Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted
Oakland 56 in San Francisco and 59 in san jose. Im looking at mild to warm temperatures around the bay area. Well have those coming up in just a bit back to the news. Thanks a lot. Lets start with the coronavirus the cdc is sounding the alarm that the number of cases in the u. S. Might be much greater than we know there was show you map which illustrates now the rise in cases. In the past week compared to the week before and you can see actually california has improved. It has been in the orange and even in the red indicating anywhere from 10 to 50 . Increase from week to week now were just in the yellow which indicates a steady rise but not an alarming one. But if you look at the total numbers across the country weve got now more than a 142,000 recorded deaths with more than 3. 9 million infections reported so far to our area. In the wake of the rising number of cases and the dropping poll numbers for the president he appears to be changing his tune. During his first covid19 briefing
The system spinning off the coast will take you hour by hour on futurecast to show you the locations that could see showers over the next few days. Now lets check in with traffic whether expert gianna. Give yourself extra time on 80. You may consider some thabo and 80 passed solano toward the cutting boulevard exit into richmond with four cars involved in the accident and three left lanes involved. This backup extending to hercules. This is a live look at the caltrans camera near mcbride were traffic is stacking up. You will get a break and then brake lights again at the bay bridge. A live look from the port of oakland where in the next few hours a cruise ship carrying coronavirus patients is expected to dock. Right now it is several miles off the coast of San Francisco and you can see it on the cruise ship tracker and its the blue icon. There are passengers from 54 countries. In oakland with how the port is preparing for arrival. For the 35 people on board, this is the first time the
Many more americans. In the event iranians make another bad choice the president will respond in the way he did last week. I know that the efforts that we have taken, not only last week with the strike against soleimani, but strategy we employed saved american lives. Neil what happens next . What are we worried about happens next especially when the iranians are talking about a swift and Immediate Response . Former u. S. Deputy secretary of defense under bush 43, Paul Wolfowitz on all of that. Sir, always good having you. Iran is making it very clear that theyre not going not to respond. How far do you think they push it . What do you think theyre up to . Look i think both sides dont want to see a larger war. I think that will lead to some restraint. But, they keep saying theyre going to respond at time of place of their choosing. Which i suppose is consistent with the idea that revenge is a meal best eaten cold as they say. I think, i think it is very important to keep an eye on iraq
Chicago mystery, the citys police chief suddenly fired just weeks before he was due to retire. The mayor saying the top cop misled both her and the public. Eddie johnson intentionally lied to me. He maintained that he was telling the truth. I now know definitively that he was not. Those stories, plus taking a stand, a bomb shell new interview with Prince Andrews accuser. Theres only one of us telling the truth, and i know thats me. Move over cyber monday, here comes travel tuesday, why today is the day to find major deals on your next vacation. And monday night thriller. Wide open and into the hands of david moore. Seattle hangs on to defeat the minnesota vikings, a big win that left the seahawks dancing for joy. Today, tuesday, december 3rd, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today on this Tuesday Morning. Thanks for joining us. You know that those guys practiced that dance over a