Expected to last until wednesday. Pg e says its still monitoring the situation and notes that conditions could change. If you are at risk of losing electric, expect a notification as early as as this afternoon. Lets look what is driving this with meteorologist kari hall who is looking at the red flag warning. Where are you focused . Mostly on the east bay as well as the north bay. We have time to prepare for that. Lets get a look what im expecting here today. We are enjoying calmer winds now that that red flag warning has expired. We are also going to have much cooler temperatures for the weekend but that high wind event comes with another push of cool air after seeing a nice cooldown for today. We are going to see highs in upp upper 70s. We get to that red flag warning and the high fire danger that we will have for the weekend. Once again, that starts on sunday early in the morning for all of these areas shaded in orange and then we will also have a red flag warning as we see the very
today and move on to south africa where, if possible, president obama is expected to stop by the hospital in pretoria and visit the ailing, perhaps dying nelson mandela. back here at home, the senate finally passed comprehensive immigration reform yesterday by a vote of 68-32. that s the bill put together by the gang of 8. john boehner says it will be dead on arrival. in the house of representatives. the house, he said, will do its own it will not take up the senate bill for a vote. meanwhile, aired up in boston, aaron hernandez already charged with one murder is being investigated for possibly involved in two more, a couple of years ago. and congress will go home today without doing anything about student loans because they don t care about students. you can comment on all of the above by giving us a call at 1-866-55-press. follow us on twitter at bpshow and on facebook at facebook.com/billpressshow. right here on current tv. 1 thing than viewers like about the young turks
up along with $500,000 in taxpayer loans. and in special elections, republicans win two congressional races. senior political editor mark preston is in washington for us. carville says it s time for the white house to panic. he made a lot of news yesterday and since those remarks, a lot of response from within the beltway. yeah, no question about that, kyra. in fact, i think the white house pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just haven t telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that they re concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that they flipped, as well, back in 2008. and then there s the two big states, kyra. there s ohio and there i
pushed the panic button probably several months ago, they just haven t telegraphed to us yet. you have to look no further than a poll out in virginia that shows president obama has a 62% disapproval rating with independents in that state. that is devastating to him. remember, virginia was one of the states that he flipped back in 2008 to win the presidency. not just virginia, north carolina is another state that they re concerned about. then go out west to colorado, another state that they flipped, as well, back in 2008. and then there s the two big states, kyra. there s ohio and there is florida, as well. these are all states that he needs to win in 2012 in order to win a second term. you know, kyra, a lot of people don t think the president has the fire in the belly any more. i was talking to a democratic strategist this morning and what he said to me was very simply, instead of when you re selling the whole idea of the jobs bill, don t say pass the bill, say, yes we can. w