Our coverage from the 2014 roosevelt reading festival continues with amitiy shlase on the Great Depression. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bob clark and im the deputy directyear her tee franklin d. Roosevelt president ial lie area and museum, and its my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. Before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so we dont have any interruptions of our presentation today. The next is if you havent had an opportunity yet to see our new permanent exhibit we signaled last year, come find one of us on the Library Staff and well be happy to give you an fdr button and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And then finally, just a kick quick thanks to our friends frid colleagues from cspan who are recording this session. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author is going to
Good evening and welcome to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Im ali velshi. The United States now has more than 1. 3 million cases of covid19, the number of fatalities surfacing 79,000. Some states across the country are continuing with their planned reopenings as President Trump emphasizes the need to restart the economy. New numbers out yesterday show the United States lost a record 20 million jobs in the month of april. The Unemployment Rate surged to 14. 7 , the highest level since the Great Depression. In the last hour the president has been meeting with senior military officials and his National Security team. Meanwhile, there are new safety procedures at the white house, as two staffers in the west wing have tested positive for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the 44th president , barack obama, criticizing the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic, reportedly calling it a chaotic disaster. Lets begin at the white house this evening where the Trump Adminis
Jackson and the mayors summer of love is already over. Or announcement to disband shop after this weekends deadly violence. Promises kept, donald trump is heading to the southern border to mark a major milestone in wall construction on the heels of his latest immigration orders assigned to help the american worker. Supercharged moment of solidarity at talladega, nascars rally around bubble wallace, fox and friends first starts right now. A beautiful moment and we will have that for you a little later in this hour. We say good morning, youre watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. Heather thank you for starting your day with us and we start with a fox news alert, protesters in washington trying to set up on autonomous zone outside white house has chaos and destruction breakout across our Nations Capital. Shannon Jackie Ibanez joins us with the unrest overnight in the action donald trump plans to take. Major unrest in the Nations Capital, protesters attempting to create what t
Ill big special day around here today. Martha really . I hadnt noticed. Bill just noticed. Martha wonder what it could be. Bill you will have id standing day. Martha i get so work with you today. Bill enjoy your family. Martha thank you very much. Bill tomorrow is just another day. Martha another lovely day in america. See you tomorrow. Happening now starts now. Bye, everybody. Jon fox news alert. A desdesperate plea for the release of a 5yearold boy as the hostage standoff is in its section day. He was snatched from a school bus where the driver was shot and killed. He has got the boy in an underground bunker. Hostage negotiators are working around the clock to get the boy free. Questions remain on why did the gunman take him . Were live on the scene in a few moments. First, brand new stories and breaking news. Deadly storms causing serious damage across the country frightening new developments in the Iran Nuclear Showdown as the rogue nation backs up serious threats to retaliate agai
Channel alhurra. A female suspect traveling in her car with a child tried to breach a white house barrier and later was almost stopped near the capitol. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa get this, get this. I am. I am. [ gunshots ] holy [ bleep ]. [ speaking Foreign Language ] come down, come down. [ speaking Foreign Language ] heres what we know at this hour. At about 2 18 this afternoon, the female suspect identified as miriam kerry of stanford, connecticut, traveling in a black infinity coupe with her 1yearold daughter struck a security barrier surrounding the white house grounds at 15th street and ebe. The barrier was not breached and secret Service Uniformed division tried to stop the vehicle. Police then gave chase for about 1 1 2 miles, all the way to constitution avenue and Second Street near the capitol. The vehicle ran several red lights durning a chase in which it reached speeds of 80 miles an hour. The suspect was ultimately shot and killed after crashing the car outside the Sen