0 issue when he revealed his son had recently come out. will portman chronicled the story in the yale student newspaper writing in part, i m proud of my dad. not necessarily because of where he is now on marriage equality, although i m pretty psyched about that, but because he s been thoughtful and open-minded in how he s approached the issue and because he s shown that he s willing to take a political risk in order to take a principled stand. he was a good man before he changed his position. and he s a good man now just as there are good people on either side of this issue today. recent pew poll shows a reversal in public opinion on the topic of same-sex marriage mostly because of younger americans. in 2003, americans overwhelm league opposed it. 58% to 33%. flash forward ten years now, more americans support it at 49% to 44%. younger americans have shown a 19% change in support over the last decade alone. back from his tour of the middle east, president obama is urging them to fini
0 in afghanistan, the pentagon revealed that most u.s. and nato combat troops have resumed joint operations with afghany forces less than two weeks ago u.s. commanders announced an indefinite halt in joint operations. this after a spike in the number of insider attacks. 51 nato troops have been killed by insider attacks in just the past month. elsewhere, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu can expect a phone call from president obama today that according to the white house. this after a scheduling conflict kept the two from meeting in person. last night in new york the israeli leader did meet with secretary of state clinton one-on-one for more than an hour in what was described as an indepth discussion on iran and shared goal of preventing that country from acquiring a nuclear weapon. just hours earlier, netanyahu used visual imagery to lay out in clear terms his own red line for dealing with iran. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more from the u
sirius/xm radio. you can always shoot me an e-mail or tweet necessity. let me know why you re awake right now. or you can do what nfl referees do and text awake followed by your response to 622369. i always forget that part. you re great. we ll read the best responses later on. the next 30 minutes is your friday cram session on this friday, september 28. there is a lot going on today including new polls out by the nbc and wall street journal that show a tight race between the president and mitt romney. and we re looking through the eyes of the saturday night live crew. a special campaign edition later on in the show. first, let us get to the news live here at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in the center of new york city. we do begin with new developments out of libya. the a.p. reporting the u.s. state department is pulling more staffers out of its embassy in the capital of tripoli over security fears. the move is expected to be temporary until the security situation improves. t
it all out. you see that that ball is in. caught the back of the line. just think of what these two guys have put out, ok? it is one of the more amazing things you ll see in our sport. almost five hours before either one of them really gave in at all, physically. bill: 2:00 in the morning in the u.k. and you know they are the u.k. and you know they are riveted. john: it wasn t called out, apparently. murray is going to what s the call? someone s challenged it. bill: here s the chase review. oh, it s out. that s the bottom line. that s all that matters. it s triple match point for andy murray to finally get that first grand slam. what a way to earn it. [the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy o
eight people like these transplant recipients, the ones that will receive his organs have already been identified, a handful of 114,000 patients nationwide, waiting to receive heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and small intestine transplants. waiting to live, waiting for their lives to be saved. nationwide 19 die without transplants every day and today chp expressed their support for his decision. sending a fellow chp officer to stand in solidarity, his donor pin just below a badge. under the most tragic circumstances, he has given an unexpected gift to save a life. if you can see the flowers and mementos still pouring in as c p s headquarters. earlier today the flags were flying at half staff as well. the california transplant donor network is encouraging people to become organ donors, you can do that at the dmv, you can also do it on our website, donate life, calif., .org. slides across the bay area flying at half staff in honor of this officer. in addition