Lukas good morning and us this midday. The battle to replace Supreme Court Justice Anton scalia is shaping up to be a monumental fight both in washington and on the campaign trail abcs jon karl is at the white story. The partisan battle over replacing Justice Antonin scalia came fast and furious. After the supreme scalias death Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell declared . This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. Senator Marco Rubio Senate shouldnt even start the who president obama nominates last year, within the the president s term, we should not be appointing Supreme Court justices. Now, the president can go whoever he wants, move forward on it election. But president obama, who called scalia a brilliant legal mind made clear he would move forward. Sot obama i plan to lfill my Constitutional Responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. But republicans in congress are vowing to run out the clock until that has democrats up in arms. Sot Chuck Schumer thi
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Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. We saw southern counties but now the anticipation of spring is taking over. Cloudy skies remain for the rest of the day, but the light snow has left with the exception of a couple flurries near the mississippi through early afternoon. Well have highs in the e wer to middle 30s. Mostly cloudy weather continues through tomorrow with highs in the lower 30s again. Well climb into the 40s on thursday, friday and saturday. We should see more s
Although fire investigators are not sure if medical equipment inside had anything to do with the cause of the fire. When we find medical grade oxygen whether that t contributed to the fire or accelarted the fire we wouldnt no y. But they obviously had health problems. Investigators have not said yet, where the fire started inside the mobile home. They have said there is no evidence yet of a crime in the cause of this deadly fire. Dave franzman live in cedar rapids, kcrg tv9 news. Firefighters are investigating a house fire in North English. They say it started around 830 last night at a house in 400 block of west clark street. Smoke. We have no further information from the iowa county sheriffs office. Tv9 wants to remind you that whenever you see news happening, call newsline 9 at 319365 9999. You can also send pictures and videos to newsroom at kcrg dot com. A bus driver has plead not guilty in a written plea, after being accused of killing an iowa state student in a hit and run. Inve
Welcome back. One of the best things about our show is that we get to celebrate chefs who have helped shape the culinary world as we know it. And leah chase is one of those people. Shes a true pioneer in the africanamerican restaurant world. And since its black history month, its more important than ever that her incredible stories are passed on to the next generation. Watch her in action at her legendary new orleans restaurant. [ cheers and applause ] we made gumbo for them, and we made shrimp for them. Dooky chases restaurant is a local restaurant where we serve the community creole. They call my mom the queen of creole. All right, good taste. Good color. 62 years. Before i came in this kitchen, i worked in the french quarters as a waitress, and thats where i learned to love the industry. I loved waiting tables. If i had good legs, i could wait tables today. I would like that. I met my husband, dooky, and his people had this little shop. And they made sandwiches. And they started in