Coronavirus is spreading,the surge is putting a massive strain on rural hospitals and pushing Health Care Workers to the limit. We are live in paris where theres new reaction to the brutal beheading of a teacher as protesters lash out over the weekend. Spacex launches another rocket to deploy another 60 satellites its part of a massive undertaking to blanket the globe with orbiting satellites. The Los Angeles Dodgers have punched their ticket to the world series in dramatic fashion. Its mont, october 19th, and early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. Glad to have you start your week with us im Frances Rivera we are just 15 days out from election day and the president ial campaigns are laser focused on key battleground states President Trump spent his sunday rallying his supporters in nevada, a state he barely lost in 2016. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell starts us off. Reporter an unusual start to the campaign day lets welcome our president , donald trump reporter making a return
This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
Hi there, my name is John Jefferson loony. I am the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson at monticello. We are here today to talk about jefferson and his correspondents. My moderator will be my esteemed colleague who will handle the questions for us. I will turn it over to her. Thanks, jeff. Can you start by telling us what is your role in working with jeffersons correspondents . Im in charge of a project to produce a total of 24 volumes between 1809 in 1826. I work with a total of 10 people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce an authoritative addition for edition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we arent. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating film documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs were baffled
Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who w
You do not feel inadequate because being only the second wealthiest man in the world, right . Everyone has no doubt used bandaids or tylenol. Those products are wellknown products produced by Johnson Johnson. Johnson johnson is also a giant in many other areas, and is now taking a leading role in preparing a vaccine for covid19. Its ceo is alex gorsky, a west point trained former military man who has done an incredible job over the last eight years making this company the most valuable Health Care Company. Now, some people say the most commonly spoken words in the english language today are can you hear me because of the zoom phenomenon, but i assume in your case, the most commonly asked question is when is the vaccine coming . You must be getting asked this every hour on the hour. I will do this as well. When is your vaccine coming . Alex its usually about every 15 minutes i get asked that. Let me start by saying i could not be more proud of the incredible work that our scientists and