You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the
Reporter chris, this Law Enforcement bulletin was unusual in that it was issued by the fbi, National Department of Homeland Security and intelligence. Officials now warning of similar homeland attacks on or around the fourth of july weekend which falls within the muslim holy month of ramadan. They have called for this to be a time of calamity. Authorities today are still evaluating the claims by isis of responsibility for two of those attacks in tunisia and kuwait. Isis for propaganda purposes attaches itself to attacks. The u. S. Identifies the number one state sponsor of terrorism continued his negotiating sessions with secretary of state today but Iranian Foreign minister after two hours of meetings with kerry now left for tehran. U. S. Officials say they are unconcerned about that. It was always expected that the ministers from various parts would come and go from these sessions. State Department Officials traveling here with secretary of state kerry in vienna have now made it offi
Homeland security and intelligence. Officials now warning of similar homeland attacks on or around the fourth of july weekend which falls within the muslim holy month of ramadan. They have called for this to be a time of calamity. Authorities today are still evaluating the claims by isis of responsibility for two of those attacks in tunisia and kuwait. Isis for propaganda purposes attaches itself to attacks. The u. S. Identifies the number one state sponsor of terrorism continued his negotiating sessions with secretary of state today but Iranian Foreign minister after two hours of meetings with kerry now left for tehran. U. S. Officials say they are unconcerned about that. It was always expected that the ministers from various parts would come and go from these sessions. State Department Officials traveling here with secretary of state kerry in vienna have now made it official they expect to blow past the june 30th deadline for these talks. James rosen reporting from vienna. Thanks for