San francisco is losing its battle against covid19. Her current case place us on a trajectory to be in the purple tier, potentially as early as sunday. During an online briefing friday, San Francisco Health Director doctor grant colfax said cases of covid19 of nearly quadrupled in over a month from 217 new cases the week of october 12th to 768 new cases this week if our numbers continue to go up at this rate some we could conceivably hundreds of in the hospital. By late december early january according to our model range a purple designation will lead San Francisco to the governors 10 00pm to 05 00am curfew bad news for struggling Restaurant Owners and their employees because that means not accepting reservations after 08 30pm. This will further. Because cash losses people will be trying to decide can we stay open do we close more moving to the purple tier will also mean the closure of indoor museums, Fitness Centers houses of worship. Movie theaters and Outdoor Entertainment centers,
That, as things develop, nato will continue to adjust its presence. She says that even with the further u. S. Reductions that have been announced, nato will continue its mission to train, advise and assist Afghan Forces and is committed to funding them through 2024. And heres the interesting sentence, phil. She says, as secretary general stoltenberg said before the announcement, we must preserve the gains we have made in the fight against international terrorism. We went into afghanistan together and when the time is right, we should leave together. Now before the announcement secretary general stoltenberg said we will leave together. That clearly has been thrown into doubt by the us president. Well, i have told our daughter from back to you to australia. You need law to really. Because what you say, were going to hear next from the German Foreign minister, heiko mohsin. He also is concerned about these u. S. Plans. Its especially important to us that the progress weve achieved so far
Often tension in iraq between supporters of top clerical and antigovernment. Protesters ahead of parliamentary elections but into the program. A prominent scientist at the center of Irans Nuclear program has been assassinated, gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying it most enough, and his bodyguards, iran has vowed retaliation, which it says its suspects. Israel is behind a setback, has more from tehran, the aftermath of the killing bullet holes in the car and blood on the floor injured in the attack. Mostyn factories are there was taken to hospital, but later died. He had been one of irans most Senior Nuclear scientists and had already survived a previous s. S. Nation attacked based on the report made by the god 1st, they opened fire. Then after 10 to 15 seconds, a truck carrying explosive materials exploded in a car. Fire continued after the explosion. Officials admit his death is a blow to the countrys defense program. Foreign minister javad zarif was quick to lay the blame. He said in
Environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the machine if you want to know how and when clicked on the priest and the whole truth changed as an atheist is listening to our podcast on the green ms. Much of beirut lies in ruins rebuilding the city is a race against time i mean its not just us i think everything they rueful its like there has been severely injured on august 4th 2020 a huge explosion at its port rocked the city months on beiruts Historic Buildings remain unprotected in the rainy season they could be damaged beyond repair. Palaces of beiruts landmark perched on a hill overlooking the port its been home to marry cochrans family for 5 generations. The 3 story structure which dates from the 19th century bore the full brunt of the blast. So we are here for mentions 15 metres and trying to. Directly in front of the blast silo is right in front of us no buildings in front of us theres nothing that took the blast or we did so thats why we got a direct hit and and thats w
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael