And chiefs early today starts right now we say good morning on Martin Luther king jr. Im cori coffin and im Frances Rivera. The impeachment trial of President Trump begins in earnest tomorrow with one key question hanging over capitol hill will the senate allow witnesses to testify democrats need at least four republicans to cross the aisle to win a vote on the issue last night, minority leader Chuck Schumer warned to keep battling and to bring forward new evidence in the trial. We democrats aim to get the truth. And make no mistake about it, we will force votes on witnesses and documents. And it will be up to four republicans to side with the constitution to side with our democracy, to side with rule of law. And not side in blind obedience to President Trump in his desire to press the truth President Trump is taking his defense on the road dismissing his impeachment trial during a p in texas were achieving what no administration has ever achieved before and what do i get out of it . T
O be above 90 degreesow inn th it. Mid60s . The Shenandoah Valley. Mid60s in the western and northern suburbs. A little closer to 70 downtown egheow t in beautiful leonard town, maryland. For today more than enou sunshine this morning to get temperatures up to around 90 degrees today before some storms start to dotnd the laape late in the day. Ill show you future weather and look into the weekend coming up. For now, lets go over to melissa walking on sunshine. Its nice. I like it. Inner loop a problem on the dwright side of the roy. That is the earlier crash and all of those delays still hanging aund. Outer loop through that section is looking okay. A motorcycle crash here on the left sidew of the ro and only getting by on the right. Haymarket crash on the right. Beltway inner loop and outer loop, no other issues. Video oof social media a man tasered by metro transit outrage. Sparking a witness recorded the confrontation inside the u street metro station over the weekend. News4 today j
Right nowe we hav these work zones. We zoom out. Earlier road work on the beltway and everything has cleared out of the way so we dont have any worries there. Outbound same situation. You dont have any big problem outbound. Bottom of the beltway through Prince Georges County no problems into or out of tow me situation 95 and bw parkway nd everything moving along quite nicely. We turn to a developing story. Video on cial media of a man tasered by mro Transit Police are still srking outrage this morning. A witness recorded that conontation inside the u street metro station over the weekend. News4 justin finch is live now with details on how this all unfolded. Good morning, justin. Reporter good morning. As you might imaginof lots questions about the use of force in this case and what exactly ed happen we are now gaining bits and pieces of details from metro police, from witnesses, as well as two teens who were involved case. Is youre looking at this video here. This happened close to 6 0
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in ukraine. new worries, one year into the war that russia could soon receive support that could be a game changer. the source of the concern is china and the possibility of beijing providing lethal aid to russia. now, the white house has called this a red line and the cia doesn t believe a final decision has been made by beijing, but it s worrisome, nonetheless. and, you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds, whether it provides military assistance, but if it goes down that road, it will come at real cost to china and i think china s leaders are weighing that, as they make their decisions. but first, let s go to cnn s alex marquardt, who is in ukraine with the latest on the fighting there. jim, some of the heaviest fighting, some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces from the gro
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