More month of this 2020 saga guys, lets killer fingers. Crust i mean it is the month of course where we get all the lights up in typically good feelings abound so i hope thats absolutely what we do have its also a month that we get some chilly weather and were going to be starting off the month that way some chilly conditions this morning and tomorrow morning will be much the same you can see all the sunshine that we have up above in San Francisco or stitcher tower you always looks good even in those foggy morning, sometimes you get the blanket down below. Radar shows rain and snow up to our north up in washington and oregon. But we stay dry thats the way weve been for over a week now the for the week ahead of us too as we begin december temperatures today eventually rise into the 60s. Were out of the 30s for most of the inland east bay where we spent the morning even san jose dropped into the upper 30s. Santa rosa, youre still at 38 saint helene at 34 early elsewhere in the bay area e
I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. The book we are discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the profit. We will meet peter in just a moment but first i want to tell you about the book coming from can off publisher and thank you for helping to put peter on the program with us today the cost is 35 and can be ordered from our website those of you watching this on the lifestream and then you can have a signed First Edition on october 27, october 27, 2020 was the release date for the book and for signing a special day of the week bookplate so books that you order from us on this program will be a limited edition i cannot tell you how many books will be that is up to you you will get a signed limited edition bookplate from Abraham Lincoln bookshop. This will be we broadcast on television and later by cspan and thank you for participating in this program. So another piece of information here please leave your question in the Comment Section of this Face
Released results of its latestage trial. The Pharmaceutical Company said that its Coronavirus Vaccine is up to 90 effective, depending on the dosage. It plans to seek emergency use authorization from the world health organization. Astrazeneca becomes the third drug maker hoping to distribute a vaccine following pfizer and moderna. Meantime the u. S. Has recorded 20 Straight Days of at least 100,000 daily covid cases. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. On friday, infections hit a new daily record of 196,000 cases, but there is hope. The First Americans could be vaccinated in just weeks. Bofta yimam is in washington. So, bofta, it is great that it looks like we have a vaccine on the horizon, but you have to make sure you dont catch the virus first. And a lot of people are ignoring the cdcs recommendations to stay home for thanksgiving. Reporter thats right, annmarie. 50 million americans are expected to travel for thanksgiving, and experts warn that crowds at airports could lea
That begins at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good afternoon. I am director of the center on National Security, i am delighted to be joined by ali soufan, author of the black banners declassified how torture derailed the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know ali soufan from some of the events weve done together, a special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 9 11 attacks. Is in recent years brought his investigative skills to the private sector, ceo of the founder of the center, his specialty is Global Security affairs from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will explore as much of that today as we can. I want to deck out each day, we publish the intel brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into timely issues that go to the heart of what we are thinking about even if it is not in the headlines. From white to premises him to what is happeni
In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri