The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
Largest tribe in the state. And today marks the first stop of the new sunday series, Velshi Across America. Every sunday, i came to you live from a vital Battleground State from across the country. I learned much more from being out in the field talking to people and so were doing it again but for different reasons. The election is over. Joe biden is president elect and now we have to turn our attention away from the circus that will soon leave the Nations Capital to the most pressing Health Emergency in modern history, the covid19 pandemic. More than 13. 3 million americans have been diagnosed with the disease and nearly 267,000 of them have died. More than 2,000 americans are now consistently dying every day from covid19. While theres promising news about vaccines, while an end to this National Nightmare is in sight, were still many months away from it being safe to return to something that resembles normal. And while we can all look ahead to the seriousness with which the Incoming B
Election, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them and the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north to south to east and the west. Another incredibly diverse class that will add to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before. More africanamericans. More latinos. More asian americans. More members of the lgbtq community. Two muslimamerican women. Two native american women both serving in congress for the first time in history. And our diversity will be strengthened by the new class upon its arrival. We also value the fact that our Long National nightmare is about to come to an end. On january 20 at noon. Because the most existential threat to our democracy, our values, our american way of life has been defeated decisively. He lost the popular vote. Decisively. He lost the Electoral College vote decisively. Joe biden has secured more votes than any other president ial
Middle peak is doing 30 miles an hour. And then as you look at the elevation spots, rose peak, down by san jose, 26 miles an hire. So the winds have died down. The rain will continue, light sprinkles into the evening hours and tomorrow, and then we dry out. Pack here with all of the specifics and the 5day. This wet suspect is good news for fire danger around Northern California. There is also concern about the areas burned recently by wildfires. Tuesdays transformation from sun to showers highlights the annual transition in Northern California to rainy season. Were starting to see some cold fronts move out of the gulf of alaska. We saw one a few days ago. Theres another one moving through the bay area today. A little bit more rain than the last one. And thats sort of the progression that we get into this time of year. Each successive storm tends to get a little bigger, a little wetter. Reporter from the north bay to the east to the south. Its the kind of brisk wet weather perfectly sui
Also stay the same, as well. 41 counties in california are now in the most restrictive purple tier. The vast majority of our students are still in Distance Learning right now. Reporter under the purple tier, any class that resumed in person as of tuesday can continue, but for the majority of California School districts still doing Distance Learning be reopening plans are now on hold, until conditions improve or the school gets a waiver. Primarily this has the largest impact on districts that were putting their plans in place for a return in 2021. Reporter margaret represents 77 teachers from a School District in Contra Costa County, which is doing Distance Learning, but was consider league opening january 22nd. Thats not gonna happen. Reporter the Teachers Union president said the next opportunity to make a decision is in march, and she plans to push for not reopening at all this school year. Thats moving to the purple mix, even a stronger argument that we should not consider going bac