. >>> the controversial skas in front of the supreme court pitting the rights of grieving families against rights of fr speech activists. >>> a chilly last few days. when weather will start to warm up. plus, problems on i-95 and northern virginia. weather and traffic on the ones are next. stay with us. >>> today the u.s. supreme court hears arguments in a controversial case that could redefine the first amendment. good morning. welcome back to news 4 today. i'm joe krebs. >>> i'm eun yang. it is wednesdayoctober 6th, 2010. we want to take a live look outside at 6:30. 55 degrees. look at that beautiful dramatic sky. cloudy out there, though. we want to see some fun. veronica told us we will have to wait for that. >> just one more day. hang on. it's coming. yesterday we did get a little bit of sunshine poking through the clouds. we'll have the same deal today throughout. but we're not going to be looking at more o these light showers coming through, too. our temperatures not too bad this morning because we have a light southwesterly wind this morning. so rht here around the studio. 54 your t

"the weekly standard, adequacy conservative magazine saying "gone to pot, request medical marijuana skaou live in california. where's that one going and how's bill maher going to vote on that? >> that's a well-guarded secret, john. how will i vote on prop 19? these people working for "the weekly standard," "the weekly standard," "the national review," the godfather of them, "the national weekly" was william f. buckley and would have voted yes on prop 19. he was a true libertarian and barry goldwater. i don't know how this party drifted so far from their roots. and, you know, marijuana. that's a real no-brainer. if you can't get behind that issue you haven't done your research. administration after administration has kicked this down the field because they're too afraid to act. and done studies, studies, studies. they always say the same thing. it makes you eat cookie dough. probably the worst thing it does

what i want to ska you, is if you'll committee to including us, not just as a committee, but the virginia delegation and the governor has made many efforts do that if you will make a commitment to arrange that meeting to allow the input in the analysis you describe before implementation would go with this proposal. >> thank you. as we discussed yesterday morning directly with the governor and yourself and other members of the delegation, we will, indeed ensure that the governor and elected members of the virginia delegation have an opportunity to meet with the secretary some time this fall before final decisions are made on implementation and we'll solicit your views in open and make sure we have a channel that the information that you think needs to be before the department, before we made that decision indeed is before the department. >> well, i appreciate you saying that and i appreciate your recognition that we should have a role in the process. i have to say i'm unhappy with the performance in terms office involving us in that discussion. i will say, i'm happy to note now you have of