Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. Out and the to go total number of quiches is 66,000 cases is 66,000. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. It is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says the situation is in new york city only is a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state. You see it move across the nation. There is no ame
Freely among enemy lines. Announcer 1 explore our nations past and American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. Cspan cities tour is in lansing, where we are visiting the Michigan History Center museum. They have launched a brandnew exhibit where theyre asking viewers to take a look at some everyday objects. Suzanne fischer we are looking at our new exhibits, secret lives of michigan objects. Secret lives of michigan objects is a playful and fun exhibit about museum collections, and the way that objects in museums and up to michigan history. It is a way to involve people who live in michigan to think about their stuff is part of michigan history. We like to put things into context especially in museums. An object is not just an object, it tells a story about the time it was made, the people use it. In this exhibit, we are saying, what are other ways to look at objects . And what are objects that stories can tell . So the things people feel when they come to the exhibit space is this v
F company of the 517th parachute infantry regiment, which was part of a unit that was called the 517th prct. It was short for parachute Regimental Combat Team. A world war ii unit that fought in italy, Southern France. It is a largely forgotten unit. It was a small unit. There were about 2500 men throughout the war. It was comprised of three smaller units. Parachute unit, the 596th Airborne Company and and the 460th. Those three units maybe Regimental Combat Team. The higher army command would attack units where they were needed as they were needed. We are representing them during their time in the autumn of 1944. That was in the south of france in the french alps, where they were cast with protecting the right flank. That came from the invasion of Southern France in august of 1944. It was overshadowed by operation overlord, the famous normandy operation. They were nicknamed hammer and anvil. Due to lack of Landing Craft and aircraft, they were not able to have both operations at the s
Moved to approve. All those in favour say aye and item 5 . Communications, none, and Unfinished Business by Board Members . Other than addressing the lack of air conditioning in our meeting chambers which has been addressed, Board Members, any items of new or Unfinished Business . I jill say, i was at the opening of the chase center but to and from was challenging. It took me over an hour to get there and i had to hop into a taxi to get here because waited 20 minutes and there was no kt. So this cant happen and members of public to note, people like me are trying it out and ive been in contact with Julie Kirshbaum but its critical because we will have a lot of people going there start on friday and tonight, too, so it would be great if it worked well. Thanks. Any other new or Unfinished Business . Item 7, directors report. Mr. Mcquire. Ill start with a special recognition and ill go to the podium for that. We dont have your walkup music today but hum it to yourself as you get up there
Ekkebus talked about the World War Ii Nuclear Weapons Program known as the Manhattan Project, the programs aftermath and the impact on the Main Development facility in oak ridge, tennessee he focused on the years 1945 to 1950. The American Museum of science and energy and oak ridge hosted this event. Thank you very much. Please to be here in the American Museum of science and energy. The talk tonight is focusing on the first five years after the war. A great many changes have occurred. Im including what i consider some of the less frequent he mentions topics of this. There we have images of the beta cal you trond and the top, jackson square, a great high and the sppy valley 50 plant and steam plant at the kate when he five site. K 25 site. The theme of this time is change. There was a change from the army corps of engineers to the Atomic Energy commission both leaders and goals. There was change in the town. And labor, congress, the Atomic Energy act, there is the search for spies that