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he's 31 years old. he has a college degree, has had great jobs, and he seems perfectly normal. but just don't ask him to identify any faces. we're going to put up the first one. even very famous ones. >> no idea. >> reporter: we showed jacob faces without hair. a pure test of facial recognition. >> no. nope. can't say if i've ever seen that person. >> reporter: he's seen jimmy carter plenty of times. and knows michael jordan, too. >> oh, lord. >> reporter: he just can't recognize their faces. >> that's just impossible. >> reporter: can you describe my face? you're staring right at it. >> high cheekbones, light eyes. >> reporter: clearly he could see my face, but he says if we happened to run into each other in a few days, he wouldn't know

>> they meet somebody, they have a good time, they have a nice relationship. then a week later they walk past them. >> reporter: brad duchenne is a professor at dartmouth college who has been studying face blindness for 15 years. he said the hardest thing to understand is how someone can see a familiar face with you not recognize it. so he created a demonstration to give me a little taste. faces turned upside down. >> here's some famous faces. you're going to be tempted to twist your head but don't do it. can you identify any of these people? >> reporter: i was completely at a loss. you would think i would know all of these people. >> you've seen them all a lot. >> reporter: i don't know any of these people. i really don't. >> want to see them upright? >> reporter: sure. it was astonishing. with just that click, they became recognizable people before my eyes.

and there was denzel washington, jennifer aniston, sandra bullock. but the one that really got me is the young woman on the lower right, my daughter. i didn't know my own daughter? >> no. >> reporter: i didn't know my own daughter. >> so there she is. >> reporter: am i getting a feeling for what people with face blindness have? >> when you look at that, there's a face there. there's eyes, a mouth. but you can't put it together. >> reporter: that's stunning. i feel terrible for them now. >> it's really difficult. >> reporter: and largely unknown. the condition only got its name in the 1940s when a couple of soldiers came back from world war ii with head injuries and couldn't recognize their wife or parents. it took another 50 years for science to discover that people could be born face blind like jacob. and joe livingston, a retired teacher.

designer. and meg novotny, a doctor. >> if i were your patient, you had spent a long time with me discussing the problem, i come back the next time. >> no, you walk out to the window at the front and start check out and i don't know who you are. >> reporter: she relies on patient charts she told us. but there aren't any of those in ben's office, where lunch in the cafeteria can be tricky. >> sitting down at lunch having a discussion with someone about one of my projects and guy across the table gets up and says that's interesting. when you have that meeting, can you invite me? thanks, see you. who is it? i don't know. i have no idea. >> reporter: is it a memory issue? the face doesn't get filed? so they have to rely on other strategies to identify people. hair, body shape. the way people walk, their

even style of dress. but jacob told us that it can all fall apart when someone changes their hair, like a colleague named sylvia who he couldened find one day until she started putting her hair in her usual pony tail. >> she put it into the pony tail and once that was in place, that was sylvia. it clicked. and then she took her hair back out of that pony tail and she disappeared. >> reporter: to him it was show her face changed into someone else's before his eyes. >> now i'm confronted with the situation that got weird. i knew this person was sylvia, but it didn't feel like sylvia. >> reporter: faces mean so much to us. identity, beauty, character. a place to hang all our memories about a person. faces have captivated artists forever. so it may surprise you to learn that the man who painted these

chuck close, is also face blind. and severely so. say you had dinner with somebody and saw her the next day -- >> wouldn't remember her. >> reporter: yet he's spent his career, even after a collapsed spinal artery left him mostly paralyzed, painting, well, faces. >> yes. >> reporter: chuck close has face blindness and he paints faces. >> correct. the reason i think i was driven to it was to, to take images of people that mattered to me and commit them to memory in the best way i can, which is to slow the whole process down, break it down with lots of little memorable pieces. >> reporter: which is exactly how he creates these works. he can't make sense of a whole face, so he works from a photograph with a grid on it. and translates what he sees, square by square, onto his canvas. guess what we've done. >> i don't know. >> reporter: we've put together a quiz for you.

faces to show him. >> from the chin, i think it's leno. >> reporter: and we're surprised he did pretty darn well. >> from the lips, i think it's tiger woods. >> reporter: you're pretty good. but of course, not perfect. >> i don't have a clue. >> reporter: that's tom cruise. >> right now, my guts are tied in knots because this very activity is a thing that makes me most nervous. oh, now i have to figure out who this person is. >> you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. take off. these dissolve fast. they're new liquid gels. and you're coming with me... you realize i have gold status? mucinex sinus-max liquid gels. dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. let's end this. someone's hacked all our technology. technology... say, have you seen all the

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we've got a story now about disinfected wipes, the ones you're not supposed to flush down the toilet. turns out a lot of people flush them any way, and it's causing big problems. contessa brewer reports. >> reporter: in san antonio, they cheered clearing the clog. in australia, a crane pulled out this, a glob of wipes, grease, and other items. the problem starts here, when wipes go from the back of the toilet into it. and 7% of wipes are labeled flushable. new york city estimates it spends $3 million a year just dealing with wipes in the sewer system. >> whatever you flush ends up somewhere.

and the sewage passes through -- >> reporter: he showed us the screening process, but it doesn't catch everything. >> wipes are getting into our gear, clogging them up and we're not able to process as much waste water as we normally would. >> reporter: kimberly clark, a manufacturer of flushable wipes, told cbs news -- our flushable products are tested to ensure they meet the current u.s. industry guidelines for flushability. the industry has firm criteria. wipes have to break down when flushed. but manufacturer compliance is voluntary. no laws regulate how flushable they are. they blame the nonflushable wipes for the clogs. >> there is no evidence presented by anyone at any time that a guideline compliant wipe flushed down a toilet has caused any damage or any issue anywhere. and it's because they don't.

not alone. tackling legislation now to regulate flushaway brands. >> our preference is, if you're going to use a wipe, that's fine. put it in the trash. >> reporter: that's the bottom line. contessa brewer, cbs news, new york. from the sewers of new york to the streets, where they're taking out all the old pay phones and installing wi-fi spots. and they're free. don dahler reports. >> reporter: this is a link-in kiosk. there are about three dozen running, with the goal being 7500 stationed around the city. as you can see, it has a touch screen pad here. we can have internet access. it has high speed wi-fi for your device, charging ports, even a 911 emergency button if you get into trouble. but the question is, if more people use public wi-fi, does that put more people at risk to hackers? these aren't your daddy's phone booths. in fact, they're replacing them.

the system. >> along with maps, you've got the internet. you can browse the web, find information. >> reporter: and it makes regular phone calls? >> yeah, you can make free phone calls, talk as long as you want anywhere in the u.s. >> reporter: at the nerve center, technicians remotely monitor usage. designed for the rigors of city life, the 1,000 pound aluminum kiosks have been tested to withstand everything from bad weather, to a parking accident to dog pee. other cities have tried and failed at public wi-fi, because of a lack of funding. he says new york city will succeed because it will benefit financially from ads on the kiosk sites. >> one of the beauties of this is that it is going to generate ultimately, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the city that it wouldn't

>> reporter: the biggest issue with public wi-fi at this scale is security. >> the main concern for a lot of people, you go on public wi-fi, you're afraid to be hacked. how can they be assured this won't happen? >> we're a public network. everybody has to have their own encryption key, so it makes for a very secure and safe network. >> reporter: meaning every time you go online, the system issues a digital key. only your device can use it. but there are ways around encryption. >> the first thing you see is an ad that is a spear phishing attack. >> reporter: we asked this cyber expert to show how easily hackers can set up a fake log-in page that looks like the real thing. >> they think they're connecting to a kiosk but they're connecting to a malicious site and they don't know what they're going to put in their credit card credentials.

safe is never use public wi-fi for anything that involves personal information, credit cards, or banking. >> we as consumers have to be one step ahead of the next threat. >> reporter: they say they have people monitoring any kind of suspicious online activity 24-7 and do not gather your personal information and sell to a third party. by the way, if you're wondering, if you live within 150 feet of

have access to fre the smog in london is so bad it's blamed for thousands of deaths each year. now some londoners are fighting back with a tiny new air quality monitor strapped to the back of pigeons. charlie d'agata has the story on britain's pigeon air patrol. >> reporter: these pigeons are nothing special. if anything, they're underachievers. they're raising pigeons currently flying at about 120 feet and the little backpacks

or light as a feather. that is princess, the bird, not the guy. princess and a small flock of friends took flight this morning on a mission to save the world. or mostly to raise awareness about all the air pollution in it. >> the reality is that we are all exposed to really toxic gases in our everyday lives, just by simply going in the streets, everywhere. >> reporter: seven birds, all females, took wing in today's sortie, two with pollution monitoring backpacks. one with g.p.s. so scientists can track them. the others are wing men, or wing women. pigeon hander brian woodhouse says his birds prefer to fly in a flock. >> they like to fly together. they do it for security more than anything. that's just like a horse race, you know, the first across the line they'll go off together. >> reporter: the program is partnered with, you guessed it, twitter.

neighborhood is, you tweet to the birds. the pigeon patrol tweets back with a reading of your area ranging from moderate to extreme. pigeons have a long history of serving on britain's battle fronts. notably in world war ii. >> having been trained as messengers in case of radio failure. a street communication is received and deciphered. >> reporter: even a young queen elizabeth supported the air force. today, london faces another threat. an estimated 10,000 people die prematurely in the capital due to air pollution. and the world health organization estimates that globally, air pollution is to claim for the deaths of 7 million people every year. which makes the work of a few good pigeons with cute little backpacks a bit more pressing than just a mere flight of fancy. this morning, we tweeted princess, that pigeon currently

in west london. moments later, we got the response. pollution is currently high in your area. protect yourself. >> that's the "overnight news" for this friday. that's the rear window of a car after a ferocious hail storm battered north texas. also tonight, under fire over water. >> you messed up 100,000 people's lives, 100,000 of them, 10,000 of those people are six years old and younger. >> the epa takes the heat for the crisis in flint. the democrats fall preview.

america great again, but he will make republicans the minority again. a sea change at seaworld. the curtain is coming down on killer whale shows. and the players who turned riding the bench into an art form. this is the "cbs overnight news." texas. a violent storm assaulted the dallas-ft. worth area with huge hail stones leaving vehicles looked like they'd been attacked by machine guns. vinita nair is here with the story and the pictures. >> reporter: hail, ranging in size from an egg to a tennis ball, destroyed just about everything it fell on this morning here in the dallas-fort worth area. in arlington, texas, the violent storm paralyzed the morning commute. in dallas, backyards were covered in a sheet of white. more than two dozen medstar ambulances were put out of services.

punctured by baseball-sized hail, others completely shattered. this greenhouse roof blown over by the storm, the fort worth zoo said the hail killed a number of exotic birds, including five flamingos. the bad weather may not be over yet. there is a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms in dallas tonight and a 50% chance through friday. scott. >> vinita, thank you. from frozen water we turn now to tainted water. the epa says over four years, the drinking water in 431 american schools were found to contain unsafe levels of lead. today, they began testing kids in newark, new jersey, after lead was found in the water at 30 schools. anna werner is there. >> reporter: tanquir walker brought his daughters into school today for lead testing. >> i think school is the first place that they should be safe in. that just goes to show they're not on top of their game. >> reporter: he joined dozens of

elevated lead levels found in 30 newark schools this year. and the district has now revealed 12% of the water samples taken between 2012 and 2015 have also been above the federal limit of 15 parts per billion. doctors say no level of lead is safe for children. valerie wilson is a newark district administrator. she blames old fixtures. >> we have 67 schools. they average 82 years old. the building infrastructure needs to be replaced. that is significant. >> reporter: wilson says the district has been addressing lead problems in schools' water since 2004, including adding water filters. but the teachers' union released these pictures of what it says are outdated filters, some dated 2012. union president john abeigon: >> i believe they pushed it to the back burner because it was not on their to-do list. >> reporter: are you comfortable that children have not been hurt

>> i am not a medical expert, so i cannot provide that. i don't want anybody to think the district is not concerned about that, right. but it is not a primary source of contamination for children. >> reporter: now, district officials tell us tonight they disagree that those filters the union photographed were outdated but could not tell us how many filters need to be replaced. scott, the superintendent has brought in state environmental officials to work on this problem, and children here are already drinking bottled water. >> anna werner, thanks. well, the water crisis in flint, michigan, boiled over on capitol hill today. more than 150 flint children have elevated levels of lead in their blood. democrats excoriated michigan's republican governor, while republican congressmen blamed president obama's epa administrator. here's adriana diaz. >> reporter: the public flogging was unrelenting for michigan

office, governor. >> you are not in a medically induced coma for a year. >> governor snyder's administration caused this horrific disaster. >> reporter: it was the first time lawmakers grilled the governor about his role in flint's water crisis. snyder admitted responsibility but blamed federal oversight. >> unaccountable bureaucrats at the epa allowed this disaster to continue unnecessarily. >> reporter: in april 2014, flint started pumping local river water to save money, but the improperly treated water stripped lead from pipes, doubling the number of children with lead poisoning. the governor says he only learned about the contamination 18 months after the switch. before that, he says his own water officials told him the water was safe. epa chief gina mccarthy said those same state officials misled her agency, too. >> from day one, the state provided our regional office with confusing, incomplete, and absolutely incorrect

>> reporter: that wasn't good enough for republican chairman jason chaffetz. >> you need to take some responsibility because you screwed up and you messed up 100,000 people's lives. >> reporter: 72 children have tested positive for elevated lead since october. it's an improvement over last year. but flint residents are still angry. >> snyder got to go! >> reporter: they came to the capitol by the bus load. melissa mays had a ringside seat. she said she was frustrated by the finger pointing, but is glad somebody is listening. >> for the longest time we were told we didn't matter, what was happening to us did not matter. we're seeing support from across the country and i think it's going to give us more energy to keep the fight going. >> reporter: today, democratic congressmen called on the governor to resign and republican congressmen called on the epa chief to resign. congress itself may be slowing down flint's recovery. a $250 million funding bill has been introduced for cities with water problems but it's stalled.

adriana diaz on capitol hill. adriana, thank you. we have just learned that 12 members of the u.s. military are to be punished for the mistaken attack on a hospital in afghanistan last october. at least 19 people were killed in a sustained air strike at the doctors without boarders charity hospital. david martin at the pentagon has learned that the dozen u.s. personnel will received a min straytive punishments.

donald trump has over half the delegates he needs for the republican nomination, but today, conservatives in his own party were searching for ways to stop him. here's major garrett. >> the fact is we have to bring our party together. >> reporter: as donald trump moves closer to the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination, republican calls for

louder and more desperate. today, senator lindsey graham, long a bitter adversary of ted cruz, relented and backed the texas senator. >> so i think the best alternative to donald trump, to stop him from getting to 1,237, is ted cruz. and i'm going to help ted in every way i can. >> reporter: marco rubio, who dropped out of the race tuesday, returned to capitol hill and added to the anti-trump sentiment. >> hopefully, there's time to still, you know, prevent a trump nomination, which i think would fracture the party and be damaging to the conservative movement. >> reporter: trump needs just over half the remaining delegates to win the nomination outright. short of that majority, republicans, those running the convention and delegates, would face the first contested convention since 1976, a public spectacle and last chance to stop trump. delegates are bound to a candidate only for the first

the cruz and john kasich campaigns have already begun wrangling support in the event of a second ballot. party rules won't be finalized until the convention and could be manipulated to benefit one candidate over another by changing the way delegates are allocated or recognized to vote. gop chairman reince priebus. >> those rules are drafted by the rules committee at the convention that governs the convention. we don't use the rules that are drafted for the last convention. >> reporter: the once-fanciful idea of a contested convention is now so real, no interested party can afford not to plan ahead. the rnc is recruiting rules experts. so is trump, so are his rivals. scott, this could be the billionaire real estate developer's biggest art-of-the-deal challenge ever. >> major garrett tonight. major, thank you. by the way, today, illinois state police and the chicago p.d. dropped charges against cbs news reporter sopan deb. deb was covering the unrest at that canceled trump rally in chicago on friday when officers pushed him to the ground and arrested him. deb was charged with resisting,

review of video and interviews with the officers. late today, bernie sanders conceded the close vote in tuesday's missouri primary, meaning that hillary clinton swept all five states. democrats are looking ahead now to a possible trump nomination and asking themselves whether the billionaire will help them win back the senate. republicans have a four-seat majority, but they have 24 seats up in november, and the democrats have only 10. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: arizona senator john mccain has called trump's views uninformed and dangerous. but that hasn't stopped his democratic senate challenger, anne kirkpatrick, from running ads like this. >> no matter what donald trump says, john mccain would support him for president. >> reporter: new york senator chuck schumer warned today that strategy will be replicated in dozens of races across the country.

america great again, but he will make republicans minority again. >> reporter: unlike mccain, many republicans have been reluctant to outright denounce trump. they fear that weakening the likely nominee will lead republican voters to stay home in november, hurting gop candidates down the ballot. but today, the senate's democratic leader, harry reid, said that silence is giving his party fodder, too. >> some of these people are running for reelection. rob portman, roy blunt. i just don't know how these people could run and say why i'm supporting this guy for president. he can't-- and he can't run away from it. he's the nominee. >> reporter: republicans point out they're the ones seeing record turnout in the primaries, while democratic turnout is down. but, scott, democrats insist that if trump is the nominee, their base will flock to the polls in november to vote against him. >> nancy, thank you. an american who joined isis and surrendered in northern iraq

ordeal. mohamed jamal khweis is a palestinian american from virginia. he says he joined the terror group in december and quickly figured out the lifestyle was not for him. >> at the time, i-- i made the decision to go because i wasn't thinking straight. i didn't see myself living in that environment. i would -- you know, i wanted to go back to -- to america. >> we don't know when khweis will return to the u.s. but the justice department is preparing to file charges. in iraq today, our elizabeth palmer was told that isis is running short of money because of the u.s. bombing campaign. liz got a rare interview with president obama's special envoy to the region, which said russia may be tired of propping up the syrian dictator. >> reporter: for the past six years, russia's government and

unwavering support for syrian president bashar al assad. but that, at last, may be changing, says brett mcgurk, the president's special envoy on iraq and syria. >> i think there's an emerging international consensus, and i include the russians on that, that without a very serious political transition, this conflict is going to continue to grind on and that's in nobody's interest. >> reporter: consensus on shutting assad out of syria's political future would be a breakthrough and give fresh energy to the peace talks currently under way in geneva. while on the battlefield, where an international coalition has joined forces against isis, there's already been steady progress. a new report shows that over the past 15 months, isis has lost more than a fifth of the territory it controlled in iraq and syria. and, says mcgurk, strains are showing in other ways, too. >> so now, cutting salaries for their fighters by almost half. when they store money in mosul, for example, we find out where that is, and we target those

>> reporter: bomb the money. >> they can't pay their fighters. they can't communicate with their fighters. they can't move around the battlefield like they could before, and they can't hold territory. >> reporter: isis is still holding a huge amount of land, as well as two major cities, but if the current momentum holds, it's just possible isis territory will continue to shrink as the outline of a peace deal in geneva slowly takes shape. and, scott, we may get some more details on that peace agreement, or ven maybe an inkling of what's in store for president assad when secretary of state john kerry goes to moscow next week. >> liz palmer with the key interview tonight in northern iraq. liz, thank you. a texas cop has been charged with murder in the death of a 16-year-old. and we'll remember the chairman of the b

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a police officer in a dallas suburb is charged with murder in the shooting of a 16-year-old boy. the officer's lawyer says he fired in self-defense. here's david begnaud. >> reporter: in an emotional farewell, hundreds of people said good-bye today to 16-year-old jose cruz at a small church in addison.

ago by off-duty officer ken johnson. johnson said he witnessed the teen and his friend burglarizing a car at this apartment complex. officer johnson confronted the boys, who then took off in cruz's vehicle. johnson pursued them in his own car, ramming into the teens at this intersection. eyewitness photos then show johnson getting out of his car and pointing a gun at the two teenagers. moments later, he shot the two boys, killing cruz and injuring his friend. farmer's branch police chief sid fuller. >> we have policies that deal with off-duty enforcement that we all follow. >> do your policies involve an off duty police officer to chase suspects in his own vehicle? >> no. >> reporter: cruz's mother has been inconsolable, attending community vigils where hundreds of people have been protesting against the police. cruz family spokesman carlos quintinilla. >> what this officer did is he thought he had sovereign immunity. he thought he was in the wild west.

this is a cold-blooded murderer who murdered a 16-year-old, innocent young man. >> reporter: here's where it happened. that's the intersection where the officer rammed the vehicle, and i am standing in the spot where the shots were fired. scott, that officer who was charged with murder, that arrest happened yesterday, but by this morning, he had posted a $150,000 bail and walked out of jail. >> david begnaud tonight. david, thank you. there are big changes coming at seaworld, and we'll have them

today, seaworld said it will phase out its killer whale shows, giving in to pressure from animal rights activists. here's ben tracy. >> reporter: seaworld is ending the shows that made shamu a household name. the company will also no longer breed its captive orcas. seaworld ceo joel manby on "cbs this morning"." >> so this will be the last generation of orcas at seaworld. obviously, that's a very difficult decision for us, but we feel it's the right one for the future of the organization. >> reporter: seaworld still holds 23 orcas in captivity at its three parks in san diego, san antonio, and orlando. the highly critical 2013 documentary "black fish" was the beginning of the end for seaworld's killer whale shows.

seaworld trainers such as dawn brancheau, who was killed by a massive orca in 2010. attendance has been falling at the parks, along with seaworld's stock price. the company is now entering into a $50 million partnership with the humane partnership, the one-time adversary. ceo wayne pacelle. >> we're hoping to partner with them to help with animals in distress-- stranded whales, stranded dolphins, stranded sea turtles. >> reporter: seaworld was running out of options. the california coastal commission ruled it could not expand its san diego park unless it ended orca breeding. california congressman adam schiff said seaworld does dnot suddenly see the light. >> i think it is mostly a decision based on the fact that people were not showing up at the parks. people did not approve of the continued captivity of these whales. they didn't approve of how they were being exhibited. >> reporter: now, the orcas will still be on display at seaworld parks, such as this one here in san diego, but in what the

encounters. scott, seaworld made a lot of money selling orcas to theme parks around the world, something they say won't do anymore. >> ben, thanks. frank sinatra, jr. has died. the chairman of the board's son became a singer himself. at 19 he was kidnapped and returned after his father paid the ransom. he went on to become the keeper of his father's flame. frank sinatra jr. died of a heart attack yesterday.

and we'll be right back. march madness is under way, and we end tonight with a team that didn't make it in, though they put on quite a show. here's elaine quijano. >> reporter: monmouth university's basketball team had its best year ever.

>> reporter: but it may have been their bench that put them on the map. >> it got pretty legit pretty quickly. >> reporter: greg noack and dan pillari are the unofficial leaders of the bench mob, a bit of sideline theater to get the team and the crowd going. >> bench is never known as a cool place to be. so we kind of revolutionized it a little bit where it's okay to be on the bench and support your team because it's a group effort. >> reporter: the group rehearses its celebrations before games, playing off current events, pop culture-- >> "star wars." >> reporter: and sometimes a little bit of history. during their victory in december over basketball powerhouse georgetown, they unveiled what they called the sistine chapel. >> look at that. that's the sistine chapel. that's my favorite one. >> reporter: what do your teammates say about it? >> they love it. >> reporter: do you feel like it helps them? >> absolutely. if they look over at the bench and see we're in the game and we're energized and trying to feed energy to them.

it, how can i not be in it. >> reporter: basketball teams across the country have picked up on their antics. high school teams and even nba players have copied their celebrations. coach king rice. >> i really preach having fun, especially to my guys. you should have fun when you're doing what you love. >> reporter: doing what they love while changing attitudes pabout riding the pine. elaine quijano, cbs news, west long branch, new jersey. that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little bit later for the morning news and "cbs this from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. captions by vitac

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garland confirmed is just beginning, with republicans saying he'll never make it to the high court. taking on trump. forces from conservatives to activists line up to stop donald trump from winning the republican nomination. march magic for the yale bulldogs! >> and upsets abound. the first full day of the ncaa tournament delivers thrills to college basketball fans. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. senate republican leaders are digging in their heels over the nomination of judge merrick garland to the supreme court. garland met with democratic leaders yesterday. both sides are mustering their resources to press their case. garland is expected to return to capitol hill today.