Good morning, its october 5th. And this is today. Massive walkout. More than 75,000 workers at hospitals and medical facilities nationwide back on the picket lines this morning. Patients caught the middle facing cancelled appointments and delayed procedures. Well have the very latest. Searching for a speaker. House republicans left scrambling in the wake of the historic vote to remove kevin mccarthy. The first hopefuls throwing their hats in the ring as a new battle erupts over the new rule that led to the chaos and brought congress to a standstill. That should never happen again at the hands of one lunatic. A live report from washington just ahead. Reversing course. The Biden Administration now set to build a new section of the border wall. Inside the surprising move to help stop the record flow of illegal crossings into texas. October heat wave. Records shattered on both coasts as temperatures soar well above normal while Severe Weather tears across parts of the south. Al is tracking
Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. The chaos on capitol hill following the republican rebellion including what led to mccarthys historic downfall. Ill talk to lawmakers from both sides of the aisle including a republican who voted mccarthy out. Well try to answer the question ricochetting around washington, who will take mccarthys place. Ahead this hour, donald trump back in the manhattan courthouse for a third day while a new gag order changed his very public facing approach in his Civil Fraud Trial . This morning the peoples house is in a state of cays you. Its work ground to a Screeching Halt with no House Speaker and a mad scramble, who will pick up the speakers gavel following the historic ouster of republican Kevin Mccarthy. He is the first House Speaker to be ousted ever in a rebellion orchestrated by members of his own party. Eight republicans voting for mccarthys removal in a revolt led by Florida Fire Brand matt gaetz. You all know matt gaetz. You know it was personal. It had nothing to
Per hour gusts in cupertino. The strong winds and dry conditions also have a fire crews on alert. Jackie ward is in brooklyn where they are dealing with downed trees. Jackie . That is for sure. We started here worked our way down to antioch and then traveled west. Where this tree fell on a car, crash through a window and really the whole east bay was windswept today. Here we are just over a week until Christmas Day and we are still in fire season. Cal fire chief says that the season is unprecedented. All of our fire stations are open and staffed. Something you never see in the beer bay area. Ive never seen a december like this before. The normally staff 15 trucks during its peak season. And only for during winter. But now they are back up to 15 units. At one. 11 of them were in Southern California battling the thomas fire there. Our forces are getting tired. With that is our job. It started for us in march, and nine months later we are still going strong. The wind was so powerful here
Hours to safely remove. It was a smaller situation in berkeley. A tree was knockdowns as well. A tree was knocked down as well. Our car was behind this car. It covered our car. My husband could barely back out. We had to lift the tree. I am relieved that i was not standing there two seconds earlier. Reporter cal fire says mount diablo recorded up to 63 Miles Per Hour and winds were consistently in the high 30s to low 40s. Is cal fire worried about Staffing Levels . Reporter no. Cal fire says they work nine months at a time. Many men and women came on in june. If they need to come up they can work through march. They always plan for a worst case scenario. There have been problems on the peninsula. Earlier, a tree toppled near arlington way. Further north, powerlines came down across seminole way. Luckily, they did not start a fire power is out to more than 6000 customers across the bay area. They are working and expect small to moderate outages in the south day. Reporter winds are causi
Scott simon of npr will report in our cover story. What would make a perfectly rational person run toward danger instead of away from it. I just reached down there and grabbed chase and pulled him out. The carnegie medal. Later on sunday morning. Well meet some real heroes among us. Pauley our sunday profile this morning features Viggo Mortensen, an actor of diverse talents and many different roles as tracy smith will show us. Much like snowflakes, no two Viggo Mortensen performances are alike. Do these things. On purpose. My job is to look at the world from points of view other than my own. Sometimes radically different. The greatest, raising his kids in the wild. Off the beaten path with Viggo Mortensen, ahead on sunday morning. Pauley tis the season for a drop in from technoclaus the man in red who some believe resembles our david pogue. Two weeks before christmas and all through the land, the business of shopping for gifts is at hand. You want great ideas, its not a lost cause s. G