But no pause before the clash of politics. There is no way the senate should confirm anyone barack obama tries to appoint in his last year in office to a lifetime appointment. An instant power struggle over a successor to justice scalia. Let me just say, barack obama is president of the United States until january 20, 2017. From california, president obama made clear he will nominate a new justice and expects the senate to consider his choice fairly. These are responsibilities that i take seriously, as should everyone. Theyre bigger than any one party. They are about our democracy. If the president gets to seat his third justice that change would make the court more liberal. Compounding the shock of scalias sudden passing is the timing. A campaign year. We ought to make the 2016 election a referendum on the republican candidate ted cruz. Had been a law clerk for chief justice rehnquist. Now as a senator, he intends to block any obama nominee. Were advising that a lameduck president in
Roberta gonzalez is standing by with an update. Jackie ward in mill valley with the latest. Joe is in san jose where there is major flooding. Reporter this rain is nonstop, continues to fall here in the south bay. Were live at a river that is normally dry. But it is pull and flowing. What a sight. When the rain falls this quickly in a short amount of time, it carries a lot of debris, and this morning it was a big problem. As if bay area traffic wasnt bad enough, now weve got to worry about trash slowing us down. The storm drains were clogged, nooding the a jace flooding the adjacent lanes and snarling traffic. The same thing happened three quarters of a mile up the road at the king road exit. Scraping and scooping the debris away took about two hours. What do you want to tell drivers about littering . Keep trash in your cars. Dont throw it out. Keep california clean. The storm dropped a steady rainfall for several hours after midnight. Heavy downpours of an inch and a half in three hou
Attacked by his bus driver. 61year old robert scarbrough. Suarez admits he was acting up on the bus. Sitting where he wasnt supposed to. The bus driver asked me to move and i didnt want to so i said no. Thats when suarez says scarbrough stopped the bus and approached him. I threw a book at him. Then he came. He pulled me by my ear and i punched him. He told me punch me again. I dare you. And i didnt want to. I told him no. And then he just lost his temper for some reason. Thats when suarez says, scarbrough threw him to the floor. Scarbrough could then be heard unleashing on another student. I was mad. Angry. Scared. Has he been mean to you before . No but hes been mean to. Hes been mean to other students. A school spokeswoman initially told us there have been no complaints about scarbrough. Any disciplinary issues . Any complaints about him before . Uh, no. None that were aware of. Today she admitted she was mistaken. And there had been another parent complaint about a week earlier. Su
Of evidence that gliniewiczs death was a carefully staged suicide. We have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that gliniewicz had been committing. Fox lake Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was under increasing levels of stress from scrutiny into what the investigators found to be criminal activity. Authorities say the officer had been stealing and laundering money from the Police Department that mentored young people hoping to become police officers. As of now. Reports say at least two other people were involved in the criminal activity, even though the investigation is ongoing. The officer was weeks away from retiring before he was killed in early september. Authorities say the 30year veteran of the force was shot twice with his own Service Weapon hundreds of officers, dozens of knine units and a handful of aircraft an Eastern Iowa Police officer is on paid administrative leave after shooting a suspect following a chase. Police say the shootin
There. Or if thats connected to all the violence. We will continue to follow this story throughout the newscast and keep you updated. And right now at 5 00, hang on to your hats. The end to a blustery day. The system that sent winds like these pushing around equipment at the desmoines airport. The weather turned severe to our west. But here in our area weve gotten strong winds and as this moves out some very cold weather will be moving in. Brace yourself. Good evening, im dawn tim into. Im chris oconnell. Theres a cold weekend ahead. Lets get right to chief meteorologist Scott Williams for an idea of what we are facing this weekend. Hi, scott. Hi, chris and dawn. Were looking at winds of change across the area. Area of low pressure now well to the north but High Pressure off to the south. So get that wind tunnel effect. Winds have gusted up to 40 miles an hour today in philadelphia. Its 56 degrees right now. We have winds out of the west northwest at about 10 Miles Per Hour. But still