people to come here and walk through the streets and i remember dreaming of being here standing up and talking about a book in front of this. the incredible audiences at this event. and so it s a great thrill to be here. we re talking about new york. i think it was built in. fact and fiction, but you all you ve got is the fact people now. so we ll talk about new york history for a little while, and i want to tell you first the story about the making of the new york that we know today. this is at the end of the 19th century in the early 20th century. the period that i describe in my book is the period when skyscrapers first began rising over the floor and five story tenement. buildings of new york city the time when the population of new york triples from one and a half million to four and a half or five million people in the span of a single generation. it s the time when an airplane first buzzes over. the new york harbor with wilbur wright at the controls. the time of the fi
around the clock. we waste a lot of food, an estimated billion tons a year. tonight, the cultural changes to reduce the waste plus, not a handout but a hand up. i was able to sleep a lot better, breathe a lot better. $500 cash money a month to one city s poorest residents tonight, an experiment s impact on poverty and mental health announcer: live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, the news with shepard smith good evening, america s vaccine rollout is speeding up by the day just as states and cities begin to relax their covid restrictions data from johns hopkins shows the recent drop in cases has now leveled off at more than 60,000 per day. the cdc director described that as a troubling sign that progress has stalled on the vaccine front, the average number of doses administered each day just topped 2 million for the very first time so far nearly 28 million americans have been fully vaccinated according to the cdc. the good news is that vaccination effort is finally
they ll be sworn in on tuesday and then on the 8th that trial will begin in from what we ve heard it sounds like that trial could be completed in his little is a week there s only one charge that s and citing an insurrection in the evidence is largely the video that we have all seen meanwhile president joe biden has signed 2 executive orders to help families hit on radical the 19 and demick biden is looking for bipartisan support in congress to pass a stimulus package worth $1.00 trillion dollars i don t believe democrats or republicans are going hungry and losing jobs i believe americans are going hungry and losing jobs we have the tools to fix it we have the tools to get through this we have the tools to get this virus under control and our economy back on track and we have the tools to help people so choose the tools. use them now. in other news tens of thousands of people in hong kong have been ordered to stay at home the coronavirus lockdown affects a densely populated d
institutions of government he threaten the integrity of the democratic system interfered with the peaceful transition of power and imperil co-equal branch of government he thereby betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the people of the united states how did you castro has the latest from capitol hill. this is making history in 2 ways of course we know that there has been no other president that has been impeached twice now trump has that distinct honor and we know that he is also the 1st former u.s. president now that will be put on trial in an impeachment proceeding and some of the uncertainty surrounding that may be one of the weaknesses that democrats know that they are facing as they proceed with this trial republicans who have shied away from being forcefully denouncing trouble who have shied away from conviction already has said that a major weakness of this argument is that the u.s. constitution says you will be removed from office the sitting presi
you today by your television provider. and i come here tonight to the al-smith dinner knowing i m the underdog in these final weeks. if you know where to look, there are signs of hope, there s signs of hope, even in the most unexpected places, even in this room, full of proud manhattan democrats, i can t i can t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. i m delighted to see you here tonight, hillary. i was thrilled to get this invitation. and i feel right at home here because it s often been said that i share the politics of alfred e. smith and the ears of alfred e. newman. it is an honor to be here with al smith. i obviously never knew your great grandfather but from everything that senator mccain has told me the two of them had a great time together before prohibition. so of course i am delighted. but not surprised by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. i felt all along that when this matter was properly submitted to the rank and file of our