Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organization in order to steward that history. And this building actually was built as the Historical Society and opened in 1881. When it opened, like we have here tonight, it was a place of civic dialogue. In fact, back then this very room had an auditorium and thought leaders came here and spoke. Right here where we were standing, president Woodrow Wilson spoke. Dr. Arthur conan doyle spoke. Senator Henr
And it is great to be back here all the time. A few years ago, after agreeing to write a book celebrating the centennial of Grand Central terminal, i casually suggested an audacious but catchy subtitle, how a train station transformed america. And almost immediately i was struck by second thoughts. Individuals and events shape history, but could a single building . Luckily, Grand Centrals 100 year imprint on commerce and culture, its pivotal role in urban development, and codifying landmark and air rights, in shifting manhattans Cultural Center of gravity from downtown in midtownstep manhattan, turned out to validate the subtitle after all. Aell, a building, albeit monumental one, was one thing. Could a single object be transformative . That question arose after the British Museum and the bbc collaborated on the history of the world in 100 objects. That inspired a spate of collections on subjects including bird watching, the first world war, cricket, the future, the beatles, shakespear
Well, this afternoon, the growing debate over privacy over National Security moves to the white house. President obama meets with a Bipartisan Group of lawmakers to discuss the National Security agencys sweeping surveillance program. Meanwhile the british paper that first revealed the program has published documents that appear to show the nsa can sift through emails, online chats, and browsing histories to just about any american without a warrant. And during testimony to congress yesterday it was revealed that an investigation into one phone call could involve millions of americans. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Susan, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Yeah. Thats called hop analysis. Where the nsa can look at someones phone records, everyone he or she has called, everyone whos called them and thats how you lead to millions of different records being looked at. Now, many here on capitol hill are expressing alarm on how sweeping these programs appear to be, and thats why the p
Emergency wartime authority to speed production of protective equipment and ventilators, both of which are in short supply. And adding to concern about overwhelming the Healthcare System, a member of the president s task force, dr. Deborah birx warning reports out ofe in italy that more young people are becoming seriously ill from the virus. May have seen the cases in china and south korea and got a misleading impression this was a disease mainly of the elderly and people with preexisting conditions. We will talk more about that in just a moment. This video is from italy and it gives you a look at how dire things are. We will talk about this video with dr. Sanjay gupta coming up and what italy may teach us about what may happen here. On the economic front, tens of thousands goodpaying jobs. Detroits big automakers announcing a temporary shutdown. And New York Stock Exchange will be shut down with all exchange taking place electronically. And cnn today learned that the federal governmen
Misleading impression this was a disease mainly of the elderly and people with preexisting conditions informal well talk about that in a moment. This video is from italy. It gives you a look at how dire things are there. Well talk about this video with dr. Sanjay gupta coming up and what italy may teach us about what may happen here. On the economic front, more impacts to the auto makers announcing a temporary shut down. And monday the Trading Floors of the New York Stock Exchange will be shut down with all transactions taking place electronically. And cnn today learned the federal government is planning for a crisis that could last 18 months in a year and a half or more. Well talk about that, what that may look like tonight. Chuck schumer joins us as well to talk about the relief bill that just passed today and another larger bill now under discussion. Well also pause for a moment to reconnect if we can with the reason why this all matters. Because in whats become a daily blizzard of