Transition of power. President trump, president elect biden, whose conferences and event coverage at cspan. Org. Thank you so much for being here. It is an honor to be here. I was delighted to read your book which i have decided. First book ive ever written. It must be challenging to create factual accounts of the pandemic, talk about that process. I can understand why people would think, why are you writing this . Im writing about the things we can fight about, i did really a step back, im not fighting about these as they unfold, not fighting about this or that government, im not talking on that but im standing back and saying okay, why a pandemic and why now . That is something to do because youve been reading my work, you know, ive been fighting a book, weve been saying this will happen, these are the viruses need to worry about what we need to do. So obvious the predictions were and we havent done all of the things we need to do so this was kind of the moment to repeat all of that
And hes also an author of that column of the in town or what once was. Again, if you worked in with d. C. History, and d. C. History conference, that has been involved with it. The journal, just anything history in d. C. , owing also around the d. C. History lists serve. Thank you for that, on behalf of the city. So, today is gonna be talking about James Garfield his, death and efforts to commemorate his life and death, here in washington d. C. I want slate to much about it, i wanna i dont steal this, team but please join me in welcoming math. [applause] thank you very much. So, the storm unitel might be ripped from today or recent headlines, there was a president ial memorial delayed for years, caught up in congressional fighting, legislation pending to displace immemorial and replacing with another a powerful law between the memorial of choosing the site, and choosing the design criticizing the press. And it designer, without competition, decided very close to the capital, on marylan
Youre watching morning news at the. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a tuesday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher lets get right to the Weather Center john trouble keeping us updated on what will be the big story for the week ahead john yeah, its that fire danger guys temperatures are already climbing ahead of increased fire danger these next few days looking really clear across San Francisco in the rest of the bay area right now calm winds clear conditions. Beautiful cool morning to be getting outside. Winds will pick up starting tonight into tomorrow morning youre going to notice a big difference as far as wind scale. After that wednesday night into thursday morning is when well see our peak wind gusts of this wind event and also some of our warmest of temperatures thats the highest a fire danger this is thursday morning on our future cast of winds at 07 45am. And look at vacaville calistoga now speak. Winds gusting regularly into a 2030 even 40 mile per hour rang
60s for current temperatures across the bay area pretty comfortable to start. Later today for san jose, its back to the 90s you go and for oakland back to the mid 80s. Robin. All right, thank you john were following some developing news on bart out of the east bay theyre having some Service Problems in. Track between macarthur and fruitvale in oakland, so no service between those 2 bart stations and this a problem is causing major delays now to 30 minutes. At last check board says that they are single tracking through the area of lake merritt so theyre using one side of the track because theyre having some power issues and theyre working on trouble shooting this area. They have a crew responding to the scene. So once again major delays on bart out of the east bay, no service right now between the Fruitvale Station and macarthur station in oakland, they are single tracking through lake merritt because of this ongoing problem. They have a crew responding to the scene but theyre saying ex
A convention to consider the rights of women was helpin held. The Committee Found grievances against the government of men to be the same number that american men have had against king george. Yearsk George Washington to rectify grievances by war, but 72 years to establish womens rights by law. Amassmeantsss mean were needed. Womens suffrage is a long story of hard work crowned by victory. Host Colleen Shogan is the vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial womens Suffrage Centennial commission. She is also the vice chair of the White House Historical association, joining us here in washington and. Thank you so much for being with us. Guest thank you, and good morning. Host lets talk about the significance of this week, august 16, 1920, and the key role it played in the 19th amendment. Guest yes, in august of 1920, 30 five states had ratified the 19th but the 36th state was elusive. There w according to the constitution, three fourths number of states had to ratify to make the 19th