♪ judy: good evening. the newshour tonight -- >> i'm officially declaring a national emergency. judy:major shutdowns continued o cascade. federal-aid packages still up in the air as covid-19 touches every aspect of american life. then coping with the coronarus. we examine the psychological effects of the pandemic. how to address our fears and keep a healthy state of mind in a crisis. >> i think we are getting into a spiral of fear is leading people to engage and responseer that are not helpful. judy: it is friday. anthoughts on themic. the trum' administration's response and this trying time.

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emergency. the covid-19 pandemic has now infected some 1700 americans and claimed the lives of nearly 50 people. today's emergency declaration triggered a rally on wall street after yesterday's historic nosedive. the dow jones surge 1985 points to close above 23,185. the nasdaq soared 673. the s&p 500 rose 230. elys since the 2018 -- 2008ive global financialown. as outrage intensified over the lack of available testing, states took matters inir own hands to help slow the spread. thousands oacschools closed ss the country. major sporting events were and one state's presidential primary waen delayed. >> thank you very much, everyone.

weeks into the spread of covid-19 in the u.s., president response. up the federal >> i'm officially declaring a national emergency. noesource will be spared, nothing whatsoever. >> the move opens up up$5 t billion in federal resources for state and local governments to respond, similar to actions taken in the face of previous crises. west nile virus and president barack obama containing the h1n1 epidemic. a new website for citizens to screen symptoms and a new testing site website. more tests potentially available xt week through an expedited process. the house has been worying with treaecretary steven mnuchin in a sweeping aag paaimed at reducing the economic impact of the pandemic. house speaker nancy pelosi

pledged to move forward with the bill. parts of this bill are testing, testing, testing. this legislation facilitates free coronavirus testing for everyone who needs a testud, ing the uninsured. wean only defeat the outbreak if we have an accurate determination of its scale and scope. >> all this is covid-19 cases continue to rise in the u.s. known cases ha spread to 47 statesnd washington, d.c., though testing remains limited. in new york, drive-through testinwas rolled out and new rochelle under strict containment after a recent a similar curbside program in denver, where coloradoans waited in long lines to get tested. across the country, mass cancellations continued at major sports events and large gatheringsf, as did closures schools and universities.

county, virginia,chools --un >> we have lots of twoarent workin families and many of whom don't have significt flexibility in terms of taking children and so this was aheir consideration, but we neeced to make oion based on student and staff safety. >> and for the first time today, a delay in the 2020 election cycle. >> today, i have certified that the state of emergency exists and requested that the governore issue an execu order safe and secure elections also mean safety to the people of louisiana. that is why i signed this certification. >> as england announced a arong delay in its local elections, world health organization officials reiterated that all of europe remains at high risk. >> europe has now become the

epicenter of the pandemic. eire cases are now reported every day then were reported in china at the height of its epidemic. >> in italy, another grim benchmark infectionsor soared by mthan 2500 cases to more than7,600 and virus-related than 25umped by more now totaling more than 1200, the biggest single day jump since the outbreak began. leading officials in denmark to temporarily cle the country's borders. in brazil, the reports thatfhe first head state was infected forcefully disputed by the nesident and his son in an interview with fs. >> the test is negative. >> concerns were raised after an aide to bolsonaro tested positive to the virusngfter accompanim to the united states and meeting president trump. president trump has so far not

been tested, but said he likely ll be. >> i did not say i would not be tested. >>o are you going? >> most likely. >> dr. anthony fauci expressed administration'ewest efforts would have an impact. >> what is going on today is going to help it tone end s than it would have. judy: across the country, it has been another day of major closings, postponements, and cancellations. at least 12 states announced that they are closing schools state-wide. all of the latest seen on the map. major school districts announced their own closures, including the second-largest district in the company the los angeles and san diego unified school district. moreon than 21 mil students nationwide will be out by next week. th maste golf tournament, traditionally played at the start of april,, was postpon

as was the boston marathon. in the world of entertainmented disney annout is halting all production of live action fis and the late-night shows on television have shut down reduction for the remainr of the month. for a closer look at the developments and the politics of the pandemic, i'm joined by our guests. thege national emy the presiden declared today, what exactly does it allow to happen? >> president took a major stepec inring this national emergency, saying it will have the full force of the federal government focused and targeted on a coronavirus response. it is going to provide $42.6 billion in disaster aid that will be able to go through states, fema, the federal has been something that has happened when it comes to hurricanes.th other thing it is going to do his food assistance, shelter,

and medical response. the other thing that is going to do is unemployment, insurance, and overtimeme p focused on workers impacted by the coronavirus. wein are sthe president trying to say we are stepping up the president himself said hes will likely be tested for coronavirus. thereere two people at his mar-a-lago resort that have tested positive. >> two people now. two people now. >> the have been trying to work out a deal to help people who are out of work or sick to go to work. >> in the space of time it took that package to play jt now, we have learned that there is a deal between speaker pelosi, the house democrats, and the white house. a letter was sent ou to mocrats saying they have reached an agreement. they said they have secuyd some emerge leave, two weeks of sick leave u for workers ato three weeks of paid family and

medical leave. there is i suspect about $1 billion for food security, that would s includeiors who are homebound and children whose schools close and they were like on free and reduced lunch. there are a lot of questions about this. da was a very difcult day because everyone knows the importance of dealing with these very first vulnerable populations and yet the white house and house democrats could not reach a deal. it looks like at this minute they finally have after 24 tough hours of negotiations. house speaker nancy pelosi andry treasury secre mnuchin on the phone a dozen times today trying to get this done. sthe devil i in the details and they say they have the details worked out. that means they have agreed?r, >> i was just rushing over from the white house and the president was questioned about sis during his press conference

and d there were a number of problems and he was not fully on board, but what we have learned now is that there has been a dealeaed and the white house it see is on board with this. it means the presidee will likelygning this sometime in the next few weeks, maybe even in thnext week. the president was desperate to have something to show the american people that they were stepping up efforts and the federal government waso there help people in this critical time as people are scared and panicked. judy:he has been some reporting on resistance to permanent sick leave. >> i believe this is temporary related only to the coronavirus and that isdeomething that crats conceded. judy: u.s. the president to question t about national security council office that dealt with pandemic and why that office was done away with. tell us about that exchange. >> t white house used to have this office that dealt specifically with pandemics and in 2018 president trump disbanded that and there were

pele that left the administration very abruptly. the officials that worked in that office said tha the white house lost valuable time because the office was disbanded. what do you make of that? >> ihink it's a nasty question because what we've done and tony has said numerous times that we saved thousands of lives because of the quick closing and when you say me, i didn't do it. wele have a group of pe i could perhaps ask tony about that. i don't know anything about it. >> so, the president is saying he did not know anything about is. it was his administration that did it, it was under the national security advisor john bolton, but the president is saying he has no responsibility for this, which is pretty incredible. this office said they set this up after the ebo crisis and

they felt like this would be something that the administration could use if there was another pandemic. now there is another pandemic eand that offs no longer there. white house officials say theyme lost critical hat they could have been using to respondent. judy: the president saying it was not his decision. >> of course, it was his national security advisor, the buck people would say stops with the president, but the president saying it was not me, is people in my admin is ration. judy: very, very interesting. thank you. the president is indeed directing more money andno he ced moves today to speed up testing and coming weeks. but there are n still aber of questions about how prepared the country is and why theti t is taking so long to provide. we examine those issues with the director of the center for disaster preparednes columbia university.

he is also now an advisor to joe biden's committee on the novel coronavirus. and dr. sherry fink of "the new york times." hello to both ofpp you. weciate you joining us. you did hear what the president had to saybo declaring a national emergency. how much difference do you believe this is going to make? >> i guess i'm glad finally he is doing it, but i think in most everything to do with our handling of the coronavirus threat has been way too little and too late. i was shocked many weeks ago when we could not get it right in terms of developing a lile test that could be widely distributed to the country. we tried distributing with the cdc.

a test that could be widely distributed through the country. it turned out the testing materials were defective. there were some extraordinary analysis of what went wrong, but people are seeing this as an incredible incompetence of government to get this right from the beginning. even now, i spoke this morning with several emergency medicine doctors who are still frustrated that they can't get these tests done. i think this is sort of symbolic of somwidespread failures of this government to do what needs to get done. i'm not really saying this politically, i'm saying this is matter of public health we look out the front window of cle we are in and we ar looking at italy.

i think this is sort of symbolic of some widespread failures of this government to do what needs to get done. and i'm not really saying this ipolitical'm saying this as a matter of public health we look at the front windowicf the v we are in and we are looking at italy and i'm telling you we are absolutely not prepared to deal with the medical health system consequences of this kind of outbreak. judy: thank you. some remarkablreporting shed a light on what happened wit test, the difficulty in getting it done. with that in the background, you look at what the administration is saying today, going to be able to do, how much closer does that get this country toward resolving this testing problem is to mark >> it sounds like a great solution what'd -- once it is in place. we have o heardr and over again that solutions are right around the corner.

when the cdc test was shown not to work or have some, issue that was the first week of february and we are still in the tion where we are now f into march. hopefully,ilhat really expand the testing capacity, particularly the approval of the first commercial test today. judy: what is your understanding dof what chann the part of the administration, the cdc, whoever s involved? i think what changed is that there was a realization that something had to be done. the first test was intended for public health laboratories. they can only do so much anyway, now we need a broad expansion. there seems to be aecognition. there was a real insistence on some strict rules that were throwing -- slowing down the process of getting t tests and the fda has relaxed some those rules.maybe that could hae

as soon as we real ied there was ue. i even wrote about some private academic labs that stepped up and wanted tohe help inrgent situation when some cases started to appear in communities. there has been a recognition that this has needed to expand. it is sad and unfortunate that we lost that time. judy: for sur in the officials ahimpresident speak today, do you have a sense that the gravity of what is going on has now taken hold and that we are going to see movement in this country as you and others have said needs to be >> well, of course, the public officials, including to fatty and many of the people -- fauci and many of the people at the cdc arm lit judah meant --

are legitimate world-class heal officials. they have been pretty much telling us what should be happeningnd what has gone ong. it has been in contrast to this constant barrage of talk from the president and vice president, reassuring us that everythings under control and obviously it wasn't. the net effect of this confusion leaves the american public and our public health officials scally and in the state a on verync confused andtain about what they are hearing. we lose confidencn the federal public health architecture and that is really bad in terms of a situaeron we need to be helping people and guiding them and they are getting mixed messages. judy: of the $50 billion that are going to go to the states to amp up the resources available, that will make a difference? >>ef well, hly it will make

some difference, but to fix what is now missing in our health to respond effectively is noty going to be fixed in a hur m, no matter hh money we have. we are going to have a severe shortage of mechanical ntilator breathing machines to help people who are quite sick the federal stockpile is limited. the number of ventilatoun around the y is limited. we may need 100,000 ventilators. otthose will clear -- appear magically. it is figuring out, were very tight on respiratory therapists to run these machines. we've got a lot of work to do. the money is fantastic, i'm grateful for it, but i wish it judy: i would like for you to answer tiot queas well. the money they are spending, we heard the president to y today, we will be buying more respirators. how reassuring is all that? >> in terms of thoseespirators

which are actually the masks that health-care workers need, they have a higher level of ltration for the virus, those are sometimes called respirators mech machines, i wasn'the sure which one he mea. you need not only the machines, but also the people to staff them. this has been a problem that has been recognized for years. heard it talked about fo years and unfortunately we are in a situationhere those investments were not made earlier. it makes it hard to catch up. but it is certainly a good thing to have the funding now. judy: we thank you both. >> thank you. >> thanks. disruption in america and alls

around the world as many of our daily routines are being upended. beyond the cancellations, the medical, questiond financial turmoil, there is fear and many other concerns. >> the thoughts are unavoidable, whether you are eager to get a test, seeing the emptyes shelv, concern for yrer chi and loved ones, watching events unfold elsewhere. studying emotions in times of distress and trauma, he is a professor at northeastern in boston. emotions are clearly high, knowledge arguably is low. what does that combination at up to in the behavior you are >>seeing now? unfortunately, it is a perfect storm right now. nthe rea we have emotions is to help us come to adaptive decisions rapidly. but when those emotions are mis-colibrated or thext is wrong or especially now when we

have clear fac that are fingertipse, th emotions will start filling in the blanks of an adoptive response that will go awry. >> we have a situation where the reason for fear is real, tes are hard to come by, people are getting sick, they see what is going on other countries. you are not suggesting we can or should avoid that? >> by no means. there is clearlyar reason for us don't think likeot of epidemiologists or have the information at hand, so that gives more reason for our fear to fill in the blanks. when you feel fear, it makes anything that seems threat more kely to happen. if i sneeze and i feel afraid one sneeze, i'm more likely to believe that is due to coronavirus. the more i think about it, the more opportunities there are two fill in the anks. was i really six feet away from that guy who is in the store there is reason for concern,

seek medical treatment if you have t i think we are getting into a spiral of fear that is to people to engage and responses that are not very helpful. >>te make it as concs you can. stocking up at the grocery store , making decisions about where r children, wheth to take them out, whether to see other people, how do you balance those kinds of fearand decisiono go on with life? >> i think the best way to do it right now is when you feel fear, you are motivated to act, but most of us don't know the best things to do, so is is really a situation where expertise is warranted. do what your public health officials, what your provider, what dr. anthony fauci says. the trick is to not obsess about that fear because it wille begn to mu second guess everything you are doing and it mayns lead you to acthat are more problematic.

if there is run on supplies and facemasks, winare getting a situation where single are going to end up causingt us collective harm. >> you used the word obsess storm session and i can't help but thinkha about the phones we all carry. national moment to others we are familiar with, where the information comes so much faster and we are taking it all in and we are not sure what to do with it. >> that's right. all of a sudden, that would be a signal to you, yowould feel fear and be able to act accordingly. if anybo's fear starts to get too intense, it becomes a cycle where that is spread rapidly, very weekly.

if we don't have rational facts and the information at our fingertips, it can become an upward spiral of fear very rapid. >> check your device, but notof ton? >> exactly. what happens is the media i going to show you worst-case scenarios. e you are seeing rst-case scenarios, but what they are not showing you is everybody who is doing ok with milder symptoms we not having it. so you believe it is much more prevalent. please don't be complacent. follow the advice of public health officials. whatou are seeing is worst-case scenarios and our brains evolved in a world without social mia and smart phone and what we saw around us actually happening.s we are now getting curated to somegof the worst thingg on. >> thank you very much. >> thank you.

♪ judy: noweae go to south k to see what seems to be working in the fight against covid-19. the government there is spending nearly $10 billion tight the country's outbreak. our special correspondent discovers money is just part of the fight. it also takewi communities lling to come together. >> took off work as a bus driver to pitch in on what has become the national priority, defeating covid-19. cw, he is volunteering at this drive-through tenic. >>s citizens, w are here for the safety of our fellow citizens to volunteer. >> anyone can pull in with or without symptoms. this local office worker is here just as a precaution.

he tells nurses he recently smoked a cigarette with someone who may have been in contact with infected people. after taking his temperature, they say he seems symptom-free for now, but to come back if that changes. others receive a much more thorough exam based upon physical symptoms and potential exposure to confirmed patients. ousands of koreans have driven through this clinic in the past two weeks. it is free, takes 10 minutes, and you get results in 2-3 days. >> staying sick longer only increases costs. you must find them quickly and you must not be frugal about the cost. its the stat's basic duty to support the lives of its people. >> within 200,000 uth koreans have been tested. thhealfficials did not skimp on precautions in a room full of journalists. >>e have a transparent and

open society as a goal. we recommend a response system that blends voluntary public participation with advanced technology. >> text messages alert the public tohe locations of tits quarantined. seoul has left its borders open to everyone except those coming from the hardest hita. region of ch >> the consensus among public health professionals seems to be that travel ban's are not effective in containing contagiousss ill and can make things worse, even by fueling a sense of complacency. >> banning travelersrom south korea's worst affected regions.

south korea partly credits mass testing with relatively low death ratio among hard-hit areas. the ratio is less than 1% compared to more than 4% in iran and 6% in italy. today, during the pentagon video erconfce, the top u.s. commander in south korea credited testing for keeping covid-19 off u.s. bases. >> they have been extraordinary partners. 24 have had our test results turned around iours. one servicemember and eht others hav tested positive, but general robert abrams said strict controls prevented a >>rger outbreak. for example, dailyivestream community briefings by our garrison and installationrs commanith questions and answers and multiple virtual town hall with our senior commanders.

>> most korean cases have been listening -- limited to the southeast. this testing center was set up specifically for residents of this building where there has been a large outbreak of covid-19. a gentleman has just sat down and he is beginning the testing procedure. the outbreak haconcerned this community. a lot of busesses have closed down temporarily and perhaps more concerning is that right along this area runs one of the busy metro lines. typically, hundreds of thousands of pple transfer. there is not just arickle because there has been an outbreak up the road. one place where it has not trickled is outside pharmacies. there is no panic here as people

in this community come toget cr toe. >> i would like buy more masks, but i know if i did that, others would not be able to, so i feel i shouldn't. masks necessary me an't find change of heart as the coronavirus continues its deadly global march. you ha to experience it personally, he says, to understand. forew the " pbsour," i'm bruce harrison. ♪ judy: delta airline is cutting its flights by 40% of the pandemic has triggered a decline in demand for travel. is also halting all flights to continental europe. delta's ceo said he is hopeful

they will get financial assistance from the white house and congress. the state department -- an iary accusation ove covid-19 by a chinese official. a chinese ministry spokesperson alleged that the u.s. army brought the virus touhan, the original epicenter of the outbreak, but he cited no evidence to support that claim. china's bassy in washington did not immediately respond. in iraq, u.s. strikes in iranian backedwe militia denounced that left six people dead overnight. they were blamed for a rocket attack that killed three american service members wednesday. inashington, the head of t u.s. central command said the tit for tat strikes sent a message to iran. >> the attacks are designed to prevent future attacks on us.

i think the tension isti very high, the risk is still significant, and even though weo may go days w anything happening, i think we are still at a period of significant risk. >>ck wednesday's atas the deadliest to target american troops since last december. ♪ >> this is "the pbs newshour." judy: now, with their own take on the pandemic that has seemingly taken over their lives -- our i lives, time for the analysis of shields and brooks. hello to both of you. it has been a week like no other that i can remember. where are we? how do you make sense of what is going on right now?

the only way i can make sense of it is by what we have been through before. would compare it to the time emght after world war ii began for the polio ep in the 1950's. it was a time of collective tional sacrifice, everybody was in it together, we were all at risk. especially at the beginning of the war, it wasco a time of ective sacrifice, where there were shortages alcohol, tobacco,, meat butter, you name it, but americans grew 20 million victory gardens, raised a third of the vegetables, theye sacrificed cively. the president of the new york stock exchang, and at the time of polio, there was terror in the countr

ca97,000 ame were paralyzed. then the magical moment with the cure in 1955. that is where we are. there was a senserror. judy: can we make sense of it? how do we get our arms around it? >>wo there aressues, one is the political and leadership sue and one is the moral and social issue every i found it and enraging week. we said here many years ago when we saw some images of katrina and bodies floating in new orleans and i think we both felt a deep sense of anger. i feel a deep sense of anger that our government has responded so badly. frankly, this is what happe when you elect a sociopath as president who does not care, who has treated this wholthing is if it is about him, how do people like me? minimizing the risk, does the stockart reflect well on me?

he has not done the normal things a normal human beingdo woulwhich are taking precautions, let's do the backup things we need to do. any president would say, people fer here, let's ge ready. he is incapable of that. he has even created an information arstortion field nd him even the press conference today was all his propaganda, it was then the perfectly good question abt an agency h,should know about it by now. the fact that he was not even aware of this is a sign that nobody is willing to tell him bad news and we have a dysfunctional process. at the heart of the judy: with all that going on, how does that affect americans' ability to get through this? >> it affects it in many respects. it is global.

america first fails. if there was eve a time for international cooperation, collegiality national level, this is it. i think if america were informed and put to the test, who do you want in charge of is epidemic? y dr. anthuci, donald trump, anybody who watched it wouldfa y dri. he is knowledgeable, he is straight, i he direct, he is candid, he is thoughtful, he is everything we want. the president is impulsive and uninformed, he has misled the people that it was containnt. any presif the united states that is going to leave americans on a boat off of california rather than bring them ashore for treatment becauseas it would incthe number of people, it uld hurt hisrs num, that is somebody

not lacking in empathy, that is mpsomebody with anhy void. to me, i think it is a seminal moment in the trumpresidency, where we realized in spite of mn 401(k) having terrific, now all of a sudden it is in opdy and he puts the nation in jeopardy and m family and friends in jeopardy. judy: is there someone americans can look to as an exampletf leadership time like this? >> anthony felty, the head of the nih, a lot of the state and local p governors have betty fantastic. >> andrew cuomo. >> i do think there are leaders it is quite remarkable how the country has responded. responded with all the social distancing and the drastic measures that have been taken. should be said we should not expect the wonderfulness

continue. i have read about pandemics in for social trust. are not good people go into them thinking i'm goinggoo be soldier and citizen, but when the fear gets going, they start -- stop seeing each other, stoper volung. i've always wondered why the 1918 spanish flu that happened here killed 675,000 americans. it left no trace in the national culture. of always wondered why that was. reading about what it was like, pele were ashamed of how they behaved because they looked fear is just this lendable. thing. we have not really been hit by the rod got wrenching fear of hospitals beingverwhelmed and we will. we need to take moral steps and social steps as well as health steps to mitigate that. judy: we know g what isng to get worse. it is either going to go up like othr we can mitigate it somehow.

but we are at a moment when we are looking for guidance and we are also in the middle of a presidential campaign, we have joe bideand bernie sanders still campaigning, although it has beenve s to the sidelines this week. the two of them statements the last few days, talked about would need be done. do we see something going on there t that gives american people hope? >> well, i hope so. i thought both statements yesterday, particularly bidens, adjective not looselyto use an presidential. e they wflective. and given serious -- as vice president biden said, there is no zip code on this. thist.s not a foreign thr this is not something organized

this is no respecter of status or station or anything of the sort. i thought that came through. as fe as election, i feel bad for senator sanders because you are behind and how do you catch up? you catch up by showing enthusiasm, by showing crowds, energy. all of a sudden, you can't do that anymore. otyou are going to have crowds. judy: rallies. >> you are not going to have rallies. i think it is frozen in time. the debateunday t nightes on greater importance. i would commend it bec nse there audience and i hope that would be the pattern for the. futu live audience brings out the worst in candidates. theyander, they look for applause lines, they taunt. il think this w be a serious debate between two people. idjoe carried every county in michigan. that was just sobering.

the turnout was up1% and it almost all went to biotin. bernie sande s wasck where he was in 2016. i don't know where the hope is for him. joe biden is ahead in the state of washington. >> i don't see much hope for bernie sanders. i would say the damic changes because sanders is running on a revoluti a. trump ran revolution. in a time ofandemic, you really need the establishment. the establishment is pretty good. you don't want to burn the system at a time when people are dyings and diseae spreading. the idea that the swamp is something you need, something that has hit you all very hard, and all of the trumpians essaying, where are the? if ever we knew why we needed the institutions of government, that is an example. judy: and sanders is saying that if ever there was a reminder al americans hright to health care, this is it.

just quick, heas set about these questions for joe biden, he clearly wants joeho biden, he seems to knowledge is going to win the nomination, to adopt >> i think probably the $15 an bernie sanders is going to make the case he's moved to the left. i don't think there is the acrimony of 2016. rnie sanders cannot say it was rigged. he participated in the change of the rules to limit the lew of superdelegates. and he made the case that someoneas who plurality ought to be the nominee and it is going to be -- the question is, can hbring his people with m? judy: but you do have, as both of you were saying, and other we have coronavirus in front of us, this presidential race takes a ckseat. >> it takes a backsndt becomes a very different races we begin to look for somebody who can actually run the

gornment. judy and with joe biden moving into the front, david, do we then just see the end of this we have a few more primaries coming tuesday. >> this was a lucky moment for it to happen in the political ocess. it is not a terrible thing to forget about politics for a little while and focus on something more important and i think the country wil do that and then hopefully this will be over by the summer or sometime and then we can refocus. >> it is going to end with a republican quote, a republican from new jersey, the political party which takes credit for the raid should not be surprised when its opponent. the fact is that donald trum has said all the increases in the stock market are because of policies and f

confidence in him. your 401(k)'s have doubled because of him. now, the drought has set in. irehink this is the one where donald trump has had positive from the majority of americans. 56% in the economy. judy: thank you.rdy. ♪ judy: and we will be back shortly. i want to shara thought to end this difficult week, but take a moment to hear from your local

kleenex, and paper towels are emp. several days ago, peopyi started all the hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes they could. it is understandable that we want to keep our families and remembering that this is timeh for the lucky, healthy ones to think of others.

mayb there is an elderly couple that did not get to the store as early as theype wantedaps someone with a disability or we immune system could not get there at all. this is a time for americans to show our best qualities. let's keep others who may not be as strong and resilient as we are in lin that is "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. please stay safe this weekend. thank you good night.>> major funding fors newshour" has been provided by -- fidelity investments. ♪ bsnf railway. consumer cellular. american cruise lines. the william and flora cler foundation. advancing ideas and supporting institutions tpromote a better world. ♪ >> supporting social

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