ann clark. my name is ann clark, i wanted to let you know we had a wonderful women's meeting at the club and the two people we were honoring is ann and francesca. it was a tremendously interesting program. this is our third and now we're beginning to have younger women, middle-aged women, older women all together talking about what we see and think is important. but ann and francesca really came forward and talked to us and let us know -- we also had gloria duffy, the president of the commonwealth club. you can see there were a lot of women there. there were men. i want the men to come to. we will invite you, tell you come in. but once again, we want to thank you from the commonwealth club for ann and francesca and for the lunch and the fact that we all got together and had talking at our tables, and talking to each other. and bringing forward a lot of wonderful cooperative information. so thank you, thank you, thank you. and i will give these to donna. they have their names on them. and we'll p

that is a program and initiative that ann leads with peggy clark, who is the executive director as well as a vice president at the aspen institute but she runs the program called the aspen global innovator group, on strong policy program at the aspen institute. want to introduce barbara cline who is going to be leading the conversation with karen and there will be time for question and answer. but what we would like to do is make certain that you're fully aware that we are honored to have barbara as our conversationist for today, and make certain that you know that she is a really talented dish don't know if you have any books yourself, barbara, but she has an amazing career, not only being an actor but being a newscaster for a long time, globally and here in washington, dc, so we're really honored to have you, barbara, and thank you. and then karen, thank you for being here. i'm looking forward to the conversation and i'll just turn it over to you, barbara. >> oh, thank you. so great to be here, real honor to talk to karen about her book, and as some of you possibly know -- probably kn

ann rubin tells us why clark's charcoal boiler made the decision to shudder and with the city is doingtry to help other small businesses whether this storm. >> it was the oldest operating restaurant in mountain view, until coronavirus struck. now, it 75 year run has come to an end. the family made the tough decision to shudder the hamburger restaurant, for good. >> 11 brothers and sisters, and this was our 12th sibling. what this restaurant means our family is, it is like losing a loved one. it was everything. >> with the shelter in place order, they were bleeding money, and they were not convinced the economy would rebound fast enough. and they are not alone. small businesses all over are suffering. >> as much is we have folks are asking for help, i've had a lot of folks saying how can we help? and that was really what we were trying to do, was answer the call from both sides. >> so mountain view has launched a new initiative, together, mv. the goal to have those in the community who can donate to those in need. since wednesday there have been more than 200 donations, some to resident

ann rubin tells us why they decided to close its doors into the city is trying to do to help other small businesses. clark'sharcoal boiler, the oldest operating restaurant until coronavirus struck. now, it's 75 year run has come to an end. the block family made the dust -- tough decision to shatter it for good. >> a little brothers and sisters, and this was our 12th sibling. what this restaurant means to our family is, it is like losing a loved one. it was everything. >> with the shelter in place order they were bleeding money, and they were not convinced the economy would rebound fast enough. and they are not alone. small businesses all over are suffering. >> as much as we have folks are asking for help, i have had a lot of folks saying how can we help? and that was really what we were trying to do was answer the call from both sides. >> so mountain view has launched a new initiative, together and three. the goal come to have those in the community who can donate to those in need. since wednesday there have been more than 200 donations, some to rent support, some to small business relief. the total nearly

ann williams. >>> michael d. weaver. david jack walker. jules a. valdez. leora leigh sells. lanny lee david scroggins. antonio "tony" c. reyes. dr. george michael howard dvm. susan jane farrell. kimberly k. clarkdavid neil burkett. peter r. avilanoza. ted r. allen. we continue to remember our friends and family with the department of housing and urban development, seventh floor. joann whittenburg. john carl van ness iii. john thomas stewart. terry smith reese. patricia ann nix. betsy j. "bb" mcgonnel and my father, james a. mccarthy ii. >> we continue to remember our friends and family with the department of housing and urban development, seventh floor. mary leasure rentee. theresa t. taylor lauderdale. ann cremborg. thompson eugene "gene" hodges jr. j. colleen giles. linda louise florence. judy j. "froh" fisher. castine brooks hern devereaux. diana lynn day. kim r. cousins. andrea yvette blanton. my mother, diane e. who wi althouse. we continue to remember our friends and family at the department of housing fifth floor. paul rockstematerman. >> we remember marine corps recruiting sixth floor, captain randolph a. guzman, united states marine corps. sergeant benjamin lorenzo davis, united state

of the things that ann is doing now is co-convening the aspen forum on women and girls which also is relevant to this conversation. that is the program and initiative with teddy clark who is the executive director as well as a vice president at the aspen institute. she runs a program called the action global innovators group and policy program at the aspen institute paid with that i just want to introduce barbara kline who is going to be leading the conversation with karen and there will be time for a question and answers to what we would like to do is make certain that you are fully aware that we are honored to have barbara and their conversation is here today and make certain that you know she is really talented. barber has an amazing career not only as an actor but being a newscaster for a long time globally and here in washington d.c. so we are really honored to have you barbara and thank you. and karen thank you for being here. i'm looking forward to the conversation and i will turn it over to you barbara. >> thank you. it's so great to be here and it's a real honor to talk to karen about her book. as some of you probably know karen sprat ground is one that ha