From volkswagen today. The auto company, vw, just unveiling its new electric suv. It will be assembled right here in tennessee, usa. Volkswagen of America President and ceo, scott keough will give us all the details a very busy hour coming up. Johnson johnson is beginning a latestage trial of the oneshot coronavirus vaccine. Jackie deangelis with all the details. Hi, jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, david, that is really important. Latestage testing will get to us the vaccine this is phase three for Johnson Johnson. Administration operation warp speed has four candidates now, this is the fourth one to get the latestage testing phase. Phase three for Johnson Johnson will be 60,000 people across the country and abroad. Moderna, pfizer, astrazeneca, they are the other ones right now in the latestages this is coming as the department of health and Human Services Just Announced 200 million as well to try to get certain jurisdictions ready to administer the vaccine. It will help them
It is armageddon, moments ago the president told fox friends, he would not name his nomination to the court until after the services for Justice Ginsburg are completed, he said he would announce friday or saturday. He said he would move quickly, he said time for a vote before the election. Now look at this, a wall street selloff, major leagues, all kinds of problems for investors, election chaos seems to be a certainty that could even be a constitutional crisis of the Supreme Court has to decide the election and there are only eight sitting justices, there could be a tie. A second wave of virus infections has hit europe, especially britain, there are worries and comes here. China holding military maneuvers as a u. S. Envoy heads to taiwan. Grandpa got up and look what you got. The dow will be down 500, maybe 600 points at the opening bell, the s p 53 points lower in the nasdaq down 170, that is a selloff, in a moment you will hear more from the president because later on today he is he
Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fighting yet. They havent started fighting yet. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else, any ideas . Some of it, this is like fury. And i have some images to show you. Theres a historian named charles roister and he coined this phrase, rage militaire. And it says, the rage militaire has taken hold on the entire continent. The americans are fighting mad. Its a wild passion. What is rage . Go ahead. Anger. Intense anger. The americans are really furious. All this stuff has been building up
Today, were going to focus on the Continental Army. And this is were situating this very much in the broad history. Of war and the military. And the Continental Army, a lot of ways, is different from other armies that have preceded it, largely because its one thats very much based on ideals and certain concepts and beliefs rather than sort of your traditional army. So, what is the Continental Army, what is it . America. America, okay. Continental army based in america. It electrical but first United States army, but before it is the u. S. Army it is the army of america, yes. But what element . Certainly part of the American Revolution. The united colonies. Yeah, the united colonies. So when does the Continental Army begin . Its not necessarily with the start of the revolution. But we are going to pick up the story with the beginning of the war. So, a couple classes ago, we were talking about the french and indian war. And the french and indian war was a world war that fundamentally alt
Im jamie colby, and today im on the road in lawrence, kansas, on my way to the university of kansas home of the jayhawks, one of the most storied teams in all of basketball. Now, kansas is actually not where the tale of this strange inheritance begins, but through a turn of events, it does wind up here. In 1939, my grandfather, dr. James naismith passed away and left us an artifact that dates back to 1891. He was my greatgrandfather, and what he left us was the magna carta of basketball. Naismiths. Jamie. Im jim. Good to meet you. Hi, jim. How are you . Jamie, im sean naismith. Great to meet you both. Likewise. I am interested to hear about your strange inheritance. Im awfully curious what the connection is to k. U. Wed love to show you. My greatgrandfather, dr. James naismith, started the first basketball teams here at k. U. [ whistle blows ] but time out lets reset the clock. The boy who would grow up to invent basketball, James Naismith, is born in ontario, canada, in 1861. At age 9