to the right there. he s been a big supporter of this as well. the governor certainly threw his full support behind it this time around. of course it failed last year and opponents are promising to come up with 56,000 voter signatures that they will need to put this on a november referendum. you say that you re not seeing any signs of opponents there to th this today but a lot of supporters who really have a vested interest in this. this is what they ve waited for, the day and moment they ve been waiting for. indeed. i think the opposition will now move to a different arena, different venue. we understand a lot of the congregations especially in our part of town, prince george s co county, are against this but not unanimously. we have heard from the episcopal ar archdiocese that they are actually happy about this and applaud the governor s decision %pplaud the governor s decision here and his actions and now allowed them to make these unions or perform these unions. %nions
tracking up the coast later this weekend. here is your forecast 86 in washington. plenty of sunshine again and should be dry 87 in fredericksburg. more details and we will look at hurricane irene coming up in a couple of minutes. . back to our top story this morning. the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that rocked our region yesterday. it was felt as far south as georgia, as far north as canada. there were several after shocks as well. holly morris and audry are covering the event for us this morning. we will start with audry who is in culpepper, virginia, where there is quite a bit of damage. officials have condemned eight buildings. good morning, audry. reporter: good morning. that s right. when we arrived at culpepper this morning about 4:00, the number of build pgs that have been condemned were three. within the last few hours or so the inspectors have hit the street and were checking out the buildings one by one and that number has risen to 8 including the restaurant wher