Feinsteins seat became open law professor and political commentator Jessica Levinson says the pick makes a lot of sense for Governor Newsom. I think Governor Newsom understood when he said im just going to appoint a caretaker that there was an enormous amount of backlash saying how could you say youre going to appoint a black woman who can only be a caretaker . And i think what he acknowledged today is what hes saying is i pick somebody is qualified. I pick somebody i trust and theres no Strings Attached and they can now run. If they want to. Butler will be the 3rd black woman to ever serve in the senate. She could be sworn in as early as tuesday evening when the Senate Returns to session. Now, congresswoman barbara lee is running for that Permanent Senate seat this summer. She criticized the governors comments about choosing a black woman as a caretaker. In a statement tonight, she said, quote, i wish la fonda well and look forward to working closely with her to deliver for the people
Station, youre watching the kron. 4 morning far. Well, good monday morning thank you for waking with us bright and early for the kron. 4 morning news. Today is monday, october second, reyna harvey. Last time i saw you, we were still in the of previous month. Now, this month is probably going to move through pretty quickly. All right. A lot of changes coming through the month of october. John, we finished last month with a little bit of rain, a little bit of sunshine. Where do we stand as of today . Good morning. Nice. Cool weekend rain. I loved every second of it. Didnt get too hot out there. I was inland yesterday out in antioch and good. Today were going to be looking at a little bit of a warmup, but still pretty comfortable overall really wont be until the middle of this week that we really start to feel the fall. He Building Back in looking outside at your camera view right now. If youre looking out from mount tam, you can see some of the city down below, not really talking much of
Another local Police Department is investigating whether one of the suspect is linked to the assault of another cabdriver. Today, candles and flowers were outside the apartment of the taxi driver, jose dominguez. I knew him for three or four years. I always wish to him when he was going by. Person. He was a driver on duty when he was gunned down and killed at early monday morning. Fellow employees say he was and was being robbed. Police are still not commenting on the motive. To be will have been charged in connection to the murder. The latest is Conrad Patterson. And major coral edwards jr. Now, theyre looking at whether edwards is connected to an attack on a different tax taxi driver. The taxi driver who filed it does not want his name revealed but he is 90 sure edwards is the person who tried to rob him at gunpoint. They have fingerprints from that assault that could link edwards to the case if he is a culprit. Until all of the suspects from dominguez is murder are called murder are