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pelosi says that the house needs greater oversight of the white house joe khalil now with more on how this would work and also the political fallout on capitol hill from her announcement. >>president's fitness for office must be determined by science and facts house speaker nancy pelosi rolled out a plan establishing a commission to determine if a sitting president is healthy enough and mentally capable for the office this is not about president trump. he will face the judgment of the voters. but pay shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents democrat jamie raskin introduced a bill he says the duty to establish such a commission on the president's fitness for office is clear in the 25th amendment congress in the house and the senate could direct the commission to conduct a medical exam of the president while pelosi and raskin say the commission sets up a process for future presidencies they both directly referenced president trump medical professionals who say that certain medications can impair judgment i don't now in the age of covid-19. >>where a lot of governm

joe khalil has more on how this would work and the political fallout from her announcement on capitol hill. >>president's fitness for office must be determined by science and facts house speaker nancy pelosi rolled out a plan establishing a commission to determine if a sitting president is healthy enough and mentally capable for the office this is not about president trump. he will face the judgment of the voters. but pay shows the need for us to create a process for future presidents democrat jamie raskin introduced the bill he says the duty to establish such a commission on the president's fitness for office is clear in the 25th amendment congress in house and the senate could direct the commission to conduct a medical exam of the president while pelosi and raskin say the commission sets up a process for future presidencies they both directly referenced president trump medical professionals who say that certain medications can impair judgment i don't now in the age of covid-19. >>where a lot of government actors have been afflicted by it. we need to act white house press secretary k

>>again that was joe khalil reporting there is confirmation hearing is set to resume tomorrow morning 9 o'clock washington time 6 o'clock here in california. take a live look outside we're talking weather that could be causing problems for us even though looks nice right now and our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow was here and nationally the hot weather could bring along some fire danger. yeah that's kind of the irony is that certainly is gorgeous weather all the way to the coastline but in the right conditions of we get the hot temperatures and we get that strong offshore wind and things so dry already certainly fires. >>can be a major problem we're looking those conditions this week right now we've got kind of flat ridge here you see the jet stream on those moon straight across up in the pacific northwest, we've got a cold front up here in the gulf of alaska watch what happens as we move in the next 24 hours. high pressure builds in behind that cold front as that kicks east and all of a sudden we start talking about some of those northerly winds for going to see those effects ev

joe khalil has that story for us.ate of small businesses across the country lies in the hands of congress and without another relief package spike mendelsohn says time. >>is running out you know and understand everyone is at risk of closing its just how long you how much runway you have to tell you plus mendelson owns a few restaurant chains in the dc area, including we the pizza we're desperate for released. we need take if we can get mandelson says congress's failure to act now will inevitably force businesses like his to close permanently he says he's now glued to news about any movement in stimulus talks every minute. >>every second every day i mean we i mean one battery everything is a price to be paid. >>or a lack of agreement on further economic relief and that price we paid by the millions of unemployed americans mark hamrick senior economic analyst for bank right says the longer relief package is delayed the harder it will be for americans already out of work or living paycheck to paycheck to recover they are

>>that was joe khalil reporting tonight meanwhile, a new study from the world health organization isg that the antiviral drug remdesivir year did not help hospitalized covid-19 patients this after an earlier study establish that the drug. it was a standard for coronavirus care in the united states and other countries. the drug has not been approved in the u.s., but it was authorized for emergency use after the previous study found that it did shorten recovery time by 5 days on average. it was also among the treatments. president trump received when he was infected earlier this month. >>it is becoming increasingly clear there will not be a covid vaccine before election day despite president trump. repeatedly promising one the ceo of pfizer says his company will not request emergency authorization of its covid vaccine. before the 3rd week of november, even if everything goes well and moderna another company in the vaccine race as the earliest it could seek authorization of its vaccine would be november 25th to qualify for an emergency use authorization any covid vaccine must track at l

>>that was joe khalil reporting for us tonight. >>coming up a disturbing new trend involving fake twitter accounts pretending to be fans of donald trump and 1030 the latest in what experts are calling digital blackface. >>plus october 17th is the day that is etched into the minds of many folks in the bay area still to come. folks are remembering the loma prieta earthquake 31 years later. >>and 7 months into the pandemic parents say they can not continue practicing distance-learning you know the saying, 'life is uncertain...have dessert first?' must be the thinking behind... ...the new atkins dessert bars. four rich, amazing recipes... and one gram of sugar!?!? anyone for dessert? try dulce de leche. new and only at target. >>i feel like we can do it at safeway they're not happy amanda how does the climb. >>one community in walnut creek is now coming together demanding that the mount diablo unified school district change its stance on distance learning. this week, the contra costa county health department give the green light for sc

it was joe khalil reporting and we're now just 13 days from the november, 3rd election. >>kron 4 is your local election headquarters follow us on air and online for the latest political coverage and join us on election night as we bring you results and analysis from our political experts. >>all right weather time guys we're talking about some changes coming our way as it looks like we've got nice clear skies out there right now but come walk with me it looks like things are going to be changing here in the coming days, we've got a chance of some showers tonight. yeah we're not talking about rain drops maybe some meteor showers out there in fact looking toward your sky we've got the orionid meteor shower taking place tonight we could see as many as 10 maybe 20 meteors per hour as we see this settle in over the bay area tonight of course, ryan rising up from the east. so you want to look for these to be able to see that so certainly should be in need site skies, mostly clear out there as well that's need to see. we love to get some rain in here you see the rain you see the

and that was joe khalil reporting tonight. >>meanwhile, the justice department is accusing google of abusing its dominance in online search and advertising the silicon valley company for antitrust violations today. the lawsuit alleges google's dominance hurts the public by damaging search quality in terms of privacy and data protection, reducing choice, an fording innovation google vowed to defend itself tweeting today's lawsuit by the department of justice is deeply flawed people use google because they choose to not because they're forced to or because they cannot find alternatives. this is the government's most significant attempt to protect competition since his groundbreaking case against microsoft more than 20 years ago. >>industry analysts say there's no question that thi move by the justice department has political subtext there have been bipartisan rumblings about whether to rein in big tech for some time. elizabeth warren for example put up billboards on the subject in silicon valley, so this lawsuit against google c

was the second day of a senate committee's confirmation hearing and the first day of questioning joe khalil reports from washington dc. >>i don't have any agenda. i have an agenda to stick to the rule of law decide cases as they come he didn't take one tuesday for senators to ask judge amy coney barrett about how she would rule on the affordable care act in cases involving abortion rights do you agree with justice scalia's you that roe was wrongly decided so senator i do want to be forthright and the answer every question actually be wrong and a violation of the candidates for me to do that there it didn't directly answer how she would rule on any specific case which is typical of nominees, but she did distanced herself from decisions by the late justice antonin scalia who she called a mentor and whose philosophy she says she shares if i'm confirmed you would not be getting justice scalia. you would be getting justice barrett senator amy klobuchar was one of many democrats who press judge barrett on her past criticism of the court's decision to protect the affordable care act you think we s

congress to quote go big republican lawmakers though have been sending a different message and joe khalil still unclear when or even if a bipartisan deal can be reached. >>i'm ready to sign a big beautiful stimulus you saw the other day i say go big or go home after president trump encouraged congress to go big on a stimulus bill a few senate republicans including lindsey graham now say they're open to a larger stimulus deal near 2 trillion dollars. i want to go big i want to do $1200 on money for school zone another round of ppp loans but it's unclear how effective the president's urging will be 4 months most senate republicans push for smaller targeted package. some are now changing their tune. i think we need a big stimulus package but we don't need to do with the house to other republicans say the 2.2 trillion dollar democrat led house bill includes too much spending for non covid related issues. i think it depends on what's what's in it republican john cornyn now says he won't rule out a 2 trillion dollar deal but he says it will require good faith negotiation from democrats if the s