Its, i mean, poor al roker. Every year, hey look, its garfield. Oh, the teletubbies. When i was a kid, my dad would wake us up. Every thanksgiving, hed come into our rooms. The only time i ever remember him coming into my room, hed come in and say, the parade is on and wed be like, who cares . I hate parades. Always have. To me, its just traffic with balloons. But every year, my father would force us out of bed at like 6 30 in the morning to watch it. And so what did i do on thursday . I got the kids, i said hey the parade is on youve gotta watch it they watched for about four minutes. They saw chase from paw patrol and said, put on paw patrol so i watched it alone. Macys did the parade a little bit differently this year. Because of covid, they couldnt have the usual amount of people under the floats. You know, people hold the ropes to the floats, but they couldnt assemble a group of people, so they had to find one guy to do this. This troop of picachu, dancing to the classic pokemon s
To anyway. The United States now has reported more than 1. 2 million cases of coronavirus in just the past week. Public Health Officials worry the Holiday Season that begins this week could make things much worse, even with the promising news that vaccines are on the way. We will have the latest in a pair of live reports just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a look through the eyes of three insiders at the state of the cdc as it fights a Global Pandemic while under constant political pressure from the white house. Plus, in our sunday spotlight, harry smith with the chorus finding a creative way to hold its concerts during a time when even singing can be dangerous. Later, a new sunday sitdown with michael j. Fox on an extraordinary life from his back to the future success to the parkinsons diagnosis that stopped him in his tracks and the moment recently when he nearly lost the hope that has carried him through 30 years with the disease. I couldnt put a shiny face on it. I couldnt make l
Hospitalized. Rudy giuliani, the president s personal attorney, testing positive for the virus at Georgetown University Medical Center this morning. The effort to trace his footsteps after he appeared at multiple Public Events without a mask. Even the Arizona Legislature now having to shut down. Battleground georgia. The president down south for a rally in republicans crucial runoff. The candidates holding debates over the weekend but one a noshow. Your senator is refusing to answer questions and debate his opponent. Who holds the upper hand in the battle for the control of the senate straight ahead. Mystery solved. A new report out on what may have caused strange illnesses in american diplomats living overseas. Could a series of targeted microwave attack be the cause . I had ringing in my ears and knew something was wrong with me. An exclusive interview with a cia officer still suffering three years later. Power problems. A strong weekend noreaster, the first of the season, leaving hu
Small companies you might not have heard of doing things you might not quite understand or at least thats true with me. I want to focus in on one area in particular called natera out of san carlos. The company has created a series of tests that can detect the recurrence of cancer. Sometimes years faster than an oncologist will catch it on a ct scan and it is done with a vial of blood. Steve chapman is the ceo of natera. Good morning. While your Company Makes most of its money from something called panorama, this is a noninvasive prenatal test, i want to start with this issue of cancer. You are detecting cancer, the return of cancer to be specific, the dna of a tumor which youre finding essentially in a drop of blood. Have i got that description pretty close . Thats right, scott. Thanks for having me. We developed a new test we call signatera. Were sequencing the entire tumor and making a personalized test for every single patient to track their tumor in the blood. The test has shown so
Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense