Employees. Opponents of that push staged a no on 22 rally in front of uber headquarters in San Francisco today. In our continuing vote smart series, kpix5 reported that devin fehely delves into both sides of that debate. Millions of dollars are pouring into the battle over prop 22 with Big Companies like uber, lyft and doordash shipping in tens of millions of dollars to help define california gig economy, basically was considered an employee versus independent contractor. Threatened to shut down rideshare delivery services. Reporter the suspect flooding the airwaves with ads like this. It will protect drivers. Excellent the freedom, and the possibility of working in the gig economy. I do doordash to supplement my income while i am in between jobs. Reporter he has been driving for doordash off and on for years and he says he likes being an independent contractor, making his own schedule, and determining when and how much he works. He fears what might happen if prop 22 fails in his force
To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
Armenia and azerbaijan agreed to work to end their conflict. In just under an hour the 2 candidates for Vice President of the United States will face off in their only debate of the campaign ahead of the november 3rd president ial election clear plastic barriers will separate mike pence and. Have both tested negative for corona virus pictures here from Salt Lake City ahead of this 90 minute debate in the state of utah this is the hole in the university of utah where it will all happen. Rob reynolds as our correspondent there today so much anticipation for this one is that they were not usual for a Vice President ial debate these are not usual times. Absolutely kemal i mean the the Vice President ial debates every 4 years are usually pretty forgettable although those of us who are of a certain age will never forget lloyd benson is classic putdown of dan quayle in 1988 senator youre no jack kennedy but this time the stakes are even higher the focus will we squarely i think on covert 19 a
San jose after a major last minute change for teachers. Good evening im elizabeth cook. So how did the first day go . Here is kenny choi. Reporter the majority of teachers work from the School Classrooms and according to the Teachers Union they say the Distance Learning 2. 0 in the fall will be dramatically different. Night and day compared to the spring. For these teachers at hoover middle school, logging into a virtually empty campus was a better option. Being able to come to their classroom get some more space and club travesty to be able to do their job. Teachers choosing to work from home have to submit their decision to work from home. They can do so through the end of september. Majority of teachers were comfortable coming into their rsalsrooms but there waty experiences with covid19. Vanessa and her three children came to the park after finishing their first day of Distance Learning 2. 0. We did Scavenger Hunt on zoom even though we are not in the same classroom. That was very