i also work with the american association of birth centers. my question is for representative underwood. how can we reduce the racial and economic disparities that impact maternal health more seriously, especially when much of the current health focus is on the pandemic? thank you. host: such a big question, maternal and infant health. i just want to share with the audience that the rates of difference when you look across racial lines are staggeringly horrible. your thoughts on that? rep. underwood: yes, thank you for the question. as the pandemic was coming into effect here in the united states, we were preparing to introduce something called the black maternal health act. the black maternal health caucus i colleague inh my april 2019 was to address this long-term disparity that black women are three to four times more likely to die in childbirth in this country. we are tackling workforce issues , data collection issues, mental health, the experiences of incarcerated women. we are applying them specifically to maternal health facilities. thi

. >> reporter: katherine anthony is the vice president of the american restroom association, and, yesard that right. >> you do what you need to do and you come out. >> reporter: she's an architecture professor who thinks a lot about american restrooms. >> there's great room for improvement, and in this era of covid, it's more and more important that we all have clean, safe restrooms to go to. >> reporter: right now the american restroom association believes there are too many surfaces to touch and too little privacy in the privy. >> these days with covid, you just don't want things spreading from one place to another. >> reporter: you don't have to be dr. fauci to see that the current design of the american restroom with all that open space does very little to control the spread of covid. today's bathroom stalls usually have partitions that conceal only the bare minimum. the idea of partitions that leave up space goes back at least to frank lloyd wright, who championed it in this building in buffalo, among others. he thought these restrooms would be easy to clean. at bradley internati

as a fellow of the american association he has made significant theoretical contributions from supernova explosions and black holes to planets and life in the universe. as scientific research he has appeared on numerous programs 60 minutes, all things considered and many others. tonight he is presenting his seventh book which is hailed as a beautifully written a courageous genius in light of the current situation and in light of the climate crisis one would have hoped the story to be a fascinating history we are on the stakes that could not be higher we are so happy to have him here tonight digitally so without further ado the digital podium is yours. >> thank you very much. with your permission i will try to share the screen. so some people asked me why do i decide to write this book? are very simple reason i'm in astrophysicist modern astronomy and astrophysics i was always fascinated and this unfortunately to deal with today so those are good enough reasons to do this. start this by noting the fact. weight i apologize. my presentation jumped to the very last slide. so i will start aga

. >> the american nurses association and the american hospital association issued an open letter urging americans to wear a mask and social distance and wash hands frequently the steps taken early on to help slow the spread were too quickly abandoned and they could defeat the virus the same way that they defeated previous threats to public health and allowing science and evidence to shape our decisions and inform our actions. >>> a bay area father was shot and killed find out with the family says about this after a trip to the sierra. >>> we learned that a six-year- old boy may be ready to surrender to police. businesses are starting to bounce back. but what if you could do better than that? like adapt. discover. deliver. in new ways. to new customers. what if you could come back stronger? faster. better. at comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. but bounce forward. and now, we're committed to helping you do just that with a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution at a great price. call or go online today. >>> police in walnut creek are investigating a sho

american association recommends students return to class but a doctor says the virus can still be dangerous to children. >> on our web site, we have several reports on school openings. including input from doctors. and weighing the pros and cons on if students should wear masks. >> disturbing records set across the country. death toll from coronavirus is now surpassed 134,000 in the u.s. 7,000 of those here in california. the state health department says there have been more than 300,000 confirmed cases. we have more on the rise in cases across the nation. >> as the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. tops 3.2 million. a wave of upsetting records are being set. 17 states with record high number of cases. 15 with record high hospitalization and seven with record number of death. >> it feels we are headed for a disaster. >> florida reporting 15,300 new cases. a record one day total for any state. auditoriums and conference rooms at this hospital now being used to treat patients. >> we have just taken every inch of the facility and converted it into patient care area. >> 42 hospitals witho

even the american bar association. the american bar association had a committee that put out this report on communist tactics, strategy and objectives which sets forth 10 of the worst procommunist decisions of the supreme court. this was put in the congressional record first by senator bridges and then later by senator dirksen and i will bet millions of copies went out. it became a major vehicle to educate the grassroots about what the work was doing about communism. and also in those years, you can -- one of the most popular speak its was in clarence minion of the notre dame law school and he wrote a little book, less than 100 pages called "key to peace compo and talked about the religious found -- religious foundation of our country. we are not using the term conservative. this is just the way people believed and thought in those years of the late 1950's and early 1960's. and then we looked around for a president. who are we going to run for president? and somebody suggested a senator from arizona. well, nobody from a

kramer, became the first african-american associate justice of the supreme court. he made equal production come alive in our country. i was delighted to hear the gentleman from illinois' remarks but i was amazed to hear another colleague in the minority defending the bust of john c. breckenridge on the grounds that we don't honor him for his service as secretary of war in the confederacy but we rather honor him for what he did before that in his prior service as the united states senator and vice president of the united states. that's just pressure ebt. think about that breckenridge was serving as u.s. senator from kentucky when he defected to the union, signed up to become their secretary of war and betrayed the union and they still have his bust outside of the united states senate saying vice president on it despite the fact that on december 4, 1861, he was convicted of treason by the senate and stripped of all of his titles including senator, president of the senate, and vice president. so we may as well put up a statue of benedict arnold to honor him for his se

>>speaking off camera at an american association for cancer research conference felt he cited a dune editorial written and published in the journal science the paper also noted that covid-19 has caused an unprecedented disruption in cancer research. 2 studies presented at the conference found that routine breast and prostate cancer screening rates have gone down due to covid-19 related disruptions of care. another study associated unemployment rate which skyrocketed between february and may with lower rates of breast and colorectal cancer screenings. the authors noted that unemployed adults often lack health insurance. >>i'm mandy gaither. >>coming up why it may be harder for you well if you don't have a mountain bike and you want one it might be a while before you can buy one because of the coronavirus shops across the country just cannot keep them in stock. >>one colorado bike store says that the owner while he sold out of them dan beebe has the story. usually have rose. >>bikes in the middle here lee newhart is the owner of the great divide in downtown pueblo since his bike shop r

>>speaking off camera at an american association for cancer research conference felt he cited a dune editorial written and published in the journal science the paper also noted that covid-19 has caused an unprecedented disruption in cancer research. 2 studies presented at the conference found that routine breast and prostate cancer screening rates have gone down due to covid-19 related disruptions of care. another study associated unemployment rate which skyrocketed between february and may with lower rates of breast and colorectal cancer screenings. the authors noted that unemployed adults often lack health insurance. i'm mandy gaither. >>tonight why may be harder for you to get your and welcome back if you don't already have a mountain biking you want one. it may be a while before you can get your hands of one that's because the coronavirus shops or the coronavirus that's because shops bike shops across the country can't keep them in stock. one colorado by connor says that he sold out of one more than a month after reopening the shop stores. dan beatty has more. usually have rose.

she's also president of the american association of physicians and surgeons and comes to us from sanonio. thank you very much for joining us. >> good morning. thank you for having me. gerri: the headlines are lurid out of texas right now. a surge in coronavirus cases, surge in hospitalizations, governor abbott locking down the economy in many respects once again. is all this necessary? >> it's really not necessary and, in fact, it's contributing to problem. you know, march 13th, it was friday the 13th when governor abbott declared texas, you know, a disaster zone, and we battened down. we battened down to reallocate, to reassess what was going on. we sent a lot of our resources to new york. new york got ventilators. they got ppe. and so when they're now bashing us and skewing data, it's really disheartening because we battened down then. and one of the things we did before the virus was even here, i think we had 26 cases in the entire state of texas by the end of march, but we hunkered down for them. and it was important initially so we could learn about the virus. but while we were

arizona up to more than 3100 this as the american hospital association, american medical and american nurses association just publishing an open letter to american public saying covid-19 is not behind us and we must resist confusing reopening with returning to normalcy underlining a message that we hear from dr. fauci. >> he has said from day one that the virus will dictate the reopening and it should not be left to local officials to try and make a political decision of some kind. you just wonder how this is going to be treated in those areas that were resistant early on because they weren't as hard hit as new york and the northeast was. now they are being hard hit. they already started this reopening process. >> yes they thought they missed it but they had not >>> as stocks continue to shake off virus fears, our next guest raised his target on the s&p he still thinks there are gains in for the year. why the change of heart now? >> i think this is probably one story more than anything else. if you look at the actions that have been taken by the government, they have really done a gre

>>speaking off camera at an american association for cancer research conference felt he cited a dune editorial written and published in the journal science the paper also noted that covid-19 has caused an unprecedented disruption in cancer research. 2 studies presented at the conference found that routine breast and prostate cancer screening rates have gone down due to covid-19 related disruptions of care. another study associated unemployment rate which skyrocketed between february and may with lower rates of breast and colorectal cancer screenings. the authors noted that unemployed adults often lack health insurance. i'm mandy gaither. >>for 41 is the time coming up next on the kron 4 morning news hollywood may be close from movie productions but movie magic continues here in the bay area we're going to take you to sonoma county where movie makers are working hard despite the pandemic. >>and we're back at 4.44 take a look at this boat caught fire on lake tahoe with a man still on board. another boater saw what was happening and was able to rescue him thankfully. the coast guard arr

heated debate co-hosted investigative journalist ben swan and board member of the british american business association hilary ford which thank you both for joining us to discuss this now and we are going to start with you what are the main points causing such friction between all of these e.u. leaders met in brussels well pleasure to be back brenton you are right there is fiction now there's been considerable fraction has been friction for days at the crux of this is sort of 2 major issues about the same thing there. the northern nations and actually they're no they're known as the frugal 5 the netherlands austria denmark sweden and they they have all gotten together and they actually have decided that they would rather have grants rather than loans and they have put pressure on the other nations the more needy nations spain italy greece to accept more in terms of just you know rather than grants they want to be loans that are repaid back that's the big issue so is the amount the amount of disputed 750000000000 it sounds like the agreement has been made a lot of concessions to be made by this frugal 5

economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. micah al-jazeera washington. the 2nd worst affected country in the world is brazil and its lifting its ban on foreigners arriving by air the move comes despite reporting a record daily jump in infections and deaths nearly 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more than 1000 people have died and president has attended his 1st government event since recovering from covert 19 votes in our war a mosque throughout the ceremony and said he would not address the audience the president has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the pandemic and has called the virus a little flu he tested positive for call 1003 weeks ago and had been in isolation until saturday. r

and central america so i think the best means to challenge this is going to come from the american association of educators which is effectively the association of all the universities because they are the biggest losers financially while the students are the biggest losers both financially educationally and and personally so i anticipate that there's going to be a major pushback on this and it will be interesting to see how the congress is get involved because maybe pressured a legislator around it to tie the president's hands or it may be the judges that have to intervene again through some kind of claim that this is a violation of of due process rights or some other constitutional rate. the show must go on so britain's government is putting $2000000000.00 into saving its arts culture set as museums and music venues have remained empty joining the crowd virus outbreak challenge reports from london's west end. what is a theater without an audience or a gallery with no art lovers nothing more than expensive real estate with high bills and 0 income for weeks the u.k.'s arts and culture industry

economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and australia authorities in the state of victoria are tightening knocked on measures after a record day of infections and deaths there reported 723-1000 cases in 13 deaths estates is the epicenter of australia's 2nd wave of the virus nearly 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 treated in hospital masks are now mandatory we have now been in this lockdown now for some weeks and we are not getting the results we would hope for and as a result the further measures that are taken the certainly necessary will come at an impact to the economy we understand that but equally not containing these outbreaks will have that effect also and so it's important we continue to work together to get on top of this

economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and. deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands my canada al-jazeera washington. the 2nd worst affected country in the world brazil is lifting its ban on foreigners arriving by air despite reporting a records daily jump in infections and deaths at least 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more than 1000 people have died but children's hospital in northern mexico has been flooded in the aftermath of tropical storm hanna workers rushed to move beds out of rooms swamped with water with the hospital in the city of the no sun at least 3 people died in mexico during the storm. firefighters in brazil are trying to put out more than $4000.00 blazes in the world's biggest tropical weapons authorities say there wi

economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. my kind of al-jazeera washington authorities in the australian state of victoria tightening lockdown measures after a record day of infections and debts they have reported 723 new covered 1000 cases in 13 deaths the states is the epicenter of australia's 2nd wave of the virus nearly 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 treated in hospital masks are now mandatory the world's biggest plane maker has posted a net loss of $2200000000.00 in the 1st half of this year seen a fall in demand because of the global pandemic it says its cut production of its most popular jet the a $350.00 to $5.00 a month rival boeing area posted a $2400000000.00 quarterly loss and announced significant job cuts andrus whitmer is managing director at the cen

and central america so i think the best means to challenge this is going to come from the american association of educators which is effectively the association of all the universities because they are the biggest losers financially while the students are the biggest losers both financially educationally and and personally so i anticipate that there's going to be a major pushback on this and it will be interesting to see how the congress is get involved because maybe pressured a legislator around it to tie the president's hands or it may be the judges that have to intervene again through some kind of claim that this is a violation of of due process rights or some other or a constitutional right going next well the bush or so side alleged accomplice of sex offender joe jeffrey epstein has been transferred to a prison in new york a number of epstein's victims accused maxwell of thing instrumental in grooming young girls for abuse accusations the sheets of noise cable is on the ripples. the metropolitan detention center is a far cry from the lavish surroundings of the rich and famous she is accus

economic effects of the virus leaving medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. still ahead an al-jazeera of the u.s. retreat from a nato ally $12000.00 troops ordered out of germany and the european headquarters has to be moved. plus torture abuse and death we'll have more on the plight of refugees trying to reach the mediterranean. however got lots of hot weather loss of lives showers too across north america quite a scattering of storms on display here across the plains pushing down towards the southeastern corner eastern seaboard also seeing some wet weather from time to time of the temperatures 37 in d.c. weakening up to 31 in new york got that heat even pushing north of the border 28 there for toronto what a rush of showers some of them very heavy pushing up towards tennessee towards kentu

i am jim grossman, the executive director of the american historical association. this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. we consider historical context essential to decision-making in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. aha is a membership supported organization. anybody who watches public television or listens to public radio is ready for this. if you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. i want to give and especially grateful thankful to history channel for their generous sponsorship of this webinar. let's get started. it is an honor to introduce today's panelists, annette gordon reed. professor of law and history at harvard university. and david blight, professor of history and director of the ablution of slavery at yell universe these three. professors are pulitzer prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. they have written and spoke

and central america so i think the best means to challenge this is going to come from the american association of educators which is effectively the association of all the universities because they are the biggest losers financially while the students are the biggest losers both financially educationally and and personally so i anticipate that there's going to be a major pushback on this and it will be interesting to see how the congress is get involved because maybe pressure to legislate around it to tie the president's hands or it may be the judges that have to intervene again through some kind of claim that this is a violation of of due process rights or some other or a constitutional right of millions of school leavers across china or 60 minutes or a c. difficult national university entrance exam and the test may be even tougher for students this year after schooling was of course interrupted by coronavirus lockdowns katrina who reports from beijing. or outside a school in downtown beijing and these students coming out here are among more than 10000000 across china taking part in this year

our them can afford it so i think the best means to challenge this is going to come from me american association of educators which is effectively the association of all universities because they are the biggest losers financially while the students are the biggest losers both financially educationally and and personally so i anticipate that there's going to be a major pushback on this and it will be interesting to see how the congress is that gets involved because maybe pressure to legislate around it to tie up the president's hands or it may be the judges that have to intervene again through some kind of claim that this is a violation of of due process rights or some other constitutional right thank you so much for a violation of the administrative procedures act ok thank you so much for a insights are always good to talk to you about the size he is professor of law at rutgers university thank you now the former partner of convicted sex offender jeffrey i've seen has been moved to a new york jail a british socialite get a maxwell was arrested then charge in new hampshire on 3 say she'd been he

economic effects of the virus leaving medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american association of medical colleges and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the 2nd worst affected country in the world brazil is lifting its ban on foreigners arriving by air despite reporting a record daily jump and infections and deaths nearly 70000 new cases and 1600 fatalities were confirmed in the past day that brings the total number of infections to more than 2500000 more the 90000 people have died. heads of some of the world's biggest tech giants have faced a 5 hour grilling on the way they do business facebook google amazon and awful accused of stifling competition and monopolizing the industry it's the end of a year long investigation by the u.s. congress which claims to outline how current laws allow the companies to avoid liabilities alan fischer reports he now is the ranking me

economic effects of the virus a leading medical organization has issued an urgent warning the american associationof medical colleges says and i quote decisive coordinated action is urgently needed to save lives it continues if the nation does not change its course and soon deaths in the united states could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands mike hanna al-jazeera washington. authorities the australian so to victoria hold tightly locked on measures after a record day of infections and now they reported $723.00 new covert $100.00 cases and 13 deaths the state's the epicenter of australia's 2nd wave of the virus nearly 10000 people have tested positive with more than 300 treated in hospital masks and a mandatory. nasa has ordered a preservation rock rover from cape canaveral in florida to seek out life on mars but it reaches the red planet the rover will look for bio signatures take rock samples and fly an experimental helicopter over the planet's surface the launch comes on the heels of similar missions from china and the united arab emirates and the reports from florida. we're. launchi

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america and central america so i think the best means to challenge this is going to come from me american association of educators which is effectively the association of all the universities because they are the biggest losers financially while the students are the biggest losers both financially educationally and and personally so i anticipate that there's going to be a major pushback on this and it will be interesting to see how the congress is get involved because maybe pressured a legislator around it to tie the president's hands or it may be the judges that have to intervene again through some kind of claim that this is a violation of of due process rights or some other constitutional right. a protest against growing insecurity in sudan's central darfur state is now in its 10th day the local demonstrators accuse the government of failing to protect them from attacks by armed groups our correspondents have been morgan reports. for a week and a half the administrate of headquarters of negativity in general mara in sudan central dar for has been the scene of a sit in thousands of protesters gather

important positions including president of the federal reserve bank of new york, president of the american association of law schools, president of the new york academy of science -- thank you -- it was 43 years ago that chief justice burger founded this society. to talk about warren burger, president john sexton of nyu. >> thank you very much. it is a great honor for me to be here today my first introduction to warren burger and the society came at the same time when i went just outside of the courtroom just downstairs to watch four films that the chief justice -- to watch the films that the chief justice have created. more on that later. very different judges. three different, but three special men. nearly 40 years ago, i was privileged to serve each as a law clerk. nobody, including me, would have predicted chief justice burger would have selected me. my references were an all-star list of his critics. [laughter] derek bell, arthur miller, alan morrison. larry tribe. ordinarily the chief did not interview his clerks before they came to him. he basilon clerk. i called charlie and suggested that he w

as a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science doctor livio has made significant theoretical contributions to topics ranging from cosmology, supernova explosions and back holes to extrasolar planets and the emergencies of life in the universe. moving in this world of scientific research and popular renown he has appeared that the galileo story could be treated just as a fascinating history that this book makes clear it is. though we rarely need because we're living to the next chapter of science denial which states that cannot be higher. we are so happy to have him digitally here tonight so without further ado the digital podium is yours. doctor livio. >> you very much. with your permission i would now try to share the screen. [laughter] >> sounds good. >> just one second. okay, "galileo and the science deniers", this is, by the way, the cover of the book. some people ask me why did i decide to write this book and for very simple reasons. one is that i'm in astrophysicist and galileo is the founder of modern astrophysics so i'm always fascinated. he is a fascinati

point, the american association of state highway transportation officials is lobbying for federal helpo the tune of $37 billion to the various state dot's to make up in their budget from covid. as we look at our business, most likely, geographically, we are positioned better than many. those in the northeast, midwest, larger american cities are likely to feel that more acutely from a budgeting perspective in particular. we never got that infrastructure weak the president kept promising us. what are your hopes for an infrastructure plan, whether this president or another one after november? we would give up an infrastructure weak if we could get an infrastructure built for five years. fast act expires later this year. we do not expect to see another bill in time for the withdrawal of that bill. we do think we will see a longer-term continuing resolution minimally at current levels. to be clear, we don't think we will see a long-term continuing resolution because that by itself will stay in place. we think we will see a longer-term continuing resolution so states can continue to feel con

the chief executive officer of the american psychological association. dr. jeffrey geller is the president of the american psychiatric association and the director of public sector psychiatry at the university of massachusetts school. we have the national youth advisory board member of the sandy hook promise students against violence everywhere, called s.a.v.e. welcome to you. and thank you for being with us. we're so pleased. we really are. it's an honor. former congressman patrick kennedy, you are recognized for five minutes and please remember to unmute. we don't want to lose one word you have offered to us. thank you. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. it's great to see you always, your family. and i just want to say, in addition to your being family, it's nice that you shared your opening remarks with family, my cousin joe, who does everything i tell him to do on mental health and i'm so honored that he's a member of this committee which has such important jurisdiction over this important critical issue to our nation's health. and i want to thank chairman p

we have seen for examples the american association of pediatric saying, we need to have the classroom learning experience which is vital for the mental health of these children. we've also seen dr. fauci come out and say that closing up the schools would have unintended negative consequences. it's very clear that the president is willing to share a message that i think most parents can agree on which is get these schools open safely, get parents back to work and let's keep our economy growing. >> you are off on a women for trump bus tour tomorrow? >> yes. it's a big pink bus, it will be visiting milwaukee and green bay and it will be meeting with women across the state and being able to talk about these critical issues, about for example, school choice. something that joe biden does not support. he aligns himself with the teachers union and with the parents and the children. we want to be sure we reopen the economy safely and ensure that we also make sure that is the health. and exposing joe biden's weak leadership. i'm happy we are going on this bus to her he's too much going on. >>