CNN20001211.1400.0015.summaryB.txt roberts thanks for looking in the arguments are done the arguments that may well decide the presidency and of course that uh disputed florida recount issue the u. s. 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 no more gore and don't bushwhacked the u. s. a. the mood inside the courtroom of course decidedly more uh 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 @reject@ that there is no long when a mission does not count those ballots that it's not supposed to for that's absolutely correct justice scalia's @reject@ detached the chads entirely and the machine has predicted does not count those kids were those instructions are not followed there is an annual that's correct 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 um and those are count those were not counted CNN20001211.1400.0346.summaryB.txt quickly here's a review of the latest developments in the disputed florida presidential election oral arguments before the u. s. supreme court have concluded CNN20001211.1400.0433.summaryB.txt a california strained power grid is getting a boost today which might help increasingly taxed power supplies a unit d. m. blow can you nuclear plant is expected to resume its production today it had been shut down for maintenance coupled with another unit it can provide enough power for about two million people CNN20001211.1400.0558.summaryB.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.summaryB.txt the florida weather looks good for the return of the space shuttle endeavour the shuttle is scheduled and @reject@ 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.summaryB.txt chain lowe's issued its second warning since october the retailer says it expected profit for the current quarter to be below expectations CNN20001211.1400.1247.summaryB.txt year after turning virginia into a contender in nineteen years as it would fall to each @reject@ has retired CNN20001211.1400.1459.summaryB.txt o. 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 CNN20001211.1400.1485.summaryB.txt five some french butchers are giving away meat in an attempt to regain public confidence in their products jennifer eccleston explains yeah 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 @reject@ we work out they're hoping @reject@ has to side mounted fears his land over the s. e. c. CNN20001212.1400.0015.summaryB.txt roberts 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 u. s. 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 with more the supreme court another election developments here's jonathan aiken still no decision from the u. s. 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 if the court decides to stop the recounts the vice president is effectively out of options and may have to concede the election it's better for the supreme court to intervene perhaps and decide the case 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 they're going to give us a path to find out if they do then i think all of us will be very very glad CNN20001212.1400.0300.summaryB.txt brewery people across the midwest are bundling up as i see winds blast through in the wake of a record snowfall airport workers in chicago are digging out as they deal with a back log caused by a day filled with flight cancellations you can see the ice he has to be undertaken there weren't travelers expect more delays today CNN20001212.1400.0390.summaryB.txt crisis the federal government is warning that there's a nationwide shortage of five assists CNN20001212.1400.0576.summaryB.txt com the marine corps has grown in its remaining fleet of m. v. twenty two osprey tilt rotor aircraft the craft that can fly like a helicopter or a plane CNN20001212.1400.0629.summaryB.txt it or national terrorist captured six years ago is still at the center of legal disputes bob glascoff has the story in today's headliners @reject@ in december of nineteen ninety seven the international terrorist known as power lunch that jekyll goes on trial in paris for murder CNN20001212.1400.0840.summaryB.txt n.'s checking top stories no word from the supreme court and when the justices might issue a critical ruling on the presidential election their decision whether or not to allow a florida recount to proceed could be the last word on who becomes president CNN20001212.1400.1262.summaryB.txt past 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