Democrats, right now, your governments not functioning and with this cloud over the administration and over the republican party, as they have not partnered with us to get to the truth, its very hard for them or for us collectively to govern. So the sooner we get to the truth, the better for the american public. Thank you for joining us today and giving us a limb insight. Lets tonight our coverage with nbc news anchor kristen . Naming former fbi director mueller as special counsel and right away President Trump has responded. President donald trump released a statement tonight reading as i have stated many times a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know, there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. The white house had only a 30minute heads up about this announcement. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been pressuring acting attorney general Rob Rosenstein to get the appointmentep i after back to b allegations first that President Trump gave
Russian interference in the election. The white house didnt have much notice that the Justice Department had appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. Lawmakers are scrambling now to react to the third bombshell in as many days. Jo congressman, do you think the appointment of mr. Mueller goes far enough here . No, but its a very significant step and we need to get to the truth and this is the way to get to it. Robert mueller is very well respected here in the bay area and nationwide, can you tell us how this investigation will work . From what i have read about director mueller is respected by his peers. What does this do to President Trumps agenda. Hes been taking one body blow after another. Does this grind all that to a halt . I dont think it grinds it to a halt, but it givens a process where we can govern collectively, congress and the administration, republicans and democrats, right now, your governments not functioning and with this cloud over the administration and over the r
Director Robert Mueller who once served as u. S. Attorney in San Francisco. The white house was blind sided by the announcement getting 30 minute heads up coming 24 hours after james comey kept notes of his meeting with the president. Washington is in shock because the white house gets hit with a third bomb shell in just as many days and now lawmakers and the administration are scrambling to respond. In a week of breaking development. I mean obviously thats a step in the right direction. A major decisn from the department of justice. Very solid and significant step. The department of justice appointed a special council to take over the investigation of the russian interference with the 2016 president ial campaign. Whatever investigation goes on will be headed by bob mueller former director of the fbi and renowned lawyer. Now mueller has ability to take the matter before a grand jury and issue subpoenas and will have the daunting task of addressing all of the recent controversy surround
vicki happening now. Police are searching for a gunman after two people were found shot to death in a car. It happened early this morning in east oakland. Police were called to 85th avenue and international boulevard for reports of gunshots. When officers arrived they found a man and woman who had been shot. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. The identities of the victims have not yet been released. Oakland officers are asking anyone with information on the shooting or a gunman to call police. grant a coroner in the north bay has pleaded not guilty to a series of felony and misdemeanor charges of sex crimes with a young girl. Darrell harris. Marin countys deputy coroner. Is charged with several different child sex crimes dating back to 2008. And continuing until earler this year. Santa rosas Police Department is handling the case because harris often works with marin county Law Enforcement agencies. The 46yearold from san rafael has worked in the marin county Coroners Office for 1
Today is july 8th im jan carabao. A wash out yesterday, will weekend follow suit . Lets get over to meteorologist Matt Peterson with the eyewitness weather forecast. Good saturday morning. Im hoping for a brighter day ahead. I think you will get it. It is not like yesterday. We will see sunshine. We are seeing it out there this morning. A few stray showers not completely ruled out but not a wash out of a saturday. It will be a good day even if it does get on the hot side later this afternoon. Taking a look from atop Eyewitness News here this morning we will see philadelphia sky line and a great, great, sunrise for us, 1lone cloud hanging out above william penn at this point and still lots of Clear Conditions on this saturday morning. Temperatures are a little bit warmer waking up to 72 degrees here in philadelphia with westerly wind at 10. We will look for a southeasterly flow at times later this afternoon as we wait for second boundary to come on through but good news is our humidity