are promoting? okay. dana, thank you. dana: bye. bret: good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. former president trump on the witness stand in his civil fraud trial. a day that saw fireworks in and out of the courtroom. we will take you there. plus, a major democratic official spreads doubt on whether president biden should even attempt re-election. an indiana woman is in custody after trying to destroy what she thought was a building housing an israeli school filled with jewish students and teachers. we will tell you what she actually hit and what she is facing tonight. but, first, breaking tonight, israeli officials say at one point earlier today, approximately 30 launches were identified from lebanon toward northern israel. troops are now responding with artillery fire aimed at the origin of their launches. is this the beginning of that northern front everyone has been talking about in earnest? meantime, israeli forces in greater numbers are expected to e
Cal fire is there on the ground and in the air. Its burning in the hills near lost ranch road which is about a mile or so from the ibm research center. Kpix 5s len ramirez on the scene right now. Len. Reporter firefighters are still on the scene of this fire doing quite a bit of mopup. You can see the fire crews down there. This is a grass fire that got started this afternoon. And it was very close to a fire station on almaden avenue in the Almaden Valley and the firefighters actually saw the smoke from the fire before any calls came in. So they are able to respond very quickly. They got up here in just the nick of time because they were able to save one house where the flames came very close. We talked to that homeowner a few minutes ago. It moved fast. Until you see it you dont appreciate how fast it its like liquid rolling towards you. You see it in the distance and then the next thing now its up against you and you feel the heat. I was stand there is with a hose trying to keep ever
Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. A top vatican adviser, the popes chief financial adviser, is most senior catholic and the highest ranking vatican official ever charged in the churchs sexual abuse scandal. Earlier this morning he addressed the allegations. Im looking forward finally to having my day in court. Im innocent of these charges. They are false. The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me. Australian Officials Say there are multiple complaints against pell. Seth doane is in rome. Good morning, seth. Reporter good morning. In this very elite group of leaders in the Catholic Church is an elite group. Cardinal pell is at the very top, close adviser to pope francis. This morning he appeared sullen, quiet, reflective, and he talk about the relentless what he called character assassination against him over what he referred to as matters that have been under investigation for at least two years. He also told us this morning that he has been in regular contact with pope
Now that a lot of places at this moment are trending in the wrong direction. The president wont acknowledge this. In fact, he flat out ignores it saying those talking about slowing the reopening or keeping students at home are trying to hurt his reelection chances by hyping the coronavirus risk. Once again though as the president s own advisers making clear he is out of touch with reality. Listen closely. We all know that kids need to be back in school physically for all the reasons we talk about, social, emotional, nutritional health, eye creek, discovery of child abuse. All those things that are very important, but we have to get the virus under control, and if we get the virus under better control, clearly kids can get back into school safely. The but and the if, right there, are quite telling. Unlike his boss admiral giroir is willing to acknowledge the science and acknowledge the obvious. The virus is not under control today, and if things dont improve considerably, back to school
Just look at whats happening down in georgia. Republican Governor Brian Kemp just banned local governments from mandating that masks be worn in public as cases are rising in that state with more than 3,400 new cases reported just today. Hospitalizations in georgia hitting a new record, over 2,800. Just last week, the mayor of atlanta, keisha lance bottoms, tested positive for coronavirus and she issued a directive requiring masks in her city. Georgias pretty clearly in trump and Governor Kemps reaction is to try to tear down mayor bottoms order. Tonight, Governor Kemp decided to sue atlanta to block the city from enforcing its mask mandate. He argues that mayor bottoms has overstepped her authority and must obey his executive orders under state law. Thats where we are right now. Wearing a mask helps suppress the virus. This many months into the pandemic, it is a basic fact of Public Health. Weve all reached this conclusion. It is probably our only way back to some kind of seminormal li