captioning sponsored by wnet >> sreenivasan: on this edition for saturday, february 27: >> the bill is passed without objection. the moon to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> sreenivasan: president biden's american rescue plan passes the house. a third coronavirus vaccine is expected to roll out in days. and, in our signature segment, amsterdam's museums innovate as covid closures continue. next, on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: sue and edgar wachenheim iii. the anderson family fund. bernard and denise schwartz. the cheryl and philip milstein family. barbara hope zuckerberg. the leonard and norma klorfine foundation.

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joe biden's $1.9 trillion covid- 19 relief package. >> the bill is passed without objection. the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. >> sreenivasan: the bill, known as the american rescue plan, passed 219 to 212 on a near party-line vote two democrats voted no along with all republicans. the bill is the third stimulus package approved by the house since the start of the pandemic. it includes $1,400 stimulus payments to individuals who make less than $75,000 a year, or couples making less than $150,000. it extends federal unemployment benefits through august and increases weekly payments from $300 to $400. the bill allocates close to $70 billion for coronavirus testing, contact tracing, and vaccine distribution, and would authorize almost $170 billion for schools and universities, and an additional $350 billion in state and local government aid. the legislation also increases

the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, but that may be cut when the bill goes to the senate next week. in very brief remarks this morning, president biden urged a quick vo. >> the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long. we need to relieve that suffering. the american rescue plan does just that-- relieves the suffering. and it's time to act. thank you all for being here. i appreciate it. >> sreenivasan: a third covid-19 vaccine is being readied for rollout in the u.s. this weekend. yesterday, a panel of experts unanimously recommended approval for use of johnson & johnson's one-dose vaccine. in a statement, the food and drug administration said it will move quickly to grant an emergency authorization and the centers for disease control and prevention is expected to issue final approval tomorrow. johnson & johnson said it expects to ship the first doses early next week, and will be able to deliver 20 million doses by the end of march. >> sreenivasan: with new vaccine the horizon, expectations are high that

president biden's goal of getting 100 million vaccines into arms in his first 100 days is closer to being met. but as kaiser health news correspondent rachana pradhan explains, the new doses are a step toward that goal, but not a panacea. so rachana, this week, we've heard a lot about johnson & johnson and the promise that it holds the single shot. there's supposed to be millions of doses, and peop are kind of expecting a quick fix here. t this in perspective for us. >> wellthe johnson & johnson vaccine will definitely add to the u.s.'s arsenal, if you will, of available shots for people. but i think that it's also important to acknowledge that we are far from being able to vaccinate everyone who wants to be vaccinated. initially, johnson & johnson says upon receiving the necessary authorizations from federal officials, they'll be ready to ship immediately about four million doses.

and by the end of march, they say, they'll be able to provide 20 million doses. so that's 20 million people who could get vaccinated by the end of march with johnson & johnson. but as with our earlier vaccines from pfizer and moderna, these things don't come at the flick of a light switch. it takes time, a lot of effort and a lot of very tight regulations and scientific precision to vaccinate as many people as we need to and to produce the doses we need. give us a breakdown, for example, of the supply chain that's required to get the vaccines made. but we dknow that historically with vaccine production, you need raw materials, you need capacity in your manufacturing plants. and we know that there are certain bottlenecks that are likely to happen or that the pharmaceutical companies need to overcome. and one of the big ones is, a challenge historically, has been kind of toward the tail end of the process. when you get to finishing your doses, putting them in vials and

packaging it that we know is and has been an issue for pfizer and moderna both and with johnson & johnson. they've also, biden administration officials have said that johnson and johnson was behind on their manufacturing, in part because of needing to source raw materials, but also equipment. >> sreenivasan: the administration set out some ambitious goals early on and aying what they hope to accomplish, how many people they hope to have vaccines accessible to, are we likely to hit those goals? i mean, put the number of vaccines into perspective here. >> i do think that the goals that the biden administration have announced for how many americans they want to vaccinate in the first 100 days of presidenbiden's presidency are doable. but that being said, especially when we look at pfizer and moderna, they have openly acknowledged and they will have to significantly ramp up their manufacturing capacity compared to what they have been doing historically. pfizer, for example, has about six weeks to provide 80 million doses, they provided 40 million

doses in roughly two months to the u.s. government. moderna's is similar compared to what they were manufacturing in january. we know that they made about 19 million doses and that's not enough. if that doesn't increase for them to meet their promised 100 million doses by the end of march. >> sreenivasan: what about just availability? but we hear from lots of different parts of the country that it's not nearly as accessible as it should be if not getting deployed as fast as it can. and i think one of the unique challenges that i want to highlight here, states now increasingly are moving toward opening up vaccinations to broader segments of the us population, but the supply is not there. so it's going to become

potentially for the foreseeable future, even more of a so-called hopefully towardate spring and summer, we'll start to see some greater progress. >> sreenivasan: rachana pradhan from kaiser health news, thanks so much. >> thank you so much. >> sreenivasan: for the latest national and international news, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. >> sreenivasan: the f.b.i. has reportedly identified a suspect in the death of u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick who was injured during the january 6 attack on congress and later died. citing two unnamed law enforcement officials who were briefed on the investigation, the "new york times" reported yesterday that new video points to an individual attacking several officers with bear spray, including sicknick. according to the "times," f.b.i. agents suspect that the 42-year- old officer's death was related to inhalation of a chemical irritant, such as mace or bear spray. officials cited in the report say video evidence shows the unnamed suspect discussing attacking the officers with bear spray before the attack. medical examiners have not ruled

on the cause or manner of sicknick's death pending the results of toxicology tests. in colorado yesterday a man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue in 2019. 28-year-old richard holzer was arrested in 2019 in an undercover f.b.i. sting after agents saw his social media posts promoting white supmacist violence. holzer pleaded guilty to attempting to destroy the temple emanuel synagogue in pueblo, colorado with an explosive to stop people from exercising their religion. judge raymond p. moore described holzer's life as filled with violent and hateful imagery, and described the case as dripping with nazism and supremacy. the anti-defamation league mountain states region says the bomb plot against colorado's second oldest synagogue was one of 61 anti-semitic harassment and vandalism cases it tracked in 2019. in myanmar, protests continued today in several cities against the military coup that ousted

the civilian-led government. in central myanmar, police fire tear gas at protestors forcing many to flee. in yangon, police cracked down on demonstrators who gathered to chant and sing, calling for the country's detained civilian leader, aung san suu kyi to be released. one protestor said she came out to show support for myanmar's ambassador to the united nations who made an impassioned plea for help from the international community yesterday. according to myanmar state tv, the ambassador was fired today. security forces arrested demonstrators across the country as the coup continues to bring hundreds of thousand of protestors into the streets. >> sreenivasan: a patchwork of covid-19 related regulations applies to museums around the world. in new york and rome, museums are open, but they're closed in paris, london and amsterdam. this week, the netherlands prime minister announced the country's lockdown will be extended until march 15, keeping museums there closed and forcing them to find new ways to survive without visitors. special correspondent megan thompson reports.

>> reporter: corona times in amsterdam. the city's miles of canals are still beautiful, but quiet. popular squares like the normally-bustling rembrandtplein, deserted. and the city's museums, more than 140 in all, closed because of covid, including the world famous van gogh museum. in 2019, there were 2.1 million visitors. 85% coming from abroad to see masterworks like "sunflowers." today, that gallery is empty, as are all the other galleries filled with priceless pieces by van gogh. >> we're here in the middle of the day, and to see it so quiet, it's a real shock. it's kind of an introduction. it's all about his self-portraits, as you can see. >> reporter: emilie gordenker had been the van gogh museum's new general director for just six weeks, when covid hit. >> normally, we would have generated about $4.1 million a month in ticket sales, and that went to nothing. so, we really had to move fast.

so, we canceled building projects. we looked at our exhibition program. we looked at ongoing and temporary contracts that we had with personnel and really cut it down to an absolute minimum. >> reporter: three separate government-mandated lockdowns forced museums in the netherlands to close for a total of 110 days last year and for all of this year so far. dutch museums were allowed to open briefly last june with strict social distancing rules in place. it's one thing for a museum like the van gogh to enforce safe distances in its large galleries; it's a trickier problem for another one of amsterdam's most famous museums: the anne frank house. >> the house and the hiding place was right up here. >> reporter: newshour toured the museum with executive director ronald leopold. this is where 13-year-old anne, her family and four others, all jewish, hid from the nazis during world war ii. the house is a maze of narrow staircases and small rooms.

>> so, this is anne's room. this is where she was in hiding. >> reporter: the room where anne slept is less than seven feet wide. >> there was a small table right there where she sat and wrote in her diary. as you can see, it's a small room. >> reporter: that means even when they do reopen, as long as social distancing is in place, only about 25% of the people who normally visit will be allowed in. many major dutch museums are hanging on with a combination of cash reserves, endowments and donations. the dutch government has also stepped in with millions in subsidies to help cover lost revenue and salaries. still, there have been layoffs. >> i'm very happy about the way the government is supporting us in these times. it's just not enough. we had to lay off about 20% of our staff. we don't know when social distancing will end. we don't know if and how international travel will pick up. covid, to us, is a financial disaster.

>> reporter: in a survey among the 450 or so members of the dutch museum association, 30% of the participants said they might not last another year. three have already closed permanently, including two small museums on amsterdam's historic herengracht canal. >> the building is fm 1675, so this is a twin building, and we had this building. >> reporter: for five years, the dutch costume museum was a labor of love for jolanda van den berg. she poured thousands of dollars into renovating and decorating the 17th century canal house and was looking at 2020 being a banner year. then, covid hit. >> this was the room of volendam. we had every region, with traditional costumes-- we gave every region their own room. this was zeeland. >> reporter: as the owner of a private museum with a volunteer staff, she did not qualify for government assistance.

>> it's very empty now. >> reporter: in july, on the verge of bankruptcy, she realized she couldn't make it. >> this is the first time i cried about it. but it's good it's over because nobody stops covid so... >> reporter: part of coping with covid has meant dutch museums thinking of new ways to stay relevant by offering mostly free virtual tours. even though the museums in the netherlands are closed right now, youan visit a lot of them online. one of them is the rijks museum, the national museum of the netherland i'm here in a beautiful grand hallway full of dutch art. all around me, i have a 360-degree view here of this hall, and many of the paintings have an option to click on them and learn more. >> in the 17th century, rembrandt van rijn created a

masterpiece packed with secrets, "the nightwatch." >> reporter: you can actually get a pretty good sense of the museum, a sense of the space and also learn a huge amount about the contents in it. another museum, in eindhoven, a city south of amsterdam, is taking virtual tours one step farther. >> this is a telepresence robot, and with this robot you can log in from anywhere in the world with your mobile device or with your laptop and steer the robot around in the museum. >> reporter: i was curious to take the tour myself. first step: logging on from my home office in minnesota with special software. >> hi! >> reporter: hello, good morning. >> good morning! >> reporter: the guide, marleen hartjes, can see me, and i can see her. thank you so much for having me. this is amazing. i'm like basically right there with you. i use controls on my computer to navigate my way around.

>> the building is very big so we do a quick run through. >> reporter: okay. yes. oops. >> so, look at this painting. what do you see? >> reporr: what do i see? i think i see a woman. >> what makes you say it's a woman? >> reporter: maybe the hair. maybe the face? >> yes! this is a famous work by pablo picasso. the work is called "femme en vert." >> reporter: whedid picasso paint this? >> this is an artwork from 1909, so we are going to go that way. >> reporter: hartjes says the robot was originally introduced in 2015 to help give people with disabilities virtual access to the museum's collection of contemporary art, but it's gotten more traction because of covid. this is pretty unique. >> yeah. it's still pretty unique. and we're still the only ones in europe. and i got, like, phone calls

every week, asking questions on how does it work, what do you need, what does the museum need to use it? i find this quite a funny story, and also... >> reporter: the van abbemuseum charges about $16 for an individual robot tour and about $50 for a group tour with a guide, but it's more of a public service than a money maker. and while hartjes is glad she's been able to continue giving tours with the robot, she's hoping the day the museum reopens and live visitors will come very soon. >> sreenivasan: katrina adams has been a force both on the tennis court and in the boardroom. she was the youngest and first black person to become c.e.o., chairman and president of the united states tennis association. in her new book, "only arena," she details how her experiences helped prepare her for leadership.

newshour weekend's christopher booker spoke with her about the book and being tested both on and off the court. is this a book about your playing career? is this a book about your time as president of u.s.t.a.? >> it's a combination of everything. i like to say it's kind of like a "this is us" book. reflect on how the lessons i've learned through playing tennis, growing up in the sport, experiences that i had, kind of relate to or prepared me for different moments that i talk about in the book. it's more of a leadership book. you know there's 12 chapters, so i call them 12 winning match points or 12 takeaways, if you will, as to how you can take some of these stories and put them into your own life. >> reporter: so how does your experience as a player and how does that translate to leadership? >> well, you know, i think i'm very fortunate as a as a tennis player in particular, as an

individual sport. you know, you're out there alone. you have to figure things out. you're leaing tactical skills, strategic skills. you're building your self- confidence, your self-esteem-- you know, i open up the book reflecting on the 2018 women's u.s. open final withsaka and serena williams and the moments after the match being on the dais where my words were misconstrued by many people. hese two weeks, you two have shown your power, your grace, and your will to win. perhaps is not the finish that we were looking for today, but serena, you are a champion of all champions. just being in that spotlight, in that moment, having to think on my toes and stay calm, and poised in my delivery and in my intent and so that was a

situation where i feel that tennis, as well as my broadcasting experience, i was able to fire that up. >> reporter: yeah, i can imagine sitting there and kind of getting yourself into the headspace of like, ok, i've been down a point. it's aatch point. this is this is a different kind of pressure, but maybe this isn't the same kind of pressure. >> oh, it was very different, but-- but it's rewarding. part of the twelve points is, you know, owning your table. you know, don't just have a seat at the table, own the table and not so much as saying, ok, because you're the chairman of that board, that you're owning it. but it's really owning your presence at that table, owning your knowledge, owning your input when you're at the table, and not just kind of sitting back and being shy. you're invited to the table for a reason. make sure you own that opportunity. >> reporter: was there a moment in your management and business career where you came to that revelation of ownership? >> i've kind of ascended through an unorthodox way, i mean, i

didn't go to business school. i didn't really go into corporate america. you know, i've, really tennis has been my life and so all the experiences that i've learned have been through that. obviously in tennis, you know, practice makes perfect. so you go out with different tactics, different strategies, et cetera and you had that coach that you're relying on that you're working with to get advice from. so i don't have a problem getting advice from anyone. i know what i don't know and i think that's the beauty of recognizing my weaknesses so that i can become stronger. >> sreenivasan: that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. for the latest news updates, visit www.pbs.org/newshour. i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. stay healthy, and have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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