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Steve cortes Discusses Campaign 2020 and the Republican Convention. Plus, emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal is next. With gratitude for the confidence President Donald Trump has placed in me, the support of our Republican Party, and the grace of god, i humbly accept your nomination to run and serve as Vice President of the United States. From the third night of the Republican National convention, the Vice President in baltimore excepting the nomination to serve as the president s running mate. We will begin with your thoughts andhe themes of the evening the issues surrounding campaign 2020 and our first hour. You can dial in at 202 7488000 if you are supporting President Trump. If you support joe biden, call us at 202 7488001. Candidateport another or undecided, your line is 202 7488002. Us with your name, city, and state, or go to twitter and facebook to join the conversation. Pageew york times front framed last nights convention speeches. Law and orderew as a rallyi
In these quickly moving flames and winds. And so far we know 131 homes are been destroyed by the fires, 12 damaged at the last count and again some evacuation orders have been coming down, 77,000 people evacuated in san mateo and santa cruz counties on far. They are just warning everyone to get out quickly because theyy did not want anyone left in these evacuation zones. So if they want to attack by air, they dont want people down on the ground that would stop them from being able to attack from the air. And i can tell you this morning that they have been made pick could y meticulous with road blocks. They dont want people in the evacuated area that could potentially hamper the if firefighting attempts. And again, well have that at 6 00 a. M. And Julian Glover, abc 7 news. We know this is an uneasy morning for firefighters on the front lines of the walbridge fire that is part of the lnu complex in the north bay. It is scorching more than 347,000 acres and that is about the size of the
The gulf and massive wind and you may be able to hear the heavy winds in the background through the window. We are pretty safe in the distant this is a historic event for us. We are told that it is tied for the worst hurricane that has ever hit our state in recorded history. Its pretty massive, the damage is widespread. We dont have many fatalities, if any yet area if any yet. This is a big one. We prepared as best we could, but there will be damage and things to recover from for quite some time. Host how is the district responding . Rep. Johnson what i always say about folks in louisiana is we are a tough and resilient people and we do Disaster Recovery well. One is extraordinary. We had calls with fema and the National Hurricane center and they projected yesterday that we would have thousands of homes and businesses destroyed in our area by today, because they were measuring waves as high as 40 in the gulf and massive wind and rain. Hotels were set up statewide to accommodate the eva
That had 0. 07 of notice we barely get to 80 inland and 72 around the bay and everybody in the 50s and 60s with those breezy conditions at 7 00. Even cooler tomorrow with more drizzle on the way. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. First i want to get over to jobina who has a traffic alert. Jobina. Thank you, mike. Im tracking a sig alert right now in oakland that is causing a major backup on westbound 24. I want to bring you to the maps because it and this started as a multicar crash involving three vehicles and then a second crash in there and you can see the speeds are low down to 4 and 11 Miles Per Hour in the area. Again westbound 24 before College Avenue. Avoid this if you can and ill give you an update when the chp has opened the roadway. Reggie . All right, thank you, jobina. All this week abc7 news committed to building a better bay area by looking at education and how School Districts are handling going back to school. The San Jose Unified School dis