Were finally here in the last few days before tuesday, november 3, election day. Voy rs have submitted earl ballots in Record Numbers with roughly 80 million votes already cast. In the nearly 4 years since President Trump took office, regulationhave been rolled back, immigration has been curtailed, and the american jubecial system has come significantly more conservative. This week, Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the new a supreme urjustice and a monday night ceremony on the whithouse lawn. But according to polls him her confirmation has not yet proven to be a game changer for mocratic rival joe biden is leading in several critical states and has raised more money. Joining me now by skype from San Francisco, our turn on politics and government senior politics and government kqed correspondent marisa lagos, thank you for joining us. Scott, we just recorded our the nation, the california has silver avoided a spik we expected the pandemic was going to increase early ngmail vobut the nu
Common occurrence for commissioners, pandemic or no pandemic. I have been muddling through that, and in terms of the work of the agency its been a really important and really fascinating time. We switched to all telework pretty quickly and i will say relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by, but even though the technological work got up and running very quickly, at least for me personally, i found it incredibly challenging to be juggling the responsibilities of the job and fulltime parenting. This baby here is my fourth so i have three kids home fulltime and needed fulltime attention, and a job that need fulltime attention. Even with an incredibly supportive partner that was in normalcy challenging. My first reaction to your question is really to think about the logistics, and i know if that was true for me, it was maybe doubly true for our staff across the agency just like it is for people working from home across the country whether they have small children in th
Comey. Guest i looked at the statistics. I tried not to offerto opinions. I have opinions on mr. Comey. I think Rod Rosenstein had it exactly right. What he did was to fire an event when he offered his opinion on the evidence in july 2016, something that is not allowed and is a firing offense when they offered his opinion on Hillary Clintons email practices not allowed. When he sent ant letter rock ovr 28, 11 days from the election, violating 50 years of Justice Department policies, defined the Deputy Attorney generals wishes. He did it anyways because he gets to decide what is right and what is wrong and that narcissistic attitude is what caused Rod Rosenstein to write a memo because the Deputy Attorney general by donald trump and he was exactly right and even in retrospect, james comey would not tell Rod Rosenstein he had any regrets. Thats what a narcissist does. He defines what isy right. This book has the word higher loyalty. His higher loyalty is not to the law, to the policies o
With a difference. Hello, Macedonian Police have allowed thousands to pass through their fence, they spent the night in the border town, ready to board at the crack of down on route to serbia. The small macedonian town saw a number rise trying to cross over into europe. Jonah hull has more. Reporter 48 hours after macedonia shut its border to refugees the gathering crowd makes a break for it. They didnt come this far to be held back. Hundreds do get through sprinting across open fields as Armed Police Units fire percussion grenades. This inthis case directly at a mother and her two children. Until thursday this was an open invisible border, towards serbia the eu and germany beyond it. Now, refugees have no idea why theyve been treated this way. Im not terrorist, this is not terrorists, we are humans, where is humanity, they are families. We dont need carlos, let us cross, i want to cross to germany. Among some those who have been sent back to macedonia. You say the police in macedonia
First Jessica Boyington and first alert traffic. The vine street expressway around cameras at 24th street. Were not seeing any problems. Westbound toward the schuylkill expressway, eastbound headed to 95. No problems. Theres a crash in montgomeryville, watch for this on horsham at upper state. Watching mass transit. Seeing about 20minute delays for the warminster line, 6400. The others on or close to schedule. Thank you. Were following breaking news. Two children and an adult are hurt in a house fire in philadelphia on bennington street. Med risks rushed the victims to the hospital. Were medics rushed the victims to the hospital. Were work to get Mother Nature details on the fire. Tap the nbc10 app and stay with us on air for updates. Police in Delaware County are waiting to see if more victims of a suspected Child Predator will come forward. Five boys say they were targeted at parties where the suspect dressed up as costumed characters. Nbc10s Pamela Osborne is live in media with more