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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. money back. >>> president expected to submit 2013 budget today in the proposed budget, public works spending while seeking tax increases. washington state governor christine joyce plans to sign newly passed legislation today to legalize same sex marriage in washington state. this makes the 7th state with a law on the books to recognize same sex nuptials. opponents vowed to seize repeal for polls in november. >>> apple sue the top sales of the samsung's galaxy, the company violated iphone 4 patents. apple claiming sales of the galaxy will cause irreparable harm to the plan. >> dog show begins at madison square garden. the best and most unusual dog breeds in the movie and every year. >> last year , the winner was a scottish dear hound. maybe a dotson this year. >> we need more dot sop support. >> they went out of business months ago, hollywood video, can they collect late fees? why the better business burreau row says don't be in a hurry to write the check. >> a senator tried to stop a

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. money back. >> we have going to get a check of traffic and weather as they do every 10 minutes. >> burst of adam caskey, predict first up, adam caskey. >> possibly a 1/3 of an inch of rain. it'll not be an all-day rain. he can see the area of green on the screen indicating the light rain off to our west and parts of kentucky. that is pushing eastward. most of the rain will be midday. high temperatures near 50 degrees. then tomorrow big improvements of high-pressure. it to become sunny and mild. a little breezy at times. special on into sunday. we're looking at the storms. there's a better chance of seeing some type of participation -- precipitation. it could be a wintry mix. we will keep you updated accordingly. >> i chose the picture. it is right there. it is right or the traffic center logo is. there is a boat sitting on the shoulder. they're not be that much rain. we are just longing for the days we can get out on the boat. not much happening in maryland. construction barrels are b

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.your money back. . >> the race for the republican nomination got more interesting today, following a triple win by rick santorum. voters picked santorum in colorado, missouri, and minnesota picked santorum and throwing a curveball at romney's supposed lock on the nomination. what does this mean for romney's campaign? >> reporter: in the big picture, mitt romney has the most mean, the most delegates into supertuesday next month. clearly, this is not the most welcome news by the romney campaign, which is trying to push the viewpoint that he will be the verbatim nominee. rick santorum won last night and big, especially among the republicans questioning romney's conservative credentials. the results show he, not romney s the best candidate to take on barack obama in the fall. no delegates were awarded last night, the former pennsylvania senator said that he is no building momentum. >> ladies and gentlemen, i don't stand here to claim to be the conservative alternatives to mitt romney. y st

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back.rging today on the death of whitney houston. the singer was disccvered in her bathtub at the beverly pilton by members of her staff. she was reportedly unconscious and unresponsive when paramedics arrived.rosen attempt to revive her. they were unsuccessful and at approoimately 3:55pm on saturday, whitney houston waa pronnuuced dead at bevvrly hilton hotel..the la ccroner's office said prescription drugs were found in her hotel oom. they stayeddtight-lipped about reports that her death could have been caused by mmxed drug says: "no matter what until we run the ttxins and seeethe level and what's in the systtm we are not going to speculate." an autopsy was said there would beemore ities - answers once they receivvd toxiiology results, which a preliminary reporr could be released as early as wednesday. theee are also reports ttat her family is thursday in new jersey... with &pthe funeral on friday at neeark's prudential center.in hollywood, claadia cowan, fox news. a.../ teen... who vanis

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.your money back. >>> are you born gay or is it a choice? that's the subject of a controversial flyer being sent home with some high school students in montgomery county. it actually tells students that no one is born gay and people can choose their sexual orientation. fox 5's john henrehan breaking down both sides of the heated debate. reporter: students at public schools in montgomery county maryland sometimes come home with flyers. most of the time the flyers are not controversial like invitations to join the girl scouts, but recently at albert einstein high school this flyer was sent home with report cards from a group called key fox which promotes the belief that people are not born gay and invites students to make a personal decision on whether to follow homosexual attractions. >> i tonight like it at all. reporter: karen merrill is a parent who got one of the flyers. she is a licensed clinical social worker. >> everything in this flyer makes it sound like the goal is to be x garb

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.your money back. >>> five things to know. the president continues his advice to the united states. this begins the day with the morning meetings with the house and senate leadership and later today he will deliver remarks at lunch hosted by two u.s. china groups. >> a hearing will be held in the murder case against michael gargiulo. we are talking about this bass the l air conditioning repairman has been linked to murders of nine women including the former girlfriend of ashton kutcher. >> michelle obama and jill bind will be out. [audio not understandable] this report is part of the white house joining forces program. >>> education secretary duncan will launch a major department initiative transforming the teaching profession. the teachers and members of the teachers union will take part in the event in dc later today and that includes a town hall meeting and general q and a section. >>> tim tebow is partnering with pizza hut's book it program promoting improved literacy among children

[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.your money back. >>> welcome back, everyone. a live look outside. look, can you see? yeah. >> a little bit. >> golden gate this morning, pretty foggy. we'll check in with christina in a bit. >> it could be good news for future california college students being introduced today in sacramento. state assembly speecher john perez proposing legislation to provide large tuition and fee breaks for families that earn less than $150,000 a year. he calls it the middle class scholarship. now under this plan, uc students would get more than $8,000 of a break each year while csu students would see a $4,000 savings. about $1 billion a year is needed to fund this program, and that money would come from eliminating the corporate tax break approved back in 2009. >>> it will be closing time a little earlier at a walnut creek bar and grill. council members unanimously denied an appeal from the owners of the lift lounge and grill that would have allowed it to stay open until 12:30 in the morning. the coun

[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.our money back. >>> washington state may soon become the seventh state in the u.s. to allow same-sex couples to marry. on wednesday the state house passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. the state approved that measure last week. that was the senate that approved it. it heads to the governor's desk and she promised to sign it. the law goes into effect in june unless opponents can get it on the november ballot. >>> new reaction from an ad supporting same-sex marriage in our state. >> marriage helps build strong and stable families. we should be doing everything we can to encourage it. >> some leaders are advocating for a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. leaders in the video arguing if the gay and lesbian members deserve the right to be married and under the law governor martin o'malley and the proposed law would not have to officiate same-sex unions. >>> you won't have to worry about mailing back your jury questionnaire in baltimore city anymore. starting monday all you need to

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.your money back. >>> law makeers from rural states are balking at legislation that would close thousands of u.s. post offices. we have heard about this. >> this is going on for months. they are meeting attempting to overhaul the bill and privatize the postal service. >>> peta taking animal rights to federal court. the group is arguing sea world is holding five orca whales against their wills and is in violation of the constitution 13th amendment banning slavery. the federal hearing is in u.s. district court in san diego today. >>> and today is the 6 0th anniversary for queen elizabeth's reign in england. she took over in 1952 after her father then king george vi died while she was on in tour in kenya. >> she will celebrate her 86th birthday on april 26th. >>> for the second time in five years the new york football giants are superbowl champions. eli manning led the g-men on a game winning drive with 3 1/2 minutes left in the 4th quarter to pull off the 21-17 win over the patriots. same

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[ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time.ur money back. >>> the caps brought up goaltender braden holtby to make a surprise start. >> the number one goalie was kill and the number two goalie played sunday and lost to the rangers. this was holtby's first start since march 26th of last year. this shot gets past him. take a look at the deflection at the blue line. the sharks would add two more goals in the second period. the caps would said a late goal before the intermission. but still fall for the sharks 5- 3. san jose has one 16 of the last 17 meetings between the two teams. here is coach dale hunter on the tough night for his new goalie. >> he made some good stops before that. and then the one that bounced over him definitely -- a veteran goalie would rideen a bit but he bobbled back and made some good stops. >>> maryland football has granted quarterback danny o'brien's request for a release from the program for play elsewhere. >> also being granted a release, two others. two other >> he told me that he still felt the same w