shall be valid or recognized in this state. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marriages. he does not. he supports domestic unions. but he does not support an amendment like the one in north carolina, which would prohibit rights for same-sex couples. what happens in north carolina now? this could have wide ranging impacts, and not just on same-sex couples but on male and female couples as well because it will prevent domestic partnerships in the future and any attempt at civil unions. north carolina also a battle ground state, a state that president obama won four years ago, he
control the damage. obviously i stepped in it. but again, i go i have my moment of humor with it and press on. if perry can have his moment of hume, i guess maybe we can, too. i m not sure if you re a monty python fan but i am. watching perry reminded me a lot of this he said he s not dead. yes, he is. i m not. he isn t? he will be soon, he s very ill. i m getting bet. no, you re not, you ll be stone dead in a moment. sorry, guys. my experience tell me voters sometimes have a different verdict than the pundits. bill clinton s circumstance ka early 1992 or clinton s lewinsk. be careful in listening to pundits. for perry a twitter verse and blogosphere rush to say the debacle would be the end of an already-struggling candidacy. it s three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and the what s the third one there? let s see. five. commerce, education epa. epa, there you go. no. seriously. is epa? no,
like this time where it has been utterly devastated. there are buildings collapsed, and the roads are in a complete state of disrepair. it s just hard to describe what was a vibrant city a few hours ago now has just been brought to its knees. well, as the aftershocks continue to rattle, already shaken residents, thousands of people are now homeless. apparently the welfare centers are filling up with more than 1,200 people bunking at a horse track in chift church for the night. let s get an idea of the size of the area we re talking about. rob marciano has been tracking about this. rob, i m going to try to find this on line. it is the hub for the national science foundation, the foreign operating base to get to antarctic, and people come 32 there. that s the stop on the way to the south pole. you re familiar with it. it is also the second largest
the quake hit before 1:00 p.m. tuesday local time. 7:00 a.m. p.m. on the east coast. was centered just a few miles from christchurch. it toppled buildings and cracked roads and knocked out phone lines. at least 65 people were killed at that point. thousands were already made homeless. the three main welfare centers are already filling up and about 1,200 people have taken refuge at a horse track there in christchurch. the hospital is operational but only for emergencies, while dozens of life flights have transported the injured to cities just outside the quake zone. gary denver is a reporter for new zealand s news talk zb and joins u.s. on the phone. what is latest from there, gary? reporter: we are at this stage with a death toll of 65 but we expect that to be revised upward to probably after daylight. the search and rescue staff are
banks. felicia, thanks. take you to new zealand now. update you on quake news. now calculating at least 65 people have died and hundreds of people are still believed to be trapped inside the buildings that you re seeing here that have collapsed. it s following a 6.3 earthquake that hit the south island. that quake hit around lunch time locally, 7:00 p.m. on the east coast yesterday. it shook buildings and twisted roads into ruins and we have been getting video in through the night. now, the phone lines are down. residents actually turned to social media to search for missing friends and family. online people finder that was developed by google volunteers for the haiti earthquake, that has been put into action and the three main centers are filled with homeless people now. a horse track in christchurch that houses 1,200 people now.