The nations pandemic epicenter gets a date on when it can begin reopening. What it could mean for the nation at large, and the move the president just made about the pandemic thats getting bipartisan backlash. And ready to launch. Hopes soar that today for the first time in nearly a decade astronauts will take off from u. S. Soil. Well go live to the Kennedy Space center on check in on the launch of spacex. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther king jr. This is chaos. Reporter the fired Minneapolis Police officer facing charges in the death of george floyd. Outrage spills into the streets across our country. The country with an open wound. None of us can turn away. None of us can be silent. Reporter President Trump defended his tweet on the protests where he said, quote, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Ive heard that phrase for a long time. I dont know where it came from. Repo
This is American History tv, featuring events, interviews, museums, and historic places, his exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan three. Had to close my 14th two all visitors. Momentan historic because we had not closed for an extended time since the u. S. War all stop 160 years, we welcome people to the estate. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing. We still have important work to in the state. You do for lambs being born every day, plants and gardens that needed to be maintained. Buildings that need to be maintained. At this moment, we are outside. We had to bad and down the batton to and down down the hatches in our collections spaces and administrative offices. We transferred quickly to a Skeleton Crew on the estate and then transferred to remote work to continue the mission. The closure has had a challenging impact on Mount Vernons operations. We love to teach people here at the place. All the virtual work we do is important, but there is Nothing Bett
Announced, but the big story is surrounding big tech earnings like microsoft, facebook, and even comcast and qualcomm. It look like some of these companies were basically created for this moment if you didnt know, the microsoft quarter was just a thing of beauty a lot of that is because theyll have a product like teams or like azure that are incredibly strong linkedin doing very well facebook quarter was good, and boom, they say april is stabilization. One of the themes were seeing in tech, or you have service now, well have Bill Mcdermott later today. They have an unbelievable quarter. Maybe the best in the history of the company. So youre seeing companies that frankly not only do not have to make any excuses but are saying good things. You know, qualcomm, ill say, secular trend, 5g, and then highspeed internet is one of the most lucrative parts of comcast. Yes, of course, theme parks not going to happen, but theyll open up again. But high speed, it will never go back you dont switch
The immediate concern was the safety of the staff and the families and the visitors at mount vernon. We put in place all the protocols of social distancing, but having to shut down, we still had some work to do here at the estate. We had some lambs being born every day. Plants and gardens that needed to be maintained. Buildings that need to be maintained. At this moment, we are outside. We had to bad and down the hatches in our collections spaces and administrative offices. Transferquickly quickly to a Skeleton Crew on and then transferred to remote work to continue the mission. Has had has been a challenging impact on Mount Vernons operations. We love to teach people here at the place. All the virtual work we do is important, but there is Nothing Better than coming to mount vernon. We rely on the revenue generated from ticket sales, sales on our food, and our shops. A challenge to sustain our mission through this time of no revenue. It is a difficult time, particularly as we do not kn
Evan rachel wood musical guest, annie lennox. And the legendary roots crew its the tonight show at home edition. And now, heres jimmy. Jimmy hi, everybody. Welcome to the tonight show at home edition. My name is jimmy fallon and thank you so much for watching we have a great show for you tonight. Guys, i want to wish everyone a happy Star Wars Day. Thats right its a time fans say may the 4th be with you, which is great, because now you know what day it is yep, they call it Star Wars Day because of the phrase may the 4th be with you, which as we know is how baby yoda said it before his front teeth grew in meanwhile, tomorrow is Cinco De Mayo though right now americans are thinking, yeah, like we need an excuse to sit around drinking tequila all day long. Check this out i heard that doctors and dentists have now started removing magazines from their waiting room patients are like, oh, no now how will i find out who was named sexiest man alive in 1997 . Brad pitt and Jennifer Aniston are