Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. On one of the busiest travel days of the Holiday Season, in many areas the weather will not be cooperating. Millions brace for difficult travel conditions. Snow is already hammering Southern California. Flood alerts are posted in california and arizona. Reporter senator Lisa Murkowski calling out leader Mitch Mcconnell over Mitch Mcconnell saying he would be in total cord nation with the white House Counsel regarding impeachment. When i heard that, i was disturbed. Reporter in los angeles the da is reviewing eight cases in the investigation against disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. A huge fire displaced hundreds of people staying at a Minneapolis Hotel that was serving as a homeless shelter. We literally just started over and then last everything all over again. Reporter more clashes in hong kong between police and prodemocracy demonstrators. Police used teargas and pepper spray. Reporter espn reporter Edward Aschoff passed away on
Days well see what the last second to last trading day of the year has in store for us road map today starts with the recordbreaking year for stocks. The s p within striking distance of its best yearly gain since 97. Plus, teslas china play, the automaker ruling out first sedan from the shanghai factory with ramping up next month. We begin with the year end rally and the record run for stocks mike, it has been quite a year and we go into 2020 seemingly with a lot of momentum. Been a very, you know, kind of orderly low drama rally in december a lot of folks say we may be set up for a pullback. I think we keep having to remind people, it has been a great year, successive record highs for much of the year we started in a deep hole. I think thats important not to sort of downplay what a Strong Performance stocks have had had this year, but to point out theyre not necessarily all that far out on a limb because theyre up 30 of the 12month basis because theyre up about 11 from 15 months ago,
Individuals accountable. Remember durham is the guy who probed bad government guys working on the Whitey Bolger case and government torture of detainees. As former fbi general counsel james baker, he worked under james comey, now criticizing comeys fbi for how they did their work spying on the trump campaign. Weve got that debate. New polls coming in, quinnipiac, trumps best job Approval Rating ever. Cnn poll, support for impeachment dropping, including doubledigit drops among democrats. Usa today, new poll, trump beating all his top democrat rivals. Now democrats now allege, trump committed multiple federal crimes including bribery and wire fraud charges . But they are not spelled out in the articles of impeachment. We debate what thats all about tonight. President trump hitting back, ripping into democrats, demanding they drop impeachment in fiery pickspage letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi. This coming in, house judiciary democrats demanding a d. C. Federal court help them get gr
This change of heart coming after swift backlash online from celebrities and lgbtq advocacy groups. Were now getting our first look at some of the video in the patriots latest scandal. The man who shot the video of another team says he never intended to give it to the patriots football staff. He has been suspended by the team. Those are some of our top stories this monday, december 16th. Good morning, everyone. Great to have darla in for janai, coming from wabc, looking good. She sent me the nicest note, thank you, janai. She doesnt do anything nice for me. We all know why. We love you, kenneth. Its great to have darla here again from our flagship station, wabc. Lets begin this half hour with the controversy in the stands of the army navy game. Cadets and midshipmen flashing hand signals on live tv that could be associated with white power. Several students from west point and the Naval Academy are now at the center of an investigation over the gesture recently labeled as a hate symbol
Weaker community to russian president Vladimir Putin welcomes African Leaders for a 1st ever sign that focused on trade moscow is looking to expand its influence on the continent we will tell you what is at stake. Plus the worlds penguin populations are in decline well take a look at efforts to save the only penguin species native to africa. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us nato defense ministers are gathering in brussels today to discuss turkeys incursion into Northern Syria its an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato outsider that sees the alliance as a threat turkish and Russian Troops are now jointly patrolling a socalled safe zone in northern. Syria where turkey wants to resettle its syrian refugees. This area is now under moscows control Russian Military police made their way into the north Syrian Border town of kabbani on wednesday. U. S. Troops had withdrawn from the region earl