precision, elaine. and part of it is, you know, it's kind of like if you're going to do a takeover of a tech company, just fire as many people as like elon musk did with twitter. just fire everybody, see what stops working, and then i can rebuild that thing and make it work again. i'll know how many people i need and whether there was too many there in the first place. the federal government isn't like a tech company. it's much more complicated, much more convoluted. there are so many more things that are at risk. it's not just does twitter does the like button on twitter function or my direct messages protected, which, you know, we could be concerned about. but i mean, this is like, are you going to get your social security check? you know, are you going to be able to go to the dmv and get your license? is your passport going to get renewed? are the airport workers going to be there in customs and immigration? i mean, there's all sorts of things that go into the federal government that you don't. i thi

i'm elaine corral. >> and i'm dennis richmond. >> tonight we remember, and we honor a bay area icon, dennis richmond. expected excellence and delivered it here at ktvu for 40 years as a reporter out in the streets and a news anchor in the studio, gracing your screens at home, reporting on the stories with context, with passion and a well known straight forward delivery, and earning number one, the trust of you, the viewer. >> such a sweetheart. just a man with poise that you can never fabricate. >> and he went right to the issue. it was heartfelt and you knew he was actually interested in the situation going on. >> he was amazing. when i was little. i used to watch him when i was little. >> dennis richmond, a friend and a colleague and a true inspiration, has died at the age of 81. good evening. i'm mike mibach. >> and i'm claudine wong. dennis richmond died this morning in grass valley with his wife, deborah holding his hand. he is being described tonight as an icon, a legend and a journalist who broke barriers. but he had humble beginnings, starting here at ktvu as a clerk in 1968.

i'm elaine cobbe in paris. >>> and that's today's "cbs news roundup.", tune in later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm carissa lawson. ♪ >>> hello, and thanks for watching. i'm carissa lawson in new york, and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. a federal judge has temporarily blocked president trump's plan to push out federal employees by offering them money to leave. the fear of being fired is spreading to the fbi too, especially among agents who investigated cases related to the january 6th riots. >>> and we'll take a look at the rush to remove tons of toxic rubble from the los angeles wildfires. >>> but first, president donald trump wants to fire thousands of federal government employees, or offer them buyouts. the white house says tens of thousands have already accepted. but labor unions are suing to stop the buyout, and now a judge has paused the president's plans, at least temporarily. cbs' erica brown has more from the white house. >> r

chao. >> did you ever confront him about what he said about your wife, elaine?ge with him. >> and today? you feel okay about that? >> no, i don't feel okay about it. >> how would you describe your relationship with president trump? >> well, we haven't spoken for quite a while. i was very upset about what happened january 6. >> you had to be evacuated from the senate along with other leaders. your staff was in your office. the rioters were banging on your door. someone with a flagpole broke a window into your office. >> well, my staff in the capitol was putting furniture up against the doors. >> to prevent them from coming -- >> to prevent the rioters from outside from breaking the doors and getting at them. and what was it about? to try to prevent the orderly transfer of government, which had never happened in our country. >> your staff after the crisis was over, you went and spoke with them. it was a highly emotional situation. you remember? >> oh, i remember it well. >> do you remember what you told them? >> that -- yeah, i remember what i told them. >> report

and so i think elaine and her family, a classic example of that. michael, check out how does he approach the debate over immigration in his years in the senate? well, i think he sets the people who are undocumented from those who are documented. if you come here legally through the process, he's extremely pro-immigration. if you try to do it another way, he is not. and so in the senate, you know, you'll notice that he tried to fashion a compromise on immigration. and the way he did that was he talked to president biden. they have a good cordial, working relationship. and he said, look, you've got a terrible political problem on immigration. and so they a bill together, you know, things that the president could agree on and he could agree on. and senator mcconnell got senator jim lankford from oklahoma to lead the effort. and the reason for that was he had great credibility with house conservatives and they came up with a pretty important immigration package and one that, frankly, was very favorable to republicans. and senator mcconnell tried to sel

i'm elaine corral. >> and i'm dennis richmond. >> generations of bay area viewers turned to him night after night as he delivered the news with a calm, steady presence. ktvu anchor dennis richmond was a legendary figure who spent three decades behind the desk on the award winning 10:00 news, and this afternoon, we're remembering a treasured member of the ktvu family and someone who was part of the fabric of this community today. dennis richmond died at the age of 81. welcome to a special edition of ktvu. i'm alex savage. >> good afternoon. i'm frank mallicoat. friends tell us dennis richmond died with his wife, deborah, by his side. she was holding his hand at that time here on the ktvu anchor desk. dennis richmond was a rock steady presence, delivering some of the biggest stories in the bay area for decades. and few stories were bigger than the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. with the power knocked out, dennis and his co-anchor elaine corral went on the air in the ktvu parking lot, and they stayed on air for hours without a break. as our crews brought the indelible images of that downed

of course, these two have a long relationship that also goes back to mitch mcconnell's wife, elaine chaoansportation secretary in the cabinet for president trump. yet president trump has attacked publicly in racist terms, elaine chao, and we have watched this relationship only crumble ever since mitch mcconnell announced that he was going to step down as senate majority leader, remain in the senate until 2026, when his term is up here but now not overseeing the party that is now john thune's responsibility as senate majority leader. yet here, willingly showing an emboldened position to publicly oppose in these very consequential votes the desires of the president of his party. at the same time, will it be enough? are there other republicans, mitch mcconnell, has he used to have have strong sway among his republican conference here? whichever way mitch mcconnell would vote, largely, you would see the conference vote. but now, clearly here, there's a question of whether he may be the sole republican to vote against the nomination of tulsi gabbard to be this next director of national intell

he delivered the news in the ktvu parking lot with his co-anchor, elaine corral, during the 1989 loma prieta earthquake. >> pushed by 30 mile an hour winds. >> and the oakland firestorm in 1991. >> he was unflappable no matter what was happening. you tuned in and he was there, and he was calm and he was articulate. and unlike some other anchors, you knew he knew what he was talking about. >> richmond was and always will be the patriarch of the ktvu family. he showed a different side during the last night. former ktvu anchor reporter sara sidner was on our air. he affectionately mentioned my friendship with her. >> you've got one friend, amber lee, who just can't do without you. >> forever in the hearts of current and past coworkers. sidner spoke about richmond from new york city, where she is an anchor with cnn. >> i'm just i'm devastated. i'm i'm devastated that he's gone. people have no idea how hard he worked to make sure that the story of those in the bay area and around the world was told with grit, with accuracy, and with humanity. >> we love you, dennis richmond. amber lee, ktv

as a crime, that was journalist volley sliding their intel a v here in germany for a minister on elaine to bare bach and strongly rejected. donald trump, suggestion bear box says that gaza belongs to the palestinians. and she also added that the expulsion of the palestinian civilian population from gaza would not only be unacceptable. and contrary to international war, she said they would also lead to new suffering and new hatred. i spoke with mark welder, he's a professor of international law and international constitutional studies at the university of cambridge. i asked him if you as president trump, has any legal authority to take over the gaza strip. to know he's speaking without any legal authority, whatever. it sounds like he is thinking in terms of his domestic practice and it's appropriate. she type coon who can take over some dialect, wasteland, and turn it into a flower to florida. right. or aces, florida like races. but here of course it's not an empty kind of treat. this is the territory which belongs to. ready palestine i the as a state, if you think it is a state already

that somebody getting upset as many times we are doing the maximum to both of these capture this elaine is to feed them as much them as we can, like our people who were denied food in medicine. i did it for the city, and we have here a lot of caps and this late as well to leave. and what have done was it they made how these got us well, but trying to protect them by their own life, how to feed them as much as they can. but at the end you, we will have, we, we have to remember that these a caption, the site is with and does a split up for 15 months, which is the destroying denied the basics of food and medicine. and then it puts it down north of the 2nd. unfortunately, the media, minnesota need is asking about 3 is the latest. but i'm sure if you will need a big deal out of it will be hidden from that. but i've seen as a lot of it leads to the in the past uh around. so for these, how much the basic you wanted to check in the last few days before it leaves and how much would be where to submit and not to talk about anything if the ottoman or these and the from it is what i need. and so do

obviously it was project elaine as the latest on washington dc when it comes to america's trading partners, the big 3 are mexico, canada, and to a lesser extent, china. now you as president, donald trump says he will target all 3 with tariffs, 25 percent for both mexico and canada. 10 percent for china. according to the census bureau, those countries account for 41 percent of all goods imported and exported from the us. we have big deaf as, as with, as you know, with all 3 of them. and in one case, they're sending massive amounts of fentanyl killing hundreds of thousands of people a year with a fence at all. and in the other 2 cases, they are making it possible for this appointment to get in. the white house did not release a complete list of targeted products, but trump did say he would be imposing tears later on. canadian oil experts say that will cause gas prices in the us to spike and the countries about their own retaliatory tariffs. canadian officials have said they'll go after the states and companies that supported trumps re election. it could mean fruit from florida manufacturing

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the changes in facing elaine rose to find coming success the highest friend our plan. women's history is on the come back trail from a shoulder injury. so i'm missing my license seats on a grandson champion simona, however, is retiring from tennessee 33 year old remaining may be announced, but after a 1st round looks at the tournaments in a farm country. it was only a 5th event since returning from the rocks. right, but it's high school is looking for in a row driving. thank you very much. indeed. not a rex. the 2nd largest city of most of is one of the oldest in the world and it contains religious heritage sites of global interest. many of its ancient and historic landmarks were destroyed by iso forces a decade ago. but though iraq is rebuilding the would support from the united nations on the head travel to most of the witness some of the renovated sites. oh, once again, you need to do is bringing in the most famous flights o'clock to of this convent established in the 19th century. was wrecked. of the ice of forces sees the city in 2014, but now it's the store to its former glory o

so elaine must continue, so it's a f, it's to slash and burn the bloated bureaucracies and america off to effectively dismantling usa id and it's tentacles across the globe. next up, radio free europe and voice of america, both of them on the chopping block. as musk says they're not worth it. in fact, they just a waste of money. it is just radical left crazy people talking to themselves, walk torching, $1000000000.00 a year of us taxpayer money. which conference calls out the address is unprecedented levels of corruption and dirty dealings usa id. now a well known in front of the c, i a held the post strings for 60 percent of americans for an assistance fishing out over $40000000000.00 abroad. last year alone. now what's left to the agency will be merged with the us state department with trump announcing that is $14000.00 employees will be with old down to just $300.00. and the former us state department officials exposed even more of the usa. i. these are shady activities mike bens, token to talk across and detailing a slew of instances, instances when the agency had his hand in findi

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so many of us grew up with dennis and elaine elaine corral, of course, then dennis and leslie, leslieriffith and julie julie haener, his last partner for several years until his retirement in 2008. >> when i first came to channel two, it was 1997, and dennis was even back then, you know, legendary. he was iconic, no nonsense, you know, straight forward. he had, like, just a larger than life, you know, feeling when you when you met him, he was almost intimidating. but once you got to know him and when i came in, he was, i think, wanting to see that, you know, i could work hard and, and, you know, get the stories right and go out and do things that mattered. >> that expectation was set so high. dennis was a fixture in the bay area long after his retirement in 2008. on that very last night, his final 10:00 news, you know, he was doing the same thing as always on the anchor desk. we all gathered in the newsroom. we watched that final newscast together in the newsroom afterward. you know, we had like champagne and paper cups. we hugged dennis. we took pictures. i actually asked my husband

later there was the 1989 loma prieta earthquake, where he, alongside co-anchor elaine corral, remained on air for hours, anchoring from our station's parking lot. richmond was one of the first black anchors of a major television newscast. his trademark steadfast delivery was no nonsense. professional, personal and loved. dennis richmond was broadcast news. dennis richmond was ktvu. jana katsuyama begins our team coverage of the life and career of richmond and jenna. you've heard from several leaders throughout the state today. >> i have mike, and as we are feeling the loss here at ktvu, there are generations of community leaders who heard the news and have been sharing their memories and thoughts with us. governor gavin newsom is in washington, d.c. today, but just sent me a statement this past hour from himself and first partner jennifer siebel newsom. i think we have that part of that statement for you. he says, quote, a newsman of the highest caliber, dennis richmond, was a pillar of bay area life for over 30 years. he was familiar with and unshaken by adversity. known best for his

i mean, you in television broadcast and, and the way you allowed zehnder and dennis and elaine and theandled that newsroom was unique. and it was it was really it was stunning to see. and it just i don't know if that was happening anywhere else at the time. >> well, i received a lot of initial reaction from people. it was disgusting saying, why would you put a black man on television like that? i mean, you know, and. >> when you talk about breaking barriers, it's hard to break barriers. >> yeah. and he brought he broke it right early on because he just had the talent. and i got to give it to bill schwartz. that bill schwartz was the guy that hired him and made him want what he was. but i'll tell you a quick thing. i'll never forget about dennis. i went down to mexico on a trip. on a vacation by myself because i was shot, and i didn't know that sitting behind me was deborah and dennis. and they were sitting. and when we were going to the same resort anyway, we're in the area with baggage, you know, to get through integration. and there was a round piece of steel. you had to hit it. and

you know, dennis, and whether it was with elaine corral or leslie griffith or then with julie, you knew if information was coming across that desk and dennis was sitting there, you knew that you could depend on that information to be accurate. and it really does signify a different era, not just in local news, but in news in general. if walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america, dennis richmond was the most trusted guy in the bay area. >> joe, you know, you and i and so many here at ktvu were among the very lucky to be able to spend a lot of time with dennis, not only on the air. i don't know if it's too soon, but i'm sure you have some dennis stories that show some of his lighter moments. you know, some of what viewers at home didn't always get to see on the news. >> yeah, julie expressed that. and, you know, there was a side of dennis that when you first came to work there at ktvu because of his stature, you kind of treaded lightly. you know, you wanted to say, i don't want to be the guy that he says, hey, hey, kid, don't ever do that again. you know, so there was a moment t

but elaine kamarck is here.he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution and coauthored a report on renewing the democratic party. nice to see you. thank you so much for being here. so you do lay out in your report a roadmap, short term, middle term, long term for democrats to come out of the political wilderness. but of course, the question that people are asking is, what about right now? donald trump and elon musk are not waiting for the soul search to end in your party. um, so the question is about your goal to reconnect with the voters you lost on low income voters, especially across the party? uh, all of the issues that, you know, that you identified as big issues. but before you get there to reelection, do you have a short term prescription for fighting back against donald trump right now? >> yeah. right now, the party has to help anyone who has standing to get these issues in front of the courts, because so many of these issues violate standing law and are, frankly, unconstitutional. what the presiden

y elained we have children in our building and not appropriate i asked them if they would move down the they said sorry and continued to do it. as far as the noise, i'm a half a block away behind double paned windows throw-4 a.m. hearing drumming and very loud broadcasted music, so loud when i made a noise complaint with the nonemergency number the ofr heard it behind a closed window in my apartment. sdpdz, i hear that. it is too loud. it is makes the neighborhood unlivable. frank low and i would hope we can come to a resolution about the out door noise level on the patio. also big problem is the loitering at 4 a.m. very noise and he disruptive. i have witnessed others coming out of the bar with drinks in hands loitering in the alley and stilldrinking. they are intoxicated getting in cars and driving. that's frightening. also, patrons seem to use the no park sifted alley way as their personal parking lot. parking fullo the sidewalk blocking period of time access. blocking sorry, driveway. without any concern of when they will be towed. surprises me and block the fire hydrants. i made se

tell us a little bit more, elaine. i know you laid out some, but how soon could this happen? how many people could be impacted overall? here? >> i mean, these are sweeping. when i talked to my sources about this, who told me about these expected layoffs, they said they are going to be very widespread. and apparently it's going to be coming as soon as tomorrow. so we know that this deferred resignation program, some people have been referring to it as buyouts is they have a deadline employees, federal workers to opt into it by february 6th. again, that is tomorrow. so very short timeline for them to make that decision. but after that, i'm told we will begin to see sweeping layoffs. this is all part of of course, president donald trump's, but also elon musk and doj's big attempt to massively reduce the size of the federal workforce. and this could touch all different agencies. now, we do know as well, according to one trump administration official, told me that about 20,000 people actually, they said way more than 20,000 people have opted in to the deferred resignation program

first to you, elaine. so these are new tariffs on top of the ones already in place. right. >> that's exactly right. yes pamela. so i'll break it down for you this way. this is going to be new tariffs. as you mentioned 25% on us on steel coming into the united states as well as aluminum. now that is in addition to one the tariffs. we know that he has already implemented on china 10% across the board there. and then also in addition to the ones that he had pressed pause on. so remember canada and mexico, he had said earlier this month that he was going to be doing on february 1st, putting a 25% blanket tariff on both of the united states neighbors, but ended up pausing that for a month as they continue to work out these negotiations. however, now these countries are going to be seeing new tariffs, and canada and mexico in particular may be very may be hit very hard by these tariffs. we know that canada, brazil, mexico, south korea and vietnam, all of them the largest sources of u.s. steel. and then again, canada really getting hit hard. here. they are by far the larges

the way that it's been perceived, and also perhaps the way democrats have messaged up until now, elaine kamarck, who is a long time democratic strategist, she coauthored a report on what went wrong, where your party should go from here. she told me this week that democrats are tone deaf on cultural issues. is that a problem that you agree with? and should it be changed? >> again, these sweeping conclusions about every person who claims to be a democrat in america is, to me, absurd. the reality is, i work in a caucus of 47 people who have been standing up and fighting for the americans in their state as best as they can. when they stand up and say hiring processes should be inclusive of women and minorities, who often don't get an opportunity to apply for the jobs because the search parameters are so narrow and so small that we should look at ways of searching our college campuses for better talent, making sure that we have diverse teams. why? because everybody from the harvard business school to some of our biggest consultants have shown that diverse teams are more successful at deliver

host: that is elaine in pennsylvania.are asking you how much you buy american amid the tariffs said to go into effect on tuesday. the council of foreign relations looking at which u.s. imports could be most affected, saying it will likely be cars, crude petroleum, phones, computers, and motor vehicle parts. it when he 5% tariffs on canada and mexico will raise production costs for u.s. automakers, adding up to $3000 to the price of some of the cars sold in the united states each year. grocery costs put rise as mexico is united states biggest source of fresh produce, supplying more than 60% of u.s. vegetable imports and nearly half of all fruit and not imports. this is bradley in west virginia, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. vietnam veteran from way back. i used to be a democrat and september 10 i changed to republican because the democratic party is lost in space. let me give you some examples. i buy american if i can get it. i bought a pair of sketchers shoes from amazon and i pulled the tongue back and

message, this one from dave england, who said, i grew up watching the 10:00 news with dennis and elainemay. we all endeavor to have the same poise, professionalism and integrity in our chosen careers. mr. richmond had in his. we'd love to hear more stories. more of your stories go to ktvu.com/dennis richmond and share them with us. we may share them with you here on the air. we've been dave. >> we've been getting a lot of these emails. and you know what i keep hearing over and over from people who run charitable organizations, they say dennis emceed our events. dennis came out to our walk. dennis came out to our big gala dinner. he was such a supporter of his community. the woman who heads up lend a hand. her name is dee. she's a delight. >> dee johnson johnson. >> and she sent me a super old picture of dennis, so i had to smile. >> it's good, it's good. and people stop us all on the street. >> all the time. >> well, look, you can submit your memories at ktvu.com/dennis richmond and you can see more stories about dennis there. and also on the fox local app. 44. here are some of the top

the elaine thing i have to say -- the only thing i have to say is we need to pray to god that everythingurns out all right. bye. host: that was jimmy in tennessee. another story making headlines this week. blocking trump's spending freeze. a federal judge blocked the trump administration from temporarily freezing federal spending, saying the white house withdrawal of a policy memo on the issue was not enough. u.s. district judge john mcconnell junior and rhode island granted a request by 22 states and the district of columbia for a temporary restraining order that says the administration can't pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel or terminate its federal financial assistance obligations to the state. jay goes on to say at issue was a -- it goes on to say at issue was a memo instructing federal agencies to pause funding while it assess whether federal programs complied with trump's executive orders cracking down on foreign aid, diversity initiatives, and green energy projects. a little over 10 minutes left in the first hour asking your top new story of the week. john in orlando, florida.

elaine in akron, ohio. democrat. good morning.aller: i am a first time caller and the reason for the call, i wish you could reference air clifton, he is a new york -- eric lipton. is a new york times journalist. he had an article yesterday listing all of the investigation of elon musk's businesses and his elimination of those government entities so far. it is quite extensive and which show the american people a lot of what mr. mosk -- a lot of what mr. musk is about. that is the reason for my call. host: this is mark in ohio. republican. caller: thanks for the call. that last caller must've forgotten the four years biden was in office and all of the things he did. my main reason for calling is about the doge elon musk. elon musk must have more iq than the whole democrats together. there's someone who is 150 years old getting social security. who is getting the deposits? they ought to be prosecuted. it seems like they're getting close to uncovering so much the democrats are in panic mode. president trump, look at what he is done in