Election. Mitt romney the last potential swing vote announces his support as the nation honors the groundbreaking justice. Air scare. Vice president pences plane, air force two, forced to land after a bird strike. The details this morning. Crossing the aisle. Cindy mccain, the widow of senator john mccain, announces shes endorsing joe biden. She joins us this morning. Why she says shes putting country over party. Making waves. The video of this 6monthold waterskiing baby with his dad beside him getting backlash online. Our exclusive interview with his parents, how they are responding this morning. And icy expedition. Two explorers surviving this chilling climb in the north pole when they were suddenly flipped into the freezing waters. How they narrowly escaped the frigid fright of their lives. Good morning, america. Its good to be with you, and of course, its great to be with george and robin. And i know thats something they will never see happen to any of us. An iceberg . Mmhmm. Why g
This year, brushes drier than ever, there hasnt been any substantial rain in months, combine that with record setting heat, the deputy chief says it is practically explosive. We are surrounded by ignition source. These are some of the most beautiful viewpoints in the area. People are causing fires. In ruins it for a lot of other people, dont come up here to light fireworks, or drink and drive. What is the plan to enforce the new parking band . Oakland police say that they are going to be out patrolling tonight on grizzly peak from skyline to interstate 24 in effect from 9 00 p. M. Until 6 00 a. M. , they are really hoping to crack down on that activity by having Police Officers tell people that they need to move along. If necessary, they will write citations. Meanwhile we are dealing with the effect of fires that have been burning for weeks. It is filtering in from the north. It is obscuring mount diablo and bringing so much smoke to parts of solano county, people have been calling and
Slow through oakland. We are looking at unhealthy air for portions of the north bay this morning. Hour air quality forecast, we are looking at unhealthy air. Is variably air alert is in effect and that is a record breaking 17 days in a row with that spare the air alert for the bay area. Looking at daytime highs with that haziness and smoke, we are little below average for this time of year. Upper 60s in oakland, 77 in san jose and 83 for concord. We will talk about our hot Holiday Weekend and the stretch of smoky skies for us. Details on that are coming up. s track police in vallejo are investigating a possible homicide after a body was found after 8 00. Officers were on main street near the marin vista apartments, searching for clues. We reached out to police that we are still waiting to hear more about the victim and a possible suspect. We expect to hear from the family of a man shot and killed by police at a san leandro walmart. We are live from san leandro. It happened in april . A
A ride with the russians to join our russian partners at the International Space station and 86000000. 00 cab fare so when private enterprise got the usa back into the game with the reuse of all rocket no less it was a proud moment a respite from all else thats challenged us lately here on earth where in space do we boldly go next lets ask a long time Network Space correspondent john business coauthor with jail pickering of among other books the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments in the space age presidency of john f. Kennedy a rare photographic history john space x. Had already been shuttling cargo up to the i. S. A. s how is ferrying astronauts there a game changer as we continue to explore that final frontier. I think its significant im sorry. Well from holland 1st of all as you say its the 1st time a private company has done that and thats sort of been the goal of a series of us have ministrations going back for a period of years they wanted to move th