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the district starting tuesday. very excited. reporter: even before the first couple walks down the aisles there s controversial fallout from the city s decision. catholic charities the social services arm of the archdiocese of washington, just announced it will no longer offer health benefits to spouses of new new or current employees who aren t already covered under its plan. as a result the non-profit is effectively avoiding having to give benefits to same-sex partners, keeping with the church s opposition to same-sex marriage. how long have you and your partner been together? we ve been together for ten years. reporter: chris hinkle is gay and a practicing catholic. he live in virginia and worships in washington. he views the developments in d.c. as two steps forward and quickly two steps back for the gay and lesbian community and its strained relationship with the catholic church. why is it disappointing to you? it s a slap in the face. yeah. it s prejudice. reporter:

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exemplified. in today s world, you think that applies to health care as well as the right to marry? absolutely it does. absolutely. reporter: kate baldwin, cnn, washington. still ahead, rob marciano is going to be checking in with us. the spring-like temperatures for most of the northeast, how long will it last, though? we re going to find out. 43 minutes after the hour.

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done what he wants. also they re counting the votes after iraqis defied a wave of attacks to cast their ballots in a milestone election. we re going to hear what it means for u.s. troops presence there as well and president obama s plan to bring them home. we begin with the retired army general tapped by president obama to become the new head of the transportation security administration. he is robert a. harding, a 33-year army veteran who s been nominated to a post that hasn t had a permanent leader since before the president took office. let s bring in our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve live in washington this morning. what do we know about the president s nominee? john, general harding has a very strong background in intelligence, having served for four years as director of operations at the defense intelligence agency where he managed a more than $1 billion intelligence collection program. he held a variety of intelligence jobs in the military, including somet

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at ft. hood, but now some u.s. sources are actually questioning those reports of his capture. cnn national security analyst peter bergen joins us from washington. good morning, thanks for being with us. good morning. as we said we re getting some conflicting information. senior pakistani government officials told nic robertson it is adam gadahn, the american spokesman for al qaeda, us but a pakistani officer telling the ap it s another american who has a similar name, not gadahn. what do you make of all of this morning? well, the two people in question, both as you say have very similar names, they re not even their real names, sort of names of jihad, but an american being called a member of al qaeda in karachi, the largest muslim city in the world, a city of 18 million people on the coast of on pakistan s southern coast, a place where we ve seen the arrests just a few days ago of the number two in the taliban, a place where al qaeda has long had a presence,

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