Products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme court has officially been confirmed as the countrys newest top judge. The nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. And hes on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the Republican Controlled Senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the countrys highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election lets go to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. The democrats really did not want this to happen but it didnt seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in Supreme Court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fact that the ele
During this time as of right now temperatures are still comfortable ahead of what will be a warmer afternoon. 50s and 60s for most areas, couple 70s on the map though like in novato at 73 degrees. Later today. It will be solid 80s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose. While some 90s elsewhere in the bay, well talk more about that still ahead back to you robin all right, thank you for the update John Elliotts update your morning commute. Were checking in on the traffic out there and theres not much right now heading into San Francisco, heres a live. Look at the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic is nice and light and smooth, but no big problems across the upper deck, so its always nice when we can start office way right. Its going to stay like this all the way out to one oh one and to 80. All right, lets check in on the san mateo bridge were taking a peek at 92 and look at the westbound traffic busier and busier every time we take a look so get on out there early its already a littl
Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
In spartanburg South Carolina. Im anyone, evening anchor and tonights conversation will be live streamed in broadcast on our next door Network Across the carolinas as well as our partner station w multix in columbia. Many of you turned in this evening to watch the candidates for u. S. Senate in their second debate read both campaigns agreed to the form of that debate this Week Campaign staff for democratic challenger Jamie Harrison at the incumbent senator Lindsey Graham be tested for covid. The senator was tested last friday. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon Harrison Campaign wrote i cannot responsibly debate in person tomorrow night and allowed politics to put my family , on my campaign staff, senator grahams staff and members of the media at unnecessary risk. The Graham Campaign responded , Mister Harrison is demanding special treatments. If Mister Harrison is not able to interact with South Carolina and on the sameterms they live their lives he should not be there senato
The ultimate cost, nobody is looking a deficit anymore, i get that but if the president was always on board, something were generous and this is more generous, could that close the deal, does that mean the deal is more likely when he himself has upped the price tag on it. My Organization National Taxpayer Union has been saying for months, what a negotiating tactic is to talk about topline numbers. What if going on a walk down memory lane we had lawmakers that thought about the impact of their policy rather than whether or not they were spending too much or too little, thats why were in the situation to begin with and why deficits and spending are so out of control because members of congress are talking about the price tag rather than the effect this relief could have, i think its very important that congress does continue to support the economy, were in very in certain times, whether or not your spending 1 trillion or 2 trillion should depend on what youre getting for the 1 trillion i