lawrence lawrence weather with adam klotz what have you got for us, adam? adam: good morning, lawrenceat's going to be sweeping across the country here over the next couple of days. currently just a rainstorm mostly over portions of southern california. this is the system we are watching though. this is going to be lifting up across the country. eventually tucker into a whole lot of snow, maybe some freezing rain for folks in the middle of the country. you see them stretching from california through the mountains and up to the great lakes region. chicago will be included in this by the time we get into wednesday. a big storm and something you have to pay attention to all the way into the middle of the week. here is our future forecast. you do see the south side of this storm constantly just rain if you are in the middle of it that's where you get the freezing rain in the northern side of this. that's where we see pretty much consistent snow in the midwest maybe some spot getting 4 to 8 inches. if you bar nook not mountains seeing as much as a foot to two feet of snow in higher elevatio

lawrence, what do you think? >> lawrence: it's not like my voice when it's like "don't do this, lawrence." it's my mom's voice. . control yourself. it's my mom's voice. >> emily: lisa, is there a difference between the jiminy cricket voice and the voice of encouragement which is you talking to yourself? >> lisa: lisa really hasn't done this. but i guess lisa might trying to do it. you've got this, lisa. it's going to be a great show. 2021 is going to be your year. not going to be anything like 2020. it's got to be better. i guess lisa is going to maybe try this. i don't know. it seems weird to say your name when you're talking to yourself. i don't like it. i have weirded myself out. >> emily: marie, what do you think? >> marie: there is no one else to talk to. [laughter] 's i've got to talk. it's better than being silent. something to deal with the boredom. my husband i think is sick of telling me things. >> emily: you can call me anytime if you want another voice to talk to. stay with us. "one more thing" is up next. ♪ limu emu and doug. and if we win, we get to tell you how liberty mutual customizes car insur

lawrence jones. you are cowboys won this week so i know automatically you're happy. >> lawrence: [laughs] >> harris: you got the size of the bill, almost 6,000 pages, and rand paul's way of working at it, you got the size of the bill, that price tag. >> lawrence: mm-hmm. well, lindsey graham was on site mike fox & friends this morning and he said this is how the sausage is made. this isn't sausage, this is baloney. it's a lot of gunk, everything from all the parts of the animal you don't like, you put it together and you get a slab. that's this bill. it's supposed to be so good. no one read this bill. the portions that i don't like, the fact that they continue to put all these backdoor deals, funding of the smithsonian, see dan got some money, they want to build a library for roosevelt, and none of this, if you look at the core of the bill, it's going to help americans. my problem with the congresswoman as well as their representatives, they point out all the pork in the bill, but they go there and vote for the bill, which is why leadership continues to have the legislative process this way. because they put people on a time crunch and then people that don't vote for the bill are told they don't care about people. well, you tell me how this b

lawrence, europe. >> lawrence: check out this jaw-dropping video of this professional kayaker. has complete mastery performing and nifty barrel roll while getting into the water. look at this guy. he's back flipping, landed perfectly. look at this. this is in birmingham, alabama. i can't swim so i would never do this. also i think it's pretty insane but it's so cool. >> jason: i do that all the time. >> lisa: i am filling in on "the ingraham angle" tonight. i'm excited and thankful to laura on th the show prepping me in. it would mean a lot for everyone to tune in tonight at 10:00 p.m. this dad tried to pull a prank on his kids but it backfired. he's okay. daniel campbell. he tried to cover his kids in the snow. the gazebo fell down on him, completely collapsed on him. he tried to scrape up the snow that had settled on the structure on his kids but it didn't work so well. now there's this hilarious video that is kids can hold over him for a long time. >> dagen: there will be more dad mistakes. jessica. >> jessica: in case you didn't know already, i have serious royal fever. meg

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he lost his older brother lawrence, lawrence meadows a few days ago to colon cancer. lawrence known. >> yeah. and a lot of us got to know lawrence, too, because he shared his fight right here on "today" because he wanted to raise awareness about colon cancer and help others. so our hearts go out to craig and his family. >> we are sending him all of our love this morning. let's get to the news at 8:00. and the first americans are getting their covid-19 shots today, as the most ambitious vaccination program gets under way. it is happening as the death poll in the u.s. approaches 300,000 people. tom costello joins us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. so the vaccines are right now arriving at fedex. and a nurse at long island's jewish center is getting her first vaccination, and she said it feels like any other. this is as one in five icus now at 95% capacity or more. we expect three million doses of the pfizer vaccine will ship this week to all 50 states and some territories. front line medical workers, as you would expect, are the priority. early this morning on "

lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, good to see you. here's what schumer said about how this deal should only be the beginning. take a listen. >> once this deal is signed into law, it cannot be the final world on congressional relief. there is more to do in the new year, with a new administration that has a much more favorable attitude towards giving the american people the help they need. >> he went on to say that this should be a floor, not the ceiling. so i think my question, lawrenceocrats maintain an appetite in congress for more relief after this piece passes. >> you think it's all up to georgia and, you know, obviously, this is -- i'm not the first one to say that. and so what you're going to see in the georgia senate campaign now are two republicans saying, hey, you know, we did it. we got you this relief bill, which they've been fundamentally opposed to all year. and we got you this, you know, desperate $600 check, you know, this desperate money to you. and the democratic candidates are going to be saying, the democrats tried to double that. they tried to get you $1,200, they tried to get you much more, and these two republican senators stood in their way. it's going to be the outcome of that argument in georgia between now and january 5th that tells us what happens in the senate. so if mitch mcconnell has two senators return to him, who voted for the bare minimum version of this with the $600 relief package for individuals, then mitch mcconnell is going to l

of "the new yorker" is dedicated to lawrence wright's article entitled "the plague year, the mistakes and struggles behind an american tragedy." in that article lawrencea pandemic lays bare a society's frail advertise. one of our society's frailties is a large section of the population choose not to follow public health guidelines. according to the tsa, 1,284, 599 were screened at u.s. airports yesterday. that is the highest number of travelers since the start of the pandemic. more than 2 million people in the united states have been vaccinated according to the centers for disease control. that is far below the trump administration's goal of having 20 million people vaccinated before the end of this week. dr. celine gounder, a member of the president-elect joe biden's advisory board said this on cnbc. >> you will see him invoking the defense production act. the idea there is to make sure that the personal protective equipment, the test capacity, and the raw materials for the vaccines are produced in adequate supply. >> joining us now is dr. dara cast, professor of emergency medicine at columbia university. she is also yahoo! news medical contributor a

now it's time for the "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, you can't make this stuff up.e day be able the president faked he got a nobel peace prize. >> i saw that earlier today. ali, i didn't know what the nobel peace prize looks like either until today. >> me either. >> i just, by the way, had to get rid of my cough drop as we begin this hour. we have some disturbing news from louisiana breaking at this hour, ali. congressman-elect luke letlow, just elected republican congressman in northern louisiana. he has just died from covid-19 tonight. this is a report from wdsu.

lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, you can't make this stuff up. i'd one day be able the president faked he got a nobel peace prize. >> i saw that earlier today. ali, i didn't know what the nobel peace prize looks like either until today. >> me either. >> i just, by the way, had to get rid of my cough drop as we begin this hour. we have some disturbing news from louisiana breaking at this hour, ali. congressman-elect luke letlow, just elected republican congressman in northern louisiana. he has just died from covid-19 tonight. this is a report from wdsu. the nbc affiliate in shreveport, louisiana, saying congressman-elect luke letlow has died after contracting covid-19 last week, according to his campaign manager. letlow, who just turned 41, 41 years old, was getting treatment in the intensive care unit in shreveport, according to an announcement on his twitter page just last week. and ali, this is the kind of news that is so grim to have to report. this is someone just 41 years old. just elected. won about 62% of the vote. very strong republican county there. congressional district in northern louisiana. and he won't be going to congress. louisiana now will have to, at some point, schedule a special election some months away. so that will be a vacant seat. >> and worth noting he was tested on december 18th, and admitted to hospital on december 19th. this is an unusually fast case of covid developing. a long way to go before the end of this, lawrence. >> really is. thank you, ali. >> all right. thank you. >>> a louisville police officer who shot and killed breonna taylor was not indicted by a grand jury that investigated the incident but "the new york times" is reporting tonight that that police officer, myles cosgrove will be fired. the times reports louisville police officer who fired the shot that killed breonna taylor was told on tuesday the department was moving to oust him from the force as was a second officer who obtained a judge's approval for the poorly planned nighttime raid on her home. also today, president-elect joe biden said the covid relief package passed by congress that includes a $600 one-time payment to individuals is just a down payment on what he'll ask congress to do when he takes office. >> i propose a covid action package early next year and challenge congress to act on it quickly. look, my ability to change the direction of this pandemic starts in three weeks. >> three weeks. let's just pause and take th

lawrence o'donnell. lawrence is going to stick around because in a moment we will talk about an inspiring partnership he is leading with unicef to benefit students in an african nation who have a very basic need at school, desks to sit at, something we tend to take for granted. that's coming up. also later on, we'll take a look at the devastating impact that covid-19 is having on young people here in the u.s. they were thought to be more resilient, but july might have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern history, and the trump administration reportedly was willing to sacrifice these young people for the sake of herd immunity. >>> also, the controversy over jill biden calling herself doctor. an op-ed writer shamed her for it and said, she should just stick to first lady. >>> first, let's get to richard lui with the headlines. >> good evening to you, josh. the stories we're watching for you. a new report says one in five state and federal prisoners in the u.s. has had covid. the data comes from the associated press on the marshall project. that means prison infection rates are four times more than in the general population. >>> india surpassed ten million coronavirus cases, but infection rates slowed in recent weeks. the country hopes to vaccinate 250 million people by july. >>> and finally, guardians of the galaxy. well, actually just guardians. that's now the official name of u.s. space force members. it harkens back to the space command motto in 1983, guardians of the high prfrontier. more of "the week" right after the break. onitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, one-second scan. and now with optional alarms, you can choose to be notified if you go too high or too low. and for those who qualify, the freestyle libre 2 system is now covered by medicare. ask your doctor for a prescription. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestyle libre 2 dot u.s. ♪ the best dressed assistant locker room manager in the league. frankie thompson. i'm here to help you protect your clothes from getting damaged in the wash. nah! that's why i use new downy defy. it helps stop stretching, fading, and fuzzing. that's what's up! we have an assistant locker room manager? help protect your clothes with new downy defy damage. your lips have a unique print. ...and unique needs. your lips are like no others and need a lip routine that's just right for you. chapstick® has you covered. chapstick®. put your lips first®. with mom? you got this so you can really promise better sleep? not promise. prove. don't miss our weekend special. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, 0% interest for 48 months on all smart beds. ends monday. to learn more, go to sleepnumber.com. >>> this week "vanity fair" reported that the rockefeller foundation was pushing the trump administration months ago to invest in masked coronavirus testing for school children. reason being if you test enough of them consistently, they can go back to school. but reportedly the foundation got the cold shoulder from the white house team headed by jared kushner. the message was the markets will sort it out. children have faced major disruptions in their educations this year worldwide. covid has made schooling tough here in the u.s. around the world, the problems can run much deeper. what about kids who are lacking even the most basic supplies for school beyond pencils or backpacks? in the east african nation, around 65% of school children don't have a desk or a chair. less than half of malami's girls complete primary school. lawrenceell has been actively doing something about this for the past ten years with the k.i.n.d. fund, kids in need of desks. it is a partnership between msnbc and unicef. lawrence o'donnell is still with us now to talk about this. i wonder what your read is on this report from "vanity fair" about this effort to create some kind of herd immunity among young people, which mercifully we did not go forward with. >> well, the strangest word, joshua, in the whole thing is jared kushner's use of the word "market." the markets will solve the problem. you know, adam smith, who wrote the wealth of nations who is considered the first economist in history believed that markets were problem solvers. but he didn't think they could solve problems like that. the notion that there is a market in schools, you know, what does that mean? that if your public school isn't handling it the way you want to, you will go out into the market of schools and move your child to another school? it's just madness. the whole

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, you can't make this stuff up.ould love to one day be able to hand over to you and not have this -- this show and not have something entirely weird to say. the president faked he got a

more on the fire danger in southern california, let's check in with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow lawrence yeah they're going to see the winds gusting there as high as 40 maybe even some 50 plus mile an hour gusts across some of the higher peaks of course we have that here today we have those strong gusty winds. >>developing around the bay area but our was beginning to subside i think we may see return. so red flag warnings here as we get in toward late wednesday into thursday that will still remains to be seen but outside right now it's a calming down your skies are still nice and clear one thing to watch out for though we've got some big waves building along the coastline. these are like spring-like temperatures around much of the bay area again for tomorrow in the forecast. but you're looking some waves maybe some 18 maybe even some 20 plus footers along the coast so watch out there along the immediate coastline, looks like going to be a gorgeous day. >>as high pressure continues to dominate the weather all across california again some rain now up in the pacific northwest. but that's as

now it's time for the last word with my good friend lawrence o'donnell. lawrencet days to this georgia election. it's tight, and those two republican senators are between a rock, a hard place, and a fire, like it is really a tough situation to be a republican senator looking for reelection right now. >> and the polling is really bad for those republican senators. they're basically running in a tie with the challengers, and the general rule with incumbents, especially incumbents in the senate, is if they're

now it's time for "the last word" with my good friend lawrence o'donnell. lawrenceion. it's tight, and those two republican senators are between a rock, a hard place, and a fire, like, it is really a tough situation to be a republican senator looking for re-election right now. >> and the polling is really bad for those republican senators. they're basically running in a tie with the challengers, and the general rule with incumbents, especially incumbents in the senate, is if they're not in the lead, a significant lead going into election day, usually the undecideds -- usually if there are any in georgia -- break for the challenger because they've known about the incumbent a much longer peri

lawrence of michigan, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mrs. lawrence will vote yes on h.j.res. 107. as the member designated by mr. peters of california, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. peters will vote yes on h.j.res. 107.

lawrence? this is lawrence? i like that guy. he's very common. brian -- brian is petty. i love him.e altar of the magnificence of the geometrical -- it's just -- and she's not even moving. maybe she put her glasses on, that means there's some [ bleep ] that needs to be real. i'm only here for nicky today. maybe he has a whole bunch of these pants, i don't know. but he's my hero. he's my hero right now. joy! joy! do you see him, joy? joy do, you see that purple suit? j joy, do you know you talking to morris day? [ laughter ] >> okay. i fell on the floor. literally i watched that about 400 times because he really did put that purple suit on. he meant it! >> it's blue, it's blue. >> he really truly -- he did it with authority. but when you look at politics today, i've been -- i've had the blessing of seeing you do comedy live, and you are obviously hysterically funny. but how do you find your ability to laugh at the way that things have gone over the last four years? how have you preserved that just for yourself? >> because i'm 53 years old, joy. i've been -- i've been through a lot of

the pearl harbor national memorial and to our 4 zone forecast chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us for that lawrence still dealing with a red flag warning where we where are we with that actually just came down right now it's still windy in parts of the bay area but looks like things are going to improve overnight tonight. >>decreasing winds the humidity should begin to creep up a little bit although still dry out there so you want to be careful anyway. but tonight we're going to notice some changes going to see those winds begin to calm down today another record breaking day of heat out there temperatures soaring in the 70's out there right now beautiful look no clouds to speak of right now on or low temperatures tonight be chilly in spots again as those winds calm down that air is very dry and we're dropping near freezing conquered livermore in antioch lot of 40's inside the bay, even 30's in the san jose, so certainly cold enough, and then by day tomorrow we've got another very nice day coming we could potentially get close to a couple of records are going to be the 50's 60's in the san francisco

lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i was listening to you talk about your book door for "bag man" which i'm holding here on camera while we're talking about it. i know you said, by the way, i know you said in the last hour that's the last time you're going to talk about it. i took that to mean that's the last time you're going to talk about it on your show because you're going to talk about it on colbert tonight. your book tour is two events, that's it, just two events? >> yeah, only two online events and they happen within two days of each other and that's it. this is pandemic book tour special. >> yeah, and for your last book tour you went around the country, there were a bunch of events. >> even though i was on crutches, it was very laborious. >> there's always something with a rachel maddow book tour. >> lawrence, thank you so much for that interview you did with me about "bag man." you were very kind, you picked out stuff from it that nobody else picked out about it. >> i loved the book, rachel, it was easy to do. thank you very much, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> mitch mcconnell did not cry today. the united states set a record today, the largest number of people to die in this country on one day from the coronavirus, 3,046 deaths. but mitch mcconnell did not cry today. more people than were killed on 9/11. but mitch mcconnell did not cry today. there are more people in hospital beds tonight in america being treated for coronavirus than at any point this year. the highest number ever. 106,688 people in hospital beds tonight, many of them fighting for their lives with their families, not knowing if they were ever see them again. but mitch mcconnell did not cry today. millions of people out of work. they lost their jobs, their income to the coronavirus pandemic, unable to pay

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrenceel. i was listening to you talk about your book door for "bag man" which i'm holding here on camera while we're talking about it. i know you said, by the way, i know you said in the last hour that's the last time you're going to talk about it. i took that to mean that's the last time you're going to talk about it on your show because you're going to talk about it on colbert tonight. your book tour is two events, that's it, just two events? >> yeah, only two online events d ey

lawrence, edward lawrence following all of that. >>> time for one of the favorite things i love to doftentimes base what they do on events we didn't see coming, not the events that we thought would be coming. w a what-if for you is if we don't get stimulus, we don't get that relief for covid-19 but we do get yet another vaccine, and maybe more down the road, how would the markets handle that? no stimulus but plenty of vaccine. real brainiacs to help us through that. liz peek, john hilsenrath. liz, if that's what it came down to, an additional vaccine or more, but no stimulus, how would the markets digest that? >> you mean lucy takes the football away again, neil? this has been a charlie brown, for sure. look, it could happen and i think it would be -- it would certainly trigger a selloff in the market, but i think we need to recognize that this stimulus package is a bridge. it's a bridge to probably the second quarter of next year, when this vaccine has been widespread enough, has been taken by enough people that the economy can kind of go back to standing on its own. we saw yesterday

they have time for 4 zone forecast windy kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joining us now boy lawrencether warm beautiful december day yeah i don't feel bad about the such that forecast that some pretty scary but. >>yeah, nice to see that sunshine make returns a warm all the way to the coastline again we had some record breaking heat out there today as the sun shone brightly everywhere around the bay area tonight beginning to see a little bit of a difference though a couple clouds moving in near half moon bay. there that's a sign of some changes on the way beautiful shot overlooking san francisco in the bay right clear skies continuing. these temperatures what a story today record temperatures 72 degrees in redwood city 72 at the airport in san francisco half moon bay. this is fascinating 72 is the high i was looking at 72 degrees at 11 o'clock last night before i left the station. that's is very warm. offshore winds bring in some temperatures to 71 that was a record of richmond tying a record live more at 72 degrees and tied another record in oakland at 74 you get the idea oppressive

lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i know it looks like i'm reading your book but i'm not. i'm re-reading ben stiller's blurb for your book on the back of the book which remains my favorite blurb for the book because, because, rachel, you're going to want to know this. at the end of the hour tonight, ben stiller is going to join us here on "the last word." >> you're kidding. >> and i don't really know what we're going to talk about. he might want to spend the whole time talking about "bag man" by rachel maddow. >> spiro agnew and "bag man." >> so you're going to want to see that. that's going to be at the very end of the hour tonight. >> will you please tell him hi for me? you know, i will -- i will confess to you i wrote, like, thank you notes and sent little thank yous to everybody who blurbed the book when the book came out this past week and when it came time to write a thank you note to ben stiller i was so, like, intimidated and overwhelmed that i didn't send him a thank you yet because i have to, like, psych myself up to it. i feel like such a goober. have to be cool enough to send ben stiller a thing. don't say anything. i'll figure it out. >> listen, because i am not intimidated and overwhelmed by ben stiller, i will at the end of the hour pass along some form of thanks from you, if i remember it that long. >> okay. >> you know with me, rachel, the odds of me remembering. >> i'll send you a text. i'll send you a text right at the right moment. >> okay. we'll get it. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you very much. thank you. you're very kind. >> steve schmidt will be joining us tonight on a day when he made american political history. steve schmidt has now left a marker for future historians who will some day be tracking what happened to the republican party in the 21st century. and something big is happening in georgia tonight. something very big. 40,000. 40,000 is the very big thing that is happening in georgia tonight. and something i don't think any of us predicted, yesterday on the first day of early voting in georgia for the two senate elections on january 5th, 40,000 more people voted on that first day of early voting for the senate candidates than the number of people who voted for president on the first day of early voting for president in georgia. on the first day of early voting for the presidential election, 128,590 georgians showed up and voted in person. yesterday, 168,093 georgians showed up and voted in person for two senators. voti

lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i know it looks like i

lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> hey, i'm literally reading a book i cannot put down. i cannot put this down. i have so many questions. you know, i lived through this in that way a student lives through things that are happening out there in the real world and kind of picking up pieces of it here and there in the newspaper. i'm learning so much in this book. can you hang around, talk about it in this tv show here because i have these questions, and i'm only putting the book down so that i can do some tv show, and then pick the book back up and ask you questions about it in a couple minutes. >> i'm going to go study my own book for a minute, and then i'll be ready for you as soon as you're ready for me. >> you're off duty technically, so you can get in the pajamas now when you come back. okay? come on. >> i might go get a beer. i'll see you in a minute. >> fair. thank you, rachel. see you soon. rachel is going to join us to discuss her book later in this hour. laura garrett will also be joining us after rachel tonight to report the latest developments on the coronavirus vaccine and what it means to you. we'll be joined once again tonight by rebecca jones who appeared on this program in june after she was fired from her job from the florida health department for trying to tell the truth about what the coronavirus was doing to the people of florida. yesterday morning her home was raided by florida state police with guns drawn. guns drawn. guns that rebecca jones said were aimed at her children. because florida state police were investigating a possible crime that might have been committed using a computer that they suspected might be in rebecca jones' home. it was horrifically bad police work. and we'll tell you why when rebecca jones joins us at the end of the hour and gets tonight's last word. >>> well, today the united states supreme court crushed donald trump, and i mean crushed him. unanimously. all three of the trump-appointed justices joined their six colleagues to deliver donald trump the most legally insulting possible response to a trump lawsuit brought to the supreme court that itself was an insult to the intelligence of every member of the court. when donald trump was desperately rushing to fill ruth bader ginsburg's seat on the court, he said then that he needed that ninth justice in order to rule in his favor in election cases so that he could hold onto the presidency. >> we need nine justices. you need that. with the unsolicited millions of ballots, it's a scam, it's a hoax, everybody knows that, and the democrats know it better than anybody else, so you'll need nine justices up there. >> you're going to need nine justices up there, meaning he was going to need nine justices up there to outlaw millions of mail-in ballots. that's what he was saying he was going to ask them to do and he did. that's donald trump saying, i know i'm going to lose the election with voters, but once i bring a case to the united states supreme court to throw out millions of mail-in ballots, that's how i'll win my second term as president of the united states. donald trump planned to do that, donald trump thought it was in the bag. because he put three of those justices on the supreme court. today the united states supreme court refused to even consider, even hear or consider a case brought to invalidate millions of mail-in ballots in pennsylvania. donald trump was expecting his united states supreme court to issue an historic opinion invalidating pennsylvania's mail-in ballots and instead -- instead -- he got this. this piece of paper. i'm not sure if the light can show you this correctly, but it's this tiny little piece of print here. that's the whole thing. this is the supreme court's way of saying, you are out of your mind. it is an order from the supreme court. it does not have any justices' names attached as the authors of the order, which means it is a unanimous order of the united states supreme court. and it simply says the request to hear the case by the supreme court is denied. they don't even bother to give a reason for the denial because the case itself is so preposterous, so insulting to them, that anyone would try to bring such a case to the supreme court, denied. two hours before the supreme court issued that denial to hear donald trump's case about pennsylvania ballots, donald trump publicly called on the supreme court to save him. >> let's see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it's a legislator or le legislatures, let's see if they can do what's right. >> yes, the supreme court did have the courage to do what's right. in fact, it didn't take any courage at all, it was simply following the legal principles which donald trump knows nothing about. donald trump stood at the microphone today, and with the words you just heard him say, he insulted the united states supreme court to publicly ask the justices to corrupt themselves for him, and then they insulted him right back by doing the right thing and doing it in one sentence. and this insult exchange between donald trump and the supreme court, including the supreme court justices who donald trump thinks he owns, occurred on safe harbor day. happy safe harbor day. it's not a day we usually notice, but it is a day set in 19th century federal law that says that all states that have certified their election results six days before the electoral college meets cannot have those election results overturned by congress when the electoral college presents its results to congress in january. in other words, joe biden's election as president today officially entered the safe harbor of federal law where it has become absolutely impossible legally to undo joe biden's electoral college victory. now, that has actually been impossible all along since joe biden was declared the winner by nbc news and other news organizations on november 7th, but the safe harbor just makes the impossible all the more impossible. the lawyer who was leading the charge in donald trump's frivolous lawsuit attacks on the election spent safe harbor day in the hospital being treated for covid-19. perhaps in his hospital bed, someone read to rudy giuliani the one sentence, unanimous order by the united states supreme court, not just denying rudy giuliani's claims, but in the court's circumstanpect essentially calling everything rudy giuliani has been up to utterly insane. a group of law professors which includes law professor lawrence traver asking bar associations to discipline rudy giuliani and other lawyers for making provingly false claims in and out of courtrooms about the election. and on this safe harbor day, the people who will be president and vice president of the united states of america in just 43 days formally announced the leaders of their administration's team fighting the coronavirus, including california's attorney general xavier becerra, director of health and human services, and dr. anthony fauci continuing in his role as infectious doctor of allergies and diseases and serving as president-elect biden's chief adviser. while the president was asking the supreme court to corrupt themselves today, vice president kamala harris said this. >> over thanksgiving, we called front line workers who are on the lines of this pandemic just to thank them. we wanted to express our gratitude and our nation's gratitude for everything they have been doing, for every sacrifice they have made. that day i spoke with t

lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel, we'll be watching that interview tomorrow night. it's one of those indicators of, this is a civil case that ivanka trump was subpoenaed in, but the more you read it, it's pretty easy to see how that could turn into a criminal case with the way the funds were used in that. and that would be covered by a presidential pardon of federal crimes of ivanka trump, which has been something that's being talked about in this white house. >> since the trump inaugural committee was formed and since there were tens of millions of dollars within it unaccounted for from the very beginning, i remember doing those first slush fund segments about it when it was first -- when the unaudited materials were first coming out from that inaugural committee, there has clearly been something going on there. there's been a federal conviction with that inaugural all right, tom barrack has been deposed, ivanka trump has deposed. hopefully stephanie wilkoff will have more information for us tomorrow. >> and she has tapes. you were on that from the start, rachel, really appreciate it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, there were tears on the senate floor today, tears. they were not tears for the 273,823 people in this country who have died from covid-19. they were not tears for the 205,733 people infected with covid-19 in the last day alone. they were not tears for the 628 children held in custody at the southern border by donald trump who is now unable to find their parents to reunite them. they were not tears for the way donald trump disgraced the white house today by reading a 46-minute speech on a teleprompter that was a lie from beginning to end, a lie about who won the presidential election. they were not tears for donald trump's relentless degrading of democracy. no. they were tears for lamar alexander. and the tears came from the place we didn't know tears existed, the eyes of mitch mcconnell. lamar alexander gave his farewell address to the united states senate after 18 years of service, which actually isn't a very long term of service for a senator. it is

lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel.reading your book but i'm not. "bag man" by rachel maddow. i'm re-reading ben stiller's blurb for your book on the back of the book which remains my favorite blurb for the book because, because, rachel, you're going to want to know this. at the end of the hour tonight, ben stiller is going to join us here on "the last word." >> you're kidding. >> and i don't really know what

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lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. have a law school question for you. this is fair because neither one of us went to law school. can the president pardon himself? >> unclear. part of the -- >> okay. >> -- thing about the -- two things about the pardon, right, the pardon power is plenary. it's in the constitution. it's not a complicated thing. the president can pardon people. but the one thing that's never been tested is the president trying to pardon himself, and the way that we learn the extent of new law is by trying it and seeing if you can get away with it and so he'd be the test case. and if i were him, i wouldn't count on that. >> so, my reading of the constitution is that the president can pardon himself, but who cares what we think when laurence tribe is going to join me later in this hour? >> nice. >> harvard constitutional law expert. the world's leading expert on this question. and he has a very definitive opinion, very, very clear. he leaves -- for him, there's no question about this. it's very, very clear to him. >> well, then he should definitely get "the last word" here and not me. >> he's going to. that's the way it's going to work tonight. thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. well, with more reports every day and more and more people in the trump white house spending their day talking about pardons including donald trump issuing that pardon for himself, the question is not one someone named trump get a pardon, the question is will everyone named trump get a pardon? can donald trump pardon himself? as i said, the way i read the constitution, president seems to have that authority. seems like an unlimited authority in that direction. doesn't say anything about the president not being able to pardon himself, but it also doesn't say the president can pardon himself. tonight we will hear from america's leading expert on the constitution, harvard's constitutional law professor laurence tribe. we will get professor tribe's answer to the most important question facing donald trump in his remaining 48 days as president, can a president of the united states pardon himself? >>> in the last hour president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris sat

lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, hey, i'm literally, literally reading a i cannot put this down.estions. you know, i lived through this in that way a student lives through things that are happening out there in the real world and kind of picking up pieces of it here and there in the newspaper. i'm learning so much in this book. can you hang around, talk about it in this tv show here because i have these questions, and i'm only putting the book down so that i can do some tv show, and then pick the book back up and ask you questions about it in a couple minutes. >> i'm going to go study my own book for a minute, and then i'll be ready for you as soon as you're ready for me. >> you're off-duty technically

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lawrence karnow is here lawrence you ready for some action at the pacific appear tomorrow. there's going to be some big time waves rolled up along the coast. that's for sure grant we're going to see that outside tonight kind of quiet night out there so far the skies. stay, mostly clear. we have a couple high clouds drifting overhead and well we're in for another cold night, but as we head through the night tonight, those winds will start to build along the coastline we look toward tomorrow, you start out with maybe some 3 to 7 footers in the morning all along the coast west northwest facing beaches watch out for some big time waves building throughout the day by the afternoon. maybe some 1418 footers you see those rolling along the pacific appear that is really going to shake that pyramid and certainly a sight to see but be careful dangerous conditions out there in the water and some very strong rip tides. develop by those waves as well. so it kind of ironic, you know you just have beautiful days outside and all of a sudden we've got huge waves coming in but we still got the storms developing off the coast line they just cannot make it all the way in california to bring us any significant rain yet the kind of shredded by that ridge high pressure and that's where we sit so, yeah, rainfall total so far this season, not impressive in fact, one of the dry start to the season quite some time only half an inch in san francisco, it's 11% of normal, san jose 1300 that's only 5% of look at oakland 1700's only 4% of normal for this time of year santa rosa, less than an inch and a half that's 21% of normal certainly very dry start to the season so far but we can make it up but she's hard to do especially in la nina that we're in right now and a moderate one at that temperatures outside in the 40's and 50's 45 degrees a little more 40 in napa now 41 in the bottle 43 degrees in the you know where we're going when watching temperatures really kind of cooling down these fronts roll toward the coastline. the kind of flatten out this ridge a little bit getting ever so close to bring us a few high clouds but we stay dry and then once that front moves by high pressure builds right back in and we've got some nice clear conditions again and some warm temperatures that's exactly what's going to happen you see the models picking up on that with this front tries to make its way through that ridge just can't do it falls apart. we'll see a couple of passing clouds other than that things stay dry and then we get ready for some warm temperatures in fact i think by tomorrow afternoon, some of these numbers are going to be flirting temperatures up near 70 degrees so you're running well above the average for this time of year overnight lows though getting on the cold side down the freezing mark in concord little more also manioc 40's inside the bay. as we look around the bay tomorrow, you're going to see plenty of sunshine and a couple passing high clouds but look at the temperatures 68 degrees and cocker 68 san jose, beautiful 64 degrees in of all you get the idea unusually warm temperatures by day chilly at night and some big time waves rumlin along the coast. careful yeah, be careful no doubt thanks night. speaking of pacifica fed up and frustrated by seeing bay area leaders and the governor. >>defying their own health orders during the pandemic a pacific a business owner says she and others have had enough, yeah fed up they say even of outdoor dining gets banned again they will continue to stay open and serve customers outside the told our jonathan mccall they want to hold leaders accountable while also protecting their livelihood. >>the owners here at pacifica brewing say that since the pandemic started they have been following the health orders to a team playing by the rules. so they can keep their doors open and keep customers safe when they come inside. they say after seeing the recent news, a big area leaders not practicing what they preach. they say they were forced to take a stand well it's impossible to tell people you cannot go to work and you could not provide for your family, but you must pay your bills helena thrilled and says enough is enough she's no drawing a line in the sand in order to protect her business. >>she says that since last november she and her husband have owned pacifica brewery. >>and since the pandemic her business has been losing some $50,000 a month. like so many other struggling during the crisis. health orders may limit the number of customers from showing up. but those orders don't stop the bills from piling up. that's why she's now on a mission to let bay area leaders know the real impact of their decisions. she's hoping to start a coalition with other businesses who are fed up and frustrated to educate leaders on the real impact of their decisions. she says after seeing recent headlines, the bay area leaders defying their own health orders. she says she's staying open even if outdoor dining is banned. >>we we are all not ignoring any health orders every single guideline has been applied. the only order that were willing to say enough is enough is telling us you much shut down and stay at home, but you must pay your bills and those bills continue to pileup. >>nasa rolled in says she's still paying for rent on a 21,000 square foot location, even though the inside is closed. just last month she forked over more than $12,000 to pg and e because of new gas heaters she had to buy in order to keep customers warm outdoors with no relief in sight and no help on the way. she says it's hard to trust leaders who do one thing and say another you know, and it's so disheartening and its. >>we don't trust them. we don't trust what they say we don't trust what they do. >>the owners here say they are now reaching out to a number of other businesses across the bay area to see if they too want to join in on this fight in pacifica jonathan mccall kron 4 news. >>and as bay area businesses fear more rollbacks may shut them down for good medical experts say some type of stay at home order will help us get control of this pandemic doctor dean winslow is an infectious disease specialist at stanford and he says whatever type of order that must come out must re emphasize not socializing outside of your own household. >>families getting together indoors individuals houses is another way the virus has probably taken off over the last several weeks. so again just some type of a modified order that would at when it got people going to other people's houses. >>so if there is some sort of new stay at home order. it would be designed to keep california hospitals from getting overwhelmed to as of tonight we still don't know what that order will look like or when it would go into effect. stay home. >>speaking of the city of la just announced a new emergency order as covid cases and hospitalizations get out of control in that city. what the orders all about the specifics and what it means. plus the pandemic's toll on mental health, the alarming number of calls made from the bay area to a suicide hotline. >>but first a federal grand jury announces charges in connection to last year's deadly boat fire up next we hear from a bomb in stockton who's been seeking justice for her 3 children. >>killed aboard the conception. >>we asked you have been expecting these charges to be made. >>a mom in stockton says she feels justice is finally close for her children more than a year since their death. she says her 3 children and her ex husband, we're on that conception dive boat last year when a fire broke out and killed 34 people. no one had been charged in that case until this week when a federal grand jury indicted the boat's captain. >>kay recede has this family's reaction. >>trapped on board 34 people died on the conception boat in 2019 when a fire broke out. more than a year later a federal jury has indicted the boat's captain captain jerry boylan now faces 34 counts of manslaughter we've have been anxiously awaiting. >>for someone to be held accountable for the loss of 34 people to sign a solano rosas and her husband chris tell us over zoom. this is a step in the right direction feels like maybe just s s. it's happening. suzanne 3 daughters evan nicole and angela her ex husband michael quit us all and his wife forney says he saw on we're all on board celebrating michael's birthday when the tragedy unfolded. the ntsb has been unable to pinpoint the exact cause and ended up being. horrible tragedy that's our lives forever. federal jury was able to hone in on certain issues for instance, not having a rolling night patrol failure to conduct fire drills and failure to sufficiently train. the staff the family would like to see these changes made if they're not responsible and who who will be on the next watch. what would happen to another double the roses say they will continue to fight for safer passenger boats and the memory of their loving family changes be made. so that no other family have to. go on but some with a loss like ours. >>profound grief right there that was kay recede reporting many of the people killed on that boat. we're from the bay area. >>still ahead tonight another bay area transit agency is in trouble because of the pandemic the drastic cuts the uni says it will have to make if it doesn't get more financial help. >>plus they may have been stolen, but in theory they're not going forever. an update to a theft said, san francisco fire departments toy program that is now brightening up the holidays. >>suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the u.s. that's according to the cdc. and in recent hotline in marin county has been getting more and more callers every month with some of them citing the pandemic as the center of their troubles on 4 is also the money in is live with us now here in the studio. the help that may bring some hope. >>to student grant for the pandemic keeping people apart and the holidays coming up. loneliness can be a major factor so callers are turning to this hotline for human connection and help. >>the image of wealth and health in bergen county contradicts a morbid fact that leaves the bay area and is above the state average in the number of people who take their own lives. as people are isolated through restrictions meant to prevent the spread of covid-19 more are looking to resources and help is a phone call away with the national hotline. 1, 802 7, 3 talk and individuals i think we're for lockdown in terms or stay at home orders there was a higher volume of calls one of the things we know for anybody condition is negatively impacts that in july of 2019. >>of the 329 marin county callers, 62 cited coronavirus related issues. last month there were less with 32 of 284 people who reached out we are seeing there many people are reporting. loneliness and isolation. we also are seeing that many people are trying to reach out to get 3 sources and to connect with people so which is actually a good sign but as we approach the holidays, it's not confirmed, but it is suspected. >>the more people may have these thoughts come up whether if they're not i think that the holidays are a time when people tend to >>they can come together and be connected so i during this time, especially where we're not able to connect with each other there definitely sense of increased isolation and but you called feeling down or just feeling disconnected from your your core group of eric's family or friends. so it's important to remember a person is on the other line standing by 24 hours a day 7 days a week. >>anyone with a marine or sonoma county area code will automatically get rerouted from the national hotline to the local buckelew call center and they also set up a support group for family members who have lost someone to suicide. doctor africa tells me that it's very important for people to check in on their friends and loved ones with a simple question are you okay live in the studio ella sogomonian kron 4 news. thank you so much i'll another pandemic is not showing any signs of slowing down california saw a massive single-day increase in covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. >>20,759 cases. the death toll also rose by 113 people bringing our states total to 119,324 people california's test positivity rate has increased over the past 2 weeks, it's now at 6.9%. and hospitalizations have risen to their highest level since the pandemic began and because of those numbers. los angeles mayor eric garcetti is now ordering everyone who lives in l a to stay in their homes. this just happened tonight. yeah, big news in l a talk about the city marybeth mcdade is in los angeles with more on the city's new emergency order. >>la county covid cases and hospitalizations are surging to the highest level since the pandemic began. that's according to health officials who say this signals that the virus is infecting more people at a faster rate in l a county than ever before we are at the most difficult moment. in the pandemic health officials say there are 7,593 new cases that surpasses the previous high of 6,124 seen last week. and the test positivity rate has jumped from 7% a week ago to 12% today. health officials warn they expect to see higher numbers of cases and hospitalizations in the coming days. they say people need to stay home as much as possible to bring the numbers down greece's we're seeing are not sustainable. >>well they're not sustainable because they're going over well not just our health care system that the entire state's health care system cases surging across california another county has been added to the purple tier. now 50 to one of the state's 58 counties are in the most restrictive tier. governor gavin newsom says he's considering a statewide stay-at-home order if these trends continue we're going to have to take much more dramatic. arguably drastic action a vaccine considered by officials to be the most effective way to conquer the pandemic can't come soon enough. the cdc met today in voted to distribute the first limited batch of vaccines to health care workers and long-term care facilities. i knew you know the prioritization represent. >>strong the ration of the crime or of science. implementation of ethics. and help them maintain our health care system and protect a very population us shippers are prepping for distribution. it's really up to the government now give them authorization and then once they're ready to go we are standing by ready. the fda is expected to meet mid december to discuss whether to green-light a and pfizer vaccines towards the middle and end of december we will be having available about 40 million doses of vaccines to 20 million people. >>that will be allocated to the states according to population. >>that was mary beth mcdade reporting for us tonight and the stay at home order that's now in effect in the city of los angeles is the same one that's in effect across all of la county we'll go now to the east bay because they're dealing with a covid-19 outbreak right now at a danville classroom talking about san ramon valley unified school district confirming tonight a total of 8 people from one classroom dell amigo high school contracted covid last month and has come for is noelle bellow reports now this happened right as school was welcoming students back for phase 2 of the reopening process. >>but not positive about it for the last 31 years, jan jimenez has worked as an autism specialist paraprofessional with san ramon valley unified school district back on november 17th the district began phase 2 of its reopening and she and her fellow paraprofessionals returned to the della me go high school campus. she says she knew the risks of going back we knew some of the students want to be mask they could not tolerate it. >>we know we would have to be within 6 feet of these students so we were given a plastic rubber gloves very flimsy face shield. and just told well we have to do the best that sit on that first day back she recorded fevers on to students and contacted the certificate teacher associated with their class. >>but carried on as normal by saturday though jimenez started to feel feverish herself and over the next couple of days she along with her fellow staff members in that classroom and 3 of the students tested positive for covid-19 i take responsibility is the superintendent for all kids being safe. all staff being safe and we need to keep working on that. however our protocols are meant also to keep people safe and in this circumstance. the protocols weren't superintendent john malloy says the district had instructed staff to escort any student with symptoms to the nurse's office immediately. he says the district is now working to create clear communication with staff about the protocols and we'll be providing staff with n 95 masks on top of the other ppe or we can't control is the better word. covid-19. but what we can do is really strengthen safety measures. >>winner families do the screening before kids come to school and keep their kids at home that's going to help us when our staff work closely together collaboratively to be sure we're staying in front of these issues that's going to help us jimenez says she's felt a bit like a guinea pig and is concerned the enhanced measures still won't be enough. >>we would not do this job if we didn't love. and you know deeply care. and want to be with these students that's not the issue the issue is how can we keep. >>our people safe in danville noelle bellow kron 4 news. >>here's a sobering story muni is warning of drastic staff cuts if it does not receive federal relief funding. the agency says it is currently on pace for 68 million dollar deficit by the end of the current fiscal year with revenue down nearly 13%. it says it is also exhausted many of its one-time tools to save money things like implementing a hiring freeze reducing over time using federal funding that it did get but without more federal help the agency says it would need to lay off more than a 1000 full-time employees which is equivalent to nearly a quarter of its staff. better news, a heartwarming update now to a story we've been following since last week, san francisco firefighters will be handing out try sickles fortunately to kids in need this christmas 200 tricycles were stolen from the departments toy program last week you may remember we talked about this. >>and today bay area fighter fires shared on its instagram that san francisco station 13 bought and then put together several trikes in order to replace the ones that were stolen 3 they alarm associations also recently donated. $4500 in order to help replace the trikes but most importantly they also assembled them. i think that's the key and they're sitting on them there. >>yeah get a the ladies in the men there. obviously having fun with the story that you started out for a plea but has a happy ending thanks to that. so all is good that ends. well right, yeah, we knew people are going to step up and help out that's awesome all right, let's take a live look outside right now as we talk about our forecast. >>here is downtown san francisco on this wednesday night looking very shiny this city hall there lit up in blue to honor health care workers. our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow yeah we all need to give a round of applause and dad a big thank you to all those folks who are yeah keeping us going man what a deal >>the weather you know if they can step outside get some fresh air middle of the day's beautiful aren't yet. that's the thing is we still got to step outside and just enjoy a little bit. but we appreciate all the work for those folks are doing there and all the firefighters they are doing tremendous work outside tonight going to be another cold one they can figure that out you walk out the door if you are kind of like slap in the face already those temperatures dropping in a hurry. we're going to see these 30's again freezing in some of the interior valleys gorgeous though. >>mostly clear skies couple high clouds are drifting overhead would love to see a major change in the pattern start to generate some rain here. here we go we see that next front approaching the coastline. some of energy headed up the pacific northwest in that start to fall apa

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lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. you know, the only technical problem we have at this little moment in the tv show is that when you're showing julian's picture, which i'm sure you were, i can't see that. and so can we show julian's picture one more time so that everyone else gets to see it again? oh, wait, it's your control room. we probably can't because sterling has control of this. he doesn't have the picture. okay. well, i'm just going to have to -- >> i could act it out for you. >> go ahead. go ahead. you're julian, go ahead. >> here is matthew alexander, who is going like this. looking like this. baby boy, first kid, so cute. and then there is little julian going -- it's pretty much it. so that's -- that's pretty much as close as i can get to cute baby for you. >> and this is who we are. i think we just -- oh, wait, they've got the picture. they got the picture up. there's the picture. rachel. >> oh, very nice. >> rachel, fantastic performance. that was just -- that's perfect. that's exactly what i pictured. exactly what i pictured. >> i need a little hat, but if i had had a little hat, you would have been able to -- >> we're going to get you that hat, rachel. christmas is coming. we're getting you that hat. thank you, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> well, tonight, the president of the united states is part of a federal criminal investigation of the use of the president's unique constitutional power to pardon. we don't know if the president is a target of the investigation. we don't know if the president is a subject of the investigation. but based on a federal judge's order released tonight, it is very clear that if this federal investigation leads to criminal charges of bribery in an attempt to obtain a presidential pardon, then the president of the united states will, at minimum, be a key witness in this investigation, and the question will be what the question has always been before. in past presidential scandals. what did the president know and when did he know it? news of this investigation broke tonight as reporting on the president's pardon plan expanded quickly today from a report about rudolph giuliani requesting a pardon from donald trump to additional reporting tonight that donald trump has been talk

lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. have a law school question for you.because neither one of us went to law school. can the president pardon himself?

lawrence karnow with us now lawrence, if you like. >>sunshine enjoy it while it lasts yeah today was such a gorgeous day almost some spring-like temperatures outside move in the mid 60's and parts the bay area but yeah that is all changing now skies to clear out there going to be cold outside tonight. there's no getting around that then the storm clouds start to move in we'll probably some low clouds by tomorrow morning. but no rain public till the afternoon outside right now you see clear skies looking the berkeley hills out over the bay. i got a storm system though to our north you can see that right there for use in showers up the pacific northwest high pressure still strong enough break it down and begin to move eastward as that ridge moves out of town we get a chance some rain coming our way temperatures though getting chilly help 41 right now in livermore 47 in san jose 50 in san francisco, 49 degrees in oakland timing out your system for you here we go you see those clouds rolling in by tomorrow morning but the afternoon here comes the showers begin to pop up by about 5 or 6 o'clock in the north bay. then as we head to the middle the evening about 8 9 o'clock there you go the front sliding all across the bay area to bring around of some rain that's going to be mainly just some light showers but there is much much more to come in fact as we look toward the new year we've got a series of storms looking pretty ferocious, we'll take a look at that coming up a few minutes of just yeah, well right, thanks lawrence. well, 2020 right between the pandemic call the wildfires historic wildfire season and that election. you may not have been keeping a close track of the california legislature. that did pass hundreds of new laws that yeah they've been very busy and we checked the records for you here are some of the new laws taking effect in 2021. >>that new law will require businesses to notify employees and the general public of a coronavirus exposure at the workplace. >>within one day of the exposure. and starting january 1st the minimum wage is going to go up to $14 an hour for businesses with 26 or more employees for fewer than that. >>and this is his have to increase the minimum wage to $13 an hour. the minimum wage can vary based on local laws. >>and after a number of high-profile deaths in police custody of and around the nation. a b 1, 1, 9, 6 prohibits police from using choke holds. >>and people student loans, they're going to have new protections making it harder for lenders to take advanta

lawrence karnow is tracking. >>fire danger here and lawrence it's december what are you most concerned about yeah well the winds it's all about the wind and we get the rain going of course that will change everything unfortunately we just have another rain so we're looking at for 5% of normal right now and really no major storms inside what we need what we call the atmospheric river that good old pineapple express to kick in southern california they've seen only about 6% of normal rainfall too so they're very dry in southern california. and now we've got those strong gusty winds that some gusts today over the san diego mountains of 90 miles per hour. you can imagine a bone dry out there right now you get those gusty winds fire danger continuing for them those gusty winds through at least tomorrow evening in parts of los angeles county san diego county that has extended all the way until 10 o'clock as we head in towards saturday. so certainly some dangerous conditions continuing there. and we may see something around the bay area of concern as far as fires are concerned a little bit later in the weekend here the iso

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out to the coast guess sun's out but the waves might be a little meteorologist lawrence karnow our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now to look ahead yeah, almost feels like southern california weather right and these temperatures pushing near 70 degrees certainly make you feel like you want to head out the beach but if you're heading that direction be extra careful. we've got some big time swells that are moving in there. there's actually storms off the coastline. there does not bring in the rain here so storm clouds rolling in as you head out toward the beaches and is going to bring with it. chips some pretty big swells i think tomorrow morning starting out maybe 3 maybe 7 feet the building throughout the day tomorrow. these temperatures waves a really big by the afternoon. maybe some 40 maybe to about some 18 footers now has more of a west northwest swell from the storm developing out in the pacific. so some of these westerly facing beaches ocean beach uses a big time waves there by tomorrow afternoon to be extra careful rip current, it's going to be very very strong all the storm swell they're