Road to civil war. Joanne freeman, youre going to hate this opening question. Trace the arc of our nations history. From 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow, i will use the word hate. Back is a little daunting. Trace the art. Im to do the historian thing and speak generally. I guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, youre talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. The period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and its the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. The nation was founded in a world of monarchy. The United States was a republic. What the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasnt act. Were not going to be creating monetary and the president isnt going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. Theres a lot of improv in those early decades abo
Plus the billionaire tilman closing more than 70 restaurants that had just reopened because of the unrest in various urban areas. He will join us later and well tau talk to a ceo who just pulled the plug on a big money deal with facebook. This has Mark Zuckerberg starts an all hands meeting with his employees. Power lunch begins right now thanks. The s p 500 is on track for its third day in a row of gains despite everything going on in the country and the nasdaq is sitting 3 from record highs lets get to bob for more on those markets. Bob. For once, nasdaq is not necessarily the market leader. What were seeing today is energy, industrial stocks leading. Bank stocks leading. Its the reopening story and broadening story this is remarkable its been going on for three weeks. S p keeps going up but the leadership has been altered in the last few weeks in favor of those reopening names. I want to show you the megacaps because we start with them they have fwn driver of much of the rally in ab
6 00 a. M. On the dot, lets check in with steve pretty warm for most of us. It will be later on today. We had a warm day yesterday for some and we will continue that today vessel for sunshine for all and on sunrise here there is a little log on the santa cruz coast but 43 for the more in santa rosa and 49 and then as a so temperatures are running cooler because of lack of cloud cover and some of that fog is going right down the coast north wind, northeast and i think you all know the drill napa airport is 38 but brentwood is 57. 43 in lake port and santa rosa but the north wind and clear skies equal sunshine and warmer temperatures. Look for a chilly cold morning, maybe, compared to the last couple mornings. We had fog but thats not the case now but highs are in the 70s and temperatures are above average by a good five or 10 degrees here. So, we did have something around fremont is that still there is that better . Its been cleared up which is good, and that is gone now and traffic is
Mounting after new zealands volcanic eruption 6 people now dead 8 are missing and dozens severely injured people are asking why to worse were allowed there in the 1st place plus fresh tensions between moscow and berlin for comments by Vladimir Putin over the killing of a former Chechen Rebel in berlin anger german lawmakers. M called last minute welcome to the program in new zealand the death toll in mondays volcanic eruption has risen to 68 people are still missing and presumed dead dozens more are injured many with severe burns and some are not expected to survive search teams have still not made it to the island because they fear it could erupt again last week the threat level on the island was raised raising the question why were to wrestle out to get so close to a volcano that was ready to erupt. It is a search operation because rescues considered unlikely 1st responders are flying over for kerry island after the volcano erupted on monday afternoon local time 47 people were on the
Project Coolidge Foundations centennial conference in honor of president Calvin Coolidge, were pleased to be cohosted with the library of congress and grateful to all of you who are here. Were going to get underway with our panels here in just one moment. But weve been how many other more than 100 students. Weve often been saying there are coolidge senators. And, of course, many of are coolidge senators. But were joined by a number of other student groups. I wanted to be sure that we recognize the first of our 1890 Society Members are part of the Honor Society of the coolidge program. We have maybe a dozen or more joining. So welcome to the 1890 society. From Ashland University, the Ashford Center is here with our ashford scholars. Were so pleased to have you here from ohio. Thank you. Weve had students from bases, d. C. High School Students here at our conference. Welcome to basis. And weve some archer fellows from the university of texas system joining us as well so welcome to our ar