And thank you for taking a few minutes to get up to speed on world events.

On objective update on the impeachment investigation concerning the U.

S House of Representatives and U.

S President Donald Trump is our first subject today.

Here's what's happening.

The House Judiciary Committee is planning to hold its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday.

Until now, it's the House Intelligence Committee that's been holding hearings, including two weeks of public testimony that wrapped up before Thanksgiving.

House Democrats who were leading the investigation say a vote on whether to impeach the president meaning formally charge him with a crime could happen in the House by Christmas, and after that, it would be up to the Senate to hold a trial.

So what's the process?

Had his impeachment work well, the investigation is going to go forward.

And if the people in charge of the House of Random Representatives, the Democrats, think that there is enough to go forward with impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee will consider what's called articles of impeachment, which are specific charges, and if they vote articles of impeachment, then the full House of Representatives will vote on whether Donald Trump will be impeached.

Now if there is a majority in support of impeachment, Donald Trump doesn't lose his office.

That's like a formal charge.

It's like an indictment.

So if Donald Trump is indicted the way Bill Clinton WAAS impeached and and that is indicted, then the case will go to the United States Senate.

It takes 2/3 67 votes in the Senate to remove the president from office.

I think everyone believes it's very unlikely in a Republican controlled Senate that Donald Trump will ever be removed from office by the Senate.

But that's the next step.

If there is impeachment voted in the House of Representatives, what could the outcome be?

The easiest scenario, and probably the most unlikely scenario is they move forward in the House with impeachment and they remove him in the Senate.

Under that scenario, Vice President Pence becomes president again.

Very unlikely.

The other scenarios would be they move forward with impeachment articles in the House he's acquitted in the Senate on, and we'll see what that means for 2020 could very well energize the president's supporters.

It could also energize Democrats.

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If they don't go forward in any way and no impeachment articles come out of the house.

We don't know what happens with that.

Does the president essentially dodge a bullet and his supporters are energized on mayor for Democrats or demoralized in 2020?

We just have to wait and see how the scenarios plan.

So what's this all about?

It involves President Trump and the president of Ukraine.

Democratic leaders have accused President Trump of abusing his power to get Ukraine to investigate a Ukrainian gas company that hunter Biden used to work for.

He's the son of former U.

S.

Vice President Joe Biden, who's running for the presidency in next year's election.

So many Democrats say President Trump was trying to pressure a foreign country to dig up dirt on a political rival and that that's an impeachable offense.

President Trump and Republican leaders say the impeachment investigation is a hoax motivated by politics.

They say Democrats are rushing the process and that the president did nothing wrong that he could be impeached for as faras, tomorrow's hearing goes, Neither President Trump nor his attorneys will participate.

They say it was scheduled for when the president is at an international meeting in London and that it's unclear if the process would be fair to him.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says that's unfortunate because the American people deserve transparency.

Experts say to expect the House to be divided along party lines over the ongoing impeachment investigation.

Second trivia.

Which of these nations celebrates Unity Day in remembrance of an event from 1990 Germany, Serbia, China or Argentina?

German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of the country at the end of the Cold War.

Germany has a unique challenge on its hands.

What does it do with almost 2000 containers of high level radioactive waste?

The country is shutting down all of its nuclear power plants and made that decision after an earthquake and tsunami damaged a Japanese plant in 2011.

The problem is that the nuclear waste that these plants produce doesn't go away.

It's usually put in temporary storage near the power plant it came from, but it's very dangerous, scientists say.

Spent nuclear rods or so hot they can't even be moved for several decades until they cool down and that then they need to be buried at least 3300 feet underground for a 1,000,000 years.

Oh, in the ground that houses the waste can't be watery or prone to earthquakes that could cause a nuclear leak.

Germany does not plan the export the waste to another country.

Researchers there are on the hunt for a burial site in Germany and a number of communities air fighting to keep it from getting buried near them, assuming a place is found.

Another challenge is figuring out how to warn distant future generations who may have a very different language system than ours, that the nuclear burial site is not something they want to explore.

We've talked a lot about plastic pollution in our oceans.

There are a number of companies working on edible containers.

Think bowls and spoons to cut down on that.

But at this point, anyway, they come at a price.

The edibles you're about to see cost 33 cents apiece if you buy them wholesale meaning in bulk.

Ah, phone bull retails for about three cents, But could the more expensive option B both healthy and friendly to the environment?

The beaches of Cape Town, like many around the world, are littered with food containers like these.

This kind of waste bothered Georgina de Cock so much that she was inspired to come up with a product that would eliminated all together.

It's cold Munch bowls.

When did you come up with the idea to come up with an edible plate?

It really started off thinking, You know, what alternatives are they?

Because someone asked me to create something for them to hold carrion runs.

I wanted to make it a wholesome product as well.

It's no use saving the world.

And you give people food that is not good for them.

Yeah, no, president, it'd no preservatives.

I see.

It's a hot do preserve us thing.

Just why did you think of using that ingredient was part amazing.

I was at a talk show specifically on rebels on Din Din mentioned.

It is actually a natural preservative.

And this was like while because I was looking for something on dhe, I tasted that and it actually does work.

Normally, these bowls are machine processed, but today Georgina has prepared a few balls by hand.

How long can I stay like this without getting soggy and you're picking it up and they're being a total disaster and Miss at least five, always five hours, and you can heat it up in the microwave to what experiment?

And then suddenly you get a surprise, and it works.

Soupe de jour lentil warmed in the microwave, but the bowl is still crisp.

You have to do this.

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Like much bolls come in different flavors for sweet and savoury food.

And while this is not the only edible table weigh on the market, the company says they're in high demand for innovations like Munch bowls.

To completely eliminate single use plastics, they have to overcome one hurdle price.

It is much more expensive than plastic.

I think eventually it'll become cheaper as we can produce more.

Now, we don't have a problem with the export market.

They realize the need for this product, and, you know, they are actually quite proud to be more green.

ICO friendly.

Truth be told, if you drive around in a giant banana car, you're going to get stopped.

Steve Braithwaite got stopped by a state trooper.

The officer had a look to make sure the car is legal.

It is, and probably ask some questions.

This is the record holder for longest custom banana car.

Braithwaite built it himself.

He tours the country giving people rides for whatever they want to pay.

And instead of a ticket, the officer gave him 20 bucks.

And after that, well, we wish we could say he peeled out.

You wouldn't want to drive a banana car like a banana slug.

It wouldn't be nearly as stimulating.

Sure, the officer might have thought he slipped up.

Might have given him a bunch of tickets, but it would have made the story even more fruitful.

Y'all, I'm Carla Zeus and CNN.

10 will be banana tomorrow.