ybefore to know before you head out. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. this morning reaction pouring in after the supreme court ruled to gut affirmative action, a move that will transform college admissions beiacross the countr. justices rules that colleges and universities can no longer consider race as part of their address missions process. the supermajority all voting to reverse decades of prez department. republicans praising the decide. kevin mccarthy said that it will leave to fairer admissions. but democrats are slamming the ruling. vice president kamala harris calling it a step backward that will make the nation s colleges less diverse. jessica schneider reports. reporter: the supreme court stirring up protests with its decision gutting affirmative action saying colleges and universities can no longer rely on race in the admissions process. but prospective students are still allowed to talk about how the
could perjury charges follow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. welcome to early start. we begin with what may be a clue that could help solve the mystery of one of those unidentified objects shot down by the u.s. military. a group of amateur balloonists says one of its small balloons is missing in action, its last reported location right over alaska on sunday the same day fighter jets downed three unidentified objects, one in that same region of alaska. the northern illinois bottle cap balloon brigade is not blaming the u.s. government for taking out its 32 inch balloon, but here is what president biden said yesterday. intelligence community s current assessment is that they were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research. jasmine wright is joining me live from washington. what else is the white house saying about balloons? reporter: the p
Thought the driver had been shot. Investigators say they are looking for more witnesses. We are hoping there were people nearby when this happened. No word on how that person is doing. Investigators are searching for the suspect. The mayor of emeryville is responding saying she is troubled by the shooting. She added she strongly supports the installation of highway cameras to deter criminal activity. The governor and state agencies are working to roll out hundreds of cameras. It expects them to be working later this month. Be part of the solution. We need to stop people from doing this kind of stuff. Reporter montgomery things the cameras are a good idea and he hopes whoever is behind this shooting is held accountable. Nbc bay area news. Lets talk about the weather. Here is a live look across the bay. Rob is tracking rain on sunday. Especially around the north bay but we are not watching any frost advisories. Still 40s later on tonight. Right now 51 degrees in san jose. 49 degrees in w
that it was an inside job. i mean, it was an inside job. the head of the federal government at the time was sort of encouraging it, if you want to go down that road. but that was the most animated. everything else he was very decaffeinated, very subdued. look, what i m reminded by watching him tonight, there is a marketplace for conspiracy theorists in our politics. he knows it, and that s why he s doing it. that s why robert f. kennedy jr. has a following out there because he s been a conspiracy theorist. there is a market for it. there is always a market for a flash in the pan shooting star, outsider candidate, right? whether it s herman kang or andrew yang. when you dig a little deeper, when you listen a little closer, you realize that vivek ramaswamy, thomas jefferson ramaswamy who spent 55 minutes quoting thomas jefferson talks and talks and talks but says precious little. it is all platitudes and cliches and spreading of conspiracy and hawking books and hawking podcas
has been no evidence of what he claims is an inside job, even though he makes that claim time to get. it wasn t long ago that the man who was convicted for crushing that metropolitan police department officer inside the door was convicted. i think it s just an insult to those officers who were in hours long battles with rioters that day. to say that s right in many many many of them have admitted. this they ve not just been convicted, but they also said yes this is what happened, i was misled, i went there and i did this. so he s even saying to the people who were convicted, and admitted it he s saying, no you re wrong, that can t be true. what about, one thing that he always turns to when he s talking about january six and he s pushed, as abby was pushing him for the facts on what he was saying. is to michigan governor question whitmore, in the attempted kidnapping of her. what are the facts of what he said there. was it true? what are the facts there. it s true that