Federal Appeals Court judge merik garland, for his pick, to replace Antonin Scalia. Now the president s choice is not without controversy. Correspondent Craig Boswell explains why the nomination is sure to lead to big fight in the senate. President obama introduced his Supreme Court nominee, in the white house rose garden. After completing this exhaustive process, ive made my decision nominating to Supreme Court. Sixtythree year old meiit became chief judge on the us court of appeals in washington dc in 2013. Hes respected liberal born in chicago, he graduated from harvard law school. The president in selecting Merrick Garland has gone with the safest possible pick, he has long record of highly regarded by conservatives, and liberals across the spectrum. If confirmed, the new justice will replace conservative Antonin Scalia who died last month k change the ideological ball of the court for years to come. Hell be facing bitter opposition in congress. After the next president is sworn in
Minorities. I do not believe its morale for the mentally ill to be sleeping under a bridge. I was actually a donald trump supporter coming in, its an unpopular opinion and i and joyed john kasichs opinions. I faces a legal challenge getting on the ballot. A supporter sued saying kasich did not have enough signatures. John kasich will be on the ballot and april 26th. Are you coverage with that . Yes, im buying him a cheesesteak when he comes to philadelphia. We reached out to the other side to see if they would reduce their challenge or withdraw their challenge, since rubio is no longer a candidate. Pennsylvania is an important state for mr. Kasich if he is to have any chance wrestling away the gop nod from either mr. Trump or mr. Cruz at the convention. Live in villanova, john rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. The next republican president ial debate has been canceled. It was set to take place after frontrunner said he was skipping the event saying quote, he had enough debates
Brewing, halloweens around the corner. Good morning, you guys, roadways around the corner. Justin, happy to say they are looking dry this morning. Big difference, as far as yesterday at this time. And it is a lot colder, though, so we had highs in the 70s, certainly not feeling like late october, but today, kind of backward should be for this time of year. Temperatures right now compared to this time yesterday, much colder, ten to 24 degrees colder depending where you are, check it out, waking up at 54 at the airport in philadelphia, 47 allentown, 41 mount pocono, south jersey, some of the cold spots also in the lower 40s, similar numbers, up into some of the northwest suburbs, willow grove, pottstown, doylestown, all in the upper 40s at this hour. Nice and clear, still left over cloud, cutting across Cape May County right now, it will be dry, though, lots of sunshine throughout the entire day today. Now the trends into the start of the weekends, winds little breeze out of the northwes
Christmas eve, Christmas Day, it will not feel like the holidays because we have more record highs in the forecast but check it out 31 at the the airport. This is latest we have seen, below freezing temperatures this season during the fall, winter season, it is record, back in 74. Twentysix in allentown. Twentynine in reading. It is cold, but good news is win is much lighter, and, were dealing with more frost as well. There you go, coldest morning in philadelphia. 41 degrees. Freezing temperature on record this late in the season. And this is what it feels like when you factor in the breeze. It is light, less than 10 miles an hour. It does feel like 18 in allentown. Twentythree in wilmington and philadelphia but not a bad afternoon is shaping up. We have a lot of sunshine. You can see storm scan three is nice and quiet, sunrise, coming up in 17 minutes. It will be a good sunrise. The skies getting light out there, right now. So forecast high, where it should be, 45 degrees for philadel
But a mostly cloudy sky out there. Thats the good news. As far as our storm accumulation accumulations concerned the snowfall amounts highest in south jersey and delaware weather watchers are reporting 2. 5inches in clayton pemberton an inch. Bellmawr half an inch and philadelphia a half an inch of snow but i werent to draw your attention toward the pittsburgh area. This patch of snow and rain its moving eastward. Our computer models are saying, yes, a little bit of this will be making it into the philadelphia area in the form of some freezing drizzle and that means with temperatures falling well below freezing overnight tonight even through 7am tomorrow morning anything that falls obviously will be freezing. So we want to keep you ahead of that. Also, the National Weather service has extended that Winter Weather advisory for a trace of ice across a good part of the region, of course, until tomorrow morning 8am. After that our temperatures will be rising you above freezing that is the