Act. What are you learning . Reporter thats right, wolf. 24 hours, nancy pelosi essentially putting Vice President mike pence on the clock, asking him if he plans to move forward with the effort to remove President Trump from office by using the 25th amendment. And if Vice President mike pence says hes not going in that direction or he doesnt respond to pelosi within 24 hours, she said she and her democratic colleagues are prepared to move forward with articles of impeachment. Now, the timing is a little bit vague from Speaker Pelosi. She said shes going to introduce this resolution as early as monday morning, but then asked for unanimous consent. If she asks for unanimous consent, even one republican could object and then force an up or down vote. That may not happen until tuesday, which would mean that the impeachment proceedings wouldnt begin until wednesday at the earliest. Now, of course, we know that there is enough will in the house of representatives right now with a democratic
Its thursday, august 26th. Once again it is a cool start to the morning, but things could hopefully warm up. Good morning, im patrice harris. Meteorologist steve fertig is here to tell us. We have been cool all week. You have beee away on vacation. E have been here cool, but you3 came back just in time for sunshine. I feel very well rested. The more you get to sleep. This morning when you wakeup its going to be cool at ssmeplaces. Not too bad. 71 degrees in baltimore right now. 71 in d. C. And 67 in hagerstown. We wwll climb intoothe low to mid80s today. A couple offlight showers toothe Western State that are dissipate ago as the High Pressure builds. That High Pressure is going to bring us a nice and you can see the line of showers dissipating as it moves into west virginia. 3 today a nice day a little breezy at times with a northwess wind at 510 Miles Per Hour. u will take a look at the weekend forecast what it will shape up for hh maryland fair in just a bit. Right now we are oing t
Lauren. Reporter steve, we do have breaking news out of northwest baltimore where a shooting has just occurred. Police are on the scene and have shutdown connecticut avenue. You want to use deaner avenue as an alternate route. u mills and another at thendel northbound lanes at interstate 195. Fortunately the west ssde of he beltwayywill remain clear. Checking in and takiig a live look at liberty road. You can see the cars areemoving along fine the inner and outer loops just fine. Youre look at an 11minute ride with an average speed of 55 miles per hour. It will remain clear from 93 to 83. Theres no problems to report on from whhtemarsh boulevard to the beltway, youre look at a 4minute ride with an average speed of bower mile 54 miles pe. Thats the traffic edge report. Patrice, back to you. Thank you, lauren. 5 31 right now. Its been one month since Stephen Pitcairn was stabbed aa charlls village. The blood stains on can barely be seen on the sidewalk butthe has not been forgooten. Last
York city, and chicago, all of which are grinding to a halt. This is a moment we need to make tough decisions. This is a moment where we need some Straight Talk and we need to tell people the truth. We need to bend the curve in the state of california. Were going to close the valve, all right, because the rate of increase in the number of cases portends a total overwhelming of our hospital system. We need everyone to be safe. Otherwise, no one can be safe. The easy thing to say today is that soon everything will go back to the way it was. But i want to be honest with you about that, too. We dont know yet all the steps we are going to have to take to get this virus under control. As of tonight, the coronavirus has claimed the lives of 223 americans, with the number of confirmed cases in this country reaching nearly 18,000. Thats more than double the total of two days ago. The world also marked a grim new milestone as the mounting death toll from the virus exceeded 10,000. Yet as million
Ezra klein will join us tonight at the end of this hour. He is outraged that donald trump is more eager to try to avoid a recession than he is to save lives. Congressman Eric Swalwell will also be joining us to explain how the influence of nancy pelosi on the House Democrats has changed the economic aid package being considered by the senate tonight. And massachusetts senator ed markey will be voting on that bill. He will give us the latest developments with the senate legislation. But we begin tonight as we always must with the numbers. As of today the United States has 53,441 reported cases of coronavirus and 693 reported deaths from the coronavirus, but there is good news tonight. The president of the United States is not in charge. Now, that would be bad news in a pandemic if the president were anyone other than donald trump. So the good news is that the worst, most corrupt president in history is not in charge of what he referred to today as opening up the country. Donald trump di