early 20th century attempted to improve social and economic conditions through trust busting, interstate regulation and prohibition. also theodore roosevelt the period s most dominant political figure. our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what i think it s core dialectic. was the tension between democracy and efficiency. these were both ideals that people from a broad spectrum of political spectrums in the progressive area believed were important, and they believe they weren t incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. so again throughout cost day think about democracy versus efficiency. so the central question for historians at the earliest 20th century is what is progressivism? a famous article that he met in 1982 with entitled, in search of progressed subsystem, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that the progressive area existed but wondering
at this ominous sky over the dry creek valley. you have a little bit of everything. you have blue sky, heavy smoke, you ve got the sun trying to peek through and you have the clouds continuing to move to the southeast. inside the burn zone, it is not pretty. we just returned from there a few hours ago. we re driving carefully up mill creek road in sonoma county through a burn state that this morning seemed benign when compared with what must have been the hell that roared through here last night. it breaks my heart. this is my backyard. this is the fire that we ve been worrying about for decades around here. reporter: that s the healdsburg fire chief describing the wadgfire. this afternoon he toured the browned out burn zone with supervisor james gore who usually has answers for . does anyone have any answers for how many houses burned here? no. there are people throwing around estimates, 15 to 20 but nobody knows right now. there are no confirms numbers. reporter:
us, and we are committed to doing better. tonight the state s top health official admits his team blew it. california s coronavirus case counts are off because of a computer system failure. and now the investigation into how this could happen is under way. good evening. thank you for joining us. the system broke down, or i should say break down comes as the state records 10,000 deaths from covid-19. abc 7 news reporter melani woodrow is on the story. reporter: for months california s leaders have emphasized they are making decisions about reopening based on science and data. now a bombshell announcement. our data system failed and that failure led to inaccurate case numbers in case positivity rates. it also prevented counties from having some of the data they need to monitor and respond to the virus in their communities. reporter: secretary dr. mark ghali says most are coronavirus test samples. he says no changes to california s response policies were based on the
sarah in san francisco. and debbie in riverside county. so, i was really kind of shocked to see four different names with my address on them. she opened them to see if someone had stolen her identity. instead, the notice said edd paid this person too much in benefits. and it was an overpayment stating that they overpaid by $10,000. that s a lot of money to pay back. why was there such a huge mistake that somebody received $10,000 overpayment? i don t recognize the name. no one has ever lived here with that name. david in huntington beach got a half dozen of these letters. he was shocked at what he found inside one of them. here s the debit card still attached to the paper works, still glued to it. and edd debit card from bank of america, addressed to someone named valerie. and here is her award notice, saying, she qualifies for up to $14,000. if somebody fills out a false application in the state of california, you would think there would be some safeguards, a
s&p indicated down about 4.5 looks like the 10-year is yielding below 1.6%. 1.549% we ll talk about what china did. loan rates there dropping as the company tries to take on the impact of the coronavirus. let s get an update now on the coronavirus. the people on the ship, a couple of people did die from the coronavirus. china as we heard cutting its benchmark lending rate that was expected. authorities looking to boost the market unfortunately, two passengers from the diamond princess cruise have died. the first reported deaths in connection with the ship which was quarantined off the coast of japan nearly two weeks china is again, changing the criteria of confirmed cases adding confusion to tracking going up or down and whether we ve seen a peak or close to a peak l brands reportedly selling shares of victoria s sek receipt valuing that brand just over $1 billion. this had been expected that they d pay for it. l brands chairman and ceo will step down as part of the deal bu