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Temperatures near freezing in many locations and they will continue to drop off for another hour or so as we reach our lowest temperatures, clear sky with numbers that dont look too bad right here except for that foster city 39, 55 in Half Moon Bay, not representative of most of you, i know, because we are in the 30s from napa to santa rosa, 35 san rafael. 36 in san ramon. Strong north winds above our heads here, six degrees colder than yesterday morning, so as we go through the Morning Hours we...

Showing you the cloud free conditions where it is 37. Good morning to you in walnut creek, 35 in dublin, thats cold, 35 in livermore, 32 in novato. San francisco, 48, 40 in san jose. Compared to yesterday, were colder, three to seven degrees colder and this should be the coldest morning well cena while. Starting out with a lot of sunshine by 9 00, rebounding to the 40s and fichts, upper 50s by noontime. Pretty much for everyone, high clouds streaming in for a partly cloudy afternoon and temperat...

Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting cir...

Winner in massachusetts as well. Also in delaware, biden wins. Biden also the projected winner in d. C. All right. And oklahoma will go for the president in illinois. We are calling it too early, but biden is leading in illinois. Hes led in the polls. Connecticut, same thing, too early, but biden is leading. Heres whats happening in alabama right now, too early to call. Too early in maine as well. Same story in mississippi, missouri. Biden leading in rhode island, but that ones too early to call...

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Consent that the quorum be dispensed inconsistency between what republicans are doing now with Amy Coney Barretts nomination and what they did with Merrick Garland in 2016. Who would believe that . The contradiction is glaring. The contradiction will be a stain on the leaders forehead and on the entire Republican Caucus if it continues. Weve heard we just heard another warped, distorted, and convoluted History Lesson from leader mcconnell. We know how defensive he is about the blatant 180degree ...

So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in an...

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You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historia...