Many of you honestly know him. Hes cohost of morning edition on npr. Hes also the author of this great book on jessie and john fremont. How many people are here from fremont . We have a couple, okay great. Thank you very much, steve, for coming. [applause] thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone, and good day. Delighted you could come this afternoon. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and particularly to talk about jessie and john fremont who had so much to do with the creation of california as we know it and so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into San Francisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles, got a couple of hours of sleep at an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about life radio is it begins at a very exact time. The thing about going through S
Thanks, everyone. Good day. Im delighted to be here in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Particularly to talk about jesse and John Freemont who had so much to do with the creation of california as we know it and so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got in to San Francisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles, got a couple of hours of sleep at an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do alive radio thing on to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about live radio is it begins at an exact time. The thing about going through San Francisco traffic is that youre really not going to make your exact time. And so i was supposed to be 8 00 a. M. Pacific time that i would be there for this National Radio hit, and at 8 00 a. M. , im still on the road, in the back of this car, creeping up the freeway at, i dont know, 7, 9 milesanhour, w
hello again. thank you for joining me again. i m fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister telling russia to stop its hunger games . nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this move? reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the grain that ukraine produces, and it produces a lot for the world, was stuck in its ports on the black sea, piling up, nowhere to go. and the third world countries this grain was destined for desperately short of food. the prices were going up. after the deal was struck, the anticipation was about 20 million tons of grain could be shipped out of ukraine to these third world and other countries. now, wh
Focus on in his first days in office. Overnight, nearly 106,000 new coronavirus cases were reported in the u. S. Thats the fifth highest day since the pandemic began. This past week has broken lots of records. 19 states are reporting record hospitalizations. So as of this morning, the outgoing president has yet to concede. Not because he couldnt find time between the golfing and not dealing with coronavirus. Sources tell cnn that trump advisers are discussing holding rallies so the president can make his baseless claims of voter fraud. His team has launched a number of lawsuits and has not provided any evidence. This morning, we have new details about who in the president s orbit is influencing his thinking and Decision Making in so far as it exists. We begin with the biden transition. Cnns jessica dean live in wilmington, delaware, the president elect has a busy day today. Yes, he does, john. Of course the coronavirus pandemic was always central to bidens campaign, and now were really
This is state of the union. The Aerial Search for flight 370 has ended with this day, but several ships continue their efforts in the southern indian ocean. A British Naval vessel is headed to the area where a chinese ship reported detecting two pulse signals that matched the signals on the pingers black boxes and some 300 miles away an australian ship detected what was discipled as an acoustic noise. Meanwhile the flight may have flown around airspace to avoid radar detection. Im going to bring in will ripley. Hes following the investigation from perth. Welcome. I feel like were in a little bit of tragic monotony here. It seems each day these planes come back emptyhanded. Emptyhanded time and tiemt again. Even when objects have been recovered from the ocean, so far nothing connected to flight 370 which is what makes this announcement from china an Interesting Development which still doesnt give us what we need which is answers about flight 370. We know that on friday and saturday, the