I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are recording this event. It is being live cast. And it is going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, mile wylie is with us as a discussant. She has a very long time civil rights lawyer and activist, former chair of new york cities civilian Complaint Review board. Former Corporation Counsel to his honor, william de blasio, a University Professor at the school and ongoing legal analyst for both nbc news and msnbc. And so its a great pleasure, maya to be wi
I would like to welcome everyone, there might be big news today in american politics, but it aint nothing compared to this, which is so much bigger insignificance, and opportunity for us to celebrate eric alterman. With his new book lying in state why president s lie and why trump is worse we are going to spend, my name is Leonard Bernardo by the way, Vice President of the open society foundations, hosting this event, i should say that we are going to talk for around 45 minutes, give or take, then we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions, those questions that you would like to share with eric and maia and me should be sent to questions opensocietyfoun dations. Org. You can also do this via twitter and you can also if you really need to, do it via facebook. We are recording this event. Its being live cast and its going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, maia wiley with us as a discussant. Meyer, who is been a very long time
New hope for a covid19 treatment. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recover. How long until we have a treatment or a vaccine ill to Sir John Bell from Oxford University, where a promising vaccine study is well under way. Declaring victory . I think when you ask how did we do . I think they with a spectacular job reporter with more than 60,000 dead and 30 million out of work, is the Trump Administration risking its own Mission Accomplished moment . Pole vault jot calls are calling for investigation into his accuser tara reade. Here is a look at my upcoming guests welcome to sunday. Its meet the press and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic announcer this is meet the press with chuck todd good sunday morning. It was on january 6th that the cdc first issued a travel notice for one china. Consider what has happened in less than four months time more than 1. 1 million confirmed cases of covid19 have been diag
Rosemary is standing by with a look at weather. If you are up in the sierra, you may not be coming home for a day or two. The snow is piling up. For us, we have seen a good amount of rain. The Santa Cruz Mountains picking up 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hours or so. We have got mostly cloudy skies and a very gray outlook. We do begin to get daybreak by the afternoon. Here is a look at Storm Tracker where you can see it is widespread. Some light rain falling over highway 101 and then in true the central part of the area we have the peninsula covered from San Francisco all the way to san mateo. East bay, scattered showers. Into the north bay, widespread here as well. Nevada, petaluma, and just about areas over sanapa getting at the moment. We will continue with the possibility of showers throughout the morning. By the second part of the day, a bit of a break. Today, Sonoma County officials will be disrupting details about the countys First Community spread of the coronavirus. Sonoma c
Who gets to be tested and treated this is another significant issue that is not clearly articulated thank you for joining us. I am the director of operations for Johns Hopkins office of critical events preparedness and response. We are here to talk about the outbreak of coronavirus, known as covid19, with experts who have been on the forefront of the response. Infectiousr from an disease expert in the field of public pandemic and emerging Infectious Disease and prevention of at response to biological threats. Acond, we will hear from researcher who created the outbreak about it being used by officials to track the virus. Third, an expert of influenza and other emerging infections. A Health Systems epidemiologist and Infection Control expert. Finally, a nurse Whose Research seeks to streamline care approaches that optimize navigation, linkage, engagement, and retention. As the covid19 outbreak evolves, we will hear from the panel of experts from across Johns Hopkins university and medic