These four days worth of hearings Siobhan Hughes, welcome. How did these hearings compare with ones in the past given we are now operating under the pandemic. Four days for the nominee. Caller four to guest four days is about the standard for a lot of people who have been tuning into the Supreme Court nominations only recently, it might feel a little different. That is because the Brett Kavanaugh nominations were so contentious. It did go on for longer than normal. Four days is about right. We will start monday with Opening Statements from senators. We will hear from a neat Amy Coney Barrett. Divebsequent days, we will into very intense questioning of her by the senators. Finally, there will be an outside panel that the senators will question. That is the format. That is standard. What is not standard is that we are operating in a pandemic. This is going to be a hybrid hearing. At the start, some senators are going to appear remotely. Two of them have tested positive for coronavirus. M
The bay itself and fire danger has increased due to that especially across the north bay and for inland east bay areas, were winds overnight have been gusting consistently on up to a range of 45 Miles Per Hour at times winds this morning in calistoga snowman vacaville have regularly beget been gusting into that 30 mile per hour range. Fairfield in danville also quite on the breezy side so these are windiest of areas as of right now as we work our way through the day youll continue to see strong winds on through the morning, a bit of a calmer afternoon and then wind speeds picking back up again into evening hours tonight with the vacaville atlas peak calistoga in sonoma. All seeing yet another breezy evening from thursday night into friday morning friday midday winds begin to back off and after that we are in for a much less higher fire risk weekend. And still a toasty one but not as high of that fire danger for sure. Now right now temperatures are mostly in the 60s to 70s, although a c
Protests against a label law that was passed earlier this month that opponents say will erode workers rights and dismantle environmental protection. This is the dollar index on the way down. One week lows earlier on today. The euro new york crude moving to the downside. We had the report on inventories showing u. S. Stockpiles were indeed much higher than had been anticipated. Dollar weakness, golds gain. Tom lets bring you the first word news and a catch up on the pandemic situation in europe. Be amains and continues to coronavirus hotspot, with new daily infection records in germany and the netherlands. Ing a curfew in madrid. Manchester is being forced into the u. K. s strictest curbs. In the u. S. , new yorks governor blames President Trump for virus deaths in his state, calling him a liar and a super spreader. California is easing restrictions in San Francisco. By the u. S. Ing sued Justice Department for abusing its monopoly in search in what seen as the most significant antitrus
, republicanurkowski from alaska said fair is fair. If that is what he did from the in the election four years ago, we should not be racing ahead. I am concerned and so are some members of the majority is ahave to say that different issue then packing the court. The question is whether the senate should vote to confirm barrett. What do you make of joe bidens refusal to answer the question if elected will you change the number of justices on the court . And can he hold out on that nonanswer for two weeks . It is grotesque that president Vice President will not answer that question. What they are refusing to talk about is the suicide bombing of two branches of government. They are talking about blowing up the deliberative structure by abolishing the filibuster, making it possible to change the house into another they are doing that to pack the supreme court. The reason i think amy barrett is a rock star and it should be on the court is because she is clear about her jurisprudence. When s
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