stream forroviding a sign language. ,868f today, we have 13 confirmed cases. 515 people in the hospital. and 527 deaths. briefing since our state s first death, i have shared the number of fatalities due to covid-19. as north carolina moves into phase one today, i want to everyone to a member what those numbers mean. every time our state counts another death, a family and a community descend into mourning. i want to share with you some of their stories. one of them belongs to a man from montgomery county known as officer bud. he served as a sheriff s deputy and school resource officer for 14 years and was in good health, never missing work or calling in sick. one person described him as a superhero. a local mom recalled how he sat and talked with her son, who was frequently bullied and have found himself alone at the school dance. officer bud made home visits if he was worried about a student s home life that might be troubled. his motto was anything for the kids. he died mar
people in the hospital, and, sadly, 152 deaths. we know that this disease includes an extra amount of sorrow, since loved ones cannot the at the bedside, and we continue to hold all of those suffering from this virus in our thoughts. earlier this week, i laid out our path forward to a new normal , dependent upon testing, and i want to share some key updates about our work on that front. on testing first. north carolina has made great strides, but we have more work to do. we have conducted at least 73,000 tests, which is a long way from where we were a month ago. in fact, testing and our state has increased by 88% over the last two weeks, but we need testing to be more widespread, and we need to use it to give us a better indication of where we are in this fight. today, we announced a partnership with three of our state s medical universities, to use testing and tracing to help us determine how far the disease has spread in north carolina. this research is part of a coordinate
we will finish up our primetime programming at 11:00. that all happens tonight on c-span2 s booktv. welcome to montgomery, alabama on booktv located on the alabama river, population of 200,000 making it the second largest city in the state. we explore the history of the city and state by local authors including a look at alabama s most powerful governors. go around the entire south, louisiana had the laws, georgia had the challenges, south carolina had pitchfork intel and strom thurmond. i would say we can say and put ourselves up against theirs. later we will go inside the home of f scott fitzgerald to learn about the importance of montgomery. we show you a house that was the turning point for scott and zelda. you will find out f scott fitzgerald is more than just a writer. he is not a genius who can come up with everything on his own. he needed a partner, someone to give him a life full of ideas that he could write the great american novel. that was elza. we speak
as i got for is the end of the book, there is one story that had to be rich and i didn t want to write about it. i didn t feel a need to write about it. i felt very self-conscious writing about it, but it was about 9/11. if i did not write about it, there would ve been a big hole in the book. when i started writing about it, it was like the first couple of days i don t remember much. it is all kind of a blur to me. even when i hook up with guys with me at the time, they say the same thing like they remember something very vividly. i have no recollection. i remember something very vividly they can t remember. so for all of us, the first couple of days with kind of a blur. after that, and i was working 12 hours on, 12 hours off for the next two months. my unit was in the detective bureau, so we got assigned and our job was to remain in. i could write about what i saw and what we did. those are people s families, family members and i couldn t write about it. but i think i wrot