Hearings on the president s nominee. My hope and expectationing is that once there is an actual nominee, once this is no longer an abstraction, that those on the Judiciary Committee recognize that their job is to give this person a hearing. Reporter president obama is expected to make that pitch in person to top republicans. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley both agreed to meet with the president in the coming weeks. All right. Thank you. One of the senators who would be asked to vote on a Supreme Court nominee took a trip to africa last week and got up and close and personal with some of the animals. Senator jeff flake of arizona and some others were squarely in the sights of a charging pack of elephants during a boat ride. A hippo show off some teeth. The purpose of flakes trip was to learn more about wildlife poaching. Trip to africa was a lot smoother than that. Do you think they found t. J. . Usually they run towards people. They ran the
This is world news now. No audio problems as far as we know. No audio problems for adele. She was stunning. I was so glad to see her back on the horse again. She looked stunning, she sounded great. It was a good thing. Well get to that, of course, a little bit later. I was looking for my thunder buddy last night. There was a lot of thunder through new york city and up and down the east coast. The eastern twothirds of the nation facing a major cleanup today after those damaging storms. Nearly a foot of wet heavy snow pounded the greater chicago area, forcing nearly 1200 flights to be canceled and with temperatures dropping overnight this mornings commute is likely to be dangerous. That same system also produced thunderstorms and tornadoes in the midatlantic leaving at least four people dead, Dozens Injured and buildings destroyed. Abcs megan hughes begins our coverage. Reporter the deadly winter storm system moves north, bringing waves of rain and terrifying twisters. This one carolina.
Friend and mother. Jessica dill from akron with more on how people are remembering sonny johnson, the woman killed after running across route 8. Nyk a lot of people, are in disbelief that she is not remembered as a loving mother that theyer positive attitude killed her after apparently got into a fight jumped out and ran across route eight in hit and killed by a pickup truckut at that autopsy scheduled today. She was any chance of firefighter and paramedic for 18 years, years, a mother to two sons and underway investigation is underway to place an an argument between her and her husband left her deathd on the road to say a that she jumped out of the moving suv, walk across three southbound lanes jumped over the medium media and the walked into oncoming northbound traffic she was hit by a pickup truck and killed instantly, they cant confront berman says that they are in shock. She was a fantastic she had a real heart for the job. Always a smile on her face, she was ready to work hard. T
Thank you. One of the senators who would be asked to vote on a Supreme Court nominee took a trip to africa last week and got up and close and personal with some of the animals. Senator jeff flake of arizona and some others were squarely in the sights of a charging pack of elephants during a boat ride. A hippo show off some teeth. The purpose of flakes trip was poaching. You can say that will t. Y. s trip to africa was a lot smoother than that. Do you think they found t. J. . Usually they run towards people. They ran the other way. They ran the other way. Can you imagine . T. J. s coming, run, run. You got to be chronicled on instagram escaped from africa he. So much fun. I felt like i was actually on a safari into good tv. A different type of adventure for a group of theyre attending a Winter Sports camp in the heiseyligh sierra. Hitting the slopes all this week. Skiing and snow boarding all part of a week lockling event to put together by a group called achieve tahoe. Incredible. And
Supreme court nominee. Sources tell abc news he is considering a republican, nevada governor brian scan sandoval to replace the late justice scalia. He supports abortion rights. This is seen as an overture to the gop senator whos say theyll refuse any hearings on the president s nominee. My hope and expectation is that once there is an actual nominee, once this is no longer an abtraction, that those on the Judiciary Committee recognize that their job is to give this person a hearing. Senate mority leader Mitch Mcconnell and judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley both agreed to meet with the president in the nomination. So last week we told you about a Patent Application from jetmaker airbus foror seats with storage underneath. Now its considering wider seats. Take a look. This is what current Economy Class seats in airbus planes now the company has filed a patent for a reconfigurable passenger bench seat. They took the park bench. Pretty much. This is a park bench. Look at the little people