Marisa lagos,and joining from San Franciscos kqed politics and government reporter, guy maserati. Thank you for joining us tonight. Guy, President Trump proved last night that he can display restraint and offemore of a coherent policy message. Is it likely to increase votes in his favor late in the game with a week left until electi day . I think the answer to that is entirely incumbent on his mp gn ability to take that slightly more coherent policy message we heard in specific areas. And thinking about the energy policy, differences that emerged in the debate between biden and trump. Trump pouncing on the biden taing away from fossil fuels. Also, but issues that are more on voters mines like Coronavirus Response and health cayo. Marissa, arexpecting the unexpected to occur in the next few days, especially with President Trump behind in the polls, do you think the two campaigns will be relatively quiet now . Voting is underway and in record nu wers. Have some 15 million americans that
Situation with the glass fire. Deborah joins us live on how people are marking this somber anniversary. Reporter julie, with the pandemic, no public observances. Some neighborhoods will mark the moment. Tomorrow morning a brief bellringing in santa rosa and the city that bore the brunt of the firestorm. Three years ago, we went through some very incredibly difficult times. Truck the fire chief in the past presided at public ceremonies marking this date and disaster. Covid quashed that this year plus he is still turning the corner on the glass fire and hundreds of homes gone into counties. Firefighters are not all that aware of anniversaries. I want to thank all of you for being here today to help us with his current fire we are experiencing knowing that many of you were here in 2017 helping us. This is my neighbors house. Truck that meyer, night fire warden so fast that people ran for their lives and then had a long ordeal into turning wasteland in the neighborhoods again. Coffee park
Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo
Courts liberal block through the decades, also a pop culture icon, the subject of books, documentaries, and movies. 65 years ago, it would have been unimaginable that my daughter would aspire to a career. And while americans mourn her passing, this morning, the fight has already begun over filling her seat on the nations highest court. Ginsburg saying on her deathbed, the decision should be left to the next president , but Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says hes ready to move ahead, as a battle brews in washington, well look back at Ruth Bader Ginsburgs life and the legacy she leaves behind. Today, saturday, september 19th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and dylan dreyer. And welcome to today and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. It is a somber day. Flags are here in the nations capital, from the white house to the Supreme Court, all in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she was small in stature, peter, but
Were monitoring for today is going to be the return of some smoke thanks to some drifting winds. We have winds from the north creeping in towards the afternoon. And our temperatures are going to be in the 70s and the 80s and because of that incoming smoke, the bay area air Quality Management district has issued a spare the air alert for today. Right now, the sensors are good, but as we head into later in this evening, were going to start to notice an increase in that smoke and unhealthy air quality especially for the north bay which is likely going to be seeing the worst air quality for today. Details into the weekend in a few minutes. The nation is waking up this morning remembering the legacy of Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Ground Breaking jurist fought until the very end after battling bravely pancreatic cancer. Only the second woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court, the 87yearold was surrounded by her family in washington, d. C. We begin our coverage with today in the b