shepard: the lawyers on either side of california s same sex marriage debate squaring off in a federal appeals court today. you ll remember earlier this year a federal judge ruled that the state s voter approved proposition 8 violates the united states constitution. specifically the equal protection clause because it defines a marriage as a union between a man and a woman. well, prop 8 supporters have since appealed that ruling. and today the appeals court heard arguments on whether the same sex marriage ban itself ghits amounts to discrimination and whether supporters of the ban even have the legal standing to apeel. trace gallagher with the news. is he live in our los angeles newsroom this afternoon and, trace, if those against gay marriage don t have the right to appeal, that ends this case, right? it does, shep, because, remember, those who filed this appeal one was a deputy court clerk in imperial county east of san diego along with the
The president announced the framework. in addition, democratic vermont congressman peter welch a leading progressive voice preparing a house leader to send to nancy pelosi. the president should not back down nor should we and he accuses the president of acceding to republican demands, shep. shepard: sounds as if many on the right are upset with the president s tone tonight. what did they want to hear that they didn t hear? yeah, i think that they didn t want this sort of belectured to in the sense that they were saying, look, you know, there is a lot in this deal that i don t like and i m trying to come around to you. in some respects i think the president was trying to extend olive branch to republicans. these are the guys especially in the house who he is going to have to work with next year. and sort of as i said throw the democrats the liberals under the bus. ironically a coalition of republicans and conservative democrats who lost in the elections last month who could give him
Elsewhere releasing dash cam video of a stolen dump truck chase. they had to lodge bricks hurled from the windows. it s top story. ohio, authorities say a 17-year-old stole a dump truck and led officers on a 52-mile chase through three northeastern counties. the vehicle ran into three police cars and several civilian cars. the suspect also drove the big vehicle in reverse for a while before crashing into a guardrail. utah. a small plane crashing into a neighborhood in roy. the explosion setting two houses on fire. there was a loud bang, the windows shook in the whole house, and then i turned around and there was a orange ball of fire. shepard: the pilot critically hurt. missed the run way by a few blocks. nobody on the ground hurt.
shepard: continuing coverage of developing news, more on the deal that president obama just announced to extend the bush era tax cuts to everyone at every income level. the president says he and republican leaders have also agreed to extend unemployment benefits for people out of work for 99 weeks. and cut special social security taxes for one year. for millions of americans. republican leaders in the house and senate all praising the president. some democrats say they are not on board at all. chad pergram our senior producer at the house of representatives is with us from washington. chad, is there anything democrats can do about this? they are vowing to do anything they can. i m just not sure what it. you baseballly have insurrection from house liberals. they feel like they have been thrown under the bus. the bus rolled over them two or three times and now it s leaking oil on top of them. one senior house aide tells me house members haven t agreed it to anything yet and any detai
To give him politically in the future. it s not his suggestion that republicans are going to compromise with him on other issues on this is it. they have a lot to work out. the start treaty, the missile treaty in the senate. they also have to work out a deal on keeping the government running past the 17th or 18th of this month. none of the annual spending bills to run the government have been approved. mitch mccome, the republican leader in the senate says that he would work all he heed do anything he could possibly to veto or cancel out any kind of omnibus bill that gloms all these bills together. he needs to make inroads with republicans. is he getting some mixed signals from republicans on both the house and the senate side tonight. but his biggest problem right now seems to be with the democrats, and they are still in charge. shepard: chad pergram our house producer live in washington tonight. thank you very much. elizabeth edwards fight against cancer has taken a turn for t