In america is happening here in kentucky. Mitch mcconnell versus amy mcgrath. While were not in front of a live aw audience, we know the race and issues are too important not to debate. Ill talk about everything from the covid19 pandemic to the u. S. Supreme court. Tonight Gray Television welcome you to the kentucky debate. Good evening live from the studios of wkyt in lexington, im bill bryant and im joined by u. S. Senator majority Mitch Mcconnell and retired lieutenant amy mcgrath. Were 20 feet apart and each candidate will have time to answer questions and rebuttals will be permitted. A draw to determine who goes first and lt. Colonel mcgrath, well start with you. Nothing impacts more than the covid19 pandemic. The two of you sparred if you should be tested. If comes to that, the president and first lady had had covid19 and the governor and his family are in quarantine for exposure. What should be done. Its impacted all of our lives. If you take a step back senator mcconnell as the
Might do. We were consult . Ed they would try to frame us as race its. Reporter he said they are black head organization, they are targeting the superintendent not because of race but because of policy. The time is long overdue. She is in charge of our School District, and she has failed to prepare us for this school year. Reporter some of the demands include full ppe and testing in place at schools, accessible online learning, and federal dollars to help get through the crisis. Meanwhile, the Oakland Education Association and the Oakland Union mid School District are still at issue over hours of live instruction and access to technology. Our families, students, and community, you know, deserve just to have some direction and to know how the school year will begin for their students. Reporter i asked the Union President , keith brown, if they dont reach a deal, if there is any plan to strike. We dont have an agreement by august 10th, monday, we are prepared to move forward and teach wi
Now more than 47 off the march low. The nasdaq closed at the record highs as well. This morning, seeing give back the dow indicated down by 345 points the s p indicated off 35 and the nasdaq off by 70 points. If youve been watching cha is happening with treasury yields, a lot happening. The 10year at 0. 82 we had been at 0. 9 . We had been at 0. 7 . We are seeing a little give back with oil prices seeing wti down just 0. 5 . We have another big show. Three squawk exclusive interviews taking place. Finding solutions for economic racial inequality. The highlight is ceo of e sen sur. And from barrons with a lot to say. Dick parsons will be joining us. A lot on tap thank you getting an update now on the reopening. Movie theaters in california can reopen on friday only if they obtain approval from county officials requiring imposing safe guards including limited attendance to 25 or 100 people, when whichever is lower. New york mayor bill de blasio is planning to make parts of manhattan, bus
The First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the counsel, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charlesworth had launched saturns. I had the lunar module experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. I called him and said cliff, we got to make a decision on which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. This is probably the most anticlimactic meeting ive ever had in my life. He looked me straight in the face, and he said, well, im going to launch it, and im going to do the eva. So that only leav
11, and what a thing to go back over, thats a big project. The theres many things that stand out, a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life, i mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11, in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. The and moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where lonnie, charlesworth and myself, who had been flight deck or thes on gemini, were actually coming back together again. So, you had probably the three most experienced people at the console and it was a question f of, who is going to get to do what . The and lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charleswor