The early thinking about COVID-19 was that it was primarily a respiratory illness, and that's why there was so much talk about ventilators at the start of the pandemic. But as doctors and scientists have learned more about the ways the virus works, and how it attacks multiple different systems in the body, it became clear the treatments had to change. Dr. Sean Kenniff is a neurologist & emergency medicine physician at Memorial Regional Hospital & Memorial Hospital West in Broward County, Florida

Federal police forces were back in the streets of Portland last night, where they were met by big protests with new demands:  to get those federal cops, drawn from elements of the Homeland Security Department, out of their city.  The efforts to force federal agents out of Portland are growing in their intensity...........just as the parameters of their mission remain mysterious. Two state lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against DHS and several other federal agencies challenging the constitutionality of deploying federal cops to do what amounts to local police work. State Representatives Karin Power and Janelle Bynum are both Democrats, both representative suburb areas just outside of Portland...........they're suing the federal government.

The mysterious federal police forces were out again this weekend in Portland, all decked out in military gear filmed beating and tear gassing protesters.  The question remains, who they answer to, the authority under which they're operating.......and whether these same operations will be moving to more U.S. cities. Sharon Meieran is a Multnomah County Commissioner in Oregon, representing Portland; she was at a protest last night and was tear gassed by federal police

Even among teachers, parents and politicians who feel it's too dangerous to bring students back to classrooms in the Fall, there is no love or affection for remote learning. So as school districts across the country grapple on risky plans to bring students back to their classes.............why not move the classrooms outside and reduce the risk?  Turns out there is a precedent here:  back during the influenza pandemic of 1918, public schools moved classes outside and onto the roofs of buildings, using open air to minimize the risk of spreading infections. Ginia Bellafante is the "Big City" columnist & reporter for the New York Times, and she's been writing about this very subject.

Rather than spending the last six months learning, adapting and planning for the best ways to attack the COVID-19 pandemic and control outbreaks, the United States has seemed to be moving backwards.  States that seemed to have a grip on outbreaks in March and April are now seeing surging rates of infections and hospitalizations.  With six months to prepare a national testing network, testing in this country remains scattershot at best. So we've squandered the time we had to minimize the long term impact of the pandemic; what can we do going forward to ensure that the virus doesn't hang over the country for months and years to come? Dr. Tom Frieden is president & CEO of Resolve to Save Lives; he's the former director of the Centers for Disease Control & former commissioner of the New York City Health Department.

If we are headed for another shelter in place order and another round of business closures, it's not just businesses big and small that will be in danger of going under, permanently. City, county and state budgets are all going to be in major trouble as tax revenues, already in short supply, dry up completely. Patrick Niemann, managing partner at the accounting firm Ernst & Young; he was a member of the L.A. County Economic Resiliency Task Force advising the Board of Supervisors.

In early March a person attended choir practice at a church in Washington state; turns out that person was infected with coronavirus, and ended up spreading the virus to 53 other people; two members of that choir died.  Around the same time in Amsterdam, an infected singer passed along the virus to 102 of 103 choir members--four of those singers ended up dying.  So it's pretty well established that singing in a confined space can spread COVID. With this in mind, Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a ban on singing in California's churches.  And some churches are fighting back, citing freedom of religion. Jordan Sekulow is an attorney & executive director of the American Center for Law & Justice; he's representing the three churches in their lawsuit against the governor.

It's no secret that testing for coronavirus in this country has been problematic from the state of the pandemic. But persistent reliability problems in testing.........lots of false positives and false negatives..........might be masking an outbreak that is WAY bigger than we realize.  There are also thousands of people, if not more, who never got tested and never went to hospitals, choosing to ride out COVID infections on their own. Dr. Donna Hansel chairs the pathology department at the Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine.

It's a point that's been made early and often on this program over the course of six months:  there's a ton about this novel coronavirus that we still don't know.  And that really applies to how COVID-19 may impact young children. There are new reports suggesting that children infected with COVID, even those with mild cases or who are asymptomatic, can suffer long term lung damage. Dr. Jennifer Schuster, pediatric infectious disease physician and Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.

Here's how it played out in mid-May in the town of Springfield, Missouri:  Two hair stylists at a recently reopened salon got sick with COVID, but kept going to work for about a week--they saw nearly 140 clients in total before revealing they were infected. So far, the number of people exposed to those two infected stylists who got sick themselves?  Zero.  The common denominator?  Everyone was wearing masks. Kendra Findley is the administrator for community health & epidemiology at the Springfield-Greene County Health Department in Missouri; she lead the study of the two hair stylists. The study of masked-up hair stylists and customers in Missouri has a direct link to what's happening right now in California as hair salons have once again been ordered to shut down.  They're looking for creative ways to stay open, even amid a resurgence of COVID cases. Fred Jones is legal counsel & chief lobbyist for the Professional Beauty Federation of California.

Canada hasn't been perfect in the way its responded to the coronavirus pandemic:  both Quebec and Ontario suffered significant outbreaks in the first few months that strained their hospital systems.  But there is no question that Canada has, overall, fared MUCH better than the United States in keeping its COVID cases under control. The United States has reported more than three times as many total infections per capita, and nearly twice as many deaths than our Canadian neighbors.  Canada is much less densely populated than the U.S., for sure--but that's only part of the reason why they've fared so much better than us. Dr. Susy Hota is  director of infection prevention & control at the University Health Network in Toronto  & a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto.

Russian hackers with ties to the country's intelligence services have stolen emails, sowed disinformation and worked to influence elections in several countries, so they've kept pretty busy over the last few years.  But the latest target for Russian hackers is particularly audacious:  researchers working to develop a coronavirus vaccine in labs in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada have all reported attempts to breach their servers. The most valuable data in the world might be sitting in the servers of those vaccine researchers........and apparently Russia's intelligence service wants it.  And other hackers were busy elsewhere yesterday, too. Laura Galante is founder & CEO of Galante Strategies & a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; she formally served at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus-related information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under new instructions from the Trump administration. That is not how it usually works in the middle of a health crisis.......and the change is raising some red flags. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner is a professor of epidemiology & infectious diseases at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; he served as an epidemic intelligence officer at the CDC & is a frequent advisor to the CDC, NIH & WHO

The rush to reopen the country during the first COVID-lockdown around Memorial Day was predicated, in most cases, of Americans itching and scratching to get back to their regular lives.  Almost three months of being stuck in the house proved too much for many people; and even now, with the country reopened but coronavirus cases surging, wearing a mask is proving too much for many people. It's that resistance to the kinds of communal steps we all have to take to slow the infection rate--combined with just how contagious this virus can be--which likely means we are nowhere close to returning to normal. Dr. Eric Toner is an internist & emergency medicine physician; he's a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health..........and he's spent the better part of his career studying pandemics.

The comedy duo and podcasters "Chad and JT"  were trying to do some good on the Huntington Beach Boardwalk this week.  They went out there with a box of free face masks to give away to anyone who wanted one, and filmed the experience.  The reception they got is a pretty good marker of where we are as a society in battling the coronavirus. Chad and JT were friendly and smiling throughout, even as they were repeatedly cursed at and quoted back conspiracy theories from the people to which they were attempting to provide masks. Chad and JT are comedians and hosts of the "Going Deep with Chad and JT" podcast

It's likely a first during this pandemic:  an unborn child has been infected with COVID-19 from his mother, thought to be the first time a pregnant woman with COVID passed it on to her baby in-utero.  What could the long term health consequences be for both the mother and child?  And how common could it be for infected pregnant women to transmit the virus to their fetuses; should this warrant immediate extra precautions? Dr. Denise Jamieson is chair of gynecology & obstetrics at Emory University Healthcare; she's a member of  the American College of Obstetricians COVID-19 task force

There is a small but growing group of COVID patients who were likely infected, and then re-infected.  If re-infection from the virus turns out to be a possibility, that makes developing a vaccine awfully complicated........and also dashes hopes for the idea of herd immunity. And more bad news:  the second infection appears to hit people a lot harder than the first. Dr. Clay Ackerly is an internal medicine physician at Foxhall Internists serving the Washington D.C. area.

One study after another has backed up the science behind face masks:  your chances of infecting people around you in close quarters is dramatically reduced when you're wearing a mask. But there's new thinking that even a simple cloth mask is doing a lot more to protect you than we had first realized.  New research suggests you might be minimizing your own risk of catching COVID. Dr. Monica Gandhi is an infectious disease physician at University of California, San Francisco

The extra $600-a-month in enhanced unemployment benefits that was approved by Congress during the early days of the pandemic will run out by the end of this month.  Funding in at least one of the Small Business Administration's grant programs has run out.  This comes as at least partial lockdowns are being reinstated in several states, businesses are being forced to close down again.......and the economic pain from this pandemic is far from over. So how will the federal government help out?  The latest initiative from the Trump administration is called "Find Something New"..........they're suggesting you head out there and simply find yourself a new job or different career. Adam Levitin is a professor of banking, finance & bankruptcy law at Georgetown Law School; he served as special counsel to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Many small businesses in California, from restaurants to retail shops, had a little over a month to reopen after the forced lockdown ended in late May.  That's a mere four to five weeks to get all kinds of new safety equipment and procedures in place and then rush to make up several months worth of lost revenues.  And then yesterday, that race to catch-up was abruptly ended when most businesses in California counties with high COVID cases were once again forced to close. For gyms and hair salons, in particular, it's been a really rough ride because these are business predicated on lots of up-close-and-personal attention.  We're going to ask two small business owners how they're going to survive this second go-round. Mark Harari is the owner and head trainer at Pulse Fitness Studio in Sherman Oaks ...and... Jason Backe is CEO and the master colorist at Starring by Ted Gibson, a hair salon in mid-city Los Angeles

Contact tracing and widely available testing:  two elements of this nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic that were promised months ago.  Well, here we are in mid July, with COVID infections and hospitalizations surging in most parts of the country; and neither contact tracing nor testing have been widely established.  Why not, and how much would this help squash the current resurgence? Dr. Marcus Plescia is chief medical officer at the Association of State & Territorial Health Officials​

Kimberly Chavez Lopez Byrd thought things were relatively low risk when she agreed to teach remote summer school classes for her students in a small Arizona school district--it was Mrs. Bryd in a classroom with two of her fellow teachers - and they were taking precautions....  Well all three teachers became infected with COVID-19..........and unfortunately, Mrs. Byrd was killed by the virus. Her tragic death comes as that Arizona school district is debating about whether, and how, students and teachers can come back to classrooms in the Fall. Pamela Gonzalez is the K-8 principal at the Hayden Winkelman Unified School District in Arizona, where Kimberly Byrd taught 1st grade.

California had been in an enviable position in managing the COVID-19 outbreak in the early months of the pandemic.  As New York struggled badly with huge infection, hospitalization and death rates, we seemed to have it under control here in California. What went so horribly wrong? Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is the chair of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco

As Disney World in Orlando opened back up for business this weekend, over in Hong Kong Disney was shutting down its theme park as COVID cases are surging in that city. Can Disney pull off operating massive amusement parks in the midst of a pandemic...........and is going there with all of the precautions actually a fun experience? Rick Munarriz is a consumer issues reporter & analyst at Motley Fool; he was at Disney World in Orlando this weekend

It's back to the future for most of California:  Governor Gavin Newsom announced that in counties where coronavirus infections and hospitalizations are surging, the shelter in place order is back in business.  That means malls, in-restaurant dining, stores, gyms, salons and more.........for most California counties.......will be closed again. Andy Slavitt is  founder of the healthcare advocacy group United States of Care; he served as administrator of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration.

Disney World is set to reopen this weekend in Orlando, Florida; right as Florida has been announcing almost daily, grim records in coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths. Disney says they're sparing no expense in keeping the amusement park sanitized and will aggressively enforce social distancing and mask wearing.  Still, even with the strictest precautions, would you go? Dr. Ravina Kullar is an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist and spokeswoman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America   

It's been a frustrating Spring for millions of young athletes across this country.  Sports leagues across the board were either canceled or put on hold back in March; and just when teams here in California were given the green light to start practicing again in mid-June, the state public health department just called a time out, amid surging COVID cases. Chris Nowinski is the founding CEO of the Concussion Legacy Institute; he is a former WWE wrestler & played defensive tackle for Harvard University football team.  In his work on concussion prevention, Nowinski works with hundreds of youth sports leagues and high school athletics programs across the country. Cristina Garcia is the athletics director for Granada Hills Charter High School in the LAUSD.

Major hospitals in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California are rapidly filling up with sick COVID patients.  There are reports of shortages of personal protective equipment and increasingly, front line doctors and nurses are getting sick themselves.  Hospitals are spending almost as much time battling COVID contamination within their facilities as they are treating patients. So we're going to take you inside the emergency department of one of the biggest medical centers in the country to hear how they're managing. Dr. Nathan Kuppermann is chair of the emergency medicine department at UC Davis Medical Center.

Can COVID-19 live on frozen food?  Health inspectors in China discovered the virus on imported frozen shrimp, as if you  needed more things to be anxious about.  The findings are the first positive results announced by Beijing since it began testing imported frozen foods for presence of the virus. Can coronavirus on frozen food infect you, are there any special steps you should be taking to sanitize your food? Dr. Warner Greene directs the Gladstone Institutes of Virology in San Francisco.

The predictions in 2016 were that President Trump's refusal to release his tax returns was going to seriously damage his chances.  After all, then candidate Trump was upending decades of presidential tradition in releasing their taxes. In the end, it didn't matter.  Even after today's twin Supreme Court rulings that the president's financial records are fair game for congressional & Manhattan D.A. investigators, voters likely won't see the Trump tax returns before election today.  So in 2020, will his taxes be a factor on the campaign trail? Robert Costa is the Washington Post national political reporter.......and he's the moderator of PBS Washington Week.

Months worth of warnings and preparations about chronic shortage of personal protective equipment for hospital workers and first responders apparently didn't mean much in the end. Just like at the start of this pandemic, where doctors and nurses were short of masks, gloves and shields.......6 months later and the shortages are getting worse, right as COVID hospitalizations are surging. Zenei Cortez is a registered nurse; and president of the California Nurses Association & National Nurses United 

The debate over whether or not, and how, to reopen schools across the country in the Fall, as a pandemic continues to range, is being waged by the president of the United States, governors, cabinet secretaries and superintendents.  But what about the teachers?  They will, after all, be right in the line of fire..........being asked to teach, to enforce mask wearing and social distancing among students, all while at high risk of being infected with COVID-19. And the teachers will have some say in whether they're called back to the classroom, after all they do have some pretty powerful unions on their sides.  And we're talking with one of them..... Becky Pringle is a middle school science teacher..........she's also vice president of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the nation representing some 3-million educators.

Mary Trump's salacious tell-all book "Too Much is Never Enough" offers a deep dive into the childhood of Donald Trump that would help shape the man, and president, he would eventually become. But this is not the first time the president's niece provided embarrassing details on his past. Susanne Craig is an investigative reporter at the New York Times, she was a co-author on a series of stories about President Trump's financial past that were first published in 2018......for which Mary Trump was the chief source of information.

There was a big ruling at the Supreme Court today:  the justices knocked down part of the Affordable Care act that mandated employers cover insurance costs for birth control for their workers.  But that ruling, as big as it was, is somewhat overshadowed by bigger intrigue surrounding the highest court in the land. First we have a major decision coming tomorrow on whether President Trump must reveal his taxes and other financial records to Congressional investigators.  Then there's the speculation around the health of Chief Justice John Roberts who, we've learned, was hospitalized in June after he hit his head in a fall. Amy Howe is a reporter and analyst for SCOTUSblog; she's a former litigator who's argued cases in front of the Supreme Court & former Stanford Law School professor

The decision on whether or not to send millions of kids back to their classrooms in the Fall is a massively complicated one:  it's not just the health & education of the kids that's at stake, but the health of teachers and faculty.......daycare considerations......and the economic standing of parents.  So as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on schools to bring kids back, it's not nearly as simple as swinging school doors back open again. Margaret Spellings is president & CEO of the advocacy nonprofit Texas 2036; she served as the U.S. Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush

Earlier this week Harvard announced that it would be offering all of its Fall classes online, with surging coronavirus cases making in-person classes complicated, to say the least.  But Harvard has the luxury of a $40-billion endowment and extensive political connections........the university could feel safe making that move. Other smaller, poorer colleges serving lower income students will not have that luxury. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; she's also a senior research professor at the Center for Information, Technology & Public Life at UNC

Think back to the start of the coronavirus pandemic, roughly 6 months ago, even though it feels like an eternity...........the intense focus was testing: to be able to quickly locate outbreaks and take the necessary steps to quell them.  Now fast forward to the present day, and testing is arguably even more crucial as infections and hospitalizations are soaring. Testing was a problem at the start, and 6 months later, testing is still a major issue for most of the country. Dr. Yanis Ben Amor is a microbiologist & executive director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

The latest surge in COVID cases across the country can be pretty directly tied to the reopening of the economy around Memorial Day, when younger Americans flocked in droves to bars and restaurants---and so it's no surprise that more younger people caught the virus. But a lot of those younger people have landed in the hospital with critical cases......how come? Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is chair of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco

There's no question that the SBA's payroll protection program was likely responsible for keeping thousands of small businesses afloat during the coronavirus-induced economic lockdown.  But we now know that plenty of business owners who are quite affluent and with influential political connections also got a lot of government money. Just some of the examples of businesses that received government loans:  the family business of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao........the Archdiocese of New York.......several businesses connected to Jared Kushner's family.......a ton of political organizations, ranging from the Ohio Democratric Party to the Women’s National Republican Club of New York.......rock super-group The Eagles. Neil Barofsky served as the Special Treasury Department Inspector General overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) from 2008 to 2011.

President Trump's favorite COVID treatment drug hydroxychloroquine performed pretty poorly in several early clinical trials as a treatment for the virus---and as a result, it was largely dismissed as an option. But a brand new study has shown promise that hydroxychloroquine could, in fact, lessen the risk of death for COVID patients. Dr. Steven Kalkanis is the CEO and chief academic officer of the Henry Ford Medical Group in Detroit

Gregg Garfield was the first COVID-19 patient or "patient 0" at the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank earlier this year in Southern California. Garfield and his girlfriend AJ Johnson joined KNX 1070 News to talk about his recovery, more surgeries and what's next. He contracted the coronavirus while skiing in Italy in February. Garfield came to the hospital in Burbank and spent more than two months there, according to a USA Today story from May. He was released from the hospital in May. The 54-year-old, who said he had no pre-existing conditions, recalled how he was given a one percent chance of living.  Garfield recapped how he was on life support, had kidney failure, liver failure and how he was on a ventilator for 31 days and was on dialysis. Garfield said that last week he had a second procedure in two weeks where he had amputation on his left and right hand on most of his fingers. "My blood pressure was so low when they were to move me even an inch my blood pressure would crash," he said adding his fingers and a couple of his toes were compromised from a lack of blood circulation. "I had the kitchen sink thrown at me," he said adding "as far as the amputations are concerned, I've had had all the surgeries regarding the amputation but there are additional surgeries as far as reconstructive that I am going through." He said he has 100 percent recovery of his internal organs.  His girlfriend, A.J., also recounted what it was like to see him in the hospital with the virus. Garfield said individuals should be socially responsible right now. He said, "at the very least, wear a mask." "I am a prime example of a guy who shouldn't get it," Garfield said. "I can really hope people really do take this seriously and look at me, I am an example of what you don't want to have happened. And I am very, very fortunate to be alive with given a one percent survival. That means if you're in my situation, you won't make it."  In LA County, the LA County Public Health Director issued a warning about the coronavirus outbreak as cases and hospitalizations surge.  Last week, Gov. Newsom ordered the closure of indoor operations at restaurants, wineries, zoos, movie theaters in certain counties for at least three weeks amid rising cases of COVID-19.  He added more counties to that state monitoring list today and said all bars in all 23 counties must close. Newsom also ordered the closure of bars in LA County and other counties.  On June 18, Newsom issued a statewide mandate on wearing masks in public. All of this as Dr. Fauci warns that the U.S. could see 100,000 cases of COVID-19 a day if Americans don't follow safety protocols and recommendations from public health.

Learning that you've been infected with COVID-19 could be just the start of a months-long process to recover from this virus.  As we learn more about how this coronavirus works, it's becoming clear that there is no straight forward recovery process and in fact, patients continue to experience a wide range of symptoms well after the initial infection has left their bodies. The symptoms can last months, and they can be as mild as the loss of the sense of smell or serious lung damage.  And here's the scary part:  there's a ton about the long lasting effects of this virus that we still don't know. Dr. Zijian Chen is medical director of the Center for Post COVID Care at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City

We're all supposed to be wearing face masks when out in public--in fact up and down California, it's supposed to be mandatory. But to best of our knowledge, no one in the state has yet been ticketed or arrested for refusing to don a face mask.  That, however, might be changing in West Hollywood where they've put some teeth to face mask enforcement. Edward Ramirez is Captain of the West Hollywood LA County Sheriff Station.

New York City psychiatrist Dr. Scott Krakower learned he was COVID positive back in April--what started out as a mild case quickly crew more serious, and he had to be hospitalized.  Almost 4 months later and Dr. Krakower is still suffering with symptoms like lung damage, fatigue and gastrointestinal issues. A cautionary tale for anyone who still thinks this coronavirus is nothing more than a flu:  recovery could take months, long after the virus has left your body. Dr. Scott Krakower is a psychiatrist and COVID-19 survivor.

It's deja vu all over again. Only a few weeks after California reopened in-restaurant dining, bars and retail stores...things are going to be shut back down again for over a dozen counties where coronavirus infection rates are soaring.  Governor Gavin Newsom didn't have much in the way of positive news to report today:  deaths from COVID-19, positive test results and hospitalizations are all up. Can we walk back the surge in coronavirus infections? Dr. Robert Kim-Farley is professor of epidemiology & community healthy sciences at UCLA; he served as director of the division of communicable disease control and prevention at the L.A. County Public Health Department

One state after another is reporting rapidly increasing shortages in hospital beds for critical coronavirus patients.  The original lockdown that started back in mid-March was supposed to buy our healthcare system enough time to be ready to handle a surge of COVID cases. Well.......ready or not, here they come. Larry Levitt is executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation; he served as a Senior Health Policy Advisor to the White House and Department of Health and Human Services in President Clinton's administration

Several months into this pandemic.......and with soaring infection and hospitalization rates........people are still getting into fights over wearing face masks in public. There are still protesters proclaiming mask orders as "fascist" and people refusing to wear the masks because they believe it's bad for them, or hurts their breathing. Dr. David Agus is an oncologist & founding director of USC's Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine  

Back when the coronavirus pandemic was gaining steam here in the United States, California was ahead of the curve.  We were among the first states to order sheltering in place and the closures of restaurants, malls, gyms and more.........and we held down the spread of COVID-19 with what seemed like great success. Well those earl days are gone; and now California is one of the epicenters of a nearly nation-wide spike in infections and hospitalizations.  Where did we go wrong? State Sen. Dr. Richard Pan is a Democrat representing Sacramento; he chairs the Senate Health Committee & is a pediatrician

When it rains, it pours. Epidemiologists are following a relatively new strain of swine flu that's been circulating on pig farms in China; and if it makes the jumps to humans, could have pandemic potential. Dr. Angela Rasmussen is a virologist at the Center for Infection & Immunity at Columbia University

The last six months has been terribly disruptive for millions of school age kids across the country.  Not only did they have to transition to remote learning, but their sports leagues, summer camps, play dates.....even birthday parties........have all been canceled.  Now, with coronavirus cases spiking across the country, those kids face the prospects of yet another semester of Zoom classrooms and isolation. The nation's pediatricians have come out with a strong statement in favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall wherever and whenever they can do so safely. Dr. Tanya Altmann is a pediatrician practicing in Calabasas & national spokesperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Carl Reiner was the driving creative force behind the Dick Van Dyke Show......Reiner with his long time collaborator and friend Mel Brooks created the 2,000-year-old-man comedy routine..........Reiner had writing and directing credits on The Jerk, All of Me, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid and many more films.  He was an icon, mentor to dozens of aspiring comics, writers and directors......and widely acknowledged to be one of the nicest guys in show business. Carl Reiner died today at the age of 98; the hyper-political Reiner is probably most irritated that he didn't live long enough to see the election results in November. We're joined by two people to remember and honor Carl Reiner. Robert Thompson directs the Bleier Center for Television & Pop Culture at Syracuse University ...and... Greg Proops is a stand up comedian, a writer, an actor....he hosts a podcast called "The Smartest Man in the World"