Governor abbott first, i want to thank everybody for being here today. As i provide you an update on where we are as of today, as well as some new additional information. First, i want to let you know hat as of today, the Texas State Health Department Says that the state of texas now has tested positive 715 texans, testing positive for covid19. Once again, the number that the state Health Department provides differs a little bit from the figures that are provided by Johns Hopkins. The reason for that is because Johns Hopkins provides some additional cases that may not yet be confirmed. The two numbers are working close and parallel. The state department pronounces 715 people have tested positive. Johns hopkins counts 810. Its my understanding that Johns Hopkins also includes in their numbers those who have been brought into the state of texas from those cruise ships. The number of deaths as of today is now 11. The number of counties affected by this is now 65. And the total number of t
Journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Continues. Host Stephen Sneed is with us and we are talking about the impact of the Coronavirus Impact on the election season. First on the project and how are you funded . We are a nonprofit and we are a watchdog. We were not expecting to be in a pandemic such as this. Our primary mission is to ensure the integrity and security of the electoral system and to defend the rights of voters to participate in a system which is free, fair, and honest. There will always be challenges so our democracy, pandemic being the latest and we need to respond to those with elections that people can trust. Ost with reaction to their decision to avoid people clustering at the ballot box . Guest i commend them for their swift action to make the elections as safe as possible in these incredibly uncertain times. We certainly dont want people to be congregating in close and othern the cdc Health Officials are advising otherwise. That is a w
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org President Trump thank you very much. Been a very busy day. I want to thank the American People for the incredible sacrifices that they are making on behalf of our nation and i want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on cial distancing, avoid large gatherings and hand washing that Everybody Knows they are supposed to be doing. The goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we end the end of our historic battle with the in visible enemy. But we will win. I hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality. We will be meeting with a lot of people to see if it can be done. Easter is a very special day for many reasons and for me, a lot of our friends. Thats a very special day. And what a great time line this would be. Easter is our
Usually london, in one case, from house but almost always london that conveys the colonists the things they heard about what was happening in england. The section is always called advices from because if any of you are familiar with colonial newspapers from across the heading the newspapers use when they were talking about material coming in from somewhere else. I introduced the material, the information about whats happening overseas to the colonists themselves as they would have learned, although other times they would have learned, at the time it was happening. Obviously in such a short time, this evening, i cannot discuss, but i can just summarize, you have a timeline in that handout, it helps reveal these developing visions and the increasing radicalism a populace. Only one of these is known to the public and that is the first one, the Boston Tea Party. Its not just about the Boston Tea Party, its about the incident of late 1770s. The story is of the tea in boston, it was referred
Good evening. I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem th