. >> are y michael j fitch?ra: one of the oldest tricks in the book, a magician celebrating a century of illusion. ♪ welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. two million people worldwide have now died from covid-19. nearly 400,000 of those deaths were here in the u.s. 11 million americans have been vaccinated against a virus, but the incoming president joe biden is promising to vaccinate 100 million americans in his first hundred days. here is how. president-elect biden: truthfully, we remain in a very dark winter. infection rates are up 34%. more people are being hospitalized because of covid than ever before. we are between 3000 and 4000 deaths per day as we approach a grim milestone of 400,000 deaths in america. that is staggering, to state the obvious. laura: joining is now for more is the dean of brown university school of public health. joe biden is saying that he is going to open 100 federal vaccinion centers. would that enable the government to meet this fan -- meet this ambitious goal?

now and i'm joined with ana marie abased and she's head of country risk and industry research and fitch solutions in a fog in the united kingdom good to have you with us so could you 1st of all tell us a bit more about the scale of disruption that comic has currently experiencing. yes good morning this is global disruption as far as the carmakers are concerned we're hearing reports of their operations in asia in year in north america all being disrupted for some of them they're able to just close for a day some they're just reducing hours at some of their factories and for some they're closed longer term and of course this comes at a time when they're trying to increase their sales because sales are starting to take again after the pandemic and so we're also seeing reports of some carmakers trying to be strategic in how they allocate the chips that they do have so ford for example gave an example day in north america it's prioritizing its best selling models for the chips that it has and this is the problem down to the pandemic or is the problem down to 2 people buying more smartphones

there was fish, students, rumsey -- fitch, stevens, rumsey, livingston.re than three miles per hour. -- they had a hard time going more than three miles per hour. a green mountain bike could walk faster than that. fulton -- a green mountain boy could walk faster than that. fulton designed a special boat with a special engine we went up to new york and back, 300 miles, something sd but had never done before. that is why fulton that's credit for the first steamboat. >> the claremont. >> her for a will catherine of claremont. -- her full name was catherine of claremont, catherine his wife and claremont, her papa who put up half the money. the way he saw it in this wilderness land it was easier to build waterways that highways. he dreamed up a system for making rivers more navigable and tied them together with canals. he invented the first power digger to remap rivers and dig canals. he planned the area canal from the hudson river to like area, one of the first -- the area canal-- hudson river to lake erie. and he opened power shipping up and down the mississ

there was fitch, stevens, rumsey, livingston. some of the boats were not bigger than rowboats.g more than three miles per hour. a green mountain boy could walk faster than that. if you could find 3 miles of open ground. fulton designed a special boat with a special engine we went up to new york and back, 300 miles, something that had never done before. that is why fulton gets credit for the first steamboat. >> that was the claremont. >> her full name was catherine of claremont, catherine his wife and claremont, her papa who put up part of the money. people forget things. they forget things that fulton did to advance water travel. the way he saw it, in this wilderness land, it was easier to build waterways than highways. he dreamed up a system for making rivers more navigable and tied them together with canals. he invented the first power digger to remap rivers and dig canals. he planned the erie canal from the hudson river to lake erie. one of the first real steps in pushing this nation westward. and he opened power shipping up and down the mississippi. the new orleans, i was c

michaelj fitch, who is this weekend just one of many magicians taking part in a global online celebrationay is, "oh, can you saw my wife in half?" 0r, "can you saw my husband in half?" for some reason, that illusion has stuck in everybody�*s mind and captured their imagination. ladies and gentlemen, my wife! thank you very much. and this is the man who created the illusion — pt selbit. his real name was percy tibbles, but not everyone was impressed with his new trick. it was performed for the first time on stage without an audience to a bunch of agents and bookers, and nevil maskelyne, who was the owner of one of these, the owner of the very venue the illusion was performed in for the first time, dismissed it. and while this anniversary is a celebration of pt selbit�*s creation, it's worth noting this is very much a two—person trick. would i be right in saying that a lot of the work's going on inside the box? of course, yeah. all the hard work goes on inside the box. - michaeljust has to stand there and put some - blades in or knives in. what? he gets the easy part. yeah, definitely. no,

well the reason i'm asking about this is because there's also an increasing our body of reach says fitch suggests that the problem of thought this structural discrimination or does it not just structural institutional this is that it's all the black community it is not so much in the history of slavery but actually in the history of social welfare that introduced for example minimum wage introducing many of the regulations that were supposed to benefit the poorest of the poor actually disadvantage down in the long term and made them far less economically strong and they could have and what do you make of that argument yeah i would say that that argument that those people are are making is flawed in many ways firstly that if you look at the financial impact that labor extracted from millions of people for a quarter of a millennia you know that the ranges are from like 24 to the 97 trillion dollars and it's a gargantuan number even if you look at what these people don't value discussing the impact of slavery i mean that's given nobody's disputing that it was a wrong thing to do and many pe

in the long run i believe been fitch heat for a cost. so joining me now to discuss the latest our boom bust co-host christine and partner and director of trading research and education for the market gauge group michelle snyder michelle i want to start with you here was talk about yellen testimony what were the highlights and key takeaways from her time before the senate. well the market would be most interested in hearing some of the points that she made 1st of all yes the stimulus which steadily helped keep the market high today she's talking about $1400.00 then another 100 $400.00 in unemployment benefits she wants to try to get the rate the employment rate or the unemployment rate down to 4 percent and so there are critics came out and said that she was more concerned with mainstream wall street but in terms of wall street itself certainly can't deny that stimulus is still a good thing in terms of the taxes which is another thing that people are really keeping in to she did say that the taxes would not be repealed from the 2017 bill

hello, everybody, my name is michaelj fitch, magician, and this is my wife, helen.ne, we hear it every day is, "oh, can you saw my wife in half?" 0r, "can you saw my husband in half?" for some reason, that illusion has stuck in everybody�*s mind and captured their imagination. ok, so, here we go. now, i used to go do this to my sister, she's now my half—sister. 0k, check this out. so i take the blade, and i push the blade, there, right the way through the middle. there we go. now, it would only right for me to do this, and, now, my wife is twice the lady she used to be. ladies and gentlemen, my wife! thank you very much. michael and helen, and the 100th anniversary of a very famous illusion, sawing a woman in half. but this is also a celebration of something else. a magical partnership. and this is the man who created it. pt selbit, carrying out his famous illusion in the 1930s. he didn'tjust invent the trick, he was one of the pioneers of the type of magic that relies on a female assistant. and this is paul daniels and debbie mcgee, re—enacting that original trick.

michaelj fitch, who is this weekend just one of many magicians taking part in a global online celebration"can you saw my husband in half?" for some reason, that illusion has stuck in everybody�*s mind and captured their imagination. ladies and gentlemen, my wife! thank you very much. and this is the man who created that illusion — his real name was percy tibbles, but not everyone was impressed with his new trick. —— here is the man who created that illusion, pt selbit. it was performed for the first time on stage without an audience to a bunch of agents and bookers, and nevil maskelyne, who was the owner of one of these, the owner of the very venue the illusion was performed in for the first time, dismissed it. and while this anniversary is a celebration of pt selbit�*s creation, it's worth noting this is very much a two person trick. would i be right in saying that a lot of the work is going on inside the box? of course, yeah. all the hard work goes on inside the box. michaeljust has to stand there and put some blades in, or knives in. what?! he gets the easy part. yeah, definitely. no,

hello, everybody, my name is michaelj fitch, magician, and this is my wife, helen.windy carport is at least a covid safe space to show off a magic show classic. cutting a woman in half. whenever anyone says, you know, "oh, you're a magician," the first line, we hear it every day is, "oh, can you saw my wife in half?" 0r, "can you saw my husband in half?" for some reason, that illusion has stuck in everybody�*s mind and captured their imagination. ok, so, here we go. now, i used to go do this to my sister, she is now my half—sister. 0k, check this out. so i take the blade, and i push the blade, there, right the way through the middle. there we go. now, it would only right for me to do this, and, now, my wife is twice the lady she used to be. ladies and gentlemen, my wife! thank you very much. michael and helen, and the 100th anniversary of a very famous illusion. sawing a woman in half. this is also a celebration of something else. a magical partnership. and this is the man who created it. pt selbit, carrying out his famous illusion in the 1930s. he didn'tjust invent