hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo live from brussels. i m here as a key high stakes discussion kicks off today between the member states about ukraine potentially starting formal talks to become a member of the european union and more support for the country after a disappointing trip to the united states. and putin also addressing his country in russia. and i m maxes for iter with a foster with the impeachment inquiry as hunter biden rips the gop for, quote, lies believed by too many people. it is thursday, december 14, 9:00 a.m. in london, 10:00 a.m. in brussels where bianca is covering a key summit where they are discussing whether to fast track talks. but we begin at the u.s. capitol where house republicans have voted to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into joe biden. the president says instead of doing anything to help make american lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies. manu raju
storm grace is further complicating relief efforts. many injured survivors are stuck in remote areas huddled together under make shift tents or with no shelter at all. getting aid to them is slow going and leading to growing frustrations. here is what one victim told us. we have been promised medicine. i went to look for it and i was told to wait. yesterday they distributed aid but i wasn t able to get anything. it rained a lot at night. we could not sleep. we have nothing to eat. we have nothing. matt rivers is near the epicenter of the quake will health care workers at one hospital are overwhelmed with patients. here is his report. reporter: as soon as we arrived to the hospital, so did this man on a stretcher. first responders brought him to the main hospital, a facility that in reality has no room for him.
the ig to expand their investigation and they are also going to issue what is called a formal corrective action proceeding which is very big news. i don t think that the administrator has spent dollars properly. i will wait for the i.g. reports to be issued in order to say what you are probably waiting for me to say. that is the real big news. i have to ask the question. i think you are right to do it. i think if you look at the statements from the top government ethics watch dog are that is the real news here. thank you for coming on the show on what has been a busy news day for us. we are heading back to texas where hundreds of children are still separated from their parents many living in make shift tents. you have nearly 20 mayors arriving today. one of the mayors is new york city s bill de blasio. we will talk with him and calperry to see what they are seeing there. who wants customizable options chains?
the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi