Hes also a huge tycoon here in hong kong for his rags to riches story hes. Worth of about a 1000000000. 00 media companies. Clothing companies so he is a big fish when it comes to hong kongs Democracy Movement here and his profile here in the city indian follows a meeting government ministers for a 2nd round of talks this process against new agricultural laws intensify farmers worry the new laws will end minimum crop prices more than 2700. 00 people in the us have died with the corona virus in the past 24 hours the highest daily death toll since april hospital admissions also reached the record 100001 wednesday in the u. K. The fires a biotech 19 vaccine will be administered to high risk groups within days its the 1st country to approve a vaccine thats made it through all the clinical trials. Here as media is reporting that saudi arabia is close to reopening its airspace and land borders to casa qatar has been under a land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And e
In your book the works you write the military saved your life. What you mean by that . I think the military plays an incredibly Important Role in my life with the most important times in my life but wearing uniform of this country and i was first introduced i was 13 years old. I was sent to military school i had on mandatory year. I got some issues and challenges when i was younger every year she said i will send you away and i blew her off. I built handcuffs on my risk for the first time at 11 years old. I was intentionally hurting people that love to me so finally one day she came up to me and said im sending you to military school. Honestly i thought she was kidding or exaggerating then finally i realized she wasnt sent me a mandatory year. I hated every minute of it when i first started. I remember those first days they are. I ran away five times the first four days. Also the longer i stayed i began to fully understand what it was they were trying to teach me and what my mom is try
Social. Right. Also on the day turkey acquits a number of Amnesty International volunteers terrorism charges while others including imus internationals former head in turkey are convicted its surreal. To be convicted of. The most rapid increase in new corona virus infections since the u. S. Outbreak began at least 15 u. S. States have reported single day infection figures moves to left Health Restrictions and reopen the economy have shifted to a halt but this is also the weekend of the 4th of july u. S. Independence day events have been scaled back and officials a Public Private gatherings w. s Washington Bureau chief in a poll has been to ocean city maryland to gauge the mood. For Many Americans this is the 1st time out of 2 months. They are hungry for fun and some. Want to celebrate this 4th of july weekend as they normally do but id like to keep moving on do the fireworks continue normality as much as we can moving back to normalcy is what wed like to do i think if you take the righ
We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that it is taking place, what transparency would we find, given there was not much transparency out of china in some critical early days and weeks, how would you assess the threat of a pandemic coming from the african continent . Can i start . Sure. Im confident that should such a pandemic start in africa we would have tremendous cooperation. I look back on the situation with ebola in west africa wher
When you were a little kid. You saw a rocket go off and said i want to do that. Is it that simple or that complex . I was interested in rockets in astronomy long before people get spell rocket. I was interested in it way back in high school. I went to try to build some rockets. I wanted to become a rocket engineer, as a matter of fact. Worked at the rocket society. I wanted to become a rocket engineer but essentially they said you have to go to mit or to caltech. I cannot afford either. So i took a secondary goal. I got an rotc appointment to wisconsin. From there i went to the Naval Academy. I got to the flight training. I became a naval air aviator. In 1958, nasa was formed and they were looking for astronauts. I was one of the original 110 people who were selected. Let me go back to the Naval Academy . That is right. This was right after world war ii. I got down to preflight. My mother, when i was at the university of wisconsin, told me to apply to the Naval Academy. 7z3 vi did it,