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before the south carolina primary. also campaign finance is a key components of democrat bernie sanders speeches. tonight a deeper look at money spent so far. how it s raised and how it is spent. and tha in brazil, the governmet launch a war on the zika virus. we begin tonight with the death of a conservative giant on the supreme court. justice antonin scalia has side at the age of 79. a authorities believe he died of not causes. over his three decade tenure on the bench. justice scalia expressed strong opposition to abortion rights, same-sex marriage and affirmative action. his passing leaves washington with questions over what s next for the supreme court. political leaders around the country have paid tribute to justice scalia today. even those that didn t see eye-to-eye white sox voice. tonight we honor his extraordinary service to our nation. and remember one of the towering legal figures of our time. al jazeera s erica pit see has more on the justice s ....
receiving it. according to child care aware, one of the many groups that help with the legislation i just mentioned, the child care act, they tell us that particularly in urban and rural communities there is a severe shortage of high-quality or licensed child-care facilities. in pennsylvania, where we have a significant state investment in l child care, only 3.5% of child-care slots for children birth to age four years old are in the highest-quality programs. for many families who can even find care, the cost is very burdensome. for most families child care is often the second-most costly expense behind only housing. just imagine that, the second-highest expense in the life of the family for far too many families is child care, second only to housing. in 2014, in more than half of the united states a year of child-care costs more than a year of college tuition at a public college. that is another stunning comparison. we hear it all the time from real people, not just nu ....
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doesn t seem to be melting away. absolutely, you know there is will be one of those systems that is with us all day today. both commute do get impacted by this system, but actually not finding too much falling from the sky right now in most spots. doesn t mean we re not. just means most of are you actually going to walk out the door and see just clouds overhead at this point. take an another look at storm scan3, bulk of moisture kind of pent up over the delmarva peninsula. we zoom it out. see the whole system in it entirety. it is a big expansive storm. but it is not an impressive one when it comes to its strength, or moisture content. it just doesn t have a lot to offer up. i want to zoom it in one more time, take a little bit of tighter zoom. see how any of the rain that originally was over sussex and kent county, for the most part turning over to snow. seeing pretty decent snow across southern new castle county, the first state, also in southern new jersey, salem, ....
and on the roads. any untreat the surface could be slippery and could be slightly snow covered even as we head through the first part of tonight and into tomorrow morning. if this parking lot isn t treated could be slippery spots tomorrow morning heaviest snow has moved on out not expecting any more accumulation out there tonight. just a few lingering flurries and snow showers a few flakes drifting by that s about it. these flurries could make it in early tomorrow morning. here and there but for the most part this system is done with us. take look at snow amounts, though. eagle in chester county 6.5-inches of snow. west caln township 5-inches. chadds ford 4-inches. eagleville 3.3 and hokessin 3.3. that was the heaviest off to the west three to six area the philadelphia international airport checking in with just half an inch so far. it is going to turn colder now that we get the snow out of here temperatures will drop tomorrow and then it really starts to get cold by fr ....