King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
To equate and eventually end this apartment peach met process. This is dead on arrival in the senate. So they look dead on arrival but the vote was not technically at iran pauls motion but it was to table it for their few senators like rob portman who said click declared unconstitutional. Its on both sides is it possible five or more vote to convict. Its possible. Itssa almost certain to end in another acquittal. Never trust on february 9 presold whole lot about what it is going to look like. Republicans certainly do not want to have a lot of time spent will see what happens in the next few weeks how many senators are needed to convict . You need 67ou senators of everybody shows up, two thirds of the people who show up and vote. Those have to devote to convict. But it is never happened before with the president or expresident. Ed sue needs 17 Senate Republicans to vote to convict. We had five who sort of crossed party lines yesterday to get rid of iran pauls motion. Thats a dozen short
Out of 5 segs laeout of 5 segs s out of 5 segs laessions last we. A lot of that potentially around the possibility of vaccines. Well talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that pfizer already saying that its made several hundred thousand doses of its vaccine they could have 100 million ready by the end of the year if they receive approval. Lets look at whats been happening in the treasury market this morning as well last week you did see those treasury yields under some pressure this morning back a little higher yielding 0. 774 . Thanks, becky busy day ahead lets look at the squawk planner. A group of Oil Ministers are meeting today. Theyll be talking about the weakening demand and increased output by some members immediate action is expected on the economic front, fed chairman jay powell will be speaking at the International Monetary fund meeting at 8 00 eastern time then we have some earnings news. Ibm, the big name to watch its going to be reporting Quarterly Results after the bell of cou
Danger. Weve seen coverage of the dangerous weather in store for this weekend. We are standing by to tell us how fire crews are preparing. First, lets go over to meteorologist tracking this condition we can expect this weekend. Rosemary. We are expecting some very hot weather. Very dry and eventually it is expected to be very windy, especially in the hills. Outside our doors in this area, a live look in San Francisco. Many are cooler today. Six degrees cooler around the bay anywhere from 3 to 4 degrees cooler. That begins to change tomorrow with a warmup expected for the bay area on saturday. By saturday night we expect the winds to pick up and were looking at the hottest and driest and windiest days come our way as we get through saturday night through monday morning. Thats when the red flag will be in place. It will be parts of our hills as well as the east bay. The temperatures, when i expect the inland cities to hit 100 degrees. Coming up in just a minute. The approaching heat wave