Klobuchar led off the days venomous assault. This isnt a rush to justice, this is a rush to put in a justice. We are dealing with a president who doesnt think truth matters, and he has allies in congress who in the past defended our democracy but are now doing his bidding. Yes, judge, i think this hearing is a sham. More than 9 million americans have already voted, and millions more will vote while this ill legitimate Committee Process is underway by replacing Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg with someone who will undo her legacy, President Trump is attempting to roll back americans lives for decades to come. Lou the democrats, the party of hate. The radical dems made no arguments today against judge barretts credentials, her character and capacity, but they did define the confirmation hearing as a litmus test for the future of obamacare. Its a topic that law professor Jonathan Turley says is entirely inappropriate for the senators to even discuss. The assumption being made, sort of brought
It is 60 in san jose, 49 up north. Looking at the current conditions, 86 containment from the fire. 56 degrees. 72 relative humidity. And well begin to see some warmer conditions today. We also have a sparetheair alert. Poor air quality not only in the north bay but drifting to the inland east bay. Elsewhere, it will be moderate. Starting out with the clouds, then by noontime, upper 60s to near 70 around the bay and inland. Low 80s should be the high end today around the livermore valley. Mid 70s around fremont. 60s Half Moon Bay. Tonight, just a little patchy fog. Well talk about a warmup for includes gusty ho win z . Few nute nurse hethe st are demanding better protection from covid19. Abc7s Lauren Martinez has the story. Madeline johnson 70. Registered nurse, new jersey. Passed away reporter names of registered nurses around the country who lost their lives to covid19 were read aloud during a candlelight vigil outside of Alameda Hospital. Each one of them a life lost. Each one of th
Through sag after. Hello, everyone, i am Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. Its friday, february 5th. What a week its been. Breaking news, the first jobs report of the Biden Administration is in, it shows modest job gains, 49,000, slightly fewer new jobs than expected. The Unemployment Rate came down to 6. 3 from last months 6. 7 . But, and this is important, both november and decembers jobs numbers were revised, painting a picture even worse than previously thought. Bottom line, the recovery may be stalling, and theres still a ton of economic pain thats devastating large parts of the country, nearly a year after the pandemic began. But help may be on the way after working through the night and into the Early Morning the Senate Just Passed a budget resolution, a critical step in getting a new relief bill through. The vote was 5150. All democrats on one side. All republicans on the other. Vice president harris casting the tie breaking vote for the very first time. Were going to hear
Congress. Congressman, we continue to watch the western states burn this week and you went to the floor yesterday to talk about the importance of forest esmanagement. Could you walk through what that means and what we are and arent doing for our western forests right now. Guest good morning, great to be with you. Forest management is something i love to talk about being a forrester and love to practice for history. A scene how it works. What we are talking about is applying science to make the forest healthy and resilient. In the life of climate effects is more important now than ever to apply these concepts to Management Practices to the forest and i am proposing in the trillion trees act as part of that bill i filed, for areas on public plans and these are also crossed over into private lands that we really need to focus on, especially in these fire prone areas where we are seeing higher weve got all the physics and youve got fuel, oxygen and heat and what we can do is manage the fue
P. M. You can see winds gusting 25 on 30milesperhour and it does continue into the Early Morning hours. Were still tracking the very active onshore winds. So we continue to have the red flag warning. The east bay hills and the inland east bay. This will last until 9 00 p. M. Well take a look at the winds, when they finally relax and our heat wave, day number two, arrives tomorrow. All right. Thank you. We have Team Coverage on this fire. Lets begin with cornell bernard who has been up there all day. Cornell . Reporter boy, eric, it has been a very long day for firefighters and its not over yet. Things still change go by the hour on this fire which continues to grow in size. Check it out. This is the roadblock for evacutions here at silverado trail and deer park road. The smoke, the fire burning over that ridge. You can see all the smoke pumping into the napa valley. Hundreds of folks forced from their say theyre feeling very lucky to be alive tonight. The fire was ferocious. Exploding