[ applause ] across the country and the world watched this moment tonight at the white house. Right during prime time President Donald Trump announced his pick for the next Supreme Court justice. And that is neil gorsuch. The president says gorsuch has a brilliant mind license use it to defend our nations constitution. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. If the Senate Confirms him, gorsuch will fill the seat left vacant after the death of Antonin Scalia nearly a year ago. Heres what we know about neil gorsuch. 49yearold currently serves as a federal appeals judge in denver youngest nominee and more than 20 years. The colorado native went to Harvard Law School and clerked for Supreme Court justices byron white and anthony kennedy. Politically speaking he is conservative which is expected to ignite a fight from Senate Democrats but tonight he vowed to up hold the constitution regardless of party lines. Standing here in a house of history and acutely aware of my own imperfections
Georgiaae and tonight it is far from over. Of people while reiterating the commitment. We will have President Trump life in just minutes on fox news night. But first an update on the storm in its path this has changed so quickly and moving so fast reporter it really did. You dont want to see a strengthening storm making landfall that makes it mores dangerous. And although not that well organized maybe towards landfall 2 miles short of a category five and this will go down in the records books the water is incredibly warm that is the strength that you would see in september or mid october so take a look at that. The fourth strongest storm s ever to make landfall with windspeed and that is one indication how strong the stormst is. The third strongest we have ever seen. It came on shore so strong so we still haveve hurricane conditions all the way Central Georgia just to the south of macon very quickly off to the northeast with a quick motion is one of the good pieces of news it wont rain
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