Supporters 2 thumbs up one day after losing the election to joe biden president elect biden attending mass in visiting the grave of his late son beau biden in wilmington, delaware, former president George W Bush congratulated mister biden in a phone call sunday and acknowledge that President Trump has the right to pursue legal challenges while also saying in a statement the American People can have confidence that this election was fundamentally fair its integrity will be upheld and its outcome is clear. Well President Trump is refusing to concede the election. Mister biden is making it clear hes ready to get to work before his january inauguration. Team biden announcing plans to name a new Coronavirus Taskforce monday on monday. I will name a group of leading scientists and experts as transition advice. College planning. Converter and no actual blueprint that will start on january the 20th 2021. It will be built on bedrock science. And unveiling his official transition website, which
Were actually dealing with temperatures that are below freezing in a few spots that is prompting a few advisories that will get to hear in just a moment looking outside this morning. We do have clear skies looking across the bay from sausalito at San Francisco you can see those clear skies a very crisp clear morning to kick things kick things off for a brand new workweek today now as far as conditions go on satellite radar weve definitely clear back out no activity out there right now if you zoom out across the state look at the very bottom of your screen. You do see a couple of sprinkles right around the san diego area thats all weve got left as far as rainfall or snowfall goes across the state saw snowfall again last night up in the Sierra Nevada after so much precipitation up there this weekend now speaking of the cold morning that were in the midst of lets focus on the north bay here because for those of you, especially in rural areas, youre seeing temperatures this morning that ar
Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu
And safety standard right now we have to raise that up even higher to be able to bring our schools back. But thats exactly will be intend to do. We are going to have to focus even more on testing. And i want to emphasize, testing is going to be crucial to the successful reopening of our schools. And everyone has got to get engaged even more on testing. I guarantee that that plan will have a heavier emphasis on testing and therefore i want to say to everyone in the School Communities started with parents and continue to get the testing consent forms in even as we are in the moment of pause. We need to get ready to come back. We need testing regime. He has laid out the additional measures, the state will likely be taking place very soon. Additional restrictions across the board that will affect a number of different industries, a number of different parts of life in the city because were arguing the different problem all over new york city and state. All over the country and region. We h