For new york city. Good morning everyone. Let me introduce who we have with us today. From my far right we have jim watches who is the president of empire college. We worked with him for many years and hes been helpful on this mission our commissioner of health, doctor howard zucker, to my left is general Patrick Murphy, obviously more about him in a moment and to his left is general raymond shield. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing compliment. Its transformative in just one week. The job center looks entirely different. This is a place thats literally going tosave lives. Go through some facts , if i can. On a daily update of where we are and then i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and did such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We still see thattrajectory going up. Those are the dates frommarch 3 to march 20. Strategy, plan of action, along, step one flatten the curve comments that you incr
Good morning, everyone. We haventroduce who with us. We have jim, the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years and who has been very helpful on this mission. Our commissioner of health dr. Howard zuker. Left, general Patrick Murphy. To his left is general agreement raymond shields. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing accomplishment, transformative, in just one week the Javits Center looks entirely different. This is a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts, if i can. On a daily update of where we are and i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and do such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We see the trajectory going up. Plan of action. Step one, one flattened the curve, we increase capacity. Flattening the curve meaning if you do it as well as you can do it hopefully there is no high point of the curve, no apex. It is a flatter lower curve. Wh
Soledad do you see that as part of your role, if youre a very visible and successful black chef . Announcer can he change the face of fine dining . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. 2020 is just around the corner. But before you change your calendar, we wanted to look back at some of the important stories we covered this year, including a recordbreaking year in politics. When the 116th congress was sworn in, it became the most diverse in u. S. History. It includes the first native american women to be elected to the house of representatives. Deb haaland from new mexico and Sharice Davids from kansas promised to tackle the epidemic of violence against Indigenous Women. Native american women have a murder rate 10 times higher than nonnative women. We spotlighted the crisis earlier this year and found native women are disappearing without a trace, leaving their families without hope or justice. Ive been having a lot of friends that have gone missing and never found. So
Dakota are a very sacred area as a whole. In the black hills, i believe at one time or another, there is a piece of the rest of the world here somewhere. We are in the epicenter of sometimes testy relations between native and nonnative inhabitants. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native american members. They refer to it as the heart. The pine trees and the elevation we have thats around all this. Speaking of where rapid city is that, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills. It is kind of how we have always billed ourselves, even back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am donovan sprague. My name translates. It is about 100 miles east of where i stand right now. That is the sacred bear butte, a very spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visit. About the time. S
The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in