Judy and its friday, mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede. And what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Announcer major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by [music] moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. Announcer and with the ongoing support of these institutions. Announcer and friends of the newshour. Announcer this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy covid19 set all kinds of recordin the u. S. This week and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. Reported 153,000 yesterday, more than 67,000 people are hospitalized. A record for a third raight day. The country has averaged near
The president still recovering from the coronavirus a virtual format is the safer choice. He is contagious. He knows. Hes contagious. The Trump Campaign says both of the next 2 debates should be pushed back a week. But the Biden Campaign hasnt agreed to those terms. Reporting in washington, im kelly meyer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill tomorrow which would create a commission to determine whether or not president is fit for office he is making it clear that she will be talking about the 25th amendment which outlines the transfer of power if a president is removed. Catherine heenan host of inside bay area politics is here. She has details Catherine Hamon can yet more drama as we are less than 4 weeks away from the selection Speaker Pelosi was talking to reporters about the coronavirus today. And suddenly said this. What are we talking about here. Tomorrow by the way. Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow, were going to be talking about the 25th amendment but not to take attention
Showing the Fountain Grove neighborhood destroyed. And at the time it was the most destructive fire to spread through the region kron fours Justine Waldman has a look back and tells us how calfire honor the victims and remember all that destruction today, shes live in our newsroom justine. Well so many firefighters that are battling the glass fire right now were here 3 years ago attacking the tubbs fire. And during this mornings cal fire briefing. They were thanked for their service and their sacrifice and the victims were remembered. We would like to close out with a 32nd. Moment of silence for the people that the 22 souls lost lives on. Number 00 08pm tonight. That moment of silence to remember the 22 People Killed in the tubbs fire it burned through about 37,000 acres and destroyed 5,643 structures. It was active for 123 days. Cal fire says was caused by a private electrical system adjacent to a residence and there has been a lot of Lessons Learned from that fire. Thats now being us
North bay although really the rest of the bay area is back in that green category this morning indicating good conditions to start things out as for current temperatures were in the 50s to 60s currently with berkeley at 56 oakland and hayward each at 62 degrees say only know one of our cooler spots up in the north bay at 55 degrees whole bay is going to be a cool spot this afternoon as daytime highs only rise into the low 70s a lot like yesterday. So if you liked yesterdays fall feel well today going to be bringing more of it im talking a couple sprinkles possible tomorrow still to come in your forecast robin. Thank you for the update lets update your morning commute starting off with our bridges lets do a bridge deck and we can see how its moving around the bay area this friday morning a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza looking good right. Your trip into San Franciscos delay free right now its only 7 minutes off to fremont street 92 gets the award for the busiest bridge. We have
The 60s around in a few 70s, well be seen to come the afternoon for bayside inland areas. Robin. Thank you john lets check in on the traffic now over to the bay bridge toll plaza were still delay free into San Francisco, no problems at the pay gates, im noticing a little bit of crowding on the suspension as you come off the bridge approaching fremont street. But thats it 11 minutes thats a great average to make it to downtown San Francisco, better news for oakland or crash 80 south after 7 street in west oakland. Finally cleared it was a multi vehicle injury crash had 2 lanes closed. Thats why its slow coming out almost emeryville are right around the maze were 80. 5. 80 and the nimitz you know where they split thats where your backup is so if youre coming from maybe emeryville or San Francisco. You want to stick with east 5. 80 instead of 80 south because although the crash is cleared traffic is not completely recover its going take a little bit the rest of your freeways look great li