About this change. Good afternoon. I am very excited to introduce the next speaker. Im going to share a personal to exemplify his passion for Theodore Roosevelt. I entered jerrys orbit when we serve together as instructors in jacksonville, florida. Career i was in my negotiating orders for a followon to her. For background, this tour is unique for officers. Areandbased aviators, we sent to seek to learn real knowledge in the navy. For example, officer on the deck in the airconditioned bridge sounds good. Sunny san diego or florida or the deployment schedule. A nice med cruise would suffice. As a lieutenant commander, jerry had already completed his tour. For teddyere his zeal roosevelt became apparent. When asked about his carrier assignment he said, Theodore Roosevelt, no question. I wouldve taken any job to deploy on tr. If you needed a working party to scrape barnacles, you could count jerry in. Not understanding his rationale, i requested further explanation. Jerry went on to descr
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
The presiding officer under the previous order, the Senate Stands adjourned until 4 30 p. M. On friday, and that py the pediatric vaccines the us py needs to play more of a role moreof a role in this effort. There are a number of entities including the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and these International Organizations that are doing their best to hold this together. They need support from large vaccine manufacturing nations and currently theyre not getting it from the us, theyre not getting it from china, theyre not getting it from russia and other people in that station that needs to change before we see that result. This is just to the group, clearly one of the main issues for the next pandemic is how do we sort of improve our national and International Disease surveillance for the next time because youve touched on chinas lack of transparency during the early stages of this pandemic and it had devastating consequences of what needs to be put in place for that to happen again .
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty im katty can washington and this is bbc world news america. Unpopular nerestrictions in several countries. Bbc investigation finds some arab states have been deporting muslims back to china. Amy Coney Barrett, President Trumps choice to be the next Supreme Court judge was grilled by senators today. She pushed bk on democrats who see her as a conservative activist. And, a surprise to 00 a. M. Knock at the door. One you would not mind getting dragged out of bed to answer. Katty welcome to world news america on pbs. Many countries are imposing more extreme measures to fight the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Its a worrying trend in a region that hoped the worst was behind it. The Czech Republic has a new threeweek state of emergency and schools are shut down. The dutc
From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations report launch of the independent task force preparing for the next pandemic. Perforce we will be talking about the one we are currently experiencing. Im the host of Weekend Edition sunday. We have more than i think 760 registered for this virtual meeting. We will do our best to get to as many questions as we can. But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor at the American University and the former u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is franc