Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Middle of the year. The toll plaza to the one o one about an eightminute drive for you ok, hot spots not to tell you about antioch to concord 17 minutes such a co 2 danville thats a 30 minute drive for you its starting to slow down just a little bit there in san leandro to milpitas and the one o one san jose to menlo park, 31 minute ride dariann james guys. Thank you are in a 6 oh one is the time our breaking news from overnight. The u. S. Has set another record now for the most covid related deaths. In a single day you can see in the graphic behind us more than 3100 people died from the virus on wednesday can see its a problem from coast to coast and for the first time a 100,000 americans or in the hospital with covid in nearly air in the icu and this comes as california now setting records for the number of new cases that its experiencing kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco with more sara. Another grim update james darya we have just been reportedly reporting just grim grim up
Thanks for that you know traffic is looking great out there, but you can see the bay bridge. A lot of backup there the maze to fremont street 13 minutes and you see traffic starting to build here in the Richmond Bridge traffic steadily moving along near the tulsa the one o one about 11 minutes. For your drive so make sure now is the time you want to give yourself more time to get out on the roads because were no longer in the green everybodys out there trying to get to work, san mateo bridge 92 you can to one o one a 17 minute drive for you can see everyone kind of stepping on those lights there you see the brake people making their way across but its going to definitely be a drive and thankfully, no accidents to tell you about no hot spots to get to but lets get a check at our drive times for you filling a out to conquer 21 minutes of steadily increasing there but take danville 40 minutes, san leandro to milpitas 27, san jose youre at a 35 plus drive the air and one more look out at t
How do they deal with social justice . And what are working conditions like . We vis eight couries on tw contints to fi out how europe and asia work together,s in our series work places. A beacoof hope inhe ocea a seaweedarm an hour tside thindonesianapital, karta. Could this be e solution to global problem nory mulyo definitelthinks so. Shes carrying out research into how seaweed can keep the seas clean. Her home country is the worlds secondlargest plastic polluter after china. Indonesia processes more than 60 million tons of Plastic Waste every year. Over 3. 2 million tons of it end up in the ocean. The government has pledged to reduce this by 70 by 2025. Its an ambitious plan. Traditional Waste Disposal methods cant keep up. Thats why indonesia backs pioneering ideas like the one mulyono is proposing. She makes packaging out of seaweed. How can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plastic . Of course we cannot go back to our motion to leave without plastic packagi
I have the pleasure today of moderating this conversation between two outstanding policymakers and scholars. And the us china relationship. And working in the Defense Department and mongolia and the commissioner congressionally mandated Security Review Commission and the author of a terrific new book which is called the china nightmare. And we will be talking about it with him and with retired Lieutenant General hr mcmaster. And a reputation and military service one of those adaptive mines in the American Military i am delighted to have both of them here with us today. I am sorry neglected to say hr is also the author of a new book called battleground. Thank you both for making time for china policy. Thank you very much thank you for your leadership at aei and mr. Mcmaster for joining us. And to have reshaped china policy last few years. I am very thankful as we all are for doing that. The china nightmare, what does my book mean by that . China certainly has grand ambitions and power b