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november, 3rd election. and tonight judge amy coney barrett has officially been sworn in to the supreme court and our washington dc correspondent kelli meyer joins us now live with the kelly, the seems like it all happened pretty quickly. good evening. grant vicki yeah, it did we just wrapped up with the official swearing in at the white house just moments ago and just 30 minutes before that she had the final confirmation vote here on capitol hill in that building just behind me and it went as expected republicans knew they had the votes to get this through democrats continued to oppose this until the very last second. senator schumer the democrat from new york trying to push this off again until after the election but was unsuccessful in that in the end all democrats opposed the confirmation of judge amy coney barrett and one republican side with democrats on that that was republican maine senator susan collins, but all other republicans voted. for judge barrett to b ....
bay at red flag warning in effect as well so we ve got team coverage once again we have will tran he s standing by in napa county covering the power shut offs sarah stinson is in san mateo county with the latest on those red flag warnings. first let s start in the weather center with john trouble. yeah guys, those red flag warnings definitely concerning still across the bay area we ve been seeing them for much of the week so far and we are keeping them going for yet another day extended last night in fact now what we re going to be seeing today are dry conditions across the bay which definitely contributes on top of the windy and warm weather that we also have you look outside right now at san francisco shows you clear skies makes for a beautiful view, but definitely not a lot of marine layer to be talking about out there that s why we have red flag warnings that the coast in areas like half moon bay pacifica up in upper elevations in the santa cruz mountains inland e ....
is improvements that s where that we re talking about moderate as improvements. but that s how bad we were just a couple of days ago. now conditions will continue to get better as we make our way especially into thursday and friday these are your 2 days to really savor because they re going have the best air quality before weekend conditions look likely to get a little worse yet again. 50 s and 60 s right now for your morning temperatures, not a bad way to start the morning. later on today will be in the 70 s 80 s, not a bad way to spend the afternoon either robin thank you john we re checking in on the richmond center fell where the drive time it s double what it normally is because of an accident a minor crash, but it s blocking. and it s adding to the backup. so let s check in on west bound 5.80 leading up to the pay gates, the crashes right after the view and we see looks like fire trucks responding to that as well if you look over to the right you can see some o ....
access 92, you don t have to wiggle your way through some slow traffic because of an earlier crash so 80 south close to 38 to 10 a son that s where a crash clear to the shoulder but that slowing you down if you re trying to access the san mateo bridge, the bay bridge looking good moving well no delays into san francisco. this is what we like to see right 10 minutes off to fremont street back to you, thanks a lot now let s get to the big story that we ve been following more businesses get to open outdoors in contra costa county. yes, however there is still of course the bad air that john was talking about so it s an head of a double edged sword crop of anti maybe not the best time they know will tran. out of walnut creek this morning with the latest on the story will. they just can t catch a break rate they ve been waiting for so long to reopen get their customers back into their business unfortunately the bad air quality so if you are coming back to the businesses you ....
lies in state. the civil rights icon, the first african-american lawmaker to in history to lie and stay there. kelli meyer has the story. all members rise for a moment of silent, a somber start to the week as lawmakers pay respects to one of their own 80 year-old georgia congressman john lewis who spent much of his life fighting for racial equality died friday after a 6 month battle with pancreatic cancer. he was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights leaders of the 1960 s i first met john norris in 1968 in atlanta georgia. at the funeral of doctor martin luther king junior lawmakers like north carolina democrat ek butterfield and georgia republican buddy carter. praise lewis says the moral compass of congress is certainly a great loss. the state of georgia, but also to the nation voters first elected louis to represent his atlanta georgia district in 1986 georgia republican congressman doug collins was just an intern, we ended a run same elevator, almost every mo ....