At 8 45, the Washington Examiners Joseph Simonson talks about joe bidens relationship with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Good morning, it is friday, september 18, 2020. The house is set to meet in a pro forma session at noon today. The senate will convene on monday. We are with you for the next three hours on washington journal. Hearing from you on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted your job. Newly released data show that nearly one million americans file for firsttime jobless benefits last week. Our phone lines split up a bit differently this morning. If you are unemployed, 202 7488000. If you have senior hours reduced, 202 7488001. If you have recently returned to work, 202 7488002. The phone line for business owners, that number 202 7488003. You can also send us a text this morning. That number also 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up with us on social media, on twitter, c spanwj. Very good friday morning
Doing focus groups for the last three years trying to understand what was going on with voters inside my own party, and one of the things i learned was that voters had reservations about donald trump, especially women, even if they voted for him. They did not like him, and a lot of their 2016 vote had more to do with disliking Hillary Clinton than liking donald trump. I have been thinking for a long time about how do you move those voters from Donald Trumps column in order to defeat him in 2020, and that is we found that is why we founded Republican Voters against trump, because we needed to hear from other Republican Voters who just could not do it anymore in terms of voting for donald trump. If you go to our rep website t. Org you can see that there from000 testimonials people who voted for trump and 2016, but they are doing little testimonials that talk about why they cannot support donald trump in 2020 and will support joe biden, and for people who have been culturally, privately,
Southwest travis to 25. Concord, napa have an onshore breeze. A little onshore breeze oakland and novato. A lot of activities in the mountains. Pretty good thunderstorm activity. For us, near normal temps. Just not lot of change. The average is slightly below for some. Okay. Over to sal, so far so good out there, sal, is there something new on the screens . No. Itnow, we do have traffic that is moving along very well. And we are easing into a monday. Lets go to the bay bridge. And you can see there are people there. But theres not a crowd. Thats probably the way you would like it. There have been no major problems here on interstate 880. So we are off to a noise start. Its 5 01, lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. New this morning, Antioch Police investigating a double shooting outside of a 7eleven. It left a woman dead and a man seriously injured. Now the two victims were in their car outside of the store, which is locate on buchanan road and gentry town drive. This is around
Now at 6 00. Tensions rising between the u. S. And israel. The Biden Administration pausing shipments of military aid as Israeli Forces push into rafah. A top military official set to address congress today. Protests against the war impacting College Graduation this week. Uc berkeley is moving ahead with its plans while balancing the growing encampment on campus. Its been developing over the past. Superintendents past school boards. Its now on us, and theres no way out. And huge cash flow issues at San Francisco unified the proposals being made to fix the problem before the district runs out of money. Plus, the archives have arrived. San franciscos main library, now home to documents revealing the legacy of the late cecil williams. Good morning. Welcome to wednesday, may 8th. Lets check in with drew. Yeah. The temperatures there rising this afternoon. So were going to feel warm today. A lot of sunshine out there. A live look from the exploratorium camera. We have clear skies this morni
sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. we re watching images both in the west bank where they are releasing palestinian prisoners and the israeli prisoners, hostages, that were released on the right-hand side of your screen. 12 women who walked their way to freedom just moments ago. they were brought out in the vehicles that we have seen and become familiar with. there were no americans that were released in this latest wave. we think partly because they have committed to releasing women and children first and we believe that the remaining eight to nine americans are all men. so we obviously stay on top of that story as we wait for good news for their families. these ten israelis ranging from 17 to 84. these harrowing accounts that are beginning to trickle in about life, what life was like for these individuals when they were in captivity. the aunt of this now free little boy, 12-year-old ethan, says he was force to watch videos of the october 7th attack. look at this