Almost 10 years worth of its annual energy. When march in u. S. Cities to protest against president on trumps nomination of judge amy clooney. And person Prime Minister just into our day and enjoys a landslide election victories New Zealanders award half a curbing covert 19. And tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests and theyve been rejecting corruption in the ruling elite level and has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic saying a look at how we got here in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whats the cation triggered protests. Right across lebanon but it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service it led to the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and then only oldest a partial explosion ripped through central
Employees. Opponents of that push staged a no on 22 rally in front of uber headquarters in San Francisco today. In our continuing vote smart series, kpix5 reported that devin fehely delves into both sides of that debate. Millions of dollars are pouring into the battle over prop 22 with Big Companies like uber, lyft and doordash shipping in tens of millions of dollars to help define california gig economy, basically was considered an employee versus independent contractor. Threatened to shut down rideshare delivery services. Reporter the suspect flooding the airwaves with ads like this. It will protect drivers. Excellent the freedom, and the possibility of working in the gig economy. I do doordash to supplement my income while i am in between jobs. Reporter he has been driving for doordash off and on for years and he says he likes being an independent contractor, making his own schedule, and determining when and how much he works. He fears what might happen if prop 22 fails in his force
Mount tam in marin county and then as we zoom even further to the north youll see that weve got a lot of areas to around napa and sonoma counties look at all that purple all these areas either currently without power or soon could have power shut off today kron fours will tran is in the east bay looking at the strong winds and the outages and Sarah Stinson in the north bay. With the conditions there first lets go into the Weather Center with john trouble as it is a very windy morning. One of the windiest that weve had so far this season and that really is saying something because it has been historically windy season thus far at least these are not hot and dry winds. Rather cool and very dry which is where that fire danger comes into play very Crystal Clear skies over San Francisco, these offshore winds have pushed any marine layer really out of the region and thats why were looking at such clear skies and such cool and dry weather along with the winds out lets speak Calistoga Napa son
[silence] [silence] okay. Lets go over why we are here. We are waiting for her. [crowd chanting] okay, thank you very much for coming and thank you for joining us this morning. I am here to stand with my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee who are boycotting todays Committee Markup on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. It is not a decision members of the committee have taken lightly. But a republican majority has left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our entire country for generations to come. The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan and least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nations history for potential confirmation for the senate, the Supreme Court and our entire
Another wave of covert 19 cases. Nigerias president sent out a warning to protesters after another night of widespread unrest and violence during the push for his resignation. So that in just an hours time u. S. President donald trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for the final debate ahead of the elections on november the 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the format same did avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross to our White House Correspondent can we how can his outside weather debate will be taking place in nashville in tennessee and say kimberly there will be an audience of tens of millions it promises to be quite a show so we have trouble maybe a breakthrough and biden i guess just needs to keep it steady. Yeah thats exactly it trying to avoid any major mistakes is really the goal for joe biden in all of this and for Donald Trumps part what hes trying to do is provoke that so what we expect throughout the 90