to remedy the problem and, indeed, have recently shown they are unwilling to do so. now, even though the court equild the heart of this law-- that, of course, requiring police officers to conduct those background checks-- critics say the legal battle is far from over. at only in arizona but in the five other states that have lssed similar laws so, scott, legally and politically there's a long way to go before these laws are settled. >> pelley: jan, a lot of states are following this very closely. what does this decision say to state legislatures as they craft their own laws in the future? >> well, what they're looking at is the heart of this law, whether they can have those background checks, so this certainly is expected to encourage states to go forward with similar laws, similar nsidroversial provisions. right now, eight other states are considering specific laws of sois nature and other states g rtainly are looking at it. d today the court gave a road owp of sorts saying some things that states could not do but the main provision right now has given states the green light to as iorward. as i said, there will be more legal challenges on this down the road. al pelley: jan, thanks very much. n at green light essentially says arizona police can ask ve tt immigration status, but then they have to turn it over to federal authorities from there. we asked ben tracy in phoenix to show us what that means. >> i was over here, here's where they pulled me over. >> reporter: mario chihuahua was pulled over last december by an arizona sheriff's deputy for making an illegal turn. >> reporter: when the deputy asked him for i.d. he didn't nyve any because he's an illegal immigrant. coe 36-year-old came from mexico 12 years ago. chihuahua was jailed for three days while his case was referred to federal immigration authorities. now the family, including 13- il, -old abril, faces deportation. >> for me i'll be starting all over again because all my studies have been here, i have been here since kindergarten. i have studied here. i really want to go to harvard. >> reporter: according to cday's supreme court ruling, police can still ask people like chihuahua for identification. federal officials would check their immigration status. but the department of homeland security says it will only detain illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, repeated violators or people who have secently crossed the border. it's likely federal authorities will not bother with someone like chihuahua. lingl, arizona governor jan brewer called the court's ruling a victory. >> well, today the state of ariz arizona and senate bill 1070 was vindicated and the heart of the bill was upheld. >> reporter: polls have shown a majority of arizonans support the law. state senator steve pierce voted for it. he says fear of arrests has forced thousands of illegal majo armigrants to leave the state. o it made lots of room in the roools. crime is down. the lines in the emergencies at the hospital are down. and it's... it changed things drastically. >> reporter: now, late this orternoon arizona governor jan brewer sent out a scathing statement from the state capitol here in phoenix. she took issue with the federal government saying that they don't plan to arrest most non- haiminal illegal immigrants. she called that, scott, a new nistrationor this administration. >> pelley: ben, thank you, the s esident says he's pleased that ose justices threw out most of the arizona law but he's rtncerned about the part they supt, that police ask suspected illegal immigrants for their papers. in a statement, president obama said no american should ever live around cloud of suspicion just because of what they look seke. another case closely watched ceday deals with the influence of money in politics. suprremember that the supreme court ruled a couple of years tio that corporations have the same free speech rights as people, so, the court said, corporations can give unlimited s to pols to political action committees that support candidates. that created the so-called super pacs. well, 23 states asked the court j reconsider that decision and nancy cordes joins us now with that. orncy? >> reporter: scott, good w ening. the montana law that the supreme court struck down today actually dates back to 1912 when copper mining giants dominated that state's politics so much so that pontana actually banned corporate spending in political thces to try to limit their influence. 22 states and the district of columbia backed montana's effort to keep those restrictions in place. but in a short half-page fcision today the court's five just conservative justices said lae state law violated the free speech rights of corporations, writing that montana's arguments in support of its law were unready rejected in citizens united. the citizens united ruling two years ago enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to give unlimited funds to certain political groups called super pacs. the result? with the 2012 election still four months away, super pacs supporting presidential candidates have already spent $101 million. it simply struck down the ruling by montana supreme court upholding the law and that sends the message to anyone who thoughts that the burt might walk back its decision on citizened united facee face of public anger, but that simply isn't going to happen at least with the court's current political ,akeup. >> what is interesting about this is its court made the decision without hearing any arguments in the case. >> that's right, its it simply struck down an earlier ruling by montana's supreme court upholding the law. t d that sends the message a anyone who thought that the court might walk back its decision on citizen's united in the face of public anger, but that simply isn't going to happen, at least with the court's current political makeup. >> thank you, nancy. the justices also ruled it's unconstitutional for states to make life sentences mandatory for children like when, for example, a murder occurs during the commission of a robbery. the court said children under 18 can be sentenced to life but it must be decided by a judge or a jury. automatic mandatory life sentences, the justices said, amount to cruel and unusual punishment. the justices still have to rule on one more major issue-- the affordable care act. that's also known as obamacare, the president's health care program. that decision will come on thursday. we're keeping a close eye tonight on those wildfires in the west. they are raging across seven states. one fire outside colorado springs nearly doubled in size overnight. rick sallinger of cbs station kcnc is with the firefighters. >> so if somebody's being impacted do not run. >> >> reporter: this 20-man team is preparing for the three-mile hike to the front lines. they they've been working 16-hour shifts to fight a fire that's now out of control. >> keep your-- closed, know where they are, stay alive, right. because even if it's not impacts here, we may have to ea help the other side. >> reporter: 40 miles an hour winds are spreading the fire at a rate of over half a mile every hour. so far, over 6,000 residents in the waldo canyon area have been forced from their homes. >> it's a very aggressive fire and we're basically trying to tlp steer it right now. we're not really actively engaging the fire, we're trying to help steer it away from the communities and the homes. >> reporter: the 450 firefighters here have done their jobs. no homes have been lost, but the fire is unpredictable. >> the fire right now is very tricky. .t's trying to run a couple of different directions and mother nature's not really helping us right now. usreporter: over half the >>tion's inventory of firefighting aircraft is combating the eight wildfires burning across colorado and more olor has just arrived. the air force has deployed four c-130 cargo planes to drop fire retardant to help contain the fire. >> the way the fire's growing and the actual area, the miles that it's taking up, we need a lot of resources. >> reporter: scott, there's a cloud of smoke behind me. i would guess about two miles away that represents the front away that repr it rises several thousand feet and feet air. and as the people around here must wonit they must wonder how long it's going to take before they'll be allowed to be back into their homes. >> pelley: hoping for better weather. o ck, thanks very much. r.om a fast-moving fire to a powerful storm that is creeping toward the gulf coast. the brunt of tropical storm debby is 20 to 30 miles off the fl florida coast tonight. it's expected to make landfall wednesday morning and cause severe flooding. it's already churned up the gulf of mexico and today the coast guard released video of a ne was pul rescue in florida. a family of nine was pulled to safety along with their two dogs after their vacation home was cut off by the surging tide. some mixed news today about the 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