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Under his belt and hes hoping for a third. Just one week before super tuesday. Tonight. Its a town hall for the democrats before this weekends South Carolina democratic primary. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the breakdown. Its caucus time in nevada. Sot donald trump 11 40 33 were going to make America Great again and were going g keep winning,winning, winning overnight gop frontrunner donald trump rallied his biggest crowd yet in las vegas. The billionaire is banking on a hot streak that will carry him through super tuesday and to the gop nomination as he continued attacking his rivals. Sot donald trump this guy cuz lies more than any other human being the fight getting nasty. Ted cruz fired his Communications Director for spreading a false rumor that marco rubio had disparaged the bible. Sot ted cruz we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity but rubio is focused on trump who is leading in nevada by 26 points. His apparent unstoppable rise has the republican e
Disappear from the carpet for the oscars. And be sure to tune in sunday starting at 5 30 p. M for oscar coverage right here on abc9. Well have special guest bruce miller of the Sioux City Journal in studio to go over all of the winners, losers and fashion of hollywoods big night. Make sure to tune in for that. Lukas and the oscar goes to. Those five words keep oscar viewers on the edge of their seats every year. But the process of determining who wins an Academy Award is not an easy task. The votecounting is intense. And surrounded by high security. Abcs brandi hitt shows us. Nats ruiz cullinan on red carpet 1 they are the best secretkeepers in hollywood. Martha ruiz and Brian Cullinan are set to carry those famous briefcases again. from burn 2015 in cocoer the oscar goes to. . Holding t names of this years oscar winners. Martha ruiz, pwc tax paner for 82 years. Pricewaterhouse coopers has counted the oscar ballots. Nats mailing footage sixthousandtwo hundred61 sent out to voting membe
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30th and west 33rd street between avenue a and avenue c. Its going to be a rough commute this afternoon. Live, shan finance sohn, eyewitness shannon sohn, reporting. Anthony, what can you tell us . Reporter police putting up yellow tape to keep people away. Victim right between the two ambulances that you see right out here on jf kennedy boulevard has it was described, the incident taking place around 2 15 this afternoon. We understand once again the victim is a 43yearold man killed after being struck by a pickup truck right here in bay on. The victim was getting into the suv when he was struck by the pickup truck which kept traveling northbound on kennedy boulevard before the parked car and ended up on the sidewalk. The 43yearold victim has been pronounced dead on the scene. This entire area around jfk boulevard, we can tell you theres no traffic on the box that parallel jfk boulevard. A lot of traffic and a lot of people off the block. Pedestrian are standing along the side. Obviousl