for the "pbs newshour" i'm jeffrey brown at the daasse of art.udy: on "newshour" online, right now, 12 tapestries desied by the renaissanceap masterel have all been returned to the sistine chapel for the first time in nearly five centuries. take a closer look on our web site, pbs.org/newshour. stations, "frontline" examines the ascent of the world's j richest maf bezos. who is leading amazon's deliveru of endless ps, entertainment services and technology innovations to swipe.ers with just a simple but at what price? "frontline's" "the rise and reign of jef bezos," tonight at 9:00 and 8:00 central. and that is "newshour" for tonight. on wednesday, from las vegas, a preview of the next democratic debate. join us again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at "e pbs on.shour,"hank you and see you announcer: mngor funor the pbs newshour has been provided by -- >> collette guides traveler to expanse the world in more than 160 destinations, across five travel styles like small-group explorations. the inclusive tours feature local guides, cultural experi

jeffrey brown went to dallas to see the nation's largest street choir at work.is part of our occasional series on homelessness, wit a home, and our ongoing coverage of arts and culture, canvas. ♪ jeffrey: a lifting of voices, where the words from the song you will be found hold real meaning. ♪ >> ♪ maybe there's a reason ♪ jeffrey: this is the dallas street choir, whos members carry their worldly belongings withhem, including sleeping bags used the previous nig. jonathan palant is the founder and conductor. >> it is wonrful that we have such a large choir. so many people are taking from this choir. they are seeing the benefits of music. of family. of togetherness. we have so many people at require such a service. i would love for this just to be the dallas choir, but it has to be a street chr. the stew pot in downtown dallas is a day shelter that offers food,lothing, and other services. and once a week, those who want to sing lineup outside for a fist bump welcome, and an hours worth of music and uplift. along with a snack and a two dollar bill for their s. pala

researchers, that challenges our senses demonstrating how we all experience art differently, and jeffrey brown reports from dallas as part of oundongoing artsulture series, canvas. >> brown: it's a kinnsof playgrounde an art museum. large, room-sized works, in which exploring the different ways each of us experiences the world around us is as important as the art itself. now at the dallas muse of art, the exhibition is titled" speechless: different by sign." it's unusual in that touching and much more is encouraged, even required. >> i became interested in what happens if we take, do an exhibion where it's interactive, where we encourage people to use all their senses >> brown: unusual, too, in how it began-- in a very personal way for curator sarah schleuning, when her now six year old son, vaughn, was fit diagnosed with an expressive language disorder. >> so "speechless" is really quite literal in that he was speechless for the first several years of his life. and as we were navigating that as a family, we were trying to figure out-- i'm a hyper-verbal person, and what happens when io the rd

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown new york. >> woodruff: and we will find out if tom hanks wins oscar this sunday night. an update now on the democrats' race for the 2020 nomination. again, with 62% of precincts reporting: former south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigieg holds a narrow lead in the delegate count over vermont senator bernie sanders, 26.9% to 25.1. next are massachusettsh enator elizabrren with about 18%, former vi president joe biden with about 15% and minnesota senator amy klobuchar with about 12%. no other candidate has double- digit support. e ape is projected that both sanders and buttigieg will each pledged delegates heading into4 the democratic nationalon conven warren has four. there are 17 delegates still to be assigned. it takes 1,991 delegates to win the presidential nomination. you got all that? and a reminder, before we go, later tonight please join us at 9:00, 8:00 central for pbs president trump's tate ofof the union address. and then tomorrow, at 3:45, 2:45 central we will bring you live covege of the senate vote on verdict in the impeachment trial

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jeffrey brown visits the museum as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." >> brown: it'slly the stuff of sci-fi films, booksbund cartoonsnow, the future is on display at a new design exhibition at the philadelphia museum of art. thy hiesinger is co-curator of" designs for different futures." >>he idea of the show is to make us think of, you know, who we relate to each other and to the world around us, and what th means in terms of both design and the future. >> bwn: but why is design a good way to explorthe future? >> design today now encompasses more than making chairs or simple physicaobjects. designers collaborate, as the show demonstrates, with scientists, with anthropologists, with sociologists, with biochemists, across allields. >> brown: divided into 11 innovative ideas, often mixing high tech with the natural world: textiles made of seaweed, artificial organ implants, even a robotic baby feeder. it offers hope, inspires fear, and asks ethical questions about the choices involved. how will our clothes be made? who will be watcng us? mand, how might we hide f survei

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part of our arts and culture series "canvas," jeffrey brown sat down with wilson and began by asking he felt a compulsion to explore family dynamics. well, for me, compulsion is love, so, yeah, i love to write about family. i come back to it again and again. yeah. i started ou, i wrote about family from the perspective of a child, because that's how i grew up, thinking of the weirdness on born into a family. >> the weirdness of being born. i mean, we're all born into a family. >> but you don't ask for it. all of a sudden, there's these people and they're, like, we're going to take care of you and raise you and that's a strangeng kind of feehere you think i'm made of these people but i'm gog to become mywn person. and maybe the writing about family would havenstopped but had kids and i was on the other side of it of watching these children develop and leave me. so i thought, oh, i'll just kee writbout it. >> reporter: so what is this book about, ultimately? >> to me, the id of family, i wanted to broaden that. it's not just thee pople -- our immediate family, right. i'm starting to th

for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in dallas. it woodruff: personal inte and a whole lot more.ine, you cank keep tf the live results from the south carolina primary tomorrow. that's on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. tune in later tonight and join moderator robert costa for a special 60-minute "washington week," previewing super tuesday and thsouth carolina primary, with live reports from journalists around the country. tomorrow's edition of pbs newshour weekend looks at maracaibo, venezuela, once one the most vibrant cities ws the world, now in shambles. and that is the ur for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. ha a great weekend. thank you, and good night. >> major funding f the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> collette guides avelers to experience the world in more than 160 destinations, across five travel styles, like small group explorations.us their ine tours feature local guides, cultural experiences, meals and accommodations. since 1918, colette has guided travelers around the world. learn more at collette.com/smallgroup >> fidelity investments. >> bnsf railway. >> con

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as a part of our arts and culture series canvas, jeffrey brown sat down with wilson and began by askinglsion to explore family dynamics. >> fore, compulsion is love, so i love to write about families. i come back to it again and again. i arted off, i wrote out -- about family from the perspective of a child because that's how i grew up, thinking about the weirdness ofeing bo into what family. >> we were all born and wha >> but you don't ask for it. all of a sudden there are these people and they are like, we are going to take care of you and raiset you and t a vy strange kind of feeling where you inc. miami made of these people but slowly, i'm going to become my own person. maybe the writing about family would havet stopped, en i had kids and i was on the other side of watching thesep hildren deved leave mei, an thought come i will just keep writing about it. >> what is this book about? >> to me, the idea of family, i it is not just our immediate family. i'm thinking a family as how you can expanded to include the people w are important to you, the people that protect you. in this book,

like reay care. >> brown: "seberg," the filmwi opens nationde on friday for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey browntoron international film festival. >>heawaz: as we mentioned at opening of the broadcast, the president is talking tonight coronavirus, now ks covid- 19. in fact, he's speaking in the briefing room right now about what the federal government is doing and how it's preparing in case the outbreak gets worse in the u.s. here's some of what he said. >> i have just received anoth briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going arod to varus parts of the world. we have, through some very gd early decisionsdecisions that were actually rid could at the ginning, we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certaeain areas, s that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard. and we did it very early. a lot of people thought we shouldn't have done it that early and we did and it turned outo be a very go thing. and the number one priority from safety of the american people,nd and that's the way i viewed it when iade that decision. >> nawaz >> naz: the state of pr

. >> woodruff: finally tonight, jeffrey brown has a conversation with chilean wrindr isabel al whose novel, "a long petal of the sea," draws upon historicaevents spanning from the spanish civil war to the 1973 coup in her native chile as inspiration. ie's part of our ongoing s on arts and culture, "canvas." >> brown: in 1939, the chilean poet pablo neruda, then serving as a diplomat, 2,000 spanish war refugees make their way to chile. that and other historical episod and figures over the next 50 years formed the "a long petal of the sea." author isabel allende experienced some of that history herself. an internationally renowned writer, her books have sold more than 70 million copies. in 2014, she received the presidential medal of freedom from barack obama. and she joins me now. nice to talk to you again. >> nice to talk to you. >> brown: writing a big,, sweepilti-character story. you have done this before. that's not new. but this one is grounded in a very particular history, right? >> in one event, yeah. and th is the journey of a ship called "winnipeg," a cargo ship tt transporte

jeffrey brown explores the drama behind the camera and how secret ll fbi survce is brought to light.est in our ongoing canvas series on arts and culture. reporter: american actress jean seaburg was best known for role in the filmth "brss," a classic of the french new wav cinema. and it, she plays t american girlfriend of a french criminal. the film helped make her a globalstar. now comes the new film "seberg," directed by benedict andrews >>ha w a couple of moments where we copied jean perfectly. the famous ending of "breathless" where she stares down the barrel of the camera. and it's a defining moment of modern cinem porter: kristen stewart -- from the "twilight" saga and more recently "personal shopper" and "charlie's angels" portrays. seberg >> i really only knew her from "breathless." the herald tribune, the t-shirt. but also i was really struck by the performance. i obviously wasn't around when that movie came out, but i don't think it wasca a very tyway of performing. i think she was so available and present in a way that felt kind of radical. reporter: radical and vocal. trai

bite back, not just however and have we seen chancellors bite back, notjust brown and blair but also norman lamont and jeffreyheadlines on bbc news... about 1000 holiday—makers have been told they can't leave their hotel in tenerife, as new cases of coronavirus continue to be reported around the world. 11 schools have been closed across the uk as a precaution — although official advice is not to do so. people are being evacuated in ironbridge after temporary flood barriers were overwhelmed. we are going to stay with health matters. we have been talking so much about coronavirus. let's talk about the other health story in the news today. there has been a sharp rise in the number of a and e patients in england stuck in a trolley over four hours while a bed is made available for them. almost 200,000 patients in england waited more than four hours on trolleys in a&e over the last two months, because of a shortage of beds, according to bbc research. joining me now is dr becks fisher, senior policy fellow at the health foundation. thank you for coming in. ride this bike? why is it happening? in some ways i don't th

jeffrey toobin. >> bob feller. >> let's just keep going. >> my mom's from cleveland. anyway. >> senator brown just said that these are really challenging times. prosecutors have come out in the past 24 hours and feel the same. they feel very strongly that president trump is violating the rule of law. here is what a former u.s. attorney in the obama administration says about his meddling in the roger stone sentence. she writes, if a president can med until a criminal case to help a friend, then there's nothing that keeps him from meddling to harm someone he thinks is an enemy. that means a president is fully above the law in the most dangerous kind of way. this is how democracies die. >> one of the things about being a federal prosecutor is that, you know, it's sort of the ultimate power of government. you can lock someone up. you can execute people if you decide to prosecute them. so there are rules in place. not all of them written down. so there have to be procedures that apply to everyone that you don't pick and choose people for lenient treatment or harsh treatment based on the political

jeffrey sprecher gave $100,000 to the rnc fred smith of fedex, greg brown and lance ryan also among thenors. guys, back to you. >>> so, robert, i just want to get this straight, you are teasing ahead to this. we're not seeing any donations from major ceos or folks in corporate america to bernie sanders? >> no, we haven't seen any donation from ceos to any individual candidate yet that could come once we know who the democratic candidate is and once we head into the general election so far not only none to bernie sanders, but none to any other candidates, but that will likely change as we get deeper in the election cycle. >> robert, thank you. >>> guys >> still to come, they say love don't cost a thing but the stountine's day dinner could co y more than you bargained for. "closing bell" will be right back at fidelity, online u.s. stocks and etfs are commission-free. and when you open a new brokerage account, your cash is automatically invested at a great rate. that's why fidelity leads the industry in value while our competition continues to talk. ♪ talk, talk doprevagen is the number on

brown, an investigative reporter at one of those papers, at "the miami herald." you're the reporter who broke the jeffreyng us is ken docter, founder of the news-anomics column. what's the impact of this on you and your colleagues, julie? >> i don't think we know what the impacted is going to be. we've seen this happen around the country where some of these other chains have been bought up by hedge funds and in some cases they've dismantled some of these newspapers, these local newspapers. so of course we're hoping that that won't happen to our paper and the papers that are owned by mcclatchy. we're hopeful. but really, it's an unknown. >> ken, tell us the one-minute version of what is happening to all of these papers that were largely owned by families until recently and in the past ten, 20 years have been bought by hedge funds and bankers. what's the reason? >> so, these bankers and financial companies all got into the industry by lending money, taking equity stakes, mcclatchy is the 20th company to declare bankruptcy. now, we have 25% of the press controlled by one company run by fortress, and we coul

with 95k to the republican national committee jeffrey sprecher of the intercontinental exchange gave $100,000 to the rnc. you got fred smith of fedex, greg brownco philips also among the biggest republican donors. these are obviously small numbers especially relative to the big numbers we're going to see going into this year, but we will bring you them on a quarter by quarter basis and see how they grow into this election >> always interesting to get a pulse on that, robert. thank you. >> thank you >>> for more on the ceo strategy so to speak for the 2020 election we are joined now by the "new york times" pulitzer prize winning columnist jim stewart and also author of "deep state" and that's been back in the news hasn't gone away but certainly is let's start with the campaign. curious to get your thoughts in terms of the roles, corporations, and ceos in particular, play here. >> obviously they are a small graup b group but very influential because they control a lot of spending power it is very interesting what is happening here i know many ceos and it is no surprise they tilt republican overall but i think the one thing you can say to a near