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
Streeter. Chris kattan has been noted for his career on saturday night live and several other comedy movies. And now the 45earold is changing his comedic style to stand up. Something that kattan is relatively new to. Its always intimidated me because you know, ive seen people like richard pryor, eddie murphy, chris rock, and sam kinison and these guys and im like god those guys are immortal. And now im in a really good place where everthing seems to work to awesome, says kattan. Kattan says the art of comedy has many Different Levels and heelieves that he was born to make ople laugh. Because of the creative process, ats what its for and d ats what its out. Its about engaging and using your gift. I fyou have a lot of people out laugh, you know . , says kattan. Lukas what his secret show preparations are and he jokingly has a unique bathing method and he eats a lot of toast. Lukas stinin the entertainment world. It looks like deadpool is breaking the fourth wall and the box office. And s
Pushing guys get it going. Get it going. Kolton kersten is a first year assistant wrestling coach at northwestern college. Nat hit a piece of advice here. Nat. Tips on techinique there. Nat. Thats koltons life now. But what about his life. Then . Kolton kersten was an all american for iowa central back in 2012. He then transfered to Midland University in nebraska. Rankin g as high as secondnduring the 2012123 season. I felt like i was going to be e unstoppable really, and i was training that way too. And there was nothing that was going to stop me from being the National Champ that year. And then things just came to a halt. On june 6th, 2013. Kolton developed a deadly infection. Once bacterial meningitis gets in your system it kills you within 24 hours. And just like that, he was off to the hospital. Fighting for his life. Everybody was freaking out, they brought the priest in, and they gave me my last rites. They said there is nothing we can do for him anymore. I was in so much pain.