we are on the phone or we are zooming. >> reporter: nancy cordis, cbs news, washington. >>> china was the original epicenter of the outbreak. china's president has been diplomatic sending best wishes to president trump and the first lady. an editor of a state run tabloid said on twitter that mr. trump is paying the price for playing down the epidemic. >>> to the fire watch now. the glass fire is one of two dozen fires burning across the state. if they grow by another 20,000 acres, it will hit an unprecedented 40 million acres of land has that is burned this year. the bay area covers just under 7000 square miles. >>> firefighters have done enough containment this season to stretch from san diego to new york city. stay with kpix 5 and kpix.com for continuing coverage of the fire danger throughout their rest of the weekend and this unprecedented fire season. >>> and firing up momentum to make sweeping changes to police use of force policies. but that is not materializing. a statewide standard for the use of force needs to be developed while acknowledging that is only half the battle. >>

nancy cordis is covering the barrett hearings. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: anthony, today senators on the committee get 20 minutes each to follow up on questions they feel were not answered yesterday. which as far as democrats are concerned covers a lot of territory. but republicans like the fact that barrett is being cautious. they think barring some major stumble today victory is in sight. >> i have made no pre commitments to anyone about how i would decide a case. >> reporter: barrett insisted tuesday she does not have it out for obamacare. >> i'm not here on a mission to destroy the affordable care act. >> reporter: but democrat vice president nominee kamala harris argued barrett's past criticisms, including a 2017 article suggest otherwise. >> how many months after you published that article did president trump nominate you to be a judge on the court of appeals? >> i believe my nomination to the court of appeals was announced in may of 2017. >> that's correct. >> but i don't remember when the article came out. >> the art