a few days later in the cool room that ben university's geological institute and so met he and his team take a closer look at the sediment inside the plastic tubes they've already determined the most promising layers. what we've laid out comes from a 6 metre deep so here we have the lake bed now and in 6 metres depth is the formally the bottom maybe a few 1000 years ago cedars have started depth of about 3 metres according to the radar picture it has to be here somewhere we expect to find the form of lake bed on which they built the mounds. so the idea is that through that and see if we can find any organic material we can date with the radio carbon method. in the laboratory the plastic tube sections a cut open lengthwise. the sediment layers a cafe separated. it put it down back there. in front of a little pressure. pull it back. here. perfect wonderful. and exact image of the cools interior hopefully it will show enough traces of organic fossils that can be used to gauge the lay is age. if you zoom right in you can see lots of black spots in the core samples we hope it's organic mater

from the university of ben and his team are experts at geological drilling they want to take samples from deep inside the lake to determine the age of the stone piles resting on it 1st the rig has to be anchored and then maneuvered into a precise location using g.p.s. . and geologists combine an impressive wealth of knowledge. the whole 5 hope with the drilling that we can determine the age of bit more accurately is it really prehistoric if it is prehistoric was a made during the bronze age or the new olympic. team hopes the drilling samples will allow it to form a better picture of the sediment by the can. chose the drilling sites that allows us to get most of the light which will show us how they developed over time. the scientists used ground penetrating radar measurements to select the site they highlighted all the sediments on which they can see. if the research has succeeded determining the age of the sediments from a drilling sample they can deduce the minimum age of the can. the main tool of the experiment has a plastic tube which will be driven down by the trail through the

georgetown university's ben buchanan reports on the normalizing of cyber warfare as a geopolitical tool, and on "after words," former deputy national security adviser kt mcfarlane reflects on her time in the trump administration. find more information about our schedule on your program guide or by visiting booktv.org. >> here's what congresswoman abigail spam berger is -- span berger is reading. >> i have a tendency to read multiple books at a time. i'm currently reading three different books. i'm

and georgetown university's ben buchanan talks about the normalizing of cyber warfare at the geopolitical tool. that all begins tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. find more information on your program guide, or by visiting booktv.org. >> thank you janice and thank you everyone for being here. i know the weather has been difficult, sorry about that. we have parking challenges but ati appreciate you all being

georgetown university ben buchanan reports on the normalizing of cyber warfare as a geopolitical toolr weekly author interview program afterwards, former deputy national security adviser katie mcfarlane reflects on her time of the trump administration. >> here's a look at some books being published this week, new york times editorial board member jesse wegman argues the united states should get rid of the electoral college and let the people pick the president. in some assembly required, university of chicago biology and anatomy professor neil shubin reports on how new science is helping to explain the evolution of different species. in ending parkinson's disease neurologist ray dorsey and todd share ceo of the michael j fox foundation for parkinson's research offers a plan to help prevent disease and improve treatment and care. also being published this week, university of illinois history professor peter fritzsche recounts how a fractured germany led to the rise of the third right in hitler's first hundred days.in the book pastor neil bascom chronicles the life of 1930s french racec

and georgetown university's ben buchanan talks about the normalizing of cyber warfare at the geopolitical tool. that all begins tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. find more information on your program guide, or by visiting booktv.org. >> thank you janice and thank you everyone for being here. i know the weather has been difficult, sorry about that. we have parking challenges but ati appreciate you all being here. tonight, we are featuring aid journalists and near times best-selling author, janice kaplan and her fascinating book "the genius of women" from overlook to changing the world. janice will be in conversation with the ceo of the women's fund of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. i will say that right now. eni want to thank our venue partners and our fantastic friends and our wonderful community partners and all of these organizations have helped us get the word out. i want to fully introduce janice and kelly in a moments, but first i just want to ask you to silencer t phones, or any other noisemakers you might have with youou tonight. so we can just hear every

rest of the globe but this point in time let's talk to my server logistics lancaster university in britain hey thanks ben live an hour to international making the time for us so it's hard to keep up with this isn't there for you guys as well in a fortnight the epicenter of this pandemic moved from china to europe a number of deaths is now overtaken that of china how worrying should that be for all of us. well i think it is already gave its impression to not only just worried just to be an it because it has acquired in all all the countries but in the europe and almost wanting to stop reporting that it needs i mean even in europe 3 everybody reporting disease and everyone is moving into the same to reject me if you put the number up for a day for a country into that african nation is this mean the situation is a little more than just being worried and we see it now people talking about the health authority in the england is saying that maybe this could go on in the u.k. saying this could go on maybe for up through a year do you buy that as well well that is really the plan of the government to stress the

. >> so, ben, i see you have nails, universal tool right here. >> man's best friend. duct tape. let me show you a couple things we can use this for after an earthquake. this window right here, because it's off kilter, we have open seams all along. i have a lot of air coming through. i want to stay comfortable at night. i want to keep that air out. it's as simple as that, all the way around. >> excellent. >> now i don't have any air coming in. let's say this one is one that would annoy me. everything is a little off. my doors won't stay closed. i take a piece of my favorite duct tape here, close it up. and at least it will stay out of my way when i'm trying to live throughout my day. if we're not talking about pressurized water, we're talking about just the drain, sometimes they're going to get a crack here. >> right, sure. >> and you're going to get a leak. duct tape around that is going to help us get through until we can get a plumber out and get that fixed as well. let's say we only have electricity in one room, so we're running extension cords across the house. if i'm going

ben. is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to develop pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought. anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox virus so there was another contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature across about 30 percent. but with a weapon i was probably even stronger maybe 50 percent or even higher for so that was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus against which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent. of all. ironically it was soviet citize

university of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. host of thes the popular history podcast, nearly 300 episodes, ben franklin's world. stephen freed's and award-winning journalist, "new york times" best-selling author and professor at the columbia university graduate school of journalism at the university of pennsylvania. his latest book is a biography of one of the signers of the declaration of independence, benjamin rush. it is called "rush: revolutionary, madness, and a visionary doctor who be came -- it became a founding father." nationalinner of the magazine award, freed has written for vanity fair, gq, washington post magazine, rolling stone, glamour, ladies home journal, raven philadelphia magazine sarah -- philadelphia magazine. --ah george jeannie is an editor at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of "household gods: the religious lives of the adams family." to thea contributor society for u.s. intellectual for smithsonian and for cnn. natat the far end we have shively, first president and ceo formedlutionary spaces, after the merger of the bostonian society and the old south association.

ben gupta, an msnbc medical contributor. also joined by my old friend dr. irwin redletter director of columbia university's national center for disaster preparedness and an msnbc health policy analyst. irwin, i will start with you. it's sort of flabbergastingwith insignificant, we as journalists are meant to take this kind of nonsense but the idea that this imperial study came out in march, suggested he had not heard of it before and had he not done anything 2.2 million americans would die and he was told by people to do nothing and ride it like a cowboy. irwin, this is nonsensical but it costs people their lives when the president comes up with stuff like this. >> yes, so it is hard to know what to react to, you know, just against the accusation that the governors are somehow misleading the country by what's needed. it's the governor, i mean it's the president department of health and human services that up to two weeks ago was saying that the country would knee three billion, with a b, three billion, with a b, face masks for the stration of this pandemic. there is so much of what the president said and t

covid-19 cases rises, we are staggering news from university of washington. 80,000 could die in the next four months from covid-19. joining me, dr. benom washington medical center, nbc news medical contributor happily. put this into context. is this a prediction, a forecast, a guess? >> i think my colleagues at the institute of metrics and evaluation have done us a great service and the government should feel the same way an act accordingly. these are forecasts, best predictions using the latest modeling techniques from an organization that models this day in, day out. other types of population statistics. they're the definitive source. if i was the trump administration, i would look at the projections and say these are the places i need to put ventilators, they give the estimates at the state level. as an icu doc, caring for patients last night, if i was a hospital administrator, i would want visibility on these types of numbers. if we don't fill this shortfall soon through the defense production act and other potential avenues, we're going to see 81,000 death number become a reality pretty quickly. and that's from university of was

university. authorities struggling to stop the spread of infections as the world health organization warns this is, quote, not a drill. cnn's benoe ins he j from milan, an area that has seen a lot of cases. what kind of scrutiny is the italian health service facing, that's the question, not just the spread of this, but how governments respond to and try to stop the spread. >> reporter: jim, there has been criticism of the italian public health system, people say that the medical personnel don't have enough equipment like masks and gloves and also we know that for instance 12% of the total number of cases reported in italy and as of yesterday that was 3,858, 12% of those cases are medical personnel. it is having an impact on the way the national health service is able to deal with the situation. there is a shortage of beds in the icus. in fact, we did hear the prime minister of italy yesterday saying that the medical service is in danger of being overwhelmed under the circumstances. having said all that, generally people are very positive about the health service here. it is a national institution. the attitude of most italians

ben welker, kathy park, david, thank you all on this very busy and intense news morning. here with me onset is christopher, professor of global health at george washington university's school of public health. professor, thank you so much for being here. let's start with what we were just looking at, those stunning visuals out of italy. the absolute lockdown there. is it possible we could see measure hoos like this in the united states? z >> we really need to change our behavior. still we walk around the city today and there's goin to be people acting like this is norm a. they haven't internalized it yet and said i have a role in trying to protect myself as well as my community from transmission. so what it's going to take is probably some level of enforcement. some stricter methods of restricting people's going to work or going to the mall to museums and things like that. so some closings will happen that will start to reduce that population, but people really need to start to take account of their own interactions with others if we're going to see a difference in transmission. >> very important advice. i want the read something that president trump's form er homeland sec

universities are closed and religious ceremonies cancelled. today the pope live streamed his sunday address instead of delivering it from the ritual window overlooking st. peter's square. for more let's bring in cnn's benan in italy who just evacuated himself from the so-called red zone. tell us about what your experience has been like and what you're seeing there. >> reporter: well, our evacuation from the red zone was really we just got in the car and drove down here. even though this decree was announced earlier in the morning by the italian prime minister, it hasn't been put into effect essentially. i spoke with some policemen along the way who were guarding a previous red zone who told me that until the ministry of the interior hasn't come out with orders or directives on how to implement this new decree which of course expands the red zone area from an area with 50,000 people in it to 16 million. they're probably going to require the army among others to come in and enforce it. therefore, when the news first came out that this decree was going to go into effect, there was a rush on the train station in milan with people wanting to get out of there and not get stuck inside. this morning we were at

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university, columbia. all of those we're talking about. we've obviously got the cruise ship with over 3,000 people with it. beno do with that. again, the test kits, we're finding out more and more that the task, and the way the trump administration has handled this has been disastrous. but you started to see, yes, jonathan, that conservatives that have been mocking this outbreak, conservatives who thought that somehow a virus could be push add side side as as the rule of law and political norms are suddenly scared. and the white house officials also, jonathan, and i want you to talk about this, white house officials now are telling reporters they are concerned. i'm sure they're telling you, they are concerned that the president's messaging and the president's attitude is wildly out of touch with reality. and they're concerned that they can't get him to message this correctly. and he's -- even last night, you saw that he was tweeting conspiracy theories. >> right. we have seemed to have reached a tipping point perhaps this week about this virus in terms of its spread. the realization, no longer the efforts to s

universal basic income. but that's very difficult to set up quickly. we will get further details from the chancellor at that press conference this afternoon. benorary shutdown of the uk car industry, with honda, toyota, bmw, nissan and vauxhall all making the similar moves in the last few weeks. more people have died from coronavirus in italy than in any other country in the world. the number of deaths there rose by 427 yesterday, bringing the total to 3,405. italy is now the epicentre of the outbreak as the death toll surpassed china, where the virus was first detected in december. europe reporter gavin lee is in brussels for us. so, gavin, inevitably there's a lot of attention on italy and the problems there, but take us through europe and what the situation is. well, the cases across europe have risen by 15,024 hours and 20,000 in the 24 hours before that —— 15,000 in 24 hours. there are many countries with a similar number. there's a spike of about... italy have 40,000, then spain with 18,000, the french with 15,000 and germany with 11,000. other countries the french with 15,000 and germany with 11 , 000. other countries like the uk, here

georgetown university's ben buchanan reports on the normalizing of cyber warfare as a geopolitical tool, and on "after words," former deputy national security adviser kt mcfarlane reflects on her time in the trump administration. find more information about our schedule on your program guide or by visiting booktv.org. >> here's what congresswoman abigail spam berger is -- span berger is reading. >> i have a tendency to read multiple books at a time. i'm currently reading three different books. i'm reading reprogramming the american dream by tevin scott. it's focused on how a.i. might be changing rural communitieses across america. it was written by a man who did his ph.d. studies at the university of virginia. he's from rural virginia, which i represent central virginia, seven rural counties, and he talks a lot about the -- broadband, and woven throughout more kind of a business and intellectual argument about what are the changes and evolutions we see in our economy, stories about growing up in rural virginia, his experiences at the university of virginia. so it's enjoyable. i'm not fi