on this monday, october 22, 2018, the small business commission is honored to recognize peter kane for his 29 years of business. peter's clothing stores have served as anchor businesses in the castro. peter served on the board of merchants castro for over ten years that included several terms as board vice president. peter continued his leadership by helping -- by serving on the membership committee and year-end holiday committee where the castro is known for its inmay fui infamous christmas tree and other decorations. he has established body clothing as a fashion icon store in san francisco. and one of the things that i want to mention about this, too, is you know peter was the one that introduced children's clothing, women's clothing in the castro when there was no children's and women's clothing stores in the castro. and by changing up, that's why peter's store's continuing to thrive. it is this reason and many more that the small business commission is proud to recognize peter kane for his contribution as a businessman to the vitality of san francisco and the castro neighborhood. a

duckworth, durban, weinstein, julie brand, harris, hasan, renault, kane, king, clover chart, markey, mendez, merkley, mary, nelson, peterse, waiting. mr murphy. no. you‘re watching a live scenes of the us senate as this confirmation vote has taken place, we have heard a list of those in the affirmative, those who are voting forjudge kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, and then kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and then we have heard a list in the negative, we are hearing on reuters that the majority have voted in the support of the supreme court nominee, but we will get confirmation of that as soon as we can. barbara, can you explain the process here? what have we been hearing and what might happen next? the vote has finished, it is 50—48. so, judge kavanaugh has been confirmed. the reason it is 48 is because the senator from montana was not able to be present as he had to attend his daughter‘s wedding. the one republican senator who voted no voted present for him. this evened the balance, which

casey, coons, duckworth, durbin, feinstein, gillibrand, harris, heinrich, kane, klobuchar, layy, murphy, murray, nelson, peterse house, wyden. mr. sanders no. mr. lee aye. ms. hasen, no. mr. jones. no. >> bill: collins is a yes, flake is a yes. democratic senator from west virginia, joe manchin is a yes. lisa murcowski republican from alaska is a no. if that holds, the cloture motion will pass and we will begin a 30-hour period where we will move ultimately to a debate likely around 4:00 or 5:00 saturday afternoon. back on the senate floor. >> miss heitkamp, no. mrs. mccaskill. no. mr. menendez, no. mr. reed, no. mr. king, no. mr. van holland, no. ms. hirono, no. mr. blumenthal, no. mrs. shaheen, no. >> bill: as we await the final tally we do know what the critical votes now that they have been cast and for the moment brett kavanaugh's nomination lives. >> sandra: keep in mind senators do sometimes,, they sometimes vote to bring the debate to a close which has been a indication from susan collins. she has announced she has voted yes but she is going to make a further announcement how she will vote tomorrow at

duckworth, durbin, feinstein, gillibrand, harris, heinrich, kane, klobuchar, leahy, markky, merkley, murkowski, murphy, murray, nelson, petersabenow, tester, udall, warner, warren, white house, and wyden. mr. sanders, no. mr. lee. >> aye. >> aye. miss hassen? no. stuart: i just want to comment here around tell everyone what's going on. joe manchin, a democrat, yes. jeff flake, republican, yes. susan collins, republican, yes. lisa murkowski, republican, no. they're tallying it up as we speak. i have not been able to keep count. it will be very close. hold on. >> mr. jones. no. stuart: interesting joe manchin, democrat, came in late his yes vote at the very end. keep listening in. >> mr. schumer, no. mr. donnelly, no. miss heitkamp? no. mrs. mccaskill? no. mr. menendez, no. stuart: just want to make the point here that senator heidi heitkamp, senator joe donnelly both voted no. both are democrats in trump-voting states. they both voted no. they're tallying up the results now. it is obviously going to be close. the most interesting vote that has been cast thus far is joe manchin who came in late to the vote, waited until the en

cortes, duckworth, durbin, finds time, julie brand, harris, heinrich, kane, leahy, markey, murky, matkowski, murphy, murray, nelson, petersson, aye. mr mr johnson, aye. mr schumer, mrjohnson, aye. mr schumer, no. mr donnelly, no. miss high camp, no. mrs mccaskill, no. mr menendez, no. mr reid, no. mr king are no. mr van holland, mr king are no. mrvan holland, no. miss serono, no. mr blumenthal, no. so, that voting under way. quite tense on the senate floor. the professor of us politics at richmond university, what is your reading of the voting we had so far? it is incredible. not many times that a live vote has been broadcast on the bbc with such interest in the result. some interesting voting patterns. we have seenjoe mansion, the democrat has voted aye. also the senator of alaska voting against, so a trade there. also interesting that fla ke a trade there. also interesting that flake and collins, who had toyed with a opposing have gone aye. it is certainly very tense and a stampede of no votes going in. one would imagine, looking at where we are, those are democrats adding to the tallis but certainly, this is looking ve

peter bowes, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. you have got news of another heading are ken heading towards the united states will stop you are therefore harry kaneis is the storm developing. this time yesterday, we were not sure weather it would develop into a hurricane. around florida here, it is very low—lying. with an intense storm pushing all of that sea water into this area here, where the coastline curves, this area here, where the coastline curves , you this area here, where the coastline curves, you get that amount of water, so there is likely to be stories of serious flooding and homes destroyed. this is another disaster on the way for the us, u nfortu nately. disaster on the way for the us, unfortunately. i will show you a track now where it is going. i will zoom ina track now where it is going. i will zoom in a little bit. the blue bit here is basically where the... this is close to tallahassee. a very bad for this coastline, and there are warnings extending from alabama to just north of tampa. a different area to the storms that affected florida last year, as they were further south. the problem is this is likely to be a very wet sto