Have a good night. Booktv continues now on cspan2, Television First serious readers. Hello. Im ann druyan and im speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and i am the author of cosmos possible worlds. Deeply, truly honored to be participating in an event for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and Steven Sotloff and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. And the library of congress mean so very much to me. Because of the democratic idea of world knowledge belonging to all of us. And so it is my great honor to be here. Im here to talk about possible worlds which is a book ive written but also a Television Series that i have the pleasure of producing, writing and directing with my collaborator. So why possible worlds . Why a third cosmos after 40 years . The first cosmos was an effort to get the broadest possible public a Global Public coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagans dream, one that i completely share, th
Hello. Im ann druyan and the speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and im the author of cosmos possible worlds, deeply truly honored to be participating in events for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and stephen and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. The library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic ideals of the worlds knowledge belonging to all of us. So its my great honor to be here, and im here to talk about cosmos which is book ive written but also the Television Series i have the pleasure of producing, writing, and directing with my collaborator. So why possible world . Why after 30 years . The first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public, its coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagan was dream, one that i completely share, that how we find our way in the cosmos. The great story of the 40,000 generations of human beings who in one way or
It is the end of an era, possibly. Prime minister shinzo abe plans to resign for Health Reasons. He is expected to make an announcement imminently. Jerome powell plans to let inflation and unemployment run there if he can get them in a ship that will likely keep Interest Rates low for years. Tiktok. Battle for walmart joins microsoft making a joint bid for the apps u. S. Asset. Can they fend off oracle . Just under an hour from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets look at futures this morning, even as the nikkei 1. 4 , you know, it had been gaining, the topics and the nikkei had been in the green and both fell. European futures are holding up. We still see green arrows on ftse and dax futures. Take a look at u. S. Futures. Green arrows there as well. Even after alltime highs once again hit yesterday on the s p and the nasdaq and the shinzo abe resignation report pulls down japanese stocks, u. S. Futures holding strong. Atside of japan it remains risk on and to the week. Anna a lot
How these cuts will be disk it and how willing will russia be . Certainly some optimism today. Jakarta is coming online. A pretty steep fall off of stocks yesterday. We are rising. Ingapore is up the csi 300 is up. 3 . The dollar is looking pretty mixed across asia. The reaction from that meeting has been seen in the korean won. We are seeing that strength. Nine out of 17 economists respected the hole. Some were expecting for a cut. We are looking ahead to governor lees press conference. We will hear more clues about the trajectory of where rates go and whether they will embark on this qe theme that we have seen in many Central Banks. The dollar yen, we are seeing a little come off of the yen. Were advancing on the back of the oil prices in the euro, premuch flat. Lets stick to oil. Prices are rising again ahead of that opecplus. The worlds Top Producers may be moving closer to a deal on curbing output. Volatility remains a key theme. Wti has seen another 24 hours of wild springs with
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, march 9. Im Victor Blackwell. His horizontals in for amara walker. Thanks for joining us. And you look refreshed, coming back from vacation. Thank you very much. Im a couple of shades. Darker. Got a little red toner into there. What i want to beat, feel better all right. Heres what were watching. Were you this weekend will get a preview of what to expect in a headtohead rematch between President Biden and former President Trump as the to hold dueling rallies here in georgia today. Plus, well discuss a Biden Campaign strategy to try to seize on momentum from the state of the Union Address Tornado Watches are in effect across parts of the southeast this morning with some major cities at risk for tornados and dangerous hail were also tracking a significant flood threat. Cnn got exclusive access to one of the first ship set to bring cool. So humanitarian supplies to gaza well, show you whats being delivered and how the us is helping in t