Actually pretty worried about the countrys future. Our washington correspondent basil john port. With Amy Coney Barrett officially, the newest justice on the Supreme Court. West Virginia Republican showing more capital says she will act as a role model for the country she understands respects the role of Supreme Court justices West Virginia democrat joe manchin doesnt question bears qualifications but questions the timing of this process so close the election because all it does is further divide. One week before the election of a very very contentious election. I might say. Mansion and other democrats say they are worried about what will happen to things like the Affordable Care act. And now we have a landmark case coming up that could throw the baby out with the bath water, virginia senator tim kaine expects republicans will get their way and overturned the a they did it for one reason which is they smell blood in the water in their effort to finally kill the Affordable Care act cain
From washington. Of blake, we start with you, my friend. Reporter connell, the headline over here in washington is that the white house has increased its offer for a revised covid19 relief package. A Senior Administration official telling me the new number is, give or take, 1. 8 trillion. The white house has come up from the 1. 6 trillion range that it was previously at. Larry kudlow revealed the news on fox business earlier this morning saying there was an oval office with President Trump, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows in which the president gave the green light on the new offer. Mnuchin held a phone call with nancy pelosi this afternoon to go over the offer. However, the goalposts for President Trump have been shifting, because as that employees i pelosi hi mnuchin phone call was happening, the president was on the phone with Rush Limbaugh saying he wanted even more. Listen here. I would like to see a bugger stimulus package, frankly, than either th
Alameda and contra costa counties is now the second largest fire in california history more than 367,000 acres have burned containment is up to 30 it is followed closely though by the l lightning complex in the north bay which has burned more than 360,000 acres in Sonoma Napa Solano lake and yolo counties containment their climb to 33 and the czu lightning complex fires in san mateo and santa cruz counties has burned 81,000 acres with containment reaching 21 altogether these fires have burned more than 800,000 acres, lets start with more details from cal fire on each of these complex fires, the largest one were monitoring. In terms of acreage is the scu lightning complex fire 5 people have been hurt in that fire. So far it spend the least destructive in terms of Property Damage, 20 have been destroyed 6 have been damaged but more than 20,000 structures are still threatened the second largest wildfire burning right now in anchorage and 3rd largest in state history is the lnu lightning c
Home for several hours as police gathered outside one officer was shot in the head is in critical condition. This morning. The other was hit in the leg. The man is believed to have tried to take 2 people hostage before the standoff, were still waiting for an update from st. Louis police this morning. Protests against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality continued in oakland a saturday as well. Oakland Police Tweeted several videos appearing to show protesters throwing rocks and bottles at police opd declared the assembly unlawful and then tried to disperse the crowd leading to one person being arrested. Kron fours reyna harvey live in oakland for us this morning. She has the latest on the protests last night reyna. Marty good morning, yeah, protesters and police really class last night here in oakland, we know that one officer was injured in everything but were going to show you some of the video put out by opd you can see what happened overnight, you see here looks like a model being
President promised at that time that he would deliver a heavy handed presence in coordination with local Law Enforcement and this is tricky area for the president bear with me because ill tell you about 2 different pieces of law in the United States and why the president is navigating a fine line the 1st is posse come a tatas from 878 essentially what this means is that it limits the federal military when it comes to enforcing domestic policies in other words governors have the power not the president he can offer assistance but its the governors that have to request it and even then they can only play a supporting role now there is a bit of an exception in all of this and this will be the fodder for constitutional and legal scholars if something is to happen in the u. S. President is set to deploy in greater force and that is the insurrection act of 1807 and essentially what this. Does is it gives the president the constitutional power to restore order from insurrection or civil unres