Eating. To seattle where the homicide rate is soaring to a 10year high just as the city plans to cut a big chunk of its Police Department budget. Mounting fallout over the assassination after Iranian Nuclear scientist. Iran says israel was behind it and pulled it off with some hightech and remote weapons. The balance of the power in the senate in the balance itself, hanging on two Key Senate Races in georgia. Also tonight well tell you why President Trump made significant progress in attracting hispanic voters to the Republican Party despite liberals saying he is antiiimmigrant. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin with the latest on that cdc meeting over who will get the covid19 vaccine first and when. Blake burman is at the white house for us. Blake what is the latest . Reporter gerry, this is an Advisory Group that helps out the cdc, acip, Advisory Committee for immunization practices. After a lengthy discussion a short while a
Joined by Richard Mullaney. We will discuss the florida role as a battleground state this year. Host good morning on this tuesday. We are going to begin with republicans only. How should the Senate Precedent . If you believe they should fill the seat before the election,. Ial in at 202 7488000 if you think they should wait until after the election, 202 7488001 is your number. Are 7488002 if you undecided. At 202 lso text us 7488003. Tomorrow, we will talk to democrats only. Legalould Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell move forward on the vacancy on the Supreme Court after Justice Ginsburgs death this past friday. Here is the majority leader. Hearing there is not sufficient time to examine and confirm the nominee. We can debunk this myth in about 30 seconds. Until novemberys 3 and 104 days until the end of this congress. Stevens was confirmed by the senate in 19 days. Days from start to finish. Oconnor, was day confirmed in 33 days after the nomination. Herself, it was just 42 days.
Issues are motivating voters this year and look at Political Trends to give us a clue on how the state may vote in november. Today, florida. Pennsylvania on wednesday. On thursday we will take a look at North Carolina. And onay at michigan, saturday at arizona. Today we are focused on florida, aney. Oining me is rick mull must begin with what makes florida a battleground state. Aest not only is it battleground state, its the big prize. The path to the white house is through the state of florida. First of all, the electoral college. It is 29 electoral votes. We already know california comprises 55 and will go to joe biden. Texas, 38, will go to donald trump. Will go to joe biden. The 29 in florida is a big prize. Florida is a purple state. It can go either way. Twice it voted for barack obama, twice george bush, bill clinton, and last time by a narrow margin, donald trump. The history of florida is one that is close, hard to predict, consequential. Thedonald trump it is in must win cate
The temperatures over 110. Today its slightly sweltering. That extreme heat warning stays in effect up there tonight. As we go the overnight hours, though, we have this added concern, as we mentioned in the top there, that we have fire danger. A red flag warning will go into effect overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. Its mainly in the north and east bay hills, Santa Cruz Mountains, as well. Most folks probably wont notice much wind, but if the hills, they will. So this is always a dangerous pattern, especially after these low humidities. Low fuel moistures. High temperatures, after numerous days of it. So here is the model. Look at the arrows. Those are onshore, arent they . And were going to see fog back at the coast tonight. The model, im going to post the model forward. There is monday morning, or this morning, pardon me. And you see where we are now. In the blues, you see the contrast. But now i want you to notice up in the righthand corner of your screen, out in nevada, watch
New outbreaks on College Campuses and race for the vaccine. The new push to rename buildings in washington, d. C. That bear the names of men tied to slavery. Should the names jefferson, franklin and washington be removed . Caught on camera, the massive flood at this busy hospital. Water breaking down the doors, staff describing it like a scene from the titanic. Up, up and away. We take you behind the scenes of David Blaines stunt. The new fight over boneless chicken wings. One mans passionate plea. And a good thursday morning, everyone. Im will reeve in for kenneth. And im mona kosar abdi. We begin with the new move by President Trump to cut off federal funding to cities like new york and seattle. Part of a crack down on riots and looting and what the president described as lawless protesting. The Biden Campaign saying the former Vice President will hold a Community Meeting to discuss the challenges we face, but we begin with that new threat from President Trump. This morning, Presiden