Divot, savage, is the 20th anniversary of bush versus gore. We ask you, since you have been , toring the Supreme Court look back at the 2000 election. What we were going through that as compared to what is happening now and also some of the lessons learned. Lets start with the court itself. Themmembers, and seven of appointed by republican president s but how did they align ideologically . It was pretty much a 54 pretty much a 54 vote. There were several moderate republicans. Souter, ruthd ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer were the four on the left. , but alsoconservative an interesting era. Justice kennedy and justice were conservatives and you could not predict them in cases. You say more about chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leaving the court . He had been on the court for a lot of years. He had strong, clear views. I got lunch with them every year. I found him very interesting but he could talk about all sorts of subjects. Want to talk about sports or politics, the w
An 11point lead in the state of pennsylvania. But theres a lot of vote yet to be counted in that state and want to bring in the attorney general of that state josh shapiro joining us, i believe from philadelphia. Josh, thank you for joining us this morning. If youre not in philadelphia, i apologize for that. Tell us where things are with the count, when you expect to see more results, how the process is going. Yeah, look, george, i get it. Folks want to know. My kids jumped on me this morning, daddy, daddy, who won and my kids jumped on me too. Weve been saying for months, you know, were going to secure, protect and count every vote so we secured the vote. We protected it and now its being counted all across pennsylvania clerks from our communities are making sure that these ballots are counted. Theres still a lot of vote left. This is way too early in the process. I anticipate throughout the day today youre going to see significant numbers of votes being put into the system, so the pu
The careful counting of every ballot. Mr. Biden asks for every ballot to be counted, mr. Trump says he will go to the Supreme Court. Good morning. The news flowing every hour. Francine lacqua, it is pretty much as we expected, and we have not only seen the political results but the market gyrations in the last 24 hours. Francine tom, there are two outcomes the markets were fearful about, and those outcomes can much more possible in the last 24 hours. First, the joe biden presidency with a Republican Senate. We could have that. It is still mathematically possible. The other one, of course come a very contested election. If you listen to what President Trump said about an hour and 10 minutes ago, it is very clear that he wanted to go to the Supreme Court, ask that the Supreme Court step in, because unclear why, tom, because we are still counting votes. There is absolutely no evidence that something has been done wrong, but certainly fighting words from President Trump, and that will put
61 oakland. 62 for san jose and for concord. Daytime highs about three to five degrees below average for this time of year. Tracking our next storm system, details on the rain chances. I will show you future cast. Lets check in with a look at traffic. Good morning. Checking the roadways right now. So far so good as far as accidents at the bay bridge. We are getting word of a wind advisory. Be careful as you work there if you are traveling in a high profile vehicle. Be careful to have two hands on the steering wheel. Other than that its fairly quiet. They are working on one crash on 680 as you work southbound right at diablo road. Looks like one car involved in this trouble spot. Its blocking at least one lane. The rest of the bridges quiet. Golden date bridge not seeing any trouble spots. We are seeing a few cars. San mateo bridge 13 minutes to go between 880 and 101 and the freeway checking in problem free. To the coronavirus. The state now forcing contra costa and abouta cruz back in
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