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Colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing davids Pulitzer Prize winner book, polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar...

Policing, its never been an Institution Designed to keep us safe and used as a tool for those in power to keep the marginalized people from rising up, going all the way back to the slave patrol. Sharing im the policing unfairly targets marginalized communities, injects massive amounts of people into the prison system. We heard about reform from chief scott today, but all those measures ignore the fact that reform is not effective. We need to defund and sfpd and invest in our communities immediat...

But just in the context of this hearing, id like to point out that the board has been so far, from what ive heard, asking a lot of questions about identifying sort of superfluous elements of the Police Budget such that can be cut, particularly in the light of this budget deficit. And these are only symptoms of a much broader problem, and lets not forget that the Biggest Issue with the police is that this is an institution that directly targets black and brown people and that the time has conclud...

I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what markets are doing. These are the headlines from the International Energy agency. The oil markets are improving, they say, and we had hints of that from the biggest reducers in the world. Saudi arabia claimed they could put a price increase on asian markets. They say the oil market improving is continuing. We will have a look at wti futures to see what they indicate. The markets give us a good idea of what is to come. U. S. Futures are fluctuating. Inv...

Bailey and also to chairman powell. Yesterday, the continued inflationary trend and the outright deflationary trend in switzerland. The numbers in europe in inflation on price change are simply grim, and you are dead on about unemployment. Overnight, Goldman Sachs readjusted their Unemployment Rates, and they get Steve Englander of Standard Chartered bank, a stunning statistic, francine 25 Unemployment Rates modeled out now by Goldman Sachs. And of course we get claims at 8 30 this morning. Fran...

Find a bid. We wait for more gloomy Economic Data at 8 30. Time now for our market moving news from our new york team. We are going to start with oil. The iea says the outlook for oil demand has improved somewhat, yet it sees crude production on track for historic decline this month, at the lowest level in nine months. Annmarie hordern joined me now for more. Annmarie this report is still bleak, but slowly but surely improving. They had to say is that outlook for the oil markets are improving so...

15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, on...

That plays how throughout the afternoon, but it is certainly cassidy a pallor certainly casting a pallor over these markets. The stoxx 600 down more than 3 . All of the major indices, from the docks to the ftse 100 to the 3 . 40 down more than group just one stock 3i group just one of the stocks bucking the trend, up more than 5 . Prudential, the insurer, down 8 . It says it will be a difficult Second Quarter. We will speak with another insurer headquartered out of london little later on, the ll...

The last halfhour or so. The morning started out on a grim note with initial jobless claims very close to 3 million once again. Of smallerixth week jobless claims, but nevertheless , at those rates, it is still pretty dire. The dollar index is stronger today. Weaker euro and weaker sterling, too. We continue to see gains in the oil patch. 37, and brent crude trading above 30 a barrel. Governor Andrew Bailey also seeing the bank of england is not currently considering lowering Interest Rates belo...

Best friends get through the quarantine or, is it the other way around . Put your mask on. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Im lesli foster reporting from wusa 9 in washington, d. C. Small businesses and banks are getting ready for a mad dash as the new Coronavirus Relief program rolls out tomorrow. The first fund ran out of money. Deaths from the virus in this country now top 54,000. But things are improving slowly. At least 20 states are set to bring back business some w...