Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
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Abby sunday. Lets get you outside with rosemary. The wind is coming . It will increase. Tomorrow could be breezy. Outside of that, a minor cooldown. Dry conditions are expected. Here is a look over the golden gate bridge. Partly cloudy skies and patchy fog. We are little warmer this morning. Temperatures will cool just a little bit for your bay area sunday afternoon. In the extended forecast we are partly cloudy and relatively mild. We are dry. I will have a look at the Current Conditions of the week ahead coming up. Breaking news this morning. The busy roadway was shut down early this morning. Sarah is live there to tell us what we know so far. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The scene has been cleared and the road is open right now. A lot of Police Activity was here earlier this morning. We will take you to video of what it looked like earlier and tell you exactly what we know so far. We have reached out to the Police Department for information but have not heard back. Accrue re