Its thursday, december 12th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is the most corrupt, rigged railroad job ive seen in my entire life. The House Judiciary Committee prepares to vote. A heavy heart, clear in my duty to our country, i support these articles of impeachment. Reporter the Justice Departments top watchdog testified his report did not vindicate the fbi. 25 of the way through, i thought id dropped acid. Reporter investigators are saying the deadly attack at the jewish kosher deli in new jersey was a possible hate crime. Theres no question it was an attack on the jewish community. Theres no other way to interpret it. Reporter an indiana family is suing Royal Caribbean cruise line after their daughter fell to her death from a ship in summer. We want them to fix their cruise ships. We dont want any other kids to get hurt. Reporter Harvey Weinstein reached a tentative settlement with his accusers. The faa failed to ground the 737 boeing max despite two crashes. All that a woman gets into there elevator, her dog is behind her, and the leach gets closed in the caught in the closing doors. Thank goodness he was there. That could have been awful. And all that matters one, two, three. [ cheers ] the former first lady teamed up with comedian Ellen Degeneres to spread in Holiday Cheer to an Elementary School in d. C. Were giving the school enough ipads for every single one of you students on cbs this morning. This is very cool. Time magazines person of the year is 16yearold climate activist greta thunberg. [ applause ] to honor this young woman whos dedicated her life to saving our environment, time will cut down thousands of trees to print two million copies of a lionzine. As ughter ] all right. Its available on line, as well. We li it is. We like greta. We noticed senator kennedy saying its like dropping acid. It begs the question, what does it feel like . Could somebody ask him on capitol hill. Welcome welcome to cbs this morning. Itol gin with this it is another historic day on capitol hill where the initial vote on mpeachmentes of impeachment trump isPresident Trump is apected in just a few hours. Nge House Judiciary Committee began a highly charged meeting ith the issue last night. Laid ots once again laid out their charges that the president abused his power for his own political benefit and obstructed or his own tigation. And both parties are calling igation. Ceeding a sad day for america. This morning were also learning about a new White House Defense strategy. Nancy cordes is in the room where the hearing will resume this morning. Whats next in this process . Reporter well, 40 lawmakers made their Opening Statements in this room last night. This morning, the true debate begins. Republicans will try to change the articles of impeachment, ftrike parts out. Democrats will move to block them. This is the final step before a ull house vote. Today we begin consideration r anywo articles of impeachment gainst president donald j. Trump. Emocratsis the most corrupt, rigged railroad job ive seen in fy entire life. Forhis is not a rush to judgment. Obs a rush to justice. Reporter the two sides congre debated well into the night. Will any of them say that the president s of the United States should not drug foreign powers into our elections . A record of a Democratic Party whos lost all moorings of fairness and good taste. Thats what were seeing here. Reporter democrats defended their articles of impeachment. One for abuse of power. The other, obstruction of mbedress. Refusing to turn over even one document, thats what requires us to act now. R resident tesident nixon cooperated with congress. But President Trump has thumbed his nose at constitutional tigations reporter the abuse of power article argues President Trump corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to trumply announce investigations into a political opponent. President donald j. Trump weded the enormous wielded presid the enormous powers of the elesidency to cheat in the two 20022002 election. Th reporter republicans argue iat the articles are weaachment light. What were debating here in my opinion is the weakest case ling story. Whatever happened to quid pro the fxtortion and bribery . The democrats have been telling us, it was clear, the facts were the ndisputed. Any oidence was overwhelming. Ings, ant wasnt any of those goings, and now its all gone. Ck. Reporter democrats hit back. Wrong is wrong. From your workplace to the white. Ouse. Waste. S no time to spare here. No time to waste. This is a constitutional crime spree. Impeachmenr it comings as new polls show public support for impeachment is holding steady. Romut 45 think President Trump should be removed from office. This is about one basic fact the democrats have never ccepted the will of the american people. The smoking gun is already reloaded. And whether or not it gets fired, thats up to us. Reporter its a little late in the process, but last night the white house offered up its most detailed explanation yet for why the president withheld military aid to ukraine. In this ninepage memo from the office of management and budget, they argued that this hold was temporary and part of a regularly used procedure. But several of the witnesses testified in this room that they asked repeatedly why the aid was being withheld, and they were never given that answer or any now to t very interesting new details there. Thank you so much. Now to the other major debate in washington. She author of a new report on the fbis investigation of trump ommittee ties to russia has told Senate Committee he found vidence of gross incompetence. But Justice Department inspector orneral Michael Horowitz also alsofied that agents mistakes and omissions do not mean the testif saidcted with political bias. L thinks g to attorney general william barr who has said he acted ihinks the fbi could have h,ted in bad faith, horowitz said barr is, quote, free to have his opinion, we have our finding. We have terrifying new video showing what the mayor of jersey city, new jersey, calls an antisemitic hate crime. Surveillance cameras show two people firing gunshots into a kosher market on tuesday. Minutes after killing a police detective. Three people were killed in the store. The attackers also died during a shootout with police that lasted hours. Two of the victims were buried last night. 24yearold Moshe Deutsch was studying to be a rabbi. 31yearold Mindel Ferencz was coowner of the store where she was killed. Don dahlers at the scene in jersey city with more on this story. Hearso disturbing and heartbreaking when you hear what happened there on tuesday. What else are we learning about this case . Reporter it really, really is, gayle. So sad. And this is a community in fear. Investigators now say that the two shooters were a couple who had possible ties to what some people consider a hate group. Yesterday the police chief told us that were it not for the two officers who were nearby, heard the shots and responded so quickly, more people could have the. Newly released Surveillance Video reveals the moment a man and woman pulled up to the Grocery Store in a stolen rental van, got out, and started firing. Jersey city mayor steven fulop says its clear they targeted dpoints, t market. From our standpoints, theres no question this is a hate crime. Cr it hisorter sam gold was trapped while shots whizzed by he was him. Some bullets hit his vehicle. He was finalliably to escape when officers finally able to shope when officers arrived on the screen. He did want to show his face on myera. It took 25 minutes. On i was laying in my car, bullets on top of my head. D thatscared every second that a going to gooing to go through my car. Reporter david lax is seen my car. Is see from the store. Said hehe came face to face with the shooters. He spoke with us on the phone. Whenen they came in, they came camell. Reporter that was the scene thede the grocery. The walls riddled bullet holes. Three people were found dead in the story. This comes as a shock. Heres a growing community of Orthodox Jews who settled in the area. Its a d its a diverse area. Have you sensed tensions because i visi of that . Synagoguenot. I visit here all the time. Cal atuent the synagogue and Grocery Store, and we never see they never complain of any local attacks. Reporter the killers were also found dead in the store. Supposede identified as 47yearold David Anderson and they b 50yearold francine graham. Investigators believe the yupposed calm identified in the det as black hebrew israelites, a group known to rail against whites and jews. They began the shootout at the Bayview Cemetery early tuesday afternoon where they shot and killed jersey city detective joe seals. L when we lose cops, its always difficult. Ut when you lose somebody as new ve as joe, everybody knew him because he was out there all the time chasing crime all the time. Reporter new jerseys attorney general says a pipe bomb was found in that uhaul that the shooters used. Now currently state and federal agents are leading this investigation. Another press conference is scheduled for later today. We hope to get some more somrmation. Ore ony . Don, a reminder that Police Officer had five children. Chilk you, don. This morning, search crews crews zealand will try to recover eight people presumed killed in mondays volcanic eruption. Eight others are confirmed dead. Onfirmedn 20 people remain hospitalized with severe burns. More nine americans are among the wounded. Ndmy inocencio is in new zealand and got a closer view of the volcano. Morneporter good morning. Tion,days after the eruption, gis recovery option givers family members a glimmer of hope. At the same time, officials hope illt the volcano will quiet down just enough to let them recover the bodies of those who didnt make it. Clearing new zealands eastern cleari mileslicopter zoomed 25 miles closer to the steaming plume of tain. Mountain. New zealands most active callyno dramatically erupted monday. 47 p 47 people were caught in a fight for their lives. Traveof travelers from the es,. , europe, and asiapacific. Brothetest confirmed fatalities, wo brothers, 16yearold baron hollander and 13yearold atthew, both born in chicago. Their parents, martin and barbara, are among the missing. Anagement use and lauren yuri, newlyweds from virginia, were severely burned and are being reated. Were now 2,200 feet above the youano. It looks pretty peaceful now. But that plume you can see indicates that this is still a very seismically active volcano, and that means that people cant get on there to recover the eight victims who are still on eigh the island. New zealander hayden firhallinman was the first confirmed death. With his remains on the volcano, his brother mark is frustrated. Leadership has failed. Reporter the pilot flew five wounded people off the volcano monday. Theyoud do it again . 110 . Reporter new zealand geoscience expert niko fornier how did we not know this was going to happen . Going tothe nature of the beast. Some are easier to forecast than eporter a reporter and now new zealand f it for sunrise to see if it t, indeed, safe enough to ofnch that recovery operation to retrieve the bodies of those eight victims. But police say there is no zerorisk option. Sase in point, new zealands cience ace agency says theres a 50 to 60 chance of a second tion inn in the next 24 hours. Tony . Ramy inocencio for us this new zealand. Thank you very much. Than erseas,ying overseas, britain is holding an election this morning that could finally decide the that longrunning brexit battle. Voters are choosing all 650 members of the house of commons. Me it is the countrys third ys thi election in less than five years. But some analysts are calling it fi the most important there in decades. Mark phillips is in london for us. Good morning. So whats really at stake here . Reporter good morning. Whats at stake here is more than who just gets to run the country. Its about what kind of country this will be. Theres even more at stake here than whether britain stays in or stays in european union. For boris johnson, the sitting prime minister, the election is obout getting the parliamentary majority he needs to bulldoze his version of brexit through. And hes provided some visual aids to make his points. He says hed take the United Kingdom out of the european nion by the end of next months. His main opposition comes from the la the labor partys Jeremy Corbyn corbsays hed negotiate yet hother divorce deal with the eu and hold another referendum on whether the uk should leave. Hed also nationalize many of lsitains large public industries. The waters are even further muddied here by the smaller parties that could split the vote, and the opinion polls show the gap between the two major parties is, in fact, narrowing. Gayle, its unclear whether this election will, in fact, sort anything out. Out. L right, mark. To be continued for sure. Thank you so much. Reporting from london. T the parents of a toddler who ng l to her death from an open cruise ship window are telling us why they filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the cruise line. Chloe wiegands family blames Royal Caribbean for failing to rovide reasonably safe children entertainment areas including ather, sly safe windows. The girls grandfather, sam anepal oh, says he lift anello, says he lifted her to hat he thought was a closed hndow when she fell from his t was hes been charged with negligent is icide. David begnaud spoke with her he parents. Good morning to you. Davi how are they doing . Its a hard week especially ais week. Chloe would have turned 2 years dld tomorrow. Her mother, kim, told us yesterday she should be ready to celebrate with cake and ht atnts, but instead she says che spends every night at home sitting by chloes urn. Outone of the things that disappoint me about all of it in ising chloe is that i think e heryou google her name, all youre going to see is things about court cases and people really forget that this was a living, breathing human being, real his wof our family. An actual person thats been lost. Reporter there will be people who watch who say i dont understand why theyre suing. Reat would you say . Watchause Royal Caribbean nd why t major role in our daughters death, and because se t condition shouldnt have shouldnt weve said that since the ginning. G. Reporter attorney Michael Winkleman is representing the eath ofin their lawsuit against Royal Caribbean. Was an you believe the death of chloe . As an accident. Yes. Reporter why sue the cruise line . Because they could have and should have done more to protect d toe and to protect other kids. E reporter he argues that this specific cruise ship, freedom of the seas, did not comply with ld havey safety standards, windowing fallprevention window tords and screens, and a device that would have limited the window opening to four inches. Llegatioour clear allegation in knecomplaint that they knew or shoule window Fall Prevention ecause r should have known about them because its the industry industr. E followey would have followed andsafety codes and updated their ship, all their ships, it eir r would have happened. She would still be here today. We want them to fix their never uld stillip so no other kids get hurt. Noreporter chloes grandfather, sam anello, spoke dfather,at the News Conference wednesday. I sit here broken. A lot oit here broken. Toreporter a lot of people have reached out to me and said does the Family Support sam. Of course we do. Nuede always been a family. Spendcontinued to spend time together weekly. We continue to share dinners dgether. There is just tough. She was my little girl, and she as the light of my life. And i dont have her around anymore. In a statement to cbs news, Royal Caribbean says its hearts go out to the family. Ave that the company will have this time on the civil filing due bactime. Hloes grandfather is due back in Court Next Week in puerto rico. Heloes mother, who is a prosecutor herself, says the family never wanted charges to be filed against mr. Anello. Pictur and i want to show you guys a picture which may help clear up some things. This p this photo which is included in the lawsuit actually shows the ly shows tou see it there, and the bottom window has glass. Nd has maintained the whole time that chloe was beneath him, and maintailooked down, what he saw was glass. This makes it plausible when you when he it that he would have seen glass, right. Itause the portion that was open was about chest high. Where chloe was, there was glass. E chloe parent its tracked with me when ive heard from the family, the grandfather and the parents. N ive he heard more from Royal Caribbean at this point, but family, parentve tried hard to clear up miscommunication, let us know. They just they will eventually have to ried hardhing. Im glad the family keeps saying ommunicatiding by sam anello at t point. Ventually not wavered. Amily kright. Thank you. Tough story. Thank you, david. O Harvey Weinstein reportedly has a multimillion dollar deal their with dozens of women to settle ah th good thursday morning. We start off with cloudy skies and areas of thought. Catching a break from the rain. Maybe a spotty, isolated showers. Heading through the afternoon, the shower chances are isolated or scattered in nature. Light showers possible through the afternoon and evening. An unsettled weather pattern. Increasing and light rain for friday. Daytime high above average. 61 in san francisco. 65 for san jo