For the election november nine after a lengthy 30 hour debate on the nomination of u. S. Circuit seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. Confirming her for the court by a vote of 6248, 45 democrats and two independents voting no and one rural begin voting no as well, senator Susan Collins of maine. Here on cspan2 we will continue to take your phone calls and reactions to the vote today, 20274889214 for level begins, 202 7488920 for democrats and for all others 202 7488922, 202 7488923 for your texts. All blumenthal of Huffington Post write about president rob success on the Supreme Court saying this, Donald Trumps Reception Court justices the most since reagan fulfilled the 40 year long drive for a rocksolid conservative majority by the conservative legal movement. What happens now. Just about what happens now here on cspan2 our coverage tonight is a tweet from Caitlin Collins of cnn the white house officially announcing that President Trump will
Gray for a long way because there is a big fog bank out there. Santa rosa 54 and not much change. Speaking of livermore northwest at seven and gusts up to 30 miles an hour and on the bridge i should add wind gusts at 30 and some pretty good gusts and mount diablo northwest at 40 as well. The quote cloud deck gives us the start of a cooling trend and we can change is windy and cooler as the load drops into oregon and northern nevada. Temperatures going below except for in livermore but you trend lines going down and not up anymore and 501 on friday morning. We dont have a lot going on. You have an nice start to friday and if you are out there there are people out there for sure and if you are driving 880 and oakland and that is moving while in both directions. 5 02 a. M. And lets go back to the headlines. Breaking news from fema. Firefighters busy battling this car fire. This is video of about 20 minutes ago. The car was fully engulfed in flames. This happened west of interstate 880 whe
We expect things to clear up a lot of fog along the coast over the last few days, but hopefully as youve been telling us, we pull back on the fog with sunshine across the bay area. We are in the middle of summer, so what are your travel plans, im want to fly, but i think this time cover can be jumping in the car and going on the road a little bit more. Many Summer Travel plans are being delayed or canceled because of the pandemic. Aaa predicting 150 million fewer trips will be taken the summer, but, other people who plan to travel, 96 percent actually plan to drive instead of going by plane or train, aaa estimates air travel would drop but no travel is dropped by 3 and if the mic is up and running, let me know. Weve already taking a road trip, road trip later this summer up to tahoe so, are you flying or not . I jump in here because, i love a road trip from way back, and especially so these days. We did a road trip down the california coast, several years ago. We did a road trip up int
Welcome to mornings on 2 and during this coronavirus pandemic unexpected side effect of the pandemic shut down is getting rid of cash tolls and the toll takers on the bridges. The chronicle reports this has been in the works for some time and efforts to put the plan into action have been ramping up. Leaders from the metropolitan Transportation Commission hope to have an all electronic cash plan to look at. The ultimate goal is to make the switch by the end of the year. We drive across bay area bridges and it will be weird you know to have this Going Forward where we will not have any people in those little booths. I am assuming thises has to do with financial and health. But especially these days, more and more, i seek out human contact and i chose to stand in line at target to be cashed out instead of self check out. So, i think about the people who have been working as toll takers and may look for Something Else to do. You never want someone to lose their job. I remember when the Gol
Killed in this incident. Our photographer saw several bullet holes in the house and the two women who died at 37 anshot and they are expected to survive and it happened last night. Police have not released any information about a suspect or motive. This is the citys tenth and 11th homicide of the year. The brother george floyd testified as ktvu allie rasmus explains the meetings focus was to examine the issues of Police Brutality and accountability, alley. Everyone agreed there needs to be changes but what they disagreed on was how to do that. Enough is enough. The people marching are telling you enough is enough. Felonious floyd adverbs changes in the weight communities are being treated like police. Hold them accountable and teach them what it means to treat people with empathy and respect and teach them what georges secretary of state is promising an investigation necessary forces and deadly into widespread voting problems. This after people had to wait in line for hours to cast the