Good evening everyone. I am frank sommerville. The fire is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of homes and businesses that have been lost in the fire still burning out of control in that napa and sonoma counties. The latest update shows 58,000 acres have burned and that is up from 51,000 this time last night and containment has improved slightly and now 5 compared to 2 yesterday but the Damage Assessment is higher. Cal fire so the number of homes and businesses destroyed has gone up to 419 and that number was 150 last night. We are tracking the weather conditions that firefighters are facing and we will hear from him in a moment but first we go to amber lee and describe the situation there. Reporter christina, we are in downtown calistoga and it is deserted and the entire city is under a mandatory Evacuation Order and the smell of smoke is strong and it has been raining ashes and in the meantime firefighters are trying to get the upper hand. Reporter in st. Helena near highway
A rally just yesterday and was with him on air force one both to and from the debate on tuesday in cleveland. This means other white house staffers and members of the president s family and inner circle may also have been exposed. Joining us now is a political reporter greg lee and with these fastmoving developments. The white House Doctors of the president will continue with his official duties at the white house. Reporter yes. We actually just learned about the president s schedule tomorrow. He is scheduled to have a 12 30 call and maybe with some seniors that could be affected by the coronavirus and he was supposed to fly in the evening to florida for a Campaign Rally and that is no longer on the schedule and understandably unpredictably so but the significance of this cant be understated and first of all you consider the fact that this is the commander in chief and the leader of the United States and free world and now this puts the west wing in a bit of a tailspin because now you
But today, our subject is the socialist party. The rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the u. S. But largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass socialist movement with a base in the u. S. Political system follows the final flowering of the 19th century radical tradition and the defeat of the populist party in the 1890s. The inheritors of 19th century radicalism were forced to kind of think about new ways of confronting the problems and inequities of the rapidly changing Industrial Society of that time. It is often said by those who write about the history of socialism that american socialism was particularly untheoretical. Very few americans produced theoretical works ab
Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement now we are entering into the 20th century. In the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today, our subject is the socialist party. The rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the u. S. But largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The emergence of a mass socialist movement with a base in the u. S. Political system follows the final flowering of the 19th century radical tradition and the defeat of the populist pa
66 and a half 1000 new coronavirus cases are reported as President Trump wears a mask in public for the 1st time. And in indonesia a Community Comes together to support bring the refugees there rescued late last month. Millions of syrias displaced people will now have only one Turkish Border crossing through which to receive aid thats after several attempts to keep a 2nd crossing open failed to pass at the Un Security Council russia backed by china had been pushing to shut down one of 2 Border Crossings that was still open diplomatic editor james bays reports from u. N. Headquarters in new york a Security Council resolution on delivery of aid into syria is finally passed the result of the voting is as follows. 12 votes in favor no votes against and 3 abstentions but this was not what 13 out of 15 Council Members wanted only one Border Crossing bubble how one can now be used to deliver aid of to china and russia use their veto power in recent days to block other options so this resoluti