Another spike in coronavirus cases will meet the front line workers during one of the hardest jobs that there is every day. And u. S. President orders u. S. Troops to come home from afghanistan. The move is drawing fire from americas nato allies, including germany, plus 2 fatal crashes kept it grounded for 2 years now. After months of scrutiny, the boeing 737. 00 max has been cleared to fly again. I burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin tonight with politics and the pandemic. Lawmakers here in berlin have voted to give the German Government new powers, allowing it to introduce restrictions to tackle the coronavirus crisis. German president , vulture steinmeyer, signed the bill into law earlier this evening. It takes effect tomorrow. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets today to protest as politicians debated the legislation thank water cannon and pepper spray deployed by police to disperse the demonstra
2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
My name is Justin Desmangles i of the chair of the foundation celebrating the 41st year. [applause] for decades. I want to and extend my gratitude to an hour founder our founder who was one of the great artists, warriors of our time, ishmael reed is with us today. [applause] i also want to think our friends here the center for being so generous in in particular the director and to fellow board member presently the poet laureate at the center cisco jazz festival San Francisco jazz festival. [applause] the american book awards are hosted by the jazz center. Jazz has the uniquely american art form the american is a and the thread of telling it like it is to invite openly all cultures to develop and to seek peace with one another. And with that National Conversation that is exacerbated by a violent political crisis that has taken hold of the country in the rest of the world and with the viciousness of the american book awards and the before Columbus Foundation is it midways medicinal to he
40s for a few, 50s more 40s to the north. 50s a lot more 50s yesterday. More fog over the bay. This system will give us increasing clouds and a possibility of rain on thursday. Today though 50, 60s, 70s near the water. 6 01 and so far so good,. You know, things are picking up a little bit steve. It is getting slower on interstate 80, we have a crash in the south by to talk about. Lets start off with 80 westbound, can you see traffic here on the east shore freeway, it is going to be slowing down from the bridge to the maze, 42 minutes and that is going to be a commute that is going to an little bit slower than normal for this time. Traffic is better once you make it down to the bay bridge at the bay bridge toll plaza you can see that traffic is going to be okay. We do have a look at the san mateo bridge where traffic is go to be moderate over to the peninsula. Traffic on 87 is backed up from 85, so if you want to stay on 101 or do 85 to 17, 85 to 17 and get in that way that should be be
Go . Yes, we do. Going to work harder. 2017. Definitely going to ask the men and women on the force to give extra. Newark has not only added more police, they have reassigned many of them to street beats and partnered with citizens groups to promote community policing. Public safety director, Anthony Ambrose says the city is targeting gun violence, adding more officers to shooting response team. Treating it like a homicide. Sending out intelligence people. Sending out a team of detectives and taking the people off the street before they did their second shooting or a murder. Reporter nonfatal shootings are down 21 . Robberies are down 23 . Auto theft is down 16 . Newark mayor, ross barraca. You cant do it alone. The community haptz has to be part of this . They have to have faith, confidence police are there to help them and not occupy their neighborhood. They see violence and crime they report it. Reporter a Community Advocate here in newark. The numbers are down . You know what, i do