i'm curious about elliott management's role in all of this obviously they've come out and pushed for executive changes at at&t, says today that they, quote, support stankey as the company's next ceo how do you think that factors into what the priorities look like as he takes the helm? a couple months? >> yeah. it's a great question that you ask, morgan. there are some who wonder, well, if elliott is on board, as they are, which i read a statement from them i'm trying to access again, basically saying they were supportive, there was a search undertaken by the board of directors, but we wonder what in particular is going to be the future of a directtv is there something that company can do there to potentially create value unclear. there have been plenty ofrumor in terms of what they might be able to do when you go back and look at the original letter from elliott they had a lot of suggestions for the company at that time they did kind of -- it wasn't an official settlement. they did come to a broad agreement, elliott signing on for what they decided to do, potentially taking costs out

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the age of 26, and elliott is 27 and he's put in charge of the untouchables. they died very young. capone and 47. they spoke to a couple people who did that near the tail end of his life. ... >> it's a great question and i'm sure there's some writers in the room, and if there aren't, i'm sure everybody has tried to launch about something the never met. a grandmother, great-grandfather, the patriarch of the town where you were been and raise expelled there's interesting methods for doing it. court transcripts, there's almost always employs reports or investigative record or trial transcripts so you get a sense of the person's voice, but then you just go rooting around like a pig for truffles, liking for any mention of the person in newspapers or magazines or any kind of contemporary coverage, and for all three of us we talk before hand, being clear about our methods, was as important to us as the final product so for all of us you can go and look and it's a pretty serious bib logograph and a note situation so you can see exactly how we put at the portraits together and who talked to

they were both resurprisingly young, he takes e debate over the chicago mob at the age of 26 and elliott is 27 when he is put in charge of what we now know as the untouchables, and they died very young. capone and 47 and bass and 57. i was able to speak to a couple of people that did know him near the tail end of his life and one in particular he referenced. i asked what portrayal was most authentic to the man he knew and he didn't really answer the question but he said that part at the end where he throws a man off the edge of the building would never happen. he hated guns and violence and this is what you would expect. we can incorporate their voices into the book and that is how we tried to make them live and breathe again. >> there are some in double characters in the book. i particularly like. >> is a great question and i'm sure there are some writers in the room and i'm sure everybody here has tried to learn about somebody they've never met. grandmother, great grandfather, patriarch of the town where you were born and raised. there are interesting methods for doing it. when you wri

emily: talk about elliott management, the activist that has taken a big stake in the company. the latest? >> paul singer and elliott management have taken a big stake in softbank, running their activist playbook. softbank is historically the largest shareholder in alibaba, .6% stake emily: all right, looks like we lost brad stone. i want to get to johnson & , theyn, the cfo earlier also have covid-19 vaccine candidates. they told us that is on track for early next year. take a listen to our interview with the cfo of johnson & johnson about the. >> things -- the outlook. >> things continue to progress with the vaccine. we were able to identify lead candidate with two backups. we are doing clinical research. hope to be first in human by september, which should lead to a readout of data in late ofember, with the hope producing one billion vaccines early next year. we are ramping up manufacturing capabilities across the globe to ensure we can handle that demand , so things are very much on track. how are you able to ramp up so quickly? my understanding is vaccines take years. >> w

considered one of the things that turned the tide. >> elliott married five times. >> elliott married five times. >> died at age 80. >> right. >> i did get a chance to talk to him before he died. again, there would be that twinkle in the blue eyes that gave you a memory of frank roosevelt. he had a tough time finding himself. i think the alcoholism that was in eleanor's family visited itself upon elliott. he had success in politics. he was a mayor in palm beach. mainly what he did is wrote mystery stories after a while in which elanor roosevelt is the defective. his mother becomes a detective. so he wrote a series of sort of tell all books about the family that all the other kids found very disquieting. >> james died at age 83 in 1991. he ran democrats for nixon? >> right. i mean you wonder what eleanor and franklin would have thought. he had four marriages as well. he had some success. he never was able to hold on to his career or to his family very easily. so it's not been an easy time for any of those children. >> would you mind jumping to the end? how much do you remember about th

i think the alcoholism that was in eleanor's family had visited itself upon elliott. in 1991; ran "democrats for nixon? " >> ms. goodwin: right, i mean, you wonder what eleanor and franklin would have thought. he had four marriages, too. now, he had had some success as a congressman for awhile, from california, but then he never was able to hold onto his career or to his family very easily, so it's not been an easy time, as i say, for any of those children. >> would you mind jumping to the end, and telling as much as you can remember about the last couple of days of fdr? >> ms. goodwin: well, what had happened was that, after he came back from the yalta conference, and after he gave this major speech to the congress in march of 1945, everybody could see that his health was failing, and somehow when he went to warm springs, georgia, there had always been this sense that he would recuperate by going down there; that something about the air, the beauty, the simplicity of the place... so they decided that he'd make an extended trip to warm springs. so, at the end of march

brian: elliott married five times. ms. goodwin: elliott married five times. brian: died at age 80, in 1990. what was he like? ms. goodwin: well, i did get a chance to talk to him before he died. and again, there'd be that twinkle in the blue eyes that gave you a memory of franklin roosevelt, but he had had a tough time finding himself. i think the alcoholism that was in eleanor's family had visited itself upon elliott. he had a little bit of success in politics. he was a mayor in palm beach, but mainly what he did was he wrote mystery stories, after awhile, in which eleanor roosevelt was the detective. so there was always some dead body, and eleanor, his mother, becomes a detective. and he wrote a series of sort of tell-all books about the family that all the other kids found very disquieting. brian: james died at age 83, in 1991; ran "democrats for nixon." ms. goodwin: right, i mean, you wonder what eleanor and franklin would have thought. he had four marriages, too. now, he had had some success as a congressman for awhile, from california, but then he never

along as well and we sort of naturally start i suppose talking to each other that at some point that elliott reached out to all of us and said hey do you want to actually do something in a more coordinated fashion and that's how we sort of ended up as the sort of core villain cuts. i was at work here in charlotte at a bank and my job was to monitor events that were going on and try to see if there's any danger or risk to the bankers employees or travelers or whatever i focus a lot on ukraine russia at work because i started russian literature and graduate school so i knew russian and i did a lot of monitoring of things to do with russia and ukraine and i remembered seeing some news that a plane shot down over ukraine. that i 1st i thought oh it's not the deal you know but another point to shut down. but soon obviously as everyone knows realize it wasn't a ukrainian plane and then i like everybody else was wondering what was going on them or i was watching social media and i was watching a few different feeds of news and a member i had. which is like the main russian state news channel and li

we said adele, ken griffin, elliott management, paul singer,...rump in the rose garden. really a pay—out of praise. from the president about his and his administration's handling of the pandemic. a few headlines to come out of it as well. the fact that he has told his team to halt funding to the who. for their inept handling of the who. for their inept handling of the crisis. listening to this, as indeed yesterday positive press conference, caddy k in washington. almost as if this crisis is over. yeah, it is a true hear about the aphoristic way that he is talking about it. even sent it will get to the who and a second but he said there are at one point the plan for reopening the country is being finalised and he said it is a very detailed and very strong plan and that he would be announcing it shortly. he said at one point that almost half of the counties in the united states are not affected at all by the coronavirus and that there are lots of areas in the country that are looking at what is happening in other areas and thinking we don't have tha

called to chicago to accept the nomination, governor roosevelt flew from albany with his wife, son elliottho knew it then, but this was the beginning of an era unparalleled in american history. f.d.r.'s appearance in chicago stadium was the beginning of a series of spectacular personal triumphs. swept into office by the greatest landslide in history, his first words were fearless, prophetic. >> i am prepared, under my constitutional duty, to recommend the measures, in the midst of a stricken world, may require. these measures or such other measures as the congress may bill, out of its experience and wisdom i shall seek within my constitutional authority to bring to speedy adoption. but in the event that the congress shall fail to take one of these two, in the event that the national emergency is still critical, i shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. i shall ask the congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis. broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded b

i think the alcoholism that was in eleanor's family had visited itself upon elliott. he had a little bit of success in politics. he was a mayor in palm beach, but mainly what he did was he wrote mystery stories, after awhile, in which eleanor roosevelt was the detective. so there was always some dead body, and eleanor, his mother, becomes a detective. so... and he wrote a series of sort of tell-all books about the family that all the other kids found very disquieting. >> james died at age 83, in 1991; ran "democrats for nixon? " >> ms. goodwin: right, i mean, you wonder what eleanor and franklin would have thought. he had four marriages, too. now, he had had some success as a congressman for awhile, from california, but then he never was able to hold onto his career or to his family very easily, so it's not been an easy time, as i say, for any of those children. >> would you mind jumping to the end, and telling as much as you can remember about the last couple of days of fdr? >> ms. goodwin: well, what had happened was that, after he came back from the yalta conferenc

elliott is building the leaning tower of what ever that is. he looks pretty enthusiastic about it.we are happy to share. >>> can you name the president and 1878? his initials are rvh. be ready for some >>> the last time the nfl expanded its postseason was 20 years ago and tonight they are adding two more teams. two while hard teams will be added increasing the field from 12 to 14. this means that only one team instead of two per conference will get the first round. the 49ers would've been that team if the new rules had been in place. by going from 12 to 14, leads will have a pair of seven seeds. the rams and the steelers would've been the seventh of seeds. there will be six games instead of four and a change in format for the first time since 1990. we are going to see a lot more 500 teams making the postseason dance. >>> mlb is announcing that they will pay minor leaguers $400 per week to may 31 or opening day whichever comes first. for low level players that is nearly double what they would typically receive. >> the marching band is impressive. doing it with 228 members in differe

cap elliott, as i remember it. elliott, as i remember it. we were met by, well, we went to be interviewed by colonel carlsen and by jimmy roosevelt. the colonel would ask different questions. why do you like to kill japs, do you like japs, that kind of stuff. so i said the things they liked to hear. i said yeah, i like to kill them, you know. and that was it. i never meant anything by it, but that is how it worked out. interviewer: so how long did you stay in san diego? james: well, we state there -- i don't know, for five months? a lot of this, i am thinking i have to remember. that is about over 60, 70 years ago. from there we went to hawaii. that is where we went to. pearl harbor. we saw all the ships. on the belly,ver we went to the camp that i showed you. that is where we were, in honolulu. and then from there after, well that is where two battalions, two companies went to make an island. con island. first it was a company and b company, they went to macon island and a company went to the battle of midway. i was in headquarters company,

and frances elliott and chris smith on the front of the times they are a fairly comprehensive wrap upat the measures could be. the schools, bad news for her parents. they'll stay shut until june bad news for her parents. they'll stay shut untiljune at least. some shops could open, some extra shops could open that are not essential as long as their social distancing. football could start again behind closed doors. like formula 1 once you start behind closed doors. we could all end up with a bubble of ten family or friends. nicola sturgeon talked last week and she's been setting this case in scotland on explaining to the public how this might come to an end. this idea of a bubble of ten that you might be able to extend that lockdown to other people. be careful who you choose, of course will stop you don't want to offend anyone. there is a bit of activity at the white house. that's move on to the telegraph and see if we can get some of that in. johnson says it's time to fire up the engine. that's what quoted in the times as well. i thought it was interesting that the police saying that w

appaloosa, elliott.osition to enter this market at what they see is very cheap prices that might rebalance significantly. they are looking at returns of 20 to 30%. if you don't have money already, you are probably not able to enter these trades. but with that said, because there are a pretty hefty list of buyers, all of them have different cost to capital, so let's see how much they are really able to get that for. alix: 20% to 30% returns, that's huge. sonali pesek, thanks so much. excellent reporting. coming up, one hot wall street we just sort of talked about in terms of whether the fed should or can buy mortgage backed securities, but also, what to they do about banks, their dividends and buybacks? we will break it down next. this is bloomberg. ♪ to help you stay informed of the latest news just say "coronavirus" into your xfinity voice remote to access important information and special reports from around the world. and to keep your kids learning at home, say "education" to discover learning collect

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in a letter to clients, this is elliott management run by paul singer, right, they predict that global stocks could tumble 50% from their february highs. the letter goes on to say to us, there does not appear to be a gilded cornucopia of shining bargains. so you guys know, those guys have about $40 billion in assets under management. what is the bond market telegraphing? we are at two-week lows right now. this is the third day in a row of dropping yields. you look at the ten-year treasury yield, it's falling again. last night it stood at .64%. i'm checking it right now. .60%. so that means there's still fear in the markets. what is the message that falling yields are trying to tell you, the investor? to our floor show traders and sarge, can you read the bond market tea leaves here? >> yeah, sure. how you doing, liz? investors i think are trusting right now the monetary and fiscal authorities. i do believe that elliott management is speaking about global stocks and i am for the most part speaking about u.s. financial markets and i do think as long as we don't have a relapse, as long as

. >> reporter: pam's 87-year-old father elliott, a navy veteran lives there and needs around the clock care she just learned her dad is complaining of body aches. >> if he gets sick, what's your worry? >> that's a really tough question that i won't be able to see him or say good-bye or even talk to him on the phone. >> reporter: could he survive if he got covid-19? >> no. no way. >> reporter: the american health care association says it would not encourage people to move their loved ones because on balance, it's often more risky but families like this one in minnesota are reuniting at home and he brought his 85-year-old mother joan from an assisted living center to his home with one health aid is she safer here? >> seems intuitive the chance of the virus getting in is vastly lower here. >> reporter: i heard your physical therapy is going up the stairs. >> yes. >> reporter: up and down. >> that's helping, too. >> reporter: twice a day. and while joan watches the hallmark channel, john works. he started a facebook group to help other families facing difficult decisions. >> like cherish y

and there we have elliott's tower built in his play room there. good work. looks very enthusiastic about what he has done as we encourage you to share it with #kpix. >>> governor newsom listed pretty >>> a new psa tonight from larry david the creator of seinfeld and curb your enthusiasm. >> he says he normally doesn't do it had thing, but made an exception to help the governor. >> i basically want to address the idiots out there and you know who you are. you're going out, i don't know it's not good. but the problem is you're passing up a fantastic opportunity, a once in a lifetime opportunity to stay in the house, sit on the couch, and watch tv. do nothing. californians should stop putting other people at risk specifically older people like him. we will be back. back with dennis. where is he covid-19 is a serious respiratory disease. there are simple steps we can all take to stay healthy and protect our community. wash your hands for twenty seconds with soap and warm water. clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. cover coughs and sneezes with

and there we have elliott's tower built in his play room there. good work. looks very enthusiastic about what he has done as we encourage you to share it with #kpix. >>> governor newsom listed pretty for over 80 years, nissan has been with you through thick and thin. and now is no different. we're offering payment options for current owners and our service departments are here to help. and for future owners, we're offering no payments for 90 days on 14 models. this is help when you need it. >>> a new psa tonight from larry david the creator of seinfeld and curb your enthusiasm. >> he says he normally doesn't do it had thing, but made an exception to help the governor. >> i basically want to address the idiots out there and you know who you are. you're going out, i don't know what you're doing. you're socializing too close. it's not good. but the problem is you're ina nt opitin lifepportuty to stay in the house, sit on the couch, and watch tv. >> or take a nap or do nothing. californians should stop putting other people at risk specifically older people like

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. >> reporter: as we talk outside, danny's 2-year-old brother elliott inside, keeping that distance asls us he's worried. >> are you afraid of the disease? >> a little. because like what if bean catches it like or what if i catch it? if i catch it i would probably have to stay in my room all day. maybe for two weeks. and like i wouldn't get to see him at all. >> reporter: danny was just beginning to learn how to communicate when the pandemic closed his school. >> we are home-schooling a second-grader and we are trying to get danny's therapies in to the best that we can but we just can't replicate what they can do at school. >> reporter: and you're holding down two full-time jobs at the same time. >> that's right. yes. >> so we're ending the three-hour shift here. mariah and i wrote a story today. >> reporter: same for melissa winchell toggling between daycare and a day job, a full-time university professor still lecturing, grading papers and advising hundreds of students. among them now mariah, who's still struggling to understand all that loss of normalcy. >> the grief almost feels fr

he identified with a very recent decision where judge parker wrote a decision in the briggs versus elliott case saying the constitution does not require integration, it merely forbids segregation. this is a claim that it is not incumbent on school districts to take affirmative steps, it just wipes off from the books the formal racial segregation. so u you will not think of senator thurman in lower courts, but this was weeks after the decision was brought down, but yes, there is a way to get ud around. senator sam irvin, he made a claim, he used with constitutional law and ought to be reversed for that decision, it is not as drastic as many people think, right? it is deplorable, but not as drastic as people think. he says it doesn't require the immediate sintegration of the schools. senator irvin says people attend different places of worship and we can have a similar think in relation to our schools. they say whatever is working in new york city and other parts of the north, we'll get that going down here as well. whatever they're doing in harlem we will bring down south. they were frustra

looked like george was getting help from his daughter elliott there.other's day is just over a week away. tory johnson has great "deals & steals" for moms and these moms are excited for big bargains and they'll join us later, robin. >> oh, we look forward to that and we have another great recipe from a small restaurant. >>> this morning, we're heading to old time barbecue in raleigh, north carolina. they're going to show us how to make their famous brunswick stew, amy. >> yum. speaking of barbecue we have some big news about yesterday's restaurant, southern q barbecue in houston. by the end of the day they had hundreds of orders for their barbecue sauce and seasoning from all over the country. here's some perspective for you. they normally get two to three orders a week so congratulations to them, george. >> wow. >> that is such great news, thank you, amy. >>> we want to get right to the latest on the covid-19 emergency and those new reports about a possible breakthrough drug. the first treatment to show some real promise for hospitalized patients. dr.

the province has put in the rest here's ontario's deputy premier and minister of health christine elliott in some areas there are hotels being rented in other places it's community centers and other areas but every person with covered $1000.00 is there is to be treated and is there is to have a place to say additional beds and shelters are being added to help with the effort in ottawa a local rec center is becoming a physical distancing space for homeless men making up to $140.00 new beds available and the city has reserved 70 hotel rooms and is looking at expanding to 50 more to accommodate homeless families single women and youth in need of emergency shelter in fact about 2 thirds of the money will be used to record for self isolation and social distancing initiatives including activating dozens of new beds in what are being called social distancing spaces and local governments across the country will be doing the same canada's federal government is helping communities from coast to coast spending a total of over $110000000.00 u.s. dollars on the effort as mentioned on the canadian gove

of state for western hemisphere a cafe or is michael's ak and special representative for venezuela elliott abrams the same 2 men who in 1809 presented a very similar exit strategy to former panamanian strongman general manuel until you know da guy. fused and 6 months later he was ousted by a us military invasion he's here in the early more if the imperialists and the colombian oligarchy dare to touch a hair on our heads prepare for the bolivarian fury the fury of a people who will lash out at all of you. us stay. department sources have been quoted as saying the u.s. military intervention is not in the cards but that is surgical strike could achieve the same goal all is now in mulder's court to see if you will call washington's bluff you see in human al jazeera sent via. video conferencing zoom has seen a surge in popularity as people work and socialize from home but there are serious concerns the platforms tens of millions of users could be at risk tech experts have reported user data leaks risky installation techniques and vulnerabilities that malicious website access people's webcams ne

of state for western hemisphere a cafe or is michael's ak and special representative for venezuela elliott abrams the same 2 men who in 1809 presented a very similar exit strategy to former panamanian strongman general manuel noriega . fused and 6 months later he was ousted by a us military invasion. if the imperialists and the colombian oligarchy dare to touch a hair on our heads prepare for the bolivarian fury the fury of a people who will lash out at all of you. u.s. state department sources have been quoted as saying the us military intervention is not in the cards but that a surgical strike could achieve the same goal all is now in mulder's court to see if he will call washington's bluff. you see in human al-jazeera centrality. this is all just 0 these are the top stories president donald trump is warning americans to be prepared for tough weeks ahead is the number of deaths in the u.s. so process china's fatalities and emergency field hospitals being built in new york's central park to treat coronavirus patients. i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead w

of state for western hemisphere a cafe or smite kozak and special representative for the his way elliott abrams the same 2 men who in $1809.00 presented a very similar exit strategy to former panamanian strongman general man well until you know that. fused and 6 months later he was ousted by a us military invasion. really more if the imperialists and the colombian only garhi dear to touch a hair on our heads prepare for the bolivarian fury the fury of a people who will lash out at all of you. u.s. state department sources have been quoted as saying the us military intervention is not in the cards but that a surgical strike could achieve the same goal all is now in mulder's court to see if he will call washington's bluff. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. now again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera president donald trump is warning americans get ready for tough weeks ahead the united states has the highest number of corona virus infections now and has passed 4000 deaths white house health experts say the virus could catch up to 240000 people i want every american t

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of state for western hemisphere cafe or is michael's ak and special representative for venezuela elliott abrams the same 2 men who in $1809.00 presented a very similar exit strategy to former panamanian strongman general manuel noriega nodia the refused and 6 months later he was ousted by a us military invasion. if the imperialists and the colombian only garhi dear to touch a hair on our heads prepare for the bolivarian fury the fury of a people who will lash out at all of you. u.s. state department sources have been quoted as saying the us military intervention is not in the cards but that is surgical strike could achieve the same goal all is now in mulder's court to see if he will call washington's bluff. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. now with people confined to their homes a small town in wales is facing an outbreak of a different kind with a herd of goats taking over the deserted streets there the kashmiri goats which years usually never around the town of landed no are believed to have wondered and because of the lockdown the new residents which were originally gifted by que

we did do is we iinvited malco x to come up with to talk to us at elliott house.eally mind blowing for all of us. we were starting to think at that point that maybe integration was not gonna work and maybe we should be more al separatist and get into the black power thing. that changed a lot of minds. then we decided we wanted to set up a black student organization we didn't have any particular radical ideas we just wanted a place where we could all meet together and invite speakers up and talk and maybe publish a magazine and it called the association of african and afro-american students. the membership would be limited to people who were of african or riafrican-american heritage. we assume it would be fine and the university would agree but when we proposed it to them they said no because they felt it was reverse discrimination. we were really upset about that because harvard has these things called final clubs which are social eating clubs where aristocratic families go by john f. kennedy roosevelt, all the presidents they don't let in women, they don't let in

he would go on to serve at the high school teacher in elliott new york and leader and archivist at cornell university. in 1966, he joined the staff of the metropolitan museum of art first as archivist of the museum and for 22 years, chief registrar in charge of worldwide art movements. in that capacity, he traveled widely in the u.s., canada, mexico and europe and the former ussr, the middle east, india, china, japan and australia. upon retirement he resumed a writing career that had begun in the 1960's. john buchanan is the author of "the road to valley forge." "the road to guilford courthouse." and our book this evening. please join me in welcoming john buchanan. [applause] >> i should start really by thanking the society for letting me speak in this historic venue. and kelsey atwood for her impeccable arrangements. thank you, kelsey. [applause] so, what to do about the south? the last major engagement in the north was the battle of monm outh courthouse new jersey 28th of june 1778. after that, stalemate in the north. but the british had been taken of a southern campaign since 1776 and f

ere were you headquarterer , san diego,elliott as i remember. be interviewed by colonel carlsen and by jimmy roosevelt. the colonel would ask different questions, why do you like to japs,aps, do you like that kind of stuff. so i said the things they liked to hear. i said yeah, i like to kill them, you know. and that was it. i never meant anything by it, but that is how it worked out. interviewer: so how long did you stay in san diego? state there -- we stayed there for five months. i am thinking i have to remember. that is over 60 years ago. we went to hawaii , and that is when we went pearl harbor and we saw all those ships and they were battered, turned over on their bellies. i showednt to the camp you when i said, this is where i was a police sergeant. and that is where we were, in honolulu. and that is where two companies was ao macon island, it company, they went to macon island and a company .ent to the battle of midway company,headquarters so i stayed back with a view other men, and because i was a police sergeant, we would take care of t

carla: it was the largest fire in elliott that at the time printed. susan: it was a large structure fire until recently. and that's in history and that is saying something because there are a lot of fires in la unfortunately. and it remained and will always remain the largest library fire in american history. one of the world. sadly, there have been larger library fires in the world. and certainly, in the course of particularly world war ii. there were entire libraries where the context were burnt in the building destroyed. so there are precedents sadly. we have burned libraries since we have built libraries pretty. carla: when you think some more accidents but some were intentional. susan: many were intentional printed and goes back to my original impulse for doing this month. and that is been they haven't been burned because we care about them so deeply. the, had a commando unit that were called the brennan commandos. they had one mission. and that was to seek out and learn library sprayed it was an effort to send a message to people which is your h

we start with one from elliott. >> my name is elliot and i have a 10 year maxon and a 4-year-old daughter they are infected with the coronavirus and admitted to the hospital would they be separated and as a parent what i have a right to stay by their side in the hospital in their time of need? thank you. >> what do you make of that situation? >> great question and that will vary depending on each hospital protocol they are following but most likely the children would be separated because they will be following isolation procedures, a lot of hospitals are limiting it to one parent with the child but you are able to be with your child but you have to speak with the hospital to see whether policy is that your children will not be alone but they will likely be separated. >> one thing you can do to reassure parents, the younger someone is, not newborns for children and teenagers are less likely to have significantly symptomatic disease. if the child has an underlying condition like cancer or diabetes it is a different story but a normal healthy childless then 20, very few will be significantly