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So is the mix of virus and politics, potentially hazardous to your health. A question for Martha Tyson are to consider in our Sunday morning cover story. We must put politics aside. Stop the partisanship.

That didn't happen ticks in COBIT 19 have become comorbidities is the politicization of coronavirus worse than politicization of other diseases. I've never seen anything like this before coming up this Sunday morning red, blue country proved a challenge for singer Keith urban during a quarantine with Tracy Smith this morning we take note to make sure his had time getting to life's mission to react in the initial days sweatpants and sit on the couch watch TV with the family until all thing blows, but then something that got him off the couch.

Keith urban on Sunday morning, Lee Cowan will be in conversation with actress Drew Barrymore, the talk of Hollywood at a very young age. Now she's launching her very own show all the bad news is we could use a little happy to welcome to our why you have more options you have to have this coastal town in your tone here will be what optimism TV jiggle TV we can have optimism to talks braver looks ahead to the unveiling of the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington from Serena cultural is light pollution endangering our starry nights plus Steve Hartman some thoughts from Jim Gaffigan and more on this Sunday morning 13 September 2020 will be back in a moment, something that could be hazardous to your health. The combination of one highly contagious virus and one very contentious political campaign a cover story is reported by Martha Tyson, the dates of Bob Woodward's bombshell recording.

February 7 is important. Pres. Trump knew then the threat of COBIT 19 and had no qualms about downplaying it. We don't want to have to show panic were not going to show panic and that's exactly what I did.

But panic tanked the markets we are offering 900 points. February 25 really a disaster of a down day. We are on pace for the fourth worse points to climb for Dow in history tapped by CDC Dr. Nancy Messing is coronavirus warning in public's VP Mike Benson, George no bad news the following day, Pres. Trump announced his own coronavirus task force and control of the message shifted from the CDC in Atlanta to the white house. When you have 15 people in the 50 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero. That's a pretty good job with was that was that politics, partisanship became the lens through which Americans began viewing pandemic.

We got that worried people were about COBIT the more likely they were to following all public health best practices on and that's not what we found Shayna good. Darian is an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University. What we found was that the biggest divider in people's behaviors was not there age, not their demographics, education.

It was there partisanship. Darian and two colleagues have been surveying Americans attitudes toward COBIT 19 since March. Look at mass squaring even handwashing Democrats and Republicans diverging as much is 20% estates opened up the gap widened messages from health leaders like the CDC were rapidly changing over time and that's very hard for people to keep up with. So they have to turn toward those kinds of experts that they believe and trust in this case, the message from the White House was dominating if politics is about winners and losers during the COBIT crisis. The CDC has lost big time. There was a problem with test kits, but they think they fixed the problem. Starting with the slow botched rollout of its test kits and then it's about-face on whether we needed to wear masks.

I ran emergency response. It's easy for for four years. There was never a response. I was involved in where we do make mistakes. Dr. Richard Besser spent 13 years at the CDC and was acting director in 2009, during the swine flu epidemic. It's hard to predict that if if this goes away whether we'll come back more severe. He now heads the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, always different in this situation was that CDC wasn't out there every day be able to explain the CDC's director. Currently, Dr. Robert Redfield is one of its only political appointees really do think it's important to clarify this.

By mid-March Redfield at all but disappeared from the president's daily coronavirus task force briefings since then. See guidelines on reopening the country very on school we had on testing, watered down when you see the fingerprints of politics in the public health recommendations. That's a real problem and it is a problem because it makes it hard to then discern what's being what's being done for political reasons and what's being done for public health. In this unprecedented Washington Post op-ed, Dr. Besser, along with three other former directors of the CDC charged that the undermining of the agency is actually killing Americans is amazing how we as a nation have lost our way and have begun politicizing things that you know in the past. There was consensus for more more Dr. Georges Benjamin heads the American Public health Association, which rallied 347 of the nation's most prestigious health organizations in support of the CDC politics plays a role in Las Vegas. People think that is your primary purpose. There their only suspect is people don't want to dissipate the wiggle room not to do it control to openly defy restrictions they don't like. We believe this is an infringement on our constitutional right even to attribute political motives to public institutions trust that the CDC is providing reliable information about the coronavirus has dropped dramatically regardless of party affiliation since April, roughly 4 in 10 Americans think that during the Trump administration. The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration are paying too much attention to politics. The president last month. Still that sentiment, accusing the FDA of slow walking the testing of COBIT vaccines and treatments to harm him politically.

You have a lot of people over there that don't want to rush things because they want they want to do it after November 3. He was pushing convalescent plasma is a covert treatment. And guess what happened in place to make a truly historic announcement in our battle just before the start of the Republican national convention. The FDA granted emergency authorization for its use. So some people say the optic look like politics or pressure what you say about that FDA Commissioner Dr. Steven Hahn defended the decision, the professionals and the scientists at FDA independently made this decision and I completely support the so is the FDA. The new CDC integrity and independence in question, head of the FDA confirmed with us tonight. The FDA would consider emergency approval for a covert vaccine before clinical trials are complete. Remember, the FDA has to approve any coronavirus vaccine for use in the United States vaccine very soon.

Maybe even before a very special date.

You know what date am talking about, in spite of assurances to the contrary. Current polling shows that Americans overwhelmingly Democrats and Republicans worry that the vaccine approval process is being driven more by politics than science.

When you get well.

I think that banishing for all of us.

I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump and you knew this was coming, the prospect of a pre-election vaccine heated up the presidential race trying to disparage it there trying to make it politics as well have people won't want to take it. That's really bad.

Okay, that's really bad you with every aspect of coronavirus politicized already. It should surprise no one a vaccine that could end the pandemic has been weapon lysed after years of planning and no shortage of debate.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is scheduled to open in Washington. Rita braver has a preview, I turn the man of the world are marching together to victory. I have full confidence in your curry devotion to duty and yelling battle we will accept nothing (oh justice does so from the US capital markets nestles among museums and office building 20 years in the making. You dedicated to a president who is garnering you Dwight Eisenhower sell your first time here.

It's my first time I'm quite overwhelmed by, we visited the memorial with Susan Eisenhower, the president's granddaughter.

I'm really thrilled a foreign policy analyst who spent years studying her grandfather's career.

I just to say don't let them put me on a horse so is not a fleeting matter, which I think is far more appropriate. Indeed, as president, as he was known as plaintiff might both military and civilian a liberation of the lost war to is portrayed based on real life around the airborne troops would lead visiting just before the launch of the DDM lesion on June 6, 1944 of you. You are about to embark upon the great Crusade, toward which we have driven many months Susan Eisenhower's new book focuses on her grandfather's strength of character. For example, a mission would succeed. He wrote a note to himself.

That said, in cases operation fails.

The responsibility is mine and mine alone called on 725 Eisenhower himself thinks that you and Walter Cronkite in 1961. Responsible for the Sigma go to all of you is not where you can manage the war and architect Frank Gehry said he never really studied Eisenhower until he was invited to compete for the chance to design the new Memorial but then one Gary's original meaning design based on guidance from a commission appointed by Congress bears little resemblance to the memorial now built center was a statue of Ike as a boy in Kansas, looking out on this series of metals screams or tapestries. As Gary calls them, featuring key events in his life.

I think we were perplexed by the design because the family was not pleased to the idea that a young boy would be looking at his future and wishing what to become commander of the most devastating war in human history. I don't think he was dreaming to do that.

How would you respond well.

I do agree with Ricoh's better. Finally, after years of wrangling between the commission and the family took former Secretary of State James Baker to broker a deal is just one large metal tapestry representing plant 20 100 foot cliff on the coast of Normandy held by Army Rangers under German fire on D-Day use. Anyway, family what you are person who likes the new design is Washington Post art clinic Kennecott select forest at night and the lights were just coming up on the tapestries this big long metal woven welded kind of abstract rendering of the beach was gorgeous. Kennecott also likes the statue of Ike as a boy, now set off to the side. It is going to be a super place to people see a rendering of a heroic figure as a child. That's just not something you see isn't it Lincoln on his throne in the orchestra's this massive obelisk that represents Washington. Do you think Eisenhower is deserving of a memorial as these things go.

I think his legacy was enormously consequential's stock is risen very much in the last decades civil rights role he played in integrating important institutions in American life, today there is special residence to Eisenhower's or doing federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 he sent them to protect nine black students entering Central High School as jeering crowds tried to block their way. Many historians now went Eisenhower in the top tier of American presidents still Kennecott reminds us views can change with time.

I think realizing the idea of an absolutely great is just not there anymore. We are reevaluating George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, two of the pillars of the American Revolution because they were slaveowners were reevaluating Lincoln to politicians are never saintly, numbered and Eisenhower had no doubt grandfather's legacy both as general and as president should be honored. You had such an extraordinary career went on for 50 years. He is a man. I think his values and principles can be an inspiration for rising generations and that's with memorials for after all takeout with preacher Gareth this week. Stephen Long live Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to Senate races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just don't like you have more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with major Gareth on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts you may have noticed, we have a son here at Sunday morning what's happening to America's skies once the sun goes down as the stargazer Serena also was talking to very gloomy. Indeed, to hear Tim Frazier talent. The biggest shell of the summer might've been the Perseid meteor shower that lights the night sky from July to August when night looking up all from a clear place like this all you can see up to 120 years now though the retired photography professors work sits in the collections of New York's Museum of modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His passion has always been astronomy will reseal the science because the only thing that had happened was people look up ago. I wonder at this point in your life if you have to choose one of these lives astronomy or photography and your love for art, which way would you go all alone. That's really harder to find.

They are in the thing is, I think through appreciation of art and aesthetics.

It makes me thoroughly enjoy what I see is total school board because you seem real world that is so unbelievably complex and beautiful something of a golden age of astrophotography, cheaper technology from high-powered telescopes, computer programs to process terabytes of data have made it easier for amateurs to capture out of this world. Images every nighter out. You know you run the chance of discovering your planet potentially starting anew, the new asteroid things like that. There's been even some amateurs when they're doing videos of Jupiter and Saturn will catch collisions of asteroids and those planets Boise Idaho Astro photographer Jordan Ragsdale left his telescope and camera run for hours, often over multiple nights, while filtering out light pollution, all to create a single usable shot all the professional observatories and cameras on every planet, every speck of the sky at all times so there's a lot of discovery potential. Nowadays, with all the new technologies that amateurs have access to find planets on other stars from the witch's is pretty stale for casual stargazers in many parts of the country.

The heavens have never been further away you know I sound of Americans can't see the Milky Way from where they live, and I know when I was growing up, I just walked my backyard and there was an I've been back a group in Nashville went back recently. There's no way you can see now what central Idaho where Frazier lives now is rich with abundant natural resources from the Salmon River to the sawtooth mountains and its greatest resource might be night skies. Some of the darkest in the country. We have very clear and relatively stable and that makes the viewing just particularly wonderful because the stores can be so sharp and clear to protect those skies.

The towns of Ketchum, Sun Valley, Stanley and others regulate outdoor lighting as part of the central Idaho dark sky. Reserve one of only 16 such territories around the world, but there is a growing threat to our dark skies, satellites already.

There are over 2000 orbiting the earth billionaire company space that wants to launch some 30,004 as part of Starling, the company's ambitious plan to offer Internet to the world this summer thousands signed a petition saying Starling satellites could pose an existential threat to astronomy itself being able to spot objects orbiting near the earth is of vital importance to scientists because when a meteorite hits the earth can have real-world consequences. In 2013 meteor size of a six story house over the eastern Russian town of Chelyabinsk, sending hundreds to the hospital shape the course of life on our planet very good at is now that 65 years ago there was a huge impact by a large meteorite, probably 6 miles across, which basically led to the extinction of something like 70% of all species on earth, including the data source and that's what made it possible for mammals to flourish and for us humans to be ultimately Prof. Mina Cossey Wawa is director of the school of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University. Everything that we know and understand about how our platform how the solar system formed how life might originate on our planet comes from these so maybe preserving our ability to see the night sky just about stargazing or shooting stars or even astronomy something deeper and more fundamental. Something to consider. The next time you find yourself looking up and see no stars at all is very disruptive for animals like us.just like we need a light cycling job like no other, is the story Steve Hartman has to tell any electrician can flip a switch, but only John Massachusetts can make a customer like like this because I don't want to wake up. Yeah, that's 15 electrician a thousand times over last month 72-year-old Gloria Scott called John to fix the ceiling light but he soon discovered that blinking light was the least of her problems too poor to make any house repairs and too prideful to ask for help. Gloria's house was in total disrepair. No lights, no running water. I think I see you Friday. This document over the weekend to go back there so John returned and started working for 40 also started a Facebook page titled nice old lady needs help. He called on other tradespeople to join them on the Facebook page is not like were trying to rebuild her whole house. Now I look like we sure this whole portion going to get rebuilt and see up there that's willing a lot of about a month putting in all new electrical, all new plumbing, windows and walls and ceiling.

Almost everything is getting repaired or replaced from the backyard lawn front porch steps. While it's what you're supposed to do. Seems the whole tone of that mantra those who can't build are now showing up with shovels and lakes sending gift baskets, implying the workers with food.

I mean I can't even comprehend the gratitude that I have. John is equally speechless. It's just no words for no smug man with the salsa leaders I wanted to know is why we put into it the glorious gladiators and we want to keep goal of this John would like to see chapters of glorious gladiators across the country, helping seniors in similar situations. Seniors like Gloria Scott who had a broken light now shines brightly thanks to an electrician hardwired for kindness going country is worked out very well for singer Keith urban after some downtime due to the pandemic will be very much in the spotlight this week as we hear now from Tracy Smith. You might say that Keith urban, country mile.

This year we showed him the name of Gandhi.

He has a brand-new album ready to drop and he'll be on top of the country world ready for this. As host of the Academy of country music awards but like so many of us was stranded at home this spring with current had a tough time getting to life as a traveling musician back. I confess that I was in transition smoothly into this new way of doing things to react in the initial days and weeks was sweatpants and sit on the couch watch TV with the family until the whole thing blows up and he says it took a good kick in the get him off that couch. I just didn't do anything, nothing, for it seemed like eternity for me. What pulled you out of it. You know the turning point came a friend of mine who articles and times for advice that I was telling him what was going on. I just can't do this and can't do that book basic youth. Is there anything you can and within that call, I started to pivot sound so cheesy, but really that's what it was.

I pivoted on towards what I could do that going and I love my kids easier said than done, but once the 52-year-old superstar got back in the game started to happen like this benefit concert at Nashville Drive driving concert. You did the first Reading concert back in May was really one of the first that musician did you go into that being a little apprehensive. Yeah, absolutely. I'm playing a driving right didn't have that on the list of things to do in my life. Here we go. I was so grateful that we are able to do it at all, and in particular gratefully rolled over front-line workers.

Could that mean the future of touring for now at least driving concert. Please know 2020 followed Keith urban into the latest out speed of now, part one finished under the cloud of the pandemic and he says there's a chunk of this record probably a good third that wouldn't have happened without what we went through third. Probably yeah I would say I had 70% of the record finished so some of these songs came because of the times from the times and were even created during the song. That's something a lot of people overwhelming. Of course, not every new song is about the new state of the world Polaroid snapshot of good times gone by there really a Polaroid. When I moved to Nashville, lives in this just run down house in question will part of town and we are all crammed in there and we used to throw the most insane parties and somebody foolishly gave us a Polaroid camera and the fridge get covered in snapshots of these encounters all exercise.

I'm glad you can burn Polaroids okay they no longer exist.

I hope not.

Another good thing that came out of the warranty urban's been doing free online concert. You've also been playing some Instagram concerts with the best backup dancer I've seen in a while that just kind of a spontaneous thing that's been happening. Yeah yeah because we want to play.

I needed to contact so you left work. It doesn't hurt that his guitar tech is one of the most famous women on this album. There are a couple of songs with lyrics about how a woman can save a man and I'm wondering if that really rings true for you. Oh yeah, infinitely true for me. Nicole Kidman and Keith urban have been together since 2005 through the good, the bad and the downright awful a few years ago we spoke with Nicole and she was telling us that you, in a sense at a time in her life saved her that when she lost her dad were about to go on stage and you dropped everything and flew back to her and she said like literally picked her up off the floor. I need to know how to get out. Did you get because I had husband came right back. I called him screaming and crying and he was about to go on stage and he walked off stage and he got on the plane just gotten he flew six hours and he was right back for her to be a national me to be in California was was excruciating and having just landed and so I'm like I go to get back immediately. Now you know waiting around to build get the plane to get me back as fast as possible was just indescribable. So family first and everything is June is the title of you out just like but he found out that some of the biggest awards can only come out of slowing down. Are you hopeful I'm always hopeful we will learn so much from this moment, and when this comes again and no doubt it will at some point will be better prepared for it, just have a new way of doing things. We were always get to play.

Somehow, someway we can figure out a way to our summer of coven is left Jim Gaffigan lost in time for summer of 2020 is now in the history books but I must admit, June, July and August felt like a re-creation of a different time in history.

For me, for my family the summer of 2020 felt like an extended coast play the 50s to be clear, I mean the 1950s. I know we were so divided nation this summer. It felt like the 1850s, but I'm talking about the boring old 1950s, like most of you, my family and I spent way too much time on screens this summer, but otherwise we live boring generic 1950s. I realize this whereas taking my sons on their weekly funding trip going to the car was like Disney World because for all intents and purposes Disney World for amusement parks didn't exist in the summer of 2020. It wasn't just the kids that were living in the 50s this summer for most of us the most exciting, dare I say dangerous form of entertainment.

This summer was attending a thing called the drive of the American graffiti is not a nostalgic nod.

It was a foreshadowing of what the summer of 2020 would be like basic this summer. It was the 50s. The most fun.

Many of us have it involved baking gardening or walking. I'm kind of surprised Netflix did not announce a reboot of the Lawrence Welk show like Ward Cleaver. The highlight of my day one called would be having dinner with my family pre-pandemic used to struggle my schedule to ensure that I could have dinner with my family every night at 6 PM this summer. Every day I spent most of my time preparing and cooking dinner for my family.

Why, because it was the 50s if I was preparing and serving my family. I was a 1950s suburban housewife like Betty Draper's don't worry 1950s were followed by the 60s.

They were very peaceful. I'm Jane Pauley. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy to the point is we need people in the best way to protect good people is to convict the final season Millstream