Giant alliance geo were going to discuss that all right its time to boost your views you. Tensions are once again rising in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation at sea between the u. S. And iran now that Close Encounter resulting in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats quote harassing u. S. Warships arties Rachel Blevins is following the story shes joining us now from the news room with the details on this rachel well manella President Trump is now arming the u. S. Navy with a shoot down and destroy order after a Close Encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing quote i have instructed the United States navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships see his warning fall. It was an incident last week in which the us claims a lot of investors from irans revolutionary guard came within just 10 yards of u. S. Navy and coast guard ships in the gulf n
16minute drive there. The chp has updated our information, there is a twocar crash blocking the left lane at the toll plaza there. Injuries have been reported. Well continue to follow this for you. Thank you. All lanes are back open on highway 101 in monterey county. Heavy rainfall flooded the roads as you can see here. It made for a scary few hours. This is video of one driver getting pulled to safety. This was just one of a number of rescues. Now heres our special report. News special report. Now reporting, george stephanopoulos. Good morning. Were coming on the air right now with breaking news on impeachment. Thats the scene on capitol hill right now where House Speaker nancy pelosi expected to make a major announcement on the impeachment inquiry. Of course it comes in the wake of yesterdays hearing of the house judiciary. The first hearing alt the Judiciary Committee, where they heard from three constitutional scholars. Also republican witness Jonathan Turley from George Washington
The 1st the sinking of a boat carrying refugees and migrants off the coast of mauritania has killed at least 58 people its thought that there may have been 150 people on board most of them from gambia dozens were able to swim to shore survivors are being treated in the northern mauritania city of new people globally around 2 and a half 1000 migrants died at sea this year thats according to the International Organization for migration but that number as high as it is is much less than that of 2018 Mohammed Valdez our correspondent hes in no upshot mauritanias capital about 83 people managed to swim to the shore and there were found by the military Police Outside the Northern City of and what people would. That was the idea evening hours yesterday as those people gave more news about what happened that boat capsized off the shore. And thats after about 10 days being stranded there running out of fuel and so on so they gave more details and scores of people at least dozens of people are s
Bridges as well as just driving around the east bay, especially is where you are looking at some of that dense fog once you head inland, especially a dry skies. This morning just not so clear concord in novato and then portions of san jose, especially on the foggy side by the afternoon ahead of us fog will clear out and then its mostly cloudy conditions overhead and a pretty favorable day for any sort of air and you want to get out of the way before tomorrows heavy rainfall kicks into gear, 50s and 60s for todays daytime highs some sunshine between those clouds later on today. Rebecca. All right john thank you, im rebecca strong in for Robin Winston on this foggy thursday morning. Were tracking in accident. Actually its just past asked the toll plaza so pass this a camera shot. Youre westbound 80 right, its going to be blocking the left lane and it is causing a little bit of a delay look at that right drive time now bumped up to about 18 minutes until bridge toll crews can clear it out
Has attacked the house impeachment inquiry, focusing on a likely senate trial, where he and white house aides believe he would get acquittal much more easily. Heres the tweet from the president a short time ago saying, among other things, if you are going to impeachment, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the senate and so our country can get back to business. I speak to Kellyanne Conway the president s counselor. She described the house impeachment process as illconceived and illegitimate. By the president s tweet, savannah, it is peclear the president is growing impatient with this process. He wants to get to the next step in the new year, where its expected he would be acquitted by the republicancontrolled gs benne bennett, who covers capitol hill for us. If you have any indication what Speaker Pelosi might be saying on that microphone right there, in a couple moments. And the issue of timing, how quickly they want to move. Thats what we hope we can get from the House S