Superstorm sandy has pounded huge portions of the northeast and midatlantic at this hour, we know at least 16 people have died. More than 7 Million People have been plunged into the dark and local officials have been stunned by the damage and devastation. Good tuesday morning. Im Chris Jansing reporting live from new york and parts of new york city are underwater this morning. The images from Lower Manhattan shows cars half submerged. Tunnels, subways and the financial district flooded. All of Lower Manhattan is in the dark. Some of those outages caused by a con Ed Substation that exploded overnight. More than 1. 5 million have lost power across new york city, long island and westchester. Now we also want to show you these pictures from breezy point, queens, at least 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. Further east at least seven homes on fire island have fallen into the ocean. Atlantic city, new jersey, took the full force of sandy when it came ashore around 8 00 last night. People
Apparent Natural Causes at a resort in west texas he reportedly died in his sleep on the trip. Scalia was the longestserving justice on the current United States Supreme Court. Nominated by president Ronald Reagan in 1986 sot Antonin Scalia 1986 he was confirmed unanimously by the senate and became the first Italian American member of the court. Scalia quickly became an anchor of judicial conserertism fiercely at odds with what conservatives call judicial activism. Audio sot voice of terry moran abc news scalia nicknamed nino was widely known for his high intellect, his elegant writing, and his caustic wit. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement calling his late colleague an extraordinary individual and jurist, colleagues. Antonin scalia leaves behind a wife and nine children. He was 79. Even though some gop leaders, like senator mitch even though some gop leaders, like senator mitch mconnell, say the next president should be the one to name skulias successor. Sourc es say presi
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
The cold and storms are making this tri back home tough if many. The latest on that battle for the Supreme Court. Youre looking live right now at the Supreme Court buildining in washinington, d. C. The flag there at halfstaff to honor Justice Antonin Scalia. Scsc, the lonongestst serving member of the cocot. His fight over his replacement already so fierce. Team coverage this morning. We begin with new details about Justice Scalias final hours at that texas ranch. Jim avila has the latest. Good morning, jim. Rorter good morning, george. This luxury hunting ranch is now virtually empty. A hunting tripnterrupted by the guest of honor. This morning, Justice Antonin Scalias body is heading to r rest at the Supreme Court after being flown to Dulles International airport overnight from texas. Learns detls about his last hours from the man who discovered his body behind the drawn cur tans of this 500 a night room at a luxury Hunting Lodge in west texa he was totally peaceful, a man who went t
Officer early saturday morning. Responding to a drug tip. Police were called to an urbandale hotel around oclock in the morning. Upon arrival. Three suspects began fighting with them. During the scuffle. A man shot at the officers and an officer returned fire. Killing that man. The investigation includes multiple agencies. Including dci and polk county. Authorities say video will be important to the case sgsg gary lang, Urbandale Police Department Video evidence is a a y to any crimimand investigatatn and r officers have been wearing body cameras for quite some time. The name of the officer and the suspects are not being released at this time. Two female suspects fled from the scene the fight and were arrested about half a mile from the hotel. Lukas things were rockin at the hard rock last night. Music playing the e cond annual pete godod memorial alss benefit concert drew a packed house last night with four bands help raise money and awareness for als. One number 7 band was help. Were