With the solid 63 conservative majority with Justice Amy Coney barrett on the bench beginning to hear all arguments in a make or break challenge right now. Those are beginning this hour. Were going to take you to the court live with president elect bide whon has a front row seat for aca set to fire back this afternoon warning of the risk of overturning the landmark law. And on team biden considering legal action on a slow walking of the transition from the transition. One week after the election trump refusing to concede. The rest of the team is reporting on concerns from trump world about what they see as a spiral. And what critics see as a potentially dangerous move by the Justice Department today, one top official in charge of investigating voter fraud quitting in protest after the attorney general told prosecutors they can pursue substantial allegations of voting irregularities if they find them. Just in, new reporting on potential investigations being launched in a couple Battle G
Government and who knows what. And yet very little has happened. So were operating in a kind of a curve with exposes. Years ago there were far fewer exposes, and more happened. We had people in congress who with took these seriously, we had some judges who took some of them seriously. We had people in the white house who signed off on legislation under Lyndon Johnson and new york stock nixon. Nixon was the last republican to be afraid of liberals. He signed bills he loathed, he signed the Environmental Protection agency bill, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration bill, signed the safety bill, and he wanted more. He actually was the last to propose to congress a minimum incomes plan to reduce poverty and a drug policy plan that focused on rehabilitation, not incarceration. They didnt pass. He also supported Voting Rights for people here and in the District Of Columbia, americas foremost colony. This is richard nixon. So when we look back at richard nixon, it was from nostalg
But we begin this morning with todays oip,eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Its going to be crazy. Im going to the liquor store. The northeast braces for a storm. Its slammed the northwest but its about to get a lot worse. The product of two converging weather systems, coming together producing as much as 3 inches of snow an hour. Packing blizzardspeed winds. Airlines have already canceled thousands of flights. You have a trained former officer hunting other officers. Christopher dorner a cop killer with a grudge. Word that the suspect may have been spotted. His burned out pickup truck has been found in big bare. Police are searching door to door. This has gone far enough you know. Nobody else needs to die. Boeings dreamliner returns to the skies but only for tift runs. A criminal investigation is under way to find out whos responsible for hacking the emails of the bush family. All that marc staal came over and apologized. I literally kept my eye on the puck there, ill tell you that
Language of humanity, which is the language of music. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. Pelley good evening. The mostwanted man in california, fired los angeles cop Christopher Dorner, appears to be surrounded tonight. Hes holed up in a house in San Bernardino county, east of l. A. Dorner was discovered by fish and game officers a little after noon local time today. There have been gun battles and two officers have been wounded. Their condition is unknown. This is the sound of one of those gun battles recorded by our correspondent, carter evans. gunshots reporter i hear some screaming. You heard all that gun fire. I see a team of sheriffs deputies in fullon fatigues with weapons drawn running towards us right now. We are down on the ground behind the fields of our car right now with the doors open. Im talking to you on speakerphone. We are right, right in the center of the action here. We are right where this i
The miniaturized Nuclear Device. Triggered a mild earthquake and even prompted the u. N. Security council to call an emergency meeting for later this morning. President obama has joined International Condemnation calling it a highly provacative act. The manhunt continues for a cop. Video shows dorner two days before the killing spree buying scuba gear. Police searched a hotel in mexico last night. No evidence was dorner was found. Tonight president obama delivers his first state of the Union Address of his second term. Im very, very concerned about what i see happening, charlie. You think that this president is weakening america . I do. Speculation this morning over who will lead the Catholic Church now that Pope Benedict xvi has announced his historic resignation. A pretty dramatic change. It means hell go from wearing a robe all day to wearing a robe all day. Top gear has shown a video of a helicopter racing a cobra with a disastrous ending. The end of the mardi gras season. I like i