Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
How about china trade . Thats a standoff. Lighthizer and mnuchin have been on the phone to their chinese counterparts. The chinese say we called them. President xi and President Trump will meet just within days. Back home, a standoff on money for the border crisis. The democrats cannot agree among themselves on new cash for detention facilities. Children are suffering. A vote on emergency aid which was supposed to take place today might not even make it to the floor of the house. Just wait until you see how gold and bitcoin are reacting to all of this. And wait until you hear about a massive 60 billion buyout in the pharma business. Lets get on with it. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart right. This is a whopping great big merger. Got to tell you about it. Abbvie says it will acquire allergan in a deal valued at 63 billion. Ash, what does allergan have that makes it worth this huge premium offer . Ashley nearly 16 billion a year in revenue from a lot of beauty products. 16 billio
The bay area. Many of the demonstrations pitting student groups on opposite ends of the issue. The event tonight to show support for people in israel. Good morning. It is friday, october 26th. Lets start with a check of your weather with meteorologist drew tuma. Good morning, drew. Good morning. So its one of our colder starts in several months out there. Live look outside from our sutro tower. It is clear out there. We have good visibility. But we are starting out on a chilly note. Look at these numbers. We are well into the 40s, if not in the 30s. Its 35 right now. In clear lake. Were at 43. In novato, 53 in san jose, oakland. Good morning. Youre waking up to a chilly 49 degrees. Take the heavy jacket with you outside this morning. Its one of those days where we have bright sunshine but were slow to warm. A cold front move through here in the Early Morning hours and in the wake of that front, we have cooler air that has moved into northern california. So later on today, its a mostly
Friends of the pregnant woman who is being remembered today. Were tracking other stories on this thursday including a cold case solved in the south bay, how detectives finally tracked down the teens killer. And license plate readers and looking into specific neighborhoods getting them and how theyre supposed to stop a rash of retail thefts. Whats in store this year and beyond . Meteorologist will join us with what we can expect in our crisis in climate series. You might have just seen lester holt in maine for nightly news. In case you missed it, lets get you caught up on the latest for a shooting suspect. An arrest warrant has been issued for 41yearold card and he opened fire in a Bowling Alley and drove to a restaurant and bar and killed 13 people there. At least 18 people. He is a longtime member of the army reserve and recently reported Mental Health issues including hearing voices and had threatened to shoot up the National Guard base in maine. Right now, police are surrounding car
Higher than normal rainfall, the possibility city prompts a call to action in the bay area. Good evening. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Its flood preparedness week in california. And tonight, local water and Emergency Operations officials are urging everyone to do just that. Get ready now. Abc seven news south bay reporter Dustin Dorsey shows us the steps theyre taking and what we should do before the winter rain arrives in the bay area. We went from hardly seeing any rain in the region to one of our wettest winters on record. But if you thought 2023 was bad and el nino year is approaching and the National Weather service says that means we could see higher than normal rainfall. Last winter wasnt anomaly this winter. It could be not necessarily repeat, but we could be wet again. And that could lead to widespread flooding. California flood preparedness week is the time for the community and agencies to think about their flood plans. But santa clara countys Floo