President trump saying youre welcome for the market milestone, this as joe biden lays out his cabinet picks and the plan for his first 100 days. We have insight all morning long. We hear from Chris Bedford from the federalist, tennessee senator Marsha Blackburn, michigan congresswoman, Debbie Dingell and laura trump. Stimulus showdown, millions of americans are waiting for another plan the to finally get pushed through congress, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin meantime will move unspent stimulus money out of the Federal Reserve, if you will. This is rescue money. And it needs to be reallocated by congress. So thats on nancy pelosi. Tax threats, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo promising a new income tax for the state if the government does not give out more coronavirus related aid. Okay. Keeping an eye on the Holiday Shopping season, weve got the best deals you can expect ahead of black friday and cyber monday. And mystery in the desert, an other worldly discovery in utah have people a
Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
A 2 injection procedure of course. The states themselves where the sites have been established this is something thats been drawn up over a period of months. Brazil has announced its planning to vaccinate about a quarter of the population in the 1st half of next year but Health Authorities say 70 percent of brazilians will need to be immunized in order to stop the virus from spreading south korea has reported a 2nd day of record high corona virus infections more than 1000 new cases were reported on sunday the government has warned it may have to increase restrictions to the highest level police in Northern Nigeria have launched a rescue mission after gunmen stormed a secondary school in kidnapped a number of children but 800 students attend the school in the state many fled during the attack police say 200 have since returned. Venezuelas opposition says that millions of people participated in a nonbinding poll called by Opposition Leader one of quieter voters were asked to support call
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Has announced his resignation. We know that we can do this. We can vote back talks on libya, wrap up with rival groups, agreeing on a date for national elections, but not now. And his 4th, Dustin Johnson has won the 2nd major title of his career, the american claiming the masters with a record breaking score. So in the last hour or so, weve had some more encouraging news on the corona, virus vaccine front with news from another major drug Company Currently in clinical trials. It is the us pharmaceutical firm, modernity, which is early results from its vaccine show. It is 94. 5 percent effective. Remember donald trump made a deal with madonna back in august to purchase 100000000 doses of the vaccine when it was ready. But then is the 2nd candidate with a shot at getting approval. Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine was 90 percent effective in the late stage trials. So promising news of course, infections continue to climb this man, the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson, himself