Barrett to the Supreme Court final arguments are still being made but the Republican Controlled Senate is expected to approve Donald Trumps nominee alan fisher is on capitol hill with the debate is taking place the democrats have tried everything they possibly could divide argued that this is being rushed through one senator saying its going so fast it would make you see in the olympic sprinter jealous that they have tried Public Opinion by saying look this is going when people are voting theres more than 30000000 people that havent cast their early votes in the u. S. President ial election and therefore should wait until the next president comes in they have argued that its going to be a threat to the Affordable Care act because the Supreme Court will be holding a hearing on that one week after the election but the reality is they simply didnt have the power to stop this. President s regime heard one has called on talks to boycott french goods as tensions rise over emanuel plans to re
Ministry in colombia announced. That 1000000 figure 30000 death you mentioned in the world to past that grim milestone is the 3rd in latin america. A few days ago brazil the worst country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 10000000 people so 40 to 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world the u. S. Vice president s chief of staff mark shorts is tested positive for corona virus and is in quarantine is the 2nd day to mike pence to test positive this week pence has been in close contact with shorts but is reportedly in good health and tested negative on saturday. U. S. President candidates donald trump and Democrat Joe Biden atory battleground states as election day looms opinion polls show biden in the lead nationally but its a tight race in the swing states a mosque in france as held president tr
Borders to prevent the spread of the virus. Has more on the outbreak in latin america the difference between latin america and europe i think is that the infrastructure in general around latin america is far worse less investment in schools and hospitals so right from the very beginning they were suffering with trying to do contact and trace and there are certainly less beds available for those who need it intensive treatment that is really impacted latin america very hard also talking also about the economy many people here many millions of people work in the informal economy so when governments say to them stay indoors you cant you cant go out they really have no choice they have to go out with contracting the virus or they dont eat. Polands president has also tested positive for corona virus under is due that is said to be feeling well but is in quarantine poland like much of the rest of europe is imposing more restrictions to try to slow the high infection writes again his Election
These four days worth of hearings Siobhan Hughes, welcome. How did these hearings compare with ones in the past given we are now operating under the pandemic. Four days for the nominee. Caller four to guest four days is about the standard for a lot of people who have been tuning into the Supreme Court nominations only recently, it might feel a little different. That is because the Brett Kavanaugh nominations were so contentious. It did go on for longer than normal. Four days is about right. We will start monday with Opening Statements from senators. We will hear from a neat Amy Coney Barrett. Divebsequent days, we will into very intense questioning of her by the senators. Finally, there will be an outside panel that the senators will question. That is the format. That is standard. What is not standard is that we are operating in a pandemic. This is going to be a hybrid hearing. At the start, some senators are going to appear remotely. Two of them have tested positive for coronavirus. M
A red flag warning takes if he can tomorrow afternoon. We have Live Team Coverage on the fires still burning in napa and Sonoma County. Well begin with laura anthony. Reporter hi, dan, as you can see, were in down calistoga. This is normally where we are seeing the most active part of the fire right now is in areas that is uninhabited and some very steep terrain. Heavy fuel thats difficult to fight fires in. Same old, same old. Ashes, waking up every day. My girlfriend stayed up until probably 1 00 in the morning because the whole pallisades was just flaming. It was. And it is raining ash in down town calistoga right now. There are concerns that winds could cause trouble tomorrow. So firefighters are preparing for a wind event that they say will be very similar to when the fire started over the weekend. Now is the time for firefighters to do a buckle down. Theyre going to get that door shut and try to protect the communities of kenwood, valley of the moon, and the napa valley all way d