4 00 in new york. As we kick off what will be the second week of Witness Testimony in donald j. Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is important to take stock and remind ourselves, it is not normal. To have an examerican President Stand Trial as a criminal defendant. It is not normal for that same criminal defendant to also be the Republican Partys current presumptive nominee for the upcoming president ial election. We learned a great deal from david pecker during his time on the Witness Stand last week about exactly how the catch and kill scheme that was used to benefit donald trump when he was running for president the first time worked. It worked by burying stories that would have been harmful to his reputation. We heard from trumps long Time Assistant rhona graf that Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal, the women paid to keep their stories quiet ahead of the election, were both named in trumps rolla dex. So this week we expect to hear new evidence and new testimony from new witnesses further
they have a lot of leeway. there aren t a lot of rules set out for impeachment. we don t know what the burden of proof is. we don t know all we know is a majority of the house is required to get the impeachment articles rolling and get the trial started in the senate. always a pleasure. thank you. let s switch gears and bring in bill karins for a quick check on the weather. tropical storm karen was over puerto rico. heavy rain and flash flooding and now it s beginning to move away. you can see the radar has cleared up. so we ll still have a flash flood watch that should be drop ed during the day today. the worst of it was 4 to 6 inches of rain fell. 45 mile per hour winds. there s the center of the storm. so where does karen go from here? we go away from puerto rico as we go throughout the day. then it does a loop and it jumps back to the west. this is the latest forecast from the hurricane center that just came out. you see what s to the west in