Chris is like the anti Stonewall Jackson fanboy and as a result, his description of jacksons death is far more entertaining than mine is but chancellorsville is a battlefield where both of us are really cut our teeth as younger historians and so his insights on the battle of chancellors bill known as lees greatest victory also said some important light on why its lees greatest defeat chris is the Senior Education manager at the American Battlefield trust doing some great work preserving our battlefields including a lot of preservation at chancellorsville itself. Hes the author and coauthor of more than a dozen books about the civil war. Ive been privileged to write with him for a 16 years now. Weve got lots of great stuff in the works coming up. Its a real treat to have them with us today. Ladies and gentlemen, chris white. Thanks, chris. Thanks everybody for being here today, even though its a virtual conference. We do have a few people out in the out in the crowd that have sat with u
South bay with moderate showers. These continue to slide to the southeast at about 30 to 35 miles per hour. They will be around throughout the morning commute. It is raining well in san jose. By noon, partly cloudy. Well have mid 50s through the afternoon. All right. Thank you. By this time tomorrow the entire bay area will be under this new stayathome order as icu capacity is dropping dangerously low. Lets look at the latest data here. The bay area is now at 12. 9 . San joaquin valley is back to zero percent. Southern california just 0. 5 . And now the Northern California region is the only one in the state that is not under a stayathome order. They have 28 capacity. Lets zoe you whats going on in the bay area. The solid blue there, those counties have already issued a stayathome order. The rules may change in those counties. The counties with the blue and the black lines that you see there, those are the ones that will join the stayathome order tonight. The new order is against peopl
But, i will not be able to get that chance soon, it sounds like, because Yosemite National park is reversing course and extending one of its campground closures, and this is because of the recent spike of coronavirus cases in california. Park officials have started to reopen some campgrounds earlier this month. They were closed for 2 1 2 months during the pandemic. Reservations between now and july have been canceled and the park has already cut back the number of visitors by about half welcome to the 9, along with gasia, i am sal, and mike is currently off with some computer issues. But gasia, have you been to yosemite . And are you itching to go . Oh, i have been several times in the summer and winter. I was not thinking about going before the pandemic hit, but now i am so hungry for the Great Outdoors that absolutely we would take a trip to yosemite. We are also working to find and appreciate the beauty and nature all around us, even within a couple miles of our home. I am happy to
The real purpose here is literacy. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival is all about. Turnout sion, ron chernow will discuss his book about ulysses s grant. One thing i learned from this story was how people can evolve through persistence and hard work. It isnt an incredible story. Me that a person of good will learn from their mistakes. I hope you enjoy this session. Welcome to the 18th annual National Book festival. Ron is an awardwinning journalist, historian, biographer. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book award for nonfiction. In 2016, he won the National Humanities medal. His book on Alexander Hamilton with the inspiration for the awardwinning musical. He worked as a historical it is worth noting that are cochair of the festival was supposed to conduct this interview today. I just happen to be a big admirer of ulysses s grant. When you are first approached to create a hiphop musical about your book, what was
Against the government over the lack of protective equipment for offices and threaten to stop and forcing the nationwide. Hi there thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. International. We will start by bringing you the latest numbers and information on the scale of the covert 900 pandemic more than half a 1000000 cases have now been registered worldwide with 24000 lives lost so far 125000 people have recovered from the virus the u. S. Now has the largest number of confirmed infections which outstrips china and italy. A growing number of countries have enforced either a partial or complete lockdown to control the spread of the virus an estimated 3000000000 people thats more than a 3rd of the worlds population are currently under various forms of restriction. You might think that the u. S. Has enough to deal with during the ongoing pandemic but the state department turned its focus to venezuela offering a multimillion dollar bounty for the capture of presid