Away tonight, were learning the tragic details of how loved one spent their final days together. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 8 oclock im Justine Waldman vicki is off tonight, im grant lotus dangerously high temperatures are expected to blanket the bay area this weekend prompting the National Weather service to issue a red flag warning. They get a live look outside right now at downtown San Francisco. Its not just the heat that were worried about even though it is a lovely friday night out there right now indeed were expected to get real serious winds gusts of more than 40 Miles Per Hour chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here with the details arent yet here we go guys were in fall on this that time of year we get a peak fire season temperatures going to be heating up lets take a look at those numbers tomorrow are up in the 90s inland 70s and 80s inside the bay and 60s not a bad start your weekend. Then we start to crank up the temperatur
Mr. Coons i ask proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , on this past friday evening, on rosh hashanah, our nation lost a giant on the Supreme Court. We lost a trailblazer for womens equality, a woman who although diminutive in size was a giant and a force for justice. For my daughter, for all americans. I am so grateful for the work and the service and the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Having passed on rosh hashanah, the tradition of the jewish people teaches that she is especially blessed, particularly righteous. Its heart breaking that her dying wish dictated to her granddaughter was that the voters should choose the next president and that next president , her successor, and that already there are some who are racing to undo that wish. This was her wish because she understood the consequences of this decision for the senate, for the American People, and for the Supreme Court to which she d
And at the base of capitol hill, speakers included in the world designer frank perry, former secretary of state, senator pat roberts and president eisenhowers grandchildren david in susan eisenhower. Exploring the american story. Watch it on cspan 3. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ramification of the 14th amendment to the u. S. Constitution. Up next on American History tv, climbs in University History professor oval vernon why was essential to ratify after the abolition of slavery. This is hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society is 45 minutes. Now with great pleasure, i get to introduce our first speaker oval Vernon Burton, who holds the judge math jay perry distinguished chair. In history panafrican studies sociology anthropology and computer science. If you think its weird but i do baseball, vernon does it all. Hes actual one man university. At Clemson University in South Carolina. Hes also the director of the clients Cyber Institute in addition to that, he recei
Plus, the ballot battle brewing. Colorados secretary of state filing a lawsuit against the u. S. Postal service saying voters are being misled. Shes with us live right here this morning. Arrest investigation. A sheriff deputy in georgia caught on camera repeatedly punching a man during an arrest. How the incident escalated into this scene, and what his family and the department are saying about it. And twotime champ. Naomi osakas historic comefrombehind victory at the u. S. Open, raising her game and raising consciousness. Good morning. As millions of americans wake up to another morning of smoke and fear from those massive wildfires, President Trump is planning to travel to california for a briefing on that situation. Heres a look at what hell find tomorrow. More than two dozen people have died, dozens more are missing, approximately 5 million acres burned in three states. The former Vice President joe biden, meanwhile, issuing a statement denouncing the president for, as biden put it
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19 as we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying to build a plane while we were flying the plane, and that is a challenging, challenging thing to de