Time and. Thank you and welcome and good afternoon everyone im honored to introduce our next two speakers Heather Cox Richardson and Tracy K Smith, both writers of extraordinary talent and wisdom whose words and voices invited to reflect remain and revisit our and collective histories to make sense out of this time. A couple of years ago a good friend recommended Heather Cox Richardson newsletter letters from an american, which she now has in the millions. Im sure she some fans in this room too. Yes. I am grateful for heathers daily commentary because she to because what she does for me is she helps the firehose issues of the news her masterful she master translates the days events into segments pulls fact from fiction and grounds it all in the big picture of American History, while shining light where we need to be paying attention Heather Cox Richardson is the author of this book democracy awakening notes on the state of america. She is a professor of history, Boston College and an i
Pete port reports. Jedediah that is shocking. The enthuse as. , i went into manhattan for an appointment, the lines for voting were wrapped around the block. The enthusiasm. A lot of people will show up in the next nine days. On both sides of the aisle the enthusiasm was pretty high. I never seen in all my years of voting what i saw yesterday. It was a moment. Will small correction, 56 million and one. Couple million votes overnight. Banked in. I asked you guys since new york has early voting whether you would vote tomorrow. Have you voted yet . Pete have you voted . Will not yet. Jedediah not yet. Pete well keep a tracker on will, jed, and their voting status. I have no doubt with nine days to go they will make it. Good morning. I said it before. It is worth one of those appreciating, one of those cable news days where you turn on the tv, donald trump was in a different state every time you looked up. The back trop looked more or less the same. Did you look at one in ohio. Right there
About the conditions. Residents getting the green light to return home. Hundreds lining up, eager to survey the demonstration. He is 1 of thousands who was forced to leave. The surge came up to at least hear which means im going to be flooded inside. Oh, my god. Others say they dont plan to relocate anytime soon. Ive never been through anything like this my entire life. I never want to go through it again, but we love it here in the keys so well be back soon. Somewhere allowed in, others were turned away. As they tried to make it further south to the lower keys. Fema estimates 25 of the homes have been destroyed, even more damaged. Basically every house in the keys was impacted in some way or another. After any major storm there is this reassuring site. Utility trucks streaming in. About 15 million remain without electricity across the state. The u. S. Military is also ready to shuttle in relief supplies. The navy has positioned the uss Abraham Lincoln south of miami with the uss iwo j
How president rob is taking steps to get more help to puerto rico faster by waving restrictions and an obscure law about foreign cargo ships. It was a charge the accusation of being slow to react to hurricane. With those charges being leveled at the trump administration, the white house came out swinging. The white house pushback against criticism that its response to Hurricane Maria has been, as one democratic member of congress put it, ineffective and inexcusably slow. Tom bossert saying some news reports are lagging behind. A lot of the reporting is understandably not wrong but dated. Officials insist response efforts are moving as quickly as possible. 10,000 federal workers including 7200 u. S. Military are on the ground there. Threestar general Jeffrey Buchanan has been sent to oversee the response in the hospital ship uss comfort is teaming for puerto rico. Distribution from the island has been a challenge. We had to remove debris, clear land slides. We have done things like air
Linking of arms by the fans in the stands at lambeau field. Look at this. Instead. The theme was division. Some making it very clear they were not on board with players taking a knee sweeping across the nfl. Protests on your own time and not our dime just one of those messages plastered on a sign there in the crowd. Chant of u. S. A. Also barreling through the stadium. Chanting u. S. A. ] Tennessee Titans tight end laney walker doesnt care how his fans feel about this. Telling anyone upset about him taking a knee they can stay home. Meantime the denver bronchos and Pittsburgh Steelers are planning to stand at next game which will be on sunday. As for the nfl its now plotting a path forward days after sparking nationwide outrage. We learned commissioner Roger Goodell meeting with players and owners about the anthem. The packers beat the bear bear is. Oldest oreillyry. Heather people are forgetting these are football games. Whats the score . How are they playing . Rob tickets to couple o