Representative mike johnson was elected about one hour ago. Johnson is from louisiana. He was endorsed by former President Trump and was one of the lawmakers who voted to overturn the 2020 election. He was elected to speaker more than three weeks after representative Kevin Mccarthy was ousted and after three other congressman failed to get enough votes to secure that seat. While the house was voting, President Biden was speaking about the ongoing war in israel. The president said israel has a right to respond to the attack on october 7. We will ensure israel has what it needs to defend itself against these terrorists. We also have to remember hamas does not represent i will say it again. Hamas does not represent the majority of the Palestinian People on the gaza strip or anywhere else. Israel needs to operate within the laws of war and protect innocent civilians. A live look at berkeley where students will be walking out of class in about one hour for a propalestinian water that will h
In zip ties and you know, the whole situation, the entire time, was very calm, he was cooperative. Jose martinez has been digging into the Surprising New development in this case. He joins us with those details. Rose . Me tell you something, according to a federal complaint against Joseph Emerson after being arrested, he told the officers that he became depressed six months ago and talked about the use of psychedelic mushrooms stating that this was the first time he took them. Reporter according to a federal criminal complaint, Joseph Emerson, the offduty Alaska Airlines pilot, tended to shut down the engines of a plane headed to San Francisco. The affidavit says emerson and the responding officer talked about the use of psychedelic mushrooms and he told the officer it was his first time taking them. We i cant imagine what he was possibly thinking because everyone knows mushrooms are hallucinogens and that is absolutely , absolutely by far no way are we supposed to, we cant even take c
Historic visit to the war zone. A new safety plan. Pg e presenting a new framework to present people from wildfires. The concerns overwhelming costs will be passed on to you, the rate payer. Plus, a dangerous combination, heat and high surf. Meteorologist kari hall is monitoring the advisory for much of the bay area and the warning you need to plan to beat the heat at bay area beaches. This is today in the bay. Good wednesday morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. We want to get you started with a live look across the bay area, where were going to see a heat advisory starting later this morning. Meteorologist kari hall, of course, joining us now. Come on in here. Weve been talking about this heat. It is coming, and today isnt even going to be the hottest day. Tomorrow is the hottest day of the week, so were going to have a couple of really hot days coming in. As we take a live look outside in san jose, we are starting out with Cool Temp
Moment as well with Opening Statements set to start in formerpresident Donald Trumps new york hush money trial. The president has arrived at the courthouse. This, of course, is the first time a former president and a Presumptive Republican nominee for president is standing trial for criminal charges. Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying Business Records. Those counts are related to a 2016 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter, all of which the former president has denied. Todays Opening Statements coming a week after the trial started with jury selection. Now those 12 jurors and 6 alternates are set to hear the case against him and his teams defense in a watershed moment for our countrys legal landscape. We start now with our senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. She has made her way to that courthouse there in lower manhattan. Laura, what are we expecting to see and hear inside that courtroom this
Broaden out the picture. A few light showers coming in from the ocean. A chance of wet weather through about 9 00 this evening. In fact, let me show you with my accuweather 12hour planner. Wet and foggy. 49 to 55. Very mild this morning. Dry and cloudy by noon. 57 to 59. A few peeks of sunshine. Still mild mid50s. Lets see what this rain is doing to your commute. Sue . So far slick roads and the fog is definitely a factor with some fog advisories out there. So the orange represents fog. The green represents rain for your commute and the blue here, that means the potential for standing water. Here is where the chp has issued fog advisories. Solano county, dixon particularly, thick fog there, waldo grade is very dense and across the golden gate bridge, its coming and going. Just a headsup there. They are in the process of reconfiguring your lanes. A chp officer is recovering this morning after a Chain Reaction crash. He was on the side of highway he was on the side of highway 4 when this