Activity where perhaps it would just bring the community closer. Weve also got an update on one of the San Jose Police officers who was shot in the line of duty this week while responding to a Domestic Violence call. Good evening, im brian hackney. And im andrea nakano. We thought we were past these weekend storms, but Mother Nature had other ideas. We saw some pretty solid downpours across the bay area today. This is what it looked like in a time lapse this morning on bay area bridges. Definitely enough to cause some problems on the road. Like this wreck we caught on the bay bridge. You can see the tesla in the far left lane hydroplane, crossing all lanes of traffic before smashing into the barrier on the side of the bridge and spinning into the path of an oncoming truck. The two right lanes of the bridge were shut down for a few hour, but chp says no one was injured. And for more on the weather and whether or not to expect more, heres darren peck. There were multiple flood advisories
about trump s plans, which would move the country away from democracy and into full-blown autocracy. also tonight, expelled from the house of representatives, former congressman george santos begins his revenge tour. and he s already cashing in on his infamy. we begin tonight with notes on a florida scandal. a hot mess sending shock waves through the state s republican party. the florida man in question is not donald trump for once. instead, this is a scandal involving christian ziegler, the chairman of florida s republican party. this is ziegler, a longtime party official who served as vice chairman of the state party prior to his election as chair. he is now under criminal investigation for allegations related to sexual battery, including rape according to a complaint filed with the sarasota police department. ziegler has denied the allegations. a heavily redacted report was released thursday. as you can see, it includes mention of rape, sexual assault complaint, and se
next president. take a look at these headlines. the atlantic devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second trump term with the words, if trump wins. from the new york times, why a second trump presidency may be more radical than the first. from the guardian, a second trump term will be far more autocratic than the first, he s telling us. the washington post, a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the through line is a warning donald trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the justice department to the federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tip, to the allianct underpin our foreign pocy. don t assume trump will fall sort of his goals like did so often in his first term. a second-term trump would be different. from the atlantic, i his first term, corruption and brutality were mitigated by lay v llaziness. in a second term, he woul have more willing enablers in tow and a much more
them later tonight. we begin right now with the news in the new book by former congresswoman liz cheney. as you ve just heard, she is out on book tour. but she is saying some pretty newsworthy and important things. a little context upfront. you know liz cheney, but that s because she s a politician who emerge from the hard right flank of the was bush cheney era. she rose to the republican party leadership in the house where she added some gravitas. she was the highest ranking woman at one point in the gop. today, when you think about her, former speaker mccarthy lost his post because of maga insurgents. cheney lost her entire job and political career, as far as congress is concerned, all because she s stood up against trump s coup. when it occurred in the days after, she was clear on the floor of the house and in the impeachment process that we cannot sit by and allow coups and attacks on democracy in this country. that was the baseline. that was it. that proved to be too muc
And europes weak again, dax down for a fourth consecutive day and empire, our first december number comes in soft, raising eyebrows, a fivemonth low. Movement on tax plans, were awaiting this morning to see the combined conference bill and Details Behind which cuts and deductions survived. Plus the latest on disney and fox, including the bid the murdochs said no to. A busy morning f stocks on track to erase thursdays losses. Yesterdays worries about a setback were sparked by senator rubio saying hes a no vote unless the Child Tax Credit is expanded they are trying to find ways to pay for maybe that additional deductions, its going to cost 200 billion, perhaps they let some individual breaks expire here early well see. Its very interesting that the market went down and dow went down 70 points on worries about rubio, maybe Something Else or other senators now there really is great uncertainty and the market is going back up. The uncertainty right now is higher than it was when the market