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
Action news is next. Live for the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Now at 11, a hitandrun suspect answers to a judge. This while a bay area family is burying a tow truck operator. And the case being built against Allison Huffman. We are live on the Howard Frankland bridge. Reporter Wendy Jamison a couple hundred feet away from me. Behind a safe spot. Perspective of how narrow the emergency lane is now that fatal crash has a suspect in custody and police are building the case and trying to piece together where Allison Huffman was before and after the crash. Your honor, the state requests no bond. Allison huffman rolled her eyes as the state requested she be held with no bond. She has two prior duis. Appearing before a Pinellas County judge. Distraught when learning she would not be getting out of jail anytime soon. She is a danger to the public. Reporter family members in court watched the person florida Highway Patrol officer says killed roger perez, a father and
Its tuesday, february 16th. Thanks for starting your morning with good day virginia. Im january keaton. And im Kyle Benjamin. A lot to get to this morning as icy conditions have created Power Outages across southwest and central virginia. Heres a live look at the current aep outage map in roanoke city and county combined, youre looking at around 14thousand people without power. Two other areas to to take note about with high numbers Franklin County with 8 thousand and henry county with 26hundred youll also want to take some praticial steps if your power does happen to go out. Stay sparking equipment. Unplug major appliances to protect them when power comes back on. Leave a light turned restored. This is a live look along interstate 81 in botetourt county. A tractor trailer accident had closed a ramp near mile marker 162 that has since been cleared. Virginias roads have turned slick and deadly. So far, there have been three reported fatal crashes across the commonwealth. If you roads, s
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