Firefighting. Well give you a live look at the fireworks in san jose. You can see fireworks. Well give you a live look at oakland. This is from the 880 camera. It sounds like Rolling Thunder outside. Fireworks from every angle. It started at 6 00. Around the bay area they stepped up patrols. We have live coverage. The fires have been going on nonstop in Contra Costa County. Indeed. Right now the Contra Costa County Fire Protection district is responding to 14 fires, many caused by fireworks. You can probably hear them outside your window, this is something thats gone on for several weeks and hit acre behindo tonight. With a cry behindo tonight. We know when amateurs are running things theres a risk of something going wrong. Since 6 00 theres a stream of pops and booms within earshot of the incident command post here. It was busy before night fall. A plume of smoke as fire ate through dry brush in brentwood. 60 firefighters were on hand to stop the flames that consumes 10s of acres. Ini
A cold job by his democratic rivals will begin on tuesday hello this is aljazeera Adrian Finnegan here with our coverage in doha lets bring in our correspondent joe castro whos on capitol hill right now heidi just explain to us once again what it is were seeing right now. Well sure youre seeing the Senate Members are preparing to receive the articles of impeachment which in minutes time we were told they are to be serum only only walked across the building the u. S. Capitol building from the u. S. House of representatives side which is where all of the impeachment proceedings thus far have unfolded those hearings those votes and those articles would have been printed out they allege that trump abused his the power of this office and. Who did not cooperate with. Investigators in obstruction of congress with the impeachment investigation and those articles will be delivered by hand accompanied by 7 appointed impeachment managers these are the democratic members of the house who have been
Litigation instead its been the long practice of the house to compile core evidence necessary to reach a reason decision about whether to impeach and then to bring the case here to the senate for a full trial that is exactly what we did here with an understanding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony it would be one thing if the house had show no interest in documents or wit this is during its investigation although human their of the houses the soul right to determine his proceedings as long as it makes the full case to the house as it did but is quite another when the president is the cause of his own complaint when the present with holds witnesses in documents and then attempts to rely on his own noncompliance to justify further concealment President Trump made it Crystal Clear we would never see a single document or a single witness when he declared as we just watched that he would fight all subpoenas as a matter of history and precedent it would be wr
Approved to date. I am aware of one senator present who was unable to take the impeachment of last thursday. We please rise and raise his right hand and be sworn . Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and law, to help you god . I do. The secretary will note the name of the senator who has just taken the oath and present the oath to him for signature. The sergeantatarms will make the proper proclamation. Hear ye hear ye hear your, all persons are committed to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. The senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The majority leader is recognized. I would like to stay for the information of all senators the trial briefs filed yesterday by the parti
The case was about walter nixon. Three articles of impeachment where. Did. Were adopted. Drama focused on what happened in the senate. Impeachmentesented rule 11. Ofre was a Committee Senators appointed to receive testimony and that is what the committee did. And based on the committee report, the senate convicted judge nixon. He was removed from office. He sued and said senate rule 11 violates the constitutional grant of authority for the senate to try all impeachment does it prohibits the whole senate from participating. In the District Court and the court of appeals said the claim was nonjews nonjudicial ball. It involves a political question. Court agreed. Wasin a decision that unanimous although it has some important concurring opinions, the Supreme Court said it is indeed nonjudicial. And they had a bunch of Different Reasons for that conclusion. Host we talk about judicial due process. Is there such a thing when it comes to impeachment . The requirements of the constitution itse