The Senate Judiciary committee has begun four days appearing spirit the goal for code republican senators is to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to that Supreme Court before election day. Allie rasmus reports live on what has happened so far today. Reporter the timeline according to gop senators, is for the Senate Judiciary committee to vote on Amy Coney Barretts confirmation next week. The in the full senate is scheduled for both the week after that on october 27th. The process got started this morning. Amy Coney Barrett began her Opening Statements before the Senate Judiciary committee by thinking President Donald Trump her nominating her. She spoke about her family, upbringing and career before explaining her judicial philosophy. Courts have about responsibility to the rule of law , which is critical to a free society. Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political
Classes. Followed by tk to first grade, two weeks after that, and and the one. Half the students will attend class for 2 1 2 days, and then take the rest of the week off while the other half of the class rotates in. Of the 2600 parents who responded to a district survey, 62 said yes, they favor in person classes. We have families that are food challenge, we have families that are having an emotional issue at home. We need to be open for students. It seems rushed. Shes the president of the Palo Alto Educators Association and says the unit conducted a survey of their own. It about 82 of special ed teachers and 80 of Elementary School teachers were not comfortable with in person classes. The union says they will honor that agreement but with a lot of stress and worry. Teachers are professionals. They will be doing it with a lot of insight he and i hate to see that. Have to just keep speaking out against this and explained that we dont want this to happen. To feel safe . Personally i do. S
Northwest of calistoga. People there were told to leave this morning. Cal fire told us late today that investigators have zeroed in now on a possible location where this fire started. Theyre actively investigating the 200 block of north fork Crystal Springs road. That is right off silverado trail. No other details besides that at this moment. We learned today that two firefighters in napa county were trapped by flames sunday night and had to deploy their fire shelter. They are safe though cal fire says a number of fire vehicles were damaged. Meanwhile the Alameda County Fire Department said today their firefighters were in the thick of it all in the calistoga st. Helena area. Theyve been working practically three days straight. The biggest concern right now is the weather. Fire officials sadly say it is about to make everything tougher. Were looking at a very similar wind event that when this fire first started moving out three days ago. Now is the time for our firefighters to buckle d
We know more than 100 homes have been lost in the fire and dozens more damaged. So far, though, no one has been hurt. Heres a look at where the fire is burning. Firefighters are preparing for more dry and breezy conditions. A red flag warning goes into Effect Tomorrow afternoon. Firefighters are hoping the progress theyve made pays off as those red flag conditions bear down, and they try to protect the town of calistoga. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has the story. Reporter it seems counterintuitive, to set fires when theyre trying to stop one. But thats exactly what firefighters are doing high atop Diamond Mountain road just a few miles from downtown calistoga. The goal, to gain the upper hand on the glass fire. While the winds are down. So thats why were really trying to button up the lower parts of the fire with our burn operations and aggressive operations there. Reporter in downtown calistoga its raining ash but no homes or businesses in town burned overnight. A night that pro
And i am elizabeth cook. So far more than 9000 people have died from covid, we are in hayward with how Health Officials are cutting down the testing wait time. For weeks, trying to get a coronavirus test across the bay area has been a problem with firstcome firstserved locations available. You can now mark one more off the list but they will still be producing the same number of tests every single day. They rush to locate and isolate new cases of coronavirus continues in the state of california like at this testing site near the airport. We are trying to squeeze in as many test as we can you will need an appointment unlike the station. Going all the way down mission boulevard which is probably a couple miles away, so the wait times were really bad, so what this does is cuts down on the wait time and the traffic. While testing is increasing key indicators spread are in modest decline statewide. There were just over 5700 new cases reported over the weekend which pushed the seven day aver