Means. I think people hear marriage and they assume that all of the benefits that come with being married recognized by the federal government, health care and in this case immigration benefits, come with that. But under current law these couples are not covered. Marylanders are very surprised. They are like, we did it. Its done. Youve got all the rights. And we have to say not all of them. Reporter sarahs visa expires in 2014. Unlike a heterosexual married couple, diana cannot sponsor sarah for permanent residency in the u. S. Even though samesex marriage is legal in maryland. It is going to be huge for us being married. It will be more like are we single, partnered . What are we . Reporter what they want now is to ensure the happily ever ever. Now, the Group Immigration equality estimates that there are 36,000 couples who share this same immigration issue. About half of them are already raising children together. Now, this could change in a couple of ways. Number one, if the Supreme
With the redskins, i do im starting to like the redskins as well. Whoa now, if it comes to a super bowl between the two . I will go with redskins. By the way, also in a wild card game, they take on the Indianapolis Colts in baltimore tomorrow at 1 00. As the skins make their playoff push, team memorabilia is flying off the shelves ahead of tomorrows game. A manassas family is hoping to add to their collection, if they have the room for it. Audrey barns took a tour of the ultimate redskins man cave at the duval family home. Reporter a lot of football fans have a signed helmet or two, but a manassas family has dozens of them. In fact, they have so much redskins memorabilia, it fills an entire garage. Jimmy duval started collecting redskins stuff with his dad when he was just a kid. He basically built an addition to hold it all. We have autogra, flags, pictures, just collectible shot glasses, you know, whatevers got red skin logo on it, we buy it. Ever try to sneak stuff in without your w
Health care plan but the problems of the launch of the Affordable Care act has Congress Looking for answers. And today theyll be looking to the health and human sfs secretary Kathleen Sebelius for answers. Shes testifying about who knew there were issues with healthcare. Gov and when did they know it. Ko im is live on capitol hill with more. Good morning, ko. Reporter good morning, mike, andrea. This will be secretary sebelius first congressional hearing. There is going to be a long list of questions and theres a long list of republicans now calling for her resignation. Yesterday medicare chief maryland tagner was grilled by law makers. She essentially defended her agencys rocky rollout of healthcare. Gov but she also acknowledged the problems by apologizing. I want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should. Reporter its growing increasingly there there was not enough testing. Republicans are also calling the president a liar, some of them saying the pres
All of your corridors in between including route 29 out of burtonsville look great. There was a serious crash overnight on 895 at the harbor tunnel and southbound side remains blocked in case youre headed to baltimore this morning. And were going to end with a live look outside one more time. No problems to report here 395 at the 14th street bridge. Back you to, andrea and mike. Thanks, monika. A Major Investigation is under way in Northern Virginia this morning after a deadly shooting at a local homeless shelter. Fairfax county police were called to the shelter near fort belvoir to break up a fight but officers ended up firing at one of the men involved in the brawl. Delia goncalves is live at the scene. She has the latest. Good morning, delia. Reporter good morning. Police responded here around 6 00 yesterday. It all started as a pretty routine call. Police oftentimes they say come to break up fights but then we know that violence quickly es came late. Lets take a look at some video
Children on food stamp and 9 million elderly or seriously disabled people. Local and federal officials announced theyd shut down a massive drug tunnel that had an electric rail system, ventilation and hydraulic steel doors. It went from tijuana to a warehouse in san diego. I do not use crack cocaine. The mayor does appear in that video. A video of mayor rob ford has been recovered by investigators. This disturbing video of a fight between two female students gets worse when you find out the man in dark blue is also heard on the video encouraging the girls to fight. Police are investigating pending an assault charge where he apparently pulled the other girl off his daughter. Starting today 47 million americans will be looking at less money to help put food on their tables. That is because the federal Food Stamp Program or system n. A. P. Budget is being cut by 5 billion or s. N. A. P. Budget is being cut by 5 billion. The result is just going to make it harder for those who rely on food