Walter Sisulu University opened a new laboratory in Mthatha this week that will focus on climate change in the marine space, looking at how marine species are responding to the change.This state-of-the-art Rural Coastal Sustainability Lab is located at WSU's Nelson Mandela Drive campus in Mthatha.
funeral for ruth whitfield today the oldest victim in the buffalo shooting. this service was held at the governor and the mayor of were also there to pay tribute to whitfield and the life she led perna may 14 whitfield visited her husband at a nursing home before stopping by the top grocery store. that is on the 86 joel grandmother was a brutally gunned down. she is survived by her husband of 68 years. her son reportedly said she was the glue that held the family together. today the vice president spoke at the funeral and after the service. there is the tragedy of the personal loss each of these families have faced. mrs. whitfield funeral today let an extraordinary life. i m out the other families there were community leaders.
welcome back. two of the three people on the screen right now are pulitzer prize recipients who have indeed just authored their second book on our past president. our guests tonight. and carol, this one is for you. this is about a scene in the book where the secretary of defense esper learns from the general in charge of operation warp speed that the vaccines are coming along. and here s how you guys write it. esper was initial will delighted when perna told him he was authorizing contracts to produce two promising vaccines. but the secretary s eboolence then turned to concern. if the president learned they had millions of doses produced, would he or a white house adviser start demand theg administer them to the public before the vaccine had been fully vetted by the fda?
we bought a billion needles, all the dry ice we needed and told the american people by june that everyone that wanted a vaccine could get one and that s what you see. the attempts to rewrite history by the biden administration will fail because the facts are so strong. sure, the biden administration deserves credit for implementing the plan. that s what they did. it is important to remember people like general perna, the secretary, the president, the vice president and made this happen. martha: absolutely. and i think back to covering this story. you and i spoke many times over the course of it. the feeling was that it was way overly optimistic to think that we were going to have vaccines that would be ready to go in the beginning of 2021 and the months that followed that heading into the spring. that that wouldn t happen. it had never been done before. there was discussion that if we did get some done on time, we