The recount on the horizon there. All the fallout this morning. Impeachment bombshell. The key witness who now says his memory has been refreshed revising his testimony describing a quid pro quo undercutting the president s defense. Bitter arctic blast. Six states now facing a Winter Weather advisory. Icy roads already causing accidents as the deep freeze moves in for millions. Cancer scam . The pennsylvania woman arrested accused of bilking Good Samaritans out of thousands of dollars. How a podcast and her own husband led to her arrest. And good morning, america. Hope youre well this wednesday morning. Little mermaid was fun. Little mermaid live was fantastic and Queen Latifah as ursula trending big. One of the highlights. Of the night, she really shined on stage, and backstage this was what she tweeted. This video saying, when you want your tentacles to shine. Your tentacles to shine. It was a great show last night. Shaggy was the crab. Really was good. We have more on that ahead. Bu
57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Its good to be with you. Im annemarie green. The first public hearings are set to Begin Next Week in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. Acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, will be the first to testify. Documents reveal he testified behind closed doors that there was a quid pro quo. Laura podesta is in new york. Laura, were also learning new details about the white houses strategy to defend the president. What can you tell us about that . Reporter the white house maintains the impeachment inquiry is a, quote, sham, but cbs news has learned the administration is beefing up its Communications Team to help the white house fight back. This as three u. S. Diplomats prepare to answer questions about president trumps dealings with ukraine next week. President trump attacked democrats while campaigning in louisiana last night. In washington with these donothing, somewhat evil, and in in cases very evil people. Reporter de
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the ukrainians. so far the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility. in fact, one senior adviser to the volodymyr zelenskiy, hinted he believes tf an inside job within the russian security services but unclear who is behind it. we can see on our screens that massive explosion that took place in the early morning hours. the russian investigative committee, the russians say is on the scene and has been working. they say that an explosion occurred at a truck, that a truck blew up and that that explosion sort of caused the chain reaction because there was a train carrying fuel going past that area of the bridge at that point in time. several fuel tanks catching fire, blowing up as well. that s what that big fire that we see now with that thick black smoke going out there for a very long period of time before the russians were able to put that out. the status right now seems to be it s quite interesting because you mentioned this, fredricka, that the russians are saying that t
the last time i observed a russian exercise in moscow or outside of moscow, they have a tendency to always and their training events with a nuclear index. it is an end of exercise. it is something they practice and something that are very comfortable with. they have never used them for real other than interest. this is something and i think it is rightfully so in my view why the biden administration has have the concern since the beginning of the conflict. susan glasser, the president also said that he is trying to figure out what his offramp. where does he find himselfposit lose faith but no significant power within russia? that is the president s quote. he has backed himself into a corner so how does he get out of it? i think that is one of the words when i hear offramp and american officials talk about prudent. has shown over the last two decades that he is heedless largely of american efforts to guide him in any direction and off ramps are not appreciated. here we are