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good morning, good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. this morning, lawmakers in arkansas and indiana are working on changes to religious rights bills that caused a fire storm of criticism. the governor of arkansas backed away from his promise to sign the bill. this morning, indiana s legislative leaders are set to meet with business leaders including representatives of the pacers eli lilly. governor mike pence, who signed the indiana bill faces stiff pressure from the business and sports ground. mark is in washington. good morning, mark. good morning, ann-marie. the white house is weighing in. the indiana and arkansas legislation is quote, not consistent with the values of the vast majorities of ameicans. indiana lawmakers say they are close to an agreement on new legislation that would clarify the state s freedom law. the question is we are moving the spectrum that has been raised. discrimination and denial of service, facilities and other things. that s what w ....
morning. that s all right. sometimes when you re just in the moment out there it s such a pretty site that it warms your spirits if nothing else. outside there s the picture of the rising sun as viewed from our tower here looking to the south and east. meanwhile in prince george s county, looking north and west, there s the capital wheel. all the ice finally gone off the potomac. finally spring time is here. 44 at reagan national airport. 41 in front royal and winchester this morning. plan on temperatures to be generally in the 30s and 40s for the next little bit. there will be a quick warmup to here 50 by 11:00 a.m. outside sunshine, highs today near 65 degrees across all the metro area. that s really nice. no weather concerns for today. clouds come back tonight and our next rain starts moving in towards tuesday. more about that with the seven day coming up. just moments ago pope francis delivered his easter message. here is a look from the vatican city. the pope pra ....
east peace process to be resumed and for the iran nuclear framework to be successful. he called for peace in syria, iraq, libya yemen, ukraine, nigeria and south sudan. he specifically mentioned those who lost their lives in kenya. a little closer to home, several churches across the region are celebrating easter. some woke up early for sunrise service. that s right. others are just getting started. news 4 s derrick ward is live outside saint matthew s cathedral in northwest d.c. good morning, derrick. reporter: good morning again. we are here among the folks just getting started outside saint matthew s cathedral. there s a service going on now and then another one at about 10:00 which will be led by cardinal donald wuerl. he s also visiting the national basilica at noon. we and about 6,000 other folks were among those starting out early over at the lincoln memorial. take a look at some of the video there for that sunrise service, a 37-year tradition is going on b ....
quiet commute on the most part. no problems on outer loop of the beltway, 295 as well as bw parkway clear and free of problems from our friends in prince georges county traveling westbound on 50 looking at an issue free commute as well. for those traveling south bound on i270 a live look shows you how things are shaping up and you can see traffic starting to build up on the southbound side but no problems as you make your way toward the beltway this morning. meantime if traveling virginia heading north bound toward the beltway, going through areas like springfield, you ll have no problems getting toward the beltway this morning, a live look right now shows you again traffic starting to build up and we told you about an incident going on on the icc westbound between georgia avenue and shady grove road seems it wasn t much to it so we ll get pictures from sky 9 at 6:12. andrea and nick back to you. thanks larry. days after a widow makes a tearful plea an arrest is made ....
story, defense secretary chuck hagel calling back for lotus civilian workers this week as the name-calling and finger- pointing continues. we are asking you who is responsible. if you blame the democrats, give call if you say the republicans are at fault for those that blame the president we will get an update on what happened over the weekend. you can also share your comments on our facebook page, facebook.com/cspan. our e-ge rest is mail address is journal@c- span.org. secretary hagel asking civilian employees to return to their jobs following some action over the weekend by the house and senate. the pentagon announcing it will ordered all of its civilian employees back to work this week that s new development over the weekend. he iss live on the phone, following all of this for the hill, newspaper. the house continued to push for a clean cr. obviously this has not gotten anywhere among house republicans or senate republicans. after a couple of weeks of b ....