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I just want to make sure we can earn every vote possible. The president ial race enters its final week, just seven days to go. President trump and joe biden making a big push in battlegrounds that will determine the outcome. Well break down the very latest numbers from those key states. Breaking overnight, outrage. Violent protests erupt in philadelphia, after the deadly shooting of a knifewielding black man. At least 30 officers hurt, dozens of demonstrators taken into custody. Well have the latest in a live report. Alarming trend. No matter how you look at it, its not good news. The u. S. Now averaging more than 70,000 new coronavirus cases per day. Hospitalizations up 40 . And the Ripple Effect now being felt on wall street. Wild weather. New wildfires in california forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. An ice storm in the plains bringing widespread power outages, while hurricane watches are once again posting along the gulf coast as zeta targets the region. Al is covering it all.
Surging. More states shatter records for coronavirus cases over the weekend with fears that halloween celebrations will make a bad situation worse. And overseas, stringent new lockdowns today and news Prince William himself battled the miracl virus. Miracle rescue. Hello. A 3yearold girl found alive nearly three days after that deadly earthquake in turkey. This morning the race against time to locate and save even more survivors. All of that and plus, fly, eagles, fly. On the pass to the end zone, and pulled in by fulgham. Philadelphia beats the Dallas Cowboys for a key sunday night victory. Today, monday, november 2nd, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza hi, everybody good morning, everybody. It is monday morning and lek shun week is here. We have finally reached this moment just one day to go. As expected, it is going to be a battleground blitz for President Donald Trump and joe biden it will indeed
Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. You have got a great place here. We are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just tu
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint