Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael
York claims over 150 Us Democratic system. Oh mr old boy you know. You got to do whats good for the people the American People trust is a direct threat to our democracy trump hes trying to time hes to find what hes fighting for because to be some kind of this country. Hello you watching Us International this soft say the 7th of november made its final days since the u. S. Election and it looks like we might finally have a result a number of media are projecting that joe biden has been elected the 46 president of america having secured 219 addict World College votes just a reminder to say. Up until the new ted fanfic tree the form of the piece when in his home state of pennsylvania has pushed him across not threshold donald trump meanwhile stands at 240. 1 joining me on the line now is our teams caleb maupin he is stateside in new york one of those details coming out from pennsylvania a pretty big moment we have to come to hire a saying joe you did are you going to be the next president
Where he was staying. Massive forest fires in the Arctic Circle. We have a special report on the blazes moving across siberia. We start with coronavirus and figures from the World Health Organization showing that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe now exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. The un body has also warned of alarming rates of transmission across the region. It came as the uk government announced almost 3 00 new infections on thursday. To help prevent the spread of the virus, almost two Million People living in the north east of england will be subjected to tougher restrictions from friday. Spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. Almost 2000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. And in france 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday the highest single day count since the pandemic began. Well have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new french virus hotsp
Guests, and then were going to talk a little bit, and were looking forward to having some of you ask questions as well. The reason im very excited about this book but also about our guests is its a rare thing to be good at Public Service, to be a person of action, and its also a rare thing to be a scholar and to be excellent at the study of something. And tevi troy and Kiron Skinner, both bring that to the table. Tevi was someone who worked in many places in Public Service from the congress to several departments, at the department of labor and department of hhs, but also, very importantly, at the white house which is what these books are about or this book and several of his other books. Hes also, again, an accomplished author whos written in addition to this piece on the white house about intellectuals in the white house as well as Emergency Preparedness in the white house and the use of social media by president s. So i hope you will take the time to listen but also to think about b
And dreaming big, the inspiring story of a man who was a Security Guard at the hospital now returning with a brand new job. Early today starts right now good monday morning im phillip mena we begin with breaking news a state of emergency curfew has been declared for wisconsin. Outraged people filling the streets after a 29yearold black man was shot by blpolice video went viral online and it may be disturbing to watch a man identified as jacob blake can be seen moving to open a car door and thats when multiple shots were fired. He was air lifted to a hospital. Our local affiliate spoke to his fiance two male officers instantly detained him like, you know, put your hands but like no questions or none of that and im just trying to get the kids out the car. Im like wait a minute he didnt do nothing wrong like you know, just ask some questions first before you pin this man up against the car. The Police Department says officers immediately began providing first aid. Blakes father told nbc n