temper s boiled over at a house hearing on gun violence. matt gates tried to get the parents of a murdered parkland high school student two of them removed from the room. lauren fox explains. reporter: a congressional hearing on gun violence boiling over after republican congressman matt gates suggested that illegal immigration poses a greater threat to the public than guns. i hope we do not forget the pain and anguish and sense of loss felt by those all over the country who have been the victims of violence at the hands of illegal aliens. hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have and that s what we are fighting for. [ shouting ]
essentially been missing in action when it comes to being a co-equal branch of government. but that ended with the midterms. he s just a political hack. no other politician has to go through that. it s called presidential harassment. my response is it s not presidential harassment. it s congressional harassment. tempers boiled over at a house hearing on gun violence. republican congressman matt gates tried to get the parents of a murdered parkland high school student, two of them, removed. hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have, and that s what we re fighting for. what i said is remember my son, remember us. then he pointed at me, like that. you don t point at me like that. my goodness. we have breaking news. the justice department has
than you normally wood. reporter: underscoring that it has been snowing for hours here in winchester, virginia, and some of the parking lots have been shoveled and scraped a little bit but in all hikely hood, everybody likelihood everybody will be doing that after some time this evening. joe johns, thank you. travel nightmare, airports feeling the domino effect from storm related flight disruptions. already 1,000 flights canceled. 650 of them were united flights, u.s. airways 350 flights, 20 flights from american. is it chaos or are they sort of prepared for this? reporter: it s actually not chaos, it s pretty much a ghost town as you mentioned a lot of flights canceled here at dulles. i want to give you a sense of other disruptions in the region. we re hearing about cancellations on the hill. one senate hearing on homeland
security management canceled due to the storm, a house hearing on gun violence canceled, we learned about that one yesterday, the hearing is for today and jeb bush, the former florida governor, he was supposed to attend a meeting at the kato institute on immigration reform, that s been canceled. his flight can t get out of new york. back here at dulles you mentioned the flight cancellations. one person is coming from abroad, didn t even know about the storm, flew right into it and now he s essentially sleeping on the inside of the airport. take a listen. it s been changed to tomorrow. reporter: changed until tomorrow? um-hum. reporter: what are you about to do? go sleep over there, waste my time until i can get on my flight. reporter: why sleep in the airport, why not go back to wherever you might have come from? i came from kenya. there s no way and they re out of hotel reservations so i ll just sleep here. reporter: came from kenya,
so it s somewhat a qualified confession there. what did happen? well, this was back in january when the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet was outside his apartment building. someone approached him, called his name, he turned. that someone threw a jar of sulfuric acid in his face. the police here now say they have also caught the person who threw the acid and a third person who acted as the driver that night. as for the motive, well, it s always centered on the possibility here of rivalries and jealousies within the bolshoi ballet. police have confirmed they believe it was because of hostile relations between these two men at work but no further details just yet. phil black in moscow, our thanks to you. a significant new development in the trayvon martin alleged murder case. shooter george zimmerman s defense team deciding not to seek immunity under florida s stand your ground law. zimmerman s lawyers cancelling a hearing scheduled for next month that could have freed their cl