Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
Parkland School Shooting. Oh, and shes also said that democrats should be executed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is very concerned about the ongoing threats to members of congress and she says now the enemy is coming from within the house of representatives. There are new developments this morning in the effectiveness of vaccines against new coronavirus strains. Earlier results from Drugmaker Novavax show it is 89 effective against the regular strain, but only 60 effective against the variant that we are seeing in south africa. That is worrying health officials. Whats more, people in the trial who had been previously infected with the first strain are getting infected again with the new strain. So this really has the potential to change some of the framing in the battle in this pandemic. The first cases of that strain were now found in the united states. That happened for the first time yesterday. It happened in individuals who had not traveled and have no connection to each oth
Wildfires exploding overnight in hard hit california, mandatory evacuations under way for thousands this morning. Were on the ground in the fire zone. On the brink. As the world approaches nearly 1 million covid19 deaths, cases rising in 33 states at home. Florida rolls back restrictions and new york reporting more than 1,000 cases in a day for the first time in months. The big question this morning, should the u. S. Brace for more shutdowns . Dr. Fauci joins us this morning. Nfl legend joe montana and his wife jennifer rescuing their 9monthold grandchild from a frightening attempted kidnapping inside their own home. Dax shepards struggle. After nearly 16 years of sobriety, revealing a drug relapse. Each encounter has gotten more shady and dangerous. The father of two and husband to kristen bell calling it the worst hour of his life and asking for help. Im really at that point thinking, like, this is my life on the line. And heating up the flush. The 2020 nba finals are set. Jimmy butl
Trials. I got a call from the committee yes and im i feel can you take a look this is your vaccine theres not much in there looks like a couple of jobs ok im ready. One of those stories in just a few minutes over an hour to dot com in about an hours time you can have my colleague kevin on hell be here but now its time to cross talk say with. A little welcome across not were all things are considered. Americans are divided not you by it its all white music you shouldnt design you know citizens our challenge ideologies become exclusionary and intolerant the Supreme Court is now the. Realm of partisan politics and worst of all political opponents are deemed the enemy is there a way out of this downward spiral. Cross knocking about in america im joined by my guest roy rightly topping in data entry is an attorney conservative commentator as well as contributor at the hill and in washington we cross to me show cross she is in a crowded strategist and a political analyst or across like rose i
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th