front-runner george allen, tea party leader and delegate bob marshal and chesapeake minister e. w. jackson all pledged support for the 1996 federal law giving states the right not to recognize same sex marriages. also none of the candidates was ready to endorse the republican nominee apparent, mitt romney. today was the first of three debates. the winner of the primary faces former governor in november. >>> washington biggest event this evening is still going strong tonight. we are talking about the 98th annual white house correspondents association dinner. our ken molestina is live at themuseum in downtown washington where the party is expected to pick up. ken? >> reporter: yeah, andrea, they say this is the place where those from the hollywood hills meet those from capitol hill. this after party is expected to bring in a lot of big names tonight, but earlier this evening, of course, the main event was just down the street at the washington hilton. streets outsided washington hilton were jammed with traffic and police. this kind of chaos can only mean one thing, the president of t

. >> reporter: and that's just fine for delegate bob marshall, he filed a friend of the court brief with the supreme court in support of the arizona immigration statute. >> what's at stake here is our law enforcement capacity to enshire that we can make the streets safe from people who may not be here legally. >> it will open the flood gates to having more of these laws passed around the country including in virginia. >> reporter: for her, she's conflicted between them and wish she was never put in the tough position in the first place. surae chinn, 9news now. >> now five other states have immigration laws similar to arizona's. those laws are already being challenged in alabama, georgia, indiana, and in utah. the eight justices are expected to rule in june. >>> governor o'malley believers there are strong ground to appeal a ruling yesterday by maryland's highest court. the court struck down part of the state law that allows police to collect dna samples from people charged with a violent crime, burglary, or attempts to commit these crimes. o'malley calls the ruling quote a strange decisi

virginia delegate bob marshall filed a brief in favor of arizona's law. >> what's at stake here is our law enforcement capacity to ensure that we can make the streets safe from people who may not be here legally. >> but critics argue it leads to racial profiling. >> it's really challenging our basic constitutional values that someone can be judged by the way they speak or look. >> reporter: not exhibiting normal ideological divides, the justices seem supportive of argue that states can control their borders. justice soda meyer telling one law, you can sell it's not selling very well. why don't you try to come up with something else. >> there's no crime under the u.s. law for this. it's not a criminal matter. it is an administrative wrong. so arizona i think the supreme court is going to find they overstepped creating a law that congress did not create. >> reporter: the decision has national implications for states and localities like prince william county that have or want to impose similar restrictions. the administration is also challenging laws in alabama, georgia, indiana, south ca

george allen and jamie, bob marshall all agreed they will likely support higher retirement age before some people can get social security benefits. whoever wins the gop primary will run against tim kaine in november. president obama getting pushed back from the romney campaign. it says romney never would have given the order to kill osama bin laden in pakistan. peter shows us the reason for the dust up. >> a year ago this week, president obama gave the go ahead for the raid that took out osama bin laden, but his campaign is suggesting that if a president romney had been given the same intell, he wouldn't have gone for the kill. and they are making that point in a new ad with former president, bill clinton. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> after asking which path mitt romney would have taken, the ad highlights the 2007 headline that says mitt romney criticized barack obama for vowing to strike al-qaeda targets inside pakistan if necessary and this isn't the first time this week the campaign has hit romney on

george allen, ew jackson, bob marshall and jamie radke agree they will likely support higher retirement requirements before some people can get social security benefits. >> i envision a much better future for our country, and this election coming up in six months is going to determine the trajectory of our country, whether we're going to continue declining or to begin ascending again. >> everything that we hold dear seems to be under attack! and we have now come to a point in our history where something has to be done. there is no more time. >> i'm a 21-member of the virginia general assembly, never voted for a tax increase, never voted for deficit spending. i can stand on my record. i do not have to run from it. >> if we do not deal with spending and paying down an almost $16 trillion debt, then jobs and our economy will be devastated. [ applause ] >> whoever wins the gop primary will run against governor tim kaine for the senate seat in november. >>> well, severe weather in the midwest. winds turned deadly at a baseball celebration in st. louis. we'll have more on that, coming up afte

. >> bob: what is a peep? >> a marshall mellow animals covered in sugar. don't touch the peeps this weekend. go for the chocolate bunny instead. it's healthier, more benefit. women should go for the chocolate. good for you. healthy. so put peeps aside and reach for a chocolate bunny. it's okay. >> bob: i'm doing for tenth year in a row the sunrise service. anybody that has never been to one, to go. inspiration. how about you? what are you doing? >> brian: hosting at my house, some of the most important people in the world. my family. they will be there. >> thank you for joining us. that's it for five. see you monday. thank you for watching. have a happy easter and passov

circle award recognizes people like marshall brodien who have made significant contributions to television over a period of 25 years or more. he joins other wgn legends bob bell, ray raynor, and roy brown for the honor. you can learn more about the winners present and past at our website, wgntv.com. we will be right back with the weather forecast my son just sent me a text message telling me he was on his way to wrigley field ... i hope he stays dry and warm ... the good news is is that the rain is moving out ... there is still a bit of a misty drizzle along the lakefront is probably not heavy enough to cancel that camegame... things will improve as the weekend it moves forward ... we may get a bit warmer. there may be some sunbreaks later today. there is some vest over at wrigley field but the crowd is showing up it is called out there 45 degrees at o'hare 44 degrees at midway. it feels like it is in the 30's with the wind chill factor and the wind is strong along the lakefront 20 mi. per hour. the numbers will not improve much today. it is in the '70s in cincinnati and toward the east coast but that's not happening here we will get more cooler air this

marshall plan of action. it's now my pleasure to turn it over to one of the most extraordinary researchers, leaders and people i've ever met. please warmly welcome bob balfanz, co-director of the everyone graduates centers at johns hopkins university. >> all right. good morning. what we're here to do now is to take a look at the most recent data and use that to figure out how to get to 90%. we're doing pretty good. the evidence says we've got to step on the gas. how do we step on the gas? so we begin with some good news. as bridge said, the number of low graduation rate high schools or dropout factories has dropped considerably since 2002. it's gone from about 2,000 to about 1,500. that's a 25% improvement. that's real progress. because these are the schools if you go to the odds of graduating are only 50/50. a quarter of them were the only high school in a town. imagine what that means in the land of opportunity. the only high school in your town is one where graduation is not the norm in an era where there's no work for a high school dropout, it's really magnificent progress to say there's 25% fewer of those than a decade before. but if we go at t

bob balfanz will go into the data at the state level in a minute. but we'd first like to report on the other top line progress and challenge we're making on the ten research based civic marshalllan benchmarks that help us track the class of 2020, in many of our case studies on states and districts in the report actually make significant gains on these very elements of the civic marshall plan. fortunately i'm just going to review a few of them for you today. progress in reading proficiency increased over the last decade from 29% in 2000 to 34% in 2011. the challenge, however, is more than 65% of fourth graders in the country continue to score below proficiency in reading. thanks to the efforts like the campaign for grade level reading that are working so diligently to accelerate this progress, the nation's fortunate to have such a strong focus. and once the feeder schools are identified, it would be interesting to see how the campaign is aligning with those students in the feeders. next you can -- as you know you can predict in late elementary and middle school the likelihood of a student who will drop out later based on their attendance, behavior and core performance in readi

bob mentioned, we only got about a quarter inch. right now, average at 66. 63 out in oakland. and we have 70s around. 70 at bwi marshall. which is definitely the warmest of the days so far. and 72 in oakland. we'll expect surge of warm air as that high pressure now allows that warm air to come in right up and down the eastern sea board. it's going to come from the south. and that warm air means we go into the mid-70s for tomorrow. ahead of that rain that bob is talking about, coming on the weekend. bob will have details in your complete first warning forecast. >>> former baltimore mayor, sheila dixon, will be teased and insulted tonight in the name of charity. dixon will be at the roast at the comedy factory downtown. proceed the will be donated to agapy house. she resigned in 2010, after she was convicted of embezzling gift cards. . >> even though it is april, it is already football. ranks -- ravens hitting the practice field for off-season workouts. sports director mark viviano with updates from the team. >> it is significant. because remember, there were no spring workouts a year ago because of the nfl lockout. but t

bob schaver asked him. let's listen. >> would you send the police to arrest them. >> if we have to or the justice department would send the u.s. marshal u.s. marshal to bring in justice who is disagreed with newt gringrich. he said what, what, what? what do you mean. unprecedented that you would challenge the judiciary. how dare you obama. how about the guy who is in second. rick santorum. >> there are lots of things our framer didn't envision. i would say the most grotesque of this is the court activism we have seen scenarios the street. >> can you believe that? can you believe president obama would ever call out judicial activism. you may say that's a couple of presidential candidates but not all the republicans said that did they? well, we have the answer. >> the courts have become grotesquecally dictatorial. >> substituting their views for the people. >> we've been concerned about judicial activism for years and years. >> they are not policymakers. >> arrogant, out of control unaccountable judiciary. >> and they are both activist it's. >> judicial activism that is breaking down the civillation in this culture. >> there is no reaso

marshall support for what they are trying to do, who do they invoke? lbj? no. teddy kennedy? no. j.f.k.? no. r.f.k.? no. bill clinton? no. they invoke ronald reagan. >> eric: revisionist history. exactly right, bobt be wide enough in the world. >> bob: that is in your view, and your view is a wide view anyway. the idea first of all, tarted by sag he compared himself to reagan. he did not. he did not compare himself to reagan. he was citing something that reagan said and reagan did say the things. it was crazy, the wealthy had as many tax loopholes they had and he was cutting taxes. he said one thing is wealthy should not get out from underneath the responsibility to pay taxes ala mitt romney. >> eric: romney wasn't coming up here. but the marginal tax rate from 50% to 28% to the top level. president obama wants to raise tax rates. ronald reagan oversaw massive drop in unemployment. 43% drop in unemployment from the beginning of reagan till the end. unemployment is up. median income under reagan went up $4,000 bucks per family. >> dana: i think it's important that when we make comparisons we have to take the whole quick conditions in to account. a lot of things are different from reagan days. the