florist has been thrown into a lawsuit over same-sex marriage. state legalized same-sex marriage last november but the florist says because of her beliefs in jesus christ, she will not provide flowers for gay weddings. the florist is being sued by the state for violating anti-discrimination laws. the issue is being hotly debated online and on local radio. >> the i disagree with the florist. i don't think there's an issue or problem with selling the couple the flowers. >> this case goes to the heart of the question of whether people in this culture still have the freedom to disagree and run their personal lives and their businesses and make decisions in their own life that are consistent with who they are. >> an attorney for the florist calls the lawsutte violation ofs client's first amendment right to free speech. >>> it is 4:52 right now. we'll tell you about a major change, those awkward hospital gowns. a more comfortable version may be headed to a hospital near you. >> can't wait to see that, i think. >>> plus, meet the new guest of the marine

lowell in michigan on this florist case. >> caller: yes, we really miss you up here.rs, i guess if you have a severe case of head lice they can refuse you. >> stephanie: oh, yeah. >> caller: so that's my take on him. but boy what a pleasure having john fugelsang. >> stephanie: isn't he a delight, sir. >> there is an am catholic radio station out of new york, and john fugelsang was the host. >> wasn't that amazing? >> caller: i was stunned. >> stephanie: yeah, the pope was being entirely too popy. he was saying too many things that jesus said and that makes people apple-plexic. >> apple plectic. >> stephanie: steve in indiana on the gun issue. hi, steve. >> caller: hi i'm from [ inaudible ] indiana. last tuesday the general assembly was pleased to invite gun manufacturers in gun hostile state to relocate to indiana. on tuesday, which was april 2nd, the bipartisan state rules committee voted 11-0 for senator resolution 61, detailing indiana's pro business and pro gun laws and regulations, and encouraging companies to make or deal small [ inaudible ] to the state. i want

in washington state a florist facing flack.ow a lawsuit this morning after refusing to provide wedding flowers to a gay couple for their wedding. attorney general in washington suing the owner of arlene's flower flowers, saying she violated the state's anti-discrimination laws, the first of its kind since voters legalized same-sex marriage last november. in a facebook post, the florist said she had a gay customer who had been in many times to buy flowers but when it came time to do his wedding she said she could not do it because of her christian beliefs. she says he thanked her and respected her opinion. in a facebook post of his own, that customer says he has a heavy heart over what happened, but he says he is heartened by this lawsuit. >>> 6:14. time for a quick check of the day's other top stories. france has moved toward legalizing same-sex marriage, passing part of the bill. >>> two parents accused of kidnapping their children and fleeing to cuba are back in the u.s. joshua and sharyn hakken took the 2 and 4-year-old from

in france made in a can a florist. and ours are made in hebron and ramallah. then my last is achieved just stuck on the last of the three at the hospital die a perfect tree they wrote made in england on them are going to have the desired effect the tree was in battle. as kids out there wrote it because they could. that. she's in the fiat queue shirts look like little kids two little kids are you crazy do you want people to think you're in a do it and. make an effort by. telling. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with that very profitable is a very high return on investment. in goodall he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that they needed betis i knew the kind of managers who change their name and strategy but just feel the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment pretty upset about that mr president. to president putin. both the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead. end and says stick to it stop you

. >> woe twont a florist down the street. she gave it to us, tree. >> melissa and sarah attend boston architectural college. the school is just a block from where the bombs went off. >> it's bone chilling and disturbing to know we walk there all the time. you just are fine. and next thing, you have two explosions going on. in boston of all places? it's tough think we have to have this on our mind. >> still, everything can be shifted again. and not just go back to normal because you can't do that. but move on and just be strong. >> that is what they're doing. the school had a meeting led by the rez. >> he says is this too soon to have this? sth how we do this. we raise up to see what we can do. >> and of course, everyone is hoping for an arrest to come quickly in this case. when people had heard a suspect had been arrested they were so relieve sod disappointment when they found out that that was not true. we don't know if we'll hear anything else from police or fbi tonight because that news conference has been cancelled but ho

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. >> as a florist, i know longer accept orders for places downtown because i can't park. it is not worth sending a 50 dollar flower arrangement to someone if i'm going to get a 60 dollar parking ticket and there is no parking at all for me to park so i no longer take clients downtown because i can't delivered to them. with the north beach garage we have been pleading with mta for years to allow that to stay open later because we have such an active nightlife. we have been asking them to allow that to be open for the people who go on broadway. it would alleviate the neighborhood is so congested; the residents can't park on weekends because everybody's looking for a parking space. once again the just have not really considered that and i think that is the type of thing that could be done. i would think fairly easily. here we have an empty garage after a certain hour, that they could charge higher rates if they want, whatever. we've not had any success with that. i think there are a lot of things we could do that would involve spending a lot of taxpayer money. >> there's ano

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peter's square, which was also embellished by thousands of flowers provided as per tradition by dutch florists. after mass the pope toured st. peter's square in the open jeep and he went on the central loggia, where he appeared more than two weeks ago, to deliver the traditional blessing, to the city of rome and to the world. he talked about and called out for peace in the middle east, in particular between israelis and palestinians, for an end of violence in the region, especially in iraq and in syria, and called for an easing of tensions in the korean peninsula. nbc news, st. peter's square. >>> like many christians around the nation, the first family attended easter services at a church near the white house today. president obama, first lady michelle, and sasha and malia made the short walk across lafayette park to st. john's episcopal church. the obamas sat in a pew nine rows back from the altar which carries a small brass plaque designating it as the president's pew. according to a spokesman for st. john's, every president since james madison has worshipped right there. >>> next at 5, as

anybody like a florist, the pizza company, a messenger service with the vehicle, water delivery, anything with 4 wheels, cannot park on that street and serve any businesses from octavia to embarcadero. there is something wrong with that picture. italy leaves a large companies able to do it. what if you have a repair truck? i passed one doing that on market and octavia. they parked on the sidewalk, their only alternative. if you go downtown, down in the financial district you will see very few parking spaces for regular delivery vehicles. they are all heavy truck deliveries. if my business wants to do business with somebody downtown i can't do it. or if i want to do it, i will have two people, one driving and one running out to drop off the stuff. is that fair to the small business in san francisco? i don't think so. and stuff like that happens, how to get notified to the rest of the business community? whenever mta does anything, and they make decisions, loss of parking is not counted as part of any economic study. to then it is not part of the equation. i think from our point of view tha

despite a desperate international effort to curb narcotics production in afghanistan the industry has florist in the decades since the nato led invasion and this global headache shows no sign of easing as maria for national reports. people around the world do to him and that's in just over a decade from when the u.s. led its enduring freedom campaign to rid the country of the tyranny of the taliban while the regime came crashing down it was quite the opposite for the drugs trade and with russia now ranked the highest consumer that's got the authorities worried distributors the heroin production in afghanistan has risen dramatically since operation enduring freedom was conducted in two thousand and one it's forty times higher now any impartial observer would admit that the international community has failed to rectify the situation with drug production and the fact russia's drug control trip has described production in afghanistan as planetary and the figures prove it illegal or playing farm in afghanistan since two thousand and one has been on a constant rise increasing by twenty times in the

rick in canada says steph what if there were gay florists and they refused to serve straight christiansot sure i understand the logic. how it is different from forcing a flower shop to sell to jews or blacks, anybody. this makes no sense. you are absolutely not allowed to discriminate. >> christians don't think it is discrimination, because they think being gay is a choice -- >> stephanie: well, i don't care. >> i'm just trying to give you -- >> stephanie: my religion says it's oogy. >> no, they believe it is a choice and not something you are born with -- >> not all christians. >> right. >> stephanie: [ inaudible ] does not care what you think. >> i know, but they believe being black is not a choice but being gay is. that's the difference in their head. >> stephanie: all right. mitch in wisconsin. you see what i did there? mitch in wisconsin, hi, mitch. >> caller: hi stephanie. i followed the vote yesterday on the gun legislation that went down, and i have an idea. what somebody should do is start a responsible organization of gun owners. there are a lot of people that believe that the

walk through the room and the florist for road, this marble floor. i said to someone by the throes the floor? turned out that was the main waiting room and he would be sitting on the benches with their feet impatiently waiting at carrefour is enough for her. >> i wanted to know about this story of the train car underneath grand central terminal that franklin roosevelt used to get at the waldorf astoria and a special elevator so no one could see he was handicapped. i [inaudible] >> there is a train car, what looks thicker freight car, a baggage car that could well have pulled fdr's car. it is the size at which a car would say. the doors are wide enough. the car was that grand central no question. i looked at secret service logs the mid-1840s to confirm this. those of us took a train to the waldorf and went up into the hotel in part to avoid congestion and security reasons during the war and in part to hide the fact he had polio. it's not entirely clear whether that baggage car was used for his vehicle. one of the things in researching the book i disco

washington state, the florist that wouldn't -- that is being sued because she wouldn't do flowers forich is against the law in washington, you cannot discriminate. members of washington's state gay community should be prepared to fend for themselves. senator sharon brown please and thank you, republican of kenowick, would allow businesses to deny services based on philosophical differences. they have the right to feel oogy. so the reader of a seattle-based blog called up one of the cosponsors. senator mike hewitt to ask why he was supporting the bill. he was asked a simple question rural gays -- who will think of the farm gays -- what will ruleal gays do if a gas station refused to sell them food the staffer replied that they could grow their own food. >> wow. >> stephanie: so grow your own gay food. >> i would like to see you procure your own side of beef. good luck with that. >> stephanie: exactly. exactly. and of course we have to update because it is our current obsession, what is happening with -- ♪ >> stephanie: bomber mom. >> stephanie: what? ♪ zooble-dot ♪ ♪ zubeidat ♪ ♪ zube-

they brought young people back to be fellows and teach flour resists and -- florists and shop owners and how to use social media. and encouraging residences to buy local product. the great example of how young people in not in cities not in the spotlight are doing this kind of hard work to move issues forward and make impact. and i think people like them are representative of people all over the country cho who have been newly empowered to create create change. >> looking back over the course of history, every generation is known for something. what do you think the millennial generation is going to be known for in fifty years? >> guest: i think we'll be known as the people who pushed the country and the world in a better direction. who helped bring the world in a little bit of course correction from where it's been. i don't think this generation will be, you know, the generation who will solve every problem in our world. i don't think any generation can do that. we are definitely on a good course to help change some of the ways we are thinking about our world and be more responsible

plus see how your flowers get from the field to the florist. it's all ahead, and it starts now. nestled into the hills of the quiet little town of ojai is where you'll find the rio gozo farm. "rio," which means river in spanish, and "gozo," which means joy, is run by former chef and now full-time farmer john fonteyn. and if you watch him work long enough, you'll realize just how much gozo is actually flowing around these parts. >> good morning. >> you, too. how are you all? i mean, my first love qith food wap really preparing food and cooking it. i just kind of felt like since food was a relationship i'm gonna have my whole life, and one i check in with 3 times a day, that it'd be good to really kind of explore it deeper. >> and john gets to explore his love f@r food every day, now across 3 1/2 acres of various real crops at the farm. he picks squashes and packs the produce from sunrise to sufdown and has built a connectiob not only to food but his local community, too. he operates a thriving community supported agriculture business, delivering to homes and offices. in addition,

. >> a day in the life of a flower arrangement means going from the farm to the mart to the florist, a process that starts around midnight. >> and there's a lot of space out there. the streets are quiet. and in here there's just a lot of movement--the flowers and different things and deliveries. having a cup of coffee, talking about what they want for the next market day. and that's--that's what it's all about. >> hundreds of vendors supply the san francisco flower mart with flowers in every make, model, shape, and size. but this place had much simpler beginnings. in the late 1800s, local flower growers pould pedal their goods at lotta's fountain where market, geary, and kearny streets converge in downtown san francisco. today local growers continue to supply the mart with bushels of bouquets, providing the first crucial step in a day in the life of how flowers get to you. >> people that i know, most of them don't even know that the flower market exists. and if they do, they have no idea that it goes on in the middle of the night. >> and i think that anybody that comes here and sees