Republican huddled on capital hill taking the first step to electing a new speaker. They are under pressure to act quickly in order to provide aid to israel. The speaker battle on capitol hill and your thoughts on what is happening in the middle east. For democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001 and for independents 202 7488002 you can also text at 202 7488003 or on facebook facebook. Com cspan. Good morning everyone and welcome to our new home at the washington journal. We are in a brandnew studio, in the same building on a different floor. It has been a year in the making. We have new monitors, new backgrounds, new desks, new lighting. One thing that will not change as the conversation we have with each of you every morning. If you want a more indepth tour of this new studio you can go online and take a tour along with us to check it all out. For the first hour, we have a double headline with the speaker battle on capitol hill and how the u. S. Is responding to the israel h
Marine layer has deepened some. Yesterday less than 1000 feet deep, today 1500 feet. That combines to help cool is off a little bit. Starting off a few degrees colder than yesterday morning, and we have a delta breeze, Fairfield Travis airport or should i say the Travis Air Force base reporting a 30 mile an hour wind gusts. 55 in berkeley, 57 and livermore. Around the bay, 59 in hayward, 56 at sfo. 52 in San Francisco and 54 at the half moon bay. Today mostly sunny skies away from the coastline, and a Beautiful Day with hayward looking at 77, seeing temperatures pulling back to upper 60s the low 70s when we get close to sunset. The afternoon highs, starting with the hotspots, ninety six in antioch and livermore, south they ninety six in morgan hill, 87 in santa rosa. 70s and 80s around the bay admits 60s for San Francisco. This will be the coolest day around the bay area, 60s for santos San Francisco. I see some fog in places in some areas. My San Francisco stat, it is socked in. I lov
Estuary. Mostly cloudy skies. Rosemary will be here with the weather in just a moment. But in is the big week for the democrats. They are opening up in philadelphia. Getting off to a rocky start. Havent seen started yesterday. Yes, gasia mikaelian, mike mcqueary, im sal castaneda. Hundreds of firefighters are in Monterey County. They are trying to control a wildfire near carmel that has now burned through about 15,000 acres. Ktvus janine de la vega joining us from Monterey County with the update. Reporter yeah, mike, we were in salinas at the base camp where the firefighters were. In the last hour they were all dispatched out here. Into the field, so we followed them on highway 1. We are in Carmel Highlands. This is an area that is threatened. We are tilting up to where you can see thats a combination of a marine layer, fog, and possibly smoke, and thats one of the things that theyre concerned about, is that people will get confused and think the fire is not next to me. Thats just fog.
Visit an exhibition in london. But first, to afghanistan where fighting is again underway in parts of kunduz city in the north between the taliban and the afghan army. The taliban have managed to retake some of the areas they lost overnight. Government troops backed by nato forces and u. S. Airstrikes were in control of parts of kunduz three days after the taliban took over the city. At least 50 people, mostly civilians were killed. And more than 300 others were injured. Well, lets get the latest now and speak to al jazeeras correspondent joining us from about 130 clocksters from kunduz. The last few hours have been a bit confusing. At first the government was able to retake some of the areas the taliban had been in control of. Now it seems the taliban has taken some of the areases back. Reporter let me tell you the big problem. Civilians got caught between the two sides, both sides are using artillery and machine guns. And i talked with a hospital they say they keep receiving dead and
The people of scotland have spoken, and it is a clear result. They have kept our country of four nations together. And like millions of other people, i am delighted. That was the british Prime Minister speaking just a short while ago after scotland rejected independence from the united ngdom. Hello, im Christiane Amanpour from scotland. It may be just 8 00 in the morning here, but its not too early for those who support the re referendum. At this point, the no campaign won 55 of the vote. 45 voted in favor of independence. And that is a significantly wider margin of victory than most opinion polls had predicted. Most forecast a very high turnout for the referendum. And scottish voters delivered. More than 6. 3 Million People cast ballots. That puts turnout at 84. 6 . Scotland had lowered the voting age from 18 to 16 so young people could vote on the referendum. Lets take a listen to the british Prime Minister David Cameron who spoke just a short time ago from 10 downing street. I am a