Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
Partners for yet another of what i know will be a compelling presentation. These guys are money. As many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight we welcome our two guests. They had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape starring james Steve Mcqueen and james garner and charles bronson, among others. All of the guys in my class fell in love with it. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. He survives. The movie was based on a true story. The escape of 76 allied soldiers escape from germany in 1944. The film pretty much gave us the real life tragic ending to that story, only three of those men who escaped state escaped. Two norwegian pilots, and another pilot from the netherlands. No americans. The other 73 were killed or recaptured, more than two thirds of them were executed. The fact is, escaping was hard. And it wasnt often try during world war ii in particular. When it was, it often didnt succeed. When it
Thanks so much for joining us tonight and thanks to the u. S. Army command and general Staff College. One of our longest, one of our best, one of our favorite programming partners for yet another what i know will be a compelling presentation. These guys are money, as many of you know, and were so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight, we welcome david mills of the command general Staff College and kayla westra of the Minnesota West Community and technical college, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourth grader i think when hollywood released the great escape, the classic adventure drama staring Steve Mcqueen, james garner, charles bronson, among others. It pretty quickly became a tv staple, and all of the guys in my class at st. Josephs Elementary School in martingsburg, missouri, fell in love with it and we would play it out at recess. Each one of us would take one of the roles. Of cours
Compelling presentation. These guys are money, as many of you know. And were so fortunate, so privileged to be associated with them. Tonight we welcome david mills and kayla westra of the Minnesota West Community and Technical College, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourth grader, i think, when hollywood released the great escape. The classic adventure drama. It pretty quickly became a tv staple and all of the guys in my class at st. Josephs Elementary School in missouri fell in love with it and wed play it out at recess. Each one of us would take one of the roles. Of course all of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i wound up with the attenborough role which is fine by me, though, i get executed at the end of the movie. Of course mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and officers from ger