Mile an hour winds and heavy rain. We will go there live as some covid19 testing sites are closed for the storm. Our sunday focus on misinformation about coronavirus. Where it comes from, how it spreads and why it is hampering americas handling of this crisis. Plus, harry smith visits olympic gold medallist tommy smith, a half century after his iconic stand at the 1968 summer Olympic Games to get his thoughts on the athlete protests of today. And later, a sunday sitdown with oscar, emmy and tony win are viola davis on her rise from a childhood of poverty to the heights of hollywood and why she knows theres more to life than all of those golden statues. The elixir is living a life thats bigger than you. Thats what it is. If you are not doing that, then you are not doing anything. Nothing. A sunday sitdown with viola dave us plus another life well lived later in the show. Lets begin with the latest on Tropical Storm isaias moving slowly along the coast of florida and impacting the states
Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
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Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im a tv critic for the National Public radio come and we are going to tackle a small topic, race in america and sold it in about a half an hour. [laughter] one thing i do want to point out we are going to take questions at the end of this, so i will ask and let you know and you can start lining up over here so while we are talking start thinking of what you might want to ask these wonderful men and yes we do want questions and not speeches we have the distinguished Henry Louis Gates junior next to him steve luxembourg the story of plessy versus ferguson. [applause] next to them the blinding of isaac would [applause] they talk about the progress and backlash against progress on the civil rights in america. First we want to show a little clip that will tell you a little bit about the reconstruction documentary that was spearhead spearheaded. This will give you a sense of some of the stuff we are going to talk about. This will be cool, lets check
The center now of an International Diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the United States had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government this actually rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of European Union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against syria the grace one is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at the entrance of the mediterranean its final destination is claimed to be the bally ass refinery in syria but under cover of darkness a contingent of 30 Royal Marines under the direction of the role Gibraltar Police boarded the ship using a wildcat