Inquiryndpresent, a lot of the questions centered around the work of the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Nancy cordes reports the president is still in giulianis corner. Rudy was a great prosecutor. He was the best mayor in the history of the city of new york as far as i can see. Reporter President Trump defended his embattled personal lawyer today, even as House Republicans backed away. I think there would be other people i would have represent myself. Reporter a top adviser to the secretary of state told lawmakers today that fallout from Rudy Giulianis ukraine pursuits prompted him to resign last week. Michael mckinley said he was stunned by the mistreatment of marie yovanovitch, the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who was removed this spring because giuliani viewed her as an obstacle. Rudy giuliani was seeking out , d what hap 16election. Reporter the president tried to reframe giulianis mission today, though he, too, had urged the ukrainian president to investigate former Vice Presid
York. What can you tell us about the criticism President Trumps facing . Reporter good morning. As you mentioned, this criticism is bipartisan. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle believe the president made the wrong decision. And thats in part because the hole that was created when u. S. Troops left have made it able for russians to get influence and potentially for terrorist groups like isis to regain strength. Images from a russian journalist appear to show what the u. S. Withdrawal from Northern Syria looks like. Cocacola cans, boxes of food, and a football are some of whats left behind at this former u. S. Base in manbij. The u. S. Military con an air strike to destroy weapons in another base of kobani where u. S. And Kurdish Forces first worked together to drive out isis. Now the russians have moved into the area to help kurdish fighters battle a turkish invasion. If russias going to help in protecting the kurds, thats a good thing, not a bad thing. Reporter President Trump defe
The accident started in the northbound lanes. One box truck trying to pass another when they bumped at high speed and one lost control jumping the divider into the oncoming tractor trailer. Its a complex accident scene in a really bad spot. Reporter evidence spread over hundreds of yards of pavement on a friday afternoon where that corridor is very heavy. Most of the traffic is being diverted. Its one behind the other. Nobody moving for two hours. Reporter state police tried to turn southbound thruway motorists around but ended up filtering on to local streets to get past the wreck. The Ripple Effect lasted all afternoon. 17 is a dead stop. Reporter how long have you been stuck . Four hours. Going from suffern to spring valley. Reporter how long is it taking you. An hour and a half. Reporter and youre not there yet . No. Youre still in suffern, you know. Yeah. Reporter thousands were caught in it but the frustration vanished once they saw the cause. This truck driver missed all his app
Reporter the new york closed. Its very, very difficult to get through that area. This summer friday has been aggravated by a dreadful accident 15 miles north. This morning, this is suffern new york this morning. A box truck carrying mattresses jumped the Center Divider and hit a tractor of exit 15b. The two occupants of the northbound box truck are dead. The driver of the southbound tractortrailer is hospitalized. Serious but stable condition. And traffic as a result all afternoon has been really slammed on the thruway, i87, route 17, route 202, the local roads in Rockland County and its just been really a mess. Its just starting to loosen up a little bit but its still very difficult. The monitors say its difficult in the immediate area. Police are questioning two other vehicles involved in the crash. Another truck headed northbound and a private vehicle. They are trying to find out what happened before the box truck jumped the median. But two people were killed. The tractortrailer dri
It easy. Slow down. And it is most heavily overnight but it is aftermath, we have pond to go get rid of, spray from the other vehicles and still raining across the region, so this is definitely a primary a. M. Drive issue. Wilt likely be somewhat of a problem by p. M. Drive but taking a look, the showers are definitely out there most widespread and we have some steady rainfall coming in across Cumberland County for example. Now this tries to clear out but heres the thing this area of low pressure is weakening, doing battle with a stronger dome of High Pressure off to the northe, you can see how clear it is by comparison, just because of the way atmosphere is moving through and weakening area of low pressure it is no match for that area of High Pressure. So we are stuck as a result in the unsettled pattern because of it, for the next couple of days. Are we talking wash out status no. But what we will find is a possibility that we will end up with wet weather, rest of today, tomorrow, an