House democrats held a News Conference where they introduced legislation that would impose new checks on president ial power and toughen enforcement of ethics rules and congressional subpoenas. Speaker nancy pelosi, Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff, along with the chairs of several committees addressed recent actions by President Trump. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Im pleased to be joined today by the speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark bill, the house is taking another vitally important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the constraints on his power and the demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary power, bent and broken the law and purposely undermi mined the rule of law. Hes bound only by norms for which he has no interest. Where he has found weak
Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. By theeased to be joined speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark will, the house is taking another important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the discuss the constraints on his power and demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary the lawent and broken and purposely undermined the rule of law. He is probed for where his palette powers are least constrained. Weakness,he has found he has exploited it with great consequence for our nation. The House Democratic caucus, under the leadership of the speaker and all the chairs represented here, as well as many others, have stood strong. We defended the law, the constitution and our nations values. Even impeaching the president when he was caught abusing his power in an effort to extort a fore
Extended all the way through friday. With not a lot of change with that smoke in our atmosphere. Temperatures running right around where we should be for this time of year. Upper 60s in San Francisco and low 70s in oakland and mid 80s in san jose and looking at upper 80s for concord. Well talk about the rest of we and what you n up in just a minutes. Now lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic for the latest on the commute in san mateo county. Good morning. Good morning. Yeah, taking a look at the roadways right now. 280 is open and looking good in both directions but we still have the ongoing closures along the coast on highway 1. Both directions due to the wildfires still shut down between pescadero and the Santa Cruz County area. La honda road still in effect. And closures along highway 9 are also still in place. Parts of highway 1 through there at schafer road and highway 9 at Paradise Park and 35. Bear creek road at 35. Also parts of 17 accessing that from the off ramp. Fo
Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Cooler than yesterday. Exactly. We will see a rebound but they will still be below average except for San Francisco and oakland they are still near average. That i hit the wrong map, i got the wrong map. Lets get to the right map. There we go. We do have temperatures that will be a little warmer today after the amazingly cool temps. It was almost 20 degrees below. More son and the little warmer. 50s and 60s. That includes livermore and san jose. A little bit of an east southwest wind and yesterday was 15 to 20 selfies. But its a little bit below average for this time year. Except again, San Francisco and oakland and santa rosa. Anything to report were still pretty quiet . Its still pretty quiet steve. If youre out there right now you should be getting a decent commute. We dont see a lot going on. I want to show you what we have here. You can see the eastshore freeway is looking very good. And no major issues as you drive to the bay bridge or for that matter in the east bay. Even on the