Career has focused on americas relationship with the sea in a aing of notable books, from. Y offshore to abrams eyes second, comprehensive in cover not just a voyage or the first war, all of which have recently been done, but in covering the entire story, allowing us, the readers, to enjoy the true benefits of history, which is the scope, to follow consequences of actions through generations and narratives because what nat does best is to tell a story an adventure story, but in many ways, and unexpected adventure story. Look at the cover. I, of course, love it because it is our painting. The mayflower on her arrival. But what i really love is that even though the book is entitled the mayflower, this cover does not put the mayflower front and center. It does not show a ship tossed by waves. That would be the expected adventure story. Instead, it focuses on this little group of pilgrims leading a ship that has brought them through storms and peril, headed off toward shore on the verge of
Class on the evolution of a natural park system and the effort to preserve pristine wilderness. She argues that this approach obscures the ways that humans have iran tractor with the land. Her class is about one hour in ten minutes. So today were gonna be talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of preservation unexpectedly changes parks is protected areas. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these types of protected spaces but then also to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it more easier to understand, not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time the sort of more importantly why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something staying the same and yet preservation actually changes things so thats really kind of the focus were gonna aim at today. I want to see if i can manage this. So in the context of sort of open space lands here in the u. S. ,
That just cost facebook billions of dollars. Tracking godzilla. A saharan dust storm stretching from texas to florida now heads toward the northeast. Why for some it could actually be dangerous. And police story. As many areas try to reimagine the force and its role in communities, well look back at the history of policing, when it began, what came before it, and learn the key decisions that led us to todays enforcement levels. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. If we want to end this outbreak, really tend, weve got to realize that we are part of the process. Reporter the dangerous first wave of the virus is crashing into the three biggest states california, texas, and florida. Were in a much stronger place. The truth is we did slow the spread. We flattened the curve. The response has not been a success. It has been one of the least successful responses in the entire world. Reporter the house of representatives voting to make washin
Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority a federal agency involved in developing a Coronavirus Vaccine rates as early this year he sounded the alarm about a shortage of testing swabs as well as critical medical supplies like n 95 masks and ventilators but he says his warnings were dismissed lives are endangered and i believe lives were lost in and not only that we were forced to. Procure these supplies from other countries without the right quality standards last month bright was abruptly removed from his position we have the worlds greatest scientist let us lead. Let us speak without fear of retribution for as id and trump dismissing breaks testimony, i dont know. I get still bright has a dire prediction. The covid19 pandemic will get worse of the United States does not develop a National Testing strategy and put in place a plan to distribute a vaccine time is running out because the virus is still spreading everywhere. Im Camila Bernal reporting. Senator richard bur