gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and there s been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. you are either for equal rights or not. the reg rev joseph lowry turning 90 and taking a stand. it s all here on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. you are in the cnn newsroom. we re going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few days. politics and religion. more specifically, what is keeping republican voters from fully embracing mitt romney? if you believe the headlines out of the value voters summit, the annual conference for conservatives it could be his mormon religion. as candy crowley reports, many in romney s own party of doing what they can to sidestep the issue. thomas jefferson talked about the wall of separation between church and state. nobody said anything about separating church and politics, but everybody knows it s a sticky
expected to take place sometime this week. 60 votes are needed to overcome republican efforts to block the measure. here s athena jones with more on jobs bill and earth whether it ever pass. reporter: putting americans back to work is president obama s priority. say we can grow the economy as much as 2%, and as many as 1.9 million workers. reporter: he s been pushing the plan everywhere. at a press conference last week, on the road, on facebook and twitter, and in his weekly address. this is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in washington. reporter: the bill would cut payroll taxes, extend unemployment benefits, give tax credits for hiring veterans or the long-term unemployed and provide money to keep public workers on the job and invest in rebuilding schools and road and paid for with a 5.6% tax on income over $1 million starting in 2013. the political stakes for mr. obama are high. no president since franklin roosevelt has bun re-elected with
people s assemblies going on. you can see it and possibly hear it over my shoulder, where people make speeches, but because they don t use a mic system here, they don t have permits for that, so instead, they shout it from person to person to person so the entire crowd can hear what the message is, trying to rally support for their cause. as you say, as we pan the crowd here, you can see that there are a lot of young activists here, certainly, but already also others here from different walks of life. last hour, we introduced you to a grandmother who came here all the way from detroit. all kinds of people represented. they re also getting visits from celebrities. some who are here to show support, some who stopped by, not necessarily looking for the spotlight, but just to hear what s going on. in the middle of this week, on the biggest day we saw of all the crowds we had, that was the day we had the big rally. we ran into documentary filmmaker, michael moore, who s been here
oh, my god would never not call his kids. there is four of us. by the time, the fourth day, fifth day and sixth day, we knew something was wrong. reporter: so the children started searching on their own, pinpointing an area in california s ang lus national forest. the brothers and sisters with other family and friends began driving. we stopped at every ravine and looked over every hill. all of a sudden i just thought i heard a cat or a dog enough where i just said hello and it echoed down the hill. shawn lavau found his father thursday. the 67-year-old man had been missing for six days. i hugged him and we both cried, and i said, you know, how did you make it? and he said i drank the water in the river and i ate leaves and bugs. he was heading this direction. another car was heading towards him. had bright lights on so he flashed the lights on the car. i believe at that point probably swerved, went off the road. david lavau ended up right next to another wreck
something was wrong. reporter: so the children started searching on their own, pinpointing an area in california s ang lus national forest. the brothers and sisters with other family and friends began driving. we stopped at every ravine and looked over every hill. all of a sudden i just thought i heard a cat or a dog enough where i just said hello and it echoed down the hill. shawn lavau found his father thursday. the 67-year-old man had been missing for six days. i hugged him and we both cried, and i said, you know, how did you make it? and he said i drank the water in the river and i ate leaves and bugs. he was heading this direction. another car was heading towards him. had bright lights on so he flashed the lights on the car. i believe at that point probably swerved, went off the road. david lavau ended up right next to another wrecked car with a decomposing body inside. the los angeles times reports he wrote on his dirty truck, quote, i love my kids. dead m