marie alexander is great but first our republican colleagues should abandon the idea of sabotaging aca as they did the individual mandate because it just doesn't make sense. >> [inaudible] >> government runs out of money december 8 and the president, republican colleagues and we are waiting for them to come to us and we will work with them to get it done but it got to be serious and they've got to be real and they've got to understand there are two sides to negotiation with the president doesn't seem to understand that. >> [inaudible] >> i'm hopeful we can avoid a set up. our republican colleagues have shown in the past that they know with them in charge that the shutdown falls on the back and the american people know they are running the show and we will not obstruct for its own sake but we need to make a bipartisan agreement there are some things they want and some things we want more willing to compromise. the president seems to say do it on my way or no way and that will not work. thank you everybody. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudibl

san francisco attorney mary alexander said pg&e should have foreseen the danger and cut off power to specific areas to prevent fires. cal fire has not officially determined what caused the deadly fires. in response to the legal claims, pg&e says it is focused on helping communities rebuild and recover. >>> security is being tightened at the site of the tuesday terror attack in new york city that killed eight people. today crews installed concrete barriers at intersections along the west side highway bike path. 29-year-old sayfullo saiprov is now facing federal charges in connection with the truck attack. a new york police department official said today that saipov appears to be the only suspects. meantime, the white house is pulling back on suggestions that the suspect may be taken to guantanomo bay prison for trial. >> as i understand it, the determination of someone being declared an enemy combatant is above my pay grade. >> members of the house of representatives also honored the victims with a moment of silence. >>> bill de blasio praised the students of stuyvesant high school in

the entire system and then say you will do it small little fix on top of that sabotage because marie alexander was never designed to be in a situation to be in where there was a direct, print the aca. -- direct bomb thrown into the aca. it was made to improve the aca. -alexander is great but first our republican colleagues should abandon the idea of sabotaging aca as they did the individual mandate because it just doesn't make sense. >> what's the timetable for getting [indiscernible] schumer: government runs out of money december 8 and the president, republican colleagues and we are waiting for them to come to us and we will work with them to get it done but it got to be serious and they've got to be real and they've got to understand there are two sides to negotiation with the president doesn't seem to understand that. >> are you confident [indiscernible] sen. schumer:: i am confident we can avoid a shutdown. our republican colleagues have shown in the past that they know with them in charge that the shutdown falls on the back and the american people know they are running the show and we wil

marie alexander was never designed to be in a situation where there was a direct bomb thrown into the aca. it was made to improve the aca. butit is great as they did with the individual mandate. it doesn't make sense. ?> what is the timetable >> the government runs out of money and the president and our republican colleagues, we are waiting for them to come to us and we will work with them, but they have to be serious, real, and understand there are two sides to a negotiation and the president does not seem to understand that. i hope we can avoid a shutdown. thatlican colleagues know the shutdown will fall on their back and the people know they are running the show. we need to make a bipartisan agreement. there are things that they want and things we want and we want to compromise. says, "it is my way or no way." that is not going to work. thank you. >> a senate panel approved legislation to make changes to the tax code and open the arctic national wildlife refuge to expanded oil and gas drilling. the 521-page combined

the lawsuit filed by the attorney mary alexander alleges pg&e's negligence. they said they failed to keep trees, bushes and shrubs trimmed. >> they need to be in a location, when they fall, that they will not fall into dry tinder that will ignite. >> in an e-mailed statement, a pg&e spokesperson writes, we are aware that lawsuits have been filed. we won't speculate on the cause of the fires while the investigation is ongoing. pg&e will continue to comply with requests of the cpuc and others to preserve evidence. alexander says pg&e could have preemptively shut off power. >> they know wind storm is coming. >> to that they respond, it can have an immediate and very brought impact on safety. affecting the first responders. the lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. abc7 news. >>> power has been restored to more than 5,000 pg&e customers in san francisco. the sky map 7 shows van ness and market. one of the intersections that was affected by an outage this afternoon. city workers were traffic because the lights were out. pg&e is investigating the cause of the outage.

mary alexander/abogada demandante 3:51 fracasaron en proteger al publico poniendo sus ganancias por encimauridad 23:57 por salvar poquito dinero arriesgan la vida de la gente aunque hasta ahora no se ha anunciado la causa oficial de los siniestros, esta abogada asegura que la evidencia demostrara que tiene razon. 4:17 no tuvieron en cuenta que hemos tenido anos de sequia y hay mucha vegetacion seca, en el invierno del 2016-17 llovio mucho, asi que ha crecido otra vez, ellos no cortaron esos arboles de nuevo, se han caido sobre el tendido electrico, e incendiado la vegetacion.... pilar nino 30:41 pero ademas de esta tambien se entablo otra demanda a nombre de una paciente que esta aqui internada en el hospital st francis memorial de san francisco...ella sufrio quemaduras en sus manos, en sus piernas y en su cara 30:55 otras nueve acciones han sido archivadas contra pg&e solo en el condado de sonoma segun el periodico santa rosa press democrat. a traves de un comunicado la compania se limito a decir que estan al tanto de estas demandas pero que se estan concentrando en hacer todo lo posible

keep the brush in the trees and the bushes trimmed as they're required to do by law attorney mary alexander also says pg&e knew a windstorm was forecast and should have shut off power proactively.and we do why are people without power but this is far worse and cut it off so if lines fall they don't start ignition of the firethe plantiff's attorney believes all the fires that ravaged the wine country, killing over 40 people and destroying over 3000 homes, are connected and expects more affected families to join the lawsuit.the attorney says she's filed the lawsuit here in san francisco, rather than in mendicino because this is where pg&e's headquarters are, where decisions were made that she alledges makes them accountable.maureen kelly kron4 news (pam) p-g-&-e has responded to the lawsuit.... lawsuit.... to the has responded p-g-&-e (pam) (pam) p-g-&-e has responded to the lawsuit.... releasing a statement saying.... "nothing is more important to us than the safety and well- being of our customers and communities we serve. our thoughts are with everyone impacted by these devastating wildfir

. >> outside the superior court attorney mary alexander introduced the latest and certainly not the last of wine country fire victims filing lawsuits. alexander announced three new family filings against pg&e today including one by this man who says his family fled for lives from redwood valley home in mendocino county on the first day of fires. >> it was very scarey. fire all over the place. so we left. my kids are, devastatesed because any lost everything. memories, and we were looking for justice. >> ruiz echoed the view that pg&e is responsible us because of gross negligence, not controlling vegetation and trees around power lines. >> we are certain this is the cause. and that that will be -- that will be eventually the official cause. >> reporter: alexander is also the designated attorney or leasen count to the plaintiffs for the ghost ship fire in oakland that killed 36 on december 2nd last year. again she blames pg&e. >> we are suing pg&e for the ghost ship fire. it's the same thing they're not maintaining the lines safely. >> in a statement to nbc bay area pg&e says it's aware of

today mary alexander, the lead attorney for victims in the ghost ship fire, will hold a news conference to announce new filings representing 12 victims in the north bay fires. alexander will also provide an update on the ghost ship fire cases. >>> happening today the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case in the kate steinle murder trial. the 32-year-old was walking along san francisco's pier 14 with her father when she was shot more than two years ago. shot more than two years ago. the jury watched the police then took a different approach. they lied to get garcia zarate to confess. they told him the firearm had been recovered and had a dna match. he finally admitted he shot the gun. he said he found it at the pier. >>> new developments in the case of a bay point man who died in police custody last year. newly released body cam video shows the moments leading up to the death of humberto martinez. a warning here, some of you may find this disturbing. lilian kim has the story. >> reporter: body cam video obtained by the east bay times shows a pittsburg police officer putting 32-year

>> our team reached out to mary alexander who is an attorney representing 12 of the 31 victims familiest. when our team reach out to her, we told her some of what the conversation was like, and the things he had to say, and she had surprising answers and answers that were less surprising. she did say that she thought he was trying to shift blame. and to divert attention to other people and other parties that may be should be taking more blame. but she did say, that she does agree with some of the things he had to say. which was surprising to us. she is suing pg and e, the landlords and owners that you heard him talking about, the city and this lawsuit is really targeting a wide swath of people. they say these people are all responsible. so she did agree saying that responsibility does not fall on one or two people shoulders. there were a lot of people in that camp who they believe are responsible. >> his attorney was there for the entire interview, did they give you any restrictions on what you could or could not talk about? and did they give you any time restrictions? >> no time restri

mary alexander says the utility installed smartmeters in the warehouse even though they had no permits. there was trouble with the equipment because of a large drain on electricity. >> they failed to do anything about it, to investigate, and there are a contributor because of their gross negligence for those 36 people who died. >> the company filed a motion asking the court to throw out the case. but that was denied. pg&e said today it has no evidence that it's to blame for the fires. the company says it is fully cooperating with the investigation. >>> house republicans unveiled their tax bill today saying it would save the average family about $1,200 a year. the critics charge it mainly benefits the wealthy and big corporations. fox news' mike emmanuel has the details. >> reporter: after months of negotiations and delays, republicans officially unveiled their tax reform bill on capitol hill today. they say it will simplify the tax code and allow taxpayers to keep more of the money they earn. >> we are getting rid of loopholes for special interests and we are leveling the playing field

mary alexander, the lead attorney for victims in the ghost ship fire, will hold a news conference to announce new filings representing 12 victims in the north bay fires. alexander will also provide an update on the ghost ship fire cases. >>> huge environmental restoration is under way in the aftermath of the north bay wildfires. more than 1,000 volunteers are gathering acorns to grow new trees. the east bay times says the response has been amazing. they say so many people signed up to collect, box, and mail in acorns that it briefly crashed the server of the california native plant society over the weekend. it focuses on collecting acorns from sonoma, napa and mendocino counties. >>> happening today the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case in the kate steinle murder trial. the 32-year-old was walking along san francisco's pier 14 with her father when she was shot more than two years ago. yesterday the jury watched the videotaped police interrogation of the defendant. jose ines garcia zarate lied about his name, age, nationality and said he was nowhere near the crime scene. pol

that's the marie alexander bill we've talked about in the past, that would pay for those cost-sharingsidies that the president says he wanted to end and congress had to deal with. republicans have been holding on to that bill. they say now they'll pass it, but it's part of this package where they would also repeal the individual mandate. those are some things that could have cross-effects, but this is what republicans are doing, essentially, to try to put more money into their tax cut bill and say they've done something on obamacare. >> sreenivasan: sara, there are already people lined up saying they have concern about repealing the ma mandate. >> there is a lot of worry it would destabilize the insurance markets. we saw very quickly yesterday a joint letter from the hospitals, the insurance companies, the dorkz saying, we don't want you to do this. we think this would be bad for people." it's about two things. first is people losing coverage. congressional budget office estimates 13 million will lose coverage if the mandate went away and the second is about rising premiums. if there

keep the brush in the trees and the bushes trimmed as they're required to do by law attorney mary alexander also says pg&e knew a windstorm was forecast and should have shut off power proactively.and we do why are people without power but this is far worse and cut it off so if lines fall they don't start ignition of the firethe plantiff's attorney believes all the fires that ravaged the wine country, killing over 40 people and destroying over 3000 homes, are connected and expects more affected families to join the lawsuit.the attorney says she's filed the lawsuit here in san francisco, rather than in mendicino because this is where pg&e's hequarters are, where decisions were made that she alledges makes them accountable.maureen kelly kron4 news (grant) p-g-&-e has responded to the lawsuit. saying "nothing is more important to us than the safety and well-being of our customers and communities we serve. our thoughts are with everyone impacted by these devastating wildfires. we are aware that lawsuits have been filed. beyond that, we're going to be focused on doing everything we can to help th

collins along with senators alexander and mary would attempt to stabilize the health insurance marketplace. it would reduce the risk for insurance companies by providing funds to insurers for high risk enrollees. there bipartisan stabilization proposal would appropriate money for something called cost-sharing reduction subsidies, and these themes could provide short-term certainty to insurers and prevent premiums from rising. in fact, premiums would go down. it's been scored by the congressional budget office as reducing the deficit by $3.8 billion over the next ten years. that's why this proposal deserves our serious consideration and hope we will turn to it following our debate and vote on the senate tax reform bill. after our part of the repeal of amended there are other parts of the plan that i would like to highlight. one of the impulses of the popular myth that certain provisions of our proposal are just disguised corporate welfare. i alluded to that a minute ago, the hypocrisy of some of our democratic colleagues claiming this is corporate welfare or give away when they themselves s

. >> alexander and mary. how significant will the bill become? >> we want to do it with the support of the house of representatives. two-yearered for a extension, for those people that need it, that is what this is about. this helps them. in the meantime, on the other them tothis, it allows expand and create new options available at the state level. that is what this is all about. to get it back to a state level where the state can take care of ae needs of individuals on state-by-state business and life from one another. to do something very similar to finish the job. in the year.t i think we have got to have the two-year stability. >> thank you so much for the time. a republican of south dakota. >> i believe he will be introducing the speaker of the house walking up to the podium right now, paul ryan. vote.e will bring you the that will be coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ nowd: you are looking right at live pictures, the speaker of the taxe, paul ryan, on reform package from the health side. it goes on for quite a while. we're now joined by marty