i'm detective kate beckett. beckett. aah! beckett? could you get some backup, please? thanks to my friendship with the mayor i get to be on her case. oh! do i look like a killer to you? yes, you kill my patience. and together we catch killers. i hate this case. i know. isn't it great? (police radio chatter) (hooves pounding)

christina ariaga is with the beckett fund. she tells me she has quite an eclectic collection of pets at home. we learned that in the green room. michael gersten is a columnist with the washington post and worked with the one foundation to defeat disease and poverty globally. there are two categories we are going to talk about today. the first are the more traditional types of cases with the religion field. the accommodation cases. they often involve minority religion in the place of accommodation of minority religion in a majority society. there is another category in the news, which is what i would call religious accommodation to point out -- 2.0. those include hobby lobby. i know since that is in the news, it is on everybody's mind. since we have counsel on both sides of the case you're with us today, we will ask them to start off by telling us about what has happened in the area since hobby lobby against burwell. i'll start off with christina. panelist: you may wonder why my hair is messy. greg and i already got at it in th

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i am the executive director at the beckett fund.rea of disagreement we have is the hobby lobby case. as you may have heard, americans united mischaracterized it as crazy evangelicals denying health care to women. that was not actually the case. i'm kidding. greg, i know. you never said crazy. [laughter] the greene family of hobby lobby are an evangelical family. they started their business in a garage with a $600 loan. they paid their kids seven cents each for making frames. as devout christians, when they opened their stores, and they eventually opened their stores in 46 states, employing 26,000 employees, they closed on sundays. their trucks only take merchandise into stores. they do not allow the trucks to bring in alcohol. and they provided very generous health care benefit to their employee. the paper every medication, every drug, everything the affordable care act required, but they had absolutely no objection to 16 out of 20 drugs the government mandated. the only objected to four, and those for drugs were drugs the governmen

>>> in vienna, virginia, police are awaiting an autopsy report in the death of a little boy named beckett podomonick. about he had a head injury in what his mother calls a tragic accident, but someone lives in the home who was convicted of reckless homicide in the shooting of a high school administrator in tennessee when he was 14. bartley lives with erin tepaske. she said when her son took a fall, bartley had nothing to do with it. >>> new tonight the arrest of a 73-year-old woman lo did not like being pulled over, not -- who did not like being pulled oh, not one bit. bet she doesn't like this one bit either. it's her mugshot. karen anderson is charged with assault, resisting arrest and a slew of other things. this is what went down yesterday according to the cops. police pulled over anderson for an improper right turn and despite orders to remain in her vehicle she kept jumping out to scream at the officer. after doing that a few times she simply drove away crossing the center line of a busy road in the process. she allegedly assaulted the officers who showed up to arrest her at her hom

if you have often felt about deals, no problem google with beckett up for new corporate--if you havetes and no problem. google will back it up for you. >> reporter:they also showed off new features coming to android phoned and watches. they unveiled 'brillo' their operating system for the smarthome. >> i am happy to say that we have devices lasting two times longer. >> pam: that's the ticket! still ahead tonight: >> pam: the unexpected surprise a stranger has in store for a special needs teen. and a real show stopper for one annual bay area fireworks show. >> pam: see why sparks *won't* be flying this year. >> pam: the annual fourth of july fireworks at cupertino high school is cancelled this year. and it's all because of california's severe drought. >> pam: cupertino is one of the rare cities to host city-funded firework shows. the program required spraying more than one- hundred-thousand gallons of water. >> pam: now the city says they can not afford to waste this much water. they have not found an alternate site for this year's celebration. 2.an hour afterwards. >> pam: there have

last sunday, the emts took beckett podomonick to the hospital. and he died on tuesday.olice are awaiting the results of an autopsy. he was living with his mother and a man convicted of a school shooting in tennessee. >>> a man is under arrest facing charges for the attempted abduction of a woman in falls church. police say elmer moises lata grabbed the woman from behind. that happened at 11:00 p.m. near the east falls church metro station. she was walking home from the metro. >>> 5:41 is our time right now. weather and traffic on the 1s. tom kierein getting us ready for a nice day ahead. >> yeah smooth traveling. driving to and from work today. dry pavement both morning and afternoon. it will be rather cool this morning in the 50s for the morning commute with some sunshine breaking out. then mostly sunny for the afternoon commute with dry roads. temperatures climbing into the upper 70s. then over the weekend chances of afternoon storms. saturday in the mid 80s. it will feel like summer again. then on sunday as well a chance of afternoon storms. little hotter into the up

castle and beckett are investigating the murder of the creator of a long running sketch comedy show but deeper into the case, a shocking secret is revealed. that's on an all new castle starting at 10 o'clock. >> ♪♪ music: etta james "at last" (plays throughout) ♪♪ sometimes, at last doesn't happen at first. ♪♪ ♪♪ your dad just kissed my mom. ♪♪ turning two worlds into one takes love. ♪♪ helping protect that world takes state farm. >> well, we went from winter to like two weeks of spring and now summer. >> right. we go right into summer, full throttle. pedal to the metal. 85 degrees which is like the middle of summer. >> oh, yeah. >> with only good thing about it no humidity so at least we have the best part of it. >> no rain. >> but we need rain. >> okay. >> we need rain. >> we do need rain. >> i do need rain. as we take a look at double scan live radar around here, lots of sunshine today a few high clouds but many of our gardens and the allergy sufferers hoping to cleanse that atmosphere a little bit with some rain from above. 85 degrees your temperature was the high today in philadelp

director of the beckett fund for religious liberty. one area of disagreement we have is the hobby lobby case. so as you may have heard, americans united mischaracterized it as crazy evangelicals denying health care to women. that wasn't actually the case. i'm kidding greg. you know. you never said crazy. [laughter] so the green family of hobby lobby are evangelical family from oklahoma city. they started their business in a garage with a $600 loan. they started to make frames. they paid their kids 7 cents each for making frames. as devout christians when they opened their stores and eventually opened stores in 46 states. they employ 26,000 employees they closed on sundays. their trucks only take merchandise into the stores. they don't allow the trucks to bring alcohol. they have no lewd cards in their stores. they provide very generous health care benefit to their employees. they pay for every medication every drug, everything that the affordable care act requires but when the health and human services mandate was enacted, they had abs

. >>> plus beckett reaches a turning point in her life. that's on the season finale of castle.astle airs tonight at 10:00 after the two hour semifinals of "dancing with the stars" and that's followed by "action news" at 11:00. >> at 60 bucks a pce fans of sheryl crow thought they were getting quite a deal. police in south jersey say this concert was all about the steal instead. coming up what's going to happen to dozens of people who bought tickets to a fake event plus we have the latest on the woman accused of selling them. >> if you're spill prone stay tuned a local laundry guru shows us how to remove typical stains with not so ingredients. >> ♪ >> "action news" continues with meteorologist adam joseph, alicia vitarelli shirleen allicott and brian taff. >> it is 4:30. "action news" continues with an outrageous ultimatum from a college professor fails to take off your clothes, fail the class. why he got in trouble straight ahead. >> plus no coffee, no pasta no sugar for 10 days. that's the basis of a not so sweet challenge that claims to help dieters drop pounds cut cravings a

this as beckett faces a crossroads of her own.t's on tonight's season finale of castle that of course at 10:00 p.m. so tonight's prime time lineup has all the excitement and intrigue that you need to cap off a monday night. it starts off at 8:00 p.m. with two full hours of "dancing with the stars," after that it's the season finale of castle of course and it's "action news" at 11:00 p.m. we'll be right back. well, sir. after some serious consideration i'd like to put in my 15-year notice. you're quitting!? technically retiring, sir. with a little help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. wow! you're totally blindsiding me here. who's gonna manage your accounts? this is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. well, i'm gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. red velvet. oh, thank you. i made this. take charge of your retirement. talk to a state farm agent today. >> meteorologist adam joseph here now to tell us if you li

joke, i was the one out there with the traffic codes, putting them out there, because it's about beckett, the thing about -- well, will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest. the word goes out somewhere in christie's head or the culture in that office, that everybody, wildstein, everybody, they're all involved in moving the traffic to screw some mayor who wasn't involved. they got this culture in their head that christie had nothing to do with it. somehow, these guys work in the equipment room, and the patriots get the idea that tom brady likes it to exactly 10.6, you know, whatever it is, pounds per pressure, and they want it just right. they know exactly, they get gifts, in fact, from somebody to do this. >> yeah, the parallels are a -- >> of course he's got to defend anybody who was "the wizard of oz" here. you first. let me do this in order. >> rules of threes. if i was a wealthy new england white guy, i would be extremely concerned right now. we've got bad news for chris christie, bad news for tom brady. if i was michael bloomberg, i would be throwing salt over my shoulder. >> how

law at the time, so as i understood, beckett going whether the use of liners or not, i can't answer that one, but there were certainly plenty of american materials that the british were using to wage war that was crossing the atlantic on british and neutral and u.s. ships. >> question in the back? >> there was some discussion about who knew how much before the sinking occurred, and i had read some speculation that perhaps churchill was more a ware of the bombing and sinking of a boat that the americans were ever allowed to understand. i know after world war ii, there was speculation that roosevelt knew. was her speculation in the press about -- was there speculation in the press about -- >> yes, churchill was the first lord of the ad will treat -- admiralty, and at one point, he was quoted as saying, we need the neutral nations we need this stuff, and we need them to come bring them to the united kingdom in order to stay in the war effort, and if some of them get into trouble, so much the better, because that would work to england's advantage and against the germans. it is a far cry from

try again try better as great samuel beckett, at least we tend to intellectually have integrity morally have integrity. so when we get to the concrete issues of wealth inequality, the legacies of male supremacy the plight of our inindividual now people the plight -- indigenous people, the plight of our people and the state of their souls in such a market-driven culture that tries to convince them that to be human is just to be titillated and stimulated rather than learn how to love and learn how to care and learn how to nurture others. these are the fundamental questions that we are blessed to wrestle with in our class. and we, we have not just fun but i think young people around country and the world are experiencing a kind of spiritual and moral awakening. they're tired of the market-driven way of life that tells them that somehow the end is just to be the winner at top to be successful. rather than to also focus on what are you going to use your success for, what are you really faithful to? not your material toys but other persons' grander moral causes. and most importantly, that sen