Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with another day of disturbing new milestones in the Coronavirus Crisis while the country awaits approval of the vaccine. Yesterday, the u. S. Recorded more than 217,000 infections and more than 2,900 deaths and over 100,000 hospitalizations. President elect biden said on his first day in office, he plans to ask americans to wear a mask for 100 days to help slow the spread of the virus. Debra alfarone is in washington. There is only so much the president can do. Is he can ask and he has some dominion over places where he can make it mandatory. Absolutely. We are talking federal buildings and any transportation that crosses state lines. Planes, buses and trains. The post thanksgiving surge predicted by Public Health experts has arrived with the coronavirus spreading out of control in much of the u. S. More than 217,000 positive tests reported on thursday. Shattering the single total set a day earlier. We dont want to scare
Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight jimmy and his guests gwen stefani swizz beatz and timbaland. Musical guests bebe rexha featuring doja cat and the legendary roots crew and now here is your host, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy all right. Oh, yeah hey thank you so much. Thank you for tuning in to the tonight show. I appreciate that applause even if its just from your home if youre watching from home and applauding from your bedrooms i really appreciate that [ laughter ] whoo [ cheers ] jimmy hey. It makes me feel it makes me feel at home because i usually get a lot of applause no, wait [ laughter ] [ applause ] all right. All right. That was a its a bedroom joke but, whatever. Hey, look. [ laughter ] i used to get a lot of boos if you know what im talking about. [ laughter ] not anymore. Not anymore. I get a lot of applause in the bedroom. [ laughter ] starts off with a little bit of booze. [ laught
Welcome everybody. I am david moscowitz, i am head of Government Relations and Public Policy at wells fargo and im pleased to be here with you today. We are pleased to serve for the eighth year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and prouder to watch it grow to the incredibly popular, impactful event it has become. I wouldnt be surprised [applause] wouldnt be surprised to see us move on to some bestseller lists today. Its even more important to keep the book festival a free event for the community. The real purpose here is literacy which leads to learning an opportunity which matches our goal of helping our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning are what the book festival are all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses grant. If we are lucky, certain other popular founding fathers. [laughter] one thing i learned from the story of president grant was how people can evolve and through persistence and hard work and k
Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
There were a couple slower moving vehicles. Thats how much impact just a few cars can have with lighter traffic. Over here theres more traffic volume, westbound 580. Typical slowing out of the alat this month. Kari showed you the live look to livermore and dublin. A good amount of vehicles through the area but no real slowing. Now the slowing in the altamont, i will track it next through livermore where you see a little slowing for west 84 that will give a good judgment about how we expect the commute to shape up. Back to you. New overnight brushfires burning and the Fire Department says it looks like somebody set those fires on purpose. Today in the bays bob redell joins us live from kelly park in san jose. They reporter no, and they tell us, kris, the battalion chief tells us this should be a good reminder for anyone setting off illegal fireworks ive heard them in the east bay and i know other people heard them elsewhere just dont do it especially given how dry this brush is. So just