Fed uniform on for Caroline Hyde, all ready to go. They will come out with a forecast as well. There is a pandemic, everybody is guessing including tom keene and francine lacqua. But it is a nice vector, a nice gurrria. Fortress look at the headline. This follows from that dropping that jawdropping 11 lift in jobs. Amazon plans to put 1000 warehouses and neighborhoods. This is the new political message that we are getting from all of these tech juggernauts after this digital dominance of this pandemic. Francine i understand this would be a way of competing with walmart, which is doing pretty good. The warehouse would be closer to you in certain neighborhoods, so they could deliver on this oneday pledge. We are all used to getting our packages pretty fast and get upset if we dont, so it is a race to get to the consumer as quickly as possible. Francine it is a jampacked day, futures up 17. Francine we will speak with angel gurria at 6 00 a. M. In new york, 11 a. M. In london. Lets get to
Greene discuss how roomy remember the civil war and whether to remove or contextualize confederate monuments. Then sunday, at 6 pm eastern, on american artifacts, we will preview photographs of native americans. Which includes more than a half million images. At 8 pm on the presidency, a look at president ial retreats, including abraham lincoln, harvard Hoover Mountain fishing camp, and stories of the kennedys. Clintons, and obamas, and marthas been yard. And monday night, at 8 pm eastern, august mark the 75th anniversary of the bombings up hiroshima and nagasaki. American history tv and washington journalist back of the events that led to the bombing and their legacy with author ian toll, and president trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv, this Labor Day Weekend on cspan three. From our lectures in history series, San Diego State University Professor Pierre Asselin teaches a class on the vietnam war. Looking at the conflict f
Conflict from u. S. Escalation in 1965 to the fall of saigon in 1975. He argues that the United States was in vietnam to prove the viability of capitalism and the american system of government. His class is about an hour, 15 minutes. So we talked about the kind of the leadup to the American Intervention of vietnam on tuesday. Were going to look at the war today. Before we kind of jump into the actual war, any questions concerning the stuff we covered on tuesday . No. I am that good, arent i . So i want you guys to pay especially good attention today, because as it turns out, this is the only thing im actually qualified to teach. [ laughter ] i didnt know there was a war in korea until i read the textbook with you guys. But the vietnam war is your thing. Ive tried to present concise history of the war and hopefully it makes some sense to you. So on tuesday, were talking about how starting in 1964, as a result of developments in hanoi, North Vietnam under its new leader starts to escalat
Boris johnson sparked outrage. News out ofing south korea. We are getting the jobless rate falling to 3. 2 percent. The expectation was that the jobless rate would come in at 4. 2 percent so this is much better than expected. We are also talking about the sixth straight month of decline in jobless rates. That 270 4000ring jobs were removed in august from a year earlier. We know that south korea has seen its government really boost those job creation efforts not to mention we could have seen domestic demand being held by the Summer Holiday season and more jobs being available. The government pushing for a fourth extra budget. This is of course helping workers and businesses who lost income due to the latest restrictions and jobless rates. 3. 2 . In for august at watch out for what happens later in the following months given we have seen this flare up in virus cases towards the end of august, haiti. Haidi. Haidi pretty dire numbers coming out and we continue to watch what happens when it
We welcome you to this primetime edition of the washington journal. With the senate back in session today, we will talk to a leading vaccine expert from newton, massachusetts. Later, we will examine some of the new side effects from this virus. We hope you join in on the conversation. Our phone lines are open. If you live in the eastern or central time zone. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, we would love to hear from you. Good monday evening. Thank you for being with us. Lookgin as we always do, at the numbers from Johns Hopkins university. Now around the world, the number of coronavirus cases approaching 3. 6 million in 187 countries and regions. The death toll has exceeded 251,000 around the globe. Joining us from massachusetts is dr. Mark poznansky, director of the vaccine and Immunotherapy Center at mass general hospital. I want to begin with the headline today from the new york times. As states moved to reopen, at least one model predicting the u. S. De