How officials may try to stop the shaking. Welcome to the overnight news. Im jeff glor. Flags at half staff in honor of Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice ho died suddenly saturday vacationing with friend at a ranch in texas. He was 79 years old. Justice scalias body taken to a funeral home overnight and flown back to his family in virginia. His death leaves the court split, four conservatives, four liberals which will impact legal decision and is impacting the president ial election. The question when and how will his seat be filled. We begin with chief legal correspondent, jan crawford. Reporer he was a giant in the law. Known for sharp intellect and sharp tongue, Justice Scalias views on the constitution influenced a generation. Nominated by president reagan, scalia joined the court with judges should follow the original understanding of the constitution. One of his most significant opinions was the landmark ruling that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear
M Justin Warmoth with meteorologist Danny Treanor. Thanks for waking up with us this saturday morning. It is the big question. The valentine s day forecast. Take a stroll with your babe or honey and just get outdoors it s going to warm up quickly. But we re going to warm things up and tonight is nice, too, in case you want to take a nice romantic walk. On the coast there is always a chance winds will shift out of the north for most of the morning and then this afternoon vist in the easterly direction and when they do that we ll have the chance for see showers. A small chance but be aware of it. Temperatures right now are ranging from about 55 beach but look at gainesville and ocala and it is really chilly out there by florida standards so if you go outside but tonight these temperatures are probably going to be in the 60s and 50s so a big warm up. Right now looking at a lot of dry air trying to push down into the area. That s okay but as we push into tomorrow moisture is going to start
When it went right into the path of a storm. Royal caribbean says the experience was extreme when and conditions. The captain ask all guests to stay in their room. The ship was supposed to be there any minute. What is the latest . It arrives b that will depend on who you talk to. Royal caribbean said the anthem of the seas was supposed to dock here at Port Canaveral around this time but we just received confirmation from Port Canaveral that the anthem missed will arrive tomorrow morning at 7 00. Ive been talking with the guests on board and they say the captain hasnt even told them when they are supposed to arrive. They are posting crazy video of what happening during the storm. Lets show you the video. Waves one person spotted they went through the storm with Hurricane Force winds. Gust across the ship register at 75 b 100 miles per hour. Royal caribbean tells us the ship sustained damage in the outside areas like the pool where chairs and tables blue across the deck. There is damage
Good morning, carolina, welcome on tuesday february 16. 59 degrees. John thanks for tuning in. Get ready for another possible rough khraout. Not ice but rain. Don and amber have weather and traffic. Barbara first we have closings and delays. Durham, franklin, granville, halifax, northampton, orange, person, Roanoke Rapids, vance county and Warren County schools on a twohour delay. John wake county schools are norm but schools in mecklinburg are closed. You can check the closings and delays on abc11. Com. Barbara it is time for weather and traffic with meteorologist Don Schwenneker. Think this is causing the Power Outages . Don i do. We are seeing wind gusts up to 40. Over 8,000 without power and that is climbing. A live look at first alert doppler xp and on the most powerful radar in the carolinas weve got this heavy line of showers. Thunderstorms with this. We have had one or two rumbles of thunder. The big story is wind. We are seeing gusts over 40 miles an hour. We have seen them re
Suspicious person. We will continue to keep our eye on this and bring you more details as they come in. We are following other breaking news, there is a verdict in the Melissa Huggins jones murder trial. She was killed inside of her home, the main suspect facing a possible death sentence. We will listen and when the verdict is red. Anna smith has said that his accomplice, the guy who has pleaded guilty actually killed this mother. We will have to see if the jury believes that or he never actually took the stand in his own defense. We will have to see what the jury will believe. Joel dramatic moments in closing arguments today before you can see Melissa Huggins jones mother there. Her daughters killer, the man who sits there at the back of your screen waiting for the jury to come back into this Justice Center court room. Anna when this first happened this rattled you have indicated you have reached a unanimous verdict. Let me ask you to stand. Is it correct that the jury has reached a u