2. Authorities say a coast guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran around in an inlet off New York City. 5 coast guard crew members and 7 fishermen escaped without serious injury , during the incident off Queens early Thursday morning. 

 

3. A group of senior senator democrats publicly scolded the republican leadership for threatening to delay the confirmation  of the new supreme court justice, until after the president Obama's turn.  Senate minority leader Harry Reid said we never have the history of the country such obstruction. 

 

4. And international soccer star Lionel Messi has set a 5 year-old Afghan fan Martaza Ahmadi a signed shirt. Martaza became an internet sensation. A photo circulated of him wearing an improvised Messi shirt made from a plastic bag. 

 

Emily Roseman, the associated press, with AP news minute.