This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Preparations are underway today for the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Anton sale i cant. His body is now in virginia, the unexpected passing sparked a political battle. The president intends to nominate a successor. Many republicans say the next president should be making that nomination. Al jazeera has the story. I plan to fulfill my Constitutional Responsibilities to nominate adjusts in due time. A simple announcement that has ignite a firestorm of controversy, even before the Supreme Court officially confirmed that Justice Scalia died, republican president ial candidate ted cruz put out a statement saying president obama should not name a replacement for Justice Scalia. Saturday night, it was the only issue the candidates agree on. I think its up to Mitch Mcconnell and everybody else to stop it, its called delay, delay, delay. Theres been a precedent that in the last year especially the last 11 months you do not
Well. No major problems there. The commute continues to look good. If you are driving on the freeway, traffic is moving along okay at the bay bridge toll plaza. 0 traffic does look good into San Francisco. And there are no major problems on the lower deck of the bay bridge. As we look at the commute here in south bay, traffic continues to also look good. Northbound 880, we mentioned that there was a crash reported by chp. Its northbound 880. There is a Paramedic Team enroute. Its light now. Not really any slow traffic to speak of because its so light. But we will keep an eye on that for you. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you. U. S. Officials are ready to blame north korea for the cyber attack at Sony Pictures that led to the cancellation of the film the interview. An announcement could come as soon as today. We are live from the theater where we are talking to people and getting reaction this morning. What are people saying . Reporter well, so far, we havent seen anybody just yet. It
Rain maybe at times, one more front and rain friday. And we have slick roads this morning. And patchy fog. Undoubtly showing up. And the next system is a ways away. But its racing ahead. And these system have been flying in. We get a break, about six hours or so. And reports of light drizzle up in lake county. And also right over San Francisco, the golden gate bridge, bay bridge and over and berkeley. So we still have some. And oakland as well. And out of the mountains, looks like drizzle. So not done yet. 40s and 50s on the temperatures. And some of the temperatures in the higher elevations, mid40s. And moisture in the air. And temperature and dew point are coming together. Thats why were all close. And air is saturated. And light rain later on this afternoon and evening. Partly cloudy and sunny. And drizzle showers in the morning but moments of sun as we like to say. And we have drizzle out there. A little bit of sun, maybe bring the umbrella just in case i would. But not all day. Th
How needy families in the south bay are getting a helping hand. Its part of an annual holiday project. Alex will tell you about that live. And the storm cleanup goes on of a recordbreaking rain. How the Stormy Weather is bringing communities together. Mornings on 2 begins right now. Good morning. Were live in walnut creek this morning covering the story everyone is talking about. Sony pictures canceling the release of the movie the interview due to threats of Violent Attacks and theaters. Coming up, Tara Moriarty will tell us what people are saying about sonys decision. A lot of interesting feedback on this. Good morning. Well come to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk more about your weather and traffic. Steve paulson has your forecast for this thursday morning. We did not text each other and say you are wearing gray. Were all wearing gray today. A little bit of drizzle. There are a few breaks in the clouds. We have another system tha
Head of a Police Officer. Ton night that paramedics job is on the line. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Chris oconnell first broke that story last night. Hes live at Fire Department head quarter that is night. Chris, a whole lot of fallout. Reporter well, lucy, that Fire Department paramedic was summoned here to fire headquarters after our report last night. He came here today to face disciplinary action over that controversial post. His own bosses called disgusting and reprehensible. Its the image thats caused a fire storm at the Fire Department. Two africanamerica african menn at White Police Officers with a caption that says a real enemy. I thought it was disgusting. Fire commissioner derek sawyer reacting to the picture posted on the Instagram Account of paramedic marcel salters, a threeyear department veteran who work at medic 23 in southwest philadelphia. In that same post he writes i never did or will like Police Despite the fact this station shares the same building