. >>> an online statistics class at the university of tennessee got a surprise visit from a technicallyenged raiders coach. >> excuse me, professor morris? >> yes. >> my name is jon gruden. i'm the coach of the raiders. >> okay. >> we're getting ready for the nfl draft. i don't have a lot of time. i just don't know. do you say data or day ta? which is it? >> john grudn gruden pointed ou old school but he eventually figured out how to get his zoom camera working. he encouraged students to stay strong and keep working during the pandemic. the university of tennessee is where gruden got his very first assistant coaching job. >> we've all struggled a little bit with the zoom. let's not get down on him. okay. when we come back, celebrating a special birthday. the san jose woman getting a parade fit for the heroine that she is. right now, staying connected is more important than ever. and fast, reliable, secure internet from xfinity can help. we have plans to fit every budget with speeds up to a gig-all at xfinity.com. we'll ship you a self-install kit that makes setup quick, safe and easy. n

and got it from the university of tennessee. and to be able to do that, to sit at home and just sit in front of computer and make notes, split the screen and make notes beside it as you go through, excerpt what you want, made writing for me a new experience. >> how much of a tennesseean are you? >> both and bred. >> where? >> all of my life. i was born in nashville, tennessee, and my whole life has been spent there. but it says something about our education that i have not found a tennesseean who knows i've written this book who knows very much about james k. polk. if you ask what president -- nobody knows he's 11th president and he served one term and nobody knows he expands the country from just west of the mississippi river to the pacific ocean. we know he fought a war. and that's about -- that's pretty much it. i was really -- i was really excited as i went through it because i learned so much my own state. about the leaders in the early days who established that state. and i had read all of robert remini's book on jackson an

dropped in on a class at the university of tennessee. >> i'm the coach of the raiders. >> nobody can see me. >> there you go. we did it. >> my wife helped me out. >> good fun. warriors star made a surprise call to the boys and girls club of san francisco. they received more than $62,000 from the hoops for kids program. he's also been busyishe saide's reviews. >> my daughter gave me three stars as a second day. i got room for improvement. >> another chance to highlight you. call me play. you send the video i do the catch phrase. like the beers family did. >> 10 year-old working on her swing. that's a ground out. try your flamingo stance. look at the high leg kick. the concentration. good-bye ball. and light. >> i'm so sorry. we lost the ball and a lightbulb. >> don't be sorry. you got power, girl. we called your play. >> send in your video. >>> >> announcer: today on "tamron hall," "the last o.g." himself, tracy morgan with a look at the hilarious new season. plus, nanny to the stars, connie simpson. and all new "tamron hall" starts now. ♪ >> tamron: welcome to "tamron hall" from my h

the university of tennessee invited gruden to be a guest speaker at a recent meeting at a math class.> excuse me, professor morris. >> yes >> my name is jon gruden and i'm the coach of the razors. i think i can see. >> we can be see you. can't see you. >> thank god my wife helped me out here. >> thank you, coach. >> see you later. how do i sign out? i don't know if i can get out of here. . >> let's hope gruden has a little bit more luck in tomorrow's nfl draft. by the way, for this show tonight, we prepped hard with a zoom meeting of our own. i have that clip. can we run that clip really quick? you can see myself, elizabeth, paul, all dressed and professional, while ken p bastita is once again asleep on the job. nobody sleeps like him. elizabeth, you know he is so good at sleeping he can do it with his eyes closed. >> one of his many talents. >> very good. and the words of dick vital, i need my sleep, baby. >> that's how he stays so . >>> coming up on the cbs evening news, coronavirus forcing the country's largest meat processors to shut down, how this could impact our food supply and

dropped in on a class at the university of tennessee. >> i'm the coach of the raiders. >> nobody can see me. >> there you go. we did it. >> my wife helped me out. >> good fun. warriors star made a surprise call to the boys and girls club of san francisco. they received more than $62,000 from the hoops for kids program. he's also been busy helping home school his daughter. he said he's earned mixed reviews. >> my daughter gave me three stars as a second day. i got room for improvement. >> another chance to highlight you. call me play. you send the video i do the catch phrase. like the beers family did. >> 10 year-old working on her swing. that's a ground out. try your flamingo stance. look at the high leg kick. the concentration. good-bye ball. and light. >> i'm so sorry. we lost the ball and a lightbulb. >> don't be sorry. you got power, girl. we called your play. >> send in your video. this is our home. we've never seen it look quite like this, but there's no mistaking it. and it's our job to protect it... because the best people to fight for our communities are those within them. s

the university of tennessee invited him to be a guest speaker for a math class. >> excuse me. >> yes?> my name is john interviewed i am the coach of the raiders. t there. t see you. >> there you go. >> we did it. >> thank you. >> see you later. >> all right. >> well, let's hope he has that figured out boy tomorrow's nfl draft. i have the top five things that happened in this date, 1947, the philadelphia warriors defeated the chicago stags to win the first title in nba history. karl malone delivered 50 points against the sonic at 36, he becomes the old to say drop 50 in the postseason. 1914, babe ruth made his minor league debut with the baltimore o's as a picture. that is a picture from 1914. 2018, brandon belt had 21 pitch at bat against the angels. he fouled off 16 s d ended it by hitting a flyball to right field. 2004, pat tillman was killed during combat in afghanistan. you may recall he turned down millions with the arizona cardinals to enlist in the army after september 11th. that is this date in sports hist wh you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he wil

jon gruden crashed an online statistics class at the university of tennessee. >> all right, folks. is class time i miss you guys. i miss seeing the faces. >> excuse me, professor morris. >> yes >> my name is jon gruden and i'm the coach of the raiders i'm getting ready for the nfl draft. i don't have a lot of time i just don't know, is it -- do you say data or data which is it? >> well -- >> i'm really sorry to interrupt. i'm a huge tennessee fan i'm a little confused. >> they can't see you. >> nobody can see you. >> there you go. you did it yeah >> thank god my wife helped me out here but no, i had some of my best memories are right down there at cumberland avenue and i don't know if chandler is awake yet. >> my hair is looking a little wild >> you doing all right you guys taking notes? i can't see your papers. >> i got my notes open >> all right you guys have a blessed day. stay strong and just know that we're counting on all you young people to lead the charge when we come out, now >> thank you so much >> and look, i've got my spider 2-y banana >> you are a crazy lady. i wish i

the plight coming down of this and all these mental health things going up what is at the university of tennessee researchers are taking pelisse is work a step further. they're looking into the connection between play and the ability to deal with life's hard knocks. these are syrian hamsters they're about a month old and about a month old is their peak time social play and their social play is rough and tumble mock aggression where they will roll around in each other and rustle. along at them. and one way to initiate play is when another animal approaches and rolls over on his back and they roll into a play fight or go there is a push. you can see that one animal initially and then it ran away and he came back and he attacked the other and this was roles. really as play fighting. play it has several functions but one is to allow for development of the prefrontal cortex and so we were interested in is their ability to cope with stress and it all have because we know the brain cortex is important for stress. one normal adult has been placed into the home of another adult don't play in fighting they

those questions, daria long emergency room physician and clinical assistant professor at the university of tennessee also have dr. gayle salt and richard quest cnn business correspondent and host of quest means business. good to see all of you. thank you so much for doing this for the next 30 minutes. the first question is from nick in new jersey. he asks should i worry about contracting the virus from mail and newspapers? >> so, nick, this is something a lot of people have been asking me and there is not evidence you may contract the coronavirus from mail and newspapers but that said if you want to be on the safer side we know that covid can live on cardboard for about 24 hours. if you want to take the extra precaution you can effectively quarantine the mail to stay in your garage or someplace about 24 hours then open it up and wash your hands well after you do it. >> gloria from new mexico asks, what advice do you have for people unable to give the deceased a proper funeral? >> sadly, this is a huge problem right now and probably will be for some time. it is important for the living to be able to

hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. blood he blessed. politics and violence published to the university of kentucky. ivy brashear is apposition translator for community economic development in maria, kentucky. welcome tonight. thank you for coming. i will turn the floor over to you. >> thanks for helping to organize this and thanks to parnassus for holding this. can you hear all right? i want to thank west virginia university press, the publisher of this book, this weird thing that we might do. abby has been amazing at getting this book out there. tony and i are going to talk about the process. we decided to have two contributors from the collection, there is a little bit going on in nashville right now. the structure tonight is a lot like the structure of this book. we will hear from tony about the concept of the book, why we wrote this book and then we will hear from bob hutton on interrogating hillbilly section of the book. and grounded in his work as a historian. iv will read from her peace, the appalachi

people i have ever had the pleasure to work with, and i'd be remiss if i did not thank the university of tennessee press who published the book. so the family is happy, the publisher is happy, so i am happy. so, a little bit about this man now that you have heard how this journey began. this obviously is the cover of the book. tom much later in life. he's pictured with crutches. i will briefly talk about why he was missing a left foot. he became quite a popular man in southwest virginia, was photographed a great deal. i'll show you a few of the photographs. i got the photos from his grandson, who is still living. he's in florida. he is 95 years old. he does email better than i do. he has shared so many photos. we cannot see them all, but i will close with my favorite photograph, and that is also the only time i will read anything, is at the end. so, this is tom later in life. we will come back to the story of the foot in just a little bit. this is the earliest photo we have of tom. it was taken on his wedding day. he was married on christmas day 1872. i'll show you another photograph shortly of he

bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and knoxville and is an author. and iv bashir's transition kumar data for community economic development in kentucky. welcome tonight, thank you guys for coming. i'm going to turn the floor over to you. so thank you for helping organize this, and thanks for having us. and thanks all for being here. can you hear all right? okay. i also want to thank west virginia university press who is the publisher for this book. who sought this kind of weird thing that we wanted to do and kind of helped us to this thing we might do. derek and abby have been especially amazing at helping get this book out there. tony and eiko edited this collection, we will talk about that process. we are really excited to have two contributors hear from the collection. so thanks to both iv and bob for making the drive to nashville. there's a little bit coin on in nashville right now. [laughter] so the structure tonight is going to be a lot like the structure of the book. we will hear from tony about the concept of the book, basically why we wrote

long, emergency room physician and clinical assistant professor at the university of tennessee, wendy walsh, psychist and adjunct professor and chan wu a former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst. good to see all of you. >> hi. >> good to see you, fred. >> glad you're all well enough to be with us. excellent. dr. long, you first, a viewer writes, gyms and salons reopened in georgia yesterday. is it safe for me to go to them? is there anything i should be doing differently? >> this is a question as a fellow resident at the state of georgia i am asked, i am asking myself. i think to answer that question we have to back up. we have to look at the cdc guidelines and the white house guidelines. they said before you start reopening, before we start this phase one of reopening, you need to see two things. you need to see a decline of 14 days of cases and you need to see your hospitals not operating in crisis mode. we're not there yet in the state of georgia. that is the first step. until we reach that first with stage, individuals may elect not to go back to these different businesses.

daria long, an emergency physician zpant surgical professor at the university of tennessee, and dr. gan ranee, an emergency physician at brown university. dr. long, what should people know about these uv scanners? >> hi, ana. so what they're talking about here, most of us are familiar with uva and uvb. it's what causes sunburns and skin cancer. what they're talking about in these germicidal -- these machines that kill germs is uvc, a different wavelength. it's much stronger. it has been used in hospitals and on equipment and in public spaces, but it's really important that it's used in spaces where humans are not nearby, because uvc can damage tissue in just seconds. so we don't use it on people for that reason. there are some recent studies that there are some shorter wavelengths, not too get too technical, that may not be as damaging and injurious to people, but there's just not enough research yet. so uva and uvb may not be effective on covid, uvc may be too damaging too human tissue. and let's remember, it does no good to kill the virus if you in the process risk killing the pers

. >>> jon gruden getting ready for the nfl draft, dropped in on a class at the university of tennessee my name is jon gruden, and i'm the coach of the raiders. >> i can't see you. >> nobody can see me? there you go. we did it. >> thank god. my wife helped me out here. >> suicider. >> you are a crazy lady. i wish i had you as a professor. i would have got a lot better grades. >> he is like me on my 100 zoom calls. >>> yesterday a man in tampa was kicked out of a park while working out. he had to be tom brady. he is in a better mood today. he is getting his old tight end gronkowski back. officially traded to the bucs for a fourth rounder in thursday's draft. gronk didn't play last year. in semi retirement. the soon to be 31-year-old won three super bowl rings with brady. >> hey, another chance to highlight you. it's our new feature, abc7 call my play. it works like this. you send us the video, and then i just scream out aloha means goodbye, like the beers family did. >> 10-year-old marina beers from san lorenzo, working on her swing. that's a ground out. dad says try your flamingo stance

marcus plescia, chief medical officer of the -- and clinical assistant professor at the university of tennesseewelcome, one and all. dr. lewis, to you first. those videos that we showed, i think that really drives home why social distancing is so important, and also staying even further than 6 feet away from anyone who is out exercising. >> well, i think that absolutely makes perfect good sense. it also makes a good case for why we should be considering masks. i think part of the simulation, though, doesn't take into account the idea that there is wind flow when you are out exercising. i actually would encourage people to be outside exercising, but keep a good, safe distance. >> dagen: and that's more of a problem in very densely populated metropolitan areas, like new york city and like los angeles. it's less of a problem in places where people are not as tightly packed into spaces. dr. plescia, would you make of these two separate simulations, and what can we all learn from them? >> dr. plescia: well, i think people need to bear in mind that these are simulations. i just think it's impor much

university of tennessee law professor joins us right now. uthor of the new school how the information age will save american education from itself which is a great topic its n. itself. harr harlan, first off when i look at the protests media is writing who is behind this? why would anyone protest? why what don't they get about the unrest people feel? >> one thing they don't know is people are hurting. law processor like me you have a professor you still get a paycheck. people who work for media they are inconvenienced working from home but money still come in. a friend who run as skin care studio and she has had no money in almost six weeks and her land lord is not working with her and she is going to have to move. there is just a lot of people out there who are just not seeing any money coming in. and they are really hurting, and, yet, their pain is just kind of dismissed by all the sort of powers that be and loudest voices in the media. it's not surprising they are angry about that. brian: look, we understand, no one's fault coronavirus exc

one at the university of memphis and one that middle tennessee state university.k students at these universities and the public at large, these are schools that receive taxpayer money, they should be able to know what is in those agreements. they should be transparent. they should be public. visiting professors and staff should have to go through background checks. the decision making should be left with the u.s. university. but most importantly, we think looking at what china has done with their human rights violations, with the coronavirus, with the lack of cooperation we have had from them, that it is time to seriously revisit even allowing these confucius institutes and confucius classrooms to take place in public universities and schools. judge jeanine: fbi director christopher wray told the senate intelligence community that china has been aggressive in placing operatives at universities whether professors, scientists or students. and the bureau has got to monitor them from its field offices act nation as they watch warily the activities of dozens of confuci

well joining me now is william schaffner professor of infectious disease at the vanderbilt university medical center in nashville tennessee professor great to have you with us as we saw in that report the governor of michigan warning of a 2nd wife if lockdowns and too soon what does she mean. what she means anthony is that if people start getting together in their casual about their social distancing and their use of masculine and hygiene then this virus will be transmitted among them and when that happens we'll get more cases war people coming to emergency departments and are admitted to the hospital that will be the 2nd wave she's talking about that's what we're all concerned about here in medicine we know it's a balance but we have to move carefully profess a disease experts recommend wide scale testing and contact try sing as milestones for the states to make before listening lockdowns part of that balance is that happening will is happening to a degree anthony and not every place has enough testing yet nor do they have sufficient personnel that are trained to do all the contact tracing and that's what makes us a litt

we have shipped supplies to organizations such as a health system up in idaho, university of illinois in chicago, tennesseeergency management agency and you know, all sorts of businesses big and small, not just today but also as we look forward, grocery stores, dentists, they will need these types of products, face shields, as we begin the process of reopening and getting back to some sort of normality but doing business is unusual in our new world so face shields, i think we honestly believe are going to be a key part of that. we are very proud to be part of this effort. liz: i think it's wonderful. and i just have to ask, did you ever think that you were going to turn your mouth guards and teeth aligners into life-saving devices during what is the worst pandemic we have all ever seen? >> you know, smile direct club is an innovative business. it's working in a really innovative space. this isn't unnatural for us to turn our hands to new opportunities. it's a great business to work for. we are just as i said, proud to be part of this and help wherever we can. liz: dan baker, please thank the entire team at

it took a story from east tennessee and co-owner of the historical consultants and phd in public history from middle tennessee state university and currently lives in stanton virginia. steven stoll is the author of "ramp hollow" this one. he is a professor of history at the university and the author of the great delusion and learning the earth. his writings have appeared in harper's magazine, a quarterly at the new haven review. and we have wendy welch the author of "fault or fly the story of foster care and adoption in appalachia." she's also the author and editor of three previous books including the bookstore of big stone gap and she runs a bookstore in southwest virginia. i want to see the thought at the start of the event to thinking about some of the topics. in his essay, james baldwin has some thoughts about how the stories of device or comfort ahead of the greater understanding and that can weaken our ability to deal with the world as it is in ourselves as we are. he concludes with a fought but i try to bear in mind when encountering the works of history and what they have reached back over hundreds of years or what w

yesterday she announced she is going to donate $1 million to research at vanderbilt university in her home state of tennesseey are doing some great work on coronavirus. dolly is doing it all, you guys. >> are you going to be tuned in? >> yes, dolly, thank you. >> thank you. yeah, you know what, i think i do need dolly parton in my life reading a bedtime story. >> i could see you curled up and ready. >> it's better than reading what i have been reading. >> turn that off. >> thanks for watching this morning. "gma" is coming up next. >>> good morning, america. breaking news for our viewers in west. a record 6.6 million americans file unemployment claims, the most ever. worse than experts expected. we're live with the latest this morning. >>> as coronavirus cases now top 216,000 here in the u.s., s are pressure. >> all these patients here are sitting out in the hallways because we are full. >> president trump saying the government's stockpile of equipment is almost out and now some hospitals facing oxygen shortages. new york's governor, andrew cuomo, warns the crisis could last for months. >> this could go throu

next on lectures in history, andrew slap of east tennessee state university teaches a class on abraham lincoln, andrew johnson and the constitution. he compares how both presidents have been upholding or disregarding the constitution, and whether their reputations match their actions in office. >> good morning. thank you all for coming. today we are transitioning in the course from civil war to reconstruction. because of that, it is a good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum and the civil war and reconstruction to understand. that is the united states institution. whether things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war era? to what degree did make political actors do certain things? constrained them or guide their actions? to what degree did the civil war shape the constitution? some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which directly changed the con

. >> next, on lectures in history, andrew slap of east tennessee state university teaches a class on presidents lincoln johnson and the constitution. he compares how both presidents have been portrayed as either upholding or disregarding the constitution and whether their reputations match their actions in office. >> good morning. thank you all for coming. today we're transitioning in the co

created after the revolution and named it franklin college, it wasn't university of georgia, the whole thing was franklin college, tennessee was coming into the union applied for admission as the state of franklin. look around the country and they have franklin county, these people were larger than life original. if you look at i go it great length at this, if you look at the ratification debate in every state and every debate and every newspaper article the constant refrain of the federalist was franklin and washington designed this, washington and franklin, how can it not work, these are two people we trust and so they had the stature. franklin at the time of the constitutional convention was 80 years old. he was in his third term, elected governor of pennsylvania served three terms. he makes joe biden look young. he remains sharp as a tack. or made mayor bloomberg look young but he was in no position to be president, he survives only one term, would have been teamwork. otherwise franklin was 100% as much as you can be behind washington, he had doubts about the constitution but had faith in george washington so he pushed

and we named it franklin college, was not the university of georgia, the whole thing was franklin college. when tennessee was coming in originally it applied as the state of franklin, you look around the country in most states have franklin county to this day in the washington county. these people were larger-than-life originals. if you look at and i go to great links, if you look of the ratification debate in every state and every debate in every newspaper article, the constant refrain of the federalist was it franklin washington designed it or franklin in washington -- whatever order they put it in, how did that work, these are two people we trust. so they had the stature but a sprinkling at the time of the constitution was over 80 years old. he had just completed -- he was still in his third term as governor and he served three terms. he makes joe biden look young. [laughter] and he remained as sharp as attack word could say mayor bloomberg looked young. but he was in no position to be president at that age, he ends up only surviving one term. it would've been a teamwork otherwise but franklin was 100

university of georgia. the whole thing was franklin college. when tennessee was come into the union original applied as the state of franklin. look around the country and most states have both a franklin county to this day, , franklin county at a washington county. these people were larger-than-life originals. if you look at, and aye at great length in this, if you look at the ratification debates, in every state, in every debate, in every newspaper article, the constant refrain of the federalist was, well, if franklin and washington designed this, or franklin and washington are for this for transit, whatever order they put it, how can it not work? these are two people we trust. they had this stature but, of course, franklin at the time of the constitution convention he was over 80. he had just completed, well, he was still in his third term as governor, comes back from france and is elected governor of pennsylvania. he served three terms. he makes joe biden look young. [laughing] and he remained as sharp as a tack, or i could say mayor bloomberg look young.

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tennessee. four other states started their reopening plans last week. >> the president of brown university saidening of college campuses in the fall should be a national priority. christina paxton said she's cautiously optimistic it can happen but only if careful planning now. >>> british prime minister boris johnson speaking out for the first time since his recovery. johnson says the uk is still at a moment of maximum risk for the coronavirus and also warned against easing lockdown restrictions too early. >>> now to troubling new signs some americans are easing up when it comes to social distancing there's even a name for it they are calling it quarantine fatigue. nbc's sam brock in georgia with more on that hey, sam, good morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning. people in 44 out of 50 states appear to be going backwards when it comes to social distancing that is according to a new study that looks at anonymous data on your cell phone and tracks how often you're going more than a mile and stopping more than 10 minutes. this park i'm standing in now, empty, was filled with possibilities of peo