From the nations capitol. Th odonnell good evening, and thank you so much for joining us, we will begin tonight with breaking news because hundreds of americans exposed to the coronavirus areback in the u. S. , evacuated by the state department from a cruise ship in japan. Today a top government scientist right here in washington said shey were rescued because the quarantine on board the diamond princess failed. He of those americans tested positive for the virus. They were kept separate from the other passengers and are now being treated at u. S. Hospitals, nearly doubling the number of americans with coronavirus. The rest of those air lifted home are now in quarantine at f. S. Military bases. Tonight the number of cases worldwide tops 73,000, with more than 1,800 deaths. Carter evans leads off our coverage tonight. Reporter crews in protective suits greeted the americans as the two charter flights landed in texas and Travis Air Force base in california. U. S. Officials said the quara
Cox, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan2 as a public service. Tonights speakerou im very excited to introduce you to her, doctor fay yarbrough, professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. Doctor yarborough is an expert on 19th century native American History and shes got special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during the 19th century so her first book was well have plenty of time at the end. Ou the way we do discussion. We this is through the q and a box at any time. Feel free to type it in or wait until the end. F well get to as many of your questions as we can. Within an hour and 15 minutes. Around 8 15 eastern time. I id just like to say how grateful i am to have our guest. It wasl. A wonderful book. Thank you very much. Thank you, so much. Good evening, its nice to be hereth with your virtually. Thankh you for spending your tie with me and id like to thank professor for inviting me and a Meli
Front row seat to help issues are debated decided, with no commentary, no interruptions and completely unfiltered. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Tony speaker and am very excited to introduce you to her, getting harbor professor of history and associate dean rights university and shes an expert on 19th century native American History as you special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during sensory and so her first book was race in the Cherokee Nation, sovereignty in the 19th century, at her most recent book is called confederates in the American Civil War in Indian Country and of course she recognizes the cycle the book is subject toto tonight stop and it is also basically brandnew in the official publication date was two weeks ago and is a two week birthday for your book and this evening and we are excited to share it with you and he confided in all of the usual book source places as well as directly from the university of
The weekend. Long range trends suggest cooling with a chance of showers by around president s day. No major hot spots. Bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. San mateo bridge less then 30 min from 880 to 101. Golden gat bridge drive time less than 30 min from 37 to the toll plaza. Richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 darya breaking news this morning. Tesla road and Corral Hollow at i580 in livermore are closed. james chp says there was a crash earlier this morning, that is now an active crime scene investigation. Kron 4s will tran is live in livermore with the details. Will . darya thanks will. We will check back with you through out the morning. James Oakland police tried to stop a thief from stealing a truck. But instead the man led officers on a nearly thirty mile chase into antioch. Sunday afternoon the man drove the stolen escalade to antioch and parked it in a driveway. Police say he refused to get out of the truck. So they fired a substa
Exposed wood. It goes up quickly and burns hot. Gilbert road at one time was closed at guadalupe to about a mile south. Some neighbors had to evacuate because of this fire. The construction crews will have to chalk this up as a huge loss but firefighters were happy no one got hurt. And they will be on scene for the next couple of days to keep it under control. In gilbert, nikos santos, 12 news today. Apartment fire street and Indian School roads. Firefighters responded around 4 00 this morning. The woman was able to get out with one of her dogs but still missing another dog and three cats. A second woman was taken to the hospital but its unclear this morning if her medical issues were related to the fire. The scottsdale road exit on westbound loop 202 back open after a serious crash involving a motorcyclist and a truck. Dps says the motorcyclist was not wearing a helmet and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Accident. On i10 eastbound at elliot, the eastbound onramp is al