Allied troops was very small. Discipline was quite admirable. Say, among the soviet troops less so, i would say, among the soviet troops coming from the east. That was part of the price and the pain of victory. Host lets go back to calls and hear from lorenz in st. Paul, minnesota. Caller thank you for the opportunity. Ill try to be quick. Two comments. One, i always admired eisenhower for having to pull in citizens from the town near the concentration camps so that they could witness what the nazis nazi regime did but thats not my question. My question is, studying world war ii is so impactful for studying where we are today from a political, military, and social perspective. You can comment on that particularly as it relates to the politics involved in making both the atomic and Hydrogen Bombs post world war. Thank you for the opportunity and i look forward to hearing your comments. Guest thanks for the call, lawrence. Yeah, the consequences of world war ii are extraordinary socially
In the past 5 weeks. Plus d. W. Talked of british fundraising phenomenon the captain tom moore after raising staggering sum to spoil his countrys Health Care System the world war 2 veteran tells people to stay strong during this crisis. Seems. To me to do old. Wrong. I merely said i must and welcome European Union leaders have moved closer to approving a joint Recovery Fund after meeting Via Video Conference on thursday the money would be in march for businesses that have taken a hit in the shutdown diplomatic sources say the 27 leaders agreed to ask the European Commission to work out the details date details including the size shape and methods of getting the money to businesses most urgently in need. The Video Conference was the 4th such meeting since the virus hit e. U. Countries and expectations were low e. U. Member states of so far failed to agree on how to help those economies hit hardest by the pandemic but after just a few hours the Council President emerged emphasizing the c
Europes closed. Apple didnt give a forecast and this white house commentary. I would start with the white house commentary the apple stock, even after you knew that there was no guidance, was up rather dramatically when we got word that the United States was going to retaliate against china, that was it it gave up the ghost and accelerated the decline in amazon we did have the greatest month since 1987 so that january month was augmented by tremendous japanese buying in 87. It was artificial. This was a solid rally off the bottom its time to consolidate theres no we have to get used to consolidation meaning a 400point dow instead of a 100point dow. We went down 34 in 25 sessions, up 35 in 27 sessions what does consolidation mean now . It has to do with the idea that we give up some of this last gain. The last gain was a short squeeze in airlines, in travel, leisure. We started believing in marriott up 10. Then yesterday we had a really strange day where the most important thing that ha
You can see the peninsula is where we get a wet start to the day. Down through South San Francisco and from san mateo over redwood city. Moderate rainfall. That goes into palo alto as well. Mid30s. A chilly start. 47 in San Francisco and 40 in concord. As we head through the afternoon, date time high will be on the cool side. 57 in oakland and fremont and 59 for a high and san jose. We will time out the rest of the showers for today and tomorrow. Details on that are coming up. Lets go to gianna for your commute. Look at the roadways. It is quiet. A heads up if you are on the roadways early, there is roadwork with lane closures on the southbound side of 101. Northbound is not seeing trouble. They may be changing the clone cones and opening the bridge early. We have some slick surfaces out there. A very easy commute into the city. The bridges are very quiet. No delays on the san mateo bridge. This is an overview. You can see red and yellow on the 101 22 roadwork on the Golden Gate Bridge
You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday i am pleased to announce that mayor breed declared a state of emergency in the city, which was transformative in our ability to better prepare for the response. It allowed us to activate the department to be more focused on the response, coordinate better with other city departments. This is a shared responsibility in terms of our response doing that. We were able to also be eligible for potential federal responses within an emergency response. We were also able to position ourselves to better educate the community and the public about how best to prepare for coronavirus and when coronavirus does arrive in San Francisco. A key part of our message is that everyone