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Thaw out. the main concern is for people to stay in place, stay indoors. anything above freezing they would gladly take. >> polo, i am so impressed that your mouth didnt freeze, that you got out all of those words so gracefully and fluently. id be looking like rudolph the red-nosed reindeer stumbling and mumbling. go get warm. >> this was new yorks john f. kennedy airport in the middle of this whiteout when no one was flying anywhere. the ground stop caused a back log that is still a big problem...

Soon? >> i will review the letter. i dont have it at the top of my head but we will look at it and i believe the congress, members here, are entitled to a prompt response from attorney general and the department of justice. we have already reduced back log of some 400 letters by half and we are going to -- when the dust settles on our time here i think you will see we far were more responsive than you have had in the past. because i was in your shoes and i had as chairman grassley reminded me le...

Replacing obamacare with a system that encourages competition and driveses prices down and regingulatory reform to reduce burdens on manufacturing and aiming for the far world reach. and the president will hold events in washington and outside washing pro growth and pro-job agenda later this afternoon. the president will sign two bill and both pass with bipartisan support to help protect those who protect us. the veteran and public safety approvement act that was sponsored by chuck grassly of io...

508,000 cases pending in the courts right now. the average wait time nationally about two years. case is stegle is in our dallas bureau with more on this. >> hey, sandra. in some places like texas, its higher. the average wait for kreut nall cases is approaching three years if you can believe that. a sitting immigration judge told me she and her colleagues have long felt like, quote, legal cinderellas. in other words, working very hard and stuck in the basement with very little resources. but sh...

Just in from houston where the lightning and storms that we experienced earlier this morning took their toll on a home in the city, sparked a fire. thats the type of weather we were dealing that caused ground stops. there a back log of planes trying to get in and out of those airports and theres a ripple effect across the country. most of the problems are associated with houston and dallas. i have some personal experience with this, have a sister in town, a 7:00 flight this morning left at 10:15...

As many as 28 million will watch on tv. >> millions of americans are heading home from their holiday getaways but bad weather means headaches in some spots. janet, talk to us about what youre seeing there and through the rest of the country. bad delays or nothing too severe just yet? >> halle, good morning. it is very busy here. 00 flights in and out of dfw airport today. its one of the busiest days but not necessarily a smooth ride home. lightning and lds as houstons bush airport. theres now a ...

Clothes from a sexual assault victims body. all critically important in identifying and prosecuting their rapist. right now there are an estimated not ten, hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits sitting in police storage facilities nationwide collecting dust on shelves for months, years and even decades all because of time and money creating a major back log. now, on thursday, vice president joe biden and attorney general lynch announcing a nationwide grant program with the manhattan distri...

The white house and manhattans district attorneys now pledging a combined $79 million to end a shocking rape kit back log across the country. this comes amid reports that tens of thousands of dna samples taken after sexual assaults have gone untested. bripan llenas is sitting by wit more on this troubling story. >> a recent usa today investigation found at least 70,000 rape test kits collected by more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies were not sent to crime labs around the country for testing....

On thursday vice president joe biden and attorney general loretta lynch announced a program with the manhattan county attorneys office. pledging $79 million to eliminate the back log in 43 jurisdictions in 27 states. the new initiative will test 70,000 kits, about half the funding is coming from asset forfeiture funds from new york city. >> together, they secure the civil rights and human dignity of tens of thousands of women. sometimes men. who have had to summon the courage to report a rape on...

Accessed the information indicating roof had admitted to possessing the substance so after three days, the matter was listed as pending in the fbi back log, dylann roof went back and he was sold the weapon that he ultimately used to allegedly kill nine people in that church. >> as the director was explaining this sort of chain of failures or initial failure that led to the three days expiring before this could be cleared up and therefore by default he was sold the weapon because he had not been ...