Good afternoon and welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. I am currently a director of the California Clean Energy fund, also a long serving member of the Commonwealth Club. Please turn off all your noise making devices. We will get under way in just a moment, but first, i want to tell you a bit about a couple of upcoming programs. Next monday, november 21, tom brokaw, nbc news correspondent and author, will discuss the current mood of america. This will be a Program Starting at 1 00 p. M. At the Santa Clara Convention center. On tuesday, november 29, paula kerger, who is president of pbs, and the president of kqed will discuss the challenges facing public broadcasting and how the challenges impact our program choices. This will be a 6 00 p. M. Program here in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club. It is my pleasure to extend a special welcome to any new members of the Commonwealth Club who are here today. We know you are
Woodruff then, rebels fired scores of rockets on the syrian city of homs as the assad regime celebrated army day. Margaret warner gets the latest on the bloody civil war from nprs deborah amos. Brown Law Enforcement bids farewell to f. B. I. Director Robert Mueller. Ray suarez explores the transformation of the bureau after the 911 attacks. Woodruff and we hear from two u. S. Senators leading the push to keep the militarys Sexual Assault cases in the chain of command. Gwen ifill talks to New Hampshire republican kelly ayotte and missouri democrat claire mccaskill. The other side has wanted to make this argument about victims vs. Uniforms. Thats a false premise. This argument is about how we can protect victims the best. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Perfo
Scores of rockets on the syrian city of homs as the assad regime celebrated army day. Margaret warner gets the latest on the bloody civil war from nprs deborah amos. Brown Law Enforcement bids farewell to f. B. I. Director Robert Mueller. Ray suarez explores the transformation of the bureau after the 911 attacks. Woodruff and we hear from two u. S. Senators leading the push to keep the militarys Sexual Assault cases in the chain of command. Gwen ifill talks to New Hampshire republican kelly ayotte and missouri democrat claire mccaskill. The other side has wanted to make this argument about victims vs. Uniforms. Thats a false premise. This argument is about how we can protect victims the best. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literac
They need. This is added with timely monitoring systems. It is systems where we bring together the ability to not only diagnose the symptomatic, but p pro proactively work with those at high risk. We see it occurs often in places of closed settings, among native americans and longterm care for the elderly. And the third element, the Rapid Response programs. Relying on the cd drorch woc to state and local government to be sure cases are quickly tracked to be sure we cannot only control the epidemic, but trace them before they break out. And we look to have newer platforms, efficient testing, and being sure that the tests have high quality in predicting exposure to the virus. And working on innovative tests and antigen point tests and expanded nucleic tests. Thank you, mr. President and ambassador birx. I want to spend a couple of minutes going over where we have been, but more importantly where we are going. I think we all can understand how we can group this into three distinct phases.
Anger boiling over on the streets of baltimore. A major confrontation between police and protesters a moment ago. Our own brian todd was caught in the middle of it all and let me show you. Lets go over here. Watch out. Watch out. Here they just got another man. Were being easy guys. Were being pushed. If you can see whats going on, when they try to arrest someone, they are being swarmed by the protesters. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And some as you can see this obviously a violent confrontation there between police and protesters. That was moments ago. It comes after days of mostly peaceful demonstrations. I want to show you the live pictures at this moment. Protesters are gathering at city haul and the Police Station again. It has been 11 days since freddie grays arrest. Heres what we dont know. What led to his arrest what happened to him in the police van, why has his autopsy not been released and why have we heard nothing from the arresting officers even though five of the six have given