Iowa secondhe Congressional District debate. Your voice, your vote. Moderator welcome to the second Congressional District debate in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart set of debates. The next debate will be next thursday, october 15. Focus on a few different topics and we will tonight such as education, but still, weve got plenty of subjects to work through for the next hour. James lynch,y longtime political reporter with the gazette in cedar rapids, also to serve as moderators tonight. Audience. Hout an we are trying to keep it socially distanced with the candidates and now it is time to meet our candidates. Democrat rita hart is a former served as iowa state senator in the 49th district six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, Mariannette Millermeeks, ophthalmologist from a tumwater ottumwa. Soft for 60ead a seconds to talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congress. Ms. Hart thank you so much and it is a pleasure to be here. Im rita h
The bay area, richmond in downtown oakland set records while san jose it happened they match their previous high temperatures. Good evening. Im ken wayne and im pam moore, a heat advisory remains in effect until 9 oclock tomorrow night. The extreme heat along with the windy and dry conditions forcing power shut offs or thousands of people in the bay area we have Team Coverage tonight on the heat advisory Taylor Bisacky live in the east bay where people are in the dark tonight because of the power shut off but first lets head over to the Weather Center where our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is standing by lauras the fire danger still exists. Yeah weve seen these kind of come in waves pam, we see these impulses one came through this morning and then it picked up in the afternoon over parts of the east bay now going to watch those winds ramp up again tonight youre seen highpressure already in place now weve seen those offshore winds, it felt the heat out there and certainly some ve
President trump and his rival ss and the economy, but at times their exchanges turned testy and contentious. A cbs news count estimates the president interrupted biden more than 70 times last night. After it was over, our cbs Battleground Tracker poll found that 48 of viewers felt biden won the debate compared to mr. Trumps 41 . 10 say it was a tie. Laura podesta is in cleveland. Laura, what were some of the big takeaways from the debate . Reporter good morning. Recent polls say that most people, the vast majority of viewers of last nights debate, already had their minds made up as far as who theyre going to for on november 3rd. Athincaus candidates talked over each other so much, at times it was difficult to hear them answer the moderators questions. There was little order throughout much of the first president ial debate. The Supreme Court will you shut up, man who is on your list, joe . Whos on your list . Gentlemen, i think weve ended this packed no reporter President Trump and for
Democrats and republicans are vying to replace him. Tv nine and the gazette, this is the iu second Congressional District debate, your voice, your vote. Welcome to the second congressional debate here in cedar rapids. This is the first of a twopart debate. We are also partnering with the gazette and quad city times. Is october 15. We will focus on different topics. We have plenty to work our way through the next hour. Lynch,ined by james longtime political reporter with the gazette. We are moderators tonight. Because of the pandemic, we are without an audience. We are trying to keep socially distance with the candidates. Now its time to meet our candidates. Rita hart is a former teacher and served as an iowa state senator for six years, covering clinton and scott counties. On the right, republican marion , current state senator. Thank you both for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. You get to lead us off. For 60 seconds, talk about why you are the best choice for this seat in congre
Among her peers. She was tireless on a number of liberal issues and out spoken. Some of them were particularly important with gender discrimination and she worked tire e tirelessly to protect womens rights and concerned with civil liberties. These are timeless issues particularly for liberals and a point at this time when liberals were for strong and conservative chief Justice Roberts tilting conservative but treading a middle ground lately. You kind of wonder whats going to happen. A lot of us expect whats going to happen the next few months. It is likelihood the president will draw from that list provided by the federal society, american conservative justices and well begin to see how it will unfold in the senate process. Larry, how possible is it to brush nominees through the system in the next few months . It is entirely possible. It is entirely possible. I would suspect Mitch Mcconnell to make this first on his todo list. He wants to get it through as quickly as possible. Time is