Rob roth joins us from city hall. The mayor calls Mohammed Nuru a close personal friend. Reporter thats right. With rumors swirling around city hall, the mayor did acknowledge that she once had a romantic relationship with Mohammed Nuru. She said the romance ended many years ago, the controversy surrounding it has not. San francisco mayor, says she wants to set the record straight in a News Conference and on an online post to reveal that she and disgraced former public works director, Mohammed Nuru, dated about 20 years ago. May not have even been a year. After we were no longer dating, we were still very close. Reporter that relationship was an open secret around city hall. The mayor wanted to put to rest any rumors that the relationship was more recent. I decided to go forward with this because there were a number of rumors. Also, i wanted to make sure that people heard about our relationship. Reporter they may be facing a problem more serious than who she dated. She acknowledged a 5
Democrats are considering going it alone with a much more expansive and expensive bill. The latest on these negotiations. Good evening, bret. Tonights meeting is the first time that President Biden has invited them to the white house and all of them are republicans. Whether or not he is willing to compromise or not to earn their support is still very much. Go big or go bipartisan. Thats the question President Joe Biden faces as he attempts to pass his 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. The president calls for bipartisan support and 10 moderate republican senators responded to the roughly 600 billion plan of their own. Im going to do everything i can to encourage the president to do something that is much more targeted from the 1. 9 trillion package. He was one of the ten moderates to send a letter to him on sunday reminding him of the promise tomorrows going to be it looks like you are in the snow globe at the white house. Thank you. Down the street from the bipartisan meeting in the oval
As it heads towards the u. S. Mainland. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The good news is that Hurricane Dorian only caused limited damage today as it passed the Virgin Islands and then puerto rico. The hurricane did knock down trees and caused scattered Power Outages across the northern caribbean but there is no official flooding or excuse me no major flooding and officials in puerto rico say they are breathing a huge sigh of relief tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at the storm. Dorian is now a herrick and as you know. Checking out the last 10 hours or so as it moves by puerto rico and they dodged a bullet here. This went right between the islands, not a lot of damage at least so far on san juan, puerto rico. But we are looking light in thi the forecast for dorian as a category one for it to turn into a category three as we get to the weekend here and look at the focus of the storm. Category two as it moves in through the bahamas
Complaining of feeling faint. Lightheaded. Shortness of breath. Reporter Hazardous Materials teams from san jose and Santa Clara County set up a decontamination area where the workers exposed to the gas were sprayed down with water from a fire hose to rinse off any chemicals, loaded into waiting ambulances and rushed to the hospital. We do know there are liquids on the floor in the room. And on the counter in the room. We dont know if those are mouthwash or if those are the hazardous chemicals. Reporter guests saying on the 19th floor didnt know what was going on an they were told to evacuate. They said it wasnt a fire but didnt say anything else. Reporter caroline says she smelled a strong chemical odor in the hallway. I wasnt exactly a gas smell. I have never smelled that before. It kind of smelled like gas. But not too sure. Reporter hazmat crews did not tell us exactly what type of chemicals they found that is part of the police investigation. They did originally believe it was a s
motive. we have received a number of calls about is this a hate crime. we are still early in this investigation. we cannot make that determination at this moment. the georgia shootings do follow a wave of unprovoked attacks across the country of people of asian descent. president biden has just been briefed. vice president kamala harris also addressing the terrible shootings. we don t know, we are not yet clear about the motives. i want to say to our asian communities we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked all people. and the shootings condemned. i want to mention what happened just a few hours ago in atlanta in which several women were killed, including, we believe, four women of asian descent. we are horrified. counterterrorism agents were sent to atlanta out of new york city out of an abundance of caution. i am joined with correspondents who have been working on the case. blaine, first to you, what is the latest? we have a lot of