Georgia democratic candidate for president. We thank you, president ford and we thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. There there are to be three debates between the president ial candidates and one between the vicepresident ial candidates. All are being arranged by the league of women voters education fund. Tonights debate, the first between president ial candidates in sixteen years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before an audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The Television Audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss
Between president ial candidates in 16 years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before the audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss of a coin. He will have up to three minutes to answer. One followup question will be permitted with up to two minutes to reply. President ford will then have two minutes to respond. The next question will go to president ford with the same time arrangements, and questions will continue to be alternated between the candidates. Each man will make a threeminute stateme
I call it transition to greatness. Mothers day weekend mess. Bitter cold and wintry weather, even snow this morning for the plains, to the east coast. More than 125 Million People feeling the chill with some places even colder than they were on Christmas Day. Will it warm up by tomorrow for mom . Dylan is back with your forecast. All that, plus remembering the real tiger king. Roy horn after the legendary duo Siegfried Roy dead at the age of 75 after contracting coronavirus. From his vegas stage show, the tiger attack he survived, well look back at his imagine al life today, saturday, may 9, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. We thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is a big saturday morning because we could not be happier to welcome back our friend dylan from maternity leave. Welcome back and just in time for mothers day. Just in time for mothers day. Just in time for cold weather. I did
Response at the centers for Disease Control and dr. Kahn has been in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so they draft history he hasut been fighting diseases and doing deadly wars against deadly contagion spread of factors never been a time when humans were not affected by microbes that fought against them. Our speakers speaker has had his own brushes with viruses and Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in the apollo crisis and after 9 11 he was called to washington to the Senate Office building and in 2003 he was called to hong kong to quarantine victims. These are just some of the stories that dr. Kahn chronicles. As an epidemic intelligence officer, disease hunter d welll his mission for for two decades was to prepare the public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. While dr. Kahn tells us microbes will always be a problem he also writes not all epidemics
And more life conversation weeknights at 8 p. M. Eastern for washington journal prime time. Good morning, everyone. Im joanne myers and only half of the Carnegie Council id like to thank you all for beginning the morning with us. Were delighted to welcome ali khan and cspan booktv to this breakfast program. Ali will be discussing his book United States. As a former director of the centers for Disease Control p ad prevention, he has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. But hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history human seven fightingng diseases, waging deay and never ending wars against rampant and violent contingents. In fact, there is never been a time when were not affected with microbes and fought against them. During his time as selfdescribed disease, our speakers had his own brushes with viruses, Infectious Diseases and contagion. S for example, in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in your for the first ebola crisis. Afte