Safety by rope and glad to be back on solid ground today, monday, february 15th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its president s day, monday morning. Carson dayly is in for matt. We have a lot to talk about. We do. So much has changed with the death of Justice Scalia. The flag outside the Supreme Court at halfstaff this morning after this weekends sudden and unexpected death of justice sant Antonin Scalia. Replacing him, of course, will tilt the balance of the Supreme Court. That has ignited a new Election Year battle, and an epic one. We have two reports for you this morning. Well also talk about all of president ial hopeful jeb bush live in a moment. Lets begin with pete williams, who is at the court this morning. Good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. Its been more than 50 years since the Supreme Court was in this position, facing the busiest
You can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan. The phone lines are open. You can start dialing in now. People are contemplating trying to stop donald trump and how they do that if he continues to rack up victories. We want to turn to all of you and ask if he is not the nominee or pure candidate, supporting ted cruz or marco rubio is not the nominee, how do you plan to vote . If Hillary Clinton is the nominee, how do you plan to vote if she is not your candidate . The same for Bernie Sanders. We want to know what you think. Let me show you were the delicate stands right now, because it is all about the math. If you go to our website cspan. Org, you can find this constantly being updated. Take a look for democrats, Hillary Clinton has 1221 delegates after las yesterdays primary. Bernie sanders has 571. 451 are superdelegates for clinton. 25 are superdelegates for Bernie Sanders. Where it stands right now. That means Hillary Clinton is 11 62 delegates short of the nomination,
Support of the government. And put in gaol for not giving marriage licences to same sex couples. For the first time. Residents are allowed back home. Plus, a deeper look at the strained relationship between americas labour union and politicians. We begin with what the urn is calling a defining moment for the european union. Dozens of refugees welcomed into the country. The first group is in vienna overnight, most of them beginning the journey, on friday. They are greeted by groups welcoming the convoys. They receive food, water and medical supplies. Thousands make it to their final destination in germany. Crowds cheered as the refugees arrived. They expect 7,000 by the end of the day. At years end they are anticipating 800,000 Asylum Seekers in the country. German chancellor Angela Merkel says her country will not limit the number of refugees it takes in, and calls for other e. U. Members to be the same. Rob reynolds is in munich with the latest. Weary and happy, refugees arrive at the
Meteorologist terry swails swailswith your weatherfirst forecast. Terry thanks. The storms this afternoon were quick to move in and quick to move out. Out. In thahashort time, there was damage caused by the strong winds. Winds. Ian crim sent us this picture from fairfax. He tells fox 28 news strong winds ripped the roof off their machine shed. At the marion library, a meeting had to be put on hold and those in attendance had to seek shelter. A short time later the all clear was sounded and the meeting was able to continue one of the hardest hit areas today was in des moines. Moines. Thats where a tornado touched down at the international airport. Widespread damage was reported in neighborhoods around the metro area. Significant damage was also reported in nearby knoxville, where witnesses say a tornado ripped part of the roof off a walmart. Fortunately, no serious injuries have been reported. There was a blackout today in iowa city. But it had nothing to do with the weather. Weather. T
Anny hong everyone fell on the cold temperatures in fact you can see were looking at mid20s the santa rosa 26 degrees and for antioch a little more 29 and pleasanton 36 and oakland 35 and san jose to our freeze warning remains in effect until 9 00 this morning for the entire bay area highlighted in pink the coldest temperatures will fall to the mid20s rusting bad around the santa rosa area of temperatures slow to warm up because were so cold out there but it oclock will be in the freeze morning of fog was concerning this audit we did see some fall out there yesterday that is not happening visibility looks great in the north bank like traffic nothing to slow down the ride this morning to in a live look at the bay bridge this morning the extra careful and to call the police in case you do see the driver who may be driving erratically. Will tran is gone overpassed seven hours because 26 team new rates reporter the prices here in walnut creek across the system are going up 3. 4 is how much