3 3 3 a bill o restrict protesters at military funerals. will be heard in court this morning. local officiall are trying to push picketers. a little farther away.megan gilliland is live with more on what this bill entails. good morning patrice,thii bill, would expand the distance. thht picketers could protest near soldiers funerals. moving them from pway.(chhrch protest- 3 seconds) when the westboro baptist church members showed up at this soldiers funeral in carroll county. 5 years ago. it lead to a civil lawsuit. after years in court. the us supreme court recently ruled in the churches favor. protecttng theer first amendment rights.bbt some state and local officials, still believe picketing these funerals is wrong and they re trying to restrict it in the future. without violating the first amendment. (shoemakkr) i would prefer that they wouud be in the next county someplace but 500 feet may be right, could be a thousa thousand. today s hearing will be heard at one o clo
breaks my heart. every time i see it it breaks my heart it s been almost five years since cpl matthew snyders funeral, and the debate from that day... still makes headlines:(girl) we re protesting the soldiers funeral (girl)(holding sign) thank god for dead soldiers, (coyboy holding sign)the sign says god hates fags.. amen too the funeral procession was shielded from the protessers by a seat of red white and blue. (man soldier who walks away) to have somebody lose their life for us and be treated that way.. it almost reminds you of vietnam and like vietnam the controversy continues.. in the latest development the supreme court finds freedom of speech a funeral. ((((albert snyder- dad)))))(snyder clip 2 sot) 1:56 this court has no problem with the government sending our children over two these places send them back in a body bag and not even have enough respect for that dead soldier to be buried peacefully.(dutch shaking hands) hey how are you all doing now congressman dut
and believe me, brooke, something is going to happen. what do you mean by that? something is somebody is going to get hurt. you have too many soldiers and marines coming back with posttraumatic stress syndrome, they re going to do the wrong funeral, and a gun s going to go off. and when it does, i just hope it doesn t hit the mother that s burying her child. my thanks again to al snyder coming on and speaking with me. you can watch that entire interview, just go to cnn.com/brooke. now, the supreme court ruled that westboro baptist protests, no matter how full of hate they are, are protected under free speech under the first amendment. all right, now let s go to wolf blitzer, we saw the president fielding some questions about libya, specifically the possibility of a no-fly zone. did you watch? did you think the president
said is he keeping all of his options open and he spoke of using the military to rescue all those thousands of fleeing civilians. i have, therefore, approved the use of u.s. military aircraft to help move egyptians who have fled to the tune nishian border to get back home to egypt. i ve authorized u.s. a.i.d. to charter additional civilian aircraft to help people from other countries find their way home. we ll get back to the president in a moment. but first, this becoming a war? that is the question today. want you to have a look. tell me what you think. hey! [ explosions ] you hear the popping, gunfire. this footage was shot just yesterday near the libyan oil-rich city of brega if that name sounds familiar, it should because it was just about this time yesterday when we showed you this dramatic footage that was shot just outside of brega but our cnn team. do you remember that? that was the video shot by cnn shot yesterday near al brega by our own ben wedeman and his
we re going to hear more from the 90-year-old hollywood legend about the issue that affects millions of americans, early this thursday morning, march 3rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and hi everyone welcome to the early show here on a thursday morning. i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. good to have you with us today. we begin with the very latest from libya. this morning, leader moammar gadhafi s air force is bombing rebel forces there in the east once again. cbs news correspondent mandy clark joins us from libya this morning. mandy, hello. hello. well, we re on the road towards the front line and we re hearing that this town of adjibaya and brega were bombed this morning. this morning, the rebels were digging in. and getting ready to defend the territory they won back. the assault by government troops began before dawn yesterday and included bombing runs by gadhafi s warplanes. they are bombing us by very big bombs. reporter: this bomb narrowly missed an