York. A look at the Civil Rights Movement in new york. Greetings. With the book of Historical Society as of today the brooklyn Historical Society is the new center for brooklyn history i am marsha eli i wanted to welcome you all and say that those of you that have enjoyed the Public Program at this one. We will keep presenting about the issues of our times. In the history that needs to be told more freely. Visit our programs page at the center for brooklyn history website. It is such a pleasure to be partnering with the brooklyn book festival on this. A long history of yankee racism. I have unfortunate news that one of our speakers have a sudden family emergency this morning. He will not be with us today. It is my pleasure to introduce to scholars who have done an enormous amount of work to correct a misguided narrative about racism in the north i urge you to buy their book by clicking on the buy bulk button and the books well also continue to be for sale on the festival website afterw
Spike . Youre going to open up special lines this money. First we want to hear from teachers. If you are a teacher, want to hear from you at 202 7488000. Arenistrators, we know you making the tough decisions on whether to open or close schools. Our number, 202 7488001 parents and students, you are the ones sending your children for school. Parents and students, 202 7488002. If you dont fit any of those categories, we still want to. Ear from you, 202 7488003 remember, you can always text us at 202 7488003 as well. We are always reading on social facebook. Witter and once again, we are in the middle spike and coronavirus schools are making tough decisions on whether they should bring children to school or restart Virtual Learning. In new york city they made the decision this week to in in Person Learning and send Children Home next week. Here is new york city mayor bill de blasio addressing how his decision will affect new york city residents. Here is a quick portion. Be re is going to o
News with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news. Tonight, the c. D. C. Says the spread of coronavirus is now so out of control, americans should cancel their thanksgiving plans and not travel at all for the holiday. In a blunt and ominous warning, the governments top Health Protection agency now says ignoring those warnings and Holding Gatherings could lead directly to family members dying from covid19. Californias governor says things are so dire there, starting saturday, hes issuing a mandatory order requiring nearly everyone in his state to stay in their homes overnight. At the same time as we come on the air tonight, there is breaking news from the white house. Coronavirus task force and it is very hopeful. Moments another Vice President pence told reporters the Drug Company Pfizer will apply for emergency authorization for its vaccine tomorrow morning. And the army general in
Gdp to be negative this the First Quarter of 2021. It is friday before a holiday week 59 minutes left in the session down a quarter of a percent on the s p 500. No gobbledy gook coming up for the next two hours here either. Coming up on this show, instead we are going to dive into the latest on the coronavirus and pfizers push to get emergency use authorization for its vaccine with the fda commissioner and pfizer board member dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, new york city shutting st. Louis down the head of the Teachers Union in new york will be here to weigh in. Lets check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizers vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what President Trump just announced. Mike santoli, lets start with you. Not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. If you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. Trading just below the highs we hit on monday. Before t
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york