name is leroy johnston. he was from yulin, arkansas, and a lot of us who are story and know about the riot in elaine, arkansas in september early october of 1919. he and three of his brothers came back from a hunting trip and all four of them were killed. the key thing about leroy johnston, all soldiers served whether you are in a combat unit or a service of supply unit here survive europe he was actually in the 369 infantry regiment which we know as the harlem health fighters, so he was a veteran who served in the trenches and came back and was lynched. each one of those 12 soldiers has a story, but that is one i think would be interesting to highlight based on your question. thanks for asking. >> you mentioned a picture is worth 1000 words, a flag might be worth 1000 words as well. we we have been showing viewers images of a flag, a man was lynched explained where that fly comes from. >> ok, so, when we talk about why this exhibition is, correction 2019,2020 the title, we returned fighting, the experience

his body has never been found. >> david johnston where you can see the trees down there that are cutcould monitor it from that ridge. >> reporter: in the end, the only reason there wasn't a greater loss of life was that it was a sunday, so fewer people were working on and around the mountain. today, trees and wildlife are returning to mount saint helen's. but 40 years later, in the midst of a different kind of catastrophe, it's hard not to wonder if we've learned >>> the coronavirus pandemic is robbing millions of young people of a rite of passage. their graduation ceremonies. but from coast to coast, parents and teachers are stepping in to save the day. steve hartman found this story "on the road." >> reporter: when gabrielle pierce's graduation got canceled, her dad was almost as upset as she was. >> it nearly broke my hoht of something. i said,, i gssha do another drive-by. >> reporter: so right there where they usually park the chevy -- >> congratulations. >> reporter: torrance graduated his daughter from xavier university of louisiana on a rented stage and podium in front of fri

lee roy johnston is from elaine, arkansas. a lot of us historians know about the riot late september early october of 1919. he and three of his brothers came back from a hunting trip and all four of them were kil d killed. the key thing about lee roy johnston is all soldier service is key, whether in a combat unit or a service, a supply unit. he survived europe. he was actually in the 369th infantry regimen what we know as the harlem hell fighters. so he was a veteran who served in the trenches and came back and was lynched. and so each of those 12 soldiers has a story. but that's one. i think would be interesting to highlight based on your question. thanks for asking. >> you mentioned a picture is worth a thousand words. a flag might be worth a thousand words as well. we've been showing our viewers the image of a flag that says on it, a man was lynched yesterday. explain where that flag is from. >> okay. so when we talk about why this exhibition of 2019 and 2020 and the title we return fighting because the experience of afric

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commissioners johnston? >> thanks. just a question for now. we had some neighbors bring up the fact that the project might not have been properly noticed or that they didn't receive -- or have access to the plans in time. i just would love to hear staff comment on the noticing and timeline as we deliberate. >> while we wait for staff to un-mute themselves, i will remind everyone to mute your microphones when you're not speaking. and sylvia -- >> yes, i'm prepared to answer. >> so the project did comply with all of the notification requirements and initially, they did generate a pre-application meeting that they're required to do prior to submittal of the project application. and as you can see by the application date, dates back to 2018. so that's probably part of the reason why neighbors don't recall hearing about this for awhile. touand i should note as part ofe pre--op requirements, it's only requirethedocumentation shows pr noticing and that was done back in 2018. near not require any outreach. they've been working with staff to come up wi

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hospitalization for corona virus in an interview he said doctors had been preparing a strategy in case he died johnston spent 3 nights in intensive care during his week of treatment in a london hospital. greece is moving hundreds of migrants out of an overcrowded refugee camp on the island of lesbos the migrants are seen as vulnerable to the krona virus and will be moved from the morea camp to the mainland the e.u. has called on greece to move who are most at risk from code 90. students in israel returning to school after 50 days at home under coronavirus lot the oldest and youngest are the 1st back remaining classes will return later this month. today's world press freedom day and every year on this stage gives out its freedom of speech award this year at the award highlights journalists who have been persecuted because of their coverage of the coronavirus pandemic we have this closer look now at some of the individuals who are singling out for their courageous reporting. threatened attacked arrested press freedom was already a contentious and often dangerous issue in countries governed by repressive

joining me now with a look at axios a.m., editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston. about axios' one big thing today. >> today's o ee's one big thing pandemic that broke america. eight weeks in, the united states is no closer to any kind of national solution strategy for reopening government, reopening states, defeating the coronavirus, and moving beyond this crisis. when you dig in on the reporting, the cultural battles we've been fighting the last decades have been brought into the pandemic. you see it in the partisan breakdown and the polling itself when we ask americans, "are you worried the pandemic will infect someone you know, or someone in your family will get the coronavirus?" democrats are far more worried about the pandemic than republicans. we're seeing it in the data around the death count. when you ask americans if they believe the death counts are too high or too low, there is a partisan breakdown on that, as well, going up to the president and other administration officials. it's led to a litany of problems in recent weeks as we've tried to respond to

later on private henry johnston who is also the 93rd division would be awarded the medal of honor by president obama but on another engagement earlier in the american attacks. cohen we are standing in front of the grave of frank luke junior. he played a significant role in the meuse-argonne area. he had a unique job, so to speak. he was a balloon buster. can you tell us about the balloons in the war and why the americans and the french wanted to shoot them down? >> blooms were used for observation. as you can imagine. hilltops were very important, but balloons were way better. balloons were flying everywhere over the battlefields. sometimes going close into the real lines, throwing bombs on the camps. balloons were used as a weapon and observation. shooting balloons were something very important. >> so luke took off on the morning of the 27th on a mission that was not approved. his commanding officer did not know where he was. by the end of the day, he did not come back. later on, it was found that he had been shot down. do you know where he was shot down? big >> yes, a small village

joining me now with a look at axios am, editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston.od morning. >> great to see you on this thursday morning. >> good to see you. >> talk to us about axios' one big thing. >> it is a virus foothold in the south. we've updated, once again, the weekly coronavirus case tracker for the united states. this is the most popular piece of content we ever created in the three years axios existed. it is the week to week trends of new cases in the united states. the data we're seeing is that although, nationally, trends are looking pretty good, and even somewhat positively, there are still some places where the cases are worrisome, particularly in the south. arkansas, georgia, south carolina, mississippi, tennessee. those are where the trends have been going in the wrong direction for the past week. those are also states moving probably the most quickly ahead with reopening. some of the states we're also watching more closely. nationally, there are states which are, although not perhaps having increases as much as in the south, really sort of had a

we have with us nicholas johnston, editor and chief of axios.las, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so the president reiterated yesterday next 235 some odd days left in 2020, he wants a fully authorized vaccine to start to administer, but the conflicting context in which that was delivered yesterday, that sets the table for our conversation. here is what the president said. >> another essential pillar of our strategy to keep america open is the development of effective treatments and vaccines as quickly as possible. vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. >> so when he scripted the vaccine is essential to keep america open, when he's talking off the cuff vaccine or no vaccine, we're back, the instinct to declare this crisis over how is that pervading the breadth of the federal response from this point moving forward? >> we dug into this at axios this week and wrote about it [ inaudible ] -- partisanship around the federal government and state government response. you see it in the polling data when you ask republicans and democrats are you wor

. >> reporter: one of the first to die, geologist david johnston. place on saturday night. >> reporter: in the 45 seconds before the cloud hit, he was able to radio out one last morning, telling the vancouver monitoring station, this is it. this body has never been found. >> you can see those trees down there that were cut off flat, he were you in awas in anarea that was logged. >> reporter: in the end, the only reason there wasn't a greater loss of life is because it was a sunday, so fewer people were working on and around the mountain. today trees and wildlife are returning to mt. st. helen's, but 40 years later, in the midst of a different kind of catastrophe, it is hard not to wonder if we've learned all we could have from that sunny sunday in 1980. >> pauley mount st. helen>> pauley: earlia braver told us about seniorsÑi doing without promise and ceremonies.ÑiÑi but steve hartman has more.!3#) gabrielle's graduation got canceled, his dad, torence, was almost as upset as she was. >> it really broke my heart, but what can you do. >> reporter: but

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we've have at the start of the crisis much of the media were pretty supportive of the newly elected johnston government over the atlantic much of the press were already critical of the trumpet ministration and his handling of the crisis as criticism many times over to analyze this time to chris hedges the pulitzer prize winning journalist author and post them i condemn it chris welcome back to the alex salmond show thank you chris the president clearly sought to deflect responsibility onto his feet assess that ministration for lack of preparations on to the world health organization for mis calling the the crisis as the president sees a lot indeed on to china if a big ologist the crisis how successful has he been thus far in deflecting responsibility elsewhere with most of the country not successful at all within his base. while it has taken hits in it remains affective you have these kind of astroturf protests outside of state capitals i live in new jersey we even had one in new jersey these are people who are not in new jersey who show up with weapons demand a reopening i think it's hard t

despite the lockdown, mark johnston's 280 horses still need their exercise and still need to be ready uncertain. it's been a very frustrating period. we would have been racing, and with all these horses ticking over and nowhere to go, but we've been very, very lucky, in comparison to other industries. nothing could lend itself more to social distancing than being on the back of a racehorse. i've never had so many horses fit and ready to run and looking for a race. now, they do have something to aim for. horseracing has been given the go—ahead to restart. the opening race will take place here at newcastle's gosforth park, as the sport tries to recover from a £50 million loss of income. our first responsibility is to ensure that we return safely. it is an opportunity because we will be, all of our racing will be free, available on tv, so people will be able to tune into our sport when there isn't much other sport on for the next two weeks. but the whole race day experience here in newcastle is going to feel very different. for a start, everyone will have their temperature checked on arr

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. >> reporter: tracy johnstone is a franchisee who owns several mcdonald's in florida. developed a task force with a 59-page guide for owners reopening. >> we have screens on the front counters. >> reporter: she took this video highlighting the changes. self-serve soda fountains will be closed or monitored by an employee. they will sanitize tables and cheers after every use and clean restrooms every 30 minutes. and floor decals keep people six feet apart. >> we can accommodate multiple people. >> reporter: and some tables are off-limits. how do you handle the guests who don't want to cooperate with social distancing guidelines? >> we have really good coaching in place for our team to engage with those guests. >> reporter: mcdonald's has about 14,000 locations in the u.s. most like this one in l.a. county, are not open for dine-in. so far, nearly 100 restaurants have opened their dining rooms and more will gradually follow, as states ease their restrictions. ultimately, the choice is up to each owner. other fast food chains are also reopen inside, including restaurant br

. >> nicholas johnston, my friend, great to see you. >> thank you. >> i'll beee reading axios a.m.n ae on this m thursday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> with 4% of the world population and 30% of the outbreak, what would you have done different ly facing this crisis? >> take new york and new jersey, very hard hit, and we were very, very low. in terms of morbidity and in terms of -- you look at the death relatively speaking, we're at the lowest level, along with germany. germany, us, could have been smaller countries, too, perhaps. we're in that category, along with germany, as the lowest. i think that's a great honor. >> yeah. >> that's not correct. >> no, that's a lie. >> according to data from johns hopkins university, the u.s. ranks tenth highest in per capita death rates out

despite the lockdown, mark johnston's horses still need the exercise and need to be ready.m coronavirus himself, and the past few months have been frustrated. it has been frustrating because we would have been amazing and we have all these horses here ticking over and nowhere to go, but we have been very lucky in comparison with other industries who have not lent themselves to social distancing like we do on the back of a racehorse. i have never had so many horses picked to run and looking for a race. now they do have something to race fall, horse racing has been given the go—ahead to start. the opening race will take place here at newcastle's park, as they try to recover from a £50 million loss of income. are referred response ability is to ensure that we returned safely. it is a responsibility because all of our racing will be freely available on tv so people will be able to tune in to our sport when there isn't much sport on for the next two weeks. but the whole race day experience here newcastle is going to feel very different. everyone will have their temperature check

joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston.ng to you. great to see you this morning. >> morning. good the see you. >> talk about axios' one big thing. >> it's the misdirection of a virus drug. we have the administration's attempts to thousands of these treatment doses to the federal government to distribute to places that most need it. we're finding out now it is not going to the places where it is most needed because of miscommunication. what the administration is telling us, they didn't have the best data. a lot of the doses went to places where the virus had already spread or hadn't been that impactful. administration folks tell us this is why they want to push the relief efforts down to the states, because they have the best data and can make those decisions most effectively. also, there was a lot of miscommunication between how this was going to work. these were doses that were supposed to be directed by hhs, and then fema was suppose to be the machinery to push it out into all the states. when we speak to an administratio

. >> reporter: tracy johnstone owns seven mcdon't's restaurants in florida. she also leads a task force that developed a 59-page guide for owners setting conditions for reopening. >> we have screens installed in all our locations and front count counters. >> reporter: she took this video, self-serve soda fountains will be closed or monitored by an employee. >> you cannot make your own drink. >> reporter: they'll sanitize digital key os, and tables and chairs each uses. floor decals keep guests six feet apart. >> -- so we can accommodate multiple people. >> reporter: some tables are off limits. >> how do you handle the guests who don't want to cooperate with social distancing guidelines? >> we've got some really good coaching in place for our teams to engage with those guests. >> reporter: mcdonald's has about 14,000 locations in the u.s. most like this one in l.a. county are not open for dining. so far nearly 100 restaurants have opened their dining rooms and more will gradually follow as states ease their restrictions, but ultimately the choice is up to each

later on monday on sunday night he outlined a new virus alert system during a rest of the nation johnston said the people will be allowed to spend more time outdoors but with the highest death toll in europe its latest plan is already facing criticism for britain reports. the site of people basking in sunny parks and strolling along the river thames this weekend offered just a snapshot of the wider reality that 7 weeks after they were introduced the u.k.'s stay at home restrictions had stopped being strictly observed or strictly enforced now there is a new public health slogan stay at home ditched in favor of the new mantra stay alert there's also a 5 level alert system that will govern how quickly the lockdown can be eased the prime minister's priority is to find ways of getting people back to work the 1st step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week we said that you should work from home if you can only go to work if you must we now need to stress that anyone who can't work from home for instance those in construction or manufacturing should be actively en

if there's a theme to the johnstone book, it is perilous, certainly extremely dangerous, in positions of responsibility. and the cost of 2000 lives. it wasn't an act of god. it was the fault of human beings. what happens in life certainly happens in publishing as you quickly typecast, after the book came out the two publishers approached me, the other wanted to do something about san francisco earthquake and at the age of 35 i was being typecast as bad news mccullough and i didn't like that. what i wanted at that stage in my outlook and on life in the human condition was some symbol of affirmation because we are not always shortsighted. we know how to solve problems and we have the capacity to do greater things than we know and imperfect people working together often achieved noble creative works and listening to these two men talk about the brooklyn bridge, i thought that is it, that is the single of affirmation i have been looking for. i came out of that restaurant working as an editor in new york and had somebody waiting for me back at the office and i forgot completely about it an

. >> tracy johnstone headed a task force setting conditions forett reopening.ng reopening. she took this video highlighting some of the changes. for example, self-serve soda fountains will be closed or monitored by an employee. >> you will not make your own drink. >> sanitize digital kiosks and table and chairs after every use and clean restrooms every 30 minutes. to enforce social distancing, keep people 6 feet apart. >> we've designated this throughout the restaurant to accommodate people. >> some tables are off limits. >> how do you handle the guests that don't want to cooperate with social distancing guidelines. >> we have some really good coaching for our teams to engage in the guests. >> mcdonald's has about 14,000 locations in the u.s., most like this in l.a. county are not open for dine-in. so far nearly 100 restaurants have opened their dining rooms and more will gradually follow as states ease their restrictions but ultimately the choice is up to each owner. other fast-food chains are opening inside including burger kings, popeye's and tim horton's di

this is dane johnston, and there's a bunch of inhumanities and cruelties going on in san francisco, and it's happened since the -- since everybody got together and get somebody deciding to do something about the homeless people. well, all the stories in the newspaper were negative about the homeless people, and it's become a very negative thing to be a homeless person. and people have taken it upon themselves to realize that means not to help homeless people out when they're hungry. and so people are going days without eating. people on death row eat every day, and farm animals eat every day. it's okay to ignore people, including me, and not allow them to eat every day. i've asked 1,000 people to give me a piece of bread, and they ignore me. it's like escape from new york. you can't escape the city unless you have money. and if people won't give you a job, and they won't give you food, and it's cruel throughout. if we're suffering and telling you that we're hungry, it's not okay to ignore us. it's not okay to ignore me when i've done so much work for the city and i'm a hero, and i'm ask

determine final places with the only change to the table since football was halted been that saint johnstonepils. ministers want children in reception, year1 and year 6 to go back to school, as part of the next step to ease the lockdown. but unions and some parents fear the move may cause a second spike in coronavirus cases, as john mcmanus reports. when is the right time to send children back to school? and how will the safety of them and theirfamilies be guaranteed? in england, some younger pupils will be back at their desks onjune1st. but no date has yet been set for schools in wales, scotland or northern ireland. ministers say measures including staggered breaks and class sizes of 15 will reduce the chances of pupils transmitting coronavirus. but labour says guarantees must be in place. everyone wants pupils to go back but everyone wants there to be a safe environment as well. that is so important. the government also needs to have its test, track and trace strategy all up and running as soon as it possibly can. the government has acknowledged it can't eradicate all risk, but the evidenc

this is dane johnston, and there's a bunch of inhumanities and cruelties going on in san francisco, and it's happened since the -- since everybody got together and get somebody deciding to do something about the homeless people. well, all the stories in the newspaper were negative about the homeless people, and it's become a very negative thing to be a homeless person. and people have taken it upon themselves to realize that means not to help homeless people out when they're hungry. and so people are going days without eating. people on death row eat every day, and farm animals eat every day. it's okay to ignore people, including me, and not allow them to eat every day. i've asked 1,000 people to give me a piece of bread, and they ignore me. it's like escape from new york. you can't escape the city unless you have money. and if people won't give you a job, and they won't give you food, and it's cruel throughout. if we're suffering and telling you that we're hungry, it's not okay to ignore us. it's not okay to ignore me when i've done so much work for the city and i'm a hero, and i'm ask