crum is furious. brandon: i think it was political. think i was probably finding too much black lung disesease n their state workers comp claims, and they wanted me to stop reading them. reporter: the new law is likely to reduce the number of patients who receive a diagnosis. and it will make it harder for them to get compensation on insurance claims or the federal benefits they would be entitled to. linda adams's husband died of black lung five years ago. the diagnosis was never in doubt. but their insurance company is refusing to pay their claim, playing for time before the courts. linda: and he said it's not fair. he told me, he said "no matter what you do, don't give up on blacack lung." but that's why he wanted that done, because he had all this other evidence, and with all thisis other evidence, they're still denying the claim. and then the autopsy report comes back. they said, "their doctor looked at it and this doctor was crazy." this girl's dad up here, this guy that used to live there in this next trailerette, he had black lu

but i think people have to remember that speaker pelosi is up against mitch mcconnell and donald crumhe's doing the very best she can under those circumstances. >> i do want to be clear, though, congressman. i don't want to give the implication that your district is all rich people. there's a lot of mixed income in silicon valley. cupertino is pretty flush. but depending where you look in santa clara, in some parts -- if you go just north of say fremont and milpitas, you have a lot of mixed income, some low income, east palo alto looks very different from palo alto. how is your district doing right now? >> i really appreciate your making that point. you are obviously familiar with the community. in fact, a lot of the movement of silicon valley rising for janitors and bus drivers and independent contractors started from my district. yes, we have apple and google and a lot of wealth. but we also have a lot of folks who are independent contractors and workers who aren't being able to afford the rent and who have been struggling frankly for the past decade. they have been very hard hit an

commissioner crum and dr. zink have along with the rest of the country been closely watching the virus migrate from china to the united states, early stages. and you might remember what happened when we -- when the state department brought our diplomats home from wuhan. a plane load of our diplomats were coming home, and they had to stop in alaska, in anchorage on january 28 for a refueling stop. now, we later learned that nobody on the plane actually had the virus but commissioner crum and dr. zink started to get our state ready. they prepared for the worst, contacting local and tribal medical facilities. they were in constant coordination with the c.d.c. they were in communications with all the state agencies and divisions and very, very importantly with the public. and this began their outreach to our citizens, and they've continued that frenzied pace every since, working day and night with the governor's office to try their best to keep the virus at bay, to keep our citizens healthy. and so far it's workin