For about 30 get a note from a doctor saying you need an animal to be able to fly without freaking out. And, as a result, the animal population on planes has skyrocketed. There are now more animals than people on planes. The National Service animal registry, which is a company that sells those officiallooking vests for pets, in 2011 they had 2400 service and comfort animals in their registry, now there are 200,000. There are 200,000 support animals registered. 200,001 if you count mike pence. People are really abusing this. Theyre bringing monkeys and ducks on the plane. Now some states are starting to crackdown. For instance in florida you can only wear three boa constrictors through the airport. Most of the animals people bring are bogus. Theyre not service animals. Shady doctors sell the notes so people can claim they have a medical need for the pet, but one lawmaker in florida is sponsoring a bill to help put a stop to this. He went online and registered the stuffed baboon in his o
Animals like that. But now you can go online. For about 30 get a note from a doctor saying you need an animal to be able to fly without freaking out. And, as a result, the animal population on planes has skyrocketed. There are now more animals than people on planes. The National Service animal registry, which is a company that sells those officiallooking vests for pets, in 2011 they had 2400 service and comfort animals in their registry, now there are 200,000. There are 200,000 support animals registered. 200,001 if you count mike pence. Theyre bringing monkeys and ducks on the plane. Now some states are starting to crackdown. For instance in florida you can only wear three boa constrictors through the airport. Most of the animals people bring are bogus. Shady doctors sell the notes so people can claim they have a medical need for the pet, but one lawmaker in florida is sponsoring a bill to help put a stop to this. He went online and registered the stuffed baboon in his office as a sup
A mild winter. It was very warm. Now it feels like every day were getting hit with another blizzard. Reporter this time its not a blizzard but conditions havent made getting around easy. Fallen lines and icy roads created dangerous driving. Put the wire back up if we can. If not, we backfeed it to pick up the outages. They do a permanent repair. Theyre trying to repair outages as they come in snead of waiting for the snow to stop. This lineman tells us the wind isnt as big of an issue as the ice. Weighs the wires down, trees come down. Reporter its a tough job during big storms. Crews can work 16 on, eight off. Homeowners can help by pruning trees throughout the year. When the trees come down, it makes everything more complicated because it can take the wire, poles down. Its more work. Reporter people may not like the snow, but at the end of the day, its winter in the the snow here, im from connecticut, this doesnt bother us at all. You cant do nothing. Cant wait for spring. Reporter 4
We begin with President Donald Trump who is now blaming senator dick durbin for blowing a possible immigration deal, raising the risk of a Government Shutdown. Yesterday afternoon, the president wrote in another disparaging tweet, senator dicky durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the daca meeting. Senator durbin stands by his claims about the president s vulgar and many say racist remarkers during closed door immigration talks last thursday. Thats in contrast to the shifting stories from tom cotton and david purdue. Friday, they claimed they didnt recall what was said inside that meeting with the president , but by saturday, they outright denied that the president actually made those remarks. Republican senator Lindsay Graham is standing by his story telling the post and courier, quote, my memory has not evolved. I said what was said and i know what i said. Graham says he responded to the president s remarks by telling him america is an idea, not a race. Here is a senator ye