Helicopter crash well bring you the latest. Mardi gras is in full swing kicking off celebrations around the world ahead of fat tuesday early today starts right now. Good morning. Im frances rivera. And im phillip mena. According to wall street, stocks are opening the moves come as investors are said to be watching the rapid rise of the chinaborn illness as it spreads to other countries outside of china as of now, there are more than 77,000 cases of the virus and the global death toll stands at over 2,000 china has reported more cases. In south korea, cases have surpassed 700 with eight deaths. Iran has raised its death toll to 12 and italy now has 219 cases including five deaths. One example of the extreme precautions. Fashion designer Georgio Armani held his she in an empty theater and italian officials have cut short their carnival as they try to stop the spread in europe. India says nomos dei to President Trump. Massive crowds greeted him he touched down just hours ago in the larges
Deeply divided about whether to move forward with impeachment. Muellers testimony does come with risk claiming there is, quote, substantial evidence the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. But mueller has also said he would not go beyond the conclusions of his report. Republicans are hoping to show his probe was biased from the very start. Lets begin our coverage with lauren fox. Shes live on capitol hill with our top story this morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right. We got a clear picture over the weekends of precisely how the top chairman of those two committees, the Intelligence Committee and Judiciary Committee, are preparing their members for this high stakes hearing in which they hope to change Public Opinion given how most more thanes havent read the full Mueller Report. The report presents a very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. And we have to present the let mueller present those facts to the American Peo
Meeting at the state department between u. S. Officials and mexican officials and essentially what were seeing come out of this is their offer to deploy the Mexican National guard to the border with guatemala to try to stop the flow of migrants that are then coming through trying to cross to the United States border. But the question that really is going to be the end all, be all here is whether or not President Trump accepts what theyve been talking about and negotiating over for the last several days. Now hes hadnt hes on the way back to the United States from his trip in europe and the question is whether he accepts that and right now it seems the president was insisting to lawmakers, who dont want the president to take this move because they fear he t could wreck the economy and he is not bluffing. And as always, it depends on trump. We stand by and way. And thank you very much for that. If all of the tariff drama is happening as the president learns of a week job report, only 75,0
that to me is an obstruction. reporter: but some vote that won t matter they re going to stonewall anyway reporter: the president is also attacking the whistle-blower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry after reports the person s connected to a democratic candidate. the whole thing is a scam it s a fix reporter: but the whistle-blower s attorney says his client has never worked for or advised a campaign and the intelligence community inspector general has concluded that despite showing arguable political bias, the whistle-blower s allegations still appeared credible no word yet on when the whistle-blower might testify behind closed doors, but the person s attorneys and house democrats are in talks. hallie jackson at the white house tonight. thank you. a brazen attack aimed at jews today in germany where a gunman shot and killed two people and tried to invade a synagogue on the yom kippur holiday. dozens were in the synagogue including ten americans. nbc s erin
big political news overseas. britain is getting a new prime minister. con servservatives will announc tomorrow the replacement. it there is an october 31st deal on leaving the european union. erin mclachlin is live with more. reporter: all eyes are on boris johnson. widely expected to win this leadership contest to be the choice of the party who gets to decide the next prime minister. it s a small section of the electorate and not everyone here is happy with their potential choice, especially with boris johnson s brexit policies. his commitment to leaving that dreaded no deal option on the