Thats in the skinny on this tuesday, december 22nd. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning on this tuesday. Im reena ninan. Personal, not political. Im kendis gibson. Good timing to have a new baby in 2016. Right in the middle of it all. In an election year. Well get to the details of that. Theres never a good time to plan to have a child. Especially a second child. You dont realize with the first. So much changes. For me personally. I should not generalize for women and parents everywhere but it was like having a thousand children having my second one. Ill take your word for it. Hey, its a great tax writeoff though. There you go. Thats an upside. Lets talk about the race for the white house because it is still heating up. About 40 days till the first war is going on war, war of words bean donald trump and Hillary Clinton. If its a boy it probably wont be called donald. Last night trump took a new swing at clinton using what some might say as a vulgar reference a
Affluenza defense, his lawyers essentially arguing he was too spoiled to know the consequences of his actions, couch got onlyy probation. Nowent grad, he is not a major drug lord or a kingpin. But think about it. Four dead bodies and this guy walked with straight probation. I have never in my Law Enforcement career and thats 35 years now, seen a case that sparked such route outrange. Reporter calling an the sentence a miscarriage of justice, Authorities Say couch turns 19 in january and they had begun the process of moving this case to adult court even before he vanished. Authorities say they cannot talk about what exactly theyre doing or how its being done but theyre urging ethan to surrender adding they willind him and his mother one way or another. Reena and kendis. Thank you so much. Now some sports starting with new york giants receiver odell nfnf for one gamam following his nasty game long battle with Carolina Panthers defensive back josh norman on sunday. He drew threeee persona
And plowed through a crowd of pedestrians. 32yearold Jessica Valenzuela died and dozens of others were injured. ken salter canada it makes one a little more weary of their surroundings and watchful. Shane brayton california everyone was kinda freaking out about it no matter where you went. karen castro in the aftermath of the crash, Sheriff Joe Lombardo is addressing safety concerns. Sheriff Joe Lombardo metro pd its an ongoing discussion with the county and public works in order to create a safe environment on las vegas boulevard and our ability to put barricades, barriers, and Everything Else associated with pedestrian traffic. Karen Castro Clark county commissioner Steve Sisolak says projects are in the works including adding more fencing along las vegas boulevard and pedestrian bridges. Steve Sisolak clark county commissioner right now its in the discussion stage, there are certain areas that you can go out right now and you can see that bridges are necessary. karen castro sisolak
Socalled affluenza drunk driving teen is now a major case for the u. S. Marshals. For ethan couch who escaped jail time by pleading he was too spoiled to understand his crime. Abcs Elizabeth Hur has the latest. Reporter this video posted on twitter showing ethan couch at a boos Party Standing near a beer pong table although not seen drinking according to authorities may have prompt d him to skip his probation fugitive. His mother tonya declared a missing person now officially part of the investigation, pictures of her pickup truck just released with investigators believingsley is with ethan which could land her in jail. If we can find out she helped him at all, i assure you, we will file criminal cases against her. Reporter couch was 16 when he killed four people while driving drunk but using the affluenza defense, his lawyers essentially arguing he was too spoiled to know the consequences of his actions, couch got only nowent grad, he is not a major drug lord or a kingpin. But think a
G step. And two amerin astronauts made quick work of a repair job during an unplanned space walkk outside the space station. Scott kelly and timimothy cope pra it took about a half hour to release the brake handles on a rail car and help guide it back into place. The car needed to be moved so a ship full of supplies could land at the space station tomorrow. Nice work guys. And if you thought star wars has permeated every aspect of civillidation, you may be right especlly given this next story. Heres a Turtle Hospital in North Carolina caringing for 20 new turtles some of which they named after star wars characters. Theres one inside that is darth vader. Another one is yoda. Both of them and the others jt arrived from new england. They were found struggling in the cold waternd sent south to warm up and continued growing the hospitals hope is to send darth vader and yoda and the other turtles back into the i must. You have bter yoda voice than that. Oh, i do. Not going there. Coming up i