deadly shooting at a authorities are still searching for a motive in the attack that left six people dead before the gunman apparently took his own life. james: republicans barnstorming iowa as the fight for the party s future heats up. we ve got a country to save. we will never ever surrender. and a man in north carolina is facing multiple charges after he allegedly drove a car into a wilmington international airport. it s time for the oscars. this is your captain speaking. james: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m james brown in four norah. tonight, we take a look at an innovative program taking flight at one major u.s. airline. hoping to tackle the industries pilot shortage. plus, it s friday, so we go on the road with an army widow who is keeping a long-held promise to her late husband. but first, president biden has approved a disaster declaration in california as a series of severe storms pounded the state. 17 million res
prosecutors have invited trump to testify next week before a grand jury. it s a move that typically indicates an investigation is nearing its end and that an indictment could be mimminent. the former president is at the center of many criminal investigations but this grand jury is looking into the hush money payments to adult film star stormy damages during the 2016 presidential campaign. while president mr. trump was asked about the payment and he denied making it and directed questions to his then personal lawyer, michael cohen. less than a year later, cohen testified to congress. watch. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no, no. why did michael cohen well, you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. you ll have to ask michael cohen. i am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august 1st of 2017, when he was president of the united states. the president of
Why arent we being told we have plenty of protective gear . The one thing i did push a lot on i wasnt the only one. Underneath for testing and tracing. Moving rapidly to make sure that you had the capacity to test and trace before it got so out of control. We need to do that now. Ill ends with this. I apologize for keeping you. [inaudible] the thing that i just dont quite understand is when its clear that some of the things that the president says are simply not true relating to this crisis. And when enormous pressure is put on professionals in the administration from the cdc to nih, across the board why do we think godwilling when we get a vaccine that is good, works, why do we think the public will line up to be able to take be willing to take the injection . Weve lost so much confidence in the American People in what is said. Theyre finding out. Again, today, plasma. That doesnt quite work the way were told it was. A lot of pressure put on that person to say that. This president has
Million doses of the Pfizer Vaccine. Experts warn the key to stopping the virus is scrap those big holiday gatherings. So far people are not heeding that warning based on what we are seeing at the airports now. Lets begin at the white house with john harwood. John, why is the president suddenly so interested in this bill now when he stayed on the sidelines in large part for months while it was being negotiated . Well, we know pam its not because of the content of the bill itself. The president could care less about that. If he did, he would have been involved. We also do not know whether the president is simply harmlessly making noise trying to make himself look good, trying to smack around political adversaries, the people who understand that theyre going to be working with joe biden very soon, or whether hes actually trying to be destructive, cause a government shutdown, cause the American People to lose this relief. The president is erratic, unpredictable. He cant handle in a sensib
There are several other major stories this friday night. Paul manafort, pleading guilty, now cooperating with robert mueller. What does this mean for President Trump . The new letter raising questions tonight involving Supreme Court Justice Nominee Brett Kavanaugh. What it accuses him of, involving a young woman decades ago. And why was the letter just now revealed . And the massive fires outside boston. The deadly Chain Reaction gas explosions. And what we now know. And tonight, what they saw from the air just before another possible explosion. And tonight, our persons of the week. The rescuers, the volunteers. They did not forget the pets. And good evening from wilmington, north carolina. Where Hurricane Florence slammed into this state, making landfall today and carving a deadly path. Here in wilmington, at the airport, wind gusts reaching 105 Miles Per Hour at one point. Not seen since hurricane felene in 1958. When you have a hurricane of this size and scope, this is what you see