And i fix failing businesses. 2. 5 Million People visit key west a year, and you only sell 40,000 pies. I make tough decisions. Were closing the store. Were done. Im not talking about it anymore. And i back them up with my own cash. Check that out. Its not always pretty. Tired of this bull[bleep]. But this is business. Were gonna have a battle on this one. I do it to save jobs. I got to get some stuff done and youre gonna be our leader here. And i do it to make money. This the profit. [theme music] u. S. Key lime pie company is a pie maker located in beautiful and sunny key west, florida. Jim brush. Jeff and his girlfriend, alison sloat, bought the company, recipes and all, over ten years ago for just 1,200, and have grown the business from selling pies on the side of the road to having their key lime pie named the nations best pie by the american pie counsel. Even though they generate 1. 4 million in sales, they have yet to turn a profit. We really are a victim of our own success righ
A handful are preparing to set sail again all right its time to boost your new i. Q. The United States could soon be working with while way to establish 5 g. Standards one year after blacklisting the Chinese Telecom giant to keep it from working with u. S. Tech companies now the move could signal a shift in policy at a time when washington wants to be at the forefront of 5 g. We have our Rachel Blevins she joins me now to discuss more of this in detail so rachel what do we know so far about this decision well it was just one year ago when the Commerce Department announced that it would be blacklisting wall way in the 1st place and at the time they cited National Security concerns but now it appears that they may be taking a step back from that claim now reports are now saying that the commerce to partner. It has drafted a rule which would allow u. S. Companies to work with broadway to set global 5 g. Standards now they say it again all it is the importance of inclusion in creating stan
Prepping to set sail again right the total time to boost their new i. Q. So as u. S. China relations deteriorate decades old tensions in the South China Sea are ramping up between both countries well a number of nations have conflicting territorial claims in the region in the United States seems eager to strike that fire to the detriment of china our case alex one hell of it has that story. There from the United States armed forces are patrolling the South China Sea were conducting a lot of surveillance flights we have conducted a number of the Taiwan Strait transits we are continue to watch closely what the chinese are doing and the u. S. Is keeping an eye on china in its own neighborhood using intimidating military hardware such as b. One b. Supersonic bombers in the sky and warships in the water. The trumpet ministration also plans on deploying long range cruise missiles in the Asia Pacific Region china has called americas maneuvering and illegal trespass and has put the u. S. On no
As of tuesday global deaths from coronavirus top 254000 the number of cases stand more than 3600000 a vaccine possibly and play now as u. S. Based Company Pfizer is working with german drug maker biotech and said theyve already started delivering doses of their experimental vaccine here in the United States will if the vaccine proves to be safe and effective it could be ready for us distribution by the end of the year well this comes as we reported yesterday the trumpet ministration is predicting a continuous surge in new cases based on a new model where up to 3000 daily deaths will occur by june 1st the white house now predicting a death toll of 134000 this is nearly double its previous estimate well the trumpet ministration is now. Reportedly looking to phase out the white houses krone task force and turning it over to Pandemic Response agencies by early june meanwhile more countries around the world are easing restrictions this includes hong kong which announced plans to relax socia
And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki