News comin of fresno aecomes av. A gathering was held in the city to honor victims of accide. Navigating is becoming increasingly more dangerous with pedestrian involved accidents on the rise. A woman walking in the excelsior district in San Francisco was struck and killed by a car just days ago, wednesday to be exact. It is a problem here in the city and other parts of the bay area that a lot of people say can be prevented. This afternoon dozens of people took to the streets to raise awareness. Reporter roughly 70 people meandered through the streets to memorialize those killed in traffic accidents. With Police Escorts guiding the way at every crosswalk and turn, safety was virtually guaranteed. They say wxports, navigating these streets on foot can be dangerous. We experience an epidemic of people being hit by cars. Many in the crowd have lost loved ones or had close brushes with death. I had no recollection until i woke up in the general hospital. I was apparently hit by an suv and
I have to say good morning everybody. That is how you do it on a friday. We made it through. A final friday of this month. I cannot believe it. Were heading in to february, super bowl. My happeneds, busy changing all of the light bulbs green around here. I went to home depot, lowes, jimmys hardware. Did you a nice job on the buildings. The way you scale up there, absolutely amazing. 20foot fluorescents, not easy. I have a neighbor that change garden lights green, the whole property has a crazy glow of green. Very cool. That is fun. We have them for christmastime so why not break them right now and decorate again. We should do this every year. Lets do it. Cold morning, guys. We have to bundle up, later today, gets better look at berkley township, that sticks out like a sore thumb, and, 111 degrees. Vineland good morning to you, 19. We will go north and west, our friendness pottstown, reading, yardley, yikes, 16, 17 degrees so it is a cold morning out there. That is the deal. Sun goes to
You can watch dismiss other programs online at book theredoering booktv. Org. The gagersburg book festival continues on book testify. Science magazine recorder Meredith Wadman talks about the race to create vaccinations. Hi, everybody. Walk to the gaithersburg become festival. I am Sarah Jackson and im a proud resident and an epidemiologist the university of maryland. Gaithersburg is a city that proudly support this arts and humanities. Were pleaed to bring you this fabulous event, thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers when when you see them, say thank you. I have a few announcements. Please silence all of your guise device. Youre on social media, use the hash tag gbf. Your feedback is valuable. Surveys are available here the tone and on the web site. By submit think survey you will be entered two a drawing for a 100 vase gift card. Dr. Meredith wadman will be signing books after the talk. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it does
Right now, harlem right now, and find many, many people shooting up or using pills who are not white, who are not lower middle class people. This is an epidemic that affects all income groups, ages, races, demographics and thats largely looked past in the media, the in part because its easier for reporters to most reporters are white. Im white, im a report. And im speaking from experience. Most newsrooms most reporters are white, and i think white reporters feel more comfortable going to white neighborhoods to write about white drug addicts. Thats been my experience. I think if you saw more people of color in newsrooms you would see this aspect of the epidemic represented more fairly in the press. I wanted to cover that. That aspect of it. So im going to talk about an area in baltimore called oxyalley, a place i spent a lot of time writing about the addicts there and a place where many some of the drugs and many other drugs ended up. They dahl it oxial. Looks like any other blighted st
Oxford university and has written for the New York Times amongs could is current lay staff writer at Science Magazine. As an epidemiologist and a researcher in training i was excited to read her book, the vaccine race, signs, politics and human cost of defeating disease. The senators for a Disease Control and prevention considers vaccinations the number one Public Health achievement of the 20th century. Indeed vaccines have saved millions of lives. It is because of vaccinations that smallpox is eradicated and the scourge of other diseases such as polio, rue la and chicken box are a thing of the past. This is a story about great achievement in Public Health and about the men, women and children who happened make the vaccines possible. Throughout this book, cob tell prayer interviews with contemporary interviews keep these individual as i live own then page, dr. Wadman does not shire airplane from the uncomfortable truth in the history of vaccines. The race remind us its important we lea