May be time to reopen some schools. And Close Encounter with a cougar. A utah hiker learns what it feels like to be prey after getting too close to a cub. The six minutes of terror caught on tape. Dont mess with a mama cougar. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. If confirmed, it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside the chief justice and seven associate justices. The political battle has broken out on capitol hill as confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begins. I think this hearing is a sham. When you tell them theyll be a catholic judge not an american judge, thats bigotry. The president returned to the campaign trail. I feel so powerful. Ill walk into there. Ill kiss everyone in that audience. Dr. Anthony fauci wants the Trump Campaign ad featuring him to be taken down. I think its unfortunate and really disappointing that they did that. Its so clear im not a political person. Voters head to the polls but are forced to wait hours to cast
Been destroyed or damaged. Firefighters are also making progress on the czu lightning complex fire burning in the santa cruz mountain. It is burned 80,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties, but is now 19 contained. The fire has destroyed 538 homes and other structures, mostly in Santa Cruz County. The good news is there are no new evacuation warnings or orders. The gains made in containing the czu complex have officials feeling optimistic that they will be able to allow more people to return to their properties as early as next week. Jesse gary has details on that. He joins us live this afternoon from downtown felton. Reporter good afternoon. With containment growing by about 5 every couple of days, officials are now working to take the teeth out of this fire by burning potential fuel before it can go up in flames. Although it does make people nervous, introducing fire to the environment, especially from the outside, but you have the best people available doing that job. Repor
show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presidential election, the week we ve just enjoyed have proven to be most clarifying. well the democratic presidential nominee is almost certainly gonna be joe biden, not a lot of internal party infighting for him incite the republican nominee will be certainly one of two men. donald john trump golf club slash wedding venue mar-a-lago, and ron desantis out of tallahassee. that s it. that s the choice. forget about nikki haley, mike pence, its former president trump versus ron desantis. this week has ser
campaign, you can tell he s moving forward reconvenes the investigation, the alleged hush money paid to alleged according to new nbc news reporting, da alvin bragg has dismissed a second letter from house republicans put seeking information into the back against republicans, making it their mission to investigate investigators. republicans, because they cannot govern on the issues, continue to use fearmongering tactics, red herrings, and playing the consistent victim to a so-called woke culture. that s how they re looking to govern, versus dealing with the facts of this particular case. and by the way, facts relayed to georgia, and facts related to the department of justice as well. stop, you know, president trump has to be held accountable for what he has done, and let s see if that accountability begins with an indictment in manhattan. for donald trump, it s back to the playbook as casting all of these investigations was nothing but a hoax. 2024 campaign in texa
Shooting are marching in the State Capitol to press lawmakers to take more action on gun control. Hundreds gathering there demanding change and what they want a future where Mass Shootings are a thing of the past. Many would like to blame this event on the fbis lack of action or the Trump Administration but the simple fact is that the laws of our beloved country allowed for a deranged gunman to purchase a gun legally. Meanwhile back in parkland hundreds of students walking out in protest. They are rallying at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to show support for gun control legislation. Meantime local students standing in unity with those in florida walked out of their classrooms today. Fox 29s jeff cole is live in voorhees, new jersey, camden, county, tonight with more on that. Jeff. Reporter ian its a sign of how the parkland killings have galvanized students across the country. Walkouts including one here in voorhees as students try to end the violence as School Administrators re