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today. president donald trump will be addressing the nation tonight to discuss the widening spread of e virus. we will be back here on pbs with that, live at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. the novel coronavirus has now killed roughly 4,400 people, and infected about 12000 people worldwide, including more than a thousand in the u.s. that triggered another nosedive on walstreet, as the dow jones industrial average entered bear market territory. it has now fallen 20% from last month's record close. the dow plunged 1,465 points to close at 23,553. the nasdaq fell 392 points, and the s&p 500 lost nearly 141. that comes amid a new wave of cancellations and restrictions on large gatherings. in an unprecedented move, the n.c.a.a. college basketball tournament announced that its games will be held without fans

in attendance. amna nawaz has more on the impact of the outbreak, both at home and abroad. >> nawaz: a new global milestone in the spread of the novel coronavirus, covid-19: iothe world health organiz said the crisis has officially reached pandemic proportions. >> "pandemic" is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. we cannot say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough-- all countries can still change the course of this pandemic. >> nawaz: here in the u.s., dr. anthony fauci warned lawmakers on capitol hill about that course, saying the worst is yet to come. >> how much worse it will get, will depend on our ability to do two things: to coain the influx of people who are infected coming from the outside, and the abity to contain and mitigate within our

own country. bottom line: it's going to get worse. >> nawaz: his assessment drew concern from democrats, who accused administration officials of responding too slowly. prepared for this crisis, andt it put lives at risk. american lives at risk! >> nawaz: national security advisor robert o'brien, speaking at the heritage foundation today, blamed china forin withhoinformation about the virus, accusing them of hampering the global response. >> it probably cost rld community two months to respond. and those two months, if we'den had those and ble to sequence the virus and had the cooperation necessary from the chinese? i we could have dramatically curtailed what happen both in china and what's now happening across the world. >> nawaz: presngent trump, du white house meeting with bank c.e.o.s, defended his administration's act >> we're having to fix a problem that, four weeks ago, nobody ever thoughtould be a problem. >> nawaz: members of congress, meanwhile, drilled down today on efforts to cushion the economi

fallout. >> we need an economic vaccine. i'd like to ve an economic package to address the damage done by the coronavirus. >> nawaz: senate democrats unveiled their proposal today, which included paid sick leave for workers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. >> the hp should be aimed at people, not at corporations. we believe the help should be targeted at the people who have suffered from this coronavir problem. >> naz: and house democrats hope to bring their version up for a vote on the floor tomorrow. at least 39 stes in the u.s. and the district of columbia have so far reported confirmed cases of the coronavirus. across the country, cities and g institutions appling with how to contain the spread, and protect their communities, from canceling large gatherings, to canceling in-person classes on mpuses. hard-hit countries like south korea continue with their own efforts-- today, sanitizing subway trains in seoul.in fections there continue to

fall, but a new cluster of cases ng from a call center ha health officials on edge. 7:00 a.m. today, 90 people were tested positive, and we are investigating how many people were in closcontact. >> nawaz: in italy, where cases today soared beyond 10,000, all stores, aside from pharmacies, and supermarkeosed in response to the crisis. in t vatican, the pope's weekly catechism, normally set among ns of thousands in st. peter's square, was instead deliverefrom a private library via videlink. in germany, already facing some 1,300 cases, chancellor angela merkel warned of a wider spread. >> ( translated ): the population has no immunity yet this virus, there are no vaccines and no therapy so far, that a high percentage experts say 60% to 70% of the population will be infected as long as this situation continues. >> nawaz: but in the chinese city where the virus first emerged, a different picture:

supermarkets and other businesses resumed work. a sign that at least there, the crisis has begun to ide. for the pbs newshour, i'm amnaawaz. >> woodruff: there is word that president trump is working to limit u.s. dependence on china as it responds to e outbreak. he's reportedly planning to issue an orexecutivder, insisting the u.s. use american-made pharmaceutical and medical supplies, which would be a drastic change from e current supply.if while is slowly beginning to return to normal in china,ri many other cou are limiting social interactions. i spoke a few mines ago with dr. margaret harris from the world health organization and ask her why the agency is n calling covid-19 a pandemic. >> it's really because we're sendg a message, and the message we were sending before is get ready, but now the

message is it's here.t rious. nce.e's still a cha many countries have a chance to slow things down, but this virus is going to be in most communities, and, so, we have to mobize all our forms, mobilize our people, mobilize our id, our innovations, to stop it, slow it, so thas t it donot overwhelm health systems and cause mar suffering and death. >> woodruff: when you say "in every community," do yomean terally every community, every city, every town, every neighborhood? >> it has that potential to do that, so this is why we use a term like pandemic. we were loathe to use it bcause it opinion stills fear and panic. our best weapon is calm, sensible, rationale behavior and application of ouni ge. we have seen some incredible technological innovations in

korea and in china, ande've seen them beat down huge epidemics, huge numbers of cases and bring them down. so we know we can do it, bu it really does take every human being on this planet taking it seriously, listening to what needs to be done and doing it. >> woodruff: that's sobering. dr. harris, whenou speak about mobilizing, governments mobilizing people to action, what exactly are you asking governments, health systems to do, and can they do it? >> so one of the things that every country, every community needto do is to understand, if someone is infected, we need to find them. so it's not that easy. you need to bested. then you also need to identify every one you have been in contact with, and they need to be comfortable and want to be tested and be ready to. self-isola people also have to be ready not to crowd, not go in to

spaces, in to situations where they're going to be very cle for quite some time because that is the opportunity for passing ton virus. so that means you mak changes. you work from home, you give up very iportant things lie worship, you give up entertainment for a period when you know it's in your community. what we also kw , if you do these things, it will pass, you will be beat it, but it is a tough thing to do. >>oodruff: so you're putting a lot of responsibilityn individuals, at the same time you're asking governments, part.hcare systems to do their re you looking for them to do? i know the director general of w.o. says some governments today have had alarming levels of inaction. >> so, again, governments, we ask to really, really supportr thealth workers and their hospitals and look at their

capacity. so it's not simply about the teams who are currently workingi in int care, you need backup, you need to think about how you can providethe next team because this is going to t takemendous amount of work. the severe form of this disease is -- leads toto respi failure and, to survive it, you often need ventilation, and that ation can go on for weeks. if you are on that ventilator, the next person who so ds help, where are they going to go? meanwhile, also, t look after somebody in that -- at that level crical care requires a team of nurses, doctors, other people, auxiliary workers, ambulance workers, people working very, very rd for very long periods of time in personal protective equipment. so you are -- we are asking an althmous amount of our he

workers to get through this. so to stop that, we need to slow the number of cas that develop so that, when people do get sice who get very sick -- there will be the capity to lok after them. >> woodruff: and for people who are starting to panic, which some ar, what is the message? >> well, the message is don't panic, but it's also it's understandable that you have a sense of fear. fear of plague, fear of disease is an innate human fear. you know, we have fear to protect ourselves frothe unknown, from something that is a threat, but it also kes yo make very bad decisions. so listen to the advice, to trusted sources. you have some of the's wortop brains in science in your country. you've got excellent advice from the c.d.c., from the n.i.h., also from the world health organization, also from excellent media that's like pbs. use those sources, rn, get knowledged up and help everybody

else in your community. look at the vulnerable and see what you can do for them as well. >> woodruff: dr. margaret harris with the world health nkganization, w.h.o., tha you very much. >> it's a pleasure. thank you very much for having me on your program. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, disgraced movie gul harvey weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison. the 67-year-old faced a maximum of 29 years, after being convicted of raping a wo sn in 2013, aually assaulting another in 2006. in the new york courtroom today, weinsteisaid he was "genuinely confused." gloria allred, who represented tre of the victims, said the sentence sends ag message. >> if you are a sexual predator, and you are confused, all you have to do is remember this-- 20 plus three years. this is a new day.

it's a new day for women, to know that if youave courage, there will be consequences for the predators who hurt you. >> woodruff: weinstein's defense insisted the sentence was too harsh, and accused the judge of caving to public pressure. >> that number was obnoxious. there are murderers that will get out faster than harveyei weinwill. that number spoke to pressure of movements and the public. the evidence that came out of trial. >> woodruff: three more sexual eisault cases against wein are under investigation in los angeles and beverly hills, raising the possibility that he could face additional charges. democratic presidential dndidate bernie sanders s today that he will remain in the race for the white house. that is despsee suffering a es of losses in yesterday's primary races to former vice president joe biden. biden now leads the delegate

count with 864, coared to sanders' 710. we will take a closer look at the state of the race, later in the program. the supreme court handed the trump administration a winn its immigration policy today. it will allow asylum seekers to remain in mexico until their claims are adjudicated. the move overturned a lor court order that put a partial block on the administration's policy. been sent back to mexico toeady await their u.s. court hearingsh the u.se of representatives voted today to extend controversial surveillance tools. the bipartisan bill renews parts of the "foreign intelligencesu eillance act," which authorizes monitoring of spected spies and terrorists. the provisions were set to expire march 15. the bill now goes to the senate, where its fate is more uncertain. three soldiers, including two americans, died today in a

rock attack in iraq. happened northwest of baghdad, in taji. u.s. officials say that at least tecoalition members were injured in the strike. in afghastan, the taliban rejected a plan by the afghan government to stagger the release of priners ahead of potential peace talks. an initial deal signed by the hu.s. and taliban last mo called for 5,000 taliban prisoners to be freed. kabul said that it will let out 1,500 of the prisoners as a goodwill measure, and urged the taliban to halt their fighting. >> ( translated ): the process and conditions forhe taliban's prisoner release is very clear in the deal, but the implementation depends on the actions of the taliban and their egsible commitment to reduce violence, and toiate directly with the afghan governnt. >> woodruff: the afghanthvernmee

remaining prisoners would be released after the negotiations begin. but, the taliban wants all the prisoners to be freed at once. and, the russian parliament today backed new constitutional refo keep president vladimir putin in power beyond the year 2024. that would mean that putin could rule until he is 83 years old. the bill easily passough both chambers of parliament, but it still must be approved by's russonstitutional court and a nationwide ve in april. ill to come on the newshour: we talk to the head of the d.n.c. about joe biden's commanding ld in the democratic presidential primary. covid-19 causes nation-wide school closures, asmi strators work to contain the spread of the virus. a nuclear weapons expert from the state depament discusses a potential new arms race with russia.

>> woodruff: after tuesday's democratic presidential primary contestsformer vice presidt joe biden has a clear lead. he won four states: idaho, ssouri, mississippi, and michigan. vermont senator bernie sanders won north dakota. there is no projected winner yet inngton state. our lisa desjardins has more. >> desjardins: today, bernie sanders spoke in a smaller, mor sober settan usual. the senator from vermont said that defeating president trump was still his number-one goal-- d he'll keep challenging joe biden for the democratic nomination, despite yesterday's primary night let-do >> on sunday night, in the first one-on-one debate of this campaign, the american people

will have the opportunity to see whiccaidate is best positioned to accomplish that goal. >> there's no sugarcoating it. tonit's a tough night. >> desjardins: sanders support and new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez took to instagram to console supporters and congratulate biden. in a majority of yesterday's contests, moderate, suburban and black voters propelled the former vice president to victory over sanders, ading to this moment last night philadelphia, with biden making this appeal directly to sanders backers. >> i want to thank bernie sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy eir passion. we share a common goal. and together, we'll defeat donald trump. >> desjardins: one major biden supporter-- ng-time south caroli congressman jim clyburn-- told npr that it might be time so to wind down the primary fight. >> i think we will be at a point where joe biden will be the

prohibitive nominee of the party, and i think the d.n.c., the democratic nationalho committee,d then step in, make an assessment, and termine whether or not they ought to have any more debates. >> desjardins: both scrapped planned events lt night because of coronavirusrns. and the planned tv debate on sunday will go on, but without a live audience. for the pbs newshour, i'm d lijardins. >> woodruff: to give us more insight on how the democratic party is handling this changing primary race, i'm joined by democratic national committe chair, tom perez. tom perez, welcome back to the "newshour". first question, does berniel sanders stve a chance to win the democratic nomination?in >> cer. we're a little under 50% of the legates have en allocated. the magic number is 1991, and,ma so, pries are often about --

they're alwa about math and often about momentum and, certainly, the vice president has achieved some momentum here in south carolina, super tuesday, and thethis week i coached enough sports been around politics to know momentum shifts do occur.ou job is to make sure we and work that whoever ourro nominee is we can hit the ground running and be reunited as a party and i'm ca confident we w. >> woodruff: how do you respond congressman james clyburn saying it's time for this d.n., this primary process to be shut down? >> i think it's always up to the candidates to figure out when it's time to say when. i respect the judgmt of senator sanders moving forward. we have four more very important races next tuesday. those will provide us with some more information and insight because they are big states -- io, illois, arizona, and the

biggest prize ofall next tuesday is florida. so we will be over the 50% mark by the end of the day tuesday, two weeks from tuesday -- or two weeks from yesterday, we then go down to georgia. and, so, that's basically what we have for the next few weeks. i think then, again, this is about math, this is abo understanding where you are in a process, and i don't think it's my place as he d.n.c. chair to tell somebody when it's time to end your campaign. that's always up to the candidates. i didn't call pe buttigieg or i didn't call amy klobuchar or y of the candidates wht out, i ver called anyone and for you to get out.eally time that was a judgment that they made on their own based on their own analysis. >> woodruff: but it does sound as if other leaders in the party are either saying that out loudr or vately. >> well, again, i can't stop others from doing what they're doing. what can do is make sure everybody gets a fair shake.

and one thing i know, because i've had the good fortune of working with both the sanders, one thing i know istor that whoever our nominee is,o they are going to work their tails off to defeat donald trump, and we have seen ante absoxplosion in turnout. and i credit not only the two of them who are sintilthe race, i credit all of the candidates. the excitement that has been generated throughout ts democratic primary, you look t yesterday, more record turnout, you look at super tews, record turnout. new hampshire, the numbers in 2008, south carolina same thi.y so the ene there, the momentum is there and we will come together as a party. >> woodruff: i'm suat you heard senator sanders' statement today, ee questions that h said he wants to hear vice presidentiden resnd to having to do with medicare for all, having to do witcoh llege debt, with climate change, suggesting pretty clearly that

he wants, he expects joe biden to accommodate some of bernie sanders' positions. how far do you think joe biden should go in accommodating some of the more progressive ideas of bernie sanders? >> well, i think, again, onef the things that gives me great optimism as we move forw, d, ju that what unites us as a party far exceeds our differences. everybody running for president understands the imperative ofco ating climate change and making sure that we make decisions based on the science. everybody derstandsthat. everybody running for president understandsit. we should make sure everyone has access to quali affordable health care, and thanks to l.b.j. and barack obama we're ebout 85%, 95% the way up the mountain of unrsals healthcare. ey undeniably have difpirences ofon on how to get the last 10% to the mountaintop, but

e imperative of getting there they're in complete agreement on, and the imperative of peoe with pre-existing conditions maintain their coverage they completely agree on, taking on the pharmaceutical indust they completely agree on, so the voters will see that. >> woodruff: about coronavirus, given theve seity of what we know is going on, it's a pandemic, should our two political parties find a way to found before now on this issue? >> well, i think there are a number of areas where i would have hoped we could have worked together. one letter we sent a long tim ago was, if either party obtains information that was a product of foreign interference, we should never use that information.we sent a letter a o calling on the republicans to come together on tha unfortunately, they said no. to work together.igure out ways we should be following our public health guidance, our h publlth professionals.

doctors and other professionals at the national institutes of health, i had the privilege of working with many of thein the obama administration, and i think we should be able to come together. coronavirus is not about, you know, right vers left, it's about public health and it's about making sure that we as a nationcan come together. it's veritie -- very disappointg to see the absence of supportss prepared i saw how preparedness worked with ebola, you may recall and your viewers may recall when prident obama took office, h1n1 was very real and that preparedness helped. those shoun't be partisan issues. together around principles of preparedness. >> woodruff: quickly, plans on for the democratic national convention in july? >> yes, they are, and we'll continue to work wialth fed state and local officials to make sure we put no one in harm's way so we can have a good

convention. >> woodruff: tom perez, thank you very much. >> thank you. the spread of the coronavirus grow, there's an ever-widening list of workplaces, gatherings and major events that ede being cancr changed significantly. that's included politicalll s, major auto shows, tech conferences, st. patrick's daynd parades,ig concerts like coachella. colleges and universities around e country are essentiall closing down their buildings to students, and asking them to stay off campus. amna nawaz looks at what plans are being made, and tue difficult ion some students, parents and colleges are facing. >> nawaz: judy, the list of schools asking students to stay away or leave campus is growing. already, close to 100 institutions, including harvard, m.i.t., indiana university, pennsylvania state, and california state universitie have taken such measures.

the university of virginia announced today it will move all classes online beginning march 19. james ryan is president of the university of virgia and joins me from charlottesville, virginia now. he. ryan, welcome to "newshour" i want to ask you, you have been issuing pretty regular updates about how your school is assessing the threat. for several weeks now, the last e e you issued before today was march 8, thys ago. what changed between then and now that led you to they can m this extreeasure? >> yeah, thanks, and thanks for having me. we continue to wchhe progression of the virus, the spread naty, internationally and in virginia, and i spoke more with our medical experts, and we realize that we had a sense of urmveingy that our students are currently away on spring break and have traveled across country, and some have traveled internationally, and we thoughte now is a tio act while we could. >> well, you said you spoke with your medical experts.

where are yosort of getting your information on which you're relying on this?ri federal autes? state authorities? >> all of the above, and one of the great things aboutiv sities is that we also have a lot of expertise within our midst. w have medical experts and public health experts. and putting all ofs together, they have told us, this is likely to get worse before it gets better, and that we have thetu oppty to slow the spread of the virus and to protect the health and well being of our community, which also faculty and staff and our charlottesville neighbors, and also to avoid the riof overwhelming our health system. so all those factors combined made us realize that now is the time to act. >> reporter: i should asks, you have over 20,000 students in the student body.ha iscorrect? >> that's correct, undergraduates and graduates. >> reporter: a third of the full-tim undergrads are on some kind of need-based fina ial the question of whether to stay

away, whether to leave cam bus and to go to another p'sce, thot the same for every student. i'm wondering how you're going to handle students who n't have the kind of elasticity to make those decisions, wh may not have a safe place to go where there's shelter and food as there is on your cams. >> yeah, that's an excellent question, and one thing we need to make absolutely clear that we're strongly encouraging to return home, ithey can, but we recognize some students can't return home either because their homes or their countries aren't safe or because they fa particular hardships. so our university is remaining open and our dorms will remain open because we recognize, for some students, they have no other place to go, and thelast thing we would dos turn them away. >> reporter: you mentioned in your latest sttement there is no road map for something like this, we've never encounteredng anytike this. >> right. >> reporter: pretty much every institution in america is grappling with the sams of decisions. you haven't had a confirmed case

on campus or your community but you chose to make this decisio what advice do you have for other leaders who are trying to figu out when or if do a certain thing? >> i would be reluctant to offeb adviause i'm far from expert on this, but i will tell you that, for our own decities makes, the -- decision-making is the factor for us is our students are on spring break now and we had the opportunity to make the decision before they return to campus and return toer campus atraveling far and wide, therefore increasing the risk that one or more of them would come back with the virus. and i think, for anyone, they have to pay atention closely to local conditions. not all universities are in the same position as ours. oneof the big things we took into account is the fact that we have a health system that's also a level one trauma center, and we need to make sure that they're capable of treating those who arevery sick and make suret thatheir resources are

cused on those. >> reporter: james ryan, president of t university of virginia. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: the "new start" treaty is the only remaining limit on u.sand russian offensive nuclear weapons. it is set to expire next february. so far, the trump administration has been unwilling to begin negotiations. instead, the u.s. says it wants to explore a broader agreement, to include china, but critics fear that strategy, that it might risk the treaty altogether. here's nick schifrin. >> schifrin: 50 miles off alaska, a large russian reconnaissance aircraft, and another one behind it, are trailed by american jets. the air force says the u.s. jets the russians, stay out u.s. airspace. riit's a cat and mouse gamt

out of the cold war. and today, there's another cold war practice: spending billions on new nuclearapacity. in 2018, russian president lfadimir putin unveiled a dozen new weapons systems, including a clear cruise missile he called invincible. the u.s. is replacing aging nuclear bombers, and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and recently fielded a new ballistic missile like this one, launched by submarine. >> today, on this vital sue, at least, we can see what can be accomplished when we pull together. >> schifrin: back in the cold war, the u.s. and russiago ated arms control agreements to limit nuclear weapons. the last of those agreements was signed in 2010 by president obama and then russian president dmitry medvedev. the new strategic arms reduction treaty, or "new start," limits the number of deployed warheads, and their delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-lached ballistic missiles, and heavy bombers. and it includes verification measures such as movementca

notifitions, data exchanges, and on-site inspections. but the treaty does not cover some of those new russian nuclear arsenal at all, so the trump administration says it wants to create a new framework. but, some arms control experts, and members of congress, fear new start could expire and spark a new arms race. anto discuss "new start" as well as other issues i'm joined by chris ford, assistant secretary of internationalri se and nonproliferation at the state department. chris ford, welcome to the "newshour". thank you very much. >> pleasure to be here. thanks for having me. >> reporter: every ohn f.stration since kennedy has achieved progress in arms control, except for the trump administraon, which has taken us out of the intermediate range nuclear forms treaty, dismantled the iran nuclear deal, hasn't closed a deal with north korea and is dragging its feet, according to critics, onew start." does the trump administration have something against arms control? >>e in the process of standing up for the integrity of

the arms control process. we felt inecessary to withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty bruise russia flagrantly violated itrs for yso we felt it was essential not only for our natial security but alfor the arms control process. that's not anti-arms control. that's being the faithful friend of armscontrol. >> reporter: senator is the only remaining limit onea offensive nuweapons that we have can russia. why are you waiting to extend it? >> what we are trying to do evaluate the "new start" question in the broader context of how to get to the future of -- the future vision that president trump has outlined for this administration of the try lateral arms control agreement that includes both russia and a children a brings in russia's nonstrategic weapons where they have a sigcani numerical advantage over us at this time and on are track to build up thesenal even further and brings the whole range of china's systems. the chinese to have a strategic dialogue with you and you've said you are waiting for that

response, but the chinese have least said this, on february 12th, the foreign ministry spokesman says has no intention of joining the so-called trilateral arms hcontrol negotiation with u.s. and russia. so don't we already have china's answer? >> whawe do not have chna's answer to is an invitation to sit down with us, analogous to what we do with the russians, to talkbout strategickics security issues. if china is indeed the kind of responsible power it proai itself to be, that there is no alternative but to sit down and take that kind of responsibility seriously in the strategic nu >> reporter: the chinese have somewhere around 300, 400-plus nuclear weapons or so, the russians and the americans, of course, have many times that. the chinese say thatu.s. numbers before thee willingeir to have this conversation. is the u.s. willing to reduce numbers before thaconversation can be had?ib >> -- the po of some kind of cap. it is clearly to think in terms

of arms limitation before e can think of arms reduction. one shouldstop theg bleed before one can worry abouthow regimen for perfect health and we think it's essential china live up to its obligation to pursue negotiatio to avoid nuclear arms race. >> reporter: are you opening the or for russia to raise some of the issues and is there any risk by waiting until you int this response from the e that president vladimir putin maybe later this year won't be interested in extnding "new start"? is that aeries income. >> we're already talking with the russians in our stategic curity "dye log. >> reporter: but not about the "new start." ar we're talking about what the future ofs control should look like. fuzzle but there's a much bigger puzzle that needs thinking about. what we are concerned about is how to deal with the broad challenges not covered by "new start" at all. >> reporter: i've talked to a lot of arms cotrol experts both republican and command they say,

look, "new start" is helpful, it provides transparency into the russian system we wouldn't otherwise have. you're talking about a larger version of arms ntrol, hopefully trilateral. are you risitking the benof "new start" in order to accomplish some to have the goals you've talking about? >> the dec sion on "nrt" hasn't yet been made. we are not arguing there are no benefi to "new start." there clearly are. a bunch of congral reportsss in each year. the question, is however, in what we do we best get to the president's vision of trilateral arms control that answers more of these questions with more rties than before and if extending "new start" is a good way either for five years or fractionally, perhaps, which is also availab, if extending "new start" is a good way to get to that vision, we are in favor of it. if not, we need tofi nd the other way. >> reporter: china, yoakhave been sg about what the u.s. called predatory chinese practices d especially highlighting the chinese military what the called fusion

with the private satctor. s that concern you have and how is that different from the relationship that the pentagon has with privatest in in the u.s.? >> what they call military civil fusion in china is a strategy for systematically breaking down all barriers between the civilian industrial sector, in efct, and the military sector so theresentially a fused and unitary industrial base that able to be called upon by the powers that be that support both economic competitiveness and strategic goals in that recommend and china's development of military power. in supportf that, they have a range of coercive tools and structures in place that no one in t rest of e world, frankly, does. we certainly don't. >> reporter: i read a recent speech you gave on this and you talked about how the u.s. needeo to relearn to fight major power competition. have ourreapower competition muscles a atrophied? have.would say to a degree they attend of the cold war, we had a thndency to assusome mewhat

complacently thase kind of ugly and great power competitive things were in the rearview mirror and we didn't have to worry so much about them. unfortunately russia and china didnaw the same lesson and they doubled down and we're trong to make up for und i wish we had not lost. >> reporter: chris ford, thankh you very mu. >> thanks for having me. >> woodruff: now, take a moment to hear from your local pbs station. it's a chae to offer your support, which helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations staying with us, we take a look at how a charter school for sixth through twelfth graders in baltimore isxceeding graduation rates.

special correspondent hari sreenivasan's encore report is part of our special series on "rethinking college," and part of our regular education segment, "making the grade." t nk you for giving us this day to watch over jordan and amanda. >> sreenivasan: every day begins with a prayer in the home of nicole mcclinton wilks and her two children, amanda and jordan westbrook. mcclinton wilks, a single mom who works as a security guardan d has to leave early for work, worries about amanda's safety on her morning commute through theb surrounding nehoods. but she's relieved when amanda arrives at her destinaucon: an ional oasis in the heart i west baltimore. amanda, who is 1a senior at the green street academy, a 6th through 12th grade charter school started in 2010 that currently has about 850 students. in many ways, it's aypical school with courses like science and spanish. but there's a lot about green street tt's not typical for an

urban school. students here are exposed to apo wide-range of unities to explore and learn outside of the classroom. on a recent afternoon, amanda and her classmates tended to a flock of well-lod chickens on the eight-acre farm behind the school. >> we produce the chicken eggs, and we'll sell to different places, like stores and restaurants around the neighborhood, to like, work with these animals and stuff, to actually get that hands-on experience, it just makes me happy. >> sreenivasan: four years ago, the school moved to its current location-- a renovated historic building that was once a junior high before being abandoned about 30 years ago. there's a lottery to get in. last year, more than 1,000 applied for 250 openings. according to the school, 90% of graduating seniors in the spring were accepted to two- and four-p year collegrams. in a greenhouse, students learno row produce and incorporate

tsit into meals they make pop-up restauran tanks full of tilapia and perch in the school's basement provide hands-on exposure to aquaculture, one of the country's fastest-growing food production industries. all that training, a-f other careerused courses like construction management and nursing, are part of the school's primary goal: to give students the skills and experiences they need to ae successfulfter high school, ready for bothollege and careers. >> i think adults sometimes kind of limit kids'ptions, telling them that it has to be one way or the other, when at our school, it's not like that at all. >> sreenivasan: crystal harden- lindsey is the executivect di of the school. every morning, she and other senior staff visit classrooms to check on students. 97% of green street students qualify for free or reduced lunches. students who need extra support get regular counseling and tutoring. harden-lindsey says one of the hool's top priorities-- getting students into high

quality, paid internships-- has been a big boost to students and their families. >> what we do at green street is we provide a way for them to w make monle going to school and kind of restructure the trajectory of their lives by saying you can make money, you can also give back to your community, you can also go to college, it doesn't have to bene you chooser the other. it can be a combination of things. >> sreenivasan: that dual is on college and career is reinforced throughout students' time at green street.e by 9th grastudents are requed to have resumes, and they are encouraged to consider careers they may not have:o >> i want uske a deeper look into stem fields and stem bs. >> sreenivasan: college logos line t school's hallways, and seniors have to apply to at least one community college or university. heveral counselors stay on top of plans. >> i would like for you to do a little bit more research and pick one more maryland college. >> sreenivasan: on a recent

orternoon, the school's se gathered for a class meeting about the year ahead. >> i need our green street ks to go in there and wow people. >> sreenivasan: tia-shon kelley is the director of internships and student enrichment at green street. she was promoting an internship through an organization called urban alliance, which provides intense workplace training. students are then placed in paid internships with baltimore businessesincluding bank of america and johns hopkins. a few land permanent jobs after they graduate. >> and i'm going to specifically speak to those of you who know a th not going to college. if you need a full-time job when you graduate, this is your shot! >> sreenivasan: for the past three years, kelley has been building the school's internship program, and now close to 60 the high school studentse. particip but she says it's not always easy. >> i felt like some of our kids have stopped dreaming. when you ask them what they want to be, it's very flatlin because they don't believe it t can happen fm.

it happens for everybody else. letting them see "hey, this is last year, they lo, john hopkins they're going to do it again this year. you try it." or try the law program. we have law links. just keeping them exposed. >> sreenivasan: amanda westbrook has internships, including one with kaiser-permanente, where her payment was a $1,000 college that will come in xt year-- she's currently applying to colleges, and hopes to be a marine biologist one day. >> try that piecright there. >> sreenivasan: amanda's big brother jordan, who graduated infrom green street last s decided to go the career route. he's now in a paid construction traini program earning certifications. >> i knew i didn't really want to go to college, so i just kneo the i graduated i really wanted to get a job. i'm pretty good with my hands st i wa to do construction. >> sreenivasan: mom nicole mcclinton wilks says green street has given her children opportunities that matched their interests. >> amanda wants school, jordan doesn't want school. jordan, this is what he wants, not my dreams, but his dreams. and that's what i like.

they don't sell a fake dream here, they give you reality. >> sreenivasan: for most green street graduates, the reality is school and work go hand in hand. >> the pancreas is right here. >> sreenivasan: recent grad coppin state university just 10 minutes away from green street. while studying to eventually become an o.b.-g.yor., she's alsong part time. she says green street prepared her to juggle both. >> i was prepared based on my time management, because that's one they always, always stressed. time management, don't oocrastinate, get it done time. ee>> sreenivasan: back at n street academy, students are harvesting apples and enjoying e fruits of their labor. and in the coming months, the school will begin a capital campai for a new innovation center focused on living-wage career training for both students andheir parents. for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan in baltimore, maryland. >> woodruf finally tonight, a timely exhibit which examines

the experience of migration. some of the artists are migrants themselves. newshour special correspondent jared bowen first visited the exhibit at the institute of contemporary art in boston when it opened. it is now at the minneapolis institute of arts through may. the piece is part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." >> reporter: according to the united nations, there are nearly 71 million people worldwide who've been forcibly displaced, including nearly 30 million refugees. for them, home might be a lossus of what they left h behind, ory wisps of memory. >> this is by the korean artist do ho suh, and all of his work is really engaged with places that he's lived.e and you can l of the amazing detail, the, you know, outlets, and the doondles, and the lights. really evocative of something

that is both kind of present and not present. is the curator of thiskson exhibition at the i.c.a., which looks at migration through contemrary art. a show of works by artists observing the globe's record level of displacement, it's cat ed "when home won't u stay," a line from a poem by somali-british poet, warsan shire. >> "home" is-- each person probably defines that slightly differently, but i think it brings together the real and the symbolic in really strong ways. >> reporter: we met erickson in an installation by english artist yinka shonibare, called" the american library." it features more than 6,000 books, all lavishly bound. each sports a name embossed in >> all of those individuals are either first- or second- generation immigrants. or they're individuals who hadd moom the south to the north during the great migration. >> reporter: deeply immigrant stories, presumably, and donaldi trump's nato be found here? >> that's right. due to the kind of very...si

di rhetoric right now rtound immigration in paicular, he also added in names of people who, in his mind, were really acorvely kind ofng against immigration. >> reporter: this is ande exhibition o contrasts. the short film "western union: sun-drenched glow idyllic mediterranean island where wtourists take holiday, are migrants from north africa land, if they're lucky. an adjacent gallery, "la mer clrte"-- the dead sea-- a sculpture of bluhing by french artist kader attia. >> inevitay, when you see that clothing, you think of the t bodit it used to cloth, and the ways in which it's o strethe floor and kind of twisted, you get aense of bodies that, you know, are no longer living. >> we've been asked a lot: what is our polemic, what are our politics? >> reporter: that should be left to t artists, says i.c.a. chief curator eva respini. there was debate about the show

at the museum, she says. not about the politics at play, but how to tackle such >> eventually, we drove in and said, you know, this is such a huge topic. this exhibition can't be comprehensive. we found value in thinking deeply about the topic of migration through the lens of art. >> reporter: what do you see surfacing, in terms of how this is representedn art? >> artis are not historians, they're not journalists, they don't have the responsibility to bring forward facts d figures. but i think they have a role to play in our society. >> reporter: the i.c.a. went big for the show with large films, sculpture, and paintings that fill galleries physically and emotiolly.ti mexican camilo ontiveros created this looming sculpture out of the bongings of juan manuel montes. >> the first recipient of daca to be deported underrump administration. thesare real people, these are re stories. >> reporter: some ofethe works are brutal re. >> brutal is the right word for a couple of them.

richard sse's kind of epic three-channel vio installation "incomin" which traces the migrant roots of refugees from sya and north africa to europe through some pretty brutal experiences over water and in refugee camps. i don't see a way that we can do this show or aress the top if of migration without including works that take your breath away. >> reporter: what couldn't be taken by migrants on the move fills this gallery. first, there is the photography of richard misrach, a california artist who makes routine trips to the mexican borr wall, where he's an archaeologist of modern day, says curator ruth erickson. >> he's really interested in, what are the sort of traces of human passage on the landscape? how can we know of the events that have happened there, even if we can't see those events? >> reporter: misrach collaborates with mexican sculptor and composer guillermo massive musical innts,hese also from found objects. >> for instance, the tire would have likely been dragged behindd

patrol trucks in order to smooth theand, to be able to lookt where people are crossing. the boot, the glove, the targets, the horn, the jaw bone, even the lumber itself. and in this case, to "zapatello," he's actually using leonardo da vinci's drawing of the mechanized hammer. this actually is a crank. and so, if you crank this, you can imagine these levers go up and wn and bang on this like a drum. >> reporter: all for a beat, and a march, that seems to have no end. >> woodruff: and that is the wshour for tonight. be sure to tune in tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern for ourra special co of president trump's address to the nation in the midst of the coronovirus pandemic. i'm judy woouff. pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

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