Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I
Accused of using excessive force. So the for survivors has gone on through the night in the coastal turkish city of izmir after a powerful earthquake the magnitude 7 tremor under the aegean sea brought down buildings in trickle triggered tidal waves in the city as well as in parts of greece at least 26 people have been killed in the 2 countries. And these are live pictures of the ongoing search right now you have quake was centered off turkeys izmir province and was felt as far away as athens in istanbul turkey says at least 20 buildings have been flattened in his manner and in many tsunami hit the greek island of some us scene of course the early reports now from istanbul. Rescuers search for survivors and rubble of buildings in is made trickiest 3rd biggest city the epicenter of friday afternoons shallow magnitude 7 earthquake was off the turkish cost. I have a shop on the back side i was talking with someone i felt that while we were outside the ground started to shake while i was w
President trump signed an order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education. That same day a Panel Discussed History Education in the United States. The white house hosted and provided this video. This is a panel on the recovery of the history of our country which is being distorted and we have several experts who know about the distortion and history. We will talk about them and people correcting history. Stake andself its at freedom is at stake, but also humanity is at stake in this argument. I am teaching a course on totalitarian novels. 1984 Winston Smiths job is to rewrite history. Changes,e the party contemporary or old, every written reference in every book and article and every encyclopedia and every publication is corrected and the old version is burned. The whole thing is reprinted a new. It must be an enormous effort, the main work of the regime of 1984. He does not fully understand why they do that, but he learned in the end, and what the most remarkable themes
Much he is. To the south bay we go. More of the same. This is video shot this afternoon in san jose. It looked like heavy winter fog. But this is just more smoke wafting into the bay area. And this is the problem. Take a look at the satellite images from the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa. Well have more on the fires in just a moment. First lets head straight to Spencer Christian for a look at conditions and why today looks so different. The sky looked eerier yesterday. Take a look at the water vapor satellite image. You can see smoke not only moving through but the circulation to our north is pulling smoke from the oregon fires. Well show you how it is pulling directly down. Yesterday the smoke was locked above us in a higher level of the atmosphere. Today it is right down at the surface level. Mixing in, making our air dirtier and posing a greater threat to our health. As you can see, it is indicating poor to very poor air quality. The central part of the bay a