Changed the course of world war ii. She will bespeaking tonight about her new book , the great secret, the classified world war ii that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you and i want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas, its virtually but im here at my desk. Myfirst zoom presentation so bear with me everyone. Im thinking right now i should have a little bit of wine but anyway here we go. Lets start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. Men occasionally stumble across it to most of them themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stuart Francis alexander, our hero is not long off. In fact, you refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even though churchill warned him to. He stayed and investigated and as a result he recognized a never before seen symptoms of dying sailors that might have lifesaving implications for others inthe future. This is the story of one intrep
Winter is showing signs in what we call 2020. Early today starts right now good morning im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. The global war against coronavirus continues as the war has topped 44 million covid infections 8. 2 million and 75 million and 52 million respectively. Theres a dramatic rise in new infections available icu beds are critically low in some states. Heres nbcs gabe gutierrez. Reporter frances, wisconsin is among those states seeing a Record Number of covid cases the state had already opened an emergency Field Hospital near milwaukee. Now this new drivethrough testing site as demand for testing soars. The parking lot of a Major League Ballpark transformed into wisconsins newest drivethrough testing site the cars started lining up an hour before testing started. On friday they saw a Record Number of covid cases, nearly 3 rkds 800 what are your symptoms ive had a pesky cough since saturday and fatigue we all want to get back to work and have life as normalal as possible
Hi there. What are you doing way back there . Come on up here. [laughs] thats better. Im glad you dropped by. I have a little story i think you would like. It is about a four Legged Friend of mine. I dont need i dont mean him back there. This happened a while back in the Beautiful Mountain country of new mexico on the Lincoln National forest. It was made time, dry and hot, but still nice and peaceful. All the animals in the forest were having a grand old time in the sunshine of spring. [applause] there was one little three month old fella in particular who did not have a care in the world. He was spending his time having fun. A growing and a prowling and a scratching. Thats right, that america did not have a care in the world. Until somebody, a two legged somebody got careless. It took several hundred men five days to extinguish that fire. 17,000 acres of timber were destroyed. Timber that could have been used for homes and furniture along with emails that could have turned it out. A l
Is due to meet to find a way forward. The 2nd u. S. President ial debate is canceled after donald trump refuses a virtual showdown. Taiwans president calls for dialogue with china in a National Day Speech but warns it should be on equal terms. As cease fire in the disputed region of the go to karabakh has come into force bottle navia and azerbaijan accusing each other of carrying out attacks in the past hour the deal was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks ellen volved the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of those killed in the conflict hundreds of people have died since fighting flared up at the end of last month. Lets go straight to our correspondents in conserving shes live for us in birds in the azerbaijan so still in the cease fire has just gone into effect has the shelling stopped. Well it is just a couple of minutes or about both are many and as arbet john sides have reported firing from each other and we are in bear that close the territory which is on
President is arrested and a new Prime Minister is named kurdistans leader tries to strengthen his position in a deepening political crisis. Donald trump is set to address supporters at the white house his 1st public event since he was released from hospital after testing positive for a coronavirus. Im joining us roscoe with the sports teenager. If it can end when the french open title and become partners 1st grand slam singles champ. 1500 hours g. M. T. And its been 5 hours since a cease fire officially came into effect in the disputed region of karabakh but both armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating the truce the as a remote tree released a video on saturday showing what it says is an Armored Vehicle. Destroyed for violating the agreements this ceasefire was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks and allows both sides to Exchange Prisoners and recover bodies we have set up because of all who is standing by him in just a fear thats in azerbaijan