I not until someone tt you re el announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im omar villafranca. Historic impeachment hearings pick up steam this week in the house of representatives. Eight witnesses will testify over three days, and the person at the center of the investigation is Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland. The trump mega donor turned diplomat has already had to update his secret testimony once. Wednesday hell appear before the American People and answer questions about a telephone call with the president. Catherine johnson has the story. We are unfolding the facts. Thats what an inquiry is about. Reporter lawmakers are gearing up forea new week of public impeachment testimony. But the president s supporters are Standing Firm in their defense. Negative, ones testified that there has been a quid pro quo. Everyones got second, third hand, fourth hand information. Reporter this week Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland testifies. Friday an aide to the top diplo
World. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to start in hong kong, where the chaos continues. Police and protesters clashed again after violent weekend standups. The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman reiterated beijings support for the police force, calling the protesters extremely violent criminals. Precedent, you can see what is happening in hong kong right now is not a peaceful demonstration. It has turned into a violent protest against ordinary people led by a small group of extreme violent criminals. Alix joining me from hong kong is karen leigh. Walk us through the significance of what happened over the weekend in terms of escalation at the university. Anotherong kong had week of chaos after a week that has paralyzed part of the city. Carrie lam and other officials are urging protesters at the university to surrender, even as activists are calling for more rallies near the campus to support these demonstrators cured police and protesters
Because of the hong kong elections. Record turnouts sunday, big loss for scombrabeijing. I think its heartening to see the people stand firm. For xi jinping, its a setback. What will he do now . Investors round the world cheered. Its part of our rally on wall street today. No cheering for uber. The authorities in london will not renew ubers license to do business there. Ouch. London was its best European Market. Uber takes the hit because of passenger safety concerns . Gee, i wonder if londons famous black cabs had a hand in this. Ubers stock is down 4 premarket. Seconds from now, frozen 2 big box office, tesla, dare i say a smashing success, and a little blue box, tiffany, now worth 16 billion. Varney company is about to begin. Has elsa seemed weird to you . She seems like elsa. Theres voice. Voice, what does that mean . Head for the cliffs ive got you. Stuart there you have it. Frozen 2 debuted this weekend. 350 Million Worldwide. That was the opening Worldwide Box Office globally, t
Thats it from aberdeen. Well have more on the bbc news channel throughout the day. Time for a look at the weather. Good afternoon. Earlier we saw the flooding and extreme weather in venice, behind me is a video of some very heavy snow in north west spain, its more like midwinter in cold conditions so very Severe Weather gcioss conditions so very Severe Weather across much of the central western mediterranean attributed to an area of low pressure bringing heavy snow over the alps and dreary weather to oui over the alps and dreary weather to our shores that will continue to feed in easterly winds, cloud and rain and more persistent rain pushing into the south waste in the latter pa rt pushing into the south waste in the latter part of the day. The best of the brightness in the afternoon will be western scotland and Northern Ireland but a chilly day for most. This evening and tonight we hold on to the cloud, rain moving west, much of scotla nd to the cloud, rain moving west, much of scotl
Just over there on the shoulder at 29th. We have one offramp closed on the peninsula that say Traffic Alert. The rest of the bay is in green. Back to you. Thank you much. Live to capitol hill this friday morning, where in just a few hours public impeachment hearings resume. This comes as President Trump is reacting to the inquirinquiry. Tracie potts joins us live in washington with a little bit more of what to expect today. Tracie . Hi, laura, good morning, everyone. We heard him reacting last night at a rally. Well show you part of that. We saw him reacting only twitert as he often does and hell have another chance today because in about one hour, just shy of an hour we expect to hear from the ambassador who said President Trump tried to have her pushed out of her job. The second day of public impeachment hearings begins this morning with testimony from former ukraine am bassor Marie Yovanovitch. According to a transcript she told lawmakers privately she was the victim of a Smear Camp