Engaged in throughout the country today . Well, its a very good day to be reminded of what the founding of america really means, and to really consider the things of which are founders really put this american experiment together, and literally change the course of history. I think about, you know, my grandparents and great grandparents they came to this country for Economic Opportunity and religious freedom, and i think about the many ways also that we have sort of forgotten about the importance of the constitution and our founding documents. And its a really good time to refocus and Pay Attention again to what they really mean and what you they mean for our fut. Fantastic. And throughout the country today we are in late september. Schools are open all across the country in ways weve never seen before. Theres all virtual. This hybrid. Even in the network of schools that are used to lead in new york, 85 of the parents said they want to learn virtually. Whats your view of whats happenin
Have been reported across the country. And here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california statewide covid numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome providing an update earlier today, he says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period, the latest numbers showing below that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday the governor says on average they are conducting more than 100,000 tests a day. And with a number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days even with the improving numbers, california still has a Positivity Rate of 2. 1 . The governor says the state is committed to increasing testing across california. We are of the firm opinion that that we are able to move forward to increase the availability and the timeliness of tests here in the state of california we will have more clarity and more insurance in our capacity to move more swiftly to that not only reopen different sectors of our economy more
And when they knew. Rudy giuliani joins us this morning. Hurricane watch. The new tropical depression strengthening overnight, threatening the hardhit gulf coast. Ginger is tracking the latest path this morning. And we go oneonone with washington football coach ron rivera fighting to stay on the sidelines while battling cancer. Enduring five treatments a week, all while helping his team navigate through the pandemic. Plus, the big surprise in his coachs corner. How his players are helping him stay rivera strong, only on gma this morning. And Jimmy Buckets on fire. Overnight, stunning the lakers and lebron who walked off the court with ten seconds left. Butler telling king james, youre in trouble, and bringing back the heat. Good morning, america. We want to get right to the covid crisis. Now a personal Health Crisis for the president. Eltisty. Thnow entering his fourth day at Walter Reed Medical Center battling the virus that has claimed more than 209,000 american lives. His doctors sa
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow about those fire dangers. Lawrence yeah, this kind of leading right into that right we have some extreme heat over these last couple of days and. These were some kind of records around the bay area that you rarely see but here we go a 112 today are recorded in Livermore Napa coming 111 also a record one 10 record in santa rosa richmond, how about that inside the bexar 107 degrees. A 107 also in redwood city and a 106 degrees in canfield and were not done there weve got more records 96 that was a record in oakland today, San Francisco International Airport 97 degrees a record in gilroy 112 degrees but all around the bay area. Extremely hot conditions and this comes on a day where we had extremely hot weather just yesterday. The only place that we saw some changes was right along the coastline. You see the 70s very comfortable in Half Moon Bay and instead of triple digit heat in San Francisco. It was 91 degrees but everywhere else was certainly very very hot