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It has been 117 days since the first case of coronavirus was reported in the United States. Now they say related mystery illness that could be affecting children the virus is showing no signs of letting up but has now claimed the lives of almost 87,000 americans and has infected over 1. 4 Million People california hospitals may have to use a lottery to determine which covid19 patients will be treated with remdesivir. It suggests it helps speed up recovery in severely ill patients there are for more patients than doses. The Los Angeles County fair is cancelled because of the pandemic it was set to begin september 4th. The fair typically attracts over 1 million visitors the Navy Hospital ship, the usns mercy is leaving and returning to san diego it arrived in mid ma ....
General george meade and union forces from july to december 1863 as they followed confederates through virginia. This event was part of historical parks small battles, big result s symposium. Im very pleased to introduce our last speaker of the afternoon, Jeffrey William hunt, director of the military forces museum at camp maybury in austin, texas, and adjunct professor where he has taught since 1988. God bless you. Author of the last battle of the civil war and contributor to essential civil war curriculum and the gail library of daily life. American civil war. His last work is a trilogy from the final stage of the Gettysburg Campaign to the end of 1863 and includes meade and lee at mayan run due for publication next year. So lets give a welcome for jeffrey hunt. [ applause ] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate jerrys invitation. Its always fun to s ....
President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. In large part, that popularity was due to his very successful debates against stephen a douglas, sitting senator on the democratic side in 1858. Abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat. They debated. Onee hourlong public debate several ....
Temperatures will start to spike so enjoy the morning because it is somewhat cool for now. It is a spare the air dade. Day. Would you barbecue today if it wasnt a spare the air alert . May be. I like to barbecue. If you want to go outside right now is a good time. Get out there and go hiking. We have had 10 of these spare the air alerts. This is a live look to work mount diablo, the season typically goes from april through october. Today, according to Health Officials smog can be a pollution problem. We have a hot temperatures and when the wind is not around it lingers. We are talking about temperatures well above 100. Possibly 105 up to 110 in places like livermore brentwood antioch. I want to ask you something. Do you actually keep the windows open more or do you use the air conditioner . What do you do when it is so hot . In the morning and evening i leave the windows but in the middle of the day we are lucky that our home ha ....
Every summer, so we decided to sell our home at top dollar and we are moving to prescott, arizona. Reporter the Livermore Library daily grind cafi opens at 7 am and it has cooler air conditioning than the library itself. They dont have much downtime like days like today. In the east bay looking at four days of unhealthy air quality for the sensitive groups, and you are encouraged to cut back on driving, oilbased paint, and hairspray. They have other cooling centers that will be open including the wave. At the wave they told us they will have two Public Schools public pools open for free and open until 8 pm, and that is making up for not being open on the fridays and with how hot it is on the weekends. Certain libraries and cooling stations may not be open on monday since it is a holiday so you may want to check the websites to make sure you have a place to cool off. Thank ....