same-sex marriage is paying off for his re-election hopes. a democratic source saying the president raised $2 million in the first 24 hours after making his remarks. that comes as a new usa today/gallup poll shows that a majority of americans, 51% of the approve of the president s position. let s bring in athena jones, where a law allowing same-sex marriage is taking effect next january but opponents hope to stop it from becoming reality. good morning to you. give us a little more about the voter reaction there to president obama s comments. what are you hearing? reporter: good morning, randi. there s going to be a farmers market later today so we re hoping to be our stwoeinformal polling here but the first national poll since the president made his remarks on wednesday shows that 51% of people approve of the president s position on same-sex marriage, 45% disapprove so that s still fairly evenly divide e. but if you look at it by party, you ll find that 71% of democrats app
Be on the brink of extinction. digital music players, for their simplicity. that s why it will stick around. w internal combustion car engines, still way cheaper than hybrids. landline telephones? yes, when was the last time your cell phone worked in a prolonged power outage. expect those technologies to stick around in 2020. time to check stories our affiliates are covering today. tanner, alabama, experts are looking into another mass bird kill. they ve been found dead in four states over the past few weeks. more than 300 black birds found dead west of huntsville. typically large numbers of birds die from disease, from poisonings, and from being hit by objects, or flying into objects. and really, you can t rule any of those until the birds are examined. in san diego, a u.s. border
It looked like a scene from hitchcock s the birds. eerily similar to the mass bird kill in louisiana this week, which looked like beebe, arkansas. 3,000 dead birds there. leaving locals confused. can i help you? yes, ma am, i was wondering why all the birds are just like dying. we are trying to find that out. reporter: mass bird deaths recorded this week from all across the world from arkansas to new zealand. each incident shocking on its own. 100 tons of dead fish in brazil, 40,000 crabs in britain. and this in foley beach, south carolina. smells like bad seafood. reporter: what is going on? these kinds of incidents take place every single day. in fact, 163 incidents are reported to the federal government every year. reporter: so if these animal deaths are not unusual, what causes them? conspiracy theorists would say ufos, solar flares or secret air