judy:d gening, i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, evictions on hol in a surprise move, the trump administration fans evictions until the end of the year, but questions remain about rent payments. then, coronavirus on the rise, infections spike in iowa, promptg the white house to urge the governor to reimpose restrictions. plus, health care abroad. we visit switzerland to examine a system with market -- with universal coverage and market driven private coverage andpask how it cs to the u.s. >> the swiss have the lowest avoidable mortality rate, the lowest rate of people who die

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jsupported by tn dee and catherine t macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, d peaceful world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to our pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.ep nie: good evening, i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. we will return to judy woodrlf and the frogram after the latest headlines. the pandemic and public schools headlined the presidential campaign news tonight. democrat joe biden hammered away at president schools are facing a national emergency. in his hometown of wilmington,

delaware, he called out mr.tr p for failing to provide more aid. mr.s biden: this emergency, mr. president. donald trump and his fema should treat it as one. remr. president, where you? why aren't you working on this? we need emergency support funding for r schools and we need it now. stephanie: also today the biden campaign and democratic national committee recorded raisi a record of $364 million in augu. meanwhile president trump traveled to wilmington, north carolina, marking the 75th anniversary of the end of world war ii. he spoke at the battleship north caroli, now a floating museum and memorial. the presidt is threatening to take action against cities where protests are turning violent. tonight he directed the office of management and budget to

review federal funding of "jurisdictions that permit anarchy and violence," including seattle, portland, washington, d.c., and new york city. andrew cuomo called the threat an illegal stunt. attorney general wilarr echoed concerns by president trump that mail-in ballots for the election could be vulnerable to fraud in an interview, barr said ng by mail is reckless a dangerous and people are playing with fire. in previous elections, documented case of voter fraud have been rare. there isro word they virus vaccine could be ready by late october or early november for health care workers and high risk groups. the centers for ansease control prevention confirmed it has in all 50 states and five majors cities. the pandemic has sfar claimed 185,000 lives nationwide. germany says it has confirmed that russian dissident alexey

navalny was poison. navalny became violently ill and fell into a, las month in siberia and is in a hospital in berlin. german prime minister angela merkel announced today he has tested positive for nova chalk -- novichok, soviet era nerve agent. >> alexey navalny is the victim of a crime. he was meant to be silenced and i condemned this in the name of the entire german govt. we expect the russian government to expin itself or this incident. stephanie: the same nerve agent was used on a former russian spy and his daughter in bring in20 . moscow said today it is waiting to see the official findings. 14 people went on trialoday in france, accused of helping plan attacks on a satirical newspapeh and a supermarket in 2015. the islamist raids killed 17 people. all three gunmen died as well. a

the ner charlie hebdo had published cartoons mocking the prophet muhammad. lawys representing the paper said today the trial is about defendinfreedom against terror. >> [translated] that's what charlie hebdo is about -- theto refusal give up freedom of expression including blasphemy, criticizing ideologies, dogmas, religions. because if we give up, we are not anymore in a country with iofreedom of expre we would be in a country of fear, with a dark future. stephanie: most of the defendants say they did not understand the kind of crime they were helping ordinate. backtr in this coun two prominent democratic incumbents have been re-nominated in massachusetts. tsday, senator ed markey held off a challenge from fellow democrat, representative joe kennedy i. kennedy is the first of his famous family to lose an election in the bay state.ve and representaichard neal , the chair of the powerful house ways and means committee, defeated his progressive richallenger, alex m

to getting a new slag.p closer the old flag, featuring aed coate emblem, was retired two months ago. today a state commission recommend a new design featuring a magnolia. voters will decide whether to accept it in november. the congressional budget office is projecting a record federal budget deficit of $3.3 trillion for this fiscal year. that is three times larger than 2019 's, and it's driv pandemic losses and relief costs. arand legebaseball pitcher tom seaver has died. his careers spanned 20 ye until he retired. knowas the franchise and tom terrific, hehe ledational league in wins three times and helped turn the mets into the miracle mets. seaver was 73 and died of amplications from dementi covid-19. still to come, the trump

administration bans ictions until the end of the year, but questis remain about rent payments. cod infections spike in iowa, prompting the white hse towards the governor to impose restrictions. we break down the electoralha mp changed since 2016 as the race for the white house intensifies, plus much more. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the last, from the walter cronkite school of journalisme t arizona stiversity. judy:n unprecedented move, the trump administration announced a temporary national moratorium on evictions for tens of millions of renters who have lost work. the action comes through the centers for disease control, ich says fictions pose a health hazard during the pandemic. while this would stop many

evictions until the end of the year, thell rent is sue eventually. let's hear from some people dealing wi this, residents on the verge of eviction or where it is actually happening. >> my name is victoria lambert social security is $1000 aom month, and myent was $750, but they are now raising it $765. i read aut the moratorium getting extended. that may give some people an opportunity between now and december to amass some money to get current, but when you are always on the edge, you are still on the edge. >> my name is kyle pongratz. >> and my name is brittany pongratz. >> we got papers in the mail and a sheriff's deputy dropped him -- t droppm off to us for an

eviction crt hearing date. and we didn't know what to do. our heart opped. , october 1, everything has to be out by then. it's probably not going to help us because we've already made an agreement through the courts. i got $5 to my name until god knows when employment comes through. we've got six kids between us and that's going to go really, really fast. >> you really you're at the end of the string here, man. like what what do you do? >> mname is doug quattrocchi and i am a small landlord. i have three rental units in worcester. i live in one of them. the eviction moratorium the cdc enacted makes sense om a health point of view, but it dodges the fundamental question, which is how we ultimately going to payutor this. justng temporary bandaids on isn't going to work, when we knew at thstart of this we were going to need stitches. judy: for a look at what

prompted the cdc's action and who it will not help, we turn to diane yentel, president of the national low income housing coalition, a non-profit advocacy group. thank you for joining us. this new moratorium make? cane: thanks for having me. ld make a tremendous difference. it is an extraordinary and unprecedented action the cdc is d taking, it is upheld by the courts, it will save lives. it could prevent tens of millions o people from losing their homes during a pandemic. judy: i saw a number, something like 20 million to 30 million people are potentially on the brink of eviction. are all of them going to be helped? we just heard from that one couple who said they already had a court date set, they were going to be outn october. does this save everybody dealing with this? diana: it doesn't quite protect everybody.

we were predicting as many as 30 million to 40 million people in about 17 million households are at risk of losing their hes by the end of the year if congress act.he admintration didn't this eviction moratorium the cdc is putting into place will protect the vast majority of low income renters who are at risk of eviction due to covid-19. there are some egibility requirements and actions that renters need to take in order to have this protection, so in order to be protected a renter needs to have a certain income, an individual with an incomele than $90,000 a year, or a household wi an income less than $190,000 a year. that is about 96% of all renters would meet that eligibility requirement. renters would also have to attest they ha lost income or have extraordinary health care

costs. tothey would hav attest they have done everything they can to pay the rent and will continue to do everything they can to pay the rent, and they would have to attest that if they are evicted, they woues face homelessn or have to double or triple up with family or friends. if they meet those requirements, the renter needs to sign a statement to say so, give it to theirdl ld, and then they are protected under this effect on friday.to take judy: so there are steps they need to take actively themselves. it could be in a matter ofs d they have to get it done if they are facing eviction in the very a:near term. di absolutely. this order takes effect beginning on fridays and t declarative statement that renters need to sign is the first step renters should take, and they should take it asoon as possible, on friday.

sign eight declarative statement they need the eligibility requirements, give it to their landlord, and make sure they received this protection if they are eligible.ev if renters live in a state that has some evictionri moras in place, this order acts as a floor. if there are places that have stronger eviction moratoriums for more renters, those are what take president. but if there are renters in areas where there are no eviction moratoriums or very weak moratoriums, this moratorium wl protect them. dy: we just heard from the landlord who owns three units. he said this is just a temporary g to-aid, the money is go come due what about landlord's were not wealthy but are counting on this rental income themselves? what hapnso them? ana: that's absolutely right. eviction moratorium is

essential, but it is a half measure. it does not preventive actions, it delays them. it buys us some time to keep people housed and get congress and the white house to get backt to work to nte on a final covid-19 spending bill that offers a true solution to this eviction crisis. that is emergency ntal assistance. rent is still going to be due at the end of this moratorium and low income renters are not going to be ab to afford it, anymore than they are now. we don't want l income renters to be settled with more debt at the same time, smallpoff. landlord's rely on rental income to pay their bills and keep the lights on and continue to maintain and operate their properties. and smal landlords who house low income renters are the ones struggling the most rit now. emergency rental assistance

absolutely has to beaired with this eviction moratorium and resources.ess can provide those dy: and so far that has not happened. we are still waiting to see what, if anything, congress will do. it cerinly answered some questions but raised a number of others. diane yentel,f presidentthe national low incomeng hou coalition, thank you so much. diana: thank you for having me. ♪ judy: now let's focus on a covid hotspot in the midwest. iowa is dealing with a surge of cases in recent weeks, along uch as arby states north dakota, south dakota and kansas. iowa has one of the fastest-growing rates in the country at the moment. amna nawaz has a report from there. amna: thanks, judy.

that surge in iowa has been driven i school, including the state's major universities. o. kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa and she appears regularly on iowa pbs. she joins me now from des moines. twelcome bathe newshour. let's jump in because the numbers are worth highlighting areas statewide, iowa has more than 66,000 cases, more than 1100 deaths. it inot the infection volumetr bling experts, it is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa is triple the national average. kay: there was -- amna: there w a pre conference about this earlier today. how would you describe the e response to test troubling figures? kay: the white house coronavirus task force has been advising states on ways to mitigate the spread of the virus. the taskhi forcepast week recommended iowa close bars in

61 of its counties and have a statewidete man for face coverings in public places. the governor has resisted both of those things, but last week she did close bars in six of iowa's counties. three of those are in the populous places,an pokdallas counties. glynn county, where cedar rapids is. and then in the college communities where the big state universities are located. amna: let me ask more about thas beexperts have said community transmission remains high in university towns. when you look at the county around the university of iowa, there was a surge in positivity rates in a matter of weeks. on august 2, the positivity rate was 9.9%. by august 23, that had jumpe to .7%. what happened here?

wa there not enough mitigation put in place before? were those steps not enough? kay: many folks in iowa work in the health industry had hoped students would be tesd as they we returned to campus and then put in quarantine. but the university decided not to test students who were returning, but students have exposed to positive cases. amna: let me ask you about story county, where iowa state university is. lathere were for a football game next week. governor reynolds was fsked about thtball game and the plan to allow fans to attend in the press conference here is what she said. >> if you have underlying conditions and are part of a vulnerable population, maybe i wouldn't go to the iowa state football game next week. it's 25,000 out of a capacity of 61,500. it is outdoors. they should, i'm sure, wear a

mask, and if we see an impact, then we'll have to adjust accordingly. don't go. if you don't think it's safe, jumped out. amna: that was at noon eastern. three hours later, plans changed and the university said no fans would be allowed. what happened behind the scenes? iswho is driving dn-making? kay: the iowa state athletics rector made the announcement 90 minutes after the governor made the statement your viewer just heard. he said in his written statement that the university president had reached out to people in the community, heard theirce cs, and reversed course, meaning there will be no fans when iowa state has its home opener. the story county board of public health h been urging university officials to have games without fans. and last night there was a lethy city council meeting in ames, whereen citwere expressing either outrage or support of a city mandate that

people wear face coverings in ames. it passed, it goes into effect on friday. because of the governor's public health dlarations, that prevents cities and counties from enforcing local mandates, so there will be no penalty for not wearing a face mask, although there is an ordinance saying folks should. amna: i have to ask you briefly, republican senator joni ernst has cast doubt on the death toll , saying it is likely overstated, even though expertsh saopposite. is that doubt reflective of people's concerns on the ground in iowa? kay: i was hearing from conservative republicans in the state legislature as early as april that they were casting doubts about the number of covid debts being reported way back then. as you mentioned, 1100 deaths in iowa have been attributed to covid. senator ernst mentioned she has heard from people in the health

care industry that hospitals are misdiagnosing people as having covid in order to get higher payments for the care of those patients. i have reachsp out to the al association here and to thstate medicaid program. neither of them have responded to that accusation. amna: we should point out that exrts seem to agree the death unt is actually undercounted nationwide in this pandec. thank you so much,. k kay: thank you. ♪ judy: the generallection season is officially in full swing and both presidential apcampaigns areng their path november. but shifting demogrephics and a iverse electorate have changed the voting picture in many ws since 2016.

to help walk us through some changes, i am joined by npr's senior political editor d correspondent, domenico montanaro. let's start by talking about the voters. people that make up the electorate. tell us how that electorate has chand. mow does it look different f 2016?domenico: i was curious abh because so many people keep talking about the election as if it is the same as the 2016 i talked to the demographer at brookings and he walked me through some of the big changes. the biggest one is that white working-class to 2020 have dropped four points. theyent from 45% to 41% as a share of eligible voters. meanwhile if you look at white voters with a college degree and latinos, each of thoseave

gained two points each overall. if you combine white voters with collegeegree and latinos, overwhelmingly democratic, and pit them against white voterst withcollege degree, who vote overwhelmingly for president trump, you see the gap has almost complety vanished from 2016, when white voterseg without a co degree had a nine point advantage over white voters with a college ds.ree and lati we are seeing a big change and president trump's base is really shrinking. judy: so interesting. let's zero in on the states that are most competitive, the states where the candidates are focusing most of their s tention. what are the iss the ground? what does it look like? domenico: if you look at our etttleground map, there are 16 states in the coive category. we talk about states that lean toward president trump, tossup states, and states that lean

toward joe biden. you can see within those states, the trend continues. when you look at white voters without a college degree, in 14 of those 16 competitive states, you seeut whites wit degree on the decline. conversely, you see latinos on the rise inho 12 of 16 states. some big changes, big shifts, and it is part owhy you see in arizona, where you have two differing reasons for states to be competitive. in wisconsin, a rust belt states that wer close in 2016, you have whites without a college degree down five point and yet whites with a college that's the real ballgame. latinos are down in wisconsin, but if you look at arizona, totally different story.

you have white working-class voters without a college degree wn and latinos up makes points. the big difference here as far as 2016 to 2020 and why joe biden is competitive is latinos. they now make up about a third of the overall eligibleer v in arizona. a thing to keep in md, this is no about who is going to vote. this is just who is eligibleo with 31% of latinos in arizona being eligible to vote, that's a big difference from 2016 when they only made up 15% of the electorate. judy: one voting block getting a lot of attention this year, suburban vots, especially women. we know president trump won suburban voters in 2016, but the midterms saw a change in the suburbs. what does it look like now? domenico: there has been a huge shift.

in016, president trump won suburban voters7 narrowly, to 45 when you look at the pew center validat voter survey. 2020, when you look at our poll, you have joe biden with a 61-36 advantage in the suburbs if those numbers hold, it makes it difficult for the president to win reelection. campaign manager's talk to, republicans, in these competitive house races, why would these states continue to be competitive when these are republican leaning suburban districts? that's why, because president trump is a drag at the top of the ticket for them. the g group he can try out his white voters without a college degree. they only turn out -- turned out at a 58%ate in 2016. there is room for them toca grow e that is on par and even

down from past presidential elections. judy: a lot of wildcards, but important information. thank you so much. domenico: you are welcome, thanks for having me. ♪ judy: 2016 was only the beginning. the threats from hacking and interference to the november election from foreign governments are growing as we move closer to november. nick schiffrin explores the latest we know about russia's role. nick: the internet resech agency was a troll farm, a sock puppet army of fake online accounts andutomated bots, spreading synchronized talking points. today facebook and thecy independenrsecurity firm graphika say members of that peacedata, which bills itself as a global news organizas on. its store designed to criticize biden from the left to steer possible voters away from

his campaign. it was also hostile to trump, revealing the main russian goal remains theame, sow division. but one difference this time, they are trying to hire americans, an attempt to lauer the russian origins of the disinformation. we turn now to the primary author of that graphika report, ben nimmo, the firm's director of investigations. laundering, the source of disinfa mation. it ivorite tool of russia, soviet disinformation, long before. how did it work in this case? ben: you have an organization built around a website called peacedata, which published in english and arabic. it named its members of staff, editor, editorial assistance, and all of those were fake personas. they had all beente invby the operators behind this network. akthey all hadprofile picturesenerated by ai.

rather than using these fake personas to write stories themselves, they used them to ntact freelance journalists from around t world, including the united states, and say, would you likeo write for us? itms shey hired quite a few different different countries to write stories which then went on the website. the operation itself had accounts on facebook and it wouldse these social media. accounts to plant these stories in front of receptive audiences. on facebk once the operation had got freelancers to write the stories it was intereste i it would use its own facebook accounts to post two groups that it thought would be important targets. the kind of groups it was targeting were veryh m progressive groups, groups that focused on demratic socialism, dem exit, some vironmental

groups in the mix. you can w see the proce, get somebody else to write the story so it looksnt aut, then use the fake accounts to drop it in geont of the communities they are trying to t nick: one of the other evolutions you write about is the inteet research agency has changed in the last years. it is ewing fewer, more targeted accounts than in 2016. what does that say about how efforts are evolving? ben: it looks like they are trying harder with each persona, partly because they are having to. if you think back to 2016, the internet research agency was running hundreds of accounts on different platforms with only a paperthin attempt at having an identity. what has happened since then is multiples rounds of takedo different platforms, multiple exposure of different ways the information -- the internet research agency has been working. with the election coming up, the hunt is on.

eris a whole community of researchers inside and outside the platforms who are looking for this kind of fake accnt activity. the operators behind this particular network were having to try harder to create a persona that would withstand the test, so they ve the same rsona on the website, twitter, and linkedin. they tried to give a biography, a personality. still, it wasn't enough to stop them getting caught. that really tells you something important aut -- if you like the way the game has shifted nce 2016. in 2016 it was almost painfully easy for the internet research agency to r these fake accounts and get awawith it. since that it has been getting harder nick: onac the one hand,ook says the fact that this particular site had so few audience members is time -- a sign they are doing well cracking down on this.

on the other hand, the fbi tipped facebook off about jhis content y. is facebook doing enough fast enough? ben: in 2016, the operation that targeted the u.s. election was finally exposed the september after the election. th time we have seen an operation taken down across multiple platforms in cooperation withaw enforcement the september before the election. that's a really important difference, catching it before it can reach the day it is targeting is much more effective than a year down the line. nick:ld we shention that peacedata has supposedly responded to thesericisms, saying it is evidence th facebook and the fbi wan to "shut up independent, left-wing voices." is that part of the disinformation playbook? ben: that is sometyng we see ev timthere is an exposure of an information opn. they will try to raise protest

and say, we are not an guys are.on disinformation, you i have seen it with various operations that have been taken down. it is part of the olling game. what will be interesting is if anybody fas for it. this website operated by running fakeersonas with fake profile pictures, it has takpa down the ba on the website where these fake profile pictures were being displayed, but that is website archives.the operation n part of what it is doing. if their claim isre that we last poor, oppressed journalists, the remains, why were you using aict generatd es in the first place? they don't have an answer, which is why they were trying to hide the evidence. nick: thank you very much. ben: thank you. ♪

dy: we return now to our special series on universal health care. since the pandemica began growing number of americans think the u.s. health care system is below average compared to other nations. that is according to our latest pbs newshour poll. as the u.s. considers changes, lliam and jason traveled to switzerland, which has preseined the privatrance market while still achieving universal coverage. this story was filmed before the pandemic erupted. >> the swiss shop for heth insurance a lot like they shop for their groceries. there is a wide array of choices. this cheese or that one? the one with the high deductibl

or the one we high premium? for all swiss families, like the prestons, it is a system that in some ways is even more market-driven than o own. but the big difference? everyone here is covered. the idea behind it is what's known as social solidarity, and it is what impressja american-born, who is a teacher, when he moved here and married sabinay, who is swiss. >> for me it's just sort of a tbasic right, and they se appreciate that. william: do you s it that way? i know that the swiss talk about it that way, do buy that ideaat ealth care is a right? jason: yes, because, i mean yeah, again, coming from where i come from, there's this sort of negativity in the states t yt, you know, 're poor then it's almost like you deserve to die for being poor. it's like you are being punished for circumstances outside your control. it may not be said like that exquisitely, but that's the vibe. you can't afford it, you don't serve to be well. william: health insurance in

switzerland is costly. jason and sabine pay about 16% of their income on premiums. top of that, the average swiss pays more out pocket for things like co-pays than the average american. but the prestons like the care they get, and they like buying into a system that protects everyone jason: here it's a bit more humane. it's like look, there's a basic level of care that people deserve. it costs, but you . ill deserve and i think that the swiss government's commitment to that is spot on. william: this is one of the men who helped degn that system. thomas zeltner was switzerland's state secretary of health for many years, and is now a consultant to e government and, until recently, chaired one of the country's private insurance companies. >> in the 1990's, there was debate on, is health care such an essential part of well-being counteling safe in your and in your neighborhood, that

you want tt everyone has access to it? it was something like 70% of the population who said we want that. william: wow, that is a resounding yes. zeltner says one of the crucial innovations was separating health insurance from employment from employment, which has allowed the swiss to keep their health insurance during the pandemicwhile millions of americans are losing theirs when they le their jobs. they've been able to separate the two, but instead of making the government the single payer arke in the u.k., they have made it so that a widy of insurance companies can flourish. >> and the fun thing is you cann choosei just told a nd, you know, i can choo to go to the barber here, or there. since 30 years i go to the same barber. [laughter] william: he does a nice job. >> but the option to be able to

choose is kind of a freedom. william: this is all now baked into, socie as swiss as this country's famously punctual rail system. there areoughly 60 private compan, s selling plansbut theve swiss ment does take a firm hand in regulation. it mandates bac coverage all plans must include, and the government sets the prices that can be charged for medications and procures. depending on the plan they choose, the swiss can pick tir own doctors and avoid needing referrals for specialists. wait times for procedures are low, in part because doctors gel paid there's a lot of them, and the system is competitive. i met up with new york iversity's victor rodwin he's a health policy expertwh o's traveling across the country studying its health care syst >> the swiss have the lowest avoidable mortality rate, which means mortality enable to health care intervention.

it means the lowest rate of people who died shouldn't die. hathe u.sthe highest. onlliam: the swiss live about fiveears longe average than we do, and they are a lot healthier, suffeng far lower rates of asthma, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. rodwin credits part of that to swiss health care, a system which polls incredibly well here. >> ty express high confidenc in the medical profession and high confidence that if a problem occurs, they know they are covered. there's a sense of quality in this country, which goes from chocolate to cheese, to watches. and in healthe, ct's the same. they do things carefully and atq generally highlity. william: swiss officials say there's another main reason they achieve these results -- ites requirveryone, like mel hirsig, to have insurance, no excuses. it's similar to the individual mandatwith the affordable care mandate has sharp teeth. this

the government will garnish your wages if you don't comply. that's partly how they get to universal coverage, but for young people like hirsig who don't need a lot of medical care, it can seem like a big position. so what happens --f you don't buy the insurance, what happens to you? >> well, it's also like you have to be registered to get a job, you have to have an address, you have to then shothe local council office your proof of health insurce and blah blah ah. so they can chase you down quite sily. willia oh really? and if the government wasn't forcing you to buy healt insurance, do you think you would buy it anyway? >> no, i wouldn't have it. william: just because that monthly cost is too much? >> and because i don't use it. i don't get my money's worth out of it. william: the government offers premium subsidies for lower itincome workers, an caps

yearly out-of-pocketso expenses, unlike the u.s., people rarely go bankruptbirom medical lls. >> that's the list of all your debt.william: but those premiumn sometimes lead to serious debt for middle income families. this woman didn't want her name revealed because of the stigma around debt. her husband had multiple surgeries, lost his job, and their income dried up. >> we were getting subsidies to insurance, but we still had to pay a large portion ourselves. william: and even with the subsidy, it still was unfordable. >> at the time it was unaffordable fors, yes. i think it is expensive, but i think thhealth care is also very good. wiiam: so even though the costs put you at real financial peril, you still see some benefit to the system? >>au b i see that if everybody pays into health e,insurat makes the quality of health insurance better for

the populaon. william: brown university's dr. ashish jha studies health arre systemnd the world, and he traveled with us for this series as a collaborator. >> i think what's really remarkable about what we've seen here in switzerland is it's a totally different model for achieving univerl health coverage, getting -- making sure everybody has cess to health care, providing high-quality care, in a way that's so different from what the u.k. does through the national health service, and actually in many ways pretty different om the u.s. approach. william:haotes the u.s. of course is a much bigger nation than switzerland, has a higher poverty rate, and ths have a more robust safety net. but there more. >> that is kind of the rule-following mentality of the swiss. the government says you must buy health insurance, and everybody says, yes, ok, we will buy as opposed to america, where we bristle when the government tells us we have to do anything.

and we bring up the broccoli argument. what if the government made you eabroccoli? the swiss don't worry about tting broccoli. they think, if government thinks that something we should do, we will do it. it allows the iss health system to function differently than the u.s. william: for the record, the preston girls, not big fans of broccoli, but sabine and jason are fine with it. they also know the insurance mandate costs them a lot, but they see it as part of the greater good, part of being swiss. for the pbs newshour, i'm erlliam brangham in oberhofen am thunersee, switzland. ♪ judy: stay with us to see how a st. louis brass band is offering songs of hope in this pandemic

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judy: finally tonight, as neighbors continue to try to socially distance yet connect in some fashion, the red and black brass band in st. louis has found a way to bring music to the streets of its hometown. local station ketcs produced t story as part of our canvas series. >> ♪ ♪ >> were the red and black brass band and we are coming to your neighborhood. ♪ >> i never thought i would ben n

a situatke a pandemic, that we would be playing while >> my roommate knocked on my door and asked if i wanted to go outside and play because we had been cooped up in the house for so long. >> wen' 'do this to be disruptive. ♪ >> got the tuba, got the trombone. we just played with the neighborhood. the next day our building manager told us we went viral on twitter. we hadn't noticed.th afte we decided, let's put the ole band together and gn this thing othe road. ♪ >> i have ne it before. growing up in south louisiana, mardi gras and all those things.

that's always a joy. but not for somethingike a pandemic. >> ♪ when the saints go marching in ♪ >> we don' announce because we are worried more people would show up. >> hopefully we n continue to bring good music toeoe. >> ♪ i want to be in that number when the saints go marching in ♪ judy: bringing the brass to the streets of st. louis. on theewshour line, we talk to two poets about the anniversary of hurrica katrina and how they found resilience in writing despite everything that was lost. that's on pbs.org/newshour. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. join us tonight and tomorrow morning. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we will see you soon.

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