Parliament speaker says its clear that there were casualties its been more than 2 weeks since young people began demonstrating against Police Brutality the manufacturer of a powerful painkiller that helped to set off an Opioid Epidemic in the u. S. Will plead guilty to criminal charges as part of an 8000000000. 00 settlement Purdue Pharma makes the Prescription Drug oxycontin which is linked to an addiction crisis thats killed more than 400000 people in the past 20 years but the deal does not release any of the companys executives or owners including members of the wealthy secular family from criminal liability. The unlawful dangerous scheme put profits over people by seeking to increase scripts for addictive jaros even when they were not medically appropriate and at the height of the u. S. Opioid crisis a time when in vermont where im from and across the country people were suffering under opioid addictions that sometimes ended and and so many of those addiction stories began with oxy
Season . If you support President Trump and mike pence, the line is 202 7488001. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, the line is 202 7488000. If you are undecided, or you support other candidates, the line is 202 7488002. If you want to send us a text, that is 202 7488003. Make sure you tell us your name, where you are texting from. Where on twitter cspanwj, and on facebook. Com cspan. Looking at this issue in terms of your political view, your friendships and how that is going on. Americans are less likely to have friends of different political opinions compared to 2016. They write, the last four years have taken a toll on democrats bipartisan friendships. Nearly a quarter of democrats say they are not friends with anyone who holds very different political views from them. That is a 14 rise from when questionked the same in 2017. Changedans have not significantly, 10 to 12 in the last four years. None of the Political Parties to sharen more likely friendships with different po
Americans along the gulf coast to expect extreme, life threatening and historic flooding in the next 24 hours. As Hurricane Sally turns just sowings of alabama, forecasters say the storm could dump several feet of rain when it roars ashore near mobile bay tomorrow morning trapping people under sixfoot storm surge. As we come on the air, the outer bands of sally are lashing the coast and could spin off tornadoes later tonight. Sally is proving to be a challenge to predict, changing her speed and intensity several times over the past 24 hours, and tonight, forecasters are warning she could have more theres a lot of new reporting and the latest forecast to get to tonight. Weve got our team of correspondents standing by. Cbs David Begnaud is going to lead off our coverage in Pensacola Beach, florida. Good evening, david. Reporter good evening, norah. Storm surge from the gulf of mexico is pushing the coast into Pensacola Beach where the flooding has already begun. The storm is 500 miles wi
Northwest of calistoga. People there were told to leave this morning. Cal fire told us late today that investigators have zeroed in now on a possible location where this fire started. Theyre actively investigating the 200 block of north fork Crystal Springs road. That is right off silverado trail. No other details besides that at this moment. We learned today that two firefighters in napa county were trapped by flames sunday night and had to deploy their fire shelter. They are safe though cal fire says a number of fire vehicles were damaged. Meanwhile the Alameda County Fire Department said today their firefighters were in the thick of it all in the calistoga st. Helena area. Theyve been working practically three days straight. The biggest concern right now is the weather. Fire officials sadly say it is about to make everything tougher. Were looking at a very similar wind event that when this fire first started moving out three days ago. Now is the time for our firefighters to buckle d
Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le