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40s and 50s. Santa rosa is 49. There have a few in the mix but a lot more 40s and the breeze which has been east, east, east is turning a little southerly nowt. Will turn up by later this afternoon and tonight. Still kind of holding on a bit. Look for a clouty morn examining then the is system. The rain is back here but its juicing things up and this will take things in to friday. Break over the weekend. 50s and 60s on the temperatures. The traffic. Not bad. I would say that we are in a we have a good start to this wednesday morning drive steve. Lets go to the tracy super drive here. I do want to show you the traffic will be busy on 580 as you drive from 205 over to the pass so it is not a bad drive but its taking about 20 minutes from Mountain House over to vasco road. Thats going to be pretty typical for this mornings drive on 580. Speed hes are a little slow here. Some of these areas so please give yourself extra time. 20 Miles Per Hour here on 580 on the pass. Lets move along and t
Eyewitness news center. This has been changing by the minute. Bring us up to speed. The state had two choices, could either follow the courts orders and redraw the congressional map, or it could appeal to the Supreme Court and hope for the best. There is an old adage, hope for the best, plan for the worst. Today, an aide to a stop top state republican says that until now it is all been hoping that the District Court would change its mind. And allow districts one and 12 to vote in north carolinas march 15 congressional primary. That did not happen though, and now, instead of working on new maps as instructed by the District Court, the state filed this appeal with the u. S. Supreme court asking chief Justice Roberts to real quickly, saying, given the short twoweek deadline, and the fact that absentee ballots have been sent out, this was lee approaching impending election chaos the court should expedite any response to this application. Chief Justice Roberts denied a similar appeal in vir
Distinction. Well, it was certainly a purpose that went into the majority district but it was not the predominant motive. I understand that. Dont you have to use race to comply with section 5 . Thats right. Is there any way to comply with section 5 without using race . There is not. But you dont have to use race in this way, mr. Brasher. Nobody would say that section 5 required you to maintain a 78 district and a 78 district was no longer needed with respect to a groups ability to elect a candidate of choice. I respectfully disagree with that. Once again, we followed the same preclearance strategy that georgia followed in 2005. Congress made a record in 2006 to try to reauthorize section 5. Georgias plan from 2005 which kept all their majority black districts all the same was a good thing. We did the same thing in this redistricting cycle that other states did, we did the same thing that the plaintiffs did when they were in charge of the legislature in 2001. Theres been some inconsiste
For that reason. Well, it was certainly thats a very fine distinction. Well, it was certainly a purpose that went into the majority district but it was not the predominant motive. I understand that. Dont you have to use race to comply with section 5 . Thats right. Is there any way to comply with section 5 without using race . There is not. But you dont have to use race in this way, mr. Brasher. Nobody would say that section 5 required you to maintain a 78 district and a 78 district was no longer needed with respect to a groups ability to elect a candidate of choice. I respectfully disagree with that. Once again, we followed the same preclearance strategy that georgia followed in 2005. Congress made a record in 2006 to try to reauthorize section 5. Georgias plan from 2005 which kept all their majority black districts all the same was a good thing. We did the same thing in this redistricting cycle that other states did, we did the same thing that the plaintiffs did when they were in char