Murkowski debated her to challengers in alaskas 2022 senate race. They discuss vious issues, including abortion and election integrity. This is alaskas first time using a ranked Choice Voting system, which was approved by voters in 20 the nonpartisan cook report rates the race solid republican. Alaska public media, alaskas news source, and ktoo present debate for the state. The u. S. Senate race, moderated by Lori Townsend and mike ross. Good evening. Thank you for joining us for our final debate for the state event. Were coming to you live from alaska public media. Im Lori Townsend. And good evening, everyone. Im mike ross. Tonight, were going to pose a series of questions to the candidates on this years ballot for one of the alaska seats in the u. S. Senate. Now, because of the states new voting system, alaskans will rank up to four candidates at the polls this year. Republicans Lisa Murkowski and kelly tshibaka, and democrat pat chesbro. The fourth candidate on the ballot, buzz kell
Offices will be open two hours late today. Essential personnel must report on time. There are a number of private schools, also local governments and businesses that have changed their status today. You can see those along bottom of your screen and also on our web site, myfoxdc. Com. Im Sarah Simmons. Im wisdom martin. Lets get a quick check of the weather. Sitting in for tucker barnes, gwen is here. Some of you not seeing very much or anything at all. Some of you to the south and west of d. C. Are in the thick of it. Here is a look at our fox aaccu weather radar and you can see the wide area in the pink here. That is a mixture of sleet and freezing rain a and a little bit of light rain to the north of fredericksburg. All of this is moving its way to the east. To our weather maps. Here is a look at the area under a Winter Weather advisory right now. This is in effect through until 10 00 this morning. Garrett county, maryland is under a winter storm warning. Temperatures right now into
Police officers, you are doing a disservice to the cause. Also today we are marying from the family of one of the thursday nights victim. I spoke to the mother and sister of officer patrick samaripa killed in the shooting. We are just normal every day people. Patricks just a little kid from the neighborhood. Things like this dont happen to people like us. This is a wonderful family and much more from that interview in a few minutes. And how does the city of dallas move forward. Well ask the citys mayor make rawlings when he joins us live in a few minutes. Here in dallas as the Investigation Continues into thursdays mass shooting, we are learning more details about the shooters disturbing behavior leading up to and during that shooting. Nbcs tammy lietd ner joins me now in dallas and it is almost unbelievable in adding horror on to horror. The details come oulgt today are really astounding and one of the big things is Michael Johnson wrote in his own blood the initials r. B. In the park
Nearby schools. And of course, all of this at the same time a lot of authorities are going back to another announcement from cruz on youtube saying he wanted to grow up to be a school shooter. Add it all up, and authorities now are countering allegations that they dropped the ball to stop this from happening. Were going to be talking to the attorney general from the state of florida, the fbi revelations are enough to have the Florida Governor saying the fbi director has to step down. First, we go to steve herigan in parkland with the latest. Reporter the president and the first lady were in the hospital here for 45 minutes last night. They visited wounded students and their family members. Afterwards, the president went to Broward County sheriffs headquarters and met with First Responders and praised their quick work in apprehending the suspected shooter. The funerals here have h begun. Along with the sense of mourning is the growing sense of outrage that balls were dropped, red flags
And chris cuomo and primetime. His toxic tongue is galvan e galvanizing the left. Were going to debate that. We also have mayor pete. Hes care to make the case he needs. And he has a plan for you on one of the most pressing problems. Mental health perform. We have a lot of new information on one of the most impressive interviews of my career. A former ceo who accuse d the fi of reporting him to go after maria. Relevant names in the fbi, what do they say . Its a busy night. Lets get after it. The president calls himself the chosen one, to take on china. Now, he says october 1st, more tariffs. Beijing is going to be hiked up now from 25 to 30 on 250 billion in goods. Separate threat. Another 300 billion in imports could also wind up costing americans more. This trade war is worsening. Recession fears are going to be on the back end of that. Our first guest says this economy is not working for most americans. He could do better. And he could be better than this president. What would the m