Efforts to persua ukraines leader toinvestigate former Vice President joe biden, and his son. Meanwhile, on tuesday, 12 candidatesquared off in a democratic residential debate, held in ohio. Reinecting her surge the polls, this time it was eltaabeth warren facing a x from her rivals. Especially over her support for medicare for all. Raise taxes on the middle would class, to pay for it. Itor for politics and ior government, scott shaver. Joining us via skype from the nations capital, is tall coping, the washington correspondent for the san frlccisco chronicle. E to you both. Thank you. Lets start wi you, scott. You were in washington this week and you spoke with several members of californias congressional delegation, several ofthem are players in this impeachment inquiry, what did you learn . Adam is of course leading the charge along with nancy e house Intelligence Air of committee, and we met with him after a long meeting he had with the spea r. He has become the target of republican
Power to parts of 35 counties 34 counties to reduce the risk of wildfires in windy conditions. According cal fire, the majority of the states destructive while wildfires have happened in october. Joining me no are anthony sehgal and jonathan cox welcomef to botyou, jonathan i want to begin with you give us a season is a shapup compared to last year with the camp fire and now we are approaching november, which was whenthe camp fire broke out, in early november. Thats right. In comparison to the last few years we experienced under 200,000 acres ofland burned california. This time last year, we were over 1 million acres of land burned, a relatively mild co season in arison to the last few. Maybe the biggest reason for that is because we have some more stens that we hahad in the last two years thats due to the rain and much we havent had earlier into the year. However we are nointo the timeframe that we tend to get large instructive fires in california. As we have seen over the last few da
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California. Even as the Company Works to restore power to the affected customers, they are warning of a largershut off starting on saturday night amid forecasts of strong wind. They faced criticism from the governor, lawmakers, and the California Public Utilities Commission over their handling of the first poround of r outages two weeks ago. The utility was not adequately prepared for the first round of outages, as the website crasd d repeatedly the call centers were overloaded. Joining me now is the senior producer, and data journalist, lisa white commented disability rights advocate sharing the board for the center for independent living bein eley. Lisa, tell me, what about the shutoffs that could start turday evening and ovthe weekend . Ast night, pg ewarned people throughout the bay area that they could be turning off the power again, and the shut off could be as large and last longer than the one we saw earlier in october in that sense, the regulators want pg e to take a more surg
Guilty, but did not [ Trina Thompson declara judge mistrial for one man. They fac counts of Involuntary Manslaughter and up to 39 years in prison if convicted. With us now is don clyde, who was in the courtroom yesterday when the verdict was delivered. O ing us from cambridge, massachusetts, law professor, thank you for being with us. Tell me about it. In the courtroom, you cover thial since day one. What was the emotion in there . What was the impact . Cement ve before theict was read, you can see the victims families, threlatives were crying. They were passing tissues on t themselves. When the verdict was read for harris as not guilty, was stoo out was one woman in particular, put her head in her hands, and was shaking back and forth like hii cannot lieve this was happening. People did expect a conviction. When the mistrial was announced for Derick Almena, there was a collected gasp of the victims. There was a real sense of shock that there was no conviction for him. Walk us through