police saying, save us, i'm on a ship and i think it's sinking. run, meb, run. >> his name is meb keflezighi who knows a good photo opportunity when he sees it come. there's the line. he's across. he's the first american man to win the boston marathon since 1983 and what a year he chose. the oldest elite winner since 1930, the victor, meb keflezighi joins us live on his remarkable road to the finish line. >> this is for the people, for the boston strong. and honey bri bri is back. what does jimmy fallon have up his sleeve this time for the rapping news anchor. >> what about some early pre-hearing loss foxy brown, what about some --

>> i don't even want to know how you know foxy brown. i'll do rollout. >> you'll have to see it to believe it. ♪ sipping on gin and juice ♪ with my mind on my money good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. this morning the supreme court handed down a decision upholding a ban on affirmative saks in admissions to public colleges in universities. the justices say michigan did not violate the constitution when voters banned affirmative action in a referendum in 2006. pete williams joins me now from the supreme court. pete, the ramifications of this case, pretty big? >> well, it could embolden other

states, seven states like michigan have banned affirmative action and now the supreme court said when a state does this by amending its constitution it is not violating the u.s. constitution. other states considering this may say it's a supreme court says we can do it maybe we should. the argument here is not about affirmative action itself and the justices and majority today went out of their way to say they were not expressing a view on whether colleges can have affirmative action. the question is if they do, can states then ban it? that's what happened in michigan in 2006. the supreme court here in 2003 upheld affirmative action and school admissions in michigan then voters went to the polls and 58% supported this constitutional amendment. so it was banned. now the opponents of the ban argued that the vote in essence changed the political rules that before the constitutional amendment, if somebody wanted to advocate for a change in how schools do admissions, for

example, do away with legacy admissions or change the rules on grade points or you should admit all fencers, all had it to do is go to the school to get it changed. after the amendment passed that raised the hurdle meaning they have to amend the state constitution and their claim was that was restructuring the political process and unconstitutional. that idea got only two votes on the supreme court. ruth baden ginsburg and sonia sotomayor, made no secret of the fact she was a beneficiary of affirmative action in getting her in colleges and says the court is way off base and we have to have an honest and open discussion about the fact racial discrimination still exists. at the same time, the court says if they want to ban it they can. >> in reading from justice kennedy, he wrote that

deliberative debate on racial preferences may shade into rancor but that does not justify removing certain court determined issues from the voters reach. democracy does not presume that some subjects are either too divisive for public debate. >> reporter: before that he said there's no authority in the constitution that set aside laws that permit this to the voters. for the six justices who voted, there was no common rationale here. there's a set of interlocking positions. ele ele elena kagan sat this one out. >> the big argument on the way we watch television, this involves little antennas and the invention that could circumvent the way we see tv shows. >> reporter: those arguments are going on right now.

it's a software program called aerio and it allows a user to watch over the air broadcast television on a mobile device. what it does is no different than a homeowner taking an antenna from the roof and connecting into a digital video recorder, we're moving all of that to a central facility and it's legal. the broadcasters say it violates copyright laws and they are taking their over the air programs and for a fee making them available without paying copyright fees. the broadcasters say when those programs are put on cable tv or satellite, those providers do pay a copright fee and they are stealing their signal. >> nbc universal is part of that case. >> reporter: indeed so. >> thank you, pete williams, we'll look for all of this throughout the day. in kiev, vice president joe biden had harsh words for russia while urging ukraine's new government to root out the corruption that he said helped

lead to the ouster and pat trons in moscow. jim maceda joins me now in donetsk. biden said there's no question who the masked men are. you've been covering the issue from eastern ukraine where a local mayor says it's not moscow ordering the men in, but i have to tell you, american intelligence saying they have plenty of evidence well beyond these pictures of actual command and control coming from moscow. this is going to remain a big issue. >> reporter: absolutely, it's going to remain a big issue and it's not surprising that the on fis indication continues, neither russia it self nor the pro-russian insurge enlts here are convinced by the photos showing again, allegedly the same russian special operators and later here in east ukraine. as you say, the kremlin repeated today that it has no active

professional russian soldiers operating here. it's important to note that the mayor, the pro-russian mayor an hour and a half from here said that he simply called his former buddies in the red army, the soviet military, they are in russia, belarus and moldova enelsewhere. we want you to come and help us out fight the cause and that would suggest, andrea, that these green men are mercenaries. i get the sense in any case unless we see a smoking gun, literally these photos will never matter much in this particular part of the neighborhood. >> speaking of that part of the neighborhood, there were three funerals today, three people did die at a pro-russian checkpoint and i assume that the russians believe that these were russian supporters hurt by ukrainian --

organized ukrainian military. >> right, although it's still unclear what actually happened. we're hearing this from a number of sources, very murky. everything that we've seen so far that should be clear isn't because of again, the on fis kaigs and staging going on and war of words and the informational war that the russians do so well. it has to be said is that so far, andrea, the truce besides one or two smaller cases or breaking the truce, is pretty much quiet. it still feels like a lull. more importantly, the pro-russian militants themselves have not expanded in a number of days now their ten or so occupied places, whether it is a

city hall or police station that was happening very, very quickly before. now it has slowed down pretty much to a halt. what does that mean? that means that they are waiting for instructions? does it mean that because the osce fanned out 100 or so of its organizers and volunteers that they are sending out a goodwill gesture? it's unclear. so far we were expecting a big bang after the three-day easter truce, if you will was over. it hasn't happened yet. back to you. >> jim maceda, thanks so much. today from donetsk. meanwhile across the world u.s. navy helicopters and under water cameras are part of the massive recovery operation off the coast of south korea. and more difficult news today for the families of the missing as the official death toll has climbed above 100 people. most of them students. chief global correspondent bill

neeley filed this report. >> reporter: the pace of the investigation and recovery of the bodies is quickening here. more crew men have been detained and investigators are now talking to six of them, including one who tried to kill himself under pressure from the investigators and under fire from the whole accused of failing them to help south korea's accident, accusing the captain and crew of acting in a murderous way. they are trying to piece together a timeline of what happened on the ship using text messages and phone calls from the ship and it's been revealed the very first emergency call from the ferry was made not by the crew but by a very frightened young boy who rang police saying, save us, i'm on a ship and i think it's sinking. he made that call three minutes

after the ship got into trouble, very sadly that boy whose name is choi was one of the missing. his call was followed by the calls from 20 other teenagers. as for the crew, it's a picture of chaos and confuse as with any ferry, the crew is split between the service crew, people like cooks and the commissioned officers who are responsible for the safety of the passengers. now of those commissioned officers, every single one survived. they all got off the ship of the service crew, only three of the nine service crew survive ed of the passengers, one in three of 450 passengers survived. the very people, the commissioned officers who should have been helping the passengers were in fact helping themselves. as for the rescue operation, the number of bodies brought in here has now exceeded 100 for the first time that death toll

rising all the time. one body that was brought in today was that of a young girl. she went to the tent. her parents were crying, pitifully i heard her father say, my poor baby, i didn't have time to say i love you. it is heartbreaking, andrea and it is so far from over. back to you. >> bill neeley, the incredible tragedy and heartbreaking stories he's been telling nearly round the clock. thanks to bill. from that tragedy to triumph, a picture perfect patriot's day in boston, the 118th running of the marathon. mother sellest and daughter sidney were at the finish line cheering on their aunt when the blast hit. both had their legs amputated. this year they finished the last

steps of the race together. >> i'm just overwhelmed. totally overwhelmed. >> we did it. we did it. >> i did this for every single person who can't run this race for whatever reason, they don't win. hate doesn't win. it's always love that wins and we got our city back. >> we finally saw her cross the finish line. >> wesley lowrie captured this moment when one runner collapsed in the final mile of the race, four fellow runners picked him up carrying him over the finish line. coming up, triumph over tragedy, the marathon men's champion joining us live right here. >> i wanted to do it for the runners and i'm blessed for god gave me the opportunity to do it and try to touch people's lives and you know what, we did it. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states

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the supreme court's decision to uphold a voter approved ban in michigan on college admissions in public schools. joining me now from the supreme court cherilyn eiffel. thank you so much. what is your impression of this? the ruling was not on affirmative action per se, but on the right for the state to hold a referendum. >> of course many people interpret this as an affirmative action decision but this really is a case about restructuring the political process in a way that disfavors racial minorities and the doctrine of political restructuring comes to us from the decade after brown versus board of education when so many

jurisdictions tried to create hider hurdles for min orts seeking to enforce the promise of brown and equality. the same thing happened after the supreme court decided the gruder case which upheld the constitutionality of race based affirmative action that's narrowly tailored to meet a university's compelling interest. you have efforts by activists including ward connelly, who was successful earlier in california to take his show on the road and michigan was one of the five states he was successful in helping people kind of get excited about the idea of opposing affirmative action. the problem with it, andrea, it creates a higher hurdle for those who seek to deal with the issue of race and admission. while athletes and alumni and others can simply lobby the university can use the normal

processes to have their concerns heard. and this is precisely what the political restructuring doctrine, which the court gutted today, was meant to eliminate. >> we were talking to pete williams about this earlier, as you know. he pointed out that justice kagan could not participate because she was involved when she was solicitor general and there was a passionate dissent from sonia sot tomayor who made it clear what her view is yet it was 6-2. this was not the split along liberal conservative lines you might have expected. >> it's not. i have to say, andrea, if your viewers read nothing else, they should read justice sotomayor's dissent, because i think it presents to us the most powerful artic lags, and there's a whole section of her opinion that derides the majority for trying

to sweep race under the rug, for pretending if we wish it away it will go away. she says race matters. i'll tell you one of the lines she says, race matters to a young man's view of society when he spends his teenage years watching others tense up as he passes no matter the neighborhood where he grew up. race matters to a young person addressed by a stranger in a foreign language which he does not understand because only english was spoken at home. race matters because of the slights, and snickers and silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts. i do not belong here. this to me is the most powerful arctic lags of where we stand on race in this country. of america's ongoing need to grapple with this reality. she says we can't wish it away and can't pretend it doesn't exist. actually the efforts by 58% of michigan voters to essentially undermine the supreme court's decision in the grudder case is a powerful frankly example of the way in which race still does

matter. >> we will link to that opinion, that dissent on the website as well. thank you so much. >> thank you, andrea. >> emotional patriot's day in boston. spectators and residents wanted over three decades to see. san diego native keflezighi became the first american to win since the 80s, showing the world that they are still boston strong. meb keflezighi joins me from boston. forgive me for mispronouncing your name several times, meb. congratulations the victory is profoundly reassuring to all of us and you must feel just so thrilled with the timing and day and all it means to boston. >> thanks, andrea, one of the most meaningful victory i ever had. to do it on patriot's day after

what happened last year and it was a disaster, i was there for four hours watching people cross the finish line and five minutes later an explosion occurred. such a devastation and ever since i wanted to say what can i do to help people of boston and the united states and whole world to make it a better day a year later. you know what, it worked out really well and it i couldn't have scripted it better. it's an honor to lead the 36,000 people deep to be able to come home with the victory and do it after 31 years, first american, it's overwhelming. >> and also, if i may mention your age, i think you're going to be 39. you are the oldest elite male runner since 1930. is that correct? >> i think -- age is a number but i will be 39 in a few weeks and i feel very happy and delighted to be able to give a little hope and boston strong and meb strong to say real

runners are resilient and we're not going to be affected by the terrorists, what they did. we feel a relief of what happened last year. and i have my bib number, i had four people who lost their lives in memory of them and gave me the energy and i was able to come with a victory and it's amazing day for all of us. >> i think that was very moving for all of us that you had written their names, the three who were killed by the bomb and sean collier killed by the tsarnaev brothers when they were on the run, the m.i.t. police officer. have those names on your bib just brought it together, i think for the people of boston, for the million plus people watching and for all of those runners as well. >> it was just visualization, you see boston strong or see the red sox put in the trophy there on the finish line. it was the biggest thing happening in boston a year ago because of the bombing and we didn't know what to expect. for me it was just like what can

i do to help them? everybody saying thank you, thank you and i feel honored and privileged to have won after 31 years this medal and just beyond my dream. >> well, congratulations again. it's a beautiful medal. it was a beautiful race. 11 seconds i think was your margin of victory, which is in runner's terms amazing. and meb keflezighi, thank you very much for joining us today. >> thanks for having me and best wishes, everybody. >> you made everyone's day, everyone's week and year until the next marathon. meanwhile, jimmy fallon made our day. he's made a rap star out of our own brian williams. what does he think about the viral mash-ups, he didn't waste any time getting in comedic pay back when he appeared on the tonight show last night. >> every night i'm down stairs doing the broadcast and pays for your hobby and all of this --

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beyond that. >> well when the vice president jumped ahead of president obama publicly on same-sex marriage during that unforgettable interview, many chalked it up to biden being biden but this was more than an unrehearsed answer. he was carrying emotion and memory of an experience experienced only weeks beforehand, a meeting at the home of a gay couple and their two children that would change the course of american history on the issue of same-sex marriage. that story is only one of the amazing behind the scenes stories told in the evolution from our elected leaders by prize winning new york times journalist joan becker, forcing the spring, inside the fight for marriage equality. this is an amazing book. you've gotten behind the scenes and working on this for years, when you first saw it with david

greg rery on "meet the press" -- you were already halfway through -- >> i heard about this meeting that took place two weeks earlier at the home of a gay couple and it was sort of a meet and greet for l.a. people. and he was thinking, why bother asking the question of sort of where the administration was on marriage equality and he was sure it was not going to happen until after the election. the first lady told him that -- >> told chad that, yeah. >> so -- >> chad is a frequent guest here, head of human rights campaign now. at the time he was in california and he was an organizer and political activist and running affirm. >> yeah, so he basically thought i'm not going to ask that question. here's the vice president and he's in the home of a gay couple with two children, out in the backyard playing with these

kids, i'm not going to let him get away with it. and the vice president started to talk, once he got started he didn't seem to be able to talk. my kids don't understand why this is an issue. we have to keep this rolling until the inhe havestabevitable his own staff it was like his hard drive got erased being in that home with those kids. >> that's just one of the personal stories, you got intrigued, you tell me, by just the characters involved in this fight, ted olsen and david boies, having argued for bush v. gore and helping win that supreme court case that elected george bush. >> i had written a story in "the new york times" about this. they were doing a very controversial, really at the time bringing this cause to the supreme court was a very controversial move.

there was only two states that allowed it. public opinion was really against it. but part of it was the controversy around it too that made me want to follow it and to find out what would happen with this kind of group that would come together. >> chad grif fin, i knew chad in little rock before he had come out, when he was just a young man, very young man working for the '92 clinton campaign, come from hope, arkansas then comes to the white house and evolution of chad griffin into a major figure. >> when this first started they were a group of outsiders bringing this case against the better judgment of the entire lgbt legal movement. it's not they didn't share the goal. they did but they were worried it two result in a loss. >> and what is chad's impact now? >> look, i think that this case i think has changed -- has helped to change the way that

america talks about this issue. it has gone from being viewed as an issue largely through a partisan lens to being viewed as a civil rights issue and the idea that two lawyers from across the aisle came together to fight this battle. the battle is not yet won. the supreme court did in a sort of technical ruling allow same-sex marriages to resume in california but we're now seeing a bunch of new cases headed right back towards the court that will ultimately resolve the question of whether this is a right all across this country. >> and the lawyer on the other side of this case, charles cooper, what a personal drama there now revealed. >> yes, yes. so i was going over parts of the book with mr. cooper just to make sure you want to be fair with people's legal arguments and he said i had been and i'm going to tell you something, midway through the case he found out his own daughter, his stepdaughter was a lesbian and now getting married in june in

massachusetts. and you know, that's one of the many sort of personal stories, charles cooper told me that listening to the plaintiffs testify was so impactful to him. when they finally got married. the guy that fought them all to the supreme court, he couldn't help rejoice in their happiness. what a story. >> it is filled with stories like that, great reporting and really on the cutting edge of as we say one of the major civil rights movements of our time. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. >> celebrate today, publication day. >> how is he alive? the theory behind the stowaway's miraculous survivor up next. scott: okay, neighbors, here's the top-drawer skinny. scotts wraps each seed in a brilliant water smart plus coating, that feeds, protects, and holds in moisture to make growing thicker, healthier grass easier.

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first in the world did he survive? what does this mean about airport security? joe fryer filed this report on the "today" show. >> reporter: in the wake of a depth defying adventure, the airline says it plans to file no charges. surveillance video shows the boy crawling into the wheel well of the boeing 767 after possibly scaling an airport fence. security expert says there are nearly six miles of fencing, much of it topped with barbed wire and monitored with surveillance cameras. >> cameras are not a security tool. they are an investigative tool that after the fact you go and look. >> reporter: as for the teenage stowaway, the boy told authorities he remained in the plane's wheel well throughout the five-hour flight to maui

losing consciousness while dealing with subzero temp and limited oxygen, some are calling a type of hibernation, now the congressman for the district wants a nationwide study of the security surrounding airports. and joining me now from denver, doug fife. i don't understand how it is possible for someone to survive five hours at that altitude up to 38,000 feet, the lack of oxygen, the temperature sometimes 50 below zero. how is that possible? >> it defies physiology. one of the things that we concern ourself with with pilots, hypoxia with rapid decompression and then to be exposed to temperatures 50 degrees below zero, we know that people who have been lost in the woods who are in 20, 25, 30

degree temperatures die of hypothermia and exposure, it's a physiological miracle he was able to survive at those temperatures without oxygen for that long. >> and the statistics show that there have been 105 stowaways worldwide from 1947 to 2014, including this incident. 80 of those people died. that's a survival rate of 76.2%. one thing i don't understand is the structure of the wheel well. can you get from the wheel well into the baggage compartment? >> that's a sealed area and part of the aircraft structure itself. when that gear comes up, there is a structure that surrounds the landing gear. but there is a lot of hydraulic lines that flow through that area and hydraulic power packs and other systems in that particular wheel well. so and just looking at this kid sitting on the gournny, he looks like a pretty good sized kid.

you would have to make yourself very small because that's a very confined area. and you would have to be either in a corner or well above that landing gear not to get pinched or crushed as that landing gear comes up. he probably was stuck in between those hydraulic lines because if he passed out like he said he did, he was unconscious, if he was laying on top of the gear when they put the gear down landing in maui, he would have fallen out like that person did a couple of months ago going into dulles and south african airways flight and he was deceased and fell out of the aircraft. >> a lot of questions still to be answered. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> coming up, living on $1.50 a day, the fight to end hunger with doug biden up next on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

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could you live on a diet that cost $1.50 a day? the live below the line campaign hopes to bring attention to them by challenging people to live on that extreme i am pofrished budget up to five days. money donated will help fight global hunger. hunter biden took the challenge last year when he joined me along with his brother beau to talk about the diet. >> i'm doing oatmeal and did -- which is probably the only thing i could figure out on my own was ramen noodles. >> ramen noodles. >> and oatmeal. >> i hesitate to ask how hungry you were? >> i'm hungry. >> hunter biden is taking the challenge again starting april 28th, this time with his wife and three daughters. he joins me now along with rick leech, president and ceo of world food program. welcome both. >> thank you. >> hunter, i know i couldn't live on that.

the candy budget alone, should -- way too much. is it healthy? not for all of the people who have to do it but for you and your family? >> you can figure outweighs to do it that are healthier than i did last year. that's for certain. ramen noodles was probably not the right choice in -- >> oatmeal sounds good. >> oatmeal is pretty good, will fill you up. this year i'm able to do it a little bit easier in the sense that my whole family is going to do it with me. the girls i think are going to do it, a portion of the five days, kathleen is committed to do the full five days with me which will allow us to make better choices, be able to buy in bulk. rice and beans is probably the best way to go. you can also add a little protein in there. it's hard to do any vegetables or fruits regardless of how many people -- >> first of all because of the drought here and the other weather issues, prices are way

up for fruits and vegetables this year. rick, most people around the world do not have options that hunter and kathleen biden have. >> it's true. in addition to raising awareness about hunger through this effort, it will also generate resources to help support the school meals programs, these meals are the only nutritious meal a lot of people are getting, draws kids into class, a lot of times these children are either working or searching for food so in addition to raising awareness, this campaign will help us support children around the world. last year hunter's efforts helped generate about 320,000 meals for children around the world. >> that's pretty extraordinary. you must feel gratified with that. >> absolutely. hopefully we get to do more this year. it's a great honor. i get to volunteer and do this, this is all about awareness. the truth of the matter is that

one out of every people in the world live on less than a $1.50 a day, that doesn't include food, that's everything. this is an attempt to bring awareness to that, maybe raise a little money to help but more than anything, the work that rick does and his team do at world food program usa is absolutely amazing. i've been able to go out in the field and see these school feeding programs and other things that have absolutely transformed people's lives but rick has dedicated his whole life to doing this. i will say this, he's an inspiration to me. the only reason i'm involved in this is because of what he has dedicated his entire life to. >> rick, what hunter says is so true. 25 cents, only 25 cents will fill a cup with food. so people's donations go very far. >> $50 will feed a child for an entire year. these school meals really as hunter indicated transformative. one of the key tools to break

that cycle of hunger and extreme poverty. not only do they provide nutrition and alleviate hunger but draws kids into school. a meal in school increases enrollment and attendance. it is incredible far reaching impact. >> tell the story about the marathon -- our friend, amazing story. >> this is a man who won the boston marathon a number of years ago, paul hungry child living in kenya, started to go to school when the school meal was offered. he used to run the three miles to school and three miles home, long story short, over years he realized he had an apt tud for running and school meal changed his life and went on to win not only the boston marathon but silver medals and two olympics and world record for marathon and one of the ambassador on school feeding. >> one of the winners this year meb keflezighi, that family was

also an inspirational story of immigration. >> incredible. >> he had read paul's bioand that helped inspire him. >> that's incredible. really? i wanted to ask about bo, he's not going to run for re-election for attorney general but thinking about governor. how seriously thinking, governor of delaware? >> he's going to do it. my brother is an extraordinary person and you have gotten a chance to know him and meet him not only here but in other instances and he decided that he didn't think it was fair to the state of delaware to run for attorney general for the platform run for governor. >> iraq war veteran. >> and the best brother in the world. and he is -- i think he's one of the best public servient out there. >> i know he had a health scare and gotten a clean bill of health? >> he's doing great, absolutely

great. it is -- it was a scare and as his brother, i know how close i am to my brother, it was very scary. but he's back to work and been back to work and doing great. he is going to finish up his term as attorney general and see where we go from there. most likely it's going to be a race for governor of delaware. >> stay tuned to that. we thank you and -- >> may i say one thing? >> yes. >> rick's son brandon an inspiration to so many people in d.c., i don't know if you've met brandon before, he's watching right now. and he literally is probably -- the most connected person in washington, d.c. he's a great, great kid i wanted to say hi to him. >> shout-out to brandon. >> thank you, great dad and role model and to you hunter. >> thank you for put ag spotlight on this issue. >> we're on it will continue through social media to reach as

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and which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours, chris cillizza joins me now. chris, the president winding his way to the west coast and will stop in washington state to talk to the mud slide victims and survivors, but he's heading to asia. this is the thrice delayed trip to asia. >> he'll land in japan tomorrow morning, time frames always screw me up, andrea, but he'll be on the west coast later this afternoon. and then in japan trade on the agenda and trans pacific partnership on the agenda for president obama. and i think in one way you mentioned this, in a way wanting to show that he cares about, thinking about and prioritizing issues of that part of the world because this is a trip that has

been delayed multiple times before. in a way him going is an important system bol in and of itself. >> showing is part of it, just showing up. there is defense and economy and ukraine could well dominate if sanctions have to be done. thank you, we'll talk about that for tomorrow. that does it for us, a busy news day. "ronan far row daily" is next. ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink has 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d to support strong bones and 10 grams of protein

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our word for today, decisions, decisions decisions, today a controversial new supreme court decision is upholding one state's right to ban affirmative action. vice president biden is in ukraine pushing russia to make tough decisions in quote, days, not weeks ahead. and president obama takes some heat with a new court decision that pulled back the curtain on the secretty surrounding drone attacks. right now decide to watch our headlines. >> the issue was whether

constitutionally michigan voters could ban affirmative action. the court rejected the challenge and said michigan did not violate the constitution. >> strong words from joe biden. >> the vice president says the united states is ready to help ukraine face what he calls humiliating threats from neighboring russia. >> there is a new offensive under way against al qaeda in yemen. >> the attacks follow the recent release of a video. >> very brazen video, 100 militants out in the open and unconcerned that they could be attacked and seems this week there was retribution. >> in the case of the teenager stowed away and survived. >> very little oxygen, ridiculously cold temperatures. >> he would have had had to have been entwined in those hydraulic lines not to fall out unconscious. ♪ rolling down the street smoking and drinking gin and juice ♪ ♪ with my mind