A SAVANNAH MOTHER .. ACCUSSED OF KILLING HER CHILD AND THROWING HIM IN THE TRASH .. IS DUE BACK IN COURT TODAY. WHAT COULD BE NEXT FOR LEILANI SIMON. IN OUR NATIONS CAMPITAL - THE SUPREME COURT HEARING ARGUMENTS THAT MAY UPEND HUNDREDS OF CHARGES SURROUNDING THE JANUARY SIXTH CAPITAL RIOT. WE LOOK AT THE ARGUMENTS THE HIGH COURT WILL HEAR. PLUS ... THE U-S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS STILL PUSHING TO BAN TIK TOK. THE BILL THEY PLAN TO ATTACH TO IT .. THIS WEEK. THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING HERE'S A LIVE LOOK AT HIGHWAY 80 AT PINE BARREN ROAD IN POOLER THANKS FOR STARTING YOUR DAY WITH WJCL 22 NEWS. GOOD MORNING - - I'M EMMA HAMILTON. AND I'M FRANK SULKOWSKI. METEOROLOGIST JONATHAN MYERS IS JOINING US NOW .... NOW, HERE'S YOUR STORM TRACKER RADAR... TODAY MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 88. CALM WIND BECOMING SOUTH 5 TO 7 MPH IN THE MORNING. TONIGHT PARTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 62. SOUTH WIND 6 TO 8 MPH. WEDNESDAY PARTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 86. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOSTLY CLOUDY, WITH A LOW AROUND 64. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 9 MPH. THURSDAY MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH A HIGH NEAR 88. SOUTHWEST WIND 5 TO 8 MPH. THURSDAY NIGHT MOSTLY CLEAR, WITH A LOW AROUND 64 ITS BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF SINCE QUINTON SIMON WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HIS MOTHER LEILANI SIMON. SINCE THEN PARTS OF HIS BODY WERE FOUND IN A LANDFILL IN SAVANNAH AND HIS MOTHER NAMED THE PRIME SUSPECT IN HIS DEATH . LELANI IS FACING SEVERAL CHARGES. LATER TODAY ... SHE'LL FACE A CHATHAM COUNTY JUDGE. WJCL 22 NEWS' KYRON NEVEAUX IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH THE LATEST. GOOD MORNING .. KY. FRANK AND EMMA ... LELANI WILL BE BACK IN FRONT OF JUDGE TAMMY STOKES WHERE THE DEFENSE TEAM WILL DECIDE IF HER GUILT STATEMENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS. HER TRIAL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN MAY BUT THEY ARE WAITING ON ALL DETAILS ABOUT THE TODDLERS BODY FROM THE FBI'S FORENSIC TEAM. JUDGE TAMMY STOKES IS HOPING TO BE DONE WITH THIS CASE BY THE END OF THE YEAR BUT FEARS MOVING TO THE NEW COURTHOUSE WILL CAUSE AN INTERFERENCE. SIMON IS FACING 19 CHARGES. THE HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR 1:30 THIS AFTERNOON. I WILL BREAK DOWN THE DETAILS ON OUR WEBSITE..WJCL.COM THANKS KY. THREE RAIL CREW MEMBERS WITH C-S-X WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER A TRAIN DERAILMENT IN FOLKSTON GEORGIA. IT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON MONDAY WHEN THE TRAIN COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER TRAIN. A SMALL FIRE IGNITED AFTER THE CRASH BUT WAS EXTINGUISHED. THE CREW MEMBERS HAVE NON LIFE THREATENING INJURIES AND NO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WERE ON THE TRAINS INVOLVED. THE CAUSE OF THE INCIDENT IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION. STARTING TODAY... TYBEE ISLAND IS PREPARING FOR THE RETURN OF THE POPULAR BEACH PARTY ORANGE CRUSH. WHILE THIS IS AN UNPERMITTED EVENT... THE CITY IS STILL PREPARING FOR AN INFLUX OF VISITORS. WJCL 22 NEWS SAVANNAH YOUNGER IS JOINING US LIVE FROM TYBEE ISLAND TO TELL US WHAT TYBEE OFFICIALS WILL BE DOING TO GET READY. GOOD MORNING FRANK... PEOPLE ON TYBEE ISLAND CAN EXPECT TO SEE MULTIPLE ROAD CLOSURES.. NOW THROUGH SUNDAY.. TO PREVENT STREET PARKING. WE MADE A MAP SHOWING YOU SPECIFICALLY WHERE THOSE CLOSURE WILL BE AT. BARRICADES WILL BE PLACED ALONG BUTLER AVENUE... SIDE STREET ENTRANCES ON THE WEST SIDE OF BUTLER WILL ALSO BE CLOSED .. SOUTH OF LOVELL AVENUE. AND THE PARKING LOTS AT 14TH AND 15TH STREETS WILL BE CLOSED AS WELL. THERE WILL ALSO BE CHECKPOINTS IN PLACE STARTING THIS FRIDAY. POLICE HAVE NOT SAID - *WHERE* THE CHECKPOINT WILL BE BUT THAT YOU CAN EXPECT DELAYS ON THE ISLAND. FOR A FULL LIST OF CLOSURES ... AND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ORANGE CRUSH.. YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE WJCL DOT COM. BACK TO YOU FRANK. THANKS SAVANNAH. A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS UPHELD A ONE HUNDRED AND 48 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGMENT AGAINST RUDY GIULIANI. DISTRICT JUDGE BERYL HOWELL REJECTED HIS REQUEST TO REVERSE THAT DECISION. A JURY RULED THAT THE FORMER TRUMP ATTORNEY HAD TO PAY THAT SUM IN DECEMBER. IT'S BASED ON DEFAMATION, EMOTIONAL STRESS AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR TWO GEORGIA ELECTION WORKERS. GIULIANI MADE FALSE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT TWO ELECTION WORKERS TAMPERED WITH THE 20-20 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS. HIS LEGAL TEAM SAID THE EMOTIONAL HARM STATEMENTS WERE TIME- BARRED ... AND THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF DISTRESS. JUDGE HOWELL DID NOT ACCEPT THOSE ARGUMENTS. THE SUPREME COURT IS SET TO HEAR ARGUMENTS TODAY...IN A CASE TRYING TO UNDO HUNDREDS OF CHARGES STEMMING FROM THE JANUARY 6TH CAPITOL RIOT... INCLUDING ONE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. AMY LU IS AT THE SUPREME COURT THIS MORNING. AMY -- THIS CASE QUESTIONS ONE CHARGE SPECIFICALLY -- WHAT IS IT? THE CHARGE: "OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING..." THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT USED IT TO CHARGE OVER 300 PEOPLE ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO OVETURN THE 2020 ELECTION -- INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. PKG. SCRIPT) <> FROM THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL...TO THE SUPREME COURT. THE EVENTS OF JANUARY 6TH -- NOW UNDER THE JUSTICES' REVIEW... --WEIGHING THE SCOPE OF THE "OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING" CHARGE-- USED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN THE CHAOS SURROUNDING THE 2020 ELECTION CERTIFICATION. <> DEFENSE ATTORNEYS ARGUE -- THE ACTIONS ON JANUARY 6TH ARE NOT COVERED BY STATUTORY LAW... -- WHICH WAS PASSED IN THE WAKE OF FINANCIAL SCANDALS IN THE EARLY 2000'S. <> A DECISION WHICH COULD UPEND HUNDREDS CHARGED WITH THE CRIME... <> AND LEAVE THE FORMER PRESIDENT WITH ONE LESS CHARGE TO HANDLE... WHILE FACING TRIAL IN A FEDERAL FOUR-COUNT INDICTMENT. <> (REPORTER LIVE TAG: THE OBSTRUCTION CHARGE CARRIES UP TO 20 YEARS BEHIND BARS. A RULING IN FAVOR OF THE DEFENDENTS COULD UPEND CASES FOR MANY ALREADY CONVICTED AND SENTENCED. AT THE SUPREME COURT. I'M AMY LU. TODAY IS THE SECOND DAY OF JURY SELECTION FOR THE HUSH MONEY TRIAL AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. LEGAL ANALYSTS SAY JURY SELECTION COULD LAST MORE THAN A WEEK ... AND THE TRIAL COULD GO ON FOR MONTHS. NO JURORS WERE SEATED YESTERDAY. TRUMP IS CHARGED WITH 34 FELONY COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS. HE'S ACCUSED OF PAYING ADULT FILM STAR STORMY DANIELS HUSH MONEY BEFORE THE 20-16 ELECTION. TRUMP HAS PLEADED *NOT GUILTY IN THE CASE. THIS IS ONE OF FOUR CRIMINAL CASES.... THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS FACING. A NEW MEXICO JUDGE GAVE THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE MONDAY TO A FILM ARMORER FOUND GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR A 2021 ON-SET FATAL SHOOTING OF A CINEMATOGRAPHER. MONDAY'S SENTENCING HEARING BOILED DOWN TO REMORSE- WAS 26-YEAR- OLD RUST ARMORER HANNAH GUTIERREZ REED SORRY FOR HER INVOLVEMENT IN THE FATAL SHOOTING OF CINEMATOGRAPHER HALYNA HUTCHINS IN 2021? PROSECUTORS SAID NEARLY 200 CALLS FROM JAIL INDICATED: NO. <> KARI MORRISSEY/SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, "SHE HAS CHOSEN TO PLACE BLAME ON THE WITNESSES WHO TESTIFIED AGAINST HER, ME, YOU, THE JURORS, THE SET MEDIC, AND THE PARAMEDICS WHO TRIED TO SAVE MS. HUTCHINS' LIFE." GUTIERREZ REED ASKED FOR PROBATION IN STATEMENT. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE CONVICTED ARMORER SPOKE PUBLICLY OF THE HSOOTING THAT KILLED HALYNA HUTCHINS ON THE RUST SET. <> "I AM SADDENED BY THE WAY THE MEDIA SENSATIONALIZED OUR TRAUMATIC TRAGEDY AND PORTRAYED ME AS A COMPLETE MONSTER WHICH HAS ACTUALLY BEEN THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT'S BEEN IN MY HEART." THE JUDGE OPTED FOR THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE-- 18 MONTHS IN PRISON- --SAYING SHE SAW NO SIGNS THE DEFENDANT WAS SORRY FOR HER ACTIONS. ACTOR ALEC BALDWIN'S INVOUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL IS SCHEDULED FOR JULY. HOUSE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO SEND ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT TO THE SENATE TODAY...AGAINST HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS. REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO IMPEACH MAYORKAS OVER HIS HANDLING OF BORDER SECURITY ISSUES. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON DELAYED SENDING THE ARTICLES LAST WEEK SENATE DEMOCRATS COULD VOTE QUICKLY TO DISMISS OR TABLE THE ARTICLES. SOME REPUBLICAN SENATORS HAVE THREATENED TO BLOCK ALL SENATE BUSINESS IF A FULL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IS NOT HELD. A NEW BILL TO BAN TIKTOK COULD BE UP FOR A HOUSE VOTE THIS WEEK. IT'S DIFFERENT THAN ONE THE CHAMBER PASSED LAST MONTH WITH STRONG BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. SOURCES SAY THIS TIME ... THE BAN IS TUCKED INTO A SET OF FOUR SEPARATE BILLS. THEY ADDRESS DEMOCRATS' FOREIGN AID PRIORITIES AND THAT COULD MAKE THE BAN HARDER FOR THE SENATE TO IGNORE -- AS AMY KILEY REPORTS. REP. MIKE JOHNSON/(R) HOUSE SPEAKER: "WE WON'T BE VOTING ON THE SENATE SUPPLEMENTAL." INSTEAD -- HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON SAYS HE HOPES TO PASS FOUR SEPARATE BILLS THIS WEEK. THREE HAVE AID FOR UKRAINE, ISRAEL AND TAIWAN. SOURCES SAY THE FOURTH INCLUDES A BAN ON TIKTOK. REP. MIKE JOHNSON/(R) HOUSE SPEAKER: "THAT HAS SOME OF THE THINGS WITH REGARD TO THE LOAN LEASE OPTION AND THE REPO ACT AND SOME OTHER SANCTIONS ON IRAN AND OTHER MEASURES THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME." THE SENATE HAS YET TO TAKE UP A DIFFERENT TIKTOK BILL -- THE HOUSE PASSED WITH STRONG BIPARTISAN SUPPORT LAST MONTH. IT WOULD BAN THE PLATFORM FROM U- S APP STORES -- UNLESS IT SPUN OFF FROM ITS CHINESE PARENT COMPANY. SUPPORTERS OF THAT MEASURE SAY TIKTOK IS A NATIONAL SECURITY RISK. AVRIL HAINES/US DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: "WE CANNOT RULE OUT THAT THE C-C-P COULD USE IT." TIKTOK SAYS ABOUT 170 MILLION AMERICANS USE THE PLATFORM. BANNING IT FACES OPPOSITION. SUMMER LUCILLE/FOUNDER AND OWNER, JUICY BODY GODDESS BOUTIQUE (VIA CISCO WEBEX): "YOU ARE VOTING AGAINST MY SMALL BUSINESS. YOU ARE VOTING AGAINST ME GETTING A SLICE OF MY AMERICAN PIE." MAX KLYMENKO/ ENTREPRENEUR AND TIKTOK CONTENT CREATOR (VIA SKYPE): "THIS IS WHERE ENTERTAINMENT HAPPENS. THIS IS WHERE COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS OF ENTERTAINMENT WORLD HAPPENS. THIS IS WHERE EDUCATION HAPPENS." THE HOUSE BILLS COULD HOLD SOME APPEAL FOR DEMOCRATS. THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO PASS FOREIGN AID FOR MONTHS. BUT, THE WHITE HOUSE PREFERS A SENATE PACKAGE -- THAT DOES NOT BAN TIKTOK. KARINE JEAN- PIERRE/WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: "WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IS THAT BIPARTISAN NATIONAL SECURITY SUPPLEMENTAL THAT PASSED OVERWHELMINGLY, 70 TO 29 IN THE SENATE." I'M AMY KILEY REPORTING. AND HERE'S A LOOK AT YOUR TRAFFIC TRACK 22. THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS ON THE ROADS THIS MORNING