Taking a live look at washington. It looks so clear there, doesnt it . Good morning. Thanks so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Havent been clear in a while here. Im Marcus Washington for you this morning. Mike, hope has a clear forecast for our roads this morning, but, first, we have to start with the weather. Meteorologist kari hall is tracking that for us. Our skies havent been clear in a long time. Today going to be any different . I dont think so. Were still looking at a lot of smoke coming in and those fires continue to burn and so until we get more containment and more of those fires put out, were still going to have unhealthy air quality. Thats going to be talk about ws orange coming up in a couple but, mike, hows it looking right now for the morning drive . Well, im watching for the orange, but i see some red, as well. The orange over here in the trivalley. Southbound 680 right where 84 merges with that and a crash should be making its way to the shoulder with no injuries
Im markicus washington. But, first, lets start with meteorologist kari hall with a look at that forecast for today and, of course, everybody is talking about that air quality, kari. Its looking a little bit more unhealthy for this morning. A lot of that smoke pushing down and also being trapped in our valleys. Its also being trapped in the fog that were seeing near the coastline and San Francisco over towards oakland, as well as parts of our north bay valleys. So, expect their time outside to be very short especially with 6 24 and the countdown is this unhealthy air quality for on. Nfl fans who wondered if a everyone. Well talk more about this and season would even happen during the pandemic really have why the sky was orange. Something to celebrate this morning. Game day is finally here. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking right hard to believe. The super bowl champions kicking now for the commute . Kari, its looking better. Things off hosting the texans weird to
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
as the justice department accuses the far right militia group, the oath keepers of plotting an armed rebellion to keep donald trump in power. we ll go live to the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. where testimony begins today. and liz cheney steps up again, this time speaking out against trump s recent attack on mitch mcconnell and mcconnell s wife, calling trump s remarks about elaine chao absolutely despicable and racist. we ll have the latest update on a growing scandal. that s actually one republican that s spoken out. exactly. against donald trump attacking the senate majority leader with violent rhetoric and making racist statements about his wife. i don t really not a lot of other republicans, elected republicans who have done that. i guess we can t be shocked anymore, but it is shocking. it still is shocking. it should be. that the leader of the united states senate in the republican party had a quote death wish placed on him by the former president