Accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentleman gentleman sitting here before us, and the other infants, we have a short the other infants, we have a short time. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classrooms and for your students. When you ask them, i will probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear and the cspan audience can hear and our honorees in here as well. Lets introduce our panel. First to my left in a handsome red blazer [laughter] charles mcgee, one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer in the United States air force
Generation. The stories of word war 2. You can enhance your lessons and have a more personal understanding of what these gentleman and their compatriots have been through to get here today. We know that the gentlemen here in front of us, and the other events that we do, we have a short time to tect to them and understand them and the fact that they made it through one of the most significant experiences in history. We also want to make sure that erin everyone in the audience can ask questions that you will find valuable in your classrooms. Ly probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear, and the cspan audience can hear, and the honor res can hear as well. First to the left, in the handsome red blazer, charles mcgee. He was in the United States air force for 30 years. He holds a record 409 fighter combat missions flown in korea and vietnam. To his left, who i met on my very First World War ii event, he landed on the beach in no
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Plus pro sports without fans, the mayor of los angeles as californians might not be going to sporting events until 2021 at the earliest. We can have people tested that may have been in contact with someone who has been infected because our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if their covid and get them into quarantine or to basically give them the relief that they are not infected. And San Francisco mayor london breed announcing a program to help find out who has coronavirus in an effort to flatten the curve. Good morning. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday on this thursday april 16th, im James Fletcher and of course our top story is the coronavirus and its impacts President Trump well be announcing plans today to reopen the country and the economy at some point. He hopes in the near future this comes as the president says the u. S. Is past its pandemic peak. We have karen caifa now with the very latest from washington. The battle continues, but the
News at 6. Even we see the number of sadly deaths continue to increase. Were still in a better place and it has everything to do who are the people of San Francisco for the most part comply with the orders and so now is not the time to let up and get comfortable. Maryland a London Bridge has been reminding people stay home. But she also says San Francisco is doing better and flattening the curve. Hello everyone, im Catherine Heenan a big update today in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic a mayor breed announcing a program to streamline Contact Tracing one of the things essential in california before restrictions are loosened kron fours kate rooney explains how that program will help. Its called contact. Tracing and the city of San Francisco hopes it will be a major step both in getting through shelter in place and jump starting life afterwards. We can have people tested that may have been in contact with someone who has been infected because our goal is to chase down all of tho