The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight countryrecounts how the experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Cracks since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 christophernd nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. Harvard andied at wes
Judy woodruff on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to this Vice President ial debate. Im Judy Woodruff of pbs macneillehrer news hour and frontline. My colleagues on the panel are John Margolis of the chicago tribune, tom brokaw of nbc news, and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based on the history since world war ii, there is almost a 5050 chance that one of the two men here tonight will become president of the United States. The candidates are senator dan quayle, the republican nominee, and senator Lloyd Bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] Judy Woodruff for the next 90 minutes, we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagu
World. Good morning, everyone im david asman and for stuart entere. A second virus wave in your, that continues to weigh on investors minds today but there are hopeful signs as you can see green on the screen, meanwhile big tech is trading in the green, amazon is seeing the biggest premarket pop, they just got an upgrade from bernstein to outperform maintaining the 3400 price target, amazing, battery day for tesla which continues to plow ahead, its awful little bit and premarket activity but elon musk say we will see the new product announced until a serious highvolume, until 2022, thats when the new battery will be coming out, the market is waiting on that, and politics versus the Supreme Court, still in focus, trump met with Amy Coney Barrett on monday, multiple sources telling fox news that she is the front runner to succeed Justice Ginsburg. Senate judiciary chairman telling Lindsey Graham and sean hannity that republicans have enough votes to confirm a replacement, today we hear f
Good morning. This hear willing come to order. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank acting secretary wolf for his service and for taking the time to come before our committee here today. I know you have a lot of things on your plate here. The committee does appreciate you taking the time for coming in and explaining whats all been happening and answering our questions. Your full testimony, full written testimony will be entered in the record. For my part, im going to read my Opening Statement, and then there will be a twominute video at the tail end of my statement. The federal protective Service Officer David Patrick underwood was 53, on may 29th, when he was shot dead guarding a Federal Building in Oakland California during a protest. His partner was also shot, but thankfully survived. News reports said the protests involving approximately 8,000 people turned chaotic and violent as demonstrators smashed windows, looted stores and broke into a bank a few blocks from where
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