forecasters scramble to issue a warning. >> hurricane iniki, they have hurricane warnings out for kawaiategory 4 hurricane, iniki is packing winds up to 125 miles per hour. tony quickly comes up with a plan. >> i decided that the ground floor should be the bunker and i only had enough plywood to cover up all the doors and windows for the ground floor. >> tony's neighbor beth rushes over with her husband, children and pets to ride out the storm. >> the first thing in my mind was to protect as many of my belongings as i could, thinking that i was going to lose most everything, and get my family to what i considered a safe house. and that was tony's house. >> they felt that it was safer up in the highlands where we lived rather than being down on the coastal area where you would have large waves, possible tsunami. >> tony and his friends hunkered down and prepare for the worst. >> it clouded over and then the wind started. once the wind started, you needed to be inside or in some type of shelter. it was quite the roar. the wind was blowing horizontal, the rain pelting the entire house. >>

when the defense of marriage act was being debated in 1996, the whole issue then was, if 1 state like kawai gets same-sex marriage, then all the other states will have to do it because of the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. congress wanted to head that off. we will not make it a national matter. it turns out that is not been a problem at all. the aw -- law also said that -- in 1996, no state had same-sex marriage. since 2004, massachusetts and nine others super -- others do. there are over 100,000 a legally married couples in the united states. under current law, a couple could be married in massachusetts, but yet when they sit down to file their federal income tax this month, they cannot check married filed jointly because the federal government does not recognize their marriage. if one partner dies, they cannot get a social security survivor benefit. if they are in the military, and they are married, they cannot get the same health benefits because the federal government does not recognize their marriages. the question is, does that discrimination against their marriage

when the defense of marriage act was being debated in 1996, the whole issue then was, if 1 state like kawais same-sex marriage, then all the other states will have to do it because of the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. congress wanted to head that off. we will not make it a national matter. it turns out that is not been a problem at all. also said that -- in 1996, no state had same-sex marriage. since 2004, massachusetts and nine others super -- others do. there are over 100,000 a legally married couples in the united states. under current law, a couple could be married in massachusetts, but yet when they sit down to file their federal income tax this month, they cannot check married filed jointly because the federal government does not recognize their marriage. if one partner dies, they cannot get a social security survivor benefit. if they are in the military, and they are married, they cannot get the same health benefits because the federal government does not recognize their marriages. the question is, does that discrimination against their marriage of violate the equ