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would. the president continued to protect an image of stanngth recovery from his covid-19 infection. on wednesday come he claimed that experiment of drug he had been given was,quote, a cure for coronavirus and he felt, quote, perfect. we begin tonight s discussion with a focus on california s junior senator, kamarris, who stepped onto the biggest debate stage of her life this week. joining me now by skype from mountain view is lon heat, a former adviser to enthe presal campaigns of what mitt romney and marco bio. amy allison, the founder and president of she, the people, for women in politithank you s so much for joining let s start with you, amy. you been a supporter of senator harris for maars. what was the significance of seeing her on stage? senator harris brought it it was the first time that those of us women of color and those across the multiracial demoatic base actually got hear the issues, and she brought those issues of racial justice, economic justice, she menti
presidential candidates. and tal kopan has covered kamala harris as a correspondent for the san francisco chronicle. how much do you think senator harris is going to be introducing herself still to voters when she steps on the debate stage tonight? guest: certainly a large part. obviously there are viewers who , tune into c-span, we feel like we know her. there is still probably a large population out there that may not. there are still folks who do not tune into the presidential election until after labor day. i went back in preparing for this appearance and looked at the piece i wrote for her first debate in the president shall primary. that was exactly what her campaign was telling me at the time, that was her opportunity to introduce herself to america. the more people get to know her, the more people like her. i completely imagine that is going to be part of the game plan tonight as well. of course, adding into that is drawing a contrast with the trump administration for
any easier, as well, for people who are sheltering or actually working from home. today in the bay cierra johnson joins us live in c calistoga and monitoring some of the outages in the north bay. yes, good morning. as i was coming into the main drag of calistoga you can see it was really, really dark. typically they have the generators running and it may be too early forbut many of the bu this main drag are dark, but behind me you can see the main square does have power. that s because a while ago the city did have a collaboration with pg&e to have that microgrid. but for the most part it is dark except for the occasional headlight coming down. we wanted to provide you an update with the power outages so far. right now 9,221 customers are without power in napa and as for sonoma 1,777 folks without power. folks going on about hour 12 of not having power here in calistoga and keeping track of the brush fires and right now all clear on that front. folks in calistoga without
yeah, we ve got a lot going something else you could see, folks with gas cans, preparing on. to head home to get their personal generators going. thousands in napa and sonoma it s only getting hotter when it counties are without power. comes to those temperatures. for those off the grid, it s not even noon and san navigating a day without power francisco is already at 80 means using electronics wisely degrees. it s not windy at the lower and finding ways to keep elevations. i want to show you temperatures medications safe. across the bay area. we ve gone through it so many san jose, 82. times, it s starting to really hayward, 87 degrees. get old. especially when we didn t see we are predicting our highs to be anywhere between the 80s and any wind tonight or today. 90s for the bay and coast and and we live on the wrong side of the river, because this part is 90s low triple digits. red flag warning will be in energized and ours isn t. effect through 11:00 a.m. you would thi