Airline industry. How it could impact the future of flying. Deadly disaster. Even more wildfires explode in california. The death toll and damage growing by the day. Its beautiful here, but thats being stripped one fire at a time. This morning, the devastation facing thousands of homeowners, left with nothing to return to. And a new warning about the fire danger still to come. Opening day. This morning, the iconic Washington Monument welcoming back its first guests since the start of this pandemic. Wow. That view is right there the minute you get out of the elevator. It is absolutely spectacular. Tom costello there live from the very top. Those stories, plus, delay of game. That coronavirus outbreak inside the Tennessee Titans forces the nfl to postpone its first game of the season, but it is full steam ahead for the nba finals. Drives, its inside, finds davis for the slam. And the major leagues postseason. And the braves have won it. Today, thursday, october 1st, 2020. Announcer from
Good evening. Im tony clark from the Carter Library. Cant tell you how excited i am to see you all for the audience, watching this. It has rained all day long, and it is raining very hard right now. And to see you all turn out tonight, i think is a tribute to ingrid and her organization and the book. So thank you all very much. I appreciate it. If you have not been to our Author Program before, i would encourage you to good on to the judgmenty Carter Library website. We have two to three authors, sometimes four, every week, and they are just fascinating. Later this week we have a book called wilmingtons lie about the rise of white nationalists and wilmington, North Carolina, back in the 1880s. We have judge douglas ginsburg, talk us about his book, voices of the republic, a tiein with a pbs series on thursday. We have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i encourage you to take a look there and come back see is again. Im delighted for tonights program. Inning grids newkirk was born in
Do you think youre gonna be in cuba for the rest of your life . Yes. Because cuba is changing very fast. The obstacles are daunting. This clothing designer has to buy fabric on the black market. Ooh this Restaurant Owner isnt allowed any more than 50 seats. The state says she isnt allowed to expand her business. You cannot have two stands . No. This sucks. Meet cubas new business class, surviving and thriving under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. [ music continues ] [ flamenco guitar plays ] i had barely set foot on cuban soil when i saw how the new Business Laws are changing lives. Armando lee rolled up in a 61yearold chevy a typical havana taxi. How you doing, my man . Hello, my friend. Im marcus. Marcus. My name is armando. Nice to meet you. Armando . Yeah. Wa living on a government wage worth about 25 a month. Now he makes that in a single day, thanks to the taxi license he got under the new law. This is a good business. And you can make good money doing this . I c
And in sport, aston villa end a run of three Successive Premier League defeats as they beat Newcastle United 2 0 to spoil steve bruces return to villa park. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Britains most seniorjewish leader the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis has intervened in the general Election Campaign, condemning what he says is the labour leaderships failure to deal with anti semitism and questioning ifJeremy Corbyn is fit to lead the country. Writing in todays times newspaper, he says a new poison sanctioned from the very top has taken root in the party. Mr mirvis says, the overwhelming majority of britishjews are gripped by anxiety at the prospect of a labour victory in the election, adding, i ask every person to vote with their conscience. Be in no doubt, the very soul of our nation is at stake. Today, the archbishop of canterbury head of the church of england reacted, saying such an unprecedented statement ought to alert us to the deep sense of insecurity and fea
Donald trump claims he didnt watch the hearings yesterday. And yet even though he didnt watch, this morning at 6 54 a. M. He wrote, representative radcliff asked the two star witnesses, where is the impeachable offenses. That would be the end of the case run by normal people, but not shifty, shifty is what he calls adam shift, but i guess hes not a normal person. You know normal, like the person who asks a porn star to spank him. A normal person. Like you, guillermo. Ngs that yothank you, jimmy,. Jimmy and after weeks of demanding to know the whistleblowers identity, he tweeted wheres the fake whistleblower . Is the whistle itself not real . We dont know. Neither of us know. He puts the word fake in front of everything now. Everything is fake except for his tan, thats real. Which might be the case [cheers and applause] my favorite headline of the day today. Frustrated trump allies urge him to stop talking about himself. Oh, yeah. Good luck with that. While youre at it, try to urge him