Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i
Whats happening . potusgeist. Leaving this winter . What a baby. Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, potus cant copus. Plus, stephen welcomes Michael Moore and musical guest Sara Bareilles with a special appearance by steve carell featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey, everybody welcome to a late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Im so glad youre here, and you and you and you, my friends, for this special night, because believe it or not, this is our thousandth episode 1,000 i wish i could be together with the whole staff right now. Theyve done such an extraordinary job. The writers, staff, editors, producers, postproduction, the amazing crew, my editorial staff, the lawyers oh, the lawyers we planned a big balloon drop, which. I assume is happening right now in the theater . Its happening. I dont know, you could lie to me, because were not allow
Most restrictive teier. Thats purple. Kiviran contracosta and solano counties San Francisco had been in the least restrictive yellow tier. Now its in the red, the second to the worst. Marin and san mateo moved from orange to red. Take a look at this map. All of the bay area is classified in red or purple with either substantial our widespread coronavirus activity. This troubling trend is happening statewide. 94 of californians live in the most restrictive purple tier. Were tracking them all with this interactive map on our website, abc7news. Com. And abc 7 news anchor liz kreutz is here with the latest on the changes across the state, including an apology, liz, from the governor. Reporter thats right, dan. There was a lot of news at this briefing today. We did get that apology from the governor for attending that dinner at french laughtonery. Every bay area county but one moved into a more restrictive tier. The only one that didnt is Sonoma County and thats because its already in the m
Nonessential work, movement and gatherings are prohibited between 10 0 oc0 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. Dr. Mark galley says cases are rising higher and faster and more stringent actions may be needed if we cant flatten the curve quickly. We know and weve seen in the past that covid goes from zero to 60 Miles Per Hour very quickly. That were in a place today but that can rapidly change. Maybe not statewide, maybe just in the hand full of counties but further restrictions is what we hope to avoid. We hope todays actions, our collective coming together, our resol resolve to keep our protective behaviors up will stem the tide and bring the surging numbers down. Now the states 14day Positivity Rate is at 5 . Up from 3. 3 just two weeks ago. The Santa Clara County is one of the counties affected by the curfew. The Sheriffs Office saying quote the sucurfew will be anotr tool to enforce the law. The primary focus will be on more serious crimes in the community. We heard from San Francisco county not
For the nations better angels to prevail. Some specificity in the speech by joe biden, roll call saying the president elect says he is going to name a team monday to get a covid19 plan ready for january 20. Our capitol hill producer craig kaplan, pointing out a line we will hear a lot more of. Shes the first woman of color elected to the office of the Vice President. Senator harris saying, while i may be the first woman in this office, i will not be the last. A tweet from julian ross of the pittsburgh gazette pointing out the history of the state. Today is 48 years to the day biden was elected to the u. S. Senate from the news journal, the headline, november 1972. This is from the president elects granddaughter naomi, a tweet of the family hug. You saw a lot of the family gathered on stage. That, from one of the president elects granddaughter. Greta . Greta the former twoterm Vice President and 36year Senate Veteran joe biden will be the 46th president of the united states. Heres looki