donald trump attacks the very definition of insurrection in an appeal that will set up a supreme court clash. that s tonight on news night. good evening. i m abby philip in new york. tonight, a question of paramount importance to your vote lands at the feet of nine justices. donald trump wants the u.s. supreme court to answer two questions, once and for all, one, did he engage in an insurrection, and two, is he ineligible to run for president of the united states? trump s lawyers say that the now, their filing submitted today asserts that what the world witnessed on january 6th was, quote, not insurrection, and president trump in no way engaged in an insurrection. his lawyers write, in the context of the history of violent american protests, january 6th was not an insurrection. reading through the document, it almost sounds like the lawyers, lawyered lifting from their own client. they were there with love and their heart. it was an unbelievable and a beautiful da
ballot, determining that he had engaged in an insurrection. the new appeal tonight is only raising new pressure on the nine justices that you see here. to settle this matter once and for all, or potentially risk chaos in a presidential election year. with similar battles over the ballot and trump bubbling up in other states as well, we re left with the key question tonight. can the former president be disqualified from holding public office again under the constitution s insurrectionist ban, and do states make get to make that decision? trump is also appealed the decision in maine that have been turned move him from its ballot. that was the decision from the secretary of state last week. also the arguments in this new appealed tonight, trump and his lawyers are claiming that there are many grounds they believe her reversal, alleging that january 6th wasn t an insurrection, even if it where, that trump didn t engage in it. and the questions of presidential eligibility are rese
but first, dozens of animal rights protesters take over a local slaughter house and police move in. the news starts right now. good evening. i m vicky a special edition of nbc bay area news due to sunday night football. we begin with a call to action in the east bay that ended in more than a dozen arrests. protesters say it was an act of civil disobedience, but the owners of the business who say they re muslim feel they re being targeted. they accuse the activists of robbery. this story new tonight. live in oakland tonight with the details. good evening, sergio. reporter: good evening, vicky. those activists tell us they came to this shop because they say they have undercover video of conditions that they say are cruel for animals. it is a slaughter house. animals are killed here. the owners of the shop originally from yemen say they don t understand why they re being targeted by these activists. in video that direct action everywhere shared with us, they plainly show a
in solano county and the central valley, that has been extended until friday. so our temperatures now already making it into the upper 80s for the inland valleys, while the coastline is now in the upper 60s. we have some low 70s but still going to see those high temperatures in the triple digits for concord, livermore and morgan hill. san jose will see a high today of 96 degrees, so still really hot. we ll talk about how long this lasts and we have not yet reached the peak of the heat. more on that coming up in a few minutes. kari, thank you so much. of course, the main concern today is just trying to keep folks cool which is a problem when there s no power. here s a look right now at the pg&e power outage map showing you where in the bay area we re seeing the largest number of outages. right now it s actually down to 100,000 pg&e homes and businesses without power. that has peaked since over 12,000 earlier today. places like walnut creek and fremont, those are new numbers
philly, low 70s down the shore, but cooler to the north and west, and 60s in allentown, and even some 50 s this morning, in the poconos. dew point on the rise big time over the last 24 hours, and what s that mean? steamy day as we head into the second half of the day. dew points climbing up into the middle 60s, even potentially near 07 degrees. so steamy to oppressive comfort index for our friday, and storm scan3 showing us those storms that have since rolled off shore, that did impact part of cape may at atlantic county earlier in the day. clouds across most of the area, the trends the first half of the day, 82 degrees by the lunch hour, steam factor in full effect specially headed into the afternoon, by the 3:00 hour, meisha, see scattered storms, starting to fire up, and in a few of those could be on the stronger side, slight risk of severe weather across the delaware valley today. i ll talk poor about the timing on those storms coming up in just a couple of minute. laur