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Avert a worst case scenario. And remote control. How zoom calls may be getting hacked and what the company says its doing about it. Oh, no, dont hack zoom, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Were going to have a couple of weeks, starting pretty much now, but especially a few days from now, that are going to be horrific. President trump says the National Stockpile of emergency medical supplies is almost depleted. With all due respect it seems like so much of this were making it up as we go along. When bullets start flying, everything becomes a fog and you have to play it by ear. The Labor Department says more than 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. These are numbers we saw over the course of the entire great recession. This is like a flood, and the waters are still rising. Bloomberg news is reporting the u. S. Intelligence community concluded that china has been under reporting cases of the coronavirus. Seem to be a little bit on the late si
I need gowns and i need face shields and i needed them a week ago. The latest on the supply lines just ahead out of work. New jobs report released this morning. The labor market in free fall. The governments unprecedented rescue plan to help Small Businesses set to launch today why some banks are saying not so Fast Breaking overnight back home, cruise ships stranded at sea for weeks allowed to dock in florida sick passengers rushed to the hospital, others cleared to head home were in the living room, it feels fantastic. Sharing their ordeal with us. Those stories. Plus stand and applaud the powerful tribute to firefighters leading the fight as heroes honor heroes announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. Doesnt friday sound good . Hoda, good morning, im working from home once again youre holding down the fort in studio 1a an
By the railroad. Today were going to have two perspectives, one on the Chinese Railroad workers and another on native americans. Please hold your audience questions. Were going to have our two speakers on this topic give their presentations, and then were going to sit down and have a little chat in front of you here on the chairs. Then we will have opportunity for the audience to raise questions. So to start out our program, were going to talk about the Chinese Railroad workers, and our presenter is hilton obenzinger. He has been a lecturer at Stanford University in american studies and english and associate director for honors and advanced writing. He received his doctorate from the modern thought in Literature Program at stanford. Hes a critic, a poet, a novelist, a historian, and the recipient of the american book award. Hilton is the author of american palestinian, melville twain and the holy land mania, cannibal elliott and the lost histories of San Francisco, new york on fire. Hi
Professor james campbell. James campbell is the ed grebe robinson professor of United States history at stanford university. s research focuses on american and africanAmerican History as well as the broader history of the blackplanet. He is also interested in problems of historical memory or the ways that society tells stories about their past, not only in textbooks but scholarly monographs and also historic sites, museums, memorials, movies and political movements. His publications include songs of zion, the africanamerican Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and south africa raise nation and empire in American History and middle passages africanamerican journeys. He is currently completing a book on the history and memory of the 1964 mississippi summer project and he is certainly one of our most distinguished historians here at stanford, please welcome james campbell. [ applause ] thank you very much for those remarks. One of the problems teaching at a place like this is