That sorry is a crock. I cant take that joke. Joke chris gave that joke earlierearl when we did the story. Story good day d. C. On this tuesday,uy january 17th. Nu17th. Im holly morris alongside off maureen, steve and wisdom. Isdom is it a crock or a gator . A r [ laughter ] all day. We have weather things to do fof everybody else. Everybody el it is moving day for the soon to be first family former first family current first family they get ready to say goodbye to life in the white house. Ite hoe moving across town a little litl ways. A little w shall gentlemanw sh for the president and first lady as they pay forward a little lit peace of sasha and malias childhood. Ch well show was were talking w about coming up a littleas latet first at 9 00 lets talk about the weather. Abthe we you might want to keep the the umbrellas close at hand we can see some on and off showers shos throughout the day. Thro deugtails now with tucker barnee it looks really dreadful outlut there. Its raining. Yo
Scalia, but there is a big political fight ahead. We turn now to the capitol for more. Reporter good afternoon the president s pick was not a surprise, judge garland was on the short list for consideration, and has faced the Senate Scrutiny before and now they say voters should have a vote in the matter. With that announcement a political showdown begins. President obamas nominee, 63yearold Merrick Garland is the d. C. Circuit court of appeals judge. He earned a track record as building a consensus as a judge that follows the law. There is no Higher Public Service than serving as a member of the the supreme court. President obama says that he is imminently qualified but republicans will block the nomination regardless. This vacancy will not be filld this year but look forward to the American People deciding who they want to make this appointment through their own votes. A promise that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell made in less than an hour after Justice Scalias death was annou
And action News Reporter Sharee Williams is live at the 22 district tonight a police prep sinkt in mourning, sharee. And likely still in shock. It may time time before raw emotions begin to simmer down. Those in blue that work here at the 2 district said officer wilson had a smile that could light up the room and at the time of his murder were learning wilson was actually thinking of his son looking for a presents for him as histh birthday is days away. Balloons blowing in the wind, candles lit. All part of a small memorial at the shopping applause awhere officer Robert Wilson iii was murdered. Willie wilson came buy to pay his respent. He has the same last name as the officer. He planned to go to the applause aat the exact same time of the shooting. But he changed his plans at the last minute. That could have been us in that store. We was going to come and get a game. Officer wilson wented in the gamestop at 21 and lehigh avenue shopping for a gift for his 8yearold son whose birthday
The final word is with you. I should mention the fact aclu and have made some strides on that. But i get some concerned about low voter turnout because i was taught by my parents who were immigrants to this country my mother grew up in nazi germany my father was russian and escape communist i was taught how precious a live is and how fragile democracy is so i always go to. To go back to the survey data what keeps people out of the polls is not the registration and voter identification that theyre not interested in the political process. If you want to increase turnout that is a cultural issue starting at the Elementary School level. But to the point where i feel guilty if i dont go to the polls and vote. Many americans are not raised that way or taught that. In nuclear not doing enough to do that. Also to anchorage people those that worked in the election process the problem is they cannot get enough people to work at the polls on election day. It is a tough problem the average age of
Was that they got an opportunity to go to court. And thats referred to as constructive exhaustion of revenues. And the plaintiff has an absolute right to go to court after 20 working days. But its not clear that they have much other remedy. But anyway, judge brown, kettani Brown Jackson said that this case, the crew case basically stood for the proposition that once the agency had not responded in time you got to go to court. And that was it. Epic argued largely because they had won this on similar situations in 2006, that there was a presumption that the agency would violate by not responding on time and that gave them permission to continue the case process to have the case process. Jackson basically said well now that the crew case exists, the crew versus fcc fcc basically the only remedy you have is to go to court and hopefully you can get the court to be more and amenable to your argument but you dont get to force the agency to respond any more quickly. Basically under the process