World. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by judy there are two major stories tonight, the postelection transition as President Trump refuses to concede or even allow for the traditional preparations that would normally have begun and the surging burden of covid cases in most areas of the country. The u. S. Hit a new daily record of covid19 infections with more than 144,000 reported yesterday. Hospitalizations top 65,000 for the first time, 22 states are reporting more hospitalizations than at any time says the pandemic began. Deaths are up by 22 from a week you. Ago. Lets look at how this is hitting a number of states especially hard no matter which region. In el paso, texas, makeshift clinics outside hospitals are opening up. Mobile morgues are moving in and a lockdown of nonessential businesses has been extended, testing lines are growing in wisconsin. Cases there have jumped from 700 a day to more than 6000 in two months
A simulcast on an important friday. So many days to the election, 25. Thrilled you are with us on radio, on television across this nation and around the world. I want to look at the markets as we frame up Michael Shaoul to join us in moments. Up 15 in a bid to the market. 3 below record highs. With that, some nice confirmations of good global news. Look at renminbi. Jonathan up on the week by about 3 on the s p 500. On ther chinese currency return from the holiday. The narrative has shifted aggressively, and in a short amount of time, from fears about a contested election to the potential of a blue wave. What we discussed in the previous hour is something we need to discuss in the next hour. How vulnerable is that newmarket market narrative shifting things around . Jonathan the Political Landscape here is most interesting. The president so far quiet on twitter. Hugely active yesterday across media. I guess an 8 00 p. M. Appearance tonight. You wonder what the president would be doing b
Other thingsost of the ftc has explicit authority to do that we dont. Sec start to move that direction and i was disheartened to see a pullback, and i think restoring that work is a valuable endeavor for congress to take. Host rebecca slaughter is one of two democrats on the federal trade commission out of five members. She was sworn in in 2018 and her term is for seven years. She is former chief counsel to senator charles schumer, the democratic leader in the senate. She is a Yell University trade Yale University trained lawyer. Leah covers antitrust. We thank you both for joining us. Youre watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. With the ongoing Global Pandemic and many schools shifting to online learning, cspans studentcam competition continue to provide students with a platform to engage in conversation. We are asking Middleton High School students to provide to
Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
Research and latest scientific techniques, and the development of operational hardware. Reduction of human effort, removal of the lifting and movement of heavy burdens from human muscle to the sinews of machine. Improvements in methods for processing, and the ever increasing volume of mail. These are some of the things in which rnd developers are finding new answers. This film will show you a few of the areas of research underway, and some of the developing hardware. The use of controlled and compressed air is getting increased attention for possible use in processing mail. Utilization of control devices could eliminate many moving parts and reduce maintenance costs. As seen in slow motion, this test device and the postal laboratory roles letters over by controlled jets of air. This device separates letters from those that will not pass Mail Processing machines. Another air jet controlled device dates letter to mail in transit. While this one diverts mail automatically. Notice the firs