mandered to favor the gop. and this comes from the supreme court to draw up new and constitutional boundaries. the governor may still his own proposal to the court or work with the legislature to submit asensus map by monday's deadline. > you about this problem yesterday and operations began today to rid the city of trenton of 30,000 crows. "action news" reporter christie aleto is live at the knowledge state capital. they say the solution is -- the solution isn't high tech -- >> reporter: that was one of the pyrotechnics, lasers anything non-lethal to square away the birds, like clockwork they descend on the parking lot and you can definitely hear them. >> we are going to attempt to push them out of the area -- pyrotechnics and lasers and spotlights part of the measures crows from downtown trenton. >> making it as uncomfortable mr as pos area. >> the crows have become a big problem. >> it's frustrating and friday night and the crow trenton and their disdain for the birds run deep. >> the cars are covered. >> pe

mander district less bias in favor of republicans. perhaps they should turn to eighth graders in chester county. lets go live to "action news" reporter john rawlins, what is the story here? >> reporter: well, the students jim, the map making students you need the right equipment and data along with common sense and goodwill. something that is lacking at times in harrisburg among grownups there. the state supreme court is poised to take action inhe governor and gop leadership can't agree on a map. >> it a fair and compactness and minimizing slits those are all parts fair map. >> take a look at the current 7th district congressional map that it slices across our region where they favor the gop and exclude those that don't. >> the supreme court said it can't be drawn that way and districts need to be fact and on aps a hot in chester county challenged to use census data to make congressional districts and they say they did. >> a bunch of eightt would be e for anyone to. >> an eye opener, the kids concluded that whoever drew the map were l

last month a state supreme court declared the current map unconstitutional saying it was jerry mandered to favor republicans. the court ordered the map to be redrawn today and approved by governor wolf by february 15th. >>> new this morning, this airman stationed at dover air force base is facing charges of raping a 14-year-old girl who ran away from home. the 21-year-old is being held on bond. court documents show the girl's guardians contacted authorities back in november. they went to an apartment complex where they say they found taylor mcagaguinness and girl. >>> i'm meteorologist bill henley. it's a cold start this morning, but dry for now at least in the lehigh valley. that's a live view from allentown. the temperatures have been coming down across the board. teens in south jersey, delaware in the very low 20s. we're talking 20s for philadelphia, and in the suburbs down in the teens. but there are colder neighborhoods in the lehigh valley. 18 degrees, and very low 20s in white hall township. and bethlehem is 20. a cold start and cold enough for snow. this is live view. showing so

so this is the old map, which was largely viewed as the most jerry mandered in the country. they say it should improve democratic prospects while still favoring republicans overall. republicans say they will chal chg that map in court. >>> and deluth, minnesota felt the effects of the front edge on monday after 10-inches fell, accuweather's paul williams had the forecast. >> we're watching for six to 12 inches portions of south dakota and minnesota dealing with the snow. then wisconsin dealing with an icy mix through northern portions off missouri and a chance of flooding down to san antonio. >> are right. our thanks to paul there. >>> a 6-year-old girl has become one of the latest victims in the nation's deadly flu epidemic. a friend of the family says first grader did have the flu shot and was brought to the hospital right away. her death comes as the number of hososizations -- just over 1800. >>> and scientists are signaling a major break through inning aing ainosing autism. the first of the contests are said to be 92% accurate. they check for damaged proteins. doctors al

the map republicans drew in 2011 is a jerry mandered map. when you look at the process by which democrats redrew the map, it is filled with politics. the supreme court in pennsylvania, you're elected by party. democrats want a supreme court majority. they have a ruling that came down the pike a month ago. they decided to throw out the maps, draw their own maps. when you look at the congressional district lines in this new map favor democrats. give them an advantage. all these subtle ways that could have a big impact in who takes the majority in the house. >> dana: do the republicans have any standings to get this changed or are we running out of time? >> very limited legal appeal. they're promising they're going to do an overturns of this map in the court. this is a state supreme court decision and a u.s. supreme court doesn't really have jurisdiction over the state supreme court's decision. in all likelihood we'll be looking at this new map. >> dana: does this affect the connor lamb/rick saccone race in pennsylvania? >> quite a bit. the dis

and we have strongly tried to -- it is proved that jerry manders are very difficult to overcome. have eight or nine percent majority of the vote for the democratic candidates for the house of delegates in virginia. they did not get a majority of the seats. so -- [inaudible] >> even then it would have only been 50-50. and you have a message advantage. the gerrymander held. that is my message and i'm sticking with ep requesting maryland, what is the jerry for why the switch makes a difference? why is it like every district designed some way, discrimination against the people who are in the minority? >> the problem is, it cannot be the every district that happens to be republican map is unconstitutional to democrats good and that the democratic district is unconstitutional for the republic is good to have a narrow theory and they want to narrow it by focusing on specific intent and saying that the flipping is innocence of retaliation. that was clearly done deliberately. is any of this done accidentally? [laughter] >> just randomly with a little pan. >> again, trying to be faithful t

. >> because a state like pennsylvania has been successfully jerry ma-- jerry mandered this whole cycle. the state is nothing like that in terms of the people. >> we think it's important to bring this up. in virginia, there was an election of governor northam, who would have vetoed this proposal, but there was an idea to introduce district allocation there. and while right now having the compact, you know, it's not close to going anywhere at the moment, in putting that into the conversation is really important, because what happens is, with the district method, it allows the party doing it to weaponize gerrymandering, even more than they've already done it. >> two cases you can look at would be like the 1966 case that was led by delaware and a group of small states that sued new york over their state-based winner take all law and the court told them to pound sand because the awarding of an elector is a plenary power to each individual state so states get to determine how they award electors. another one that is the preeminent case law on the plenary power of the state would be mcpherson

there are states that have republican jerry manders, -- gerrymanders, states that have democratic gerrymanders. every individual has a right for their vote to count. we know the line. voters should choose their elected officials. elected officials should not choose their voters. that is the problem right now. what the court says in the upcoming case, when they have a chance to decide whether or not partisan gerrymandering is constitutional, will provide enormous guidance on that question. the house ethics obviously funded by the house. what about oh cae? where does that budget come from? guest: that comes from the house. the office of congressional ethics has to be reauthorized every two years. we have seen over the years -- the fight just at the beginning of this congress, there was an attempt to cut the office of congressional ethics. it was slipped in, in the dark of night, the night before a vote on rules for establishing the rules for the 115th congress. billy house, reported that. we got the word out to everyone. even president donald trump at that point tweeted out saying, this does not