Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
Healthy as any of us can possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. I am scott henkel, i am the director of the wyoming institute and im so happy to welcome you to tonights thing can drink. The topic of which is, pandemic and historical perspectives. So i am so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris who is assistant professor of history in american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institute here committee who will be a moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So please wear. Thank you, scott. And thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate. Who i know our later time zones so thank you for sticking with us. And of course to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then i will let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with what we are doing tonight. We so first we hav
Limbo with the Current Administration blocking president elect to joe bidens transition into office the u. S. Is once again bracing for another surge in covid cases and hospitalizations with new records being set today. This as another one of the president s closest top advisers has tested positive for the virus Corey Lewandowski who is currently at home selfisolating its believed he may have contracted the virus while attending last Weeks White House Election Night party. President elect biden has made the coronavirus pandemic a major focus as he prepares to take office some say its also strategic that he named ron klain as white house chief of staff a top democratic attorneys who has been bidens advisers since the 1980s. He led the white house of all a Crisis Response in 2014 during the obama administration. President trump hasnt addressed latest covid spite but has focused on the election which she claims was rigged while his Campaign Continues to wage legal battles republicans have
And be prepared. The roadways may be a little extra slick remember the first rain of the season brings up some of the oils off the pavement there could be extra slick out there actually right now we are seeing some high clouds moving up above no rain here just yet part of the bay area get pretty close in fact we may be seeing a few showers in northern Sonoma County, the brunt of the storm still up to our north you plowing right up in toward the pacific northwest, seattle portland. Theyre seeing some rain and again thats going to be cold storm thats a head in toward the bay area. Doppler radar scanning your skies we are seeing now warm frontal part of the storm begin to make in the parts of the north bay northern Sonoma County taking for a close look how about that couple raindrops pop up out there certainly a chance some of that hitting the ground headed towards santa rosa right now. But the brunt of the system still on the back side it will be moving in a little bit later so lets see
Popping up at least in the north bay tonight so. Thats a good start going to get things going here but theres more on the horizon so yes certainly weve been waiting for the storm door open sometimes that opens a late october in fact most of the time it does this year running a little bit behind you see most that rain confined up in the Pacific Northwest are getting a lot of rain even some snow up in the parts of the shasta csu Mountain Range and well to the north and the cascades and theyre going to see more of that on the way we in the bay area how about this weve got some scattered showers begin to pop up. It places a little the north bay to get him or and you get parts of Sonoma County all the way across here through petaluma maybe couple raindrops in your neighborhood doesnt look like much just couple of drops in the ground but otherwise well see more impressive stuff moving through the system kind of slide through tonight, this is the warm front ubahn kind of moving through but th