[speaking nonenglish language] [speaking nonenglish language] [speaking nonenglish language] thank you. Could you tell us how many people are still missing . Sandra you have finally been given an official update, speaking on this partial Building Collapse. Ron desantis singh moments ago we still have hope to be able to identify additional survivals. John, stating that the crew there are in Search And Rescue mode. They are doing everything they can in this moment to save lives. They are not going to rest until they do, describing a shift change that just happened as they try to identify what are still labeled as 51 missing people, one person still confirmed up your notes updates to that number at this time. And that is the update we have received. I am sandra smith here in new york. And this is America Reports. John i am john roberts. The mayor saying this was an incredible unimaginable situation, the fact that this building just came down in the middle of the night. 1 30 in the morning
For right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible and i hope youll all join us in the questions as you can bring to our guests and planning to ask you a couple of questions. We are going to take advantage of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates, somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time and talk to him throughout this pandemic and he is far and away the smartest person i know about really helping us set the table understanding where we are. Ive called him a National Treasure and now hes a global treasure. Donated more than 400 million to Covid Research and called this, i hate to say it, in advance back in 2015 whene warned about a possible pandemic of ts sort. I should also note hesrying to get into the journalism business to start a podcast this week which you can go out and get as well. I should also in
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Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft