Grammys. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Were beginning the broadcast tonight with a fullblown civil rights battle in alabama. Today most county offices there defied a federal court order allowing samesex marriage. Many couples were turned away, some marriage license offices simply did not open. Last night alabamas chief justice banned samesex marriage licenses. His ruling also in defiance of the federal court. Alabama would be the 37th state where samesex marriage is permitted, and in some counties today, the licenses were granted. Chip reid is sorting all of this out for us in montgomery. Reporter billy clark and kerry perez, both 26, have been waiting to get married for four years. Today they did it after an alabama judge issued their license. It feels really good to have people recognize what weve always known to be true. Uhhuh. I love you. Reporter last month a federal judge struck down alabamas ban on samesex marria
My heart because you got me four grammys. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Were beginning the broadcast tonight with a fullblown civil rights battle in alabama. Today most county offices there defied a federal court order allowing samesex marriage. Many couples were turned away, some marriage license offices simply did not open. Last night alabamas chief justice banned samesex marriage licenses. His ruling also in defiance of the federal court. Alabama would be the 37th state where samesex marriage is permitted, and counties today, the licenses were granted. Chip reid is sorting all of this out for us in montgomery. Reporter billy clark and kerry perez, both 26, have been waiting to get married for four years. Today they did it after an alabama judge issued their license. It feels really good to have people recognize what weve always known to be true. Uhhuh. I love you. Reporter last month a federal judge struck down alaba
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Hot lane cases with mass refunds. Peggy fox is live at the Fairfax County courthouse where a contentious hearing took place today. Weve talked to many people who say they had working easy passes and still face thousands of dollars in fines. We met a maryland man today who said he did nothing wrong and had a working easy pass but faced 26,000 in fines. Today he paid a 500 settlement to make it all go away. They get you and keep pushing you. They have the money and the lawyers to do it. You dont. Youve got work to do. Reporter George Mcdonagh has had an easy pass for six years. He said it worked everywhere except on the express lane. In july of 2013, he was sent an email that he owed 58 in toll violations. He didnt believe it and asked for proof. After talking to a guy named david on there he said fax your easy pass statement to me seeing youve been good the whole time and youre not in the rears or anything. Then mail with your statement and well see what we can do. I did that. And basic
Publicly name north korea for the attack, which they have traced using digital footprints. The u. S. Government is taking this attack very seriously, as an attack on a company, its an attack on its employees and frankly, its an attack on the freedoms that we enjoy in this country, the freedom of an entertainer or an artist to make something, though it may be controversial. And the freedom of people to go see it. Were reviewing a range of options for how we will respond to this attack. Cnn justice correspondent evan perez is with me now to tell us more about this. Good morning. Good morning, carol. This is the big issue for this administration is, how to respond to this north korean hacking, but also to make sure its not an overreaction. The white house is expected to announce attribution of this hack in the next couple of hours and as you said at the top, carol, the way this was done was to make it look like it was an inside job, to make sure that people thought it was coming from insi