Streaming on cbsn bay area a live look outside as we start the day together. You are looking live at the bay bridge. Good morning. Its wednesday. Shots fired overnight in the east bay. We have the latest from the live news desk. First we are waking up awaiting the results of the election. So far its too close to call. Taking a live at the white house right now. Counting continued throughout the night as the race for the president hinges on battleground states this morning. Here is a look at the current map. The president and former Vice President still well short of the necessary 270 votes needed to secure a victory. Several key voting places will not announce until today or tomorrow. Joe biden was expected to cruise to a an easy win in california. That victory was easy. 65 to 33 with 94 of precincts reporting. And despite key states still counting votes the president expressed confidence that he has won overnight. Cbs news hasnt projected a winner. We have more on where the two camps
To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
[inaudible] senator blumenthal. Thank you very much. Thank you for being back. You very much, mr. Chairman, thank you for being back, your honor, and thank you to your family as well. I want to begin by saying, perhaps not surprisingly to you, that i was really disappointed by your responses to a number of my colleagues most recently on the coons issue of whether you would purchase fate in a decision involving the upcoming election if you were confirmed. I continue to believe that if you were to participate in a decision involving that enduring,it would do explosive damage to the court. I think you know it would be wrong, not because of anything you have done. Fact, i am not raising the issue of whether you have done any sort of deal or commitment because of what donald trump has and my republican colleagues, because they have indelibly put at issue your integrity through their statements. The president has said that he is putting you on the court as the ninth justice, so you can decid
Fefederal. Groups like antifa and black lives matter working with the radical dems, the leftwing national media, Corporate America and even Big Technology trying to push their messages, and they support their destruction of almost anyone who defies them, opposes their views. Their claims of systemic racism, the toppling and vandalizing of statues, their looting in the streets and all of it an attempt to force the American People to accept their violence, their upending of the nation. Anyone that doesnt comply, it seems, risks being called a racist, being fired from their jobs, their lives ruined. Democrat leaders have already allowed these groups or encouraged these groups to handcuff, to neutralize their Police Departments. Today some of those same democratic leaders, like the city council in seattle, said quote demonstrations and advocacy are part of how people in america disrupt the status quo. And meaningfully move government towards social change. Well, senator dick durbin calls i
Fefederal. Groups like antifa and black lives matter working with the radical dems, the leftwing national media, Corporate America and even Big Technology trying to push their messages, and they support their destruction of almost anyone who defies them, opposes their views. Their claims of systemic racism, the toppling and vandalizing of statues, their looting in the streets and all of it an attempt to force the American People to accept their violence, their upending of the nation. Anyone that doesnt comply, it seems, risks being called a racist, being fired from their jobs, their lives ruined. Democrat leaders have already allowed these groups or encouraged these groups to handcuff, to neutralize their Police Departments. Today some of those same democratic leaders, like the city council in seattle, said quote demonstrations and advocacy are part of how people in america disrupt the status quo. And meaningfully move government towards social change. Well, senator dick durbin calls i