Veteran m. J. Hegar in a debate sponsored by nexstar broadcasting. This is an hour. This is the u. S. Senate debate in texas. Good evening and welcome to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in houston. Youre watching us on one of 14 next Star Media Group stations. Were broadcasting live from el paso out to texarkana and houston to amarillo and beyond. Youll also be able to follow us along with our discussion on twitter now at tx Senate Debate. Tonights debate is between the democratic nominee m. J. Hegar and the republican incumbent senator john cornyn. Were joined tonight by a virtual audience. On one screen we have supporters of senator cornyn tuning in from home and on the other side, we have supporters of m. J. Hegar. Thanks to aufl you for joining us virtually tonight from across the state. Here we have no live audience. We are following coronavirus social distancing guidelines set up by the c. D. C. To keep us all safe here this evening. Each candidate and their staff have
880 may be affected by two palettes in the roadway. Be careful if thats your exit. The traffic on the freeway is unaffected. Thats great news. Most of the freeways are unaffected. A tiny bit of slowing from north, 238. A few cars hitting that section connecting 580 toward 880. A nice, easy drive and getting to the bay bridge, no delays right now. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Developing now, strong winds and dry brush continue to fuel the spread of californias wildfires. More than 27,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. We put this map together to give you a better idea to show where each fire is burning. The thomas fire on the left is in ventura county. Having jumped highway 101, reaching the pacific ocean. The rie fire is near magic mountain. They had to shut down i5 for a time yesterday. The creek fire is burning near sylmar. The creek fire is at 11,000 acres. The rye fire at 5,000 acres and the thomas fire burnt around 55,000 acres. We sent our own crews to ventura to talk
Scenes from a movie this mo morning, but this is reality in Southern California. Good morning and thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. We were on the air when this latest fire broke out about 5 00 this morning during today in the bay. Its causing huge problems los angeles for drivers and extreme concern for homeowners in that very exclusive neighborhood of belair. We start with a live look at the newest foyer that crews are finding right now. This is called the skirball fire. Can you even make it out amidst all the smoke . Thats what firefighters are up against. The fire causing a massive traffic nightmare because the 405 freeway shut down with hundreds of cars right in that foyer zone as people were trying to get away. Its close to the getty center, the Beautiful Museum site, see acres have burned. Thor than 200 firefighters are fighting this one. During today in the bay we brought you live pictures of some pretty terrifying moments as people were forced to flee their hom
Around mt. St. Helena. Watching all of that this morning. We are going to see this changing over to spotty rain as the day goes along. Mike, you were saying so far no worries out on the road. Aside from the conditions you are talking about, yes, be careful out there, but no crashes reported and the conditions chp would warn us about potential ice and slippery conditions up in the north bay, but we are looking okay right now. South bay all the way up into San Francisco on this map and then moving up we are looking at a nice crossing benicia and carquinez bridges, novato down 101 towards the richmondsan rafael bridge and a live look from the richmond sideshows you light traffic right now. We will also watch to see if we have any reports of slippery roadways further north. Happening today students from across the nation will walk out in protest against gun violence. This as the victims who lived through the horrific Florida Shooting head to the white house to tell President Trump what wou
Consumer product stocks, and travel, and a number of industries, the only competition is from each other and investigators are giving them the benefit of the doubt for now. As far as the comparisons to 1973, the nifty fifty stocks, when i say when it comes to the tech stocks, its not even 1970. Varney company, weve got a lot to do. Were about to begin. When you look at paris, you know, whats right about this issue is making sure that we have International Discussion with respect to how good a job were doing across the globe with respecting our co footprint. And what is wrong is a bad business deal for this company. It causes a contraction to our economy when were leading already in reducing our co 2 footprint. He says that the paris deal is bad for the u. S. And theyll be meeting with the ite house and ivanka trump and shes made it one of her signature issues. Youre a donald trump guy. The president s base wont be happy, obviously, if he doesnt pull the plug on the paris agreement. Wha