3, 2, 1, 0. Ignition. I am standing in front of the morehead building. The morehead planetarium is now the morehead planetarium and science center. A famous North Carolina family, the moreheads, whose grandfather was governor of North Carolina. An undergraduate student in chemistry. He made a discovery in the Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that led to the founding of union carbide. Thise 30s he conceded yourof what you did with Science Education contribution would be building on a building a planetarium. The morehead planetarium was the first planetarium in the south. He visited the planetarium and chicago, the hayden planetarium, he also visited the leading lens manufacturer in the world, they arguably still are. Projector toodel a install which was the best in the world. Of education and enlightenment. [indiscernible] is what you will see on the lower half of your television screen. Watch very carefully. In the late 1950s response to sputnik being launched technology with rocketry
Is that idina menzel, on the phone with her agent . Thats exactly where she lives, kansas city, missouri. Uber is cutting jobs because of the effect the coronavirus is having on its business. The company is slashing about 3,700 recruiting and Customer Support positions worldwide. Thats about 14 of its workforce. Ubers ceo is also waiving his salary for the rest of the year. Add gap to the list of retailers opening this month. It plans to reopen 800 Stores Including old navy and Banana Republic before the end of may. New protocols will include updated cleaning routines, plexiglass at registers, and no access to fitting rooms. Some Department Stores are also looking ahead and engineering how their future might take shape. It comes as nordstrom unveils the changes it is making to protect both its customers and employees. Here is abcs eva pilgrim. Reporter stores are reopening, but shopping as we know it is changing. Nordstrom announcing the closure of 16 stores in an effort to weather the
Mid and upper 60s around the bay for a nice afternoon above average. Can we keep that trend going for the holiday and beyond . Ill let you know. Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of american Cruise Ship Passengers are waiting to evacuate and board 747 jets and bring them home. They have been on board the ship with coronavirus. Several crew members infected. Here is a live look in japan where americans are about to disembark. Some will be quarantined for 14 days when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base in firefield. Others flown to lackland in texas. Were pushing to find exactly arrival times. Overnight the death top climbed to 1600 people. First fatality was also confirmed this week in europe. The number of worldwide infections have climbed to 69,000, 15 of them are here in the u. S. Here is abc 7 News Reporter ty hernandez with the latest. Reporter nearly 400 americans who have been quarantined on this cruise ship off the coast of japan will soon be on their way home, but many are conce
Within the cold war. T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Ignition. We are in the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. I am standing in front of the morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium. Which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John moreahead the third is from a famous North Carolina family. His family was the governor of North Carolina. John morehead the third attended carolina for undergraduate school in chemistry. Made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of Union Carbide and he became an extremely wealthy man, and he came up with this idea, what he did as a leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the morehead planetarium was the first one in the south. His contribution was significant. We are also the first planetarium in the world on a university campus. He visited the admiral planetarium in chicago, the hayde
Visit ncicap. Org] the house will be in order. For 40 years, cspan has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy event from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind, created by cable in 1979. Cspan has brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of overnment. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road with the support of our spectrum cable partners, this weekend, we travel to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the hour, well go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and also talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas moorhead planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about 10 minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the