Please welcome sarah milov. [applause] iz miss ms. Milov thank you so much. It is such a privilege to come and speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the product of corporate deception th
I know it looks a little bit different today. And that is because we are over at our Emergency Management Operations Center. This is the area where so much of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in kentucky. Give him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. s name is Michael Dossett and he has been doing a great job. Michael . Michael thank you, governor. Welcome to the state eoc. We christened the building in 2013. We have about 25,000 square feet. We are currently at level three for this operation. We are under unified command. We have 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, they are spread out over a number of buildin
Damion its so hard for me because how hard ive worked to get here. Lemonis my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everythings gonna change everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. This. Lets go to work. Is the profit. Based in hilmar, california, kensington garden rooms manufactures handcrafted, custom gazebos fully fitted for outdoor entertaining. Owners damion merry and Simon Johnston learned their craft in england then brought it to california in 2012. While the quality of its product is topnotch, its high cost makes it a luxury item most people cant afford, leaving kensington struggling to achieve real growth. Simon we can keep doing this for another two or three years, and, you know, 4,000 or 5,000 bucks each a month, you know, keep all the customers happy,
Thank you for joining us. Covering our office in washington dc. Were navigating one of the most troubling challenges the nation is seen in the last century. I recently got off the phone this morning on a bipartisan Conference Call on the president. As we talked about ways to make needed provide resources , there are conversations in this phone call and i was impressed with the number of democrats on the call who thanked the president for his actions. As we know, 30,000 americans have lost their lives. Husbands grandparents, wives, brothers, sisters, they all have meaning. That is why we have to double efforts to make sure we work harder to get through this the saddest part of all this that we all think about is this did not have to happen. If you look at the southampton 95 of this egg never happened of china have not been honest with the rest of the world. Their deception lead to 30,000 americans dying and we have to make sure we are never put in this place again. Todayhad our conversa
So much for social distancing. You are watching cnbc. Good morning and welcome we are live and waking up to another day of potential losses for major averages stock futures now pointing to modest declines from a relative perspective. The dow jones opened down 244 points, nasdaq down implied 77 points that is much more than normal. This after the wall Street Market staged a rally yesterday for the dow. Major averages on pace for the third down week of the last four checking the treasury side of things, we are seeing movement for the bond and notes higher to. 227 10year at. 61 . Oil on a wild ride it had been lower Early Morning but ralied after news after a meeting on monday by Conference Call to discuss cuts President Trump meets with Top Energy Executives at the white house today. Full details on that summit at the white house coming up. Global Team Coverage dan murphy is in singapore Geoff Cutmore is in london, nbcs tracie potts with the latest out of washington and Frank Holland wit