The only regret that we have is you are not able to be with us here in person to enjoy the beauty. My name is doctor travis morris. I have the privilege and honor to be the executive director and also the director for the war center and for everyone, this initiative is part of a program with the University Global resilience and security. Global resilience and security. Part of a larger Strategic Initiative the Environmental Security initiative for the university. We are thrilled all of you are joining us today for the very special presentation and this event to a war adam the 2020 military writer award. I would like to mention a couple administrative details before i introduced him and we present the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award or those of you that are, we have created a special video that provides some context and background of the award, some previous recipients and we just ask you go to our website, the link has been pushed out via chat and just take
Her where do you get your information . Can you separate fact from fiction . This disinfectant was manufactured in 26 states and somehow already protected against corona virus. True or false . True coronaviruses were discovered decades ago, that 19 is just a new one. This was also shared thousands of times if you know of dolphins in venice, except there in sardinia. Fake news is so prevalent, its now become the focus of scientific research. From the claim that the corona virus originated in a lab in china, the chinese want to trumps reckless recommendation to inject disinfectant in a minute. And the Conspiracy Theory that bill gates intends to take over the world with a mind control vaccine is full of bizarre and baseless notions about the virus. From the university of zurich was involved in an International Study on the spread of just information during the pandemic. Wanted to see why there were differences between countries. It seems to be that some countries provide a more fertile b
Outrage over a chinese official tweeting a fake image depicting all strangely a soldier comes in the childs throat, promises to teach the argument, demands an official apology from beijing. Welcome to the program. More than 100 people have been killed in what the u. N. Calls a massacre in the countrys Northern Borno state. I witness said, mitt militants on motorcycles rounded up and killed. Farmers were bringing in the harvest. No one has claimed responsibility yet bus jihad is groups have attacked the area. In recent years. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The 4th reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. While they were harvesting rice, some was shot others to Death Threats caught or there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got that back up. We found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good thoug
We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
How much work can really get we still have time to our ongoing success that some strive for more like this. The coronavirus is a respiratory disease. It attacks the lungs and other organs in its attempt to infect its host. But it has another strategy. Air pollution. Scientists believe it uses fine particulate matter as a carrier. Studies show, the pollution also lays the groundwork for the virus aggravating the throat and lungs to make us more susceptible to covered a toxic and potentially deadly partnership. Air pollution, thank overt 19, invisible killer and its little helper. A lot of cities around the world have been promising to clean up their act and clear the air. Now theyve got a reason to act. The coronavirus. There are many sources of particulate pollution. The primary one is emissions from combustion in power plants, planes and car engines. Vehicles also produce particles through break where anti reparation. Agricultural emissions are also a big contributor, particles invisi