Welcome back on 4 is your local election headquarters and were now just a half hour away from the first and only Vice President ial debate tonight Vice President mike pence and Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris will be debating at the university of utah in Salt Lake City as an added safety precaution there will be plexiglass barriers between the candidates and the moderator and unlike last weeks debate between joe biden and President Trump the candidates will be more than 12 feet apart and sitting instead of standing. It is among the most anticipated vp debates arguably ever and senator harris and Vice President pence have been gearing up for a while from 4 Sanaz Tahernia talked to a political expert about tonights debate in he has she has more on what we can expect. The stage is sense for the first and only Vice President ial debate. Vice president mike pence and senator Kamala Harris, well go head to head in a debate thats expected to be like no other. Its an electio
Gray skies, some cloudy skies to start across the bay and its going to stay that way for a bit longer today like yesterday was but you will notice gradually clearing later on as for 08 00am do expect some visibility impacts right in the midst your morning commute in some spots in the north bay and the east bay hills after them waving goodbye to the fog and cloud cover inland. Well its going to be pretty stubborn right along the coastline. Now we have seen moderate to even pour air quality filtering back in across the bay area. Thats why were starting this morning off to we are going to be seeing air quality impacts likely even as we do enjoy this cool down so keep that in mind if you do have respiratory conditions. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures with oakland at 62 alameda and hayward each in the low 60s as well few 50s towards the coast and up in the north bay avoiding the 40 so far although we do have a few low 50s checking in on the map this morning. So cool and cloudy sta
A look at the week ahead in washington and to do that this week we are joined by Daniel Strauss, a senior political reporter with the guardian and steve dennis, reporter with bloomberg. Now that supplemental is passed, the money is on his way out the door, what tools does congress have left in its toolbox to respond to the coronavirus p what should we look for on that front . Talking aboutre assorted other things to get done. Everything from paid sick leave for workers, a quarter of the workers the United States on have sick leave and there sort of other things they want including making sure testing is free, the treatments are affordable, that sort of thing. It will be interesting to see if they can get any of this on the floor this week. Theres a lot of other things going on this week. With markets plunging this morning and all the futures, you might hear more talk of doing some kind of stimulus. The last time we had this market shock was 2008. Remember what happened then. There were
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