Infecting others. Now, before we get to rest of his remarks. Take a look. This is the sevenday moving average of new Coronavirus Infections in the country. About 50,000 a day and climbing of what will be a new peak toward april. Cases will cross the 8 million mark and deaths will top 218,000. Heres how it looks on the map. Cases climbing in 35 states. Steady in 12. Fall falling in just three. Heres what that means on the ground. These are hospitalization figures for wisconsin which set a record today for new cases. And remember hospitalization numbers tend to trail cases by a few weeks. So the trend you see here is likely, sadly, to get worse. Ohio today also reported a Record Number of cases and, again, they are climbing in 35 out of 50 states. Those are the facts. This is the president of the United States today. Right now im fighting to eradicate the virus and were doing really a good job. Were rounding the turn. The vaccine will end the pandemic, but its ending anyway. I mean, they
Jonathan, welcome. This is a very meaty book. Theres a lot going on in here. The main thesis is falling birthrate re problem and what are the causes of those birthrates and the consequences . Along the way touch on many topics including the changing role of the women, sustainability and social welfare programs, religion and population aging. Well get to all of those during the next hour. But first, why dont you answer for me the question that ever reporters asked by his or her editor and reporter purchase of purchased with a story idea. Why does this matter . Why is it important . And matters because fertility rates and demographics or what my friend phil long in town here at the new America Foundation says its like the tectonic plates shifting beneath the earth. Demography isnt quite dead to me, but its close. Are we talking about a year, a few years, a decade, centuries, where is it happening . Host so the phenomena has begun in the west, it began around 1970. To back up quickly. The
Alexandria police on the hunt tonight for a man and a motive. Its kind of scary that it happened really close by. But i know that there are policemen out there. Reporter literally right outside. Police Still Standing guard in her neighborhood. Risi dupont was in her fifth grade class. We said lockdown. We went under a desk. And we were all just quiet. Reporter Ruthanne Lodato was home with her elderly mother and the woman who helps take care of her. Police say a man knocked on the front door. They answered. He shot them, then ran away. Police are looking for an older white man, balding with a full beard. We are concerned and the citizenship should be concerned. Reporter concerned because ruthannes shooter is still out there, and they dont know why he killed her. We just dont have a motive at this time. Reporter what they do have is a striking similarity to another high profile murder less than a mile away. In november, a top regional transportation planner ron kirby was gun down in his
They all wear the foot soldiers as you well. They were all the legal arm of the sabar is so just as the sabar Rights Movement was getting going in the 50s and 60s these particular lawyers were really at least of their careers and they became the evil arm of the sabar Rights Movement. Kenneth author of the new book representing the raise the creation of the civil rights lawyer published by University Harvard press. Up next on booktv after words with this weeks guest dvera cohn. What to expect when no ones expecting americas coming demographic disaster. A in it mr. Last discusses the population implosion in the u. S. And its impact on the economy culture and politics. This program lasts about an hour host jonathan welcome. This is a very meaty book and theres a lot going on in here. The main thesis of course is the falling birthrate problem and what are the causes of those falling birthrates and the consequences. The rising individualism and and american lives in the sustainability of re
And when they cover something the community doesnt want them to cover the journalists are ostracized, the local towns also pull out their advertisements which is their economic base and the newspapers to get tremendous risk to write about something that could be a scandal or something important because the community doesnt care about that and when they hear the Public Service it is a Recognition National recognition of the importance and it provides the same kind of umbrella protection the Nobel Peace Prize does they still affect our lives and just like a child may recognize a manner as some from their father and mother you suddenly see them just like my mother we as a culture need to understand that we have today come from people that came before us you begin to understand the traits we have about consumption thats understanding the news as a form of entertainment and these are radical notions from his time that we inherited and had taken on to build our society. The other thing that