by the university of tennessee. the school provided this video. hi, i m david sacks, at the university of tennessee at chatham. we are here at the 28th annual evening of the symposium on the 19th century press, the civil war and free om of expression. this morning s panel is called, commemorating the soldier. meaning the civil war soldier. and i write to introduce you to the moderator of the program. katrina from the university who, along with all these panelists, he s working on a book called the soldier in the civil war press. so katrina. thank you doctor sacks men. i m excited to be here this morning with some of my colleagues to talk about the way that the civil war press commemorated the individual soldier. paris casey, from farm hill alabama, from the waters of terrebonne creek, loved his family farm in the fall of 1960 modified for the confederacy. his unit, was known as the cherokee rangers. and they would see action in major engagements, such as like 95,000 oth
in the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries to climb even higher. w.h.o. has been assessing this outbreak around the clock, and we re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. we have therefore made the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. pandemic is not a word to use lightly. or carelessly. it s a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over. that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death. describing the situation as a pandemic does not change w.h.o. s assessment of the threat posed by the virus. it doesn t change what w.h.o. is doing, and it doesn t change what countries should do. we have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. this is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus. and we have never before seen a
my fellow americans. tonight i want to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that started in china and is now spreading throughout the world. today, the world health organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic. we have been in frequent contact with our allies and we are marshaling the full power of the federal government and the private sector to protect the american people. this is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history. i m confident that by continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus. from the beginning of time, nations and people have faced unforeseen challenges, including large-scale and very dangerous health threats. this is the way it always was and always will be. it only matters how you respond , and we are responding with great read and
can we repeat sunday? we will let you know. the news is next. now, abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. kimberly: a disturbing story to begin with, but it could have been so much worse. a young toddler was shot in the leg in southeast d.c. the little girl was rushed to the hospital and is expected to be ok. the police are remaining tightlipped about this. melissa dipane has what we know right now. melissa: the police say kids were playing with a gun when it went off and shot the little girl in the leg and apartment in the 2500 block of pomeroy road in southeast. the police say there is a lot of information to sort out. the toddler was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was conscious and breathing when she was transported. figure out what s going on. we don t want to compromise an ongoing investigation or anyone s identities before we have everything figured out. still lots of questions to answer in this case about the gun and where it came from, bu
feds speak is bouncing us all around the block. we ll get to that. our road man begins with hails celestial, delaying 30%, citing an accounting review, reporting it does not expect to reach its anticipated sales in profit levels. cramer s off but he s going to call in on this one. it s also a huge week for retail. in the spotlight, home depot, we dig into the company and the positive out like. we ll take a look at where we may go from here. hails celestial announces it will delay its earnings report due to accounting issues. and simon is on mad money back in may when, he talked about hiring outside counsel, take a listen. our business got a lot more complicated. what i decided to do is call some outside help. a little unlike to you do that. people thought maybe he need some help personally or whatever. all right. and with that i brought in some outside help and to come back and look at hain all of these big companies hire 0-based budgeting. so what i decided t