funeral for an hour before and an hour after designed to protect christina green s funeral from the westboro baptist church protesters. they re expediting it, usually this sort of thing would happen in a matter of days, weeks. it s expected today to pass the house twice, senate twice and get signed by the governor within perhaps five hours, brooke. we did get a statement at cnn from westboro. i ll share that momentarily. back to the point about the state legislature. they expedited it as you said to get this legislature moving here possibly as soon as the bottom of the hour. jess, my question is, is there a sense of shock perhaps among lawmakers or a sense to get out in front of these funerals first? reporter: absolutely. the democratic and republican county organizations here in pima county have organized and come together to themselves create a human sort of peaceful blockade if the westboro protesters do show up, that they
i tell you, they re really the key a lot of people are interested in how could this young man have done something so horrific? the fact he s not cooperating with authorities, the parents i think a lot of people think are the next the only way in, gateway into what could have happened here. so they say they re going to talk at some point and obviously as you heard there, they are in a lot of pain, themselves. when that happens, who knows. ted, to clarify when you say he s not cooperating with authorities you simply mean he s not speak ing to authorities, still invoking the fifth amendment right, correct? reporter: not helping in that he s not speaking. got it. ted rowlands in arizona. appreciate it. want to remind you, we re monitoring what s happening in the arizona state legislature. this afternoon, possibly any minute now where lawmakers are about to vote on whether to ban protesters from these funerals. these shooting victims funerals. so as soon as anything happens the
britney has released. it s been a while, right? first single in over two years since her sixth album, circus. it s already shot to number one on itunes. it was released early because it was leaked, but it looks like she s got another hit on her hands, and that s great, and remarkable considering everything that she s been through with her career. might have to add it to the old running mix on the ipod. brooke anderson, thank you for that. sounds good. we are also monitoring what is happening, of course, today, this afternoon, there in arizona. state house, we are watching and waiting this vote to essentially ban protesters from funerals. they would have to say they would have to stay 300 feet from the funerals of the victims of the tucson shootings. so we ll have more on that. also coming up, i ll be checking in with wolf blitzer in washington about the big political stories of the day. we ll be right back.
so just to be clear, for people who aren t quite sure protests we are talking about, there is word from that church in kansas of them coming to arizona to protest some of these funerals, including 9-year-old christina green s on thursday. that s part of the reason why you re trying to draft this language. when is the vote scheduled to happen, matt? do you know? sure. and i do need to be specific, this law, this will have the effect of protecting that funeral as well, but this is not a specific law to any one particular case. got it. the law is, it has an emergency clause attached to it, which means once this vote occurs, which i expect in the next 10 to 15 minutes, and then goes up to the governor s desk for her signature, which it will receive, i am told, then the law is immediately enacted. and this is really, matt, unprecedented, this sort of warp speed, if i can use that phrase here, going through the house and then the senate and then the
urgency for the governor to need to sign this into law. it is. and i can t certainly promise this, but based on the response i ve been hearing from my colleagues on both sides of the aisle here in the house and senate, i suspect that there will be i believe this will be unanimous. you believe it will be unanimous. so it has to have the two-thirds majority in the house, and then it goes on to the senate. do you think or have you heard from anyone, has there been any kind of resistance here, or is this pretty much a done deal? no. this is everyone is standing behind this. this is a strongly supported measure from the executives on down to both the senate and the house, again, in a bipartisan manner. what if, and i just have to throw this out there, what if this vote still does not keep those people from showing up at these funerals and protesting? is there a plan b ? you know, i don t think i need to worry about that. i m pretty sure that the community of tucson is already