which is more cruel and unusual? one of the most influential appellate courts erupted in public disagreement over one of the most difficult issues of our time, homelessness. having recently decided matters of affirmative action, student loans and adoption, on top of last year s rulings concerning abortion, guns, religion and climate change, scotus might soon have the final word here, too. at issue, ordinances in grants pass, oregon, which would impose fines on homeless people for encampment on public property. a trial court was faced with this issue, whether cities can impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful ninth circuit court, which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit
fireworks shows. final preparations are underway across the country before americans line up to see the displays. julie: will the weather forecast cooperate? heavy rain across the central u.s. putting the region at risk for severe thunderstorms and putting a potential damper on festivities. team coverage starts now. fox weather will nunley is live in nashville with a sneak peak at one of the largest fireworks displays in the country. christina coleman is live at the beach in santa monica, california. hello. yeah, we re here at the beach. thousands will gather here today to celebrate our country s birthday. so many people getting together for the holiday weekend. take a look at this. a glimpse of cool military activities. in hawaii the crowd is rallied with a free fall parachute demonstration. camera footage captured from the helmet shows them in the sky after they jumped from a blackhawk helicopter. how cool is that? thousands grabbed a picnic blanket to enjoy fireworks o
say. when people have power and money, you get afraid. startling developments and a headline making mystery. you see the blood spatter, very compelling. the disappearance of jennifer dulos. what do you think happened in that garage? a serious, violent assault occurred my garage. finger-pointing started immediately. is your husband involved? i have not been there. have you had anything to do with jennifer s disappearance? i have. not investigators speak out. this is a new element. our theories are the zip ties were used to incapacitate jennifer. this is an effort to leave no stone unturned. someone has information, someone knows something. we are going to find her. hello, and welcome to dateline. jennifer dulos and her husband made things. fotis disk constructed mentions, jennifer constructed plays and novels. together, they built an active life for their five children. but it all came crashing down when jennifer suddenly vanished, leaving a m
after my show. she s under the weather at the moment. she is resting her voice so that she can have her big, special voice at the new hampshire primary. we are all looking forward to it. we will be hearing from rachel in just a few minutes. overall, we have so much to get to tonight. we are less than 24 hours from the polls closing here in new hampshire. doing our show from new hampshire. the last meeting challenger to donald trump, is trying to pull off a surprise win for the republican presidential nomination. at least to finish close enough to stay in the race. this may actually be the bar. a day away from the vote, nikki haley, trying to prevent the new hampshire primary tomorrow from being essentially the end of that race. unless something truly shocking happens tomorrow, and shocking things happen in politics, donald trump, is going to be the republican nominee. he s going to be the nominee because he has broad support among republicans in the country, all across the co
it is topsy-turvy live news event kind of day. case in point, in a matter of about two minutes, we expect to hear from president biden. he will address the nation live on a number of topics, not the least of which is the abrupt stepback our country took today away from fairness and progress toward intolerance and discrimination. the conservative supreme court ruled 6-3 in favor of a colorado web designer, an evangelical named lori smith who refused to work on same sex weddings. the court said that the first amendment protected her from punishment. and it is a turning point decision that will flip the state of equal protections on its head and allow business owners to likewise evade punishment under similar laws in 29 states. and in the longer term, it could again signal a threat to the landmark decision of the 2015 case establishing the case of same sex couples to marry. and if you are wondering of the same sex couple, what they are doing, after being denied basic human decen