March 4, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

In our news wrap Wednesday, hopes for Israel to end months of political deadlock have dimmed, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be short of a parliamentary majority. The result could mean a fourth election within a year. Also, both Turkish and Syrian soldiers were killed amid fighting in northwestern Syria. Turkey is trying to stop a Syrian offensive driving refugees to its border.

On Wednesday, California officials confirmed the state’s first death from novel coronavirus, as the number of infections nationwide continues to rise. But beyond the serious medical implications of the virus, it is also provoking fear, suspicion and ethnic stereotyping. Amna Nawaz reports from San Francisco, a city long known for its ties to China and the Chinese-American community.

Super Tuesday’s primary results represented a dramatic turn on the road to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. What did not seem possible only days ago has materialized, as moderate voters united to support former Vice President Joe Biden. Sen. Bernie Sanders is far behind in delegates. Judy Woodruff reports and talks to Democratic political strategists Guy Cecil and Nick Chedli Carter.

Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence, the most famous black artist of his era, sought to reframe early American history the way he saw it. His ensuing work, the sprawling series “Struggle,” has been reassembled for a national tour, stopping first at Massachusetts' Peabody Essex Museum. Special correspondent Jared Bowen reports.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case about access to abortion doctors in Louisiana. The law in question is similar to a Texas one struck down by the Court in 2016 -- but decided by a different group of justices. Lisa Desjardins talks to the National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle and Mary Ziegler, professor and author of “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.”