His sport helps support cspan. Our nonprofit organization. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us here at csis. Were going to be hosting a fireside chat with dr rochelle walensky, the cdc director to really focus in on cdcs preparedness and the road ahead. Im Julie Gerberding and i serve as the ceo of the foundation for the National Institutes of health. Im also co chairing with my colleague, former congresswoman susan brooks, this csi commission on strengthening samara because health security. I also served as the cdc director from 2002 to 2009. So you can imagine this topic is pretty near to my heart. Im delighted to be hosting dr walensky here today. Shes been the cdc director since 2021 but i bet it feels a bit longer than that before her tenure and government, she was the chief of Infectious Diseases at the massachusetts general hospital, a professor at harvard and has an amazing track record of contributing not only to the events in the covid pandemic there, but also a long
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After watching the interview. Later in the show, the question everyone is asking, can the Livestrong Charity go on . Well ask the ceo. Have you noticed you didnt make quite as much as you did before the new year came . Of course, you are not alone. What is behind this sudden cut in pay and give you ideas of what you could do to offset that loss. The story we hope will bring a smile to your face. What folks in one city are doing to boost the spirits of random strangers. Great story. We want to start with Lance Armstrongs confession. Anne thompson has more on what he had to say. Anne, good morning. Good morning, savannah. Lance armstrong said he had the perfect story for so long, overcoming cancer, winning the Tour De France, and it wasnt true. Lance armstrong was emotional, but not tearful, apologetic, but not contrite. In an exclusive interview on own, armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey what had long been suspected. In all seven of your Tour De France victories, did you ever take bann
Start another four years as bang as the final Preparations Commander in chief. Savannah . When you say new look, im are being made in washington to expecting bangs but thank you so host the president s second much. I dont think thats good for the president , no. Its a big weekend, of inaugural today, friday, course, for the president. January 18th, 2013. We will all be down there this weekend. Weekend today will be there, lester, erica, jenna, dylan for announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer a special edition of weekend today. And monday morning, matt, and Savannah Guthrie live from willie, al, natalie and i will studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Have coverage of the events, the and good morning. Ceremony, parade, all the pomp welcome to today on a friday and circumstance as it were. Its always an amazing event morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. To actually watch unfold. Im Savannah Guthrie. This is a confession years in we hope youll join us monday the makin
Positive, all the qe we take back. We werent in a recession and wont have needed any of it, which is weird. Huffington post never mind. Lead story on Huffington Post is what the i guess the dallas fed figured out what the great contraction, theyre calling it, what it cost us, Something Like 14, 15 trillion. Wow. Yeah. In lost wages and everything, take everything into account for the and naturally the Huffington Post points a finger squarely at quality for causing the whole thing. But anyway, lets check on the futures at this hour. Yesterday after all was said and done, the averages were the dow was unable to hold on to the positive gains that it started with, closed down a point. Up 36 points today. The s p indicated maybe up 4 1 2. S p is at a level that some people think could be important to make a stand if we want another leg to this rally. There you can see the nasdaq, which is probably a performing better, but doing pretty well since facebook and even though facebook is not a na