She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
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Tennessee, super tuesday is the last thing on their mind tonight. Where we are in cookville, they are still doing search and rescue. The sheriff said a short time ago about 40 of the homes damaged by tornadoes still have not been searched. Youre talking about downtown nashville, an urban area that took a direct hit from the tornado. An hour east in cookville, 18 people died including sme children. Some people died in bed. They didnt have a chance to get out and run for their lives. At a place called church on the hill, 15 minutes down to road, family members who believe theyve lost loved ones have shown up at the church. Theyre being shown pictures of their relatives and asked to positively identify them. You hear beeping sounds in the distance, search and rescue, larms house to house, alarms going out. You see people mingling, holding bags under their arms, walking with their children. This is is a disaster zone, many unlike weve seen. To hit such an urban area like nashville and cont
Course as tensions in the middle east are very high also new chapter for u. S. Cosmetics giant avon its not part of the brazilian personal care group nutura the groups new ceo will join us later this hour. Stocks are extending a selloff, oil and gold prices continue to climb. This is iran and the white house, trade threats following of course the u. S. Air strike that killed irans top commander. Jim, happy new year. Happy new year. Nice to see you, my friend. Good to see you, buddy, way too long i missed you. I know you feel the same but i havent heard you opine on this market and what risk there is in the geopolitics, in the backandforth, our viewers im sure are familiar with the president s tweets over the last lets call it 24 to 48 hours, sort of saying weve identified 52 sites that we would take action against if in fact you do something, and also notifying the congress, he said, as well, if iran should strike any u. S. Person or target wed quickly and fully strike back, perhaps in