Helping to mentor over 7,000 students welcome to december. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Glad youre with us im Frances Rivera the next few months could be devastating. More than 13. 5 million have been infected and fatalities have surpassed 258,000. Officials expect to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo called the covid the grinch as they prepare for new restrictions meanwhile california is on the brink of new stayathome orders about 75 of the states beds are occupied nbcs Miguel Almaguer has more. Reporter the end of the month marks the most dire month of the pandemic with a grim 35,000 fatalities. Now as tens of millions of americans return home from the holiday, the darkest days may be yet to come. As we go for the next couple of weeks in december, we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge were already in. Reporter expecting to see new infections spike in the next five to ten days, in states li
Authors at the q a button at the bottom right of the screen. Kent will ask your questions. Before i opportunity it over to kent and jeffrey i want to remind you but a couple of other Virtual Events were involved in alert this week. This wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Our partners the marcus Jewish Community sir . Atlanta are presenting a free event with coverage kevin quan if his latest novel, sex and vanity, and this friday at 7 00 p. M. Is Bell Wilkerson will discuss her latest best seller with jon mecham. Thank you so much for your purchase tonight. Join us for this event and for your continued support during these extraordinary times. Now ill turn i over to Kent Alexander and jeffrey toobin. Thank you. Jeff, this book was fantastic. Im so looking forward to talking with you but it. Innovate going to get into more of an entry duke of you because i think people know you really well, but had you written this book five years ago, i would have said it was a thriller, paymentturner, a pageturne
I am sorry about that entrance. I wasnt doing it for theatrics but i do have a brandnew hip. [laughter] [applause] i love it. But the rest of the body hasnt caught up yet. [laughter] we go slow. Nobody is moderating us. We are just talking. We are talking about douglas and liberation . Absolutely. Let me start. To stop, i want other people to know about this. Im interested obviously in literacy. I am impressed with what i only recently discovered, which is this country is unique in the world in terms of the distribution distribution of libraries throughout the country. You cannot go in rural areas in europe or africa asia, rural areas and find libraries the way you can hear. Huge University Libraries that jump up out of nowhere in indiana or someplace. Pennsylvania, go for 100 miles and there it is. Enormous university with more books than cambridge. So its an extraordinary thing. The other thing is, something im interested in is on the one hand, the power of reading and of course, und
Now theyre saying goodbye to one of their own. The nurses here say that ponders death could have been avoided. They were given the proper ppe for dozens of these nurses at Summit Medical center in oakland janine paste a punter was more than just a coworker i mention i stay ponder was devoted to her patients here at Summit Medical center for more than 25 years. But unfortunately she wont be returning to work. Family and coworkers say she died on friday after contracting the coronavirus from the hospital which they blame for its lack of proper ppe is very sad. This in need to happen. We if the hospital the Medical Center here had provided the proper ppe that the mass the council we were at went through a period of reusing masking gallons even now some of the floors nurses have trouble getting there n 95, which is the maximum protection fellow nurses at some of the Medical Center held a vigil on tuesday to honor pastry ponder. In demand proper protection of its employees angry because the
And bay area San Francisco city workers are in a tough spot. Delay their raises or risk a huge round of layoffs . Tonight, reaction to the mayors budget ultimatum is pouring in. We are live with how this ties into racially quality. Mac since the death of george floyd there has been talk about defunding the police. The city of San Francisco a few weeks ago promised to to re divert some funds from the to Police Department to communities of color to reinvest in those communities that may be defacing that may be facing racial inequalities. Today we got our first peek of what that might look like. As the first step in the effort we were redirect 120 million from Law Enforcement to support these priorities over the next two years. District 10 supervisor says the black community has made clear its priorities for the money. They identified education, economicjustice, homelessness, Mental Health. You will see us come up with programs and resources that are going to address those so specifically