Smile this wednesday one couples public displays of affection that had fans cheering for decades. Early today starts right now good wednesday morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Schools, houses of worship, and other gathering places will be closed for two weeks in a suburb just outside of new york city after it became a hot spot for the coronavirus. State officials have implemented a onemile containment area around new rochelle, new york. The move comes after more than 100 cases of the chinaborne illness have been reported in that area. New yorks governor called new rochelle the most significant cluster in the country but he also insisted that containment is not a lockdown. Nbcs ron allen has more reporter the heart of new rochelle, a city of . 70,000 just north of new york, virtually on lockdown because of what Governor Cuomo says is the largest cluster of coronavirus cases in the country at least 108 and surging higher more than double the number in new york city. This is
Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phonet so you dont interrupt the inven. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is ricardo ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had
Preparation for the opening of these museums or, excuse me, for these restaurants the original neon sign for mintons mayhouse was taken off and given to the play mouths was taken off and given to the yet to be opened africanamerican museum at the smithsonian. And i would just like to ask both of you if you really seriously think that harlem can avoid becoming a praise where the schomburg a place where the schomburg is sort of like a synagogue in china town. [laughter] real. Yeah, thats very real. Michael, ive heard you express that before, and i think its absolutely something anyone who cares needs to have their eye trained on. I also think as long as there are black people in the streets of harlem and im just hike, even as i say that, all these encounters i overhear and pass through and cross through in the most amazing poetic ways, like that is its own space making. And i have my own inner debate about, you know, i had a conversation with a friend about the we were looking at the ren
Whether you think there are sort of real sort of ideological conservativism as opposed to just some of these kind of formative influences, you know, whether you saw evidence of that in his writings or in his, you know, his conversations. Are yeah. Well, you know, i think the best clues we have are these speeches where he talked about the individual versus the state and god given rights. This the closest thats the closest here got to a kind of comprehensive statement that went beyond, you know, we need more missiles or weve got to send a man to the moon. I havent mentioned the moon shot, but that was, i think, really more part of a cold war battle with the soviet union. And he was also a very competitive guy. I mean, he its a cliche almost at this point, but he grew up in this big family playing touch football and doing sailboat races, and the big competition at the time was between the u. S. And the soviet union. I mean, and hed been in world war ii which was, which was another big bat
Welcome to world news. Tonight, extreme weather. A huge and deadly storm on this first weekend of winter. Heavy snow spinning drivers off roads, ice so thick tree branches are snapping. Hundreds of thousands now would power in the south. Flooding and tornadoes, too. But on the east coast, its recordbreaking heat. Also tonight, the home stretch. Holiday shopping in high gear. But the countrys biggest bank is taking dramatic steps to deal with the target Security Breach, including putting limits on how much millions of customers can withdraw and buy. And the racist tweet heard around the world. The backlash building as she was flying to her destination, unaware of the fire storm she triggered. Now tonight, the former publicist doing some damage control for herself. And good evening. David is off tonight. Im rebecca jarvis. We begin with the massive and deadly storm snarling Holiday Travel with a bizarre mix of winter and springlike conditions. At least 12 people have died. Thousands of f