Here to talk with us about what we became known 102 years ago as spanish flu is Catherine Arnold who poured over eyewitness accounts of the illness from its early beginnings at places like a military base in kansas to its effects on a number of american writers like John Steinbeck. She read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology and is the author of several books about the history oflondon and her book globe, the world of shakespeares london published by simon and schuster in 2015 and shes joining us today from the uk. Welcome catherine. Thank you for being here with us. In telling the story of this disease you focus on firstperson accounts from doctors, nurses and children all over the world. Did you choose to take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people can relate to but theres the story about where people can read it and find characters like themselves. It was almost like a disaster movie. Weve got people o
Us. Cnn primetime with abby phillip starts right now. In just 48 hours, poisonous politics and schoolyard rhetoric will have real life consequences. The United States government once again shut down. And it comes an extraordinary day, when a president openly accused his predecessor of trying to kill the republic. And in the hearing to impeach said president , it backfired on republicans. Good evening, everyone, i am abby phillip. And in the way right now on capitol hill, the house is voting on a series of bills, none of which are expected to actually avert a Government Shutdown. Now, remember, those hardliners, they want to have tickets to spending, including two programs that affect schools. Lets go straight to Melanie Zanona over on capitol hill. A. , abby. So, tonight, these bills they are going to vote on in the house are not expected to pass the senate. Theyre expected to be dead on arrival. But they may not even have the votes to be able to pass them among House Republicans. So,
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And the poor poor, together got 70 of all the Income Growth in that time period. The rich did better. I get it. But heres the thing. When you scratch through the data its all the way. Its every everybody did better. The pie got bigger and everybody got more to eat. Now, look, we werent perfect. Not by any stretch. The blackwhite wealth gap was there from the first time we measured with africas held firmly at the bottom. But here is the deal. America was so committed just to the basic notion of opportunity that we may change it. And in the civil rights era, 1960s and 1970s, their blackwhite wealth gap shrank. So we arent there, not by any stretch put we were on a road. And then we mitt 1980. Ronald reagan. Trickle down economics. Deregulate. Turn the banks loose to do whatever they want to do. Stop enforcing or slow down an enforcing antitrust laws. And that stuff about taxes. Cut taxes for those at the top and when you cut taxes for those at the top, all those investments in education,
Nighttime curfew and closing of the borders. A major earthquake hits chile. More than one Million People evacuated from their home. Also coming up, will they or wont they . The financial world is on tenterhooks as they wait to see if the American Central Bank will raise Interest Rates for the first time in nearly a decade. U. S. President is among several big names the u. S. President is among several big names offering support for a teenager in texas who was arrested after making a clock and bringing it to school. Officials thought it was a bomb. First, our top stories. We will start first with the coup in burkina faso. A general in the elite president ial guard has been named the head of a transitional council. His name is gilbert diendere, and he is a close ally of Blaise Compaore, who was ousted last year. Tv, atatement online military spokesman said a nighttime curfew was being put into place and the borders of burkina faso being closed. The transitional president has been removed