Died at the age of 85, just one year after retiring from nearly 50 years of bringing big bird and oscar the grouch to life. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 9th. Good morning, everyone. Great to have toni in from espn. Hey we do begin this half hour with democrats wasting no time setting the stage to unveil articles of impeachment against President Trump this week. Another public hearing is getting under way today to lay out the case for removing the president from office. The president is crying foul tweeting quote no president in American History has been treated like this. Abcs david wright has more. Reporter on the eve of historic impeachment hearings, congress has been burning the midnight oil. We have to act now, you cant wait for the next election because hes trying to interfere with the next election. Reporter the House Judiciary Committee is now charged with drafting specific grounds to remove President Trump. The president leaves us no choice. Report
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Hey edward. Reporter yeah, neil maybe the market is priced in the usmca will eventually get done but i have multiple sources stakeholders to usmca as well as congressional sources all being told that a deal with mexico over the changes to usmca has been finished. These sources are also told that canada would sign off on this deal and now a congressional source telling me that the language will be finalized in the next 24 hours and this deal is reratified by mexico also, the ratification process will be finished in canada and a vote is set here in the United States for ratification and the mexican trade negotiators back here in washington today this all center s around enforcement of labor provisions. And the House Speaker wanted the u. S. Inspectors to go in and make sure that mexico complies with workers, making 16 an hour , as well as other regulations. What mexico settled on is a neutral third party as well as the mexican and u. S. Representatives looking at compliance. Now with the
Now at 11 00, a power. Storm slams the bay area. And when another run of wet weather is expected to hit. A storm drenches parts of San Francisco damaging several homes. Extremely scary. How loud, how much vibrations. Strong winds knock down this giant tree into a home. And tonight, a close call for an oakland family. We begin with the storm watch, im juliette goodrich. Im brian hackney. We have a k in the rain now. Lilook outside San Franciscos embarcadero. Things have calmed down. Earlier today, when it rained it poured. Cloudy skies, a few showers around as the low pressure continues out of mendocino. It will send waves of rain tonight. The tendency will be toward things easing up. The kpix5 highdef doppler after getting hit with as much as six inches of rain in sonoma county, now we have scattered showers from saint helena to petaluma. Nothing like what happened in the south bay when it just poured at 6 00 tonight. It added up in san jose to about four tenths of an inch of rain. A t
For the gunman had police swarming the neighborhood for several hours tonight, they got the person they were looking for kron fours dan thorn is live in san jose. He joins us tonight with more on the arrest and how neighbors are reacting dan. Well jr this 18 yearold suspect was originally detained with 4 others on friday, but today San Jose Police announced he was the one that was responsible for pulling the trigger and now neighbors tell us after this shooting. They are now concerned about whats been happening so close to their homes. 18 yearold carlos gomez is facing a murder charge after a man is found shot to death in a san jose. Police say the body of the 25 yearold victim was lying in the street along south white road and Florence Court around 02 00am friday. Candles a stuffed panda and white poinsettias made up a memorial for the man was killed might never happen. Its not just red aside. Cashmere car says shes lived in this neighborhood with her husband for 20 years. She didnt k