pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominates. there are 340 days until the next president takes office, so that is plenty of time. nbc s tracie potts joins us now in from washington to sort it all out. good morning, tracie. good morning. it s possible the president could move on a potential nominee, a replacement pretty quickly. it s taken him about a month in this. let s take a look at some of names that are coming up. first of all, seb real of them from the d.c. court of appeals. a former u.s. deputy solicitor general who argued more than 20 cases in front of the u.s. supreme court, paul watford appointed by president obama to the ninth circuit out of california. nine republicans voted in favor he also clerked previously for justice ginsburg. patricia millen also on the circuit court of appeals. her case got caught up in the filibuster over it. a lot of names out there already. we re seeing some battling back and forth not only between republicans and
agreeing what we should. those opinions have been met with harsh words on thether side of the aisle by hillary clinton. it is outrageous that republicans in the senate and on the campaign trail have already pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominates. there are 340 days until the next president takes office, so that is plenty of time. nbc s tracie potts joins us now in from washingngn to sort it all out. od morning, tracie. good morning. it s possible the president coul move on a potential nominee, a replacement pretty quickly. it s taken him about a month in advance the last time he did this. let s take a look at some of names that are coming up. from the d.c. court of appeals. a former u.s. deputy solicitor general who argued more than 20 cases in front of the u.s. supreme court, paul watford appointed by president obama to the ninth circuit out of california. nine republicansoted in favor of watford. that could be key. he also clerked previously
here s the bottom line. i don t trust barack obama on the supreme court justices it s called delay, delay, delay. i don t think the president should move forward and we should let the next president of the united states should decide. i m glad the senate is agreeing what we should. those opinions have been met with harsh words on the other side of the aisle by hillary clinton. it is outrageous that republicans in the senate and on the campaign trail have already pledged to block any replacement that president obama nominates. there are 340 days until the next president takes office, so that is plenty of time. nbc s tracie potts joins us now in from washington to sort good morning, tracie. good morning. it s possible the president could move on a potential nominee, a replacement pretty quickly. it s taken him about a month in advance the last time he did this. let s take a look at some of names that are coming up. first of all, seb real of them from the d.c. court
calling it a lie. a recall of all cars with a certain defective air bag. saying millions of drivers are at risk. why are the makers pushing back? and from tonight to today a rare appearance from jay leno live in our studio, wednesday, november 19, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. you may have seen as we came inside that the image outside said 22 degrees in new york city. don t worry about that. how would you like to live around the great lakes today? in buffalo new york it s snowing so hard we had a great shot for you all cued up to show you of the snow coming down. we lost it because the snow is so bad. it s all about location, location, location. the band of snow is only about ten miles wide. you go ten miles south of that there is almost nothing. the airport has a few inches. talking six feet of snow. it s pi
sunshine is really going to be slow to warm things up. we ll be at 33 degrees later this afternoon. your neighborhood by neighborhood weather forecast when i come back in less than ten minutes. but first, let s check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. you know, those car heaters are going this morning, jillian. yes, they are, bill. right now we re watching as skyforce10 makes its way to cranberry township, new jersey. taking a look from inside the cockpit, it should be there in a few minutes. it s headed to the site of that fiery crash overnight on the northbound side of the new jersey turnpike. this is all happening right near hightstown exit 8. as a result, we still have closures in the outer drive. so, stick to the inner drive or you can take route 130 or route 9 if you need to get around it. major cleanup, a big investigation going on. so, skyforce10 should be there in the next four to five minutes to give you live pictures. elsewhere this morning, hamil