Died at the age of 85, just one year after retiring from nearly 50 years of bringing big bird and oscar the grouch to life. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 9th. Good morning, everyone. Great to have toni in from espn. Hey we do begin this half hour with democrats wasting no time setting the stage to unveil articles of impeachment against President Trump this week. Another public hearing is getting under way today to lay out the case for removing the president from office. The president is crying foul tweeting quote no president in American History has been treated like this. Abcs david wright has more. Reporter on the eve of historic impeachment hearings, congress has been burning the midnight oil. We have to act now, you cant wait for the next election because hes trying to interfere with the next election. Reporter the House Judiciary Committee is now charged with drafting specific grounds to remove President Trump. The president leaves us no choice. Report
responsible completely. welcome to fox fox news live, i m eric shawn. hey, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone, i m arthel neville. new questions today about what led to this e epic collapse. in 48 hours, the go-to bank for tech start-ups and small businesses went belly up. the fdic, which insures bank deposits up to $250,000, says customers will have access to their money by tomorrow morning. here s secretary yellen earlier today. what i do want to do is emphasize that the american banking system is really safe and well capitalized. it s resilient. during the financial crisis, there were investors and owners of systemic large banks that were bailed out. we re not going to do that again. eric: well, is this going to cause a meltdown the on wall street and elsewhere? nate foy is here following other breaking news. reporter: in her remarks this morning, secretary yellen kid the not say how regulators plan to help depositors, only that they will. and she assured that the u.s.
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