The treaty is called the United Nations conventions on the rights of persons with disabilities. It was modeled on the americans with disabilities act. The treaty was meant to encourage other countries to be more like the u. S. On the issue of equal rights for the disabled. Also disabled americans who visit or live in other countries could potentially benefit from the u. N. Treaty. 125 countries ratified it. But on tuesday, 38 u. S. Republican senators voted against it. There names are right there. Some of them flipflopped at the last minute. Some had signaled support for the treaty and then indicated theyd vote for it only to vote against it. One of the measures cosponsored, jerry mirrand, actually voted against it. So the guy who cosponsored it voted against it. We asked him to come on the program yesterday, today as well. He declined. A former senator got involved on this as well, rick santorum, whose 4yearold daughter bella is disabled. He was one of the treatys strongest proponents
Things that might happen have now happened because we failed to intervene. When is enough enough . That is the question many are asking about syria as the death toll climbs and concerns mount over chemical weapons and some lawmakers are saying it is too late to stop mass destruction. What is going on with netflix . Another major blunder by the ceo. Why he is being investigated by the ccc. It is saturday, december 8th. Good morning, everyone. Im randi kaye. Victor blackwell is off today. We start with a landmark decision by the Supreme Court. The justices decided to hear two ca cases. Joe johns has a look. Randi, after weeks of speculation the court decided to take up two cases on samesex marriage. The first one about the defensive marriage act. Windsor against the United States. They were married in toronto, canada, in 2007. Spire died in 2007 in new york at a time when new york recognized samesex marriages that were performed outside the state. She was required to pay 363,000 on feder
A comeback. Next. First at 11 00 tonight, massive trees fall without warning. Northwest washington, a 70 foot tall oak tree crashed onto and crushed an suv. Takoma park, the woman and a young child are lucky to be alive after the tree fell on top of them. The sound ascribed being like under. J . Really an extraordinary scene behind me. We hear these stories all too often, trees coming down in neighborhoods like this, crushing homes, crushing cars. In this case neither of those scenarios occurred, it was something even more terrifying, the tree fell on a mother and her child. Takoma park, famous or its foliage. For no clear reason, monday evening at huge oak fell across the front yard of a home along holly drive. The lights suddenly flickered. We looked outside and there it was. Michael richardson. I look outside and suddenly the tree was on the ground. They both heard the horrible sound from their nearby homes. I saw a flash from the power lines snapping and i heard what basically soun
A decision today in the fourth u. S. Circuit court of appeals could send the virginia gay marriage case to the u. S. Supreme court. The ban had been struck down, but tonight reporter mola lenghi explains why the ruling does not require virginia to issue marriage licenses to gay couples right away. Reporter it was a major victory for same sex couples in virginia monday. A threejudge panel of the u. S. Court of appeals in richmond same sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. James parrish, executive director of equality virginia, has been fighting for that right for years. Its another step in the right direction. Reporter or the wrong direction according to the judge who gave the dissenting in the 21 ruling. The judge says failing to specifically define marriage between a machine and woman would allow everyone man and woman would allow everyone and anyone to marry like a father to a daughter or one person to multiple partners. The judge wrote there is no fundamental right to sa
Sex marriages. A Flash Flood Warning in effect right now as heavy rain bears down on the north bay and tonight residents are being told to be on alert. Good evening im heather homes. And im ken wayne. We begin with Flash Flood Warning. Its in effect in parts of the county. You can see it from our radar images. It received quite a bit of rain. Thats not the only problem. Take a look at the damage when a tree took down a utility poll, wires and a fence. This wet weather is making for slick and dangerous driving conditions. Our crews saw several accidents today. We have live coverage. We began with our meteorologist mark. Thats right. In fact the heaviest rain has been focused in the northern half of the bay area. Over the past hour or so activity beginning to back off a bit and lift up to the north. The big story was earlier today in terms of rain fall to report. This just from 4 00 p. M. Friday to this afternoon and look at the numbers really adding up in santa rosea, napa, fairfield, b