Its an author discussion on the potential longterm effects covid19 will have on society. Hello, im brian tate and i am pleased to welcome you to to the 2020 brooklyn book festival. We are here today with authors paola giordano, Mark Honigsbaum and sonia shah. Im gonna read very brief bios. Mark honigsbaum is a medical historian, journalist, author of five books including the pandemic century 100 years of panic, hysteria, and who works. And the fever trail in search for the cure for malaria. His current elector at City University london. Paola giordano is a physicist and author of four internationally bestselling novels including the solitude of prime numbers, which are sold over a million copies worldwide. His essay how contagion works published in italy at the beginning of the coronavirus emergency as the mathematics of contagion was shared more than 4 million times and help shift Public Opinion in the early stages of the pandemic. Sonia shah is prizewinning author of pandemic trackin
Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
The philippines capital goes into a corner by a slow. Thank you for joining us australia has joined a growing list of countries imposing south isolation for International Arrivals to try to curb the corona Virus Outbreak as of midnight on sunday people going into the country are asked to isolate for 14 days australia will also ban coup ships from foreign ports for 30 days. What weve seen in recent in recent waits is more countries having issues with the bars and that means that the source of some of those transmissions are coming from more and more countries bans have been very effective today and what this measure will do is ensure that particularly a stridency who are the majority of people coming to struggle now on these plots when they come back to. This so far civilization reporter and guys will do an effective job in flattening this as we go forward the u. S. Has expanded its european travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland and in europe spains Prime Minister is putting his e
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Its wednesday, january 15th and fbn a. M. Starts right now. Keep on turning. Proud mary keep on burning. Rolling, were rolling, were rolling on the river. I tell you were rolling, rolling, rolling on the river. Cheryl lauren we are rolling this morning. Hell welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl rolling into wednesday. Good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren the dow is up 32 points yesterday, small declines this morning ahead of earnings from bank of america and Goldman Sachs. Dow down 49 points. The chinese delegation in washington to sign the trade deal. Cheryl asian markets, there has been optimism so far this week until today for asian markets. Some other issues going on. The nikkei down half a percent. Hang seng and kospi in the red. Lauren as were waiting for ink to paper for the phase one, the ftse is up a quarter of 1 in london. Cheryl breaking this morning, it is our top story, the u. S. And china set to declare a trade truce today. The two countries going to sign th