jeffrey brown focuses on one washington, d.c. maryla, where locals have put sewing machines to wori to makerent types of masks for local medical professionals. it's part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. >> brown: fiber artist anya caldwell is used to creating handmade pducts. she knits, crochetweaves and sews. now, she's using any fabric she has, as well as donated linens, dish towels and pajamas, f a new purpos >> a personal message to the people out there that are obviously stressed, having to do this right now that we carfor them, we love them. neighbors donated a fabric that 37 years ago where the curtains in their baby's nursery. so they had sentimental values. >> brown: caldwell has produced more than 200 fabric masks families to make a200orking with more. they've received design advice from local healthcare workers. some nurses and doctors around the country arwelcoming the handmade masks as hospital- depleted.surgical masks are jennifer sun, a pediatrician by training, follows a d.i.y. pattern recommended o

but we notice when it's gone, for sure. >> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: gns of solidarity are keeping pace with the spread of the virus. ngit started with g from open windows in italy. now cheers for essential workers are heard around t world, from madrid, to canada, to new york. the latest trend, howling, is echoing through neighborhoods across oua country. monts' breanna mccabe lets us listen in on what has become a nightly ritual in missoula. (howling >> ah, gives you chills. >> reporter: health care worker sh an paul is in the middle two-week quarantine after returning from an out-of-state work trip. it's not uommon to hear howling in this dog-loving neighborhood, so the first night heeard it he was about to dismiss it. ayt something about it the it sounded, drew him outside. >> i poked my head out and o of our neighbors was out there leading the charge, so i obviously came out and supported >> reporter:y the next night, more neighbors heard about the 8:00 o'clock howl through social media or sidewalk messages for health care woandows support first r

i'm jeffrey brown, for the pbs newshour. >> woodruff: by now, schools have beeshuttered for weeks acrossntry. it can be hard on parents to help orchestrate remote arning. and, shelter-in-place presents its own challenges for young people. newshour'student reporting labs, our journalism training program for high school students, shares some ways teenagers are coping in the age >> me and many othricans have been living on ckdown, and during this time, we've been committing ourselves to a pretty strict routine of waking up at a .,asonable time, running so i get some vitaminating, doing homework, eating again, doing more homework. >> i have learned to engage wi my parents a little bit more,ra playing le and binge- watching television shows. >> during this whole time, my teachers havbeen really flexible, especially with the amount of work they give. honestly, i miss the classroom atmosphere. it's sometimes hard to stay motivated when you're at home with all of these other distractions around you. >> this is kind of my setup. we're required to document i for our video log for today. so, pretty

jeffrey brown is back and has that for our arts and culture series, 'canvas.': >> bror book club, pick for march is "inheritance," a memoir by dani shapiro about her reckoning with an ancestry tes that revealed a life changing family secret: the beloved man who had raised h was not her biological father. exploration of genealogy, medical ethics and, above all, enduring love. the author joins me from her home in bethlehem, connecticut,a wer some of your questions now. >> oh, it's such a pleasure to be with you, jeff. >> brown: so you learned that you're not exactly who you are, to p it in a nutshell. what was this book for you? >> this book was a reckoning with my very identity when i made the discovery about my dad. it was as if i had to reshuffle and re-remember and re- understand pretty much every story that i had ever been told or every story that i had told abt myself. >> brown: so readers had a lot of questions along those lines, of course. and one is about your da how you came to think about him, how this changed. he had died years before all this, but y

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vibrant cities have gone quiet and given us a glimpse of what the world might be like without jeffrey brownas the story,on part of our going series on arts and culture, "canvas." >> brown: times square in new york: on a typical april day, more than 375,000s pedestriss through. t you've been, you know it can feel they're allre at once. but not now-- when the usual bustle is all but gone. nin a normal year, more t 30 million people visit paris, making it the biggest tourist destination the world. today, as the french say, "il n'ya s un chat"-- not a cat in sight. >> ( translated ):hen you live in a tourist-y area, you should expect noise, crowds, foot traffic. and it's a big city so obvious there are a lot of people. it's pleasant to see paris like this, but we still feel that this is not normal. >> brown: around the world, spaces that have long filled our imaginations are mostly empty, largely silent. as the poet gerard manley hopkins wrote, "all things counter, original, spare, strange." even amid so much sickness and horror, a strange beauty. >> despite the horble reasons that this is happ

. >> brown: for the pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: signs of solidarity are keeping pace with the spread of the virus. it started with singing from enindows in italy. now cheers for essential workers ldare heard around the w, from madrid, to canada, to new york. the latest trend, howling, is echoing through neighborhoods across our country. montana pbs' breanna mccabe let us listen in on what has become a nightly ritual in missoula. (howling) ll>> ah, gives you c >> reporter: health care worker shawn paul is in the middle of a two-week quarantine after returning from an out-of-state work trip. it's not uncommon to hear hog wlinin this dog-nghe heard o dismiss it. but soing about it the way it sounded, drew him outside. of our neighbo was out there leading the charge, so i obviously cameut and supported >> reporter: by the next night, more neighbors heard about the 8:00 o'clock howl through social media or sidewalk me saying the gesture shows support for health care workers and first responders. and neighbors, like the lewis family, started to add to the chorus. >> it feel

jeffrey brown gets some recommendations from "los angeles times" critic lorraine ali, for o arts and culture series, "canvas." >> reporter: well, le ali, thank you so much for joining us. let's talk first about the moment we're in.si tele is one thing that really hasn't changed for people. >> right. i mes, when you look at wha going on, you can't really go to concerts anymore, u can't go to a theater, and reall what's there is television, and that's the idea we had maybe two or three weeks ago, there's so much i'll never be able to see it tl. we're now unfortunate situation that, yes, we do have the time and we are home and we can see it all. so it is there for us now. >> reporter: so a fewen recommtions. let's start with new dramas. netflix called "unorthodox"a on based on a woman who lived in an ultra orthodoxwish community in brooklyn. >> where i come from -- escaped her marriage, fled to arrlin, tried to start a sec life there and it's sort of t aboutt whole challenge of leaving that community and then also that community coming bac after them. not light-heart certainly takes you

jeffrey brown talked to andres about how his effort fits intoor the largeravirus picture. >> reporterw on the frontlines of fighting the effects of a pandemic, what jose andres calls "food first responders." >> we've been talking about the health crisis and the economic crisis, but i don't think we've been talking enough about the pamanitarian crisis. >> reporter: thesh-born andres first made his name as a celebrity chef. but after hurricane maria devastated prto rico in 2017, and in other disaster zones around the world, including guatemala, indonesia and mozambique, he's organized efforts to fd those in need during emeencies. working from his washingto-p d.c.-based nfit "world central kitchen," his team has coordinated ground-level partnershipsith lol they've also pushefor stronger policies to prioritize food as a national security issue. now he and his team are working in cities around the country during the pandemic. in what ways are y able to use what you've learned from the past? in what ways do you have to adapt? >> well, usuly in a hurricane, in tsunami, in a volcano, it's tot

jeffrey brown spth goodall from her home in bournemouth, england about the pandem, and her life's work's part of our ongoing arts and culture series, "canvas." >> brown: for decades, jane goodall has traveled the world as a non-stop advocate for the d nsertion of animals ane earth. now, like the rest of us, she's confined to her home. but, she says: >> i've never worked harder in my life, because, you know, it's the 60th anniversary of the research at gombe, and we were going to be celebrating all year. we were just in the perft...at sin for good fundraising, ked then everything stops. so, i'm trying t up the momentum. >> brown: virtual, and as always, even at 86, virtually non-stop. as we see in the film, it all began in 1960 when a young british woman without a college degree went to what is now gombe stream national park iniv tanzania, to le with and studyee chimpas in a new way. >> it's absolutely so vivid. it was a time when the chimpanzees were like part of my family. and, the striking thing was how like us they actually are. when i g to cambridge, because louis leakey said i had

brown with us as well. >> let's kick things off with the broader market, double on capitals, jeffrey gundlatch says he believes the worst is yet to come saying i bet the low from march will get taken out the market has made it back to a resistance zone and the market continues to act somewhat dysfunctionally in my opinion. take out the low of march and we'll get a more enduring low. it's a bearish take, josh brown, but it's not that hard to see why you would make that kind of call given the headlines out there and the number of cases out there and still the work that needs to be done on testing and all these other big unknowns that investors have been grappling with >> yeah, no, i think he could b certainly be right and one of the things that i've been saying recently i think on this show last week, it's really hard to make a credible case to look back at the low that we printed and said, yeah, that's it, that's as bad as it's going to get, while the death rate continues to go up i understand it's not accelerating at the same rate but we're talking about every night thousands of new deaths just in my city. so,