captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, mah 7: concernsver coronavirus continue, as the number of cases rise. >> hello st. louis!an >> sreenivas: the presidential democratic candidates rally u ahead of toming primaries. and, empowering women landowners in iowa. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: bernard and irene schwartz. iisue and edgar wachenheim the cheryl and philip milstein family. rosalind. walter. barbara hope zuckerber charles rosenblum. we try to live in the moment, ht inot miss what's r front of us.

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the announcement in florida today at a briefing with health officials. >> at the present moment, we've distributed more than one million tests. and in cooperation with those same commercial private labs i mentned, we'll be expanding ss to tests in the weeks ahead to every american. >> sreenivasan: even with more the capacity of different states to test people as the number of cases increase, how that da will be gathered a reported. there are nearly 400 totals confirmed ca the u.s., according to johns hopkins university, which is tracking the spread globally. florida officials reported two deaths from covid-19-- both people who died were elderly.s that brie total number of deaths in the u.s. to 19. new york governor andrew cuomo declared a state of emergency after 21 new confirmed cases today. >> we have now been testing around the clock, as you know, we are aggressively testing, following up leads, because we

e want to find as many peoo st positive so we can get them out of circulation. >> sreenivasan: the "grand princess" cruise ship remains off the coast of norther california with its 21 confirmed cases of the virus among the more than 3,500 people on board. as of this afternoon, officials have not said when or where the ship will be allowed to dock. in egypt, a cruise ship on t nile river with 100 foreign tourists is in quarantine in the city of luxor.es 33 people haved positive for covid-19 on the ship. in southeastern china, a hotel collapsed today, trapping about 70 people. officials say the hotel was being used to quarantine people who d contact with covid-19 italy reported its biggest daily infections now tote than 5,800 people, and 36 have died there from the virus in the past 24 hours. in iran, 21 people have died from the virus just since yesterday, one othem a

memb of parliament. the number of confirmed cases in iran is also more than 5,800 people. u.s. health officials continue to caution that the immediate risk of being exposed remains low, and that the majority of people who contract covid- will have flu-like symptoms and will recover. president trump tweeted latee yesterday that replacing acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney with republican rresentative mark meadows of north carolina. mulvaney will become the u.s. special envoy for northe ireland. he has been acting chief of staff since january of 2019, and also the director of the office of management and budget for three years. meadows, who announced in december that he would not seek re-election to congress, is a close ally of president ump. he will be the fourth white house chief of staff since mr. trump took office. the two front-runners for the democratic presidentialpa nomination cned today in battleground states that donald trump won in 2016.ng spean michigan, bernie sanders promised supporters that he can defeat the president in 2020. >> this is the most

consequential electionrnear in the moistory of this country. it is imperative that donald trump be deated. we are the campaign that can defeat trump. >> sreenivasan: former vice president joe biden rallied his supporters in st. louis. >> senator sanders sa we need record turnoito beat donald trump. he's right. crete that turnout.tt will >> sreenivasan: six states will hold tir primaries on tuesday, including michigan and missouri. democratic presidential candidate tulsi gabbard took to twitter last night to call on her supporte to demand changes to new quafications for the next debate, saying, "i ask that you stand with me against the d.n.c.'s transparent effort to exclude me from the debates." the democratic national committee said yesterday that onat candidates who picked u least 20% of delegates from state primaries are eligible for

at least four members of the saudi royal family are being detained, according to reports in the "new york times" and the "wall street journal." reportedly taken into custody for allegedly plotting to oust king salman and the king'suc designated sssor, his son, crown prince mohammad bin salman.en two of the m the king's brother, prince ahmed bin abdulaziz, and his nephew, prince mohammed bin nayef-- were arrested in their homes and charged with treason. nayef had been crown prie until 2017, when king salman replaced him with his son mohammad bin salman, known as m.b.s. saudi offials did not comment on the four arrests as of saturday afternoon. as >> sreen: for the latest developments in the u.s. and around the world, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. as >> sreenan: tensions ongr ce's border with turkey escalated today as migrants trying to get into europe faced th greek police. authorities used tear gas to try and disperse a group of migrants armed with rocks who tried to tear down a border fence.

at least two people we reportedly injured in today's clashes. greek police have been clashing with syrian migrants trying to cross intohe country since tuey's president, recep tayyip erdogan, opened the bord last week. greek officials said that the tear gas and water cannons were used for "deterrce purposes." for more on turkey's decision to open its borders, lydia emmanouilidou, a reporter for public radio news magazine "the world," joins now from greece. you have been to the border cently. what is are you seen? >> yea hari, i sts actually here today, this morning on the greek side of it. there's a little hilbyl ne where there are train traction. and me and a few other journalists were able to observe the scene. there was tear gas being thrown, it looked like from both sides, smoke bombs. the greek sidwas firing water cannons. so it was a pretty chaotic ene. in the middle, you know, there's a big fence sepating the two

countries, and there are greek forces-- there's a pretty heavy greek security for ts presence greek side. but overall, you know, it was a pretty chaotic scene today. and last nig as well, there were reports of, you know, fires being started on the turkish side, and, you know, gre throwi water cannons to stop those fires. >> sreenivasan: okay, so, we have greek authorities on one we've got turk.rces. >> police forces on the other side. anetwhat? inen there are thousands of people sandwiched as these two fire at eah other? >> right. so there is-- you have the greek forces, a fence, turkish forces, and then,e ys, the hundreds, some say thousands of migrants lined up wating to get into the greek-- into the greek side. each side, of course, blames the the tear gas or the smoke bombs,

water cannons. things coming frboth sides those today. >> sreenivasan: what arehe people there that areaiting doing for food, water, shelter? >> so, i'm actually on, you know, the greek side, and it's really-- we're not aed-- really no one, the public or journalists-- no one is all to get close. the border has been completely sealed off, ever n fogal entry. and so, it's really-- it's really hard to actually get to the other side and see what's going on. >> sreenivasan: the european union has come to survey it. there are more oops expected there to be supporting the greek side, right? >> right, thas correct. the european union officials were here earlier this week. you know, there's already-- the european border and coast guard agency. they've sent people here and more are expected to come to

help the greek security forces, ich, by the wa, have already beefed up their presence here. i mean, een if you go a little bit farther away from the borde checkpoint itself, it's hard to, you know, drive or walk for more than five minutes without seeing police and military vehicles in the ea. there's a really, really heavy political accomplice and military presence. and th's expec gd tot even heavier in the coming days. >> sreenivan: border towns usually have different relationships with their neighbors than, perhaps, countries might what's happened in that town where i'm sure the peopl cross daily to try to just live their lives? >> that's correct. i mean, as you know, as yo know, greece and turkey have a really long history of conflict. and, you know, if you ask someone in athens, for ele what, they think of your average turk, they would have a veryt differswer than the people do here because the pople here

in in town, because they can very easily cross into turkey. and what i've heard over and over again from talking to locat people iat now that the border is completely shut off, even to legal entry, people can't cross. that's hurting the economy on both sides. businesses are slffering. and,, on more personal level, you know, friendships and relationships are suffering. so that's one of the things that's really frustrating people here. they feel like they're caue ghtn ddle, you know, of this thing that's beyond them of this bajtbattle between turkey and wt e.u. >> sreenivasan: lydia emmanouilidou from "the world"o joining usay. thanks so much. >> thank, hari. >> sreenivasan: 55 years ago today, hundreds of civil rights marchers, including a young

john lewis, were attacked and beaten by state troopers in selma, alabama after crossing the edmund pettus bridge. the violent assaul which was captured by televisionas, became known as "bloody sunday." public outrage from the incident set in motion the passage of the vong rights act of 1965. peniel joseph is founding director of the b.j. school's center for the study of race and democracy at the university of texas at austin, and is author of the forthcoming bood "the swd the shield: thear revolutilives of malcolm x and martin luther king, jr." why was this particulamoment-- we had seen, by that time, so many other striking images of abuses by police against civil rights advocates and activists, why did this resonate so much? >> well, it made natl iond international news, and by the evening, when footage was released on all three networks, abowas shwing judgment at

nuremburg, about the crimes of the hocaust, and they interrupted "judgment at innocent protesterg beaten in the late winter of 1965. thousands of people, they come to selma, they go teto the w house, and they're protesting outside of the white house, which really spurs lyndon johnson, who was a supporter of voting rights, but it spurs him inven more decisive action. >> sreenivasan: here we are, heading into anotherection now, 55 years later, and the topics of race and the topics of access and the topic of rightsba ark in the news. are rican americans-- do they have more access and morequal access now than 55 years ago? yes. bu awhere are theeas for improvement? >> well, i think the biggest areas of impro are trying to end voter suppression. the supreme court's 2013 "shelby

versus holder" decision ended section five of the voting department of justice with the by local states andnew ef constituencies to halt voting rights for peoe f color or poor people or anyone who is on the margins-- people who are dual-language speakers. d since then, the lat two national languageses, we don't have the protection of the965 voting rights act. some of the effects of note having that prtection? >> well what, we've seen is voter i.d. laws. we've seen polling locations close. in texas, where i live, alone, 750 polling locationsave closed, shut down since at least 2013er the vo.d. in texasst effectivelpped 600,000 people of access to the voting polls. and the act that unversity students can't use their student i.d. to vote, but if yoau hve a gun license, you can use a gun

license to vote, really shows us the partisan nature in whch voting rights are being handled by our elected offreicials. >>ivasan: and there was also a supreme court case, i think this was the situation in north carolina-- >> yes. s enivasan: where there were structural rules in place. there is no remedy for that without these protections? well, you can still-- people are still filing legal defense fund still filing lawsuits, but section five clearly gave the department of justice the upper hand in blocking any kind of mos by local states to gerrymandeor to really suppress votes by people of color. >> sreenivasan: what are the lessons here 55 years later that we kind of need to remember as we exercise our civic rights anp sibilities? >> that struggle continues. 55 years later, we have people of color who have-- n't have the same voting rights access

that they did in 1966, in 1968, in national elections. too many ing linesce long vo right here in texas, people six hours, even after the polls were closed, to try to get their right to votn e. so we think about the lesson 55 years later, it's that there is no right that's more fundamental for r democracy than voting rights in the united states. and we should really behi pus in a nonpartisan way for voting rights protection that covers all 50 states.a so we neeew voting rights act for the 21st century that covers all 5 states and is not fueled by ay kind ofpa isan appeals but appeals to citizenship an, really, the virtues of american democracy. >> sreenivasan: all right peniel joseph joining us from austin, texas, tonight, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. ne sreenivasan: if there's

thing most americans know about iowa, it's that it's farm country. less well known is that roughly half of iowa farmland is owned co-owned by women. special correspondent mark bittman sat down with farm owner and educator jean eells to lea more about the growing role women are playing in iowa's sagriculture now, and in future. "future of food" st of our supported by the pulitzer center. iowa landowner and educator. >> so, i grew up on a small farm in iowa. i ended up being appointed to the state soil conservation committee and heard a presentation that really blew me away. i learned that women own or co-own half the land in iowa.t and yet, i dide them active as conservationists, and that-- i was curious about that. how could that be? >> reporter: eells learned that many wom farm owners have no experience farming themselves. they hire tenants to do it, most

of them men. so, in 1998, eells co-founded an organization calle athe women, fo agriculture network. she holds meetings with other women landowners in iowa and across the country, teaching them about land conservation anw the role ten could potentially play in making sure their faer-tenants are implementing sustainable practices.s shld more than 250 meetings since 2009, educating more than 3,800 female landowners. >> one of the things that we find is that ty have a real deep-seated concern for the community, for theirarmers, for their family. and they really want to keep the land. and yet, they don't necessarily get to express that caring and concern because you just don't talk about those things. >> reporter: she says that's mostly because of decades-old aditions. men farm, men make decisions about the land, and women arein

nolved even when it's their land. they can have tremendous influence cause they actually own this land. >> when i talk to men about this, they're like, "it's yourhe la, what'sig deal? and there's a lot r lift for women in that particular setting. so, if you think about women my age in particular, we weren't encouraged necessarily to go into science. the men make the farming decisions, you know, about what seed and all that kind of stuff. we talked to women all the time that feel like they don't have a right to do thosthings. >> reporter: yeah, it's really a conversation about how do you-- how are you changing gender roles, or how are you geing men who have spent their entire lives acting in-- for want of a better term-- a sexist manner, to, like, be more respectful of the women they are dealing with? >> yeah. i'm holding out hope that if we change the conversation and give women a ple at the table, something's going to change. it's just going to-- it's going to have to.

>> reporter: in all-femaleme ings, eels teaches conservation practices. ther include planting a buff along the edge of a creek to protect waterways from harmful emical fertilizers, and planting what are known as "prairie strips," which keep roots in the ground year-round and brings plant diversity andli wi to the land. >> we know that 50% to 70% of the women who come to a one-day eting will take an action to improve conservation on their land. >> reporter: that's kind of great. >> it's ge.on after day meeting, to have them make a big change and have it be transformative is just-- i mean, that's sheer joy, as an educator. we always just talk abou farmers. they're not the only decision-makers out there that n ke that difference, and we've got to change how we talk out the landscape. th

>> sreenivasan week, rosalind p. walter, one of the most generous and devoted insupporters of pbs progra- including the newshour and newshour weekend-- died, at age 95. her name has been a constant on the credits of programs like "american masters," which she helped launch, to "great performances," to ken and rick burns' documentaries and dozens of other programs since the mid- 1970s. rosalind p. walter served as a trustee at wnet for mo than 30 years, and became the station's most generous individual supporter in its history. but most people don't know that rosalind p. walter was also the inspiration for a 1942 hit song "rosie the river," and the posters honoring the women who worked in u.s. factories during world war ii. in the early years of world wari roz worked as a riveter on the night shift at a long island

aircraft plant making ther corsair fighanes. women could earn the same payer for doing the same j, so they timed me after i had learned them all, and i broke all the men's records, so they had to pay the women the same amount. >> sreenivasan: she was never known as "rosie," always "roz," but the song was born. rosalind p. walter was born into a privileged, wealthy family. her father was president and chairman of thpharmaceutical company e.r. squibb & sons, and r mother was a well-knownat ed, poet and writer. but, her parents refused to allow rosalind to attend college. she once sd that she chose public television as the focus of her philanthropy because she "wanted all ericans, whether they were rich or poor, well educated or not so well educated, to have equal access to news and knowledge and the arts." her legacy is ours to carry on.

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