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here to talk about that is our political analyst michael yaki. ght isn't close to being over. >> dumb a section to basically forbid states for. i think which you are going to see is the next big legal challenge because when you think about it if you are in california and move to another data which prohibit same-sex marriage you can file jointly tax returns but then you're penalized because you can do the same thing in nevada. seatbelt >> catherine: this is a band-aid on the issue. that the supreme court wasn't really ready to tackle on straight ahead? >> the star of small and then gradually expand. at that what is important this is like unlike most civil rights cases. this is not going to be a fight that's over. or on a challenge in the future by other courts. >> catherine: bottom line you will be back talking about this. >> catherine: we have been talking about a block party. definitely good music that has been drowning you out. >> yes tesla good music. there is a lot of legal steps that you have to go through, yes. but the supporters do not carr

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thank you for joining us michael yaki.by this morning. >> the nimitz is still a problem on 880 southbound. the fatal accident that caused this back up in fremont at stevenson boulevard is now clear i am all lanes are now open up the back of continues to grow. drive times 50 minutes a measure from 92 down to mission boulevard. you can now see the back of breaches all the way to highway 92. it is starting to back up a bit beyond and the southbound direction. it is a real nightmare commute here in the east bay for at 880 southbound. this accident occurred just before 5:00 this morning and managed to block all but one lane southbound for nearly two hours. it is a real mess here for the nimitz freeway. i will take in the measure anyway weekend in order to avoid it. i am even recommending the bayshore freeway in lieu of the nimitz freeway. >> we have eight other east store freeway back up. the east shore freeway ride is at 30 minutes plus another 23 minutes if you are coming from the east shore freeway from the bay bridge. you'r

. >> joining as the year is michael yaki. >> out easily what is happening as they are holding the controversial the end. it is very traditional that they do that. there are four cases on the block, everyone is watching. two hour drama and prop 8. the other one as fisher which is an affirmative action case which was argued in october of last year. it has been out there for a while. the fourth one has to do with >> we are focused here on prop 8, that is what we are waiting to find out. he said they did send a hold it for later. >> update due and one of the theories that they hold as the idea that they are is fisher and the voter rights act. the prediction on both of those cases is pretty grim. the weight is allocated, the supreme court as the chief justice distribute them evenly. most opinions have been done by liberal justices which means all the controversy of the citizens that are left are left to the conservative justices. one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away. the mine is a very simple case. is going to be struck down in my opinion. prop 8 is a little harder but i think the end result

. >> 714 a m and michael yaki is on the set with us today to talk about prop. 8 which is stealing theight now. the supreme court is expected sometime not between now and the end of the month to give the decision ruling on it. >> i think there may be one more decision left and we are waiting to hear about the big news. if it does not happen today, the supreme court has two days left and 15 have been in love to go. that'll probably mean the one more day. probably, people are thinking of another day the following thursday. we're trying to release about 45 bad day. >> given the spotlight that is on this issue, do expect them to release their ruling on the very last day? >> it probably will be the very last day. it was one of the last things argued during the turn. the likelihood that they will be tied together is very high. part of what is going on is that the supreme court tends to divide its opinion rather evenly between liberal and conservative justices. right now all of the answers have been from the liberals for the most part. the last 15 will be offered by the conservative justices.

joining us to break down speeches analyst michael yaki it what is he going to talk about and what wouldter. >> today is a very controlled area a good venue for him. he will talk about obama care. he owns that term. it is a lot shorter than affordable care act. basically, the fact is we are now in a stage in california were the most implementation state does have occurred. that is to provides that rates for people who cannot get insurance from their employers can buy insurance on their own. this is something that many people figured may never happen. they figured the rates would be sky high. preliminary estimates of the bridge will be good. this is a little bit of a victory lap on obama care that the president is trying to use. it comes from the heels of other good news. namely the medicaid expansion that a lot of republican governors in states like florida, ohio and most recently arizona at all of a sudden, converse and decided they love it and it is the greatest thing for their state since sliced bread. >> you mentioned the president had not spoken publicly here since 2009 in californi

. >> and here to join this is michael yaki to break this down for us. >> as of this morning, there wereons left. three have come down which means there are seven with a box of opinions and their. are they going to do a lightning rod to get it done today? that is on likely. 425 that day, maybe to left it could be dolma, prop 8 or an affirmative-action cases. >> the three that have come down so far are not the big ones. >> for some is but not for us. >> we talked a lot about prop 8 because we are talking about a lot here in california. the mud is also a big >>doma status for defense of mayors act which says the federal government defines marriage between a man and a woman. it refuses to the knowledge and the other states idea of otherwise. what happened was the federal government, the obama administration said this is a dumb law, we are not going to defend it anymore. the importance of this is basically, somewhat limited and that it only says that the federal government if it is shut down that the federal government cannot restrict the definition of marriage for purposes of federal benefi