At 9 00 a. M. , headed tonights debate, university of missouris Mitchell Mckinney talks about the history of president ial debates. Host good morning, it is the washington journal for september 29 and your look looking at video at case western reserve theersity, that the site of first president ial debate between President Trump and joe biden. Cspans coverage of that event starts at 8 00. We want to hear from you in this first hour on when it comes to president ial debates, do they matter . Weathering helping you decide or perhaps hearing about candidates positions on policy issues. Heres how to call to let us know. If you support President Trump, 2027488000, if you support joe biden, 2027488001. If you are undecided or support others, it is 2027488002. If you want to text us, do so at 2027488003. cspanwj. Itter pollingeet journal to on president ial debates asking the questions on if they matter. Some of what they found saying more than 70 of americans say the debates wont matter much
Stand politically. Guest we are committed to trying to get judges appointed to the Supreme Court who are committed to interpreting the constitution and the laws as they are written. Host did you have any active role in the president s choice for the Supreme Court . Guest that is the president s call and it is done through the white House Counsel office. I am thrilled because i felt like everyone he was looking at closely was really wellqualified for this position. I feel like i could not be in a better position. I would have been happy with it was arbor look go up or amy barrett. Is about thestion overall impact on the court and how it changes when it comes to the justice is themselves. How would you answer that . Guest what we are looking at is a shift in perspective of how we look at the law bases versus ruth bader ginsburg. There are a lot of ways in which Amy Coney Barrett follows in ginsbergs footsteps as a woman with children and accomplishing all that she has as a scholar and a
Now 11 00, the threat of pg e blackouts. The counties on alert for safety shutoffs this week as businesses begin to welcome back customers. We broke records bay area white beard tomorrow may be a bit cooler. We are not finished with this heatwave yet. I will show you when this finally breaks. Estate of emergency as an inferno rages out of control, leaving a trail of destruction. Tonight we are hearing incredible stories of survival. I think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky. We have a beach party wanting. Hundreds gather at the ocean beach. Tonight, the crackdown to keep people away . Good evening, i am brian hackney. Lets look outside. We had record high temperatures within 15 degrees of death values high. The dangers heatwave is not over. To make matters worse, smoke is filling the bay areas guys, impacting air quality and making it difficult to breathe. Meteorologist is tracking it all tonight. i will leave the smoke for later, lets talk about the
Talking about our high fire danger and a spare the air alert with our hazy and smoky skies. There is a lot to get to. The heat advisory is along the coast and the bay for today. We have excessive heat warnings in effect for the rest of the bay area. All the highlighted areas in pink are under the excessive heat warning. We have a spare the air alert that remains in effect and we continue with smoky and hazy skies. We are record 21 days in a row with our spare the air alert in effect. So we are looking at a red flag warning, critical weather conditions up in the hills. The north bay mountains as well as east bay hills, that is from tonight all the way until wednesday morning. We will talk all about this coming up in my full forecast in just a few minutes. Lets check in gianna lets look at traffic. We start on 80, westbounder leisuretowne boulevard we have a crash with all lanes blocked that happened at about 2 30. This is a fatal incident. Chp is still on scene for the investigation. Th
And livermore and san jose and it will be a hot day around the bay, 90 in San Francisco, 94 in oakland and the low 80s along the coast. There are excessive heat warnings that can be for the rest of the bay area and another spare the air alert, a record 21 days in a row. And a red flag warning that starts from 10 00 tonight until 8 00 wednesday for the Higher Elevations, wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour as we go through tonight and wednesday. We will talk all about this coming up in just a few minutes. As we look at the roadways, if you are getting ready to go outside , or laboring on a labor day, youre good to go. We started with a serious crash along 80 and midway. That has been cleared and the commute is pretty easy towards the bay bridge. You can see our short, once you get to the bay bridge, there are no delays into San Francisco. All our travel times, especially the Allatoona Pass commute, are in the clear. Because of the labor day, there are a lot of changes to Public Transit. A