Esmeaso help businesses and workers have been announced as coronavirus continues to spread. The pandemic is a Public Health emergency, but also an economic emergency. We have never in peace time this one. Fight like pres. Trump we dont want people losing their jots are having money to live when they were doing well just four weeks ago. We are going big, and that is the way to be. Anchor businesses are hoping that what has been announced will help them survive what is potentially months of lockdown. The last couple of hours, e. U. Leaderhave agreed to close europes bordersor 30 days. We already know loris lorrie. Thiss inside the german border. Panic buying from france to australia. Is driving this, how it can be stopped, and at least one happy custer. I cant remember the last time i was able to buy toilet roll on the shelves. I got some this morning. Im so ecstatic. Anchor Boris Johnson says his country is at war with this virus, and that is a feeling many of you watching around the dw
Continuing through 2018, we mark the 50th anniversary of americas war in vietnam. In 1960 seven, hundreds of thousands of troops were on the ground in vietnam, while at home voices became more vocal. There was a large cohort of the baby boomer generation that the culture during the summer of love. To learn about these events, we now turn to to todays guest, book 1967,ks and his the year of fire and ice. Mr. Brooks is an internationally recognized author with 14 books on history. s passion for these areas of research and dates back to his childhood when the Brooks Family visited gettysburg in europe. In addition, dr. Brooks is a professor and received an undergraduate degree in history from Lasalle University and earned his masters and doctors of education degree from the university of pennsylvania. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome victor brooks. [applause] victor thank you so much for coming today. I am very honored that all of you could take from your schedules to listen to me. A
Engulfed. Just got really hot really fast. The sky was red. It was beautiful but it was scary. Reporter burning embers rained down on nearby houses causing many spot fires. It looked like snow on fire. Felt like an apocalypse almost because they were all over the place. Reporter firefighters say the embers sparked this roof fire about two blocks away from the original scene. Mothers day weekend and its sad. Youre ruining peoples property. Reporter back at the main scene, it took firefighters more than an hour to bring the 5 alarm fire under control. All the neighbors suspect arson. This is the second time. This isnt by accident. Lightning dont strike twice, not in the same spot. Not the same complex. Somebody just dont want to see that building going up. Reporter construction worker cruz had the same suspicion. Its gone. Everything is gone. Everything that we did, its gone. Reporter he left the building around 3 30 yesterday afternoon. He says they already finished all 6 floors and put
He talks about lsd and the prevalence of drugs in the hippie culture. Today we will talk about the counterculture which many people have associated with the 1960s, one of the major aspects of the 1960s. Radical politics have clearly faded away and social change against certain limitations. Legal segregation disappeared. Americans became more tolerant. Whichid not disappear, many in the 1950s and 1960s hoped that it would. Relations also changed. Women and men came to realize the differences between women and men were not repealed i simply declaring women and men were equal. Would notomen necessarily see things the same way. Were clearly cultural changes. Many had to deal with the counterculture. The word counterculture was invented by a sociologist, and it means an opposite culture of mainstream. Unlike the political and social challenges, the cultural challenges tended to stick. Americans really did change Cultural Values and practices in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond. Not so much in