Russian forces advance with aid at the center of an urgent meeting between President Biden and top congressional leaders. This is an existential moment for the free world. We must take care of americas needs first. Norah Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, im norah odonnell. Good tonight, more than 40 Million People are in the path of a severe storm threat rolling across the country. Heavy snow from colorado to minnesota caused travel chaos at the nations airports with more than 3,000 flights delayed, and the biggest threat from this dangerous weather will come overnight from missouri to michigan, with dangerous winds, massive hail, and possible tornadoes. We are going to have more on that dangerous system in just a moment. But first, we want to begin tonight here in washington with the ageold story of congress leaving it to the last minute to get its job done. Tonight, the issue is a potential Government Shutdown friday night and the decision to fund ukraine or risk an internat
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anyway. there s plenty of alternatives. also coming on monday, the court s going to announce its decision on the affordable care act requirement, that the employer health plans provide contraception coverage. i just feel this case has got your liberal extremists, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon because it s about contraception. it is really not. first of all, hobby lobby is suing under the religious freedom restoration act. alex, this act has been around for over 20 years. they apply a strict scrutiny test. this is not some sliding scale slope where everybody s going to claim a religious exemption to, in fact, discriminate. no. this case, they don t want to provide, hobby lobby doesn t want to provide 4 out of 20 available methods of contraception. the things that they are opposed to are things like iuds
seeking an exemption from the mandate in the affordable care act that requires employer health plans to cover all methods of birth control, including contraceptive, without a copayment. they said that was based on religious grounds. now, according to hobby lobby ceo and founder david green, he says, quote, by being required to make a choice between sacrificing our faith or paying millions of dollars in fines, we essentially must choose which poison pill to swallow. we simply cannot abandon our religious believes to comply with this mandate. according to the company s mission statement, they re quote, honoring the lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles. if the supreme court rules hobby lobby can impose those believes on its employees, how much farther would a company be allowed to go? as our new poll shows, a majority of americans don t believe a company should be exempt from the mandate based on religion. on tuesday we ll get a first