thank you very much, alan gomez, "usa today."ll have more on the emerging legislation in coming days. and on our website, we take a look at a virtual march being launched online, in support of the immigration law. that's at newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: finally tonight: bringing opera to the community and the community into opera. jeff is back with that story. ♪ >> brown: a tragic death scene, a lyrical duet and an epic tale of family and history-- the very stuff of grand opera. ♪ but this is "cruzar la cara de la luna"-- "to cross the face of the moon," composed in 2010 and billed as the first "mariachi opera." ♪ it's part of an experiment by one of the nation's leading opera companies, to reach new audiences, become a better neighbor in its community and, just maybe, help secure the future of an art form. >> i believe that the responsibility of an arts institution is to broaden our art and take it to as many people as want to seek it. we have an educational and embracing responsibility with i think that's a bigger responsibili

alan gomez and back with ruth, who joins us for the first time today my colleague. >> feels like i'm >> i think of you often but joining us ruth marcus. alan, i think for the average person they say 300 amendments offer 32 amendments agreed to, this is a process that we expected, tell us what we should take from what happened on the hill yesterday as it relates to the broader chances, some kind of comprehensive immigration reform bill passing. >> yesterday was the first day of what's going to be several hearings to hear all of those amendments and what they did yesterday was take up the board of security portions of the bill, so what you saw yesterday was the committee embracing a lot of republican amendments and bringing them on board, immediately afterwards hearing members of the gang of eight pushing this bill saying look we're including these, look how we're listening to the other side, at the same time there are four members on the committee part of the broader gang of eight and they manage to resist any bills that would really as they term poison pills, things that would blow t