You just how amazing this special needs 7yearold really is. Good afternoon, everyone. Im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. This is first at 4. We have a developing story about a deadly hitandrun. Troopers believe that they have found the car in question but they are still looking for its driver. This person hit and killed a tow truck driver on the Howard Frankland bridge today. Fhp says perez died and the driver shes identified as allison huffman. Her car was found near the bridge and theyre looking for her. Pinellas park police wants to know who is driving this car. Cell phone video showing the traffic. And doing doughnuts right in the roadway. Detectives tells us this video was shot yesterday along 66 street near 121st avenue. Police believe this type of driving is a game for young and post the video to social media to brag. If you know who this person is, contact police. Around 3 million uninsured floridans are struggling to find health care, but new funding from the state legislatur
Causing delays for rail service. It was the coldest morning in boston in nearly 60 years. And the defense the highlight of the allstar game last night in the toronto. It was the highest scoring allstar game ever. The west winning it 1 6173. Russell westbrook was the games mvp. Those are some of our top stories on this president s day, monday, february 15th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. Were going to start this half hour with the dmu details were learning on the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As the political fight over his seat gets under way, we hear from one of the people who saw scalia the final hours of his life. With more, heres jim avila. Reporter Justice Antonin Scalia died behind the drawn curtains of this room. Peacefully and in his sleep. I was a firsthand witness. The cibolo ranch in west texas where the judge had been a first time guest scheduled to hunt quail an saturday. His body discovered when he skipped both breakfast a
Justice. The bar for a Supreme Court nomination is much higher, especially this one with Justice Scalia being a conservative icon and his replacement having the potential to switch the balance of power on this court from the conservatives to the liberals. Jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. All right. Were going to move on to politics now. Just five days until the nevada caucuses and a new sign how close the battle is there. Hillary clinton is staying in nevada today where she has three events scheduled. She was supposed to attend an event in florida but her husband the former president will take her place there instead. At events yesterday, she attacked rival Bernie Sanders as a one issue candidate who is proposing nothing more than break up the big banks. For his part, sanders was campaigning in nevada yesterday, as well. Although theres no video they attended the same africanamerican Church Service in las vegas. Speak, sanders speaking first. The race in nevada is considered a
Ment but he made friends across the political and judicial spectrum most famously with liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We agree on a whole lot of stuff. Ruth is really bad only on the knee jerk stuff. Reporter scalias death leaves the court shorthanded and sharply divided 44 on huge issues like affirmative action and president obamas Climate Change policies the stakes could not be higher especially since one of those four conservatives Justice Anthony kennedy swings to the liberal side unpredictably. Terry moran, abc news, mexico city. Thank you so much, terry. The political battle over the next Supreme Court justice began long after his death. Mitch mcconnell said the senate should not vote on the nomination till after the president ial election but president beem made it clear he and thats become an issue on the campaign trail. This next election needs to be a referendum on the court. We should not allow a lame duck president to capture the Supreme Court in the waning months of his
After midnight, very little in the which of accumulating snow. One to two inches of snow in the area shaded in blue. Downtown boston coating to an inch and then we have rain on the way for toll. We will talk more about that coming up. Anchor be sure to stay with 7 news for complete coverage of the bitter blast and then that warmup thats under way for any updates any time just download the 7 news mobile app or check online at whdh. Com. Anchor we are following breaking news out of dedham of Fire Fighters battling on a two story home on bridge street. The scene still very active. Crews on the roof trying to get that fire under control no. One is hurt of the Officials Say a wood stove is most likely blame here. Well keep you updated andrews work to put out blames still burning inside the walls of the building several homes going up in flame across the state. This raging fire is just one of three that broke out in that city alone overnight. In weymouth crews had to battle three hours fires