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
And celebrating the man who brought life to sesame street. Whos the fella with all yellow the tributes pouring in for caroll, big birds voice since the characters beginning. Not again. Steve harvey announces a wrong winner during the Miss Universe pageant. What happened this time. And from the equipment mixup nearly canceling the game to the cheerleaders causing a delay. We need the cheerleaders off the field, please. To a fan making the best of his live tv moment. This place is still packed and people are still partying. The must see moments on and off the gridiron this morning. Good monday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Its kenneth moton. Its great to have toni collins from her Sister Network espn in for janai norman. We begin with breaking news this morning, the death toll is rising after a volcano erupted at a popular Tourist Destination in new zealand. Dozens are missing. Police are not sure how many were on the island because volcano experts are warning rescue crews
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and tom keene in new york. tom: yes. i ll agree with that. within the last 24 hours i ve seen a real shift. some of the turmoil with off the german industrial production, a little more market movement today than what we saw yesterday. francine: yes. here s taylor rigs. taylor? roir yes, the in danger of falling apart according to people familiar with the matter prosecutors are considering a charge related to the conduct on the foreign exchange desk. hey have essentially been on probation since 2012. after helping the mexican drug cartel and iran. prime minister teresa may is getting pressure from banks to strike an interim deal with the european union before formal talks begin. and germany s chancellor angela merkel is revising her open door paul: for refugees and said the government has done everything e can about the refugees and the united nations security county critical has condemned north carolina s latest missile launches and is threatening further measures if they
with toni collins in new york. with tom keene. in new york. tom: i agree with you totally. how alone is mr. ewinger in strasburg? francine: he struck a very different tone to the past years. this was a ewinger that was very reflective. he thinks the european union is frail and the 28-member countries, 27, if you leave out the u.k., are pretty weak at the moment. here s sebastian in london. good morning. breaking news, a new bloomberg politics show shows trump leads clinton 48%-43% in a two-way race. the public and presidential candidate polled strongly among white men without a college degree. hillary clinton faced a lot of acklash when she referred to some trump supporters in a negative way. and still the russian authority they say syrian troops have not returned the fire. a panel of british lawmakers the overthrow of muammar gaddafi, they say it was based on bad intelligence and faulty asutchingses. they said the prime minister at the time didn t properly towards th