Family. The 79yearold Supreme Court justice passed away suddenly over the weekend while vacationing at this resort ranch. A county judge ruled scalia died of Natural Causes after consulting with his physician and sheriffs investigators. On sunday flags across the country and in the Nations Capital flew at halfstaff in honor of the longtime justice. Known for his strict conservative views scalia was , both reviled and beloved by his colleagues. Here on capitol hill, the debate is underway over who president obama should nominate as scalias successor. The president has the right and responsibility to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice Court justice. We cannot afford to have scalia replaced by someone like the nominees hes put there in the past. Don the president says he will nominate a successor in due time. Should be filled once a new don champion, cbs news, washington. Shaina with 4 conservatives and 4 liberals remaining the nominee would ultimately tip the balance of the court. Fune
Temperatures are not bad for this time of year. On the day planner, today, a cloudy day. We could see showers to the north this morning. By noon, a little bit cooler. We are still above average for the daytime highs. We will cooler weather on the way. This is a special state. In South Carolina, donald trump earned his second big win. It is tough and it is nasty and it is mean. It is beautiful. When you win. A battle between donald trump at marco rubio. We will win the nomination. South carolina has given us another remarkable results. Jeb bush bowed out of the rate of the race. The people have spoken and i respect their decision. So tonight, i am suspending their campaign. Hanging on for now, ben carson. And john kasich, he campaigned. For all of the people watching, fasten your seatbelts. In nevada, look was a lady named Hillary Clinton. Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other. The wind is that our backs and we have the momentum. Republicans are caucusing in democrats
Winter, with above average snowfall keeping those roads slick. As kccis Cynthia Fodor shows us, thats keeping body shops so busy, theyre almost working nonstop. Cynthia this entire garage is full of wrecked cars are lined up, waiting to be worked on. With so many accidents this winter, the auto body business is booming. Seems like coming in every 3648 hours periods. A lot of front end, rear end hits. All hands on deck. That is our goto word. Cynthia at scottys auto body, its one of the busiest times ever. Four snowfalls in two weeks means a steady stream of bended fenders, broken bumpers, and dented doors. Kurtis mayfield blames the timing of the blizzards. Kurtis it is literally happening around 1 00 or 2 00 in the afternoon, and people are trapped, having to get out in cynthia and weve had smaller amounts of snow more often. So far, this month . 7. 9 inches, only 12 days in, which is the average february snowfall for the entire month. This winter, were already nearly 3 inches above a
Im tim seaman jenna and im Jenna Rehnstrom the battle between concerned mornignside residents and the city officials continues to flare as a proposed cell tower is set to be built in the residential neighborhood. Tim abc9s jess plue spoke to a some of those residents to find out what they have to say after the city board of adjustment ruled to move ahead in the process, at tuesdays Public Meeting at city hall, despite of the outcry from the community. Jess residents are still fired up for sure and want their position on the building of the cell tower. To be known. Even though the cell tower is set to move into its final stages before construction starts, citizen say theyre not going down without a fight. I went around with petitions from the neighbors. They dont want it, but it didnt do a dang bit of good, says pat ramirez, a concerned morningside resident. Residents attended the City Council Meeting on tuesday to present their argument in opposition to the building of the new verison
Digits. Clouds will slowly thin. We will break free to some sunshine later in the day with a degrees. Stacey lets take a live look at Road Conditions from across that state from the iowa dot. This is from 511ia. Org. The areas you see in blue are partially snow covered roads. Pinknkre completely covered. Recommended. Interstate 35 from ames to clear lake is closed because of the Winter Weather and the number of accidents along that stretch of road. Semitrucks jackknifed in the southbound lanes and numerous vehicles lined the ditches kccis Laura Terrell has checked out the driving conditions north of des moines. Laura we were just up north, where there were major blizzard conditions at this time, at this time. Problems were off 35 toward highway 20 heading toward fort dodge. Our news truck actually got stuck at mile marker 151. State troopers told us that probably 40 or 50 cars were backed up and stuck for probably close to two hours. If you are thinking about going in that area, you ca