Breathing issues and fever. The Vice President tested negative yet again today. For the virus. There are concerns about tomorrow evening debate. The commission on president ial debates is adding plexi glass barriers between Vice President pence and senator harris. This afternoon we got a look at the debate stage. As the barriers were being installed. Now the Pence Campaign says it doesnt want the protective shield. Saying the 12 foot space is enough. The Commission Says the Vice President doesnt have to use it. But they have two on hand just in case. More on the issues and what voters can expect from the candidates tomorrow. Tomorrow night Vice President pence and senator Kamala Harris will stand at least 12 feet apart on the debate stage. Thats not all. At the request of the harris team there plexi glass barriers to separate the two. Theres a lot at stake. The pence harris debate expected to be less reality tv and more about reality that americans face. San Francisco Deputy public def
Purchase sonias book, the next great migration and thats a way to support our author and pollic and prose. Now with that another of the way, it is my delight to welcome sonia shah, science journalist and prize winning author, he writing on science, politics and human rights appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal and Foreign Affairs among many others. Also been featured on radio ad, and ted. Com with he talk, three reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria and the off ore sever books including the fever and pandemic. Tonight she will be talk about will you new book, the next gravity migration, an overview of the migration and the often necktive responses. Many figures complaint the migration is destructive. She argues migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change. The back makes the case for future in which migration is nat source of fear but of hope. So, without any further adieu he is sonia. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us toni
Next, on q a, author elaine weiss talks about her book, the womens hour. Later the contenders features window wilkie Wendell Wilkie who ran against president was built in 1940. Also programming on kamala harris. Elaine weiss discusses her book, the womans hour, about the. Leadup to the ratification of the 19th amendment to the u. S. Constitution on august 18, 1920, that granted women the right to vote. Host elaine weiss, i want to start our conversation on the centennial of womens suffrage with coverage of some you talk about in your book, the womans hour. My mother was a college student, student of International Affairs who took a an interest in public issues. She could not vote yet that tenant farmers on our farm, some of whom were illiterate could vote. Host who was harry byrne and why does he play a central role in your story . Guest Harry Thomas Byrne was the youngest legislator in the tennessee General Assembly in 1920. He was a freshman delegate. He was up for reelection in the
The bottom of your window and we will get to as many as we can. Second, we encourage everyone to purchase the book the next grade migration which you can do in the chat that i just posted. So with that science journalist and prizewinning author with human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Current Affairs among many others. Also featured with her talk to the reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria. Other books including fever and pandemic. Tonight she talks about her next book that has an indepth overview of migration and the negative responses it provokes. In that response to environmental change it makes the case that migration is not to see on a source of fear but hope. Without further ado. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. I wish i could see you in person. And the background of when i came to write this book, my last book was called pandemic. And before that i had which in other books about malaria and other aspects o
I said something along the hines of, you know, what are some of the worst effects of the migrant crisis, in your opinion. Something like that. And he stopped and he said there is no migrant crisis. And i was quite puzzled, and i said, well, theres all this tumult, and theres, you know, people are dying and drowning, and people are getting stuck in refugee camps and everyones upset, so, you know, whats happening then . If its not a migrant crisis, what is it . He said its not a crisis of migration because there are plenty of jobs for these people if they wanted to take them, theres plenty of room, theres and, in fact, what i learned about the disease status is that there were no disease outbreaks except for the ones caused by the conditions that these people were being kept in. So they were being detained in, you know, unsanitary camps, makeshift they had squats in abandoned schools and stadiums and things like that. And just by virtue of those conditions, there were some outbreaks of t