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Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and hearts full of love for america, today im asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. Reporter after hesitating for months pelosi said theres no doubt the president s actions violated the public trust and the constitution. The facts are uncontested. The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit. Reporter as democrats plow ahead with impeachment. The white house is getting ready for a trial in the senate. A Top White House official says President Trump is demanding an aggressive defense with live witnesses. Senate republicans huddling on the hill wednesday as over in the house a new phase of the impeachment inquiry began with a new partisan clash. If what were talking about is not impeachment nothing is impeachable. Reporter during 6 1 2 hours of testimony, legal scholars satd the president abused his office for his own political gain. President trumps conduct as described in the testimony and evidence clearly constitutes impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors under the constitution. Reporter pamela karlan asked the panel imagine living in a hurricane hit area and asking for aid. Id like you to do us a favor, ill meet with you and ill send the Disaster Relief once you brand my opponent a criminal. Wouldnt you know in your gut that such a president abused his office. Reporter professor Jonathan Turley said he didnt support the president but argued the democrats have failed to prove their case. I get it. Youre mad. Will impeachment make us less mad . Only invite the madness to follow every administration. Reporter the speaker didnt discuss the scope of the articles of impeachment or the time line. The democrats want to move quickly. With this announcement, House Speaker pelosi has set up for a possible vote before christmas. Thanks very much. Lets bring in kate shaw for more on this right now. Interesting when the speaker opened her remarks she rooted them in the declaration of the independen independence. Shes sish yating this in the context of the historical important of our democracy, leaders not being kings or monarchs, that was a theme that you heard quite a bit from law scholars yesterday. It lists a number of offenses that are charged against the monarch. Shes creating making clear this is a moment of very historical significance. She used the phrase abuse of power three times. Clearly thats one article of impeachment. She didnt get in obstruction or how far theyll go. She seemed to me to be using very broad language. Opening the possibility the articles might encompasses not only the ukraine affair the 2016 russian interference, the mueller investigation, her abuse of power, solicitation of foreign interference. You can imagine articles that identify those political episodes both around 2016 and the ukraine affair and 2020. We did hear from Jonathan Turley a republican witness yesterday who said democrats should wait, they need the testimony of people like secretary of state mike pompeo, Rudy Giuliani, the president s lawyer, that wont happen any time fast. Thats the dilemma that democrats have. Theres no doubt that the democrats would like to hear from all of these people. The white house has so far stone walled access to the most critical witnesses. I think the democrats have said, were going to build an obstruction article, obstruction of congress. Prevented us from doing a thorough investigation. Some of it is still playing out in court. Some of it could materialize perhaps in time for a senate trial. Right, you would need 51 votes in the senate to approve any new witness. The democrats dont have it, conceivable that they could attract republicans to hear from additional witnesses. Its a little bit hard to see that happening. I think things are very much dynamic and fluid in the senate lets go to michael. Now to that deadly shooting at pearl harbor. Good morning, kaylee. Reporter were just outside the historic base at pearl harbor. These gates now reopened. On lockdown yesterday. A u. S. Sailor opened fire striking three department of defense employees. Overnight a deadly shooting at pearl harbor. An active duty sailor opening fire at the historic naval bases shipyard shooting three civilian contractors before turning the gun on himself. Two of those workers were killed and one 36yearold man is recovering this morning. Reports of a shooting at the joint base pea wednesday afternoon, and Authorities Say, within minutes, it went into a lockdown and shelter in place. Joint base pearl Harbor Security personnel were on the scene within minutes. Reporter Jasper Williams says he was sitting at his desk nearby and witnessed the rampage. I looked out in time to see the shooter, who was im assuming he was a sailor because he was in uniform. Im kind of thinking it might have been engineers based on the color of the hard hats. Reporter police are not releasing the identities of the victims and shooter, but theyre saying the shooter was an act ive duty sailor. But he was assigned to the uss columbia undergoing repairs. Christian castillo was there. I heard a bunch of shots in the area. We were told by my chief to hunker down. Reporter this just three days away from the 78th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Generations of locals have worked in that shipyard. This is certainly a tragedy for everyone here. Reporter Authorities Say its not immediately clear if the shooter knew his victims and theres no understanding at this time of the sailors motives. There is a full investigation under way by the navy and the base here at pearl harbor. George . Okay, kaylee, thanks very much. Now to that headline about Rudy Giulianis the president s personal attorney a key figure in the impeachment inquiry traveling overseas reportedly meeting with former ukrainian prosecutors. Chief National Affairs correspondent tom llamas is here in the studio with more. Good morning, tom. Reporter good morning to you. Rudy giuliani may be a key figure in the impeachment hearings but hes not cooperating with them and his business dealings with ukraine are being investigated by the Southern District of new york. But thats not stopping giuliani from reportedly traveling to ukraine and continuing his work that is under now so much scrutiny. This morning, Rudy Giuliani adding to his resume, former mayor, lawyer to the president , and now documentarian. At a time when some of his International Associates are being investigated and his work for the president is part of the impeachment hearings, the New York Times reports giuliani is in hungary and ukraine shooting a television project. In a twopart exclusive Rudy Giuliani debunks the impeachment hoax. Reporter one america news, a conservative tv outlet confirming to abc news giuliani is in europe right now taping part three of their special. The documentary an attempt to undercut the impeachment hearings featuring former ukrainian prosecutors, some who have been accused of corruption and have promoted misleading or baseless claims about joe biden and his son hunter. All of it part of giulianis yearlong crusade focused on ukraine which critics have slammed as political dirty work for the president , as well as feeding conspiracy theories. Giuliani says hes helping root out corruption in ukraine. Thats why i started it and the president of the united states, i can tell you this, is asking for this. Reporter but democrats and even some members of the Trump Administration say the real goal for giuliani and President Trump was a quid pro quo with ukraine, key military aid if ukraine announced corruption inve President Trumps political rival joe biden. Now, we did ask giuliani about his trip overseas. All he would tell us is, quote, im just doing my job as a defense lawyer while also slamming the democrats leading the impeachment proceedings. Okay, tom, thanks very much. We also have news this morning from the pentagon now considering sending more american troops to the middle east to deal with the growing threat from iran and our Foreign CorrespondentJames Longman is in london with the latest. Good morning, james. Reporter good morning, george. Donald trump said he wants u. S. Troops out of the middle east but a u. S. Official has confirmed that thousands more u. S. Servicemen and women could be heading to the region to counter the ongoing threat from iran. A troop buildup started back in may. 14,000 have been sent since then but the u. S. Footprint could soon expand significantly with more ships and military hardware being moved into place for the longterm. Irans role in the ongoing war in yemen and attacks against Saudi Oil Facilities have raised concerns about its increasingly aggressive posture. U. S. Sanctions on iranian oil experts are causing significant unrest in the country meaning u. S. Officials may also want to protect american interests from any retaliation. These are difficult choices especially with the election coming and no decisions have yet been made but the realities in the region may leave the administration with no choice, michael. Thank you, james. And now to the dangerous storms hitting the west coast. Snow and heavy rain causing chaos on the roads and take a look at this tractor trailer thats dangling off a los angeles overpass, and now theres a new storm that is moving in. Rob is tracking the very latest. Good morning, rob. Hey, good morning, michael. It doesnt make much in Southern California for the roads to get slick. An inch of rain in los angeles, about half of that came in just 15 minutes so a slow go and mentioned that tractor trailer around the 710 overpass in east l. A. This is just south of san jose, parts of the 101 shut down. Three inches of rainfall anywhere from anaheim down to san diego yesterday. Well get a bit of a break but here comes the next storm, this one really intensified yesterday and grew too so it will affect seattle all the way down to san diego but the core will come in tomorrow night into saturday morning across redding, san francisco, get some heavy rain and we could see some damaging wind with this. Snow levels will be on the lower side, we could see 1 to 3 feet and this will go coast to coast in the new york area by this time next week and will be powerful too. Robin . Thanks for the heads up there, rob. Now to france where massive strikes across the country are underway. Trains and schools are shut down, flights canceled. Many take to the streets to bring over planned changes to the retirement plan. Maggie rulli has more from paris. Good morning, maggie. Reporter good morning. This is where that latest wave of protests are kicking off. A strike shutting down the trains here overnight. Now theyre threatening to paralyze the entire country because like you just said, robin, its more than a transit strike. The unions are out in full force and nearly every single union from transit workers and rail workers to Opera Singers are out protesting. At the heart of their fight its all about pension reform. France has one of the most generous retirement plans in the workers able to retire as young as age 52 but the government is facing a growing debt, and they say they want to overhaul the pension plan, but for the protesters here, they say what they hear is that they have to work more to get paid less, and that millions could lose their benefits. They say they are going to fiercely fight for what they see are their rights which has left police worried today. Theres thousands out here on the streets. Theyre worried some of these protests could turn violent and urging tourists to stay away from attractions like the eiffel tower and hotels having cancellations as well and they will protest indefinitely so who knows what this could mean for the global economy. Michael . Such unrest there. Thanks to maggie. Thank you, maggie. And now to an Emergency Landing overnight. A kabc chopper hit midair by whats believed to be a drone leaving marks on the aircraft. Will carr is in l. A. With the story. Good morning, will. Reporter and, michael, that collision was Strong Enough to punch a hole in the tail of the helicopter. With more drones flying this is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Overnight, a frightening encounter in the air after this kabc news chopper was believed to be hit by a drone leading the pilot to make a precautionary landing . We felt it. We heard it. We all looked at each other, didnt really know what it was. Reporter this pilot was flying over Downtown Los Angeles at 100 Miles Per Hour when suddenly they heard a loud bang on the choppers tail. We just assumed it was a bird, because that happens every once in a while. When we got on the ground, though, it was a different story. Reporter the tail tattered covered in deep scrapes, dents and a small hole. It was a scary couple of minutes and we were all looking at each other, you know, looking for a spot to land and we eventually put it down on the ground and fortunately everybody is okay. Reporter cristi and his chopper reaching elevation of 1,100 feet when they were hit, but drones are normally prohibited from flying above 400 feet, as well as prohibited from flying before sunrise and after sunset. The faa now investigating after this surprise encounter with a drone operating in prohibited airspace. This is such a big problem, its also impacting wildfire helicopters. You know the helicopters that sweep in and make the drops trying to save peoples lives and their properties. In recent years theyve had to ground several of those helicopters because of drones flying in the area. Guys. Scary situation. It really is. Glad everybody is okay. Thank you, will. And also this morning, a close call here on the ground. Take a look at this, and thankfully everyone is okay after a driver experienced a medical episode behind the wheel. Hit an embankment and flew through the air clearing 12 cars in the dealership lot and the driver received medical treatment on the scene, and no one else was injured. Thank, goodness. Amazing he survived that. Covering a lot of other stories including a message from fotis dulos, the estranged husband of that missing mother of five. And we have an abc news exclusive for you. The new way police are using doorbell cameras to fight porch pirates. Did you know this . More than a million packages go missing or get stolen every day. More than a million. More than a million. Gio benitez will take us behind the scenes but first back to rob. Good morning, again, robin. Lakeeffect snows yesterday just south of erie, pennsylvania. About 6 inches, but certainly enough to slick up the roadways on i79 and i90. I70 will be an issue. Winter weather advisories out for this area mostly in through the valleys and 6 inches to 12 inches. Im concerned about Salt Lake City, especially to the west of Salt Lake City, they just put out a Winter Weather advisory there, along i80 for an icy mix and fog with low visibility, parts of Salt Lake City and get into the high plains as well, i think denver will see an inch or two so slick go around the mile high city. Time now for your chilly cities brought to you by capital one. It is that time of year when it snows and piles up on the roof of cars. Theres no way to get it off, but if you are a school bus, this is the contraption theyre using. I used to drive a modified school bus in the summertime. You and robin both. Ywe enrob. Hardest for last. For mother rose . its perfect. Perfect. [door bell] another one for mother rose . Good morning, east bay. Lets get up and get going. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning. 7 23. Mornings. Frustrated after falling victim to credit card fraud. 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