Im robert dear. Im like to read from the opening paragraph. Put the spike of a drawing compass into a map of virginia at George Washingtons boyhood home. Stenthe other leaking the come pass that reaches out 60miles and draw a circle. Within it not only washington, but also Thomas Jefferson, james madison, and james monroe were been. Grew to manhood and mad their home. From this small expanse of land on the north American Continent came four over nations first five president s am dynasty whose members led in securing independence, greating the constitution creating the constitution and building the republic. What a great way to start a book. Ive spent most of last night reading it and its a wonderful chronicle of four major leaders and their network that tied them together at the founding of this country. It as story that evokes with the historians bill mcclay call the spirit of hope and perseverance that runs straight through the american experience, dr. Cheney is a long time member of
Along the border with sudan is worsening, and u. S. President elect joe biden is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments and tony blinken, a former Obama Administration official, is expected to be named secretary of state. An unschooled, the head of african football has been handed a 5 year ban a by the sports world governing body fifa. Ahmed ahmed was found guilty of financial misconduct following an investigation. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour with a promising breakthrough in the global race to find a vaccine for corona virus. Raising hopes of an end to the pandemic could be within reach the u. K. Pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and the university of oxford have said they have caught a vaccine for the world. They say that on average have seen is 70 percent effective, but that may increase to 90 percent depending on the dosage at 2. 50 is the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. This is the 3rd Major Company to report
Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
Im marcus washington. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking the forecast. What can we expect today . Its going to be a chilly morning, but overall a really nice and comfortable afternoon. We are starting out a little bit cooler today. Take some time to get out there and enjoy the fall colors because tomorrow well see the cold front arriving and some showers late tomorrow evening but the weekend is looking pretty nice once that rain moves out. So ill detail that with the timeline coming up in a few minutes. Mike, any issues for the Early Morning commute . You know, things changed, kari. I had an issue to report. I circled where the crash just was removed from northbound 101 at the old oakland off ramp and a live look shows you no problems through the area. Very light traffic flow. The circled area now is not the problem, its opposite the arrow. Southbound and we now have reports of a disabled vehicle. Ill check that and a new crash in san leandro, marcus. Two things to update. Back to you
Few smaller scattered crashes and well double check on the crash in san leandro coming up. Well check back with you. Thanks, mike. A live look at the white house this morning and we get to hear from the president on Election Results. But this morning, president elect joe biden is lining up his cabinet. The president , meanwhile, doing the exact opposite. Tracie potts live for us in washington. Tracie, growing concerns on what mr. Trump could be doing with the pentagon. Exactly. The changes at the pentagon some are concerned may also be related to his refusal to accept the Election Results and now National Security officials retired generals, retired Intelligence Experts and others are raising concerns, sounding the alarm about the impact of those changes. Mark me down as alarmed. Reporter military experts are concerned about President Trump replacing mark esper and other pentagon officials with loyalists. This is just a tantrum of a president trying to accommodate himself to the outcom