Latest flashpoint in a National Debate about freedom and discrimination. Two days ago indianas governor mike pence surrounded by nuns, franciscan monks and Orthodox Jews signed the religious freedom restoration act into law. Going into effect in july it protects the right of people or businesses to follow their religious beliefs. Today, hundreds of people gathered at the state house in indianapolis to protest, saying the law sanctions discrimination against gays and lesbians. As adriana diaz reports, this backlash is building. Reporter more than 700 protesters turned out at the state capital today to voice their fears that the new law could give businesses the right to refuse to serve gays and lesbians under religious grounds. This is what democracy looks like reporter rachel and amy have been married for 15 years. I dont want my child living in an environment where shes made to feel like her family is somehow less than other families families. Reporter todays protests echoed growing o
We begin tonight in and the latest flashpoint in a National Debate about freedom and discrimination. Two days ago indianas governor mike pence surrounded by nuns, franciscan monks and Orthodox Jews signed the religious freedom restoration act into law. Going into effect in july it protects the right of people or businesses to follow their religious beliefs. Today, hundreds of people gathered at the state house in indianapolis to protest, saying the law sanctions discrimination against gays and lesbians. As adriana diaz reports, this backlash is building. Reporter more than 700 protesters turned out at the state capital today to voice their fears that the new law could give businesses the right to refuse to serve gays and lesbians under religious grounds. This is what democracy looks like reporter rachel and amy have been married for 15 years. I dont want my child living in an environment where shes made to feel like her family is somehow less than other families families. Reporter toda
Speaking on capitol hill more than 18 hours after he started. Cruz and a handful of other republican senators are speaking out against a new Health Care Law. We are going to have much more on this and follow the story throughout the day. Thanks for being with us. Thats what is happening today. Well be back in half an hour for a local news update. Er from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer, and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday. Its 7 00 on the west coast. Im matt lauer. Good morning. Im Savannah Guthrie along side al roker and Natalie Morales. Thats a good party trick for bono. Not that he needs one since hes a rock star. Former president clinton commented it must be easy to make fun of me. Its a good one. No question about it. Spot on. Meanwhile, look at whats happening at washington, d. C. Senator ted cruz still going at this hour. This is an effort to defeat funding for obamacare. Technically this is no
This is the western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight in indiana, the latest flashpoint in a National Debate about freedom and discrimination. Two days ago, indianas governor mike pence, surrounded by nuns franciscan monks and orthodox jews, signed the religious freedom restoration act into law. Going into effect in july, it protects the right of people or businesses to follow their religious beliefs. Today, hundreds of people gathered at the state house in indianapolis to protest, saying the law sanctions discrimination against gays and lesbians. As adriana diaz reports, this backlash is building. Reporter more than 700 protesters turned out at the state capital today to voice their fears that the new law could give businesses the right to refuse to serve gays and lesbians under religious grounds. This is what democracy looks like reporter rachel and amy have been married for 15 years. I dont want my child living in an environment where shes made to feel like her family is so
Them even worse. Nearly 60 large fires are burning in the west tonight. We start with carter evans in los angeles. Central washington has been ravaged by wild fires all summer and now a stud wind shift has made things jurors as flames that had burned for several days suddenly pushed into the town of chelan. Matthews andersons shed burned but his home survived. This whole ridge was on fire, that whole hillside there, this whole hillside was on fire last night. It was nuts this is how the fire looked from lake chelan, a popular recreational spot, so far, at least 100 structures have burned. Hundreds more are threatened. In oregon crews are battling several out of control wild fires, one of them burned more than 86 square miles near the warm springs indian reservation, sally sallie polkadams is one of hundreds of evacuees. By the time we got in the fire, the fire was in our backyard, we barely made it out. So far this year wild fires have burned more than six and a half million acres. Tha