coverage of gay marriage before the u.s. supreme court. captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman s fund good evening. i m scott shafer. welcome to this week in northern california. next tuesday, more than four years after california voters approved proposition 8, the state s ban on same-sex marriage, it gets a hearing from the u.s. supreme court. it will hear arguments for the defense of marriage act known as doma. we discuss the issues before the u.s. supreme court. it s the final stop on a long and winding legal road. let s begin with a look at how it all started. the week of valentine s day, 2004, newly elected san francisco mayor gavin newsom, boldly, some said recklessly orders to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. we reignited a fundamental debate. scott: outside city hall, gays and lesbians lines up around the block. about 4,000 couples tied the knot. it was not to last. at the urging of then governor schwarzenegger, the supreme court stopped the ma