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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Wednesday, and it is January 9th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

In a somber televised plea, President Donald Trump urged congressional Democrats to fund his long-promised border wall Tuesday night,

blaming illegal immigration for what he called a scourge of drugs and violence in the United States and framing the debate over the partial government shutdown in stark terms.

This is between right and wrong, he declared. Democrats in response accused Trump of appealing to fear, not facts,

manufacturing a border crisis for political gain. The back-to-back remarks by Trump and Democratic

leaders appeared unlikely to do much to break the logjam that has left large swaths of the government closed.

Three weeks into the shutdown, the strain was starting to show with hundreds of thousands

of federal workers on track to miss paychecks this week.

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued for spending

some $5.7 billion for a border wall on both security and humanitarian grounds as he sought

to put pressure on newly empowered Democrats in the middle of the extended shutdown.

Trump, who will visit the Mexican border in person on Thursday, invited the Democrats to return

to the White House to meet with him on Wednesday, saying it was immoral for politicians

to do nothing. He claimed they would resolve the standoff in 45 minutes, but previous meetings

have led to no agreement as Trump insists on the wall that he, that was his signature promise in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The driver of an SUV crashed into a doctor's office in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia.

It happened at 1.30 in the morning Wednesday along the 6,600 block of Germantown Avenue.

Police say it appears the driver

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