First covid19 death case involving a San Francisco Transportation Agency employee. Tomlin says 90 operators within the sf mta have contracted the virus so far he is urging everyone to continue avoiding large gatherings wear a mask and to wash their hands and all too familiar sight in San Francisco striking again this Holiday Season. A witness capturing suspects. In a black audi breaking into several cars near the citys world famous lumber street. The smash and grab happened near lombard and hyde streets around 1 oclock this afternoon right in broad daylight and it wasnt the only one on 4 state of joins us now live with what is turning out to be a nerve wracking day for visitors there taylor. Ken pam, the break ins here are practically a daily occurrence just within the first hour that i was here i saw another victim returned to her car when she realized that her backpack was gone. Meanwhile, i also saw a separate vehicle, a black chevy canvassing a car and right as theyre about to brea
President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
History university of massachusetts at amherst, or should he sits scorches at ability history, slavery, emancipation, and native american history. First book, which i have four in front of me, her book entitled black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the american south. Its quite a title. Published by the university of North Carolina press. This book details the untold story of the enslavement barbara has also coauthored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by Temple University press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. Tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the top is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans and the end of slavery. Please welcome barbara. applause well, hello, good evening. Thank you for saying this late into the night. Thank you for saying awake. Thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, and allison, who has made sure that everything h
Hall t hallton, and rise, for the discovery of hepatitis b virus. Hepatitis is a major Global Health problem causing cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world. It was the discovery of the remaining hepatitis, making blood tests and new medicines that saved millions of lives. The assembly added the nobel winners research is an achievement in the ongoing battle against viral diseases. Now to the united states, where the president is being treated for covid19 with just weeks to go until the november election. Donald trump prisurprised his supporters sunday with a brief appearance outside the hospital where he spent the weekend. Nhk camera crew captured video of the 74yearold waving from a motorcade before returning to the medical center. Some u. S. Media are criticizing trump for staging a photoop before hes recovered from the disease that killed over 200,000 people in the country. Commentators are also focusing on the secret Service Agents who were in the vehicle, saying trum