About her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I also want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight, alas its virtually but i will do my best. It is my first soon presentation so bear with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking about now i shouldve had a lot of wind, but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed, may occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them picked themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel stuart alexander, the remarkable hero of my book, did not hurry off. In fact, he refuse to leave the scene of the military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to. He stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result he recognized the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors that might have lifesaving
Tonight. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. Good evening. More than 18,000 californians have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Imagine the entire town of maraga getting sick. Its the second record in five days. On saturday the record was 15,442 new cases. For perspective, over the past seven days, weve averaged fewer than 14,000 new cases. Over the past two weeks, the average is roughly 11,000. Here is another way to understand whats happening in this graph you can see our summer spike right there in the middle and on the right, the current surge, which eclipses anything weve experienced so far. In many ways, the timing couldnt be worse. Today is expected to be one of the busiest days of thanksgiving travel despite numerous and repeated warnings from Health Agencies against traveling or gathering. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza, San Francisco International Airport and 101 in san jose. Sky 7 was over 680 in the east bay. You can see plenty of cars on the road at 1 00 in the
Orders amidst new highs in covid19 case counts and hospitalization rates. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the warning. Reporter as the bay area prepares for a thanksgiving unlike any other, Santa Clara County has another urgent warning for the public. Do not have gatherings and do not travel. Period. Reporter today, 512 new cases of covid19 were reported county wide. A new record for the highest daily case count since the start of the pandemic. Perhaps up to 60 of the time when people are infecting others or infectious themselves, they have absolutely no symptoms. Reporter the county also saw its highest daily number of covid19 hospitalizations at just under 200 patients. Troubling numbers at a time of year when most hospitals are already busy because of the cold and flu season. Were extremely concerned about what this means for our hospitals ability to care for not only people with covid19 but for other people who need access to care in our hospitals. Reporter stanford hospital i
Or your phone, our app on the phone to see the temperature, subtract about 3 to 6 degrees from that. Thats what the windchill will feel like. This afternoon, how about low to mid 60s from the coast to our inland neighborhoods. Lets get the news on this thanksgiving. Heres kumasi. Good morning, by day for staff and volunteers here at glide. Volunteers are busy setting up tables and putting up signs. The tables are set up to allow for social distancing, aside from those few changes it will be the same glide thanksgiving meal that thousands demand on each year. Glide has continued to serve food three meals a day since the start of the pandemic. That has not stopped. Organizers say there was never a doubt they would do thanksgiving, the issue was how. So moving the event outdoors solved that problem. Thankfully no rain. They plan to serve 2,300 meals. One of the organizers says because of covid19 this years thanksgiving brunch is even more necessary. Covid is affecting all of us, but its a
Election, Vice President pence spoke at a rally wednesday in flint, michigan. This is just under an hour. Be in the showo gom ready to gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States of america, mike pence dont you worry , babyght long all rightight now now, baby its all right now i took her home to my place watching every move on her face plosions] she said, look, whats your game, baby are you tryin to put me in shame . I said, slow, dont go so fast dont you think that love can last . She said love, lord above now youre tryin to trick me in love all right now, baby its all right now all right now, baby baby, its all right now s all right now vice pres. Pence hello, michigan. Its a great crowd. Thank you all for coming out tonight. I restate party chair, laura cox. Although all the wonderful michiganders who are here from near and far. It is great to be back in the wolverine state. We are just six days away from a great victory all across ,ichigan and all across america lynn we vote