nerve is the nerve that intervades our entire e face as well as vering of our brain. and that is the nerve that is becoming sensitized during a migraine attack. that's where you'll develop that sensitivity to light and sound and motion as well as what we call the emotional aspect of pain and the processing of pain.

again, it's the abnormal function of that network is what is resulting in migraine. >> reporter: the mayo clinic one of the largest migraine and headache treatment centers in the country and people come from all over the u.smpbecause there aren't enough migraine specialists to treat the o one reason leadingthe lack. of specialists comes down to a word we heard over and over from patients. >> the stigma. >> yeah. >> the stigma, the burden that comes along is sometimes almt worse than the disease itself >> very frequently they'll tell me that they were told their migraine is just in their head. >> reporter: that 's psychological. >> correct. >> reporter: the stigma attached >> mommy, mommy, look! >> jimmy please, not now i'm too busy. control yourself, sure you have a headache. >> reporter: the stigma attached raine is likely rooted i sexism says sociologist joanna >> they're inevitably discussed

as people who are neurotic. maybe a little too caught up in their housework, maybe a little husbands are doing and, you know, i'd like to say we're past kind of color how we think about women with migraine. >> reporter: but more and more famous women are shari their migraine struggles. tennis great serena williams says she's lost matches because of migraine. and cindy mccain spent much of her husband's presgnential campain excruciating pain. syhaving kept her toms hidden for years, she's now an advocate for more research. advocacy around the issue culminates every year in dubbed "headache on the hill." >> reporter: this year, some 200 activists lobbied congress for more federal funding for research and education. a lack of funding is one reason why many migraine patients say there aren't more effective treatments.

katie macdonald leads the effort for the alliance for headache disorders advocacy. >> at the federal level there are organizations and agencies that make decisions to not support migraine because they don't fe so we're trying to change that perception. >> reporter: for 2020, the national institutes of health has allocated $27 million for migraine research, a paltry amount, say advocates, for a fdisease that affects 15% americans and leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity annually. for comparison, the n.i.h. allocated $31 million this year to anthrax, which affects just a handful of people every year. ndjust to attehis year's advocacy day in washington the rlgroup faced a of potential triggers, from the rainy and loud, echoey halls.light

sed even the noise of appl which required an adaptation, waving hands instead of clapping. doctor starling and her patient, tingwald, met with presentatives from their home state of arizona, including the legislative director for congressman ruben gallego. 47 million people in the u.s. with migraine. there are 564 border certified headache speowalists. >> >> reporter: by lunchtime, tingwald had to put her ice pack >> this isn't the life i imagined for myself. this isn't what i thought i would be doing. but at the end of the day, i'm doing everything that i can to treat it. and to find, you know, if not a becure, the quality of life that i can. >> reporter: tingwald and her fellow advocates aren't giving orup in their push fetter treatments, more research funding, and more understanding of migraine. fothe pbs newshour, i'm stephanie sy in phoenix,

arizona. >> nawaz: now, the story behind one woman's decision to blow the ulwhistle on are of harassment and discrimination at one of the highest flying start- ups america. william brangham is here with the latest addition to the newshour bookshelf. r years ago, susan fowle was excited to start her new job as a software engineer at uber. but she says on her very first day, her manager propositioned her. that was just the beginning of what followed: a year of harassment and retaliation and lies. when fowler left uber, she wrote a blog post about her experience. it went viral, helpingrigger an investigation that eventually led to the departure of uber's cofounder and c.e.o. travisical

ck. susan fowler is now an opinions editor at ew york times," and she's just published a memoir. it's called "wjostleblower: my ney to silicon valley and fight for justice at uber.we" ome to the newshour. >> thank you so much for having me here. >> this is really an incrible story of your journey through this company and your life surrounding that. but i wonder if you could just start by telling us about that first day. i mean, that must have been really an unbelievable experience. t yes. so i had jusne through orientation and training. it was my very first day of, like, real work, and i was sitting down with my lapp, working on a new things and then my brand-new manager starts sending me some chat messages on company chat. expat firs wetalk aut work and then the subject quickly turns to not work. he starts talking about how he's in an open relationship. he'sooking for women t have sex with. he's having a difficult time finding women have to x with. so i started screenshotting everything and i took it to

h.r.. >> reporter: this was your boss. >> yeah. >> reporter: i mean, at any no calpany, that kind of door right ayou kicked out the >> you'd think. >> reporter: you'd think. but you take this to h.r with documented proof. this wasn't a he said/she said. you have proof in your hand. what does h.r. say? >> so h.r. does an investigation. they com,back. they swe investigated. yes, he was propositioning you. yes, this was sexul harassment. however, this is his first offense. he's a high performer we don't feel comfortable punishing him. we've given him a stern talking to." >> reporter: later, a group of other women, along with you, other women who had been similarly harassed by this guy, go to h.r. to complain as a group, and still that doesn't change their mind. >> yeah. so we all meet with them in a series of mtings. ey wouldn't let us all meet together so they had us do a succession of meeting l and i had tt meeting. i get in there. they say, "we thought you were happy with how we handled it." i said, "no, i'm not.

yotold me itas his first offense. it was not his first offense. you just had meetings with eemmployees whoded you of the things they reported." and the personm f h.r.spd says they had been there to complain about me. >> reporter: which altr was no. >> which also was no true. >> reporter: when you are finding the people who are meant to be protecting and you looking out for you are turning this around on you and all the others, what were you thinking? >> well, i was pretty horrified because you wld think people in authority are there to at least, you know, figure out what's going on and help make sure that there's some rt of justice or fairness and that didn't really seem to be their goal. i still, however, continued to report things to h.r. i had aumber of things that happened after that, and as a detail in book, and every time they would give me the same spie, they would s "it's this person's first offense. they're a high performeron. we feel comfortable punishing them, we're giving them a stern talking to" within

wh it was somebody who i had reported a few months before. record.new i had to keep a i had to keep documentation. and if i didn't keep everything in writing and if i didn'teep reporting things to h.r., then they would be able to say, "she never ld us. she never reported this to us. how could we have known." and i didn't want them to have that kind of excuse. >> reporter: your book really does document that this was an indictment of an entire rporate culture. what is your sense of why it became so peasive wayne huge company? >> there are always going to be mistreatment.stances of there are always people that are going to do the wrong thing. you know, at normal comarnies, ther usually checks d balances to make sure that an individual instance ofomething like sexual harassment isn't covered up and doesn't become part of the cuure. but at uber twasn't just an individual instance. they had this script they would read which told me at the time, you know, this is not just an individual insnce prospect prb. this is there are no check andba nces. this is a cultural, systemic problem throughout the whole eempany. and itd very directly tied to uber's own values.

because at uber whirvn there, i got this feeling that they really valued aggression. they really lued disruption. their whole thing was, "we disrupt the las upon the rules don't apply to us. the rules are outdated." >> reporter: when you're in the midst of all this, being intimidated, being retaliated against, being told what you knew was true is not true, how was that for you? >> it reallywa chippedat my well-being. was seeing withmy own eyes and had document proof of was not realhi >> reporter:is the textbook definition of gas lighting. >> it is. it really is. d it chipped away at me because, you know, here i am experiencing is real.ng i'm nothing that i'm seeing is real. and that just makes you question yourself. >> reporter: at a certain avint, you've had enough. you the company and take another job. there's a question that you w debate, which ther yo should come forward and write that original blog post. and you wrote in the book,

"based on everything i knew, sharing my story with the world would likely wher ruin my life." but yet you did decide to come forward and to post this publicly. why did you do that? >> so it seemed to me that t'standing up for w right and speak the truth about situations innghe world, stanp for justice is the right thing to do. so i had this-- i had, you kekn, to his choice where i had to say, either i'm going to abthint the consequences, and the consequences are really bad, right? the consequences are knowing what happens to other whistleblo my career is probably going to be shot. people are going to try to discredit d me. ings are going to happen. and-- >> reporter: all of whi happened. >> all of which happened. but i had to take that away from-- i hadto take the consequences away from deciding what to do because i realized that if i thought about the consequences, it actually didn't help me make the right decision. so i had to let everything else go and say, okay,hat i do know for sure? i know that speak up is the right thing to do. so have to do it. >> reporter: the blog post

that you wrote helped lead to at ination that helped clear out the then-c.e.o. of uber. but we know tt these kinds problems existed at a lot of other companies. sot was your sense that uber back then was just on the extreme end of thing or was this a much more pervasive problem? >> so i think that companies exist on a spectru on this one end, we have, you departments and exves who, if they heard about these kinds of things happening at their companies, they would be horrified, and they would do everything they cod to stop it. et the opposite end of th spectrum, you have uber at the time that i was there. thd ase've seen in the last few years, more people telling their stories about mistreatment in the workplace and at schools and in government, you know, there's this giant spectrum, and at the one side we have uber.te >> rep you dedicate qur book at the very beginning to your young daughter. and you write, "it's my hope that when you are old enough to read this book, the world described within it is completely unrecognizable to you."is

are you optic that that really is going to happen? >> i am. i really am. because i start to-- i've seen a difference, even in the past few years about how we start to talk about these sues. the fact that i'm even sitting here today and we're talking teout these things, i think that's a huge forward. so the more that we can talk about these things and shin a light on the kind of bad practices that exist, the better ep will be. >>ter: the book is "whistleblower: my journey to silicon valley and fight for erstice at uber." susan fothank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> nawaz: now, the life of a starf the silver screen becomes the subject of a new movie. jeffrey brn explores the drama behind the camera and how secret f.b.i. surveillancis brohtht to l it is the latest in our going canvas series on arts and culture. >> brown: american actress jean seberg was best known for her

role in the film "breathless f a classic ofrench new wave cinema. the film helped make seberg a global star. now, comes the new film "seberg," directed by benedict cdrews. >> we haveple of moments the famous ending of perfectly. "breathless" where she stares down the barrel of the camera. and it's a defing moment of modern cinema. >> brown: kristen stewart, recently of "personal shopper" and "charlie's angels," portrays seberg. at i really only knew from "breess." the herald tribune, the t-shirt. but also i w really struck by the performance.

i obviously wasn't around when that movie came out but i dot think really was a very typical way of performing then. i think that she was so availae and present in a way that felt kind of radical. t brown: radical and vocal. traitshat ultimately cost seberg her career,ossibly her life. that is the focus of the new film. >> this country is at war th itself in vietnam, the oppression of black people in america. >> brown: f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover started a surveillance program to infiltrate, and undermine groups the f.b.i. considered subversive and a threat to the political order. >> some actressejust grab it for free publicity. >> she has a history of donations to civil rights groups. she's a sympathizer, sir. i think she could be useful. i- brown: in addition to martin luther king, antetnam war protestors, and the nation of islam, the bureau also targeted the black panther party. in a chance meeting during a flight in 1967, seberg met the head of the group's los angeles

chapter, hakim jamal. and through him became a financial supporter of the party and the target of the f.b.i. the film dramatizes a relationship between the two that never existed in reality. >> our job is to cheapen our image in the eyes of the public. this season i've been ordered to do. >> you gotta sto destroy your reputation or your family. >> we see that kind of the same the cameras and the microphones turned against her. and that same private space that is so precious in her and so open becomes aatacked by the because of her idealism and her politics. happened to this woman how did whe how did she survive that. to destroy someoneth.take >> good morning. >> what's your name. >> brown: a native of iowa, seberg got her start by chance, winning a talent contest,

beating some 18,000 hopefuls and getting casts joan of arc in otto preminger's film, saint joan. that success led columbia pictures to put her unr contract, eventually casting her in roles opposite major stars like burt lancaster in the film so you're an actress playing another actor. what did you see in her that essud a kind of openness, a different kind of acting? >> i think that she was present. when she was in a placa ame, that's where she was. and there was unt of , eparation that would make her a better actat would the experience of discovery. it makes total sense that she

you know from a really young age always championed the underdog and did it, did it oithout any sofear. she was reckless. >> brown: in the new film, actor jack o'donnell plays f.b.i. agent jack soloman who was signed to follow seberg nds that the what he's involved in is very different from what he set out to do and that actually he's involved in a very dirty, secret, ugly war. and from me, the intertwining of those lives-- the watcher and the watched-- is the kind of glue the glue of the storytelling and for the audience to experience the surveillance thriller in a way by the f.b.i. story but to see the mechanics of surveillance. >> brown: like jean seberg kristen stewart has experienced

life as a young star under constant media attention. did you feel a connection in that sense with the kind o scrutiny? >> i've been saying like on a very comparatively superficial level yes definitely. you know i've-- i've never been so viciously attacked in the way that she was. iod also in a way that my you everyone's impreof is not necessarily going to be the same and there's not a correct one sure, maybe you a n pick up like rtain magazine you know lies to you about people kind of typically know that those things are taken-- you know people take it with a grain of salt-- or whatever maybe some people don't because i don't like reay care. >> brown: "seberg," the filmwi opens nationde on friday for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown at toron international film festival. >>heawaz: as we mentioned at opening of the broadcast, the president is talking tonight

coronavirus, now ks covid- 19. in fact, he's speaking in the briefing room right now about what the federal government is doing and how it's preparing in case the outbreak gets worse in the u.s. here's some of what he said. >> i have just received anoth briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going arod to varus parts of the world. we have, through some very gd early decisionsdecisions that were actually rid could at the ginning, we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certaeain areas, s that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard. and we did it very early. a lot of people thought we shouldn't have done it that early and we did and it turned outo be a very go thing. and the number one priority from safety of the american people,nd and that's the way i viewed it when iade that decision.

>> nawaz >> naz: the state of preparations has become the source of concern and critn ism betwrties and among some public health officials. as we saw with the president and lawmakers, it's increasingly a political issue, too. state of readiness, with our white house correspondent, yamiche alcindor. and in new york, doctor thomas frieden. he's a fmer director of the c.d.c. and former commissioner of the new york city health department. he is currently president and chief executive of the not- forprofit group, resolsave yamiche here in the studio, i'd love to get your take on what we just hea from thehe. s still talking, of course, but there he was hailing the government responsthsaying we di right thing early. he was just given a brief what do we know about what he is hearing about the coronavirus anhow hemus cnicating? >> the president is seeking to calm americans. after the c.d.c. came out last night saying it'te not a mr of if but when the coronavirus gets to the united states there was a bit of panc.

people are feeling very, very scared. to be a calmer-in-chief.trying he said our number one priority is healand safety of americans. he has always australia been saying he wants $2.5 billion to fight this virus. democrats today said actually we ould do $8.5 billion. instead of getting into a fight, the president said from the briefing room, if you're offering that money. we'll work with you. we'll take that extra money. the presidmt is trying to c a lot of people here. he's gotten backlash from saying the risk is low to america because the c.d.c. is saying, actually, this could be a sandemic. but that being sd the president is trying i think his best here to try it calm people. >> nawaz: dr. frieden i wa to get your take both on what we heard from the president and what yamiche is reporting. president trump is saying the n sponse so far from the u.s. government has bsuccess. that's the word he tons use. just assess for m' what yve seen in terms of this administration's response are they doing everything they >> well, first off, the risk today in the united states is

low. that's correct. and the things that can be done by the c.d.che. ands are appropriate. but the big picture is very different. a pandemic inevitable. that has become clear in the last few days. there have been hundreds of people to leave china with the virus whhaven't been diagnosed. ir countries all over. we hav, italy, hong kong, korea with lots of cases. and this is going to sprea d. we a the calm before the storm. it's going to get worse before it gets better. and thinking that we can somehow pull up the drawbridges and not have anyone in this counttry it, that's a dangerous delusion. >> nawaz: dr. frieden, talk to me about some of these figures you're hearing in terms of what the government is prepato spend. we know the president asked for that $2.5 billion. democrats are asking for $5 billion. based on what the u.s. has done in the past, is that what weld she spending? is that appropriate in terms of

a response? >> it's a fundamental question-- iffor how long? that's a one-year figure, that's onehing. but for ebola we found it was essential to have a five-year allocation so we could really address it in a comprehensive way and get to the roo of reducing the risk going forward. ebola was5 $ event 4 billion supplement over five years. this is a much bigger risk than ebola. i said other ands said there was widely in the u.s.uld spread it just was not in the cards. and it didn't happen. this could definitely spread quite widely in this country. we don't know how far it will spread. we don't know how severe it will be, whether it will be mild, moderate, or severe. but a pandemic is comng. >> nawaz: we know the president has also been communicating about the exphght wellness, the recovery of some of tmesericans who ed casesed it, confi back here and were moved back to the u.s. after being dinosed

overseas. here's what president trump had to say about them. >> as the disespasads, if it spreads, as most of you know, the... the level that we've had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they're better-- we have a total of 15. we took in some from japan. you heard about that. because they're american citizens, and they're in quartine. and they're getting better, too. but we fel we had an obligation to do that. >> nawaz: yamiche, we have been hearing from the president things are getti better, the patients e getting better. that stands in contrast to what some health officials are saying. trying to downlay this for his own political benefit. he just now said envirment pence is going to be the coronavirus czar, putting him now in charge ofhis. but the president said it will get better in april, once it

gets warm, ings are going to get better. that is usually true, experts say, when it comes to flu, but the coronavirus is different. it's a disase people are still learning about. in some ways the president is getting a lot of backlash for making claims that aren't exactly accurate at this point. he's also, sompeople think, trying to make it seem as though democrats and other peoplwho are his political opponents are trying to create some sort of hysteria to scare people and make him look bad. the president has been someone who looked at p his ownolitical benefit,ven in times of cries, as presidents often do in these caizs.ri >> nawaz: dr.en, let's talk about that little bit of news, yamiche just brought us, the appointment of a czar. wean the president waseluctant to do that he pulled together a task force from h.h.s. and d.h.s. is that the appropriatecaesponse anyou tell us specifically, at that federal level, what concrete steps should they be taking right now that youdon't belie they are? >> the first and foremost thing

is to get tathe supplem through congress at a high enough level that we can protect americans. that seems supporting state and local health departments. that means working with hospital that means investing in a llccine, even though we weren't sure it ork. and crucially, that means itducing the risk around the world. osts about $1 per person per year to upgrade those early-warning systems and rapid-response systems in countries all around the world that will help ta down this pandemic, and protect us from ture pan daeks. but that's a lot of money. that's billions of dollars over multiple yearsan. a supplemeal is the best chance to get a running start on that and keep americans safer. >> nawaz: dr. frieden you said it's going to get worse bore it gets better. i think that will worry a lot of people. when you talk about what that will look like here independent united states, what can you tell us in terms of schools or hospitals and ines communi what should people be ready for? and what can they be doingw rit get ready?

>> first and foremost, we have to admit, there's a l we don't been this virus. it just burst on to s our awareno months ago, and we're learning more every day, sometimes every hour. what we know is that it's spreading widely. china with the infection and not been diagnosed elsewhere. we're going to see re countries affected. we're going to see more tlusters. it's spreading qreadily in some health care facilities. it's spreading quite readily in some community, churches. so we'll see a lot of it. what we're not su of is how severe it's going to be. the initial reports of a new pathogen are often, say it's really deadly because you're seeing the most severely ill people. but as we learn more we may find it's not so dealy. when the 2009 flu pandemic hit, it looked deady, and we found it was quite dangerous for younger people but it wasn't a

terribly bad virus. it was a new one, but not a particularly bad ow. we don't kif this will be mild, moderate, or a severe pandilic. but it be a pandemic. that means for most people there wash your hands often.can do-- cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. s e to not get others sick. if you're sick, that means staying home if you're sick. you may want to be careful and have a few months of mediciu nef ve diabetes or high blood pressure-- not in a panic-buying way, but in a sensible way, so if there are supply chain y interruption would be ready. and think about what you do if schools had to close. we don't know thathat would be necessary. it may or may not be. in different communities there may be different approaches. but that's a possibility. so it's worth thinking about and planning about what you would do in your life to be ready. >> nawaz: yamiche, this has moved from the "if" to the "when" phase now. what is the confidence level like? people will looking to the president for leadership on this. are they confident that they'll

ndbe able to e this? >> if the president and vice president pence just now are saying that they're confident in this, they're saying that vice president pence, because he was a lender inana, that that's a good health system. he's been prsing president ump from the podium saying he's doing a good job. secretary aides in charge of alth and human services, he is also saying people are basicallo readthis, and there's only a few cases, maybe one case in the last couple of weeks here. but it's still very, veryarly. so they're still trying to figure out kind of how many cases peere are. le are still trying to figure out what's going on here. but the sprt trying at leaslot confident and trying to reassure people that they are ready r this and when this hits the united stathat they're going stroall the resources ready. and it seems as though we'r seeing bipartisan support, bipartisan working together. countryders in this seem to think that this is a moment for people not to be arguing but to be focusing on how to do this. >> nawaz: and that is good news, indeed. a lot we don't know right now. yamiche alcindor, ouwhite

house correspondent, thanks to you. and to thomas frieden over in new york. thanks for being with us. >> nawaz: on the newshour online right now, special correspondent marcia biggs has been reporting for the newshour on the manitarian crisis in venezuela, where many international aid organizations have been blocked from offering aid. now she shares some ways to help local organizations there, who are trying to make a differenc see how you can pitch in on our website, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. please join us tomorrow when judy woodruff sits down with michael bloomberg. i'm amna nawaz. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you e you soon. as major funding for the pbs newshour heen provided by:

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