planning for health plan that violates its conscience. this is something to plan for the next few weeks. there are other plaintiffs seeking relief. they include catholic and protestant colleges, christian schools serving inner city children in the district of columbia and charities providing aid and help to the abused and neglected and dying. we ve been profiling these, the victims of the hhs mandate on our foundry block at the heritage foundation each day during this ft. night for freedom. you can read their stories there. hhs mandate forces these ministries to either face steep fines or to violate conscience by providing coverage for services like abortion drugs which the obama administration deemed essential but which remain controversial in the american public at large. this is just the first among many rules and regulations as nina was just mentioning that are expected as this massive 2,700 page obama care law presses its full weight onto our society. and we expect that
sequestration yet and all of that sort of thing. i think it s a lot cheaper, and i think it s a lot smarter. i think it s a lot more credible in the courts of the world to be a party to this treaty. and we lose side of the fact that when we re on the outside that we ll tell them we have great, massive navy power and we ll do if we ever came to that, i think we can, but i think it s important. we re going have competition for these areas. if we don t lay a claim to these extended area, there are lots of other people as you mentioned, i think it was you, in the arctic. we ve got the russians and the chinese will be there, everybody s up there and everybody wants to get in on the deal. why don t we just put our footprint there. all we have to do is put this treaty in place, with the adjustments that need to be made and put our people there and lay claim to what is rightly the resources with this country. yes, mr. timmons? 161 other countries would likely not recognize our
on this, the eve of a key gop primary in louisiana, rick santorum is charging hard. polls show him as a double digit favorite there, but santorum is also on the defensive today. he s taking a lot of heat from his rivals for hinting that reelecting barack obama might might be preferable to electing mitt romney. listen to this. you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who is just going to be a little different than the person in there. if they re going to be a little different we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be an etch a sketch candidate for the future. strong words. let s go live to our senior correspondent joe johns. he s in louisiana. joe, i take it senator santorum is back peddling furiously today. joo he sort of has to, when you think about it, wolf. this is one of those situations where he said something and almost immediately the cr
korea plans to launch a long-range rocket. why tensions are soaring ahead of a world nuclear summit. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com on this, the eve of a key gop primary in louisiana, rick santorum is charging hard. polls show him as a double digit favorite there, but santorum is also on the defensive today. he s taking a lot of heat from his rivals for hinting that reelecting barack obama might might be preferable to electing mitt romney. listen to this. you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who is just going to be a little different than the person in there. if they re going to be a little different we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be an etch a sketch candidate for the future. strong words. let s go live to our senior correspondent joe johns. he s in louisiana. joe, i take it s
the light rail finally in san francisco after a wrongway driver steered his way into the tracks and into the muni tunnel. it was shut down while crews there pushed that suv off of the tracks. nbc christie smith is joining us live near the tunnel and christie, you had a chance to speak with the muni worker who saw all of this. i guess it must have been a wild scene out there. reporter: we spoke with a muni worker who said he couldn t believe his eyes because he says the driver blew past not one, but two signs out here that clearly say do not enter and he went right into the tunnel where trains would be coming out right at him, but fortunately, he wasn t hit. instead, he went quite a ways in and ran into a wall. a worker ran in and snapped a picture saying the driver told him when he got out i m not from here, but what a mess near the dubois tunnel at 6:00 for the commuters just trying to get downtown into work. trains couldn t roll through for a time and the bus bridge was s