even be struggling with the ego issue about taking on this role. yeah. you know, the number of stay at home dads has doubled since 1989. and when you talk to some men who are full-time stay at home dads, they say when they first started, maybe, you know, ten to 15 years ago that one man said he had to have an ego of steel getting negative comments of men and women kind of questioning, wait, it is the man who s supposed to be out in the workforce and the mom supposed to be home but talking to men, it seems like, fed ricka, as more and more families make different choices for different reasons, there s an increasing comfort level for men to take on more of these roles but you re going to still have the traditionalists to say it s absolutely crazy to think that a dad is home full-time with his kids. of course, many modern dads take issue with that conservative viewpoint. that s so experiencing. my husband is at home more
want to litigate our religious doctrine. you don t do that in america. each one of them are going to hell. reporter: they have the support of free speech advocates and some media groups. albert snyder has the support of 48 states and members of congress. you and your family suffered so much. why do you want to take this fight on? so other people don t have to go through the same thing that we went through. reporter: separate state efforts nationwide have attempted to impose restrictions on protest targeting military funerals but the efforts failed in federal court. judges citing, fed ricka, free speech and now the justices will weigh in. oral arguments begin in about an hour. thanks so much, kate baldwin, from the u.s. supreme court. and this is something we also keep an eye on. caught our attention. a homeowner doesn t pay a $75 fee to the city so firefighters are told to let his house burn.
post-mubarak egypt. this is a country that gets more than a billion u.s. dollars for its armed forces. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence with us now from washington. chris, what exactly is being weighed? reporter: well, at its base level, fed ricka, what about this $1.3 billion? that s what the u.s. gave to egypt last year, that s how much the obama administration has requested for this year. to give to egypt in military aide. we re talking about coal producing, more than a thousand abrams tanks, hundreds of f-16 fighter jets, coming up later this year, the egyptian military expected to take delivery on coastal patrol craft, air defense missiles. it run it is gamut. a congressional report seems to estimate 80% of the egypt arsenal is paid for by this american aid. so depending on the