Who i see on my screen here, until im willing your evil to return, documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Taylor and the email address we provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing, and i want to inform all members and witnesses that we are expected to have a series of hearings on the floor all day today. I expect that what we will do is we will rotate through, so that both on the republican and democratic side, so that we will be able to continue to hearing as seamlessly as possible, when the chair has to go, mr. Pallone will preside, and vice versa mister guthrie, i would hope that the republicans can do the same thing. The chair will now recognize herself for the purposes of an Opening Statement. inaudible my question is, are you needed, chairwoman . I was muted because my staff is looking for my Opening Statement, which was not included in my briefing outlook. I will make my Opening Statement in just one moment. Mr. P
New overnight in the east bay, police are investigating a double shooting outside a 7eleven in antioch that happened shortly after midnight on buchanan road. Investigators say that two people were in a white suv w they were shot. A woman in the to the hospital. Police believe that they were targeted. And some coronavirus testing sites will hopefully decrease your wait time. There will be wrist bands issued. They have been seeing long lines over the past few weeks. And jewel glulian glover is how this will work. Reporter yeah, ive seen these massively long lines it the at the testing sites firsthand, sometimes folks getting there hours in advance forcing them to take off work. And now the new wrist band system is aimed at saving these folks some time. So we actually got to see this system in action a couple weeks ago at independence hst school. You can given a wrist band that is linked to an hour when you would return to the site to tested. So once you check in, there is a lot of people
Bring that to you. Day two o impeachment hearings. A shocker in the room. Accusations that the president intimidating witnesses in realtime. And there have been several bombshells today. Susan, the former ambassador to ukraine is describing what is Smear Campaign against the president had to do was say he wanted somebody different. Thats right. She knows the president can remove any ambassador at any time for any reason, but this is mar marie yovanovitch, a 33year state department diplomat. She is telling her story today about how the Trump Administration treat ed her, while she was removed all as republicans try to defend the president. Day two of public impeachment hearings features marie yovanovitch, former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, abruptly removed from her spring, told she was recalled without cause yovanovitch said by Rudy Giuliani who said wanted her out of the way the conduct a shadowed ukraine policy at the the july call with president zelensky and someone who is going tlg
Just over there on the shoulder at 29th. We have one offramp closed on the peninsula that say Traffic Alert. The rest of the bay is in green. Back to you. Thank you much. Live to capitol hill this friday morning, where in just a few hours public impeachment hearings resume. This comes as President Trump is reacting to the inquirinquiry. Tracie potts joins us live in washington with a little bit more of what to expect today. Tracie . Hi, laura, good morning, everyone. We heard him reacting last night at a rally. Well show you part of that. We saw him reacting only twitert as he often does and hell have another chance today because in about one hour, just shy of an hour we expect to hear from the ambassador who said President Trump tried to have her pushed out of her job. The second day of public impeachment hearings begins this morning with testimony from former ukraine am bassor Marie Yovanovitch. According to a transcript she told lawmakers privately she was the victim of a Smear Camp
What did she think it was about. She didnt know. She said that she was going to try and find out more but she had wanted to give me a heads up. In fact, i think she may even have been instructed to give me a heads up on that. And so i asked her kind of what is the next step here . So she said she would try to find out more and she would try to call me by midnight. What happened next . Around 1 00 in the morning she called me again and she said that there were great concerns, there were concerns up the street, and she said i needed to get come home immediately. Get on the next plane to the u. S. And i asked her why. And she said she wasnt sure but there were concerns about my security. I asked her, my physical security . Because sometimes washington knows more than we do about these things. And she said, no. She hadnt gotten that impression that it was a physical security issue but they were concerned about my security and i needed to come home right away. You know, i argued. This is ex