ALL CNN20001211.1400.0015.summaryA.txt Thanks for looking in the arguments are done the arguments that may well decide the presidency and of course that disputed florida recount issue The US supreme court is weighing what it heard today from attorneys for al gore and george w. bush the issue whether the supreme court in tallahassee overstepped its bat overstepped its bounds when it ordered a hand recount of forty two thousand votes throughout the state While both sides presented their oral arguments protesters on the courthouse steps let their voices be heard Supporters for bush and gore waved placards with competing slogans like five to four The mood inside the courtroom of course decidedly more deck or a sense summer attorneys on the republican side argued that florida's certified results giving bush the wind should stand And they also said the democrats are putting too broad interpretation undetermined in the intent of the voters based on the look of the ballots but justices scalia and soon or question the bush team's own standards on that issue When a mission does not count those ballots that it's not supposed to for that's absolutely correct justice scalia's detached the chads entirely They've been you come to this has been euphemistically was euphemistically referred to as is people votes that haven't been counted these are ballots where that the system created by florida both with respect to the initial tabulation and the preferred system for the recount the automaker recount in close elections is to submit those ballots to the same a cannibal school lunch meat and bone objective scrutiny that the that the initial loss tell was done I was so far unreasonable in defining legal vote in effect to the presumption of reasonable interpretation under article two course dana said the vice president will in his contest of the florida election if the court rules against him his attorney did all he could to convince the justices the recount is both legal and proper Justice anthony kennedy questioned gore's counsel closely on whether florida's supreme court went too far It was interpreted needs the state law legal challenges over absentee ballots from martin and seminole counties could still change the election outcome fear red lights lawyers filed written briefs with the state supreme court on whether to throw out twenty five thousand ballots democratic voters are appealing to crush all rule ends friday in which certain court judges found that while republican election supervisors had not acted properly There was no reason to discover the votes Florida state lawmakers are also in special session holding election hearings today custody issue experts and members of the public will testify about whether that body the legislature should choose its own slate of electoral college voters The republican dominated house and senator holding a special session to consider the whole issue republicans say the move is needed to ensure florida is represented at the electoral college Democrats say the move is only to ensure the state goes to bush The full house is likely to vote on it tomorrow but republican senate leadership may delay a vote there until the supreme court room it's so CNN20001211.1400.0346.summaryA.txt Here's a review of the latest developments in the disputed florida presidential election oral arguments before the US supreme court have concluded Lawyers for george w. bush are trying to overturn that florida supreme court decision which allowed hand recounts in tallahassee the state supreme court is considering an appeal involving absentee ballots from two counties on friday to certain court judges ruled twenty five thousand ballots should not be thrown out CNN20001211.1400.0433.summaryA.txt A california strained power grid is getting a boost today which might help increasingly taxed power supplies Meanwhile a cold snap in the pacific northwest and putting an added strain on power supplies Set your thermostat at sixty eight degrees when you're home and fifty five when you're not there trying to use electrical appliances before four PM in after seven PM and turn off computers copiers in lights when they're not being CNN20001211.1400.0558.summaryA.txt Com an appeals court in chile has thrown out the charges that led to the arrest of former military dictator augusto pinochet a special investigating judge had ordered the eighty five year old general be held under house arrest and tried to the disappearance of nineteen people in nineteen seventy three CNN20001211.1400.0612.summaryA.txt The florida weather looks good for the return of the space shuttle endeavour the shuttle is scheduled and stepped or six o'clock eastern time this evening at kennedy space center and evers returning from an eleven day mission to the international space station to install a pair of solar wings CNN20001211.1400.0970.summaryA.txt The retailer says it expected profit for the current quarter to be below expectations The company blames weak sales and a slowdown in the retail market and lands and says it expects earnings next fiscal year to be below forecasts that had a lot of internet retailer cites its price cuts on close and other CNN20001211.1400.1247.summaryA.txt Year after turning virginia into a contender in nineteen years as it would fall to each has retired CNN20001211.1400.1459.summaryA.txt It looks as if it's going to be a green christmas for jim carrey and crew the grinch stole the box office for a fourth straight weekend not pursue this how the grand presidents earn an estimated eighteen and a half million dollars The new release vertical limit finished second the box office CNN20001211.1400.1485.summaryA.txt Some french butchers are giving away meat in an attempt to regain public confidence in their products A heavy of what's your is very steaming platters of hard to keep peace to proud in a central paris park it's saying how day in paris forty two hundred we work out They're hoping has to side mounted fears his land over the SEC When asked if she was afraid of BSE or as it's commonly known as mad cow disease michele said it didn't scare her at all The BSE panic broke out in france in october when it was revealed that tend to weaken time and it meet won the case had been identified had been put on sale unsupervised European union ministers reacting to your like stern's last week announced a six month ban on the use of meat and bone meal in all animal fodder CNN20001212.1400.0015.summaryA.txt Hi thanks for looking in the deadline looms for electors to be selected in florida and of course the nation's attention is focused on one north of florida on washington and a decision still pending from the nine US supreme court justices as usual there's no indication at all when the high court might issue his ruling But with the presidency at stake in time running out many expect a quick decision Still no decision from the US supreme court in the case of bush versus gore lawyers for governor george w. bush want the court to strike down the florida supreme court decision that allowed manual recounts of disputed ballots across the state Vice president al gore needs those recounts if he is to overcome mr. bush's lead in florida And for having this going into congress where then i think i mean i think this is all trials play compared what would happen if congress had to vote and elect the next president Meanwhile the republican controlled florida house of representatives is likely to vote tuesday on a rizzo lucian approving its own slate of electors to the electoral college one that will be played to governor bush as the debate continued in tallahassee state lawmakers were waiting for the supreme court in washington who play though And also in tallahassee the florida supreme court has yet to rule on a peels of two cases involving absentee ballots The state justices are being asked to overturn lower court rulings that allow up to twenty five thousand absentee ballots be included in the state count those ballots from seminole and martin counties Democrats say republican officials had access to ballot applications and illegally completed missing voter information on them Washington as the national electoral count currently stands gore has two hundred sixty seven bush two hundred forty six two hundred seventy or need to win the white house Now a quick recap of the florida election of l. about a decision could come any time from the US supreme court on whether to have a hand recount of those disputed florida ballots The florida house is poised to name electors loyal to george w. bush and the senate could follow suit tomorrow stay glued to headline news for continuing coverage of the florida recount and election too i'll see CNN20001212.1400.0300.summaryA.txt More than a foot of snow is popular with counsel the thirteen and a half inches reported in the wall he broke a single day record for the most know in december Many schools in the state remain closed today because more snow is expected The storm laid down a broad blanket of snow in the midwest from cedar rapids iowa which recorded eight and a half inches to midway airport chicago's which had thirteen point nine inches ten and a half inches record in detroit CNN20001212.1400.0390.summaryA.txt The department of health and human services says there are now close to seven thousand macon pharmacist positions and that number is expected to grow The department courts not enough students are entering the field to keep up with demand caused in part by expanding insurance coverage for prescription is CNN20001212.1400.0576.summaryA.txt The marine corps has grown in its remaining fleet of MV twenty two osprey tilt rotor aircraft the craft that can fly like a helicopter or a plane Former e. has died in the crash of an osprey in north carolina is the second crash involving the plane this year CNN20001212.1400.0629.summaryA.txt Bob glascoff has the story in today's headliners in december of nineteen ninety seven the international terrorist known as power lunch that jekyll goes on trial in paris for murder Last year austria tried unsuccessfully to extradite him to stand trial for his alleged role in the raid on the hope that maybe twenty five years ago venezuela his native country is currently pushing for a mere as return morning his extradition six years ago was illegal CNN20001212.1400.0840.summaryA.txt President clinton is in ireland hoping to convince protestants and catholics to resume peace efforts in all star he'll meet with that officials from both sides tomorrow in belfast And the weather is clear in the midwest but there's still a lot of snow clogging highways installing air traffic CNN20001212.1400.1262.summaryA.txt Finally the rangers peter nedved it has been suspended for three games and will not play tonight thursday or friday for high sticking joe thornton of the berlin Last week to run jerome of HCN n. headline sports