i have four daughters, two of whom attended catholic universities. d i want to say clearly that catholic women of this generation know that they need contraceptive coverage. they need it because they're women of conscience. they make decisions wisely. and they can make decisions about what is in the best interest of themselves, their families, and their health. the bishops don't seem to realize that 98% of catholic women use contraception. 98%. that means that the bishops have not been able to convince the women they are right. the bishops, therefore, should not use the power of the government to do what they can't do themselves. the fact is that this is a moral question and a question that women can have the opportunity and the right to decide for themselves. this is what this whole argument is about. it is also about politics. 28 states already require that large institutions, catholic institutions cover contraception, 28 states. so why is it at this time, at this moment, in this political season that we heard this problem? i think it is incumbent o

of -- of notre dame and the catholic university of america. the institute of medicine recommended the requirement because it allows women to space their pregnancy. the religious organizations and universities saying it goes against their religious firearm. >>> the supreme court says a man -- freem. >>> the supreme court ruled that twins born to a man's surviving wife did not qualify under the -- under the surviving benefit's initiative. social security denied their application saying to qualify their father had to be alive during their conception -- conception. >>> the mayor of vallejo says he's frustrate and disappointed that someone stole his motorcycle. he says his harley-davidson was stolen on friday afternoon. he left it parked in an employee lot on the side of vallejo city hall. david said he's evened the bike for a year. it's black with colombia parts. anyone with information is leave an anonymous information messant at 7107-644-stop. >>> san francisco's muni has spent millions of dollars on thousands of security cameras for bus, railiti

i have four daughters, two of whom attended catholic universities. and i want to say clearly that catholic women of this generation know that they need contraceptive coverage to get the needed because they are women of conscience, they make decisions wisely and they can make decisions about what is in the best interest of themselves, their families and their health. so bishops don't seem to realize that 98% of catholic women use contraceptives. 98%. that means that the bishops have not been able to convince the when they are right. the bishops therefore shouldn't use the power of the government to do what they can't do themselves. the fact is this is a moral question, and a question that women can have the opportunity and the right to decide for themselves. this is what this whole argument is about. it is also about politics. 28 states already require that large institutions, catholic institutions cover contraceptives. 28 states. so why is it at this time at this moment in this political season that we have heard this problem? i think it is incumbent

so for these reasons a great number of catholic diocese, charities, universities, and other catholic institutions around the country found it necessary to file lawsuits this week against the federal government challenging the mandate as a violation of the first amendment and the religious freedom restoration act. it is unfortunate -- >> [ applause ] >> it is unfortunate, even tragic, that catholic institutions and other religious groups as well have been forced by the federal government into this situation. part of the tragedy is how easily and on how many different occasions this conflict could have been avoided entirely despite the best efforts of our bishop's conference, the executive and legislative branchs have failed to head off the problem. for example, back in 2010 before the health care reform law was even passed, catholic bishops warned the congress about the need for clearer conscience protection in the face of the new health coverage mandates and the law. soon after the bill became law, the bishop's conference supported the passage of the respect for rights of conscience a

i am a senior at catholic university of america. i was born into a catholic family. i was baptized catholic and all of my life i attended catholic schools. but as much as catholicism has been an influential entity in my life, i must say that women have also been an influential entity as well. [laughter] not only my mother, who taught me the strong characteristics i have, but my very first foothold and steppingstones were from women of my city, of my state, and of my country. my first internship in san francisco city hall up to congress, for nancy pelosi. i'm grateful for them all. and i am grateful to be standing here today defending women's health programs in campuses and all across the united states. let us explore how contraception is perceived by catholics. 90% of women who are catholic use contraceptives. -- 98% of women who are catholic use contraceptives. this is an overwhelming majority that the catholic church chooses to ignore. this large block of believers must -- cannot be silenced any more. religious leaders are stipulating tyrannical measures upon a mino

it was conferred by the lombardy region of government of italy and catholic university of milan. secondly, we are pursuing hosting of the fifth world conference on women here in san francisco. in march, the un secretary general and the general assembly president announced that they supported the convening of this conference. we were just hoping to bring it to san francisco. i want to recognize supervisor cohen, who through the work of this committee has reduced domestic violence homicides by 80% over the last decade. the family violence council has an appointment from president david chiu, and supervisor carmen chu has been helpful in our collective efforts against human trafficking. no. 4 is a summary of staffing changes. one of the biggest changes we have experienced as a department is a drop in our staffing. in the current year, we lost full-time domestic violence policy analysts. there were under five end of those five people, three are working part-time. i really did not want to communicate to the members of the budget in the finance committee that we are doing our best, but

father mark morozowich is acting dean of the school of theology and religious studies at the catholic university ofmerica. >> at the time of jesus, when he was crucified, he was not really a significant feature in israel. i mean, certainly there was jealousy, certainly he had his followers. but there was no chur that was built immediately upon his death or to mark his resurrection. >> reporter: in the fourth century, as emperor constantine was consolidating the roman empire under christianity, his mother, st. helena, traveled to jerusalem. according to tradition, she discovered relics of the cross upon which jesus had been crucified. the spot had been venerated by early christians, and she concluded it was golgotha. constantine ordered the construction of a basilica, which became known as the church of the holy sepulchre. >> now people thrghout history have debated was it really there, or was it here? traditionally in that fourth century time that was so amazing they found this rock and this tomb not far from one another as we see even today in the church, you know, they're just a short distance fr

i had a lot of reservations about going to a catholic university. but i chose georgetown because of their belief and pluralism and sounding principles. nurture the whole person. i was assured that the views that differ from those considered to be the catholic norm would be respected and even nurtured in my four years at georgetown. and for the most part, they have been. the georgetown community accepts me as a person of color, as a bisexual, as a penitentiary from a low income background. where i feel georgetown has failed in their mission is to expect me as a woman. universities have a responsibility health and well-being of their population. and currently at georgetown, the student population is primarily women. a majority of the students at georgetown are women. and for the women, their partners and their families, birth control is not just a matter of convenience. it is a basic necessity for every woman who wishes to prevent pregnancy. as long as catholic university continues to deny access to reproductive health services, they're also ignoring a

-- doug's academic career includes serving as dean in saint thomas moore professor of the catholic university of america in washington, d.c. and a professor in law and government at the university of notre dame where doug taught for close to two decades. do you want to speak from there or from the podium? >> you know, all law professors have to stand. >> law professors have to stand. good. >> okay. >> good afternoon. it's goat to be with you. having spent the last several years in the middle of the mediterranean, which is a nice, quite place. after you help the president get elected, you have to wonder what he's thinking when he sends you off to an island far away. and then war breaks out all around you. but one of the things that that prompts, you know, we were the closest country geographically to libya. indeed, we had fell to our responsibility to rescue the personnel and embassy tripoli when the shooting started. and this californian managed to do that by renting a cater ma ran and showing up in niddle of a winter storm to bring them home and thankfully, they're all safe. the point of that i

it was conferred by the lombardy region of government of italy and catholic university of milan. secondly, we are pursuing hosting of the fifth world conference on women here in san francisco. in march, the un secretary general and the general assembly president announced that they supported the convening of this conference. we were just hoping to bring it to san francisco. i want to recognize supervisor cohen, who thro

catholic charities, catholic university of america and d.c.'s ash biesh carol high school -- archbishop carol high school would not qualify as part of the lawsuit. the president offered a compromise earlier this year saying insurance companies, not the religious institutions would pay for the controversial coverage. >> we've been mindful there's another principle at stake here and that's religious liberty. >> it sounds like a compromise till you recognize we're self- insured. >> reporter: catholic university invited kathy is a beale just to give a speech. she is a named defendant in the new lawsuit. >> what's wrong with this is that the government is seeking to redefine in a very narrow way what a religious institution is. >> reporter: the suit comes sex months before the press -- six months before the presidential election and a month before the supreme court is expected to rule on other constitutional challenges to the new health care law. >> there's no need for this administration to redo the way america works. >> a top aide of the 2010 camp

university of america. i was born into a catholic family. was baptized catholic analyst my life i attended catholic schools. as much as catholicism has been an influential entity of my life, i must say women have also been an influential entity as well. [laughter] not only my mother, tammy the structure joysticks that i have got my very first foothold in steppingstones were for women of my city, i may state enemy country. my first internship in san francisco city hall after congress with matt and nancy pelosi. i then turned for them all and they are forever grateful and i am forever grateful that i stand here today defending women's health programs on campuses and all over the united states. let us explore how contraception's for contraceptive is perceived among catholics. we toss the number, 90% of catholic women who are abused country set is. this is an overwhelming majority that the catholic church chooses to ignore and this large block of believers cannot be silent anymore. religious leaders are stipulating to radical measures upon a mino

. >> this study and another from the catholic university of rome show the blood sugar decrease lasted so far up to two years and could be permanent. doctors and scientists do not know why the weight lost surgery can have such dramatic effects, but suspect the procedure itself causes massive hormonal changes. >> a lot of research is going on about new operations that are even less invasive and more effective. >> the doctors put 150 patients with severe out of control diabetes in three groups. a third got the best drug therapies, a third got gastric banding, and a third got gastric bypass. both types of surgery helped, the bypass far more so, eliminating the need for diabetes medications in most patients. for the diabetes treatment, the doctors have been given gastric bypass surgery to patients that are far less obese than the traditional candidates. >> my parents are with me today. >> 30-year-old laura beth lost 70 pounds on her own, but her diabetes did not go away. >> i don't want to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life without my legs or toes, arms. i don't want to be blind. >> sh

of u.s. history at george mason university in fay fairfax, virg. she studied with edwin morgan before joining the faculty at george mason she taught at west virginia university and catholic university of america. he scholarly articles appeared in leading journals including the journal of american history, the american quarterly, the journal of the early republic, along with numerous essays and collections. weren't the resippient of hornes at the outstanding prize awarded by the southeastern 18th century studies association, fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities, the american and aquarian society and the american philosophical society. she's also had an appointment by the fulbright commission to the thomas jefferson chair in american studies at university of amsterdam in the netherlands. professor zagarri has appeared as an on-camera historian on c-span, on pbs and on the fairfax television network. in 2009, she was elected president of the society for historians of the early american republic. and in 2011 was appointed a distinguished lecturer by the organization of american historians. her latest book is titled "revolutionary backlash: women in poli

. >>> ahead, the catholic university of america will have an earthquake drill. they're taking part in the great shakeout. people are encouraged to drop, cover, and hold to keep themselves safe in case of an earthquake. the drill follows the 5.8-magnitude quake that hit the washington area in august. >>> 4:38. ahead on "news4 today," we're learning new details about the death of a man and his two sons in this house explosion as the family speaks out for the first time. >>> people are out of work, and they're hurting. all wondering what they're going to do to make a comeback. >> this ad was a hit during the super bowl. but was it politically motivated? what clint eastwood's response is. >>> good morning. 4:41 on this tuesday morning. time for weather & traffic on the 1s. i'm mostly cloudy in storm center 4. it's off to a chilly start this morning. we're above freezing in the district of columbia and suburbs including prince george's county and charles, calvert, st. mary's, and anne arundel. farther west in fairfax county, montgomery county, near 30. arlington near

of your church or your synagogue or your mosque or whatever. >> reporter: which would mean catholic charities, catholic university of america and d.c.'s archbishop wouldn't be covered by the exemption. they've joined the lawsuit. >> mother teresa would not qualify as a religious worker when she's out feeding the poor. >> reporter: the president offered a compromise earlier this year saying insurance companies, not the religious institutions, would pay for the controversial coverage. >> we've been mindful there's another principle of stake here and that's the principle of religious liberty, an enal nab right in our -- enallable right in our constitution. >> reporter: ward was angry that kathleen was invited to give a graduation speech. her speech was disrupted by a heckler. she is a named defendant in the new lawsuits. >> what's wrong with it is that the government is seeking to redefine in a very narrow way what a religious institution is. >> reporter: the suit comes six months before the presidential election and a month before the supreme court is expected to rule on other constitutional challenges to the new health care law. >> th

university of notre dame. they were one of 12 lawsuits filed today by 43 plaintiffs. including the catholic university of network washington. we have the executive director of net, and a political reporter for the washington post. thank you for joining me. i want to go to sister first of all. i thought this was settled, there was a compromise, that many thought was a good compromise. allowing institutions like big hospitals and university that's are catholic to get health insurance that covered contraception automayically because the health insurance companies are mandated to cover it. the school or church would not have to put their signature to it. why doesn't that hold? >> it's my understanding that the deal still continues. it appears that the bishops are nervous is may not be sufficient. it coin sized with a broader initiative which is a whole idea of religious liberty and freedom. they're claiming that the administration is persecuting catholics and other religions in the united states. if they septembered the accommodation, a marvelous step forward, but if they accepted it, they woul

institutions, catholic institutions cover contraceptive. 28 states. >> 77% of catholic law schools already provide contraception coverage to students. >> cat is out of the bag. tons of catholic universities already provide for health insurance that covers contraception. including a big majority of catholic law schools. they are already doing this thing they are supposedly so outraged by. if a catholic university covers contraception in the health insurance plan was going to cause the end of the world the way republicans are saying, since it is happening, we can conclude the end of the world is not so bad. at least after the world ends, we still have cable news. in these 28 state, there is state law that requires employers, including in many cases employ anothers associated with religious institutions to provide health insurance that covers contraception. that is already the law of the land in these 28 states. there was a reason you have not been deafened by the cries of outrage over the policy in these 28 states. nobody in the republican party decided that would be an outrage until now, until they could use it against president obama even though they never cared about it before. actually

was austrian cardinal francis kidney cancer now another founding fathers president of the catholic university of i start. it's right well there's it all mean that christianity the religion still has a very active role to play in the your appeal european intellectual life today look first at all i would seize it we are all standing on this across in europe and europe is to be understood the. christian religion gc's of or really in russia too. part of christianity and don't. forget we inherited from christianity two things first. the liberty. freedom and secondly dignity of men into those as in most in creedence and when you're looking around when you see how difficult. it is as a state in our continent to speak and see dignity of men well as far as i know from history of the twentieth and especially nineteenth century. scientists were religious people they were believers and this made life pretty hard for them would you say that modern scientists are still pretty religious people and real believers that when you really when you're making deep science and when you especially medicine when you're g

after graduating from smith college she earned a master of arts from catholic university of america. when david's book "eisenhower at war" and julie's book "pat nixon the untold story" with published in 1986, it was the first time a husband and wife each had a book appearing simultaneously on "the new york times" nonfiction best sellers his. please join me in welcoming mark updegrove and david and julie eisenhower. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> well, julie and david, welcome. we are delighted to have you here tonight. i should say welcome back because you were among the very special guests of this library when we opened our doors on may 22nd, 1971, and you accompanied your mother and father here. your father was president at the time. i wonder if you have any memories of that day. >> i remember it like yesterday. linda's here, lucy's here, harry middleton i think is here. harry, i can't see you through the lights, i'm looking for you, there he is, still teaching at university of texas. that was a great day. and i remember the large crowds, and we saw a picture of it in a holdin

. >> this study and another from the catholic university of rome show the blood sugar dereecreas lasted two years and could be permanent. they don't know why it could have such dramatic effects but suspect the surgery itself caused massive hormonal changes. >> a lot of research is going on about new operations that are even less invasive and more effective. >> the doctors put 150 patients with severe out of control dienss in three groups. a third gotgastic drug therapies, a thirst godgastic branding, and third got bypass surgeries. for the diebts treatment, the doctors have been given gastric bypass surgery to patients that are far less obese than the traditional candidates. >> 30-year-old laura beth lost 70 pounds on her own, but her diens did not go away. >> i don't want to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life wows my legs or toes, arms. i don't want to be blind. >> she was one whose blood sugar dropped immediately after surgery. the same thing happened for 56-year-old marla evans. >> the diens was gone. >> this costs $25,000 with possible dangerous side effects. a worthwhile treatm

. >> joining us are noam titelman, the current president of the catholic university student federation is one of the main leaders of the chilean student protests and a student in commercial engineering and spanish literature at the catholic university of chile in santiago. we're also joined by camila vallejo, vice-president of the university of chile student federation from late 2010 through 2011, she is president of the organization and has been a main spokesperson for the national student federation, the confederation of chilean students. camila vallejo is also a member of the central committee of the chilean communist youth and a geography student at the university of chile in santiago. her interpreter is marcial godoy. we welcome you all to "democracy now!" noam titelman, talk about the significance of the movement and what is taking place in chile and the u.s., it is hard enough to get protests covered in the u.s., let alone in chile, no matter how significant they are. >> the first thing understand is we have a very special educational system which was imposed during the 1980's d

have access to preventative care but tries to allay the concerns institutions. >> at the catholic university ofrica, for example, where people of all faiths are employed. the exemption would not apply. the president told lauren green it portrays a concerning mineld set with within the obama administration. >> protect if it's just happening in church on suneld or in the mosque on friday. but, if it has to do with your daily activity with what sort of life you want to lead, then it's not something the government will protect. >> there are about 68 million catholics in america. 35 million of them voted last time around, shep. >> shepard: james rosen on capitol hill. james, thank you. president obama today ordered tougher penalties on iran's government and central bank. it comes ahead growing tensions over tehran's nuclear program and a report of a coming israeli attack on othe islamic republic. at least thoughts of that plus the new york football giants are once again super bowl champs and the big apple now readies for a ticker tape parade for super eli manning and the g men. he would have come on

catholics? >> in the district alone, we have schools caring for some of the neediest kids in this committee. months -- most of whom are not catholic. >> their sizes and catholic university are among dozens of religious groups that filed suit across the country. it could become moot if the supreme court rules the law is not constitutional. >> we have learned the identity of a man who is alleged to have threatened a police officer with the thorpe with -- with a sword. police say when the officers arrived at his apartment he pulled out a sword. officers told him to put the weapon down. when he refused, they shot him. >> more concerns after a teenager is hit by a car on a dangerous stretch of road. the girl is under -- in critical condition trade people who live in the area say something needs to be done to help protestors. >> behind me, a very busy route 7. we should explain. it was 9:40 p.m. and very dark. the girl was with a group of teens crossing the road. there is concern about safety here for pedestrians. vii and countryside boulevard, a busy intersection. >> it is dangerous to cross because people are not always paying attention. >> these photos show part of the sto

points out in a brand-new facebook posting if this is how the anointed one is repaying the catholic university of dame for sponsoring his 2009 honorary degree and commencement address, then the faithful have been made to look like fools. joining me is now the author of "culture of corruption," michelle malkin. how are you? >> good, you'll have to get a comment of my next book. >> sean: i want to ask you a question, but this is really important. whatever happened to the free exercise thereof -- the government demands will insist that the catholic church, catholic institutions literally do something and provide something that contradicts their deeply held religious beliefs. they ask for an exemption. they do it for one year and what does it mean for the election and in general? >> this is an unprecedented and unwarranted intrusion on religious liberty. you have the gall of this white house to be pitching a homeowner's bill of rights. that is what their latest candy is for the campaign trail. i think a lot of us who have been following this war on religious liberties wish this president would simply