Now the ball will drop to almost completely empty streets. Tonight its by invitation only and only a few hundred people will gather including frontline workers. Its a critical time as officials warn people against celebrating in high risk groups. The country again breaking records for covid19 deaths and hospitalizations. The cdc projecting another 80,000 americans could die in the next three weeks alone, but as those numbers spike vaccinations lag. The White House Task force admitting that the nations vaccine rollout is moving way slower than promised. Lets begin with cnns Paul Vercammen in los angeles with more. Paul, i know officials there are bracing for that postholiday surge as well. Reporter theyre petrified by the prospects right now, bianna. Lets look at this in the context of these national numbers. They are horrific. More than 300,000 deaths you see that in the u. S. Also the cdc is forecasting that we could get up to i want to correct that, that was 3,000 deads. 324,000 debt
Entertainment. Saturday night, we lose an hour of sleep, all of us. Am i springing or falling . Springing forward. So right now it is 7 00 a. M. Lets get a data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. Five years, yesterday. Sunday will be five years on a closing basis. 10year yield. 1. 3887 ever stronger euro. Lets look at the litmus paper of the system. A weaker ruble. Yen blows out stronger. Let me go to the bloomberg terminal. Weakness in the ruble. Here is the intervention by the russian government. They have somewhat given up here with the latest news and tension , starting about 4 00 p. M. Yesterday afternoon. Last a weaker ruble in the 48 hours. We start with the papers and the weather this morning. Here is scarlet fu. The latest is that russia tol embrace crimeas move secede. Choice words. Crimeas parliament voted in favor of secession yesterday. Crimeansan 60 of are ethnic russians. They may want to be part of russia. They will get to cast their vote on march 16. Khrush
Graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, who is the forgotten man . Guest president roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man as the man at the bottom of the pyramid so that would be the homeless man. But they were aware of another forgotten man in school and that was the man who pays for the government projects. The third party. There is even algebra about the other forgotten man saying a wants to help x but b wants to help x, too, but the problem is when they coherce c into it. It is the taxpayer. That is the question also today. Host in your book, the forgotten man a new history of the Great Depression, you write the big question about the american depression is not whether war with germany and japan ended it. It is why it lasted from 19291940 from hoover to roosevelt Government Intervention helped to make the depression great. Guest thank you for quotes that introduction. This is a book i wrote about the 1930s because we all learned something about it in school and that was the new d
Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they
The next is if you have not had an opportunity to see a new permanent exhibit we installed last year about this time come find one of us and the Library Staff and will be happy to give you one of the buttons which will be you into the Museum Galleries for free today. Finally, just a quick thanks to our friends and colleagues from cspan of our family this session today, great supporters of the programs that we do and it is nice to have them back with us today. Just a little talk about how this session will go ms. Amity shlaes is going to speak for roughly 30 minutes. She likes to do things very interactively. She will talk about the process and how it came about through and how it came to fruition. A very open to questions from the audience because she would love to take as many questions as possible. We will have you come up to mike so that cspan can catch your question on tape as well as your face because you will be so enthusiastic about her talk. And then once ms. Amity shlaes is do