Vaccine is welcome, as the country is feeling covid19s impact like never before. In just the past week, more than 1. 51 million new coronavirus cases were reported. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. That means new infections were reporting in 1 in 216 americans. Its the most cases added in a single week since the pandemic began. In just the first 18 days of the month, december already the second highest month of new cases since the pandemic emerged. Yesterday saw yet another record high number of covid19 hospitalizations. For 17 days in a row now, more than 100,000 people have been hospitaled due to the virus. The virus continues to kill thousands of americans each day. Some of those victims include eight nuns who died within a week in a facility in milwaukee. A new study showing the death rate for hospitalized vid patients three times that the rate of hospitalized flu patients and a new model projects projects 562,000 deaths by april. The state has reported more than 300 de
Square. Plus you know who that is . A homeless straight a student with a promising future. We begin with syria, the elections in the bloody civil war. Despite the violence, some people went to the polls today. The syrian president , is expected to win a second term. Many countries arent buying it. United nations calls th. Thee voting a disgrace. Good evening, john, among the regions that the opposition says that the vote is a fraud, the only people allowed to vote are People Living in areas under government control. And number works the opposition candidates, if you can call them that, most of them unknown, and one of them saying that she would be honored to finish second. And number three, its being held in the 20th centurys deadlyist conflict. They believe that its anything other than free or fair. President ash add. And the way is to cast their ballot in blood. For 17 hours, they selected the photo on the right. There were other options. But before the election, he called assad a st
Done in nine days, and i was assured they can do the same this time. It doesnt look to be contentious. Both committees, house and senate, trying to keep it as a noncontroversial thing, coming to the end of the session here, so they need to move quickly. Will they will able to do it before the end of the year . Absolutely. We thank you for your time. My pleasure. Panelists supported the use of tbil buster stating its a powerful tool frequently use the by both parties to block or delay . As action on a bill. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We, of course, welcome on each occasion those who join us on the heritage. Org website, and we ask everyone in house to check cell phones are off as a curtesy to the speakers, and we will, of course, post the Program Within 24 hours on the heritage home page. Those listening online are welcome at any time to send comments or questioning us, email us, and hosting the discussion this afternoon is mike frank, the Vice President for government studie
And hes that guy. So i dont i mean i just think that america, like everyone else believes or most people belief, is at a crossroads right now. If you go to other countries, especially asia and other stuff, importing all their students to get educated here and exporting all the brain power out right after that, i think its a real problem, you know . But theres nhing i can do about that except try to make great music and great headphones. Next question, please . I really enjoy the conversation you all were having about the Entertainment Industry an the how it relates to the Technology Industry because i come from an industry thats sort of a marriage of both, the video Game Industry. Of. I study at the school of cinematic arts but my specialty is video games. My question, inhe spirit of all that great informati sharing you all obviously do between the music and film stry, where do you think we are . What are the big challenges in trying to work more together than the current state of affa
Secretary of state paul, Stanley Mcchrystal and marcia anderson. This is part of the chicago ideas week conference. They represent less than 1 of the american population. Most of them, from workingclass families. From not too far from here in the workingclass neighborhood of chicago or the bar rios of the southwest or the deep woods of the self and the hills of new england. Or from the rural part of my native great plains. They volunteered a sense of patriotism and a determination to advance their own lives as well. In the course of these two long wars, they have 100 of the risks and 100 of the wounds and deaths. Their families at home have been living in bubble of Emotional Trauma thinking that no one on around them cares because no one was asked of the rest of us. If we did not have someone in that war, or if we did not know someone in that war, it could be out of sight, out of mind. We were not asked to make any sacrifices. The war just went on, fought by these brave Young American