Windy conditions. A very good morning to you and thank you for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. We want to talk about the rain. Meteorologist kari hall has been following it. The rain is already in the area. What can we expect . The winds rushing up to that storm system moves north to south. Scattered showers. Were able to track that on our mobile radar and some of the rain still north. Weve seen some spotty showers moving out ahead of that. If youre traveling down crossing the Golden Gate Bridge heavy rain there. Were going to see some of the heaviest rain moving through later this morning. As we take it hour by hour that rain approaching San Francisco moving into oakland and then the trivalley around 9 00 to 10 00 this morning and it will be approaching san jose. Also whats happening in the sierra in seven minutes. Ive been looking at your radar. Bringing us surface level traffic sorry, air traffic. Surface level radar. That wind and the rain coming in from the
How senator sanders is now responding. Winter weather alert. The major coast to coast storm on the move right now. Slamming the west with heavy rain and snow. Now the midwest and northeast bracing. Airlines already offering waivers, the new timing and track. Kidnapping rescue. The 11yearold snatched on her way home from school and the alert drivers who spotted the car hours later helping police save her. And the 28yearold nfl star shocking fans, now the latest in a string of Young Athletes to leave the game. Why hes hanging up his cleats. And the prince goes public. Prince harry appearing for the First Time Since that bombshell announcement that he and meghan are stepping back from their royal duties. His new message this morning. And we do say good morning, america. It is a very busy thursday morning. Take a live look at the capitol. An historic day in the impeachment showdown about to begin. President trump is about to become the third president in American History to stand trial on
Today another piece of Vladimir Putins plan to hold on to power comes together. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the pollic ticks. The fate of the Trump Presidency lies in the hands of the u. S. Senate. The historic moment marked with the reading of the articles of impeachment on the floor of the senate and the swearing in of chief justice of the jieunited States John Roberts along with nearly every u. S. Senator as they prepare for the impeachment trial of President Trump. Democrats in the last hour make ing note of the gravity of the moment. Nothing we do while we serve in the senate will be more important and consequential than putting country above party. Today nancy pelosi using new evidence. Some of it official. Some of it of tubehouse origin to reiterate the democrats push for witnesses in the senate trial. Something the president and his republican allies have long opposed. But there are some signs that some republicans may break with the president. Cnns sara
Information now out showing what was going on behind the scenes between President Trump and his staff and ukraine bp this weeks testimony is filled with bombshell after bombshell from seven witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. Late last night, revealing documents released by the state department. We go to Nbcs Kelly Odonnell sifting through it all. Kelly, busy saturday as we mentioned. These documents do appear to show sort of a paper trail linking the president s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and secretary of state, mike pompeo to a Smear Campaign against the ambassador . Reporter they may be going too far fop this reason. s documents do show a Smear Campaign. The question of involvement of the secretary of state is the piece not fully developed here. What we see in these documents that have been released through a lawsuit from an Advocacy Group that got them reap leased, pages and pages of information like the documents that Rudy Giuliani prepared and provided to the department of
Didnt publicly announce an doesnt know what hes talking about, but he does have the investigation into the bidens. Notes. There are a few things he may and parnas says President Trump have colored beyond the lines, knew exactly what was going on. Particularly the allegation that also, very important, parnas ag barr is involved. Says hes willing to testify and we know from the dod emails that says that along with former people were looking in the email National Security adviser john chain for pence to resolve the bolton, he can, quote, fill in issue when he met with zelensky all the dots in the impeachment case. On september 1st. And the stunning interview so this does dovetail and add additional color. You see a toxic culture twisted comes at the very same time that by hyperpartisanship impacting President Trumps Senate Impeachment trial is about to begin in washington. Now do senators want to hear foreign policy, the intelligence from witnesses . Now do they want to see all of communi