republicans. as you can hear, a chant of four more years echoed throughout the house chamber after house spearspea speaker nancy pelosi introduced the president. the president declined to shake her hand at the podium before tonight s speech, and immediately following the president s speech you saw just there nancy pelosi stood and began tearing up the papers of the president s speech that she had been reading during the address. you felt that one. oh, yeah, joining us now is abc 7 news contributor and san francisco chronicle insider phil matier. donald trump not shaking her hand, nancy pelosi s hand, definitely made to be seen by the public. her tearing that speech up. she never looked at him. could not have expressed it better in words, and that s what we re seeing. tonight is theater. the president s state of the union address is actually the kickoff of his campaign, not once did we hear the words impeachment. we never heard anything about ukraine. what we did hear
display. we begin with our reporter in washington. reporter: walking into the chamber that impeached him less than two months ago, the tension high. the house speaker introducing him members of congress, the president of the united states. reporter: but leaving off the typical phrasing that includes her high honor and distinct privilege, president trump apparently giving her the brush-off, not shaking her hand. but quickly pivoting, moving to tout his accomplishments in what he dubbed the great american comeback. jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling. reporter: but the partisan divides of congress on full display. his caucus giving him their full endorsement. the other side, not so much. the first bipartisan standing ovation mr. president. when the president surprised the chamber announcing his guest, the venezuelan opposition leader juan guaido. then the president turned to health care. we will always protect pat
because there is nothing more powerful than the unified voice of the american people. wherever we want to go, we just have to start. autosave your way there with chase. chase. make more of what s yours. now, news to build a better bay area, from abc 7. we have two developing stories tonight. in just a few hours, two planes with coronavirus evacuees from wuhan, china will arrive at travis air force base. no one on board has the virus, but they will be quarantined as a precaution. we ll have live reports in just minutes. but first high drama at the state of the union. he snubbed her hand shake. she store up his speech. the tension lights up twitter. as state of the union first rush limbaugh awarded the presidential medal of freedom. good evening. i m dan ashley. and i m ama daetz. president trump delivered his state of the union tonight that can be described as the president doing what he does best. it felt at times like a political rally with
will be the one that will be traveling on to southern california. so we don t expect those passengers to be getting off at travis air force base. we should reiterate and make it clear, these are people who have been evacuated out of china. there s no reason to believe these people have the coronavirus. but all the precautions are being taken to make sure that virus does not spread to people who live in the bay area. that s why they will be quarantined for the 14 days. they will be making sure they don t have symptoms before they re allowed to leave. people say they are concerned that the evacuees now here in it the bay area will put other people at risk of catching the virus. we want to remind everyone, no one has been diagnosed in san francisco, but ucsf is treating two patients from san bonita county. reporter: after weeks of waiting in chinese coronavirus hot zone, 250 americans finally evacuated. they re bound for this hotel, the west wind inn where they will be quara