Replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week. Tribute thez ndond woman appointed to the high court. Mr. Trumps democratic rival joe biden is urging republicans not to jam a nominee through the senate less than two months ahead of election day. Laura podestas on the story. Whats the democratic strategy . Reporter good morning, michael. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not get into specifics but said to influence this process we have, quote, arrows in our quiver. But theres not much that democrats can do other than try to convince more republican senators to vote against a nominee. President trump may nominate a Supreme Court justice this week. We have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want. Reporter cbs news has learned two women, judges Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa are among the frontrunners. I would say that a woman would be in first place, yes. Reporter democratic nominee joe biden insists the winner of novembers election should appoint the new justice. D. The electio
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with the next round of hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. This as news surfaces of a lastminute witness that will now testify publicly this week. Four witnesses will be questioned before the public today, including Alexander Vindman. Vindman is a ukraine specialist with the National Security council who listened in on President Trumps july phone call with ukraines president. Meanwhile, new transcripts from the closed door testimony of david holmes was released overnight. Holmes, a Ukrainian Embassy staffer, testified privately over the weekend. He will testify publicly on thursday. Skyler henry is on capitol hill. What was revealed in the latest transcripts . Reporter yeah, annemarie, good morning. David holmes is a Career State Department official based in the ukraine. Transcripts show that he testified u ukrainian officials were told
Never trumpers. You testified in our deposition that you did not know the whistle blower. Tense moments from the third day of the impeachment hearings point in timement from the infamous july 25th call with to protect the whistle blowers identity. What agency was this individual from . If i could interject here we dont want to use these proceedings. Its our time. But we need to protect the whistle blower. Focusing on Lieutenant Colonel vinman and advisor to mike pence who were both on the call between President Trump and ukrainian president vladimir zolinski. And a political opponent. I found the july 25th phone call unusual in contrast to other phone calls i had observed it appeared to be a domestic political matter. Vindman reported concerns about the call. And ukrainian officials to the nfc lawyer. Williams informed to investigate know and hunter biden with bipartisan outrage over the aid and it was eventually released in september. Republicans questioned vindmans loyalty and judgme
67, looking at highs inland in the upper 70s. Well talk about whats ahead for the rest of the week, mike, you were conrt iedht heading over towards the east volume of traffic but eastbound shore freeway, reports of a wrong way driver about here, about harbor. That report came in about a halfhour ago and a flurry of chp units were dispatched and i saw them clear one by one from their responsibilities so i dont think anything else is going on after the initial report which is kind of astonishing because if that was the case, they wouldnt leave. Were watching for updates and right now no major crashes. Back to you. Developing in fresno, a Police Manhunt under way right now after someone shot ten people, killing four of them at a back yard gathering. It happened l abot night and 35 people were gathered to watch sunday night football. So far, no update on the six people injured. Police say the shooter or shooters snuck into the back yard and opened fire. At this point they do not believe th
This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are working to contain hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in california. Theyve burned more than 100,000 acres of land, destroying homes and roads along the way. We have more. Fires are burning all along the west coast but the worst hit area is northern california. The largest fires burning north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalate, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an