Im delighted to welcome jennett conat who is an played author and the doctor of ryan con nat the director of the Manhattan Project, one of the best sellers. And the shell be speaking tonight about her new book the great secret the classified world war 2 that launched the war on cancer. I want to thank the museum for inviting me to be we youve. Alas its virtually. My first zoom presentation so bear with me. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking i should have had a lot of wine but here we go ill start off with a quote from winston churchill. He had way with words. He once observed men occasionally stomach pel across the truth stumble across the truth but most of them. Pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stewart Francis alexander, the remarkable hero of my become did not hurry off. In fact he refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to he stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result, h
Sanchez. Im laura garcia. I think this happened the last time i was here. Well, at least im home and i can go upstairs change. No, you look great. Well get to the morning commute with mike in just a bit. Good morning, kari. I hope you had a good weekend. I did, good morning. And we are going to have some improved air quality as we started to see yesterday, it was so nice to see a blue sky. For the north base thats not the case and the air quality remains unhealthy in the area of the glass fire. Were watching that smoke drifting into the east bay. Elsewhere were looking at some better air quality improving as we are seeing now a shift in the wind thats bringing in some slightly cooler temperatures highs in the 60s and 70s along the coastline. Up to 92 in antioch today. San jose will reach 85 degrees. Well talk more about this and whats ahead as we could see some rain by the weekend. Thats coming up in a few minutes. How is it looking in the commute . Well have some changes. Hopefully th
There is no question, in all my years, this is the oddest jobs day, with a bomb shale with a bombshell earlier this morning. The president had the first have contracted the virus. We will show a shot of the white house here in a bit, describing the second floor and the president s president ial rooms. Right now, we are beginning to hear with our bloomberg reporting from people in washington. Jonathan heard from jen jacob in her reporting before the top of the hour on the aids close to closeesident the aides to the president that were concerned. We understand the Vice President has tested negative, so that is good news for mike pence. What we dont know yet is whether former Vice President joe biden is out. We understand he will be tested at some point today. It is a highprofile track and trace. Everyone that has been in contact with the president , with hope hicks over the last week or so. Who where they . Have they been tested . It is an odd payrolls friday because 29 minutes away from
Handle on the vix. Towas really extraordinary just sit there and observe the turn in the markets yesterday. It continues this morning. Surprise, in an election year, we are thinking about infrastructure. A 1 trillion infrastructure on deck, according to reporting in washington, d. C. This shouldnt shock anyone. Tom not at all. As i said earlier, everybody tunes into you. They dont tune into me earlier. I get that. But to the people out there, it is a bridge to nowhere in kentucky, a bridge to nowhere in San Francisco for speaker pelosi. I guess the president can put a bridge to nowhere in florida. It is all about politics. You just say to yourself, why cant this happen . Why cant this get done . I dont have a straight answer. Jonathan i dont have a straight answer either. They are not here for me, tom. They are here for lisa. Lets talk about the data. Retail sales on deck. A series of upside surprises in the United States weve had in the Economic Data for much of the last month. Lisa y
Angela merkel drops her longstanding resistance to the e. U. Raising the joint crisis funding. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show the u. S. Biotech firm moderna is reporting promising results from the 1st clinical tests of an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus early results from the trial showed that participants develop antibodies a similar to those in people who have recovered from cove at 19 the u. S. Government has invested half a 1000000000. 00 in the research meanwhile President Donald Trump said hes taking the antimalaria drug hydroxy chloroquine trump has repeatedly touted the drug as a treatment for cofa 19 despite medical warnings well lets jump right in. Bring in dr peter hotez a vaccine ologists at the Baylor College of medicine in houston dr hotez stock markets are up sharply on the news that a 1st Clinical Trial for the vaccine has been successful but how optimistic should we be at this stage in the testing. Well its still pretty early on in the testing th