mr. garner were actually having sex when police burst into mr. lawrence's apartment and arrested them.se that is what they were charged with, two consenting adults charged with having a kind of tex illegal in texas. in 1998, when they were arrested, mr. lawrence and mr. garner both vowed to contest the fine they were charged and to appeal their case and did all the way to the united states supreme court. in june 1993, nearly five years after they were arrested, the supreme court quashed the case against them, struck down the texas law. >> until today, it was legal for individual states to at least try to legislate what went on in the bedroom. not anymore homosexual conduct is no longer a crime. nbc news justice correspond pete williams is with us from the court tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you. people on both sides of this issue are calling it the most significant gay rights issue ever. the government cannot use moral grounds to make private sexual conduct illegal. the ruling was 6-3. justices antoine antoine scalia and thomas and the another no longer alive. and

going to them however in the march of the for this year during the presidential elections when mrs garner who was running through all your courage my default was i'm always come second to running for the fourth term again and then coming seconds i guess with a discipline. hundred seventeen percent of the vote the party did not do as well as they expected with missiles gone and even coming out and say that these elections where they were not illegitimate and not transparent and they did not want to recognize the elections. which you mentioned another issue got off he's been in charge now for two decades of the past year how important is me for. kerry that's one of the main questions that the party is tackling at the moment with the youth movement coming into play the party is looking to shake things up a little bit from bringing in a new blogs as they call it to they want to read obeyed as they call it of the party they want to bring in the new deputies from all across the regions but the main question still remains what will happen to mrs it's gone up most of the pundits and some of the e

mr. sam who was eight years older than eisenhower also called eisenhower catton when they had private meetings. that was a habit he picked up from cactus jack garner when he referred to him as capt every time they were in private meetings. they had middle of the road philosophies and a strict sense of national duty and both understood the necessity of legislative compromise. often after the congress had adjourned for the day, rayburn and senate majority leader lyndon johnson would slip out of the capitol and be driven to the white house, where out of sight of the news media they would enter the secluded southwest entrance and be escorted to the president's family's quarters on the second floor. there over drinks the two democratic leaders and president eisenhower would discuss current issues, and they would work out informal bipartisan strategies for furthering public policy. sam rayburn, lyndon johnson, and dwight eisenhower were political partisans from two different parties. but they always put country first and party second. in november, 1961, 10 months after the end of eisenhower's presidency, sam rayburn died at his home in texas. among the

do i expect mitt romney to garner 70% of the vote in the commonwealth tonight? i don't. >> and we're still waiting for mr. santorum to colonel out and endorse mitt romney which he is yet to do which is also very interesting. let me change -- speaking of change. to what many are calling the pivot of mitt romney. he said yesterday that he would consider a proposal from senator rubio on a republican dream act. he also, with the student loan issue, seem to be pivoting away from paul ryan's budget proposal which would have affected, or would affect the student loan interest rates. are we seeing the train continue with the primary? but mitt romney jumping the tracks and shimmying over to the middle. >> what you're seeing, tamron, what america is seeing, this is who mitt romney has been his entire political career. >> which is you don't like him as the nominee. >> yeah. every position. even within a news cycle. everything is negotiable. imagine all the lame of bob dole but with the integrity of john kerry. that's who essentially we just nominated for president. it will be like this all the time. but what frustr

mrs. tiger laid two eggs in one of the flower pots. her father decided to set up this live owl cam, that's a stuffed one significant next to her which has garneredlowing. one of the eggs hatched. she decided to name the hatching tiger lily from peter pan. >> maybe the next one will come pretty soon. we'll baa back at 11:00. -- we'll be back at 11:00. >> thanks for watching. don't go away. much more ahead on the cbs evening news ,, >> pelley: tonight, america's doctors say we're getting too much doctoring. a new report says one-third of medical spending is wasted on procedures we don't need. doctor jon lapook tells us which ones. more life-saving cancer drugs in america turn out to be fakes. armen keteyian traces the source of the fraud. they feared the worst-- jeff glor on how lives were saved in the dallas-fort worth tornadoes. and she may be the best women's basketball player ever, leading the lady bears to make history. michelle miller has her story. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. health care makes up 17% of the entire u.s. economy, and there's an estimate that one-third