Cohosted the event and provided the video. This is one in a series of conversations on the cold war 75 years after it began. Good afternoon. And welcome to this Virtual Program on the cold war and the Civil Rights Movement. My name is stan deaton and were pleased to partner on this program with the uva club of savannah. This conversation, the second of three with esteemed uva faculty, is part of the Georgia Historical Society history festival which is focused on the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war. Our guest today is dr. Kevin gaines. Hes the professor of civil rights and social justice at the university of virginia with a joint appointment in the department of history and the carter g. Woodson institute for africanamerican studies. Hes the first person to hold the professorship. Dr. Gaines is author of uplifting the race black leadership, politics and culture as well as and his Current Research is on the problems and projects of racial integration in the United State
New claims actually rose. And 17 Million People are still drawing Unemployment Benefits. I believe thats a negative for the overall market. Get to that in a second. Look at this. Amazon, apple, google, facebook, the day after the top executives took a pounding from the politicians, these stocks went up during those hearings. They are down in preMarket Action this morning. Hold on. All four of these giants will report their earnings later this afternoon. This is big techs big day. My opinion, these Companies Need blowout numbers to sustain their very lofty stock prices. Watch it unfold at 4 00 this afternoon on this network. Overall, i got a lot of red ink to show you. The dow is looking for a loss of over 300 points, down maybe 40 for the s p and off 131 on the nasdaq. Heres one of the negatives thats hurting the market. Emergency virus relief. It runs out in 24 hours. Congress is divided over how to replace it or extend it. Investors want more stimulus but theyre not sure they are goi
Likely to move. As things stand, the dow will be down close to 500 points, about 470, to be precise, and the s p down about 45. Just look at the nasdaq. A really big selloff in progress there, might be down close to 2 . Wait for it. Theres big news on other fronts as well. The Aircraft Carrier uss Abraham Lincoln with supporting ships plus a bomber group on their way to the middle east. There have been threats to American Forces in the region. John bolton says quote, any attack on United States forces or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. Meanwhile, a ceasefire between israel and hamas. 700 rockets launched, 23 palestinians killed, four israelis. Egypt brokered the ceasefire which as of now, appears to be holding. And the president says hes with israel. 100 . There is a lot to go at this monday morning, and this, too, wait for it, sky news is reporting that Meghan Markle just went into labor. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart all right. Lets get this right.
there, but i am hearing reports of feet up to seven feet of water, slowly but quickly enough , filling people s hopes to the point where they are climbing up to their second floor or their roofs at the moment so we re watching this developing story within new bern , north carolina. 11 million other people are in harms way as hurricane florence could create this once in a millennial flood. this is a live look at north top sail beach, north carolina. can we get to that shot? the category 1 storm bashing the carolina coast and moving slowly inland. there you can see a reporter standing that may very well be one of our reporters, leaning back against the wind. that s how strong the wind is. officials say the rainfall totals will likely be staggering ly huge. look at this. they just lean back and they won t fall. huge 19-mile per hour winds, gusts of up to 105 miles per hour florence is now as far as location is concerned about 400 miles wide this is the space shot, it carries hur
war we wear many hats and several months ago we started serious called my ecw stories and this introduce you to some of the faces around. a way you when you come to a symposium and you want to wring her neck or tell us what you didn t like on a blog you know her background. there s so much with emerging civil war. her fingers are in every aspect of the but i didn t realize how much she did and how much she does until i read her contribution and i would encourage you if you look up you will find it. she has the daily schedule every day of the week where she s working on some aspect of emerging civil war. it s just incredible so if you like what you see make sure you give sara a pat on the back and if you have any complaints take them to dr. dr. dr. mckee housekeeper it s probably his fault anyway. [laughter] sara byerly graduated from thomas edison university with a b.a. in history service managing editor at emerging civil war works on staff at the trust for she spent years