Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j
Forces, their size in afghanistan, will be 2,500 troops. Our force size in iraq will also be 2,500 by that same date. The announcement was made by acting u. S. Defense secretary chris miller. He replaced mark esper, who was fired by President Trump after joe biden won the electioner in this month. Troops have been gradually reduced as part of a peace deal struck earlier this year. U. S. Media reports say 4,500 soldiers are now believed to be deployed in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell is raising concerns about the timing of the latest move, and warned against any earth shaking changes to defense or Foreign Policy in the coming months. The planned reduction comes amid a recent resurgence of violence in afghanistan. The government and the taliban are engaged in ongoing peace talks, but they have yet to achieve a breakthrough. Turning to the latest on the coronavirus here in japan. Infections continue to spike across many parts of the country. Its
In the alum rock road neighborhood. Police have confirmed one victim so far their condition has not been released at the same time San Jose Police are also outside of a home on jackson street thats north of the citys downtown in several streets there. Are currently closed as officers are trying to talk to a man who has barricaded himself inside of a home this information is just now coming in to the kron 4 news room working to get more details on both of these situations happening right now in san jose as soon as we get more details. You know we will bring them to you and thank you so much for joining us right here tonight on kron 4 news at 10, im Justine Waldman of Jonathan Mccall our other big story this sunday night california breaking a grim record with more than 8,000 covid19 patients in hospitals all across the golden state. That number doubling from less than just 3 weeks ago when there are roughly 4,000 patients in hospitals on november 12th. The previous record for hospitaliza
To you rob all right, thank you for the update john checking in on the traffic still recovering from some issues here so in the 4 oclock hour we had an overturn accident that is still active, but its not causing major delays so is 1224. At the oak hill exit as you work your way through lafayette couple of lanes of traffic still close as they try and get this out of your way a special Traffic Alert remains in place. But no major delays getting through the westbound side is the commute direction and its doing fine out of lafayette into are and and over to the caldecott tunnel were checking in on the bridges, the bridges look really good. No delays at the bay bridge toll come on in wide open across the upper deck and were off to the golden gate. Were checking in on one oh one which is smoothing out the limit so if youre coming from the north bay and easy 90 minute trip rolling south nevado to the toll plaza darya james all right, thank you very much robert 5 oh one is the time breaking ne
With abundant sunshine all the way through your thanksgiving holiday. Maybe you had that feast outside maybe it didnt either way we are going to be looking at good weather ahead of us he get that Second Chance if you want to eat out there looking outside this morning skies are beautiful unclear over San Francisco, no fog whatsoever across the region skies will stay clear throughout the way area and the rest of the state to any chance of rainfall as well as of the north and washington oregon that sort staying ahead of us likely for the remainder of this week, our current temperatures are quite cold down in the 30s for san jose hey were doubling in concord livermore youre at 34 right now all santa rosa. Our spot in the upper 20s, currently at 29 degrees. C s you got to bundle up for weather like this fairfield youve been sitting at freezing this morning at 32 in napa now joining you also at 32 degrees on tracking these numbers all morning long so stay with us before you step outside and