Officially opened. Yesterday senators were sworn in everyone. And pledged to do impartial justin case. Chief Justice John Roberts is presiding over trial. Democratic congressman an lead prosecutor adam schiff led the articles of impeachment against mr. Trump on the floor. The president faces two charges related to a Pressure Campaign on ukraine. Front row seat. Yesterday mr. Trump called the to play music a composer like case against him a phoney hoax. Mark, this is all coming as the white house is accused of breaking the law in the ukraine scandal. Ignatio sancho a selftaught reporter yesterday the Government Accountability office slave. And another one who was the envy of mozart. Issued the legal opinion that the administration broke the law a lot of music hasnt been published. When it held back military aid from ukraine. This as the president faces new a lots of published but allegations from a former donor. Forgotten since. Reporter the Classical Music of more than 350 black compos
Engines. David kerley covers aviation. Reporter the frightening flames right outside the united jetliner soon after takeoff from newark. Passengers could also hear and feel the trouble coming from the engine. Suddenly it felt like being shot at, like pow pow pow pow pow. Four, five of the loudest bangs i had ever heard. Loud shaking, whole plane. Reporter the pilots of the 757 quickly decided to turn around. Just may have had a compressor stall on the right engine here. Reporter what the pilots described is a compressor stall, in essence, a jet engine backfiring, which is alarming. It was very scary. Even the flight attendants, you can see when theyre nervous. Reporter nerveracking indeed, as weve seen in previous cases like this 777 flight in november. A father catching the compressor stall and his young daughters reaction. The newark to los angeles flight did land safely with united only confirming that it was an engine issue. David kerley, abc news, Reagan National airport. Terrifyi
Now the coasttocoast alerts. Breaking overnight, a shakeup with the grammys. Why was the new head of the Recording Academy suspended with just ten days to go till musics biggest night. Abc news exclusive, the couple who helped save that 11yearold girl snatched in broad daylight chasing down the suspected kidnapper. Hes blowing through red lights. The high speed chase all captured on camera, and the couple now joins us live only on gma this morning. Im sorry super bowl size comeback. Demi lovato now set to perform on the biggest stage in the world along with j. Lo and shakira as the final four teams battle it out this weekend. Baby im sorry im not sorry good morning, america. Hope youre well this friday morning. Good news for demi lovato. A lot of excitement about this for the super bowl and for demi. Wait till you see what she predicted a decade ago about this very thing. Something about her that you cheer for her. Pull for her. Well have more on that. But we have breaking news to begi
Musical masterminds. The duo behind the neptunes. Pharrell williams and chad hugo talk with us about reaching to the songwriters hall of fame. Producing some of the biggest hits of the past 25 years. Its friday, january 17h, 2020. Todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I should be their best witness. Their number one witness. The impeachment trial gets under way as the president denies new accusations. I dont know him at all. Dont know where he comes from. Know nothing about him. This thing is a big hoax. Powerful winter storm is expected to bury parts of the midwest and east in snow. Peak snow looks to be in the midwest along with strongest winds close to blizzard conditions. Fbi arrested three White Supremacists who were headed to a gun rally in relationship, richmond, virginia. This kind of situation hundreds of people could go down in seconds. U. S. Officials say 11 Service Members were injured when iran attacked a base last week. Beltran out. Astros, red sox, they got world
Deal. Markets pointing to another record high. Weve got gains across the board with the major indices once again in unchartered territory. Dow futures up 23 points, s p up 2, and nasdaq futures higher by 9. Impeachment standoff, that continues this morning. Congress is headed home for the holidays. But democrats are holding up sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. The battle focusing on witnesses now. What happens now . We are digging in. Then the force not so strong this time around. Star wars, the rise of skywalker number one at the box office in north america but falling short of the last two films in the trilogy. Mornings with maria begins right now. Its christmas time and weve got the spirit. Jacks for chilling. Thats what christmas is all about. The time is now. The place is here. Maria weve got christmas rapping going on this morning. We have a big show. Good morning, everybody. Joining the conversation, the director of Equity Research at cfra, ken leon is here. Pol