liberal voice and a champion for equality. and on the steps of the supreme court, crowds chanted rbg late into the washington night as attention is quickly turning to the battle over just when her seat should be filled. tonight the condolences are pouring in. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has passed away. the 87-year-old died from complications of partnncreatic cancer. she was surrounded by her family. she was small in stature but larger than life both on and off the bench. we begin our coverage with nbc bay area s cheryl hurd. reporter: justice ruth bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u.s. supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for e quality. please be seated. how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. born in brooklyn, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. but with no job offers at law firms in the late 50s, she taught at rutgers and columbia, then launched the aclu women s rights
the trends are in the direction globally in zero emission vehicles. reporter: the governor would like the phase out the sale of new gas powered cars by 2035, to reduce the state s emissions. he s driving this change forward with the help of california s air resources board. we know we have an obligation to keep on working to clean up the air and to make it as clean as it can be. he said it is for other states to follow. already the state has 34 electric vehicle manufacturers. the difference is with a zero emission vehicle, you have lower maintenance costs, lower operating costs. if you want to protect impoverished communities, then pull away from the gas pumps. reporter: the california new car dealers association released this statement. bypassing the elected legislature and directing the california air resources board to adopt rules to prohibit the sale of nonzero emission vehicles to enact the significant transportation policy change is deeply troubling and deprives
we re monitoring for today is going to be the return of some smoke thanks to some drifting winds. we have winds from the north creeping in towards the afternoon. and our temperatures are going to be in the 70s and the 80s and because of that incoming smoke, the bay area air quality management district has issued a spare the air alert for today. right now, the sensors are good, but as we head into later in this evening, we re going to start to notice an increase in that smoke and unhealthy air quality especially for the north bay which is likely going to be seeing the worst air quality for today. details into the weekend in a few minutes. the nation is waking up this morning remembering the legacy of court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the ground breaking jurist fought until the very end after battling bravely pancreatic cancer. only the second woman ever to serve on the supreme court, the 87-year-old was surrounded by her family in washington, d.c. we begin our coverage with
debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties and with the time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 9:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, for five minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise to recognize dr. donald moore of madison, north carolina. for over 40 years dr. moore has served as a physician at western rockingham family medicine. dr. moore understands that god humbly uses him as an instrument to care for those who are entrusted to him and he believes each patient is an extension of his own family. that mindset, mr. speaker, encapsulates the true essence of a servant s heart. after graduating from madson high school with the title of valedictorian, he attended the university of north carolina at chapel hill where he majored in biology. he
houston, we have a problem, when that message was received in control, it was katherine johnson who crunched the numbers to get our folks home. this was at a time when everything was going wrong and she had a cool head and ined ed incredibly brilliant mind to put this complex data together. this is not hoping the computer spitz out the right information spits out the right information. this is the long work that we all dreaded as a kid when it was simple math, and this was of the longest, most complex nature, the type of math that they had to do highly quickly. these women deserve the congress gold medal. they deserve this recognition. i support this bill and i urge my colleagues to pass this piece of legislation. and with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from guam is recognized. mr. san nicolas: thank you, madam speaker. i yield five minutes to the gentlewoman. the speaker pro t