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the supreme court nomination, bipartisan support should be a prerequisite. it should be essential. that s what 60 votes does. if republicans do change the rules then the 60 vote threshold won t be available to them the next time they re the minority party. weijia jiang. judge gorsuch said the first call he made was to judge garland out of respect. late this afternoon the full senate confirmed rex tillerson as secretary of state. the vote was 56-43. he did pick up three democratic votes. also today the senate judiciary committee voted strictly along party lines to advance senator jeff sessions nomination for attorney general. for the second day democrats boycotted committee votes for several of president trump s other nominees. we made it clear throughout yesterday that when we got answers to these questions we were y to not be here and participate, that s a total i think it s pathetic. republicans had to suspend committee rules to send to the full sena ....
neighbors. some say they feel sorry for the loved ones waiting on the outside trying to figure out what is going on in the inside. we ll hopefully get audio coming for you this morning. it looks light out here, but it s very much unfolding, a fluid situation. the standoff continues. and we re also learning of a rally in support of the prisoners here. that s scheduled for later on this morning. one of the claims of the inmates at this facility are the real and ongoing hostages but of course, the main situation that s being focused on right now is, of course, getting those two corrections officers out of that building safely. for now, we re live in smyrna, matt delucia, nbc10 news. now, 600 people work in that prison. most of them work in the small delaware town. ever since news broke yesterday, family, friends and neighbors and previous employees have converged on the facility, hoping to remain strong that this will end peacefully. i feel sorry for the loved ones o ....
still falling. 34 degrees in the suburbs. philadelphia right now at 38 degrees, with a little bit of a breeze. the wind will be picking up but the temperatures will be climbing. king of prussia, 40 degrees at 11:00 dlthis morning. breezy so it feels like the 30s through the day in the lehigh valley. 46 degrees, we ll see bright sunshine during the day. it s a nice warmup for new jersey and each part of our area. i ll show you how quickly the temperatures climb. and i ll look at the winds, too, when i come back in ten minutes but first, jessica boyington has the first alert traffic. we re watching things in new jersey, this is bordentown township. a tractor trailer partially blocking the lane there. watching that for you. all lanes are still open on the turnpike. 295 in new jersey, west deptford, right new jersey, 22 minutes heading southbound past the 42 freeway and over into delaware. speeds still in the 60s. there s a crash in hatboro on east county line road arou ....
tonight in delaware, prisoners are still holding guards hostage inside a state prison. the hostage situation has been going on for 12 hours. chris lawrence starts us off at the live desk with new information from delaware. chris? jim, doreen, officials are using one of the guards radios to negotiate with the inmates. they let two hostages go but two other corrections workers are still inside. we ve put all the resources we have to bear to get our employees out. dozens of police vehicles are surrounding the prison in smyrna, delaware, 90 miles east of dc. the siege started when a corrections officer radioed for immediate assistance and sounded the alarm for a major disturbance. delaware immediately put all its prisoners in lockdown. the hostages, one injured and taken to the hospital. a newspaper said it received two calls from inmates, who said they started the revolt because of donald trump s policies, and asked for better education in the prison. the inmate ....
today. you don t think it s going to be an early spring, do you? i don t know. i don t think so. but i will say if he sees his shadow, it s because of all the lights on the cameras because of all the reporters there. because you saw all the cloud cover today. but you never know. temperature in the district, 44 degrees. 36 degrees right now in gaithersburg. as we go through the day today, winds will start to pick up. by noon today, 47 degrees. by the weekend, 48 degrees. let s check the roads this morning with melissa mollet. good morning. we have our eyes here on this problem inner loop at central avenue. this is a disabled tractor-trailer that lost a lot of fuel for some reason. so we have this right lane oc the ramp there to dale city, crash blocking the right lane. 66 looks okay. southbound lee highway near west street, beltway looks okay and this just cleared out of the way, southbound 355 in rock rockville. that is gone. 270, no major worries. 5:02 now right ....