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Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i,...

Than 1918, when contagion ravaged the world, shuttering schools, closing businesses and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became known 102 years ago as the spanish flu is Katharine Arnold who poured over eye witnesses accounts of the illness from it early beginningses at places like military nice kansas to it effect on a number of prominent american writers like john stein barbing and katherine porter. She read has she is the author of self book but the history of lo...

Interesting or not is that it is a reflection of the number of tests weve had. 36 testing positive is slightly higher but that is the number that goes up and down. We will talk about why that may not be the best indicator of what is going on. I think of real interest to me is i look at hospitalization, you see 79 people hospitalized. That is the number that is not that is going up not exponentially but going up on a linear basis, which i think is good news. 17 fatalities is never good news. But ...

Cspan. Org. Taking you live now to connecticut for a Coronavirus Briefing by governor ned lamont. Gov. Lamont where we are in the numbers, another 1200 people tested positive out of 3400 tests. I think what makes that interesting or not is that it is a reflection of the number of tests weve had. 36 testing positive is slightly higher but that is the number that goes up and down. We will talk about why that may not be the best indicator of what is going on. I think of real interest to me is i loo...

A new week of testimony looms for donald trump. Why a trump insider says the process is the punishment for the former president. Plus, the author of this new piece explains how a Tabloid Publisher became a trump trial witness. A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters. Welcome to alex witt reports. Another round of tornado devastation across parts of the midwest and the plains states overnight. Oklahoma hit hardest with 35 tornadoes reported across that state in the small town ...

Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving pre...

Afternoon today. That will encompass not only monterey but the sack cruzer and coastal flood watch due to the hay tide and full moon. 63 in san jose. 64 oakland. We will talk about additional rainfall for the entire bay area and much warmer week on the way. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. It was a rainy and windy saturday across the bay area. And more, as lisa said, is coming today. [rain falling] the Stormy Weather caused problems for drivers and had crews scrambling to keep up with downed trees and ...

Lisa, thank you. It was a rainy and windy saturday across the bay area. And more is coming today. [rain falling] the Stormy Weather caused problems for drivers and had crews scrambling to keep up with downed trees and power lines. Some pg e customers are in the dark because of the rain and wind. Abc7 News Reporter Lisa Amin Gulezian has more. [beeping truck] pg e crews are hard at work in daly city on beliveau avenue. This is just one of many spots throughout the bay area where the storm brought...

Each of these massive movements of the earth there are lessons. Earthquakes in haiti and chile of nearly the same magnitude have caused massive differences in deaths and damages. Much of the differences are the direct results of efforts to establish standards and mitigation of earthquake hazards. In japan the Early Warning system allowed the japanese Transit System to shut down every train so not a single derailment occurred as a hult of the han shu quake. Today were here to remember those that ...

Complain about today. Could be a lot worse for november. We do have a little cloud cover. Mostly cloudy in philadelphia, but lots of sunshine as we head throughout the afternoon. A nice day overall. You can see the haze right there. A little bit of cloud cover. Some spots seeing more sunshine than others. Temperatures not bad this morning. Still want to bundle up. Were looking at the low 50s, 40s across the area. 49 in lancaster. 51 in philadelphia. 52 in wildwood. 51 in atlantic city. It could ...