Twitter send us a tweet at cspan wj and facebook or facebook. Com cspan. Couple of the polls that have come out since thursday since the last of this weeks hearings and let you know about some of our political coverage starting with the intersection of the debate and the impeachment hearings. Jerry simon writing impeachment invades the democratic primary. For the good portion of the campaign, it sounds like it feels like an intrasquad basketball game. The same side scrimmaging against one another. Outside forces began to muscle into the president ial primary primary contest. The first force was president taught President Trump, not of his own accord. The biggest was hearings on the possible impeachment that paid out played out in the house of representatives, in particular a hearing on wednesday dominated the news and stole much of the spotlight that otherwise would have gone to the democrats president ial debate. Not surprisingly, the first question was directed towards Elizabeth Warr
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
Mattier is here to discuss the Real Solutions to this classic california crisis. Michael finney investigates how consumers who lost money can get reimbursed and meteorologist drew tuma looks at the science and history of our weather patterns. Its all coming up. But first, a little perspective. In the last three years california has endured more than 23,500 wildfires and still counting. They have burned more than 3. 5 million acres and cost taxpayers and homeowners more than 600 billion. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman can talk about that and more for us tonight. Wayne, you live in the north bay and have been reporting on the fires and the fallout for decade. Reporter i have. Im afraid to admit it. Since 1981 here in the north bay and all my life in california. As a kid i grew up with these fires, but these are new. We have new levels of frequency and ferociousness. It is the time of year when the leaves turn and we should be taking comfort. But in the fall in california, its not wha
Has barned 54,000 acres, containment has dropped to 5 . Another 80,000 homes are threatened by flames. Firefighters believe it will take until november 7th to contain the fire. Schools are closed because of the smoke and ongoing Power Outages. We have a full list on nbcbayarea. Com and running them on the bottom of the screen all morning. And tracking new evacuation orders overnight into. Sharon katsuda is live at the frontlines. Firefighters are still on the scene there . Reporter that is right. And we just moved from a decision location so were now here right along spot road in the heart of this evacuation area and you could see behind me there are fire engines here. They saved this home. Im told that the flames came right up to the back side of this home so very good use here but the fire has moved on closer towards santa rosa. That is what im hearing. Now lets take a look at video of the flames. We shot this about 3 00 this morning just off the road here. Got very close to structur
Morning. Also as of last night it stands at 15 containment, close to 00 buildin 200 buildings have been destroyed, including 86 homes. Pg es latest round of Power Outages went better than expected for people outside of the north bay because the utility never turned the power off for people in santa clara, alameda, contra costa and san mateo counties. They predicted overnight weather conditions never really materialized. The map scholes the current outages, most are in the north b bay. Lets get to meteorologist kari hall tracking the wind and fire conditions. We are seeing breezy winds picking up this morning. That will start to increase as we look at oakland, San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. Earlier this morning we had a wind gust at st. Helena reaching 57 miles per hour. As we go through today well see improving weather conditions for most of us, but we will have the breezy conditions for the higher elevations, and so as we go into the next several hours, it looks like oakland, San Fr