but at this bus depot in the south bronx, wayne lasarti has already been behind the wheel for hours, shouldering a heavier work load since the coronavirus. >> these extra buses running to compensate for the four hours subways aren't running. so i pick up a trip from 2:00 to 5:00. >> his bread and butter, shuttling essential workers across new york city at all hours, now a covid front line. >> we're all putting our lives out there. if you were going to tell me that we were going to have a pandemic in 2020 and you're going to be out there and you could very possibly die, would i have signed up for it? i don't think anybody would have signed up for that. but we did. and we're here, and we're working. we got to do what you need to do. >> welcome to the bronx. >> this is a community full of richness and history. we are deliciously loud here. we are extremely festive. >> the northern most of five new york city boroughs, separated from manhattan by bridges and tunnels. home to yankee stadium, the bronx zoo and nearly 1.5 million new yorkers, many essential workers. >> before covid-19, the b

we're steps away from the south bronx, one of the epicenters of the epicenters.tream media doesn't spend a lot of time covering the south bronx, don't realize there too people speaking indigenous languages, many from mexico. problem is when we see this as -- this is what i tweeted out earlier this week, the covid-19 story is a poc story, period, dot, end of story, that is the story now. when the states are demanding to be opened up, we know what it means, more people of color going to work to service your needs and go back to communities where they can't physically distance, potentially going to be infecting so many people. this is what hot spots look like. so i think the responsibility is that if this becomes a people of color story, mainstream will just be like it's happening to them. no, what we're trying to say is we are all tied together. and every moment that we can to bring this forward is how we can help. maria, thank you so much. brittany, you're staying with me. >>> unicef's first ever streaming event. won't stop, many joining forces in message of unity

kennedy, to campaign in the south bronx and to have a candidate that really saw our community was really to be able to go out and bear witness to what so many communities are experiencing all across the country is just very full circle and gratifying >> seth: and obviously, a lot's changed for you in the four years. is it safe to assume that bernie hasn't changed at all? [ laughter ] >> i think he's changed a little bit. >> seth: yeah. >> we'll, you know, he is famous for his consistency. >> seth: i mean, i do think for those who are drawn to bernie, that is the thing that is impossible to argue with as far as a politician with consistency over the years, i mean, he really stands out >> he does, and he's been fighting for health care as a right this entire time and it's, you know, now that i'm on the other side in congress and you see how much pressure there is, you know, to bow to a lot of special interests the fact that he has been relying on small-dollar donors since before the internet kind of blows my mind it's like collecting little checks this whole time and really committed to a

many times that he is an exemplar of what good policing is he started on the beat in 1901 in the south bronx he doesn't want to see a single cop on the beat who doesn't belong there we need that system to work and work better and work faster and it needs to be visible to the people of the city and finally i've heard from so many elected officials that there are some people in our police force who do not belong in the roles they're in there are some people in positions of leadership in the community or some officers on the beat who just don't fit the work needed in that community for whatever reason and unfortunately have a history of tensions with the community we can't have that not everyone fits every role that's true in the n.y.p.d. and that's true in all of life we need to do a better job of hearing the concerns of community leaders when they say someone is not working out in our community and in our precinct and we need to change and i pledge to work with community leaders to make those changes in the weeks ahead so we have a law. work to do but i'm very confident that we can get this d

. ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ [ bleep ] compton >> you going to continuee left the group is the reason i left. you know, tired of making other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. >> knight, 6'3", 330-pound former bodyguard has become one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you got dr. dre, who probably makes beats better than everybody. this guy delivers a hit. >> dre put out his first solo album "the chronic." not only do you get dre but then you also get snoop dogg. ♪ one, two, three and to the four ♪ ♪ snoop doggy dog and dr. dre is at the door ♪ >> ooh, boy. snoop doggy dog and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. ♪ g thing baby ♪ we're crazy >> 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap, was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought compton and so

policy that says, you see, we just need to allow the privatization, because those communities in the south bronxnd on staten island don't have billionaires living on them, don't have the wealth, don't have people who say well, i want to make sure that when i take my kids to that playground, that it is clean. aspiration, but they don't have the wealth. if we, again, go back to all the systems that are public, that are being privatized, philanthropy should be in the role of not accelerating that, but of calling that out as itself a contributor to the very problem we're trying to solve. >> thank you very much for coming tonight, i really enjoyed this. but i missed something along the way. there's a word up there that says justice, and i don't understand exactly how you interpret that word. could you help me with that? is rooted, for me, for me, in my religious teachings. the idea of social justice, of fairness, of every human being of notorthy of dignity, experiencing indifference physical orome them quality that renders "the other." mind, justice, and this is why i worry in philanthropy, because i

. ♪ >> rap music began in harlem and the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people wouldched the transition from all the disco music we used to play at the block parties to slowly but surely hip-hop taking over. ♪ >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> the thing that gave life to music in the '80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the '60s and '70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ god is smiling on you but he's frowning, too ♪ ♪ because only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that wasn't just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. ♪ smugglers scramblers, burglars, gamblers ♪ ♪ pickpockets, peddlers, even panhandlers ♪ ♪ you say i'm cool >> when "the message" hit it w

and i think about kids that are living in south harlem or south bronx in a building with no air conditioning, with no wifi. you have no schools, no summer programs, no camps, no pools, no parks, no basketball courts. what are the families telling you, their day-to-day life is? >> yeah, i think just to start, we can't overstate how cataclysmic the last few months have been for kid all across the country. in new york, 750,000 of our 1.1 million kids are low income. 140,000 homeless kids. the scale of need is so enormous. and it's not a question of whether kids will fall behind academically or whether kids are experiencing trauma or mental health issues, it's how serious is it and how does the city catch up. so i think the summer, i mean, was so few options for vulnerable and low-income kids in particular, it's going to be a scramble to figure out how kids are going to catch up academically. how they're actually going to find any time to have fun and take a break from this incredibly traumatic life we've all been living for the last few months. and it's really up to the city and the state to fi

. >> the difference in life expectancy between the south bronx and the upper east side of manhattan isars. so poverty is poison. >> almost every patient i saw was covid-positive was a female. >> reporter: in chicago, this doctor works the front line of this crisis. >> minority neighborhoods, the number of positive cases is twice, even three-times the number of positive cases we're seeing in white, more affluent neighborhoods. >> reporter: del rios told our deborah roberts we're seeing the impact of healthcare systems that have been mistreating minorities for generations. >> when a person who walks into a hospital, are they are already at a disadvantage? >> there are multiple studies that suggest that you are more likely to be triaged as less urgent as a person who's white. >> reporter: back in d.c. a sense of urgency to write some historical wrongs. i heard you talk about local and national leaders really look at the african-american community and say we have to address this health problem. >> well, it's more than health, right? we have to look at the building blocks of health. having

i'm thinking about all those kids who are living in harlem and the south bronx who don't have anywhere to go right now. they've got no structure in their life. >> well, you're right. kids who have nowhere to go. also in households that have the highest density of occupancy so the virus spreads faster. and in households where you have increasing levels of domestic violence, mental health, stress, et cetera. new york city is a different reality from the rest of the state, right? what we have is a very diverse state in new york. the upstate regions are starting to open, but new york city is going to be awhile. and we do it here on the numbers, stephanie. there's no politics. there's no opinion, no theory. we just look at the metrics, the data on the infection spread, hospitalization rate, et cetera, and when we hit the right numbers, the right metrics, then we'll open. >> we've got to look after people's lives and livelihoods, of course. governor, thank you for calling in. we appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you. and thank you for the good work you're doing, stephanie. thank yo

claimed descent from 16th century spanish explorers to new mexico, puerto rican migrants to the south bronxin the 1950s, salvadorian refugees to washington, d.c. in the 1990s? and these questions are i think linked to the second half of pena's remarks, that quest for recognition and representation, because latino politics emerged in an unequal dialogue with elites who most often thought of it as a need to fulfill a destiny of a group nationwide in spoke. but a question has to be requested about how these party elites, including u.s. presidents, used their ability to reward or withhold to influence the larger construction of the latino political community. and as that dance of validation between latinos seek to go reimagine their community to cope with economic, social, and political challenges and pressures and the necessity of aligning that with an ever-changing set of candidates, ideologies, and programs that i find so important in latino political history. >> and so i think there are a lot of interesting themes that we've all heard from you three regarding pan ethnicity and the complicat

kennedy giving suitcases of walking around money to carmine desapio the boss of the bronx and the equivalent in the south in the courthouse gangs. the only thing worse than the local party power brokers is not having them. because when they all vanish then the party becomes a label that billionaires like tom steyer and michael bloomberg and donald trump can buy. just out -- before coming here a few days ago i went to the website of the democratic party out of curiosity, so my grandmother who grew up on a farm in central texas, she and her african-american friends after the civil rights revolution, very similar backgrounds, high school educated, they were part of the travis county democratic party, you know, and they were part of the precinct machinery and all of that and did election work and so on. so i went to the democratic party to see how i could join and they just had a donate button. tried the national and the state and the county and it was donate. right? which kind of tells you something about the structure of politics now. it's a spectator sport unless you're a donor, a pollster, or a candidate

south dakota anti-meth campaign? their slogan is controversial. just curious. no. i wasn't. >> can you talk? call me if you can, but imagine that in like a bronxwish accent, and then i say, you're writing this to the whole family. name a family member you want to talk to and we can figure this out. to which, my mom responds, i want to talk to everyone! i yell it, because she put three exclamation points at the end. >> my mom and i watch old movies on turner classic movies. we watched "giant." she wrote, sal mineo had a big head, although he was attractive. hmm, yep. >> dearest boop. interesting day here, was wielding a hand held small vacuum on the stairs yesterday, missed my footing, fell backwards, vacuum whirled up and crashed onto my arm and then onto the whole floor. i executed some sort of swivel halfway down the stairs and nearly followed it nose first but managed to clutch the bannisters, thought my arm was broken badly. just badly bruised. phew. i finished the day with a lovely thai meal. >> we got our shingles vaccine this morning. sweet dreams, my love. love you so very much. i love you so very much too, mom. >> so i had a sketch on

bronx is 27%. many families rely on just one income. >> my husband is also an essential worker. his shift has changed. he now works nights. >> reporter: tamara south is temporarily unemployed. but at home, the work never stops, with virtual classes. >> yeah, i miss all my friends and teachers. >> sometimes you just can't do it, you just don't want to wake up, you don't want to go on the computer. >> when it first happened, there's not a day that i didn't cry. the zoom calls, the emails. and we had to adjust very quickly, which was really hard, especially for the kids. >> the biggest challenge has really been access to technology. >> reporter: daniel diaz runs east side house settlement. they're dona hotspots to families in need. >> thank you so much. >> 70% of our kids aren't reading at grade level as it is. >> reporter: with summer just around the corner, basketball is banned. summer and youth cams are closed. mercedes rogalewski worries about what's next. >> one of the biggest challenges is going to be finding stuff for john to do. >> reporter: that has to be tough for parents who already might have child care issues and juggling really tough sc