captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: a whole new race. in a single day, joe biden redraws the lines of the mocratic primary field. we explore who is up, who's out, and why, after ser tuesday. then, back before the justices. for the first time in years, a conservative-majoritsupreme court hears what could prove to be a landmark abortion case. then, to san francisco, where chinese americans are facing increasing prejudice as misinformation and fear over the coronavirus spreads. >> now, since january, the new year, nobody show up. >> no more field school trip because people said the virus is from china-- "when you come to chinatown, you get ited, because chinese people have it."

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we have two main sto tonight. ine biden scores break-out in the democratic presidential campaign, and the coronavirus outbre claims more victims. the united stes now has 11 deaths from the virus-- ten in washington state, and the first e in california. that word came today as congress moved to provide emergency funding. william brangham has our report. >> brangham: as the number of infections in the u.s. continues to rise, the house and senate have agreed on a bipartisan, multi-billion dollar emergency spending measure to fight the outbreak. the bill includes $3 billion ar increased research int vaccine and other treatments, prevention and response, cluding a boost for the c.d.c., $1 billion for medical supplies like masks and protective gowns, and $300 million to help low income people aord a potential vaccine.

it would also provide potentially billions in loans to small businses hurt by the outbreak. the senate is expected to vote tomorrow. meanwhile, on the other side of pennsylvania avenue: >> we are doing a very effective job. >> brangham: president trump and vice president mike pence met with top industry officials, including airline c.e.o.s. the president urged the country not to be afraid to fly. >> in large portions of the world, it's very safe to fly. so, we don't want to say anything other than that. and we've rt of closed certain sections of the world, frankly, and they've sort of automatically closed them also. >> brangham: meanwhile, cases of covid-19-- which can cause intense respiratory problems--

continue to grow across the u.s. los angeles declared a publicme healthency today, in response to six new confirmed l.a. mayor eric garcetti tried to calm the public. >> this is important. we're not saying that the situation in los angeles isic dramly worse. what we're saying-- and this saying: the potential public health risk is elevating and significant. >> brangham: elsewhere, tficials have taken a more drastic approachcontrolling their outbreaks. aly's education minister said today, schools and universities for at least ten days.tomorrow this comes as infections in aly rose to more than 3,000. public health officials warned italians, if you want to help stop this spread, consider dialing back your typical touching and kissing. ask.for some, that's too much to >> ( translated ): we are sicilians. ee love ea other, and we physical contact. we will continue to do this as

long as we can. >> brangham: in iran, with nearly 3,000 confirmed cases, soldiers and firefighters were mobilized to spray city streets and buildings. iranian officials also canceled the highly-attended friday inayers for the second wee a row. for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: wall street watched the continued spread of the virus today, and bet that central banks will react with more cuts. investors also read the super tuesday wins for joe biden as a positive. the dow jones industrirage gained more than 1,170 points to close at 27,090. the nasdaq rose 334 points, and ths&p 500 was up 126. in the day's other news, a new reality dacred in the detic presidential race after joe biden won ten states on super tuesday. the surprise show of strength powered the former vice

president to the lead inve delegates,bernie sanders. biden got another boost today when michael bloomberg droppedd out dorsed him. we will discuss all of this, right after the news summary. in israel, the chances of ending months of political deadlock grew dimmer today, after this week's election. prime ministerenjamin netanyahu appeared to be short parliament, by thrts,n based on nearly final results. israel has held three elections in less than a year, and this could mean a fourth. there has been more bloodshed between turkey a syria. n o turkish soldiers were killed in clashes todayrthwestern syria. and, a syrian war monitor grp reports turkish drone strikes killed nine syrian soldiers. turkey is trying to stop a syrian offensive that has drivel a n refues to the turkish border. >> ( translated ): we are a group of people that has an enemy after us, an enemy that has driven us to the borders.

now that we are at the borrs, the only solution before us is to enter turkey, and from turkey atto europe-- any country e can go to. we have nowhere else to t. >> wooufkey already nssts some 3.6 million syr and accuses the european union of not doing its fair share tohe . now, the turks have opened access to their border with greece, where netrouble erupted today. greek police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds attempting to cross.rk a tuh official claimed one person was killed and five wounded. the greeks denied it. the united states attacked taliban targets in afghanistan today, for the first time since signing a troop withdrawal agreement last weekend. u.s. officials say that air strikes hit fighters in helmand province, as they attacked an afghan ay checkpoint. in washington, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff told congress that thtaliban has

scaled back its operatns. >> of significance, there's no attacks in 34 provincial capitals, no attacks in kabul, noigh-profile attacks. no suicide bombers, no attack against u.s. forces or coalition. there's a whole laundry listf these things that aren't happening. >> woodruff: the taliban insisted today that it isti implem all parts of its agreement with the u.s.pe the eu union's executive body today proposed its first- ever law to address climate change. the head of the european commission said llat the plan for the 27-nation bloc to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero, by 2050. and, it is legally binding. >> it gives us the tools to measure the progress against this long-term goal. it gives us the possibily to take corrective measures if this is necessary, if we fall behind our own goals. >> woodruff: environmental groups and some member states

criticized the proposal. they said the focus should be on cutting more emissions by 2030. back in this country, chief justice john roberts issued a rare rebuke today condemnic remarks by senate minority leader chuck schumer. the democratic senator criticized conservative supreme court justicesrett kavanah and neil gorsuch over a rule in favor of abortionestriction he said, "they won't know what hit them." roberts called the comments inap we'll have more on this later in the program. and, toyota has expanded a major u.s. recall by another 1.2 million vehicles they may have fuel pumps that could fail and cause the engines to stall. the affected models include toyota and lexus vehicles going back to 2013. toyota already recalled nearly 700,000 vehicles for the same problem. still to come on the nr: it is biden versus sanders after

fisuper tuesday remakes tht a report from san francisco's. chinatown, where coronavirus stokes fear and ejudice. the future of abortion rights is back in the balance. the supreme court hears a landmark case. and, american history, as seen through the art of renowned painter jacob lawrence. >> woodruff: a dramatic turn on the road to the democratic nomination. what did not seem at all likely last week is now the d narrative, as moderate voters come together behind one candidate, leaving two men in a fight to the finish.

in los angeles, joe biden basked in the glow today of front- rarunner status in the demc field. >> but those of you who have been knocked down, who have bee count, this is your campaign. we welcome all those who want to join us, all those who wt to join us, and build a movement, and this is a movement we're in, and we need that movement to beat donald trump and to build a future we all know is possible. >> woodruff: the fmer vice president won ten of the 14 states that voted on super tuesda massachusetts to a sweep ofs, southern stand even to minnesota and texas. california ended up being the biggest of four super tuesdayen wins foror bernie sanders, although how many delegates each will glean from the goln statein remains flux. in stark contrast, former

w york city mayor michae bloomberg had an abysmal showing, and quit the race toda >> our campaign today for the presidencynds, but our campaign for a better america, a stronger america, a more just amica, a more equal america, and a more united ameca continues, and, together, we will get i it done! thank you! >> woodruff: bloombergnly one contest, in american samoa. that's after pouring half a billion dollars of his own money into his campaign, hoping that heavy paid advertisi would yield big returns. instead, he quickly joined rivals-- includingsotaary senator amy klobuchar and former uth bend, indiana mayor pete buttigieg-- in endorsing biden. all of them had emphasized moderate credentials, while trying to posion themselves as counter-weights to president

trump.co >> w to burlington, everybody. >> woodruff: sanders sized up the radically revised political landscape today from his home state of vermont, and he shaicly ized the rush to biden's column. >> there has been-- never a campaign in recent history which has taken on the entire political establishment-- and that is an establishment defeat us.rking frantically to and there has not been a campaign think that has had to deal with the kind of venom corporate media.l with from the the race's other remaining progressive candidate,s massachusenator elizabeth warren, spoke last night in b detroiore the results fully revealed her super tuesday let-down. t >> a pundits have gotten it wrong over and over.

cast a vote from your heart. (cheers and applause) and vote for the person you president of the unid states. (cheering) >> woodruff: warren could manage noheore than third place in r home state, and she spent today assessing her next steps. meanwhile, there were signs of a turnout surge in yesterday's demoviatic contests. inia saw 500,000 more ballots cast this year, compared with its democratiprimary in 2016. but some locations also saw extreme wait times for voting. one example? texas southern university, a historically black school in houston, where news reports say some voters waited up to seven hours to vote. six more states are holding contests in less thaek-- next mile-marker in what could now be shaping up as an extended, one-on-one battle for the democratic nomination.

for a clos look at last night's results, we're joined by two veteran democratic strategists. guy cecil was the political director for hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campai, and he is now the chairman of priorities u.s.a., aemocratic super pac. and, nick chedli carter was the political outreach director for bernie sanders in 2016, and then the head of progressive outreach for hillary clinton's campaign. welcome both of you to the "newshour". thank you for being here. i'm going to start with you, guy cecil. how do you interpret what happened yesterday? >> we l, obviously, thas a t of movement over the last four or five days. i think the clyburn endorsement began the momentum, the victory in south carolina and carried over the weekend in large parter because was so much coverage in momentum in the

biden campaign, perhaps re than the entire election. the reality is we're down to aca twidate race. despite the candidate in the race, either bernie sanders or joe biden is going to be the nominee to have the democratic party. >> woodruff: i want to get to that in just a minute. nick carter, for there to be this much of a change in the race in such a short probability, how do you interpret it?nk >> i the phrase the impossible is inevitable rings true for this election, but ial think it's important to keep in mind that sanders and biden weref heavilvored months before super tuesday, and both have pretty resilient constituencies in a lot of the states that are paying out right now. so, frankly, as surprising as yesterday may have been for a lot of folks, i think it's alsot imt to keep in mind that both these candidates have durable and strinong foll across the country. the constituencies.talk about guy cecil, there's been so much focus on, oh, with well, it was a last-minute thing, voters were

paralyzed with indecision and they saw joe biden cod win south carolina, andthey thought, okay, i'll go with him, but what do you see in terms underlying that in terms of who voted for joe biden and who didn't. >> i think theh ting that made these two candidates is te support.ty of their base we've seen bernie sanders not only do well with young people but make inroads in parcular with the latino community, not just in california but across the country. with joe biden, we've seen a group of support not st frm african-americans but, in particular, from suburban women, and i think those two have been pretty durable for both to haves the candidnd i think, going forward, you're going to see a pretty stable race and,re ally, what it's going to come down to is the rest of the makeup of the other state that we have to vote, still. >> woodruff: nick carte when you look at bernie sanders' support, who is with him? k p hearing it's young people, but who else? >> i think young people, and i wouldn't underestimate how important it's going to be. i think one of the problems with

how the election is being reported now i is the emphasis n exit polls and that's driving a false narrative about youth turnout so 's going to be interesting to track the results in coming weeks. young lainos, when you think o states like arizona voting on mabh 17th, hat's going te relevant. >> woodruff: almost two weeks. exactly. and folks that have been disenfranchised and uninterested in democratic party politics as usual. one of the things that's so interesting abt bernie sanders campaign is doing politics in a different way. so individuals who have neverd vofore or infrequently because they have been turned off by democratic politics as usuao >> woodruff:as this come down, to guy cecil, two the the clash of two great ideologies, one a moderate democrat and one a much more liberal rogressive, as bernie sanders says, i want a revolution democrat. >> i think part of it is ideology. i think part of it is style. you have two democrats that approach politics in different

ways. the big challenge, i think, going forward is that when you look at the remainings that we have to vote, mostov the delegate-rich states and most of the states where on the candidates has a chance to really run up delegates favors joe biden, places like florida, georgia, delegate-rich areas, the big challenge over ideology yolg, over approach, it's simpl thdelegate math of retaking the lead once you've lost it. >> woodruff: how does bernie sanders do that? how do you see, nic nick cater,s challenge going forward? >> if i were in his shoes, i think it's important to recognize the nuances of the primary and something the campaign needs to be more intentional about is engagement of local and state party leaders, that there are nuances about the primary process that must be taken into account. >> woodruff: like what's an example? >> well, for example, you know,h i thine is a lot of enthusiasm that comes with bernie's campaign, but how that translates down ballball lot, i think you've seen examples and

u look at some of th support he now has in congress, that there is a new class of which is exciting buthe bernie intentional engagement of local leaders because the rimary is a little more of insular process than the general election mpd it'stant to recognize the hard work being done in the states. >> woodruff: you brup endorsements, i think every few minutes there comes another endorsement of joe biden, a former senator, member of congress or governor. how much do thse endorsements matter at this point for either joe biden or bernie sars >> look, i think the most important endorsement in this entire process happenedn south carolina, and every time there's another endorsement, it becomes a little bit less important. what it does do is just continue the impression of momentum. when you think about how you idtified momentum, you identify itinby wi races, by polls, with money which the biden campaign is starting toin

raise significant race, or endorsement. i think the impression of f forward movemem the biden campaign is something the sanders folks need address in a more direct way. >> woodruff: what do you mean? they need tfocompensat the fact that it's difficult to restart the momentumu soh energy was placed on super tuesday, so much expectation that sanders was going to win, and how to re-create the impression ofhe momentumthe calendar doesn't necessarily favor it in that way. >> woodruff: i want you to responto that. >> i think there's no doubt the endorsements in the last few days we critical this momentum shift in joe biden that you saw yesterday.we r, i think it's also important to keep in mind that the endorsements of bernie sanders from se to have th leading progressive organizing groups in the couopntry, 's action, these are endorsements he didn't really have in 2016. frankly, you know, big-ticket thing that i'm nre how mucher that's going to impact his

campaign. woodruff: i haven't asked you yet about elizabeth warren. what role do you see she has. >> i think elizabethwarren entered the race to be president and not to make a point. clearly her path to the nomination is for e most par gone so i think she's going to have to spend time in the next few days thinking how she wants to engage in the process as an elizabeth warren family, you know, i think a lot of us were hoping he would go longer into the process, simply because she's been a powerful voice for women and progressives and democrats, but the reality is this is a two-person race at this point. >> woodruff: i think i sense you nodng. u agree? >> oh, absolutely. endorsement, that's a huge boon for their campaign, ai ink there's something to be said relationship with senator sanders, but, you know, i think we'll see what she ends up oo-- >>uff: whether she sends up -- but right now, we've only got 30 secitonds comes down to

a fight to the finish between these two. >> look, i think the most important thing right now isat when we have a two-person race, the chances for a contested convenon have dropped pretty precipitously, and i think, for democrats, the of us who cae about defeating donald trump and supporting the nominee whorher sanderiden, that's a really important document. >> woouff: chances of a brokered convention? >> i would agree but also point out that both the candidates bring very unique strengths but also very unique weaknesses, and i think thawhoever winthe nomination is going to have to really work to bring the pars together. bernie sanders, for example, is going to be unique in his ability to mobilize young people, latinos and other constituencies, which are things joe biden is going to have a really hard time with. so i think unity, as the process moves forward, will be really important. >> woodruff: it's going to be fascinating. nicnick chedli carter, guy ceci,

thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: let's retur continuing coverage of the coronavirus, and the many ways it is impacting society. as we reported, california officials confirmed today the first death in the state from covid-19 beyond the serious illnesses it can cause, the virus, and the fear around it, are also having a major effect in san francisco, a city long known for its ties china and the chinese american community. amna nawaz has that story. >> nawaz: on any given day, the streets of san francisco's chinatown are packed. but these days? it's quiet. >> people aren't coming. they're not coming because of those concerns about coronavirus. >> nawaz: gimmy park li has been giving chinatown enurs for overears. she's called the area home

her whole life. but residents and business owners here, she says, have been bearing the brunt ofacist and xenophobic backlash, as th novel coronavirus spreads, and asian americans are unfairly targeted. >> the restaurants tell us they have less clientele coming for meals. in our company, we've noticed a downward tick in the number of people who are coming.yo >> nawazve already seen that? >> yes >> nawaz: are you worried about that getting worse >> it could. >> nawaz: an estimated 26 million tourists came to san francisco in 29, bringingth hem billions of dollars. for millions from around the world, this chinatown-- blocks housing the larg and oldest chinese comnity in north america-- is a must-see destination. that steady stream of tourists is the lifeblood of kevin chan's business. >> if the tourists don't come in, this place is dead. >> nawaz: the golden gate fortune okie factory was

started by chan's family in today, the storefr a chinatown institution, preserving the original recipe, machines, and traditions on which it was built. over the years, chan says, his rent and costs have gone up but so has business, so the doors stay open. but since the global outbreak of the coronavirus? business is wn over 75%. >> since january, the new year, nobody show up. trips?az: no more school field >> no more field school trips. because the teacher don't want to take the responsibilities. people said the virus is from china-- "when you come t chinatown, you get infected, because chinese people have it >> nawaz: worse still, chan says, is what he and other asian americans now face in their everyd lives. as anxiety grows over where the virus will move next, a simple cough can trigger suspicion and dirty looks. >> sometimes i cough because my leroat is itching and dry... >> nawaz: but peill look at you? >> people will look at me like"" oh, my god!" >> nawaz: as the virus spreads, people here say so does the

uncertainty and ar of backlash. officials have even had to warn that the stigma is m dangerous than the virus itself. s-d that stigma has sparked some dangerous incidesome documented on social media. eedif you're from china, i to know. >> nawaz: like this hotel manager in indiana. >> because why? >> because there's a coronavirus going around, and anyone from china, i am told, has to be picked up and quartined for two weeks. >> nawaz: and an incident last week in london left a student from singapore with fractures and bruises in what police are calling a racially aggravated assault. the backlashas in turn led to its own backlash to battle the stigma. in milan, italy, where the outbreak has been particularly fierce, a mural reads here is an epidemic of ignorance spreading around. we should protect ourselves." and on the social media platform tik tok, some asian teens are taking the racism they're facing, and turning it on its head. last week, san francisco mayor

london breed declared a state of emergency for the entire city, to try to get ahead of an expected surge of new cases. >> we have to be prepared before it happens, so that if there is a surge, you know, we have the equipment, we have the protective equipment for our employees. we have the systems, the places, the things that we nd in order to protect public health in this city. >> nawaz: one place in the city that's already been coping with coronavirus-- and the fear and stigma that come with it-- is the university of california- san francisco medical center. >> whave to really understan that a virus is a virus. it's agnostic to who youre. it will infect you no matter what your background is.. >> nawaz: drria raven is the chief of emergency medicine. the hospital has cared f three confirmed coronavirus cases monitoring another suspected case in isolation. raven says there's still a lot to learn about the virus. >> we don't know exactly how t

itnsmitted, we don't know exactly how infectious it is, and we don't know exactly how severe the course of illness wi be overall for our population. individuals with suspicious symptoms are brought to triage. and, if they have a cough or any other respiratory symptoms or a fever, they are masked and they are put in a private room and they're put on respiratory and contact isolation. >> nawaz: there are rooms set aside that can be turned into isolation facilities, requing a higher level of protection for health care providers, and limiting the number of people who go ior out. rebecca alvino works in infection prevention here. >> because there's information still emerging about coronavirus, we are taking maximum protection for our patients by housing them in these rooms that are specifically designed for those airborne transmits. >> nawaz: aning if someone comes in and has all the symptoms that you're looking protectively put them in this room until you run a test and know for sure. >> rht, exactly. >> nawaz: the guiding principle

is "hope for the best, but prepare for the wot." though the majority of coronavirus cases appear to be mild, federal guidelines require specific criteria before someone is even tested-- and test results, routed through the c.d.c., could take days to receive. because of the way the process was, are you worried that confirmed cases may have slipped through the cracks? >> yes, i am. what i will say is i'm not worried that serious confirmed cases have slipped through the cracks. but i think we are missing-- we are missing some cases. absolutely. >> nawaz: mayor breed says the city has finally received kits from the federal govt, to conduct their own testing-- meaning results in just a day or two. so far, they've received enough for 125 patients. have you been getting the support you need? what if-- wh else would you like the federal government to do? >> well, we, of course, want more testing kits. we want more resources. we want more protective equipment for employees. we are not taking any chances here in san francisco. and our goal is to do everything that we can, regardless of what the response is.

what we desperately need support and assistance from our federal government. >> nawaz: for kevin chan in chinatown, worried about his business and his community, his message is clear: >> i want to tell the people, fight the virus, not the people. okay? >> nawaz: and just lthe fight against coronavirus, the battle against stigma is still in its early stages. for the pbs newshour na nawaz in san francisco. >> woodruff: the u.s. supreme court heard arguments today a major abortion case that considers access to abortion doctors in the state of louisiana. lisa desjardins examines what is at stake. >> desjardins: the louisiana law at issue would require doctors performing abortttns to have adg privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion clinic.

ctpporters say the law pro women, ensuring proper care in an emeency. but, opponents of the law argue that its truaim is to restrict abortion access. they say it would leave only one doctor able to perrm abortions in the state of louisiana. this is a bit of judicial deja vu. unconstitutional by the u.s. supreme court in 2016, with different make up of justices. today, on the court steps, a crowd of activists rallied for dierent sides of the case. this marks theirst time is court, with justice kavanaugh on the bench, has considered a major abortion case. in 2019 alone, 17 stnacted abortion restrictions, according to guttmacher institute, anti ab-rights research organization. now, to take a closer look at the arguments inside the court, i'm joined by marcia coyle of the national law journal, who was inside the court today. and, mary ziegler, professor of law at florida state university and author of "abortion and the law in america: roe v. wade to

e present," which hits the let me start with marsha. you were inside the courtroom, broadly, why arehey relitmore gaiting this case? the court just ruled a few yeara ago on a rly duplicate texas law. >> well, lisa, what happened was a lower federal appellatcourt upheld louisiana's hospital admitsing privileges requirement even though the supreme couinrt, 20, did strike down a nearly identical texas law that appellate court distinguished the two state law hold it's constitutionality. a louisiana clinic brought the case to the u.s. supreme court saying that lower court was wrong, the 2016 deio controls, you need to correct that lower court, and that's why the court is taking another look at the issue as well as the specific louisiana >> reporter: i'm very excited to talk to you about what happened in court today, buto

first i wantt a larger stage. mary, help us with the broader view here. what is at stake overall here on the ground? what's the potential impact of this case? >> well, i think, if the court does uphold louisiana's law, it's likely that many, if not all, clinics in the state will have to close. we will have to wait and see actly how that would go down. it would be likely that we would see many more states rush to copy louisiana's law, if the court, in fact, does upold it, and then, of course, much would depend on how the court upholds it. i thik we're going to see t court send a message to state legislators going forward about how receptive it is to working restrictions and also what kinds of working restrictions are going to have the best.n alsoe line is whether abortion provide, and clinics actually bring lawsuits like there in the first place which is ather question the crt agreed to hear.

>> let's talk about what happened today, marsha, in the courtroom, i read it got rathe r inte terms of arguments. can we start with the merits first? what are the queghions that brout his intensity especially for the swing? justic >> we're talking about the americans, you're talking about the hospital admitting privileges requirement that abortion physicians haveit ho privileges within 30 miles of where the abortion is performed, and i think y have to keep in mind at thebe nning of this argument that texas case, that texas decision, the louisiana clinic lawyer, her very first sentence in the i argument is th a case about respect for the court's precedents, and that's why eyes and ears were foced on chief justice john roberts who may be the critical vote. just as justty kennedy is keyhe, etired, now on the bench areum

appointees gorsuch and kavanaugh. so roberts is in the middle and of all the lawyers arguesimilar today and that really probed the extent of the 2016 decisn and how controlling it has to be. he asked, you know, can we do a fact-by-fact inquiry of each state law to detne whether this kind of requirement has a medical benefit because, in at 2016 decision, the supreme court said that texaquirement had no medical benefit.ti >> the adm privileges did not affect the health of the women -- >> exactly, and, in fact, it could hurt it, and wa unduly burdensome, which is the test for constitutiolity of abortion restrictions today. and then there also was just the merits of having 30-mile restriction -- or reqrement for hospital privileges. justice ginsburg, in particular, poted out, if a woman has

complications from an abortion and she id thse complications are extremely rare, she's going abortion, after the at home, and if she needs to go to a hospital, she's going to go to a local hospital.w louisiana's r claims that there are benefits and, yes, the coatt should go stby state to look at these laws to determine. x> reporter: louisiana is different than as separately. late today, we received an unusual stament from chief justice roberts pushing back at words of senate mocratic leader chuck schumer. roberts pointed to words of shiewmers including words he says from chiewmer to the court hits you if you go forward with these awful decisions, schtaumer ing about some of the republican-appointed justices, and roberts said that was inappropriate. >> well, it's vey unusual. citize.as i understand ma, schue

cour today.s on the stepsof the chief justice is reticent tosp stoipt in thtlight in any kind of political environment but he has done it recently ina response to tements, criticism of the president of federal judges. and i'm sure he saw this of another example where he was reminding the senator as well as the public of the independence of the justices on the supreme court, and it was disturbing enough that it overcame his usual rete sens to make statements. >> reporter: he is most certainly in the spotlight. >> especially on such a contenti issue as abortion. >> reporter: marcia coyle, >> woodruff: latday, au both. spokesman for senate minity leader chuck schumerued a statement clarifying the actingr's remarks and ere to chief justice roberts rebuke. he said schumeras referring to the political price senate

republicans will pay for putting justices kavanaugh and gorsuch on the court and added, quote, r justice roberts to follow the right wing's deliberate misinterpretation of what senator schumer said while remaining silent while president trump attacked justices sotomayor and ginsburg last week shows justice roberts doescanot just ll balls and strikes. the president had called for those two libceeral justito recuse themselves from any cases relating to his administration. >> woodruff: and we will be bacw shortlh a look at how artist jacob lawrence painted a different picture of american history. but first, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chance to oer your support, which helps keep aiograms like ours on the

>> woodruff: for thosetations staying with us, we take a look at the burden of colge student debt. hari sreenivasan traveled to philadelphia last year to see how college students there are coping with housing costs. this encore look is part of our special series on "rethinking college," and part of our regular education segment, "making the grade." >> come on, my friends, we're going to get in right here. >> sreenivasan: badia weeks loves spending time in the pool with h young students. s on says... >> sreenivasan: the 19-year-old teaches swim lessons five daysat a week, ilnding philadelphia's temple university. she's a junior majoring in exercise and sports medicine. weeks is doing well academically. but outside of theroom,

she's struggling. >> for this apartment, it's about $6,000 a semester, which,y honesti feel like isn't worth what i get. me and my roommate both pay that, so it's like we're paying $1,500 a month each. >> sreenivasan: the two-bedroom, one-bath apartment was assigned to her by temple, after she transferred last sprom a nearby private college. weeks, who is on her own financially, covers her tuitioni through scholaps and her part-time wages. she sa she tried hard to get into a cheaper apartment near campus, but didn't have any lu affordable housing options are becoming increasingly hard to find. artment rents in philadelphia have gone up 25% over the past decadeve so, ral months ago, she took out a private loan for $5,000 tn pay for her ho >> it's upsetting. having to be in debt just to, live on campfeel like, is a little ridiculous. >> sreenivasan: she's not eon one going into debt for housing. a u.s. department of housing an urvelopment analysis found that, for many students, living costs exceed and even dwarf the

st of tuition and fees. >> it's a very serious problem. rab is a professor of higherk- education policy and sociology at temple who studies housin costs. >> we estimate that approximately one in two undergraduates is finding their housing to be affordable. the most typical thing that we will hear is a student who says, i'm gog to have trouble paying my rent this month. they don't necessarily eat every day, or they aren't able to come to class every day, because they cut the money that they would s hant, let's say, on gas for the car or on the subway. >> sreenivasan: our perception of college is, you know, students living in a building, ivy-covered walls. that's not the norm. >> that is vanishingly rare in today's colleges and universities, to the point that only about 12% to 13% of the nation's undergraduates actually reside on a college campus. >> sreenivasan: last year, , ldrick-rab founded the hope center for collemmunity and justice, a research center dedicated to findingolutions for the financial and logistical

barriers that prevent students from graduating. at temple, there are effortso assist food-insecu students, and a university care team helps connect students in a housinger crisis to ncy funding. h we have been able to support them also then we resources of our counseling center. t sreenivasan: but one ofhe biggest challenges here, and at many other universities, is the campus. affordable housing on goldrick-rab says public colleges and universities, facing budget cuts, see food and using as revenue streams. >> if you begin to see housing as a profit center, then you begin to charge students more and more simply because you can. the other thing is that a growing number of schools are really trying to attract a certain kind of student and family. it's a family with a lot more disposable income, and it's a family that is going to pay more tuition with less financial aid. so the residence hall rooms fore studentsarger than they used to be.

the amenities are more substantial. story off-campus.t's a similar new luxury buildings are catering to wealthier stude ts around temd other college campuses around the country. but not everyone can afford that kind of ving experience. one out of four people in the city of philadelphia live below the poverty line, so you would think this would be an affordable place to live. philadelphia also has another distinction, however, which is th colleges and universities of any city in the nation. and that makesinffordable hohard to come by, whether you're at a big four-year university or even a two-year community college. just steps away from downtown, 26,000 sdents attend the mmunity college of philadelphia. like most two-year sisools, housinot offered. a 2018 study by goldrick-rab and her colleagues found nearly 20% of the school's students were experiencing homelessness, and more than half were housing insecure. >> everything. i'm not ashamed to say that-- shelters, couch surfing, and it's been things i had to do.

>> sreenivasan: thomas, who prefers to go only by his first ouname, is one of those wia consistent roof over his head. he's a first-year student who works in the campubookshop, but says he can't save enough to get an apartment. >> the deposit is unreal. the deposit is three times the rent. i can't even manage the one-time rent tt i'm trying to manage from work, let alone have the money to save for it. it just isn't practica >> sreenivasan: a new program, in an old convent, hopes to help at-risk students like thomas. >> so, this will be a typical room. students will have fully ssfurnished beds, desks, ds, and they all have their shared sink with shared bathrooms. >> sreivasan: sandra guillory is the philadelphia director of depaul u.s.a., a nonprofit focused on homelessness. they plan to rehab this convent to house 24 students from colleges across philadelphia. students will be asked to pay $150 a month. >> our top priorities ar students in their final years of school, so third, fourth, fifth, years of school. they have the most student load debt, they dropped out of

scehool today, they would h that debt and no degree, and had never gone to . than if they >> sreenivasan: the $17,000 it will cost to house and feed each student per year will be split between the students, thcity of philadelphia and private donations. graduate, they will never have to worry about homelessness hopefully ever again, verty. their children won't have to worry about this. >> sreivasan: for her part, temple's badia weeks is hoping to squeeze in more hours in the pool this semester, she can save up and possibly avoid another housing loan next semester. >> good job! an>> sreenivfor the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan in philadelphia. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we look at the struggle of painter jacob lawrence.

in the 1950s, am the mccarthy hearings and the launch of the civirights movement, lawrenc decided to frame early american history as he saw it. now, his sprawling series, called "struggle," has been museum in massachusetts, thessex iarst stop on a national tour. spcorrespondent jared bowen of wgbh boston takes us a therpart of our ongoing series oarts and culture, "canvas." >> reporter: i1954, the late painter jacob lawrence began a series he called "struggle: frot the y of the american people." the most famous black artist of his time, he originally thought he might depict african american struggle. he soon reconsidered. >> when there's issues of unrest or struggle, it's a story that is an effect of a ole society. not a small group within a society. >> reporter: over two years, lawrence painted a series of 30 panels, from patrick henry's

struggle to rencile the co-existence of liberty and slavery, to the harrowing push for westward expansion. artist derrick adams has been taking the panels in one at a time, including this depiction of a slave revolt in 1810. >> this particular piece, it's some type of torture. in this work, and you can see the way the body is kind of like stretched across the plain of the, of the painting. when you look at the work, there's no space to not acknowledge the scene. >> reporter: here at the peabody essex museum, these panels are f together for tst time in more than 60 years. assembled, and tracked, and researched, and investigated. it's been a little bit like ing a detective. reporter: austen barron bailly is one of the show's curators. six years in the making, theti exhi features most of the original works. >> there are panels that remain completely unlocated, thd those are in private hands or lost. >> reporter: the whereabouts of five paintings is unknown,

although the hunt is on. this one, panel 19, turned up at a new york auction as bailly was working on the show. that must have been ridiculously exciting >> it was incredibly excitg. these are the accidents of historthat have been formed this show that even inform lawrence's work. >> reporter: a darli of the modern art world, lawrence was 37 when he began "struggle." almost 15 years earlier, he created the "migration" series, featuring the moveackd effort americans from the rural south to the urban north. >> the artist steve locke, who contributed to our catalog, likes to describe thera "mon" series as kind of his greatest hit, but the "struggle" series as the better record. >> reporter: by the time he put paint to canvas, lawrence had t spent mon five years researching american history, combing through historical records and teasing out quotations that would serve as his prompt. >>e looked for the voices founding fathers. he looked for these actions that peopleook in the struggle to and he offers it up as a way through these incredible paintings to draw you in.

history is an intima one.ake on where paul revere gave us the boston massacre in full-blown battle, lawrence delivered us straight to its first victim. where emmanuel leutze gave us a valiant george washington crossing the delaware, lawrenced delivepair. >> cold, suffering. choppy weather, hints of blood. robed men, try stay warm. hands, emphasizing these hands trying to row across. silently, steadfastly. and there's no sense, of who, if any of these people would be george washington. >> reporter: it's struggle, it's not heroism as we might know it here. >> exactly. and i think from lawrence's perspective, t heroism is the collective endeavor. >> reporter: each panel is relatively small, just 12 by 16 inches, and lawrence routinely wrote notes about his procths on backs of the works, all as it related to struggle.

>> i think about someone like jacob, at a time where artists, like him, had very littleun oppoy to experience themselves as an artist. >> reporter: a widely-exhibited artist himself, derrick adams says lawrence, who died in 2000, has influenced his career more than any other painter. he points out, the two bear a strikingly similar resemblance. and heven once eorted lawrence around new york's pratt institute, where adams wa udent. >> i felt like he was a jacob to me than a mr. lawrce, i don't know... it just seemed like he was very, like, approachable, and ry modest, in personality.ik i feltwe were more, just more in kinship. >> reporter: despite lawrence's >> reporter: the exhibition closes with an installation derrick adams created after sifting through lawrence's archives. it's an imaginary studio, filled with photographs never beforeow publicly. the chair is lawrence's,

oriented, it seems, for quiet contemplation. and facing a ladder, perhaps lifting lawrence out of struggle. >> ladder i think has to do with just the idea of the plight. his career. the plight of humanity. jacob, you know, starting om this very familiar place, being seated. and thinking, and then, the part of kind of, ascending. he's no longer with us. but there's things that kind of give us a bigger picture of who jacob was. >> reporter: which is of an artist defined, in part, byle stru for the pbs newshour, i'm jared bowen in salem, massachusetts. >> woodruff: and on the newshour online, there are many unanswered questions about the coronavirus outbreak, but we've rounded up a guide to what experts know so far on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. tonight.i's the newshour f judy woodruff.

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