Supreme court, thousands gathered for a second night to pay tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. There to mourn her friend and lead the crowd in a chant was senator elizabeth warren. She is just one of many lawmakers, tonight, now debating when ginsburgs seat will be filled. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im dion lim. Im eric thomas. Ginsburg died yesterday at age 87 from complications from pain kr pancreatic cancer. The justice was longknown for being an advocate of womens rights and civility. Abcs Carina Mitchell has more. Reporter outside the Supreme Court, lawyers gathering to pay tribute to Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. A popculture icon, who became known as the notorious rbg. Even though people talk about her as being tiny. She actually is at least tenfeet tall, and looms over all of us in her energy and force and determination. Reporter the battle to fill her seat already underway. Joe biden tweeting the Supreme Court is on the ballot. And the outcome
We did see a little bit of haze out there yesterday, sonoma, napa, a little bit of marin. We have good air quality, no spare the air alert today. There will be some haze initially and then we will look for increasing westerly winds. 57 sunnyvale right now. 61 in san carlos. Its 54 in sutro tower camera, temperatures near 0 in inland valleys. Looking at 80 around the bay. Fremont still 60s at the coast and we will look for cooler we we getnto the autumn season, that starts on tuesday, well talk about it in detail in a few minutes. Liz . Lisa, thank you. The tireless devotion to justice came to an end friday for ruth bader ginsburg, dying at the age of 87 from complications of pancreatic cancer. She leaves behind two kids, several grandkids and quite the legacy. The nation is remembering her for being an advocate of womens rights and her civility and this morning the attention turns to a new possible nominee. President trump says hes announce his pick as soon as this week and likely a wo
Senator elizabeth warren, just one of many at the center of an already white hot debate over exactly when ginsburgs seat will be filled and by who. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, september 20th. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Were going to get right to that Senate Battle thats shaping up. First as always a quick check of the weather. People are wondering about the potentially smoky conditions today. Lisa, good morning. I smelled it yesterday but there was a little bit of haze out there, air quality went from good to moderate for some, and well be going in the other direction today, moderate and will be Getting Better for those of you who perhaps have the less than ideal air quality right now. Live doppler 7, little fog out there. Looking at temperatures in the 50s and 60s in the east bay, 56 in dublin, 59 in concord. Lots of fog in pacifica, cant see a thing there, 54 in novato and santa rosa. Its cool where the fog is dense, two to seven degrees cooler this morning arou
Opium war as an anomaly or something very particular to a very particular time and place. I am saying i am guilty of thinking about the opium war that way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer high in a lot of the work thats done here at the Watson Institute forces me and us to see the world in a totally new way. This book, has forced me, and i think it forces all readers to really focus on the internal and expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from war conducted by people who were on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance. It extends to wars and conquest of drugs or the Raw Materials for drugs, extends to wars for markets and for outlets for drugs, and as we are all familiar with wars against drug. But peter argues so effectively this phenomenon, this interaction between psychoactive substances and conflict, is laced throughout history. And right up until the present. Peter makes a number of very interesting conclusi
That is all ahead but we begin with seema mody and the Market Action today seema, it was record highs to start. Were not there yet, though. Yeah. Thats a great point, dom. Three hours left in trade. Take a look at the screen. Were actually losing a bit of steam. Nasdaq now down just about three points s p 500 higher by four and the Dow Jones Industrial higher by 64 points. Nasdaq, if it gets back into positive territory, it would be on track for its tenth consecutive close. That would be the longest strea since 1997 and it really has been a strong weak lets break down when stocks have been leading the charge as you can see, it is primaril technology apple. Intel. Amazon in fact, amazon stock now playing catchup on track for its biggest oneweek advance of the year in response to those strong Holiday Shopping sales stock up about 6 . Also, want to draw your attention to shares of nike. Sitting on yet another record high this afternoon. Consumer edge overnight raising its price target and