In washington, lets kick it off with blake. Reporter we are seeing a backtracking away from china in a couple different places across washington today. Lets start with what we first reported exclusively on foxbusiness. Com on monday evening which is that the white house part, President Trump and his top advisers wanted to see the federal Retirement Savings plan that relates the federal government workers not have any exposure whatsoever to chinese equities. There was a fund that was shifted, about 4. 5 billion into chinese equities, that was expected to go into play, the white house said they did not want that to happen wanted to answer by the end of business today, that fund responded to the white house and said that they will not be putting the nearly 5 billion worth of government Retirement Funds into a fund that has significant exposure to china. Thats a big win for President Trump in his own visors who thought not only there was a risk for the workers but a National Security risk
The Major Company deciding to freeze pensions for thousands of workers. Caught on camera, the fiery disaster on this hot air balloon. What a witness reported. And how a bridetobe caught her fiance robbing a bank to pay for her wedding ring. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Im kenneth moton. And im Elizabeth Hur in for janai. We begin with President Trump facing a growing backlash even from some republicans after his sudden decision to pull u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. The president says hes making good on a Campaign Promise but some of his staunchest reporters saying hes betraying americas kurdish allies who helped fight isis for years. Abcs ines de la cuetara joins us with the latest from washington. Good morning, ines. Reporter good morning, kenneth and elizabeth. Well, the president s decision comes as his own military leaders advised him against it over fears it could destabilize the region. Overnight new images of u. S. Forces withdrawing from their p
And that band of rain and thunderstorms coming up from the south and slowly migrating toward the east. Storm track6 live double scn you a closer view of this and you can s the heavy rain associated with this is now beginning to punch up into the mouth of the delaware bay and it looks like dover and parts of cape may will get the heavy stuff first, although some heavy cells could also form to our west and begin to come through. So, its just starting and as we go through the morning commute, we could get hit with a couple of pockets of heavy rain. I think the heaviest showers and thunderstorms are probably a little beyond the rush hour and in through about midday, early afternoon. Ahead of all of this we are very mild this morning. 74 degrees in philadelphia. Youve got a front out to the west and that warm air scooting up from the south along with that rain is really warming us up. 71 degrees currently in allentown, 73 in reading, 71 in wilmington and 70 in cape may. It stays fairly mild
Our reporting begins with the Trump Administration blocking a key witness from testifying in the impeachment inquiry. How democrats calling the move obstruction. Accusing President Trump of abusing his power. And the state department of holding back crucial evidence. Just hours before, he was set to testify, the state department ordered the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union gordon to stand down. Ambassador sondlin was an essential player in talks with ukraine in which President Trump urged the ukranian president to dig up dirt on inquiry. Leading the inquiry adam schiff vowing to issue subpoenas. They want ambassador sondlin to testify. The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. President trump claims he would love to have ambassador s. Testify but accused the impeachment inquire identify being a kangaroo court. The ambassador could be critical in
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