Extinguished. California is getting closer to reaching an important goal. I think its quite gratifying. Reporter the university of washington in seattle crunched the latest data. Here is the surge of covid cases in new york, and here is california. The bay area should be get congratulated. The curve looks plenty flat right now. The peak of hospital cases now hits the golden state on april 13th. Lots of capacity right now. Reporter ucsf epidemiologists explains there is a caveat. This pandemic is made up of different epidemics spreading through the state. There is one epidemic in Southern California, there is another epidemic in the bay area, there is another epidemic in sacramento. Reporter that means the apri 1e is a blended date. They probably wont hit all at the same time. If anything, we might expect the bay area to come a little before the ones in Southern California, which would be if we could if they could be separated that would be great. It really helps out with sharing equipm
My name is Toby Dershowitz and im the Senior Vice President for Government Relations and strategy. As many of you know, fdd is a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on National Security issues. We are a source for are research and analysis and policy options for congress, for the administration, and for the media and certainly for the wider National Security community. We take no Foreign Government or foreign Corporate Funding and never will. To learn more about fdd, please visit fdd. Org. I want to welcome the online live stream audience and also those watching on cspan today. We invite everyone to join in on the conversation which will be live tweeting fdd. Todays event is hosted by fdd center on economic and financial power. Cefp provised recommendations to policymakers on how the u. S. Can leverage its economic and financial power to achieve its National Security objectives. In a moment well hear from our features speaker, david peyman for counter threat finance and sanctions. He
So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
We will commemorate the berlin air lift this even. First i want to recognize our cosponsors for this event. Deutschelandier. Did i say that right and the allied museum in berlin where our Vice President , our exhibitions and programs Vice President anna slaver is on the advisory board. Anna. I would like to thank you all for your support and coordination in organizing this even this even. At the moment, i would like to introduce the director of the allied museum in berlin. He is in charge currently of the museum which is moving currently from berlin to a hanger at the former airport in berlin, temple hof. A huge complex built in the nazi era. His academic career brought him to washington, d. C. He was a Research Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial museum working. His latest publication in 2016 dealt with the memorialization of democracy, the history of democracy in museums in memorial sites across germany. Without further ado, i would like to welcome the doctor. Hello. Can i
Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming out. I am the executive director of the International Spy museum. Im excited to introduce this program, dawn of the cold war looking back at the berlin blockade and airlift, 70 years after the last american flight. We will commemorate the berlin airlift this evening. First, i want to recognize our cosponsors for this event, deutschlandar, and the allied museum in berlin, where our Vice President , our very own exhibitions and programs Vice President is on the Advisory Board. I would like to thank you for your support and coordination in organizing this event this evening. At the moment, i would like to introduce the director of the allied museum in berlin. He is in charge, currently, of managing the reinvention process for the allied museum, which will move from its Current Location in southwest berlin to a hangar at the former airport building in berlin, temple hawk. Hawk, a huge complex built in the nazi era. His academic career brought hi