The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He als
Hes a democrat from california and he represents much of Silicon Valley. Our guest report is Emily Birnbaum of protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host representative khanna, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district in washington . Guest on one hand there is a lot of positives. If you look at the polling, the Tech Companies pull above 6070 for their approval. Theres a sense these are companies some of them working on vaccines, the bioTech Companies working on antivirals. They are allowing for zoom for remote work, for remote calls. That they are engaged in allowing us to have communication, allowing us to get our groceries or information. That said, there are other ethical issues. Theres a sense are so essential workers being paid a partly . Are these platforms thing that the combat hate speech and Voter Suppression . Are they doing enough to pay
Cruise ship are in their 60s 70s and 80s and we want to make sure as we know that is a more Vulnerable Group that we face special attention to anybody who has any comorbidities or other conditions we are working hard with the people on the ship and the medical team there. To make sure their health and welfare is prioritized. Just to reiterate the plan is to bring that ship into San Francisco bay this weekend. Docket at a noncommercial port and test everyone on board. U. S. Currency is facing the same fate as trappers returning home from china and other coronavirus hotspots. We have confirmed with the Federal Reserve the physical dollar bills are going to be quarantined before they are allowed back into circulation to the u. S. For banks that help to manage our money supply will set aside shipments of dollars from asia. Up to 10 days before processing and redistributing them. The coronavirus leaving store shelves bear when it comes to products like Hand Sanitizer is infected wipes and m
I feel terrible. Right now and streaming on cbsn bay area the past few hours more testing has been ordered on that cruise ship contaminated with coronavirus. Good evening. How it was announced angered people on board. The test results revealed of the 46 people tested there were 21 positive 19 crewmembers and two passengers. Now everyone on the ship will be tested. Someone board get word of the results from tv. This is a live look at the ships current position. The grand princess is the dark blue icon on the lefthand side of your screen. This evening it has moved to the south off the San Mateo County coast. What happens next to the grand princess and passengers . Andreas live is San Franciscos cruise ship terminal. Reporter the grand princess originally before all of this went down was supposed to dock here at pier 27 tomorrow. The passengers were supposed to get off and go home. Now it is likely not going to dock here but somewhere else in the bay area. The results are in and now a pla
A cruise ship and several passengers with crew members infected by the virus. State and federal officials are trying to figure out where the evyone on d. A bay area unit tak drastic step to slow the spread of the virus. Stanford has cancelled classes for the remantder of the quarter. Mick mulvaney is out as white house chief of staff. The president choosing an ally from congress to replace him. Good morning. And, thank you, for joining us. Lets get a check of youre weather in the Weather Center with daren. We have rain in the forecast. We do. Finally. We got rain yesterday out of this. A mild dampness for just around the immediate bay. That was not the main rain event. Whats happening now on high def doppler is. And you can see the green thats just about to come on shore pretty much through the duration of this newscast this next hour. Were going to see the first rain to hit the area. Whos getting that already . Marin. This is starting to get down into the county of marin. To the east