A blaze, the recordbreaking cold. And pucker up. The british awards handing out awards. Setting up some surprises. Good morning on this president s day. Political fallout on the sudden death of Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. Both sides of the aisles are gearing up for a fight. There are new details this morning on the days and hours leading up to scalias death. He died of Natural Causes saturday at a texas ranch during a quail humpbting trip. Senate republicans are calling for a replacement by the next president. But president obama already said the body of the 79yearold justice is believed to have arrive on a private plane in austin. A firsttime guest at that resort ranch in west texas. Room. Abcs jim avila is there. He spoke with one of the people who saw his last. Reporter an exclusive group of mostly texan couples. Justice scalia was the only famous guest. He arrived friday about noon. Toured the property. Did not join that days hunt. He had dinner with the group overlooking the scenic group. At 9 00 p. M. , he said, its been a long day, had a long week. Id like to be excused. Reporter others told investigators they heard the 79yearold justice mention an illness. Phone said his doctor in ill. And came to his Office Wednesday and thursday before the trip. The scalia family, his nine children and wife maureen, she says objected to an autopsy. And after talking with sheriff investigators and u. S. Marshals on the scene, says she agreed one was not necessary. Any signs of foul play could have easily caused, that i asked for an autopsy. Reporter instead, the death certificate will read Natural Causes, due to his heart stopping. Jim a vil ya, abc news, in west texas. This morning, Justice Scalia is being remembered as a conservative icon. Of course, he served on the high court for some 30 years. He led the charge to take constitutional law back to what he called its original meaning. Now the battle lines are drawn over who should pick his latest on the showdown in washington. Reporter good morning. Justice scalias vacancy on the court is sure to be a topic of discussion on the campaign trail today. Several candidates campaigning in South Carolina while here in washington, we wait. Within an hour of the Supreme Court confirming scalias death, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell declared that this vacancy should not be filled until with have a new president. But president obama. I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to name a new successor. Reporter how it could shift the balance on the Supreme Court, which without scalia is split 44. No now, this next appointment will be critical for some important decisions. Reporter including decisions regarding abortion, immigration. That adds a new dimensional to its outrageous that republicans in the senate and on the campaign trail have already pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominates. Reporter republicans backing up mcconnell in saturday nights debate and its called, delay, delay, delay. Reporter senator ted cruz on this week vowing to filibuster if necessary. We should not let a lameduck capture it in the waning his presidency. Reporter two names james kelly and sri si megan what is next in the nomination process, what do we expect . Were waiting for the president to announce whose his nominee is, then the ball goes over to Senate Republicans and leadership needs to decide whether or not they are indeed going to hold confirmation question right now. Seems like a long fight. President , politicians and colleagues are reflecting on scalias legacy. Liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg said they were best. The two justices were known to hang out often, even vacation together with their families. Former president george w. Bush called him a towering figure, an important one. He hits the campaign trail today, hell join his brother jeb bush. Trump accused the former president of ignoring the cia and destabilizing the middle east by invading iraq. Now, according to the latest poll, trump has a commanding lead in South Carolina, with 42 of the vote. On the democratic side, something of a campaign con topics and bernie sanders. They attended the same service. Theres no video of the meeting. They addressed the con greg grags with the race in nevada extremely close, Hillary Clinton canceled a trip in order to stay in nevada. Sanders takes his campaign to michigan today. We switch gears now to the cold. Bit eerly cold in the northeast today. Bostonians woke to the coldest morning in nearly 60 years, 9 degrees below zero. There were also delays at Logan Airport because of cold weather problems with equipment. New york city saw its lowest february temperature since 1963, one degree below zero. The bitter cold didnt stop valentines day tradition in the big apple. Weddings in times square. Further west, this was the scene, heavy snow in chicago and its surrounding areas. Continuing into this mornings commute. Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed. And traffic was snarled on highways. Two multiple vehicle pileups on the roads. Whats in store for those of us on the east coast today, the only consolation it will be get warmer. Complete Weather Forecast right now from Paul Williams at accuweather. Good morning to you as well. We have an ice storm on the way. Affecting the folks in the deep south, throughout virginia going into north carolina, covering charlotte, as well as Charlotte Charlottesville charlottesville, dangerous power widespread flooding in jackson. A really crummy way to start monday. A meetology teorology logical term. Kanye west reaching out for help. But first, pope francis in mexico, why some see his message as controversial. And the socalled diamond diva and how she reportedly trained for months to get ready not how you want to spend a day on the slopes. At this ski resort dangling for hours yesterday. The tram at Canyon Mountain stopped working. Some wanted to site see. Everyone was rescued without injury. Overseas, police in britain are investigating a laser strike on a Virgin Atlantic plane to force a flight to return to london. The plane was heading for new york city and virgin said one of the pilots reported a medical issue, apparently linked to the laser strike. Passengers were put up for the night and will fly to new york later on today. Expect another powerful message from the pope today, his visit to mexico takes him to the state where there are many migrants that travel through that area trying to reach the u. S. Border. And yesterday in mexico city, onlookers cheered as pope fiat. The pope wading into the crowd and taking the faithful. Before that, there was a moment, the pope visit a Childrens Hospital where a young cancer its beautiful. Very touching moment there. Very touching visit. When we come back a swarm of sharks, thousands spotted off the florida coast, incredible sight from the air. And last nights allstar game, kobe bryants last dance and the remarkable lack of defense from both teams. The flu virus hits big. With aches, chills, and fever, theres no such thing as a little flu. And it needs a big solution an antiviral. So when the flu hits, call your doctor right away and up the ante with antiviral tamiflu. Prescription tamiflu is an antiviral that attacks the flu virus at its source and helps stop it from spreading in the body. Tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people two weeks of age and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. Before taking tamiflu, tell your doctor if youre Serious Health conditions, or take other medicines. 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Off the east coast of florida, tens of thousands of sharks, take a look. You can see them on the left side of your screen here. All those dots you see here, making their migration north. They shot the footage from the air. These are black tipped sharks usually only six feet long. Despite the huge numbers, they are very few shark bites from them. All right, lets get to some nba action. The nba doesnt get back to meaningful games until thursday night. Last night, the league held its annual shooting practice, the final allstar game was played last night in toronto. And they just quit scoring three minutes ago. Lets take a look at the nearly 200 points that were scored by one team. Oh. Theres kobe, 18th allstar game, loving up another former great laker, magic johnson, he and bill russell talked about dinner in l. A. That was the only shot that wasnt made. Kobe finished with 10 points, 4 of 11 shooting. 26 minutes. You see there he got in there. Good for kobe. So he had his ten. 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Again, a few showers out there, coverage 20 . See the blob here . That is the beginning of the line that is going to be moving through tomorrow morning. This is going to be some heavy rain coming in. There will be some thunder, i think along this boundary but as far as severe weather, winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour the conditions will be more favorable for that up in the panhandle. I think for us this is just going to be heavy rain. Its going to come in, unfortunately, through the early part of tomorrow, its a quickmoving system so that by tuesday afternoon were clear and then that will set the stage for, i think some pretty nice days ahead, through the middle and latter part of the week. By the way the temperatures remaining mild and even a little above average, mid to even some upper 70s today. With that southeast wind. Temperatures holding back into the low 60s, on cloud cover and well get ready for that line of showers and thunderstorms through the early part of tomorrow. Then slightly cooler behind it but the air mass really behind so were not going to be seeing week. 75, partly sunny and isolated afternoon showers, coverage 20 . Still a pretty decent boating day despite more cloud cover but that would be about it. Southeasterly winds 10 knots. 2foot seas and light chop for the coastal weights as we check waters. Into the early part of tomorrow. So showers and thunderstorms early and then clearing out. The forecast coming up in a few minutes. Stay with us, abc action news starts now. Beaten and bruised. The savage attack by two teens. This woman you just saw endured and the frustration shes expressing towards her neighbors this morning. Help for jeb. The race for the white house gets interesting as another former president hits the campaign trail. Legal fight. Democrats and republicans now at odds over who should nominate a replacement for Justice Scalia. Thank you for joining us on this monday. Im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. In st. Petersburg detectives want to know how a 4yearold boy managed to get a gun and fire it. The grandmother and mother called 911 saying they had no idea how the gun got there or
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