here is a look at your forecast. slight chance for a thunderstorm out there. overall a relatively dry weekend for you. it is now 42 minutes after the hour. very nice. moving on to news now. there is good news for hobby lobby this morning. the company has been firighting the federal birth control mandate. oscar pistorius, the reason he s getting back into a training routine coming up. i m phyllis and i have diabetic nerve pain.
bill: today there is a major challenge to the president s birth control mandate. hobby lobby asking to be exempted from the healthcare birth control measures requiring the morning after pill. family owned hobby lobby considers itself a christian business and is closed on sundays. martha: a jury heading back to work today. they are trying to decide whether jodi arias should get death or life in prison for killing her boyfriend. adam housley is live in los angeles. 12 members of this jury have gotten to work on this. where does it go from here? reporter: they spent 7 hours so far.
as a parent, and myself and just like i m sure many of you are, it s just what can you say just except to cry with them. you know, it s difficult. the boy who is autistic is receiving medication we re told. the obama administration announcing long awaited amendment for obama s birth control mandate. hobby lobby who objects to the mandate grounds. critics say it doesn t change anything at all and all companies should be exempt from the mandate if they want to. what do you think about this? is this the same monkey? some experts are saying no way. calling into question whether iran s announcement of successfully launching a monkey into space is a fake.
still other catholic groups are coming out and calling it window dressing and vowing to fight further. there lab 60-day period of public comment but the rules expected to be finalized by this summer. alisyn: this is not over yet. we have more reaction to the white house s loosening of the birth control mandate. here what cardinal timothy dolan one of the most outspoken critics had to say. this is cause close to our heart. i m not exaggerating but i pray for some type of accommodation for a long time. this is fight we re not fighters by nature. we don t like to be fighters. alisyn: he tells us he is pleasantly surprised, he still wants to read and digest the changes himself. for latest reaction go to foxnews.com. conflicting nay numbers
right to your headlines. there is this chilling case in missouri after a man admits to police that he was planning a movie master like the one in aurora, colorado. police say the mother of blake la mars after he bought two assault rifles and hundreds of bullets. she contacted police who picked him up at a restaurant and arrested him after he said he planned on shooting people after the opening of break dawn. he also admitted he changed his mind and wanted to actually shoot up a wal-mart because he would have been able to get more ammunition there. a christian publishing company lands a temporary victory over obama care in court. a judge ruled that kindle publishing house does not have to provide employees with birth control coverage that it morally objects to. the judge said following the birth control mandate to avoid a government fine would mean going against their religious beliefs. air force one the nation s largest federal employees union blocking basic fitness