Will shake the Political Landscape for the rest of the year, and potentially you could argue for the next four. Once the trial begins in earnest tuesday, it will likely run two weeks at minimum. At the same time, President Trump will try to stay focused on his job. He is heading to the davos World Economic forum, and then having rallies. The caucus is coming up february 3rd. And the very next day, february 4th is the president s state of the union speech. One he may deliver while he is still on trial. Lets get more on whats going on now. Garrett hague is on capitol hill. Kristin welker is at the white house. Garrett, what do we know about what the democratic Impeachment Team is doing behind closed doors, what do we know about their preps . Reporter they kept preps and planning tight lipped. We expect seven impeachment managers to work through the weekend, some of them in washington, some of them back in their districts remotely. They have a lot of work to do, they have to prepare legal
And unprecedented. We start with breaking news on the coronavirus. The u. S. Embassy in japan is preparing to evacuate nearly 400 americans on a quarantined cruise ship in yokohama. Several passengers tested positive for the virus. As of today, 355 confirmed cases on board. Those people were removed from the ship and taken to the hospital to receive treatment. Right now, there are more than 69,000 confirmed cases in 24 countries. More than 1,600 people have died. Joining us from yokohama, japan, is janice. Do you get a feeling of relief or dread and when they will be released from the boat . Reporter a mixture of everything of the people we have been talking to. As you can tell, not the best conditions tonight for getting 400 some people off the cruise ship, but we know that earlier in the day they began to make preparations at the port here with areas were covered with tarps that could go from the ship to buses, so that people could be taken to the airport. This was supposed to happen
Celebrating some of the items democrats fought to get included in this 484 billion package. Im very pleased it was transformed from the bill two weeks ago on the floor where the leader in the senate said this is it, 250, we are not doing anything else, that failed to get unanimous consent. At the same time that other proposal was put forth. A leading republican says the delay may have put Small Businesses and more americans out of work. It is unfortunate that Speaker Pelosi decided to hold up the spill nearly 16 days while Small Businesses and their workers desperately fought to hold on, especially minority owned businesses in underserved communities. They suffered and during this unnecessary delay, americans jobless numbers climbed to 26 million. This debate has featured some lawmakers wearing protective masks. Leadership does not want hundreds of house members clustered on the floor during social distancing so small groups of lawmakers organized alphabetically will vote together. The
Predicts the u. S. Coronavirus death top 100,000 by june first. The Trump Administration launching operation warp speed with the goal of having vaccine developed by the end of this year but President Trump says the nation will move ahead with reopening with or without a vaccine david punt is live at the white house with more, hi, david. David hey, arthel, President Trump right now is at camp david with senior advisers, but the heads of the Health Foreign Relations Committee and democratic of Foreign Relations committee sent letter to white house chief of staff mark meadows demanding answers of latenight firing state department general that President Trump announced he was firing last night, latest of Inspector Generals that President Trump fired in recent weeks i should say. I want to read something from chairman engle, a statement he put out last night talking about firing. He wrote, i learned that Inspector General opened investigation into secretary pompeo, mr. Linnex firing of such
Were going to talk to one governor who has been cracking down after a spike in his state. They are hitting the beaches, and the bars. How do we get the economy rolling while living with the threat of coronavirus . If thats a bargain we have to make, we are investigating. At the democrats insert here in washington, another 3 trillion package. Within hours, nothing but a progressive wish list. Of this or any effort on anything to get america working again. Millions of jobs and businesses heading we got it all, welcome to fox news that nice. Im Shannon Bream in washington. Chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. And an idea by the economist, they argue will allow us to more safely and more safely reopen. Trace over the last eight weeks, here at the top 20 states. States. At kentuckys number one with more than 36 of its workforce to filing for unemployment. Pennsylvania with a 27 of workers, and even minnesota, which is ranked 20th had more than 20 of its labor force file for be