History on the red planet we asked alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yeah its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city and every night appears to look like a war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flash bangs and its absolute chaos down town portland and its hard to see in a city that i love so much now you know the child was the boss of the department of Homeland Security says youre all violent and i casts on the streets of poland apparently theyre using george w. Bush
Over we ask longtime protest organizer vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory. And his nasa launches its historic perseverance rover to mars to look for signs of life is at the end of us a gemini and rocking the secrets of the universe after chinese attempts to make history on the red planet we ask alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yet its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city every night appears to look. A war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flas
More awareness, concern, understanding about the issue now than there was. There is an important recognition on the part in general, that the activities of man on the planet are actually dangerously degrading the ecosystem that sustains all of us. Oceans, airports. We have a long way to go, but at least there is it better public understanding by the legislators, governors, congress, that this is a vital issue. Air, water, soil, rivers, oceans, and so forth. That determines our standard of living in the quality of our lives and all of these resources for many years, it is time we undertake a very serious effort to stop the degradation and help to give nature a chance to do some restoration, at least where the damage has not then irreparable. You mentioned the public and legislatures. What do you hope people will take away from this in 1990 . Sen. Nelson i think the objective, the most important objective of this earth day, are the same as 1970. My purpose than was make demonstrations so
Because this is when the Movement Goes national, right . This is when the Movement Goes national. People are sending in money from all over the world. The Movement Goes international, actually. There are political cartoons you can find in french newspapers talking about the boycott. The Movement Goes national and international. So if you think, and put that in a cold war context, too, thats part of the reason people are interested. And it inspires a similar boycott in south africa. So people are paying attention to this, in a way that had not gotten that attention before. Why do you think this one got so much attention . Its not that that hadnt happened in montgomery before. Why did this result in a National Media event . The answer is implied in the question. [laughter] student because they had media available . [laughter] prof. Greer to some degree. You cant take out the fact, we have this idea of a movement in the postwar moment, without considering the circumstances. The cold war,
China is the manufacturing workshop of the world and its shrinking, manufacturing, shr k shrinking at its fastest pace ever. This is an astonishing move into the safety of tenyear u. S. Treasuries. At one stage that yield had dropped all the way down to an alltime low of 1. 03 . Right now, we are at 1. 08 . Historically very, very low. The virus is the problem. We do not know how much our economy will slow if large numbers of people are quarantined and people are unwilling to go out and shop and travel and mingle. We have these developments on the virus. Deaths, two deaths in what appears to be a cluster of cases centering on a nursing home in kirkland, washington. Firefighters who went to the home are now quarantined. There are confirmed cases in nine states. Florida has declared a Public Health emergency. Theres this bombshell from iran. A Senior Adviser to the Supreme Leader has died from the virus. Several members of the top leadership are infected. But iran has done little to rest