With 200 democrats in support of the measure Speaker Boehner would have just enough votes to reopen the u. S. Government. With counts aside as White House Press secretary jay carney tweeted on sunday, the speaker says theres not enough votes to pass a clean cr. Why not prove it. , vote. In an article published in the New York Times, the hard rights year long plan to shut down the government over obama care was a year long. According to the times a defunding tulle created in Early September included talking points for the question, what happens when you shut down the government and you are blamed for it. The suggested answer was the one House Republicans give today, we are simply calling to fund the entire government except forth Affordable Care act obama care that shut down, the gop seems to have its sights set on a bigger target, the nations credit. Is the government going to stay shut down until we reach the debt limit deadline . The debt limit is right around the corner. We are not
We have a lot of news to cover in the next hour. We have everything from big money and politics, big fines for people who try to smuggle big money in to bart. We are going to go in depth. What is next . What can lead you to prevent another strike . How is the public reacting to all of this. Specifically what will we do . Operators who walked out on more than a dozen seniors. Bryan webb tells us if it werent for a concerned neighbor, the situation could have been much worse. Bryan, theate chris crosses a care facility shut down for two days still filled with patients but hardly any staff. It upsets me. This woman who lives nearby asked him to hide her identity after complaining about the for 20 years. She said the past few days have been the worst, so she called for help. The staff isnt over there, whats going on. Reporter when authorities arrived, they found 14 patients inside including amputees, the bedridden and mentally impaired with only two workers caring for them, a janitor and a
Conditions. 27 degrees and chilly in san jose. 39 oakland. 44. Heres what we could expect the rest of the day. We lost it. We lost it. Well come back to weather later on in the show. It will be nice i hear. Yes. Less than three days left 2013 which will go down as the bay areas driest calendar year on record. Those records go back to 1849. As kpix 5s don knapp reports, the rain is measured in not in inches but in feet. Lack of snow in the sierra but no snow is more concern for the states water supply. The main source of water for the east bay municipal district. Its for hatchhachi. Its around the mount, 250 inches a year. The county is headed for a record low with 10. 5 inches of rain. Its full at this time down to 58 . Its called for a voluntary cutback on water use and may consider rationing at the meeting. The lexington reservoir is dramatically low but thats deliberate. The district pulled out the water and put it in storage. The santa clara district makes it reservoirs. Its into t
Hold tomorrow and wednesday where much of the bay area surgeon a heat advisory including the south is under a heat advisory including the south bay and oakland, San Francisco, inland temperatures hitting triple digits, especially on wednesday, widespread 80s in San Francisco starting tomorrow. This will be 15 to 25 degrees above average. We likely will see record highs wednesday, but this really isnt that uncommon for may. As a matter of fact, last may we hit 90 degrees six different times away from the water. We may do it two or three time this week. Well talk about hot how how hot were going to get and how long it will last. Tonight were hearing even more from l. A. Clippers owner donald sterling. Im not a racist. Ive never been a racist. Ill never be a racist. Then he kept talking and hes not doing much to help his case. No, hes not. In an interview that turns bizarre and rambling the l. A. Clippers owner made a series of personal attacks on nba great Magic Johnson. What kind of a g
Welcome to kqed news room. California is facing a damagesly high fire risk this year. Wildfires providing a warning sign of what may be ahead. Record temperatures and the statewide drought have heightened concerns. It could be the worst fire season in decades. Joining me to discuss the dangers is paul rogers. Hi, paul. What is the latest on the southern kra california fires. Theres been fires across san diego county. There are ten fires. We had three days of really extremely hot weather. The winds that blow from the land out to the ocean and are connected with high fire risks. 22,000 acres burned, about ten homes have burned down so far. The firefighters today, friday, got the upper hand on a lot of them because the weather cooled down. Humidity levels went up. San diego, at least, for now got off relatively okay. Quite scary but not a lot of houses. There was one fatality. A homeless person who died. This was a warning for the rest of the state of what we could be in for this summer.