the proposition violated the constitution. the ninth circuit upheld it on a narrow grounds, the ground to being that the right had been recognized in the california and taken away from a class of people. then it came to the supreme court. procedurally, the wrinkle that ultimately involves the decision in the case is that the attorney general and the governor of california declined to defend the constitutionality of proposition 8. they were continuing to enforce the provisions of proposition 8. the proponents intervened in the case. when it came time to appeal, the attorney general and the governor declined to appeal. the argument was made at that point that there is no standing in the hands of the proponents. they have not suffered an actual concrete injury as a result of proposition 8. they were just like any other citizens who believed this was a measure and that should be a part of california law. the ninth circuit rejected that and the supreme court decided the case of backgrounds. the petitioners had not raised the standi

last week, the court ruled proposition eight backers lacked funding to end the 2000 a law. same-sex marriages can continue in the state. here are the march oral arguments in the case. >> we'll hear argument this morning in case 12-144, hollingsworth v. perry. mr. cooper? >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court -- new york's highest court, in a case similar to this one, remarked that until quite recently, it was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived in any society in which marriage existed -- >> mr. cooper, we have jurisdictional and merits issues here. maybe it'd be best if you could begin with the standing issue. >> i'd be happy to, mr. chief justice. your honor, the official proponents of proposition 8, the initiative, have standing to defend that measure before this court as representatives of the people and the state of california to defend the validity of a measure that they brought forward. >> have we ever granted standing to proponents of ballot initiatives? >> no, your honor, the court has not done that. but the court has never ha

we are still a place dedicated to the proposition that individuals should be encouraged to explore the world by learning by doing and thinking for themselves. it was started in the cold war by frank for the idea that people need to think for themself and the world will be bet foreit. what we need now is just as much spirit and exporatorium will support that going forward. [ applause ] as i look around today, we are about to embark on this amazing new chapter, and i must say that i can't wait to see what happens over the next 40 years, with this wonderful facility. and to echo dennis, earlier we will not be here without the commitment and the support of our staff, board and donor and designers, and contractors and builders and civic leaders and it and we support our gratitude. and so today i am adding the 7th ring, and supporters and champion and members and volunteers and all of the staff, past and present who have helped to build this place and will live in it going forward. >> notice that it is, the last ring. but it is not the last. i want to invite, now, dennis bartel and our expla

a couple of things i want to highlight as the person who authorize the proposition a that created the budgeting two year process, i appreciate and i'm glad that this is a process that i think now a couple years in has been working in helping us to manage our finances. i want to take a moment as someone who is in his district with the north beach clubhouse that has been closed for two years and we looked around the city and we had clubhouses that we closed, but we decided we need to open a clubhouse in each of our districts and move that forward. i want to thaveng the support to move forward with pilots on budgeting and plan nothing that area. i want to thank the mayor also for working with us to increase a little bit of funding to ethics enforcement and then i think one thing that i'm always proud of the board of supervisors is doing is looking out and making sure the city of saint francis has a really robust social services and whether it's for aids services and i can't agree more with how important it is to come together and make sure we reverse terrible cuts coming from other place

what is left is the district court's decision which struck down proposition eight. >> people justice under the law. today, we are closer to that. reporter: traditional marriage advocates say that it is still up to the state. they urged supporters to stay engaged. >> activists and politicians are very involved and they will be debated about this for a while or not it is a technical step %-general has asked the court to take immediately. lou: our first guest sing today's ruling by the supreme court doesn't have any affect on existing state definitions of marriage. it immediately affects how some 15 states will be able to implement laws, including voter identification requirements without having to ask the justice department for permission. joining us now are two state attorney general's. we will be joining them in moments. first, it is so good to have you with us. let's start with these two decisions on equal rights. >> the citizens of alabama passed a constitutional amendment in 2006 i expected to remain in effect. these issues are to be decided by the voters. that is the principle tha

the board adopted a financial policy a couple of years ago. as part of a follow-up to proposition a in 2009. that reserve policy adopted by the board establishes this reserve fed by various volatile revenues, most notably transfer tax. when they exceed a five-year average revenues flow to this reserve m and are available in much the same way that the rainy day reserve is when revenues decline. that same financial policy allows the mayor and the board however to suspend the policy but for the upcoming budgetary by a 2/3 vote. the overall reserve position on page 1 of the handout we are entering -- we expect and the current fiscal year with approximately 127 min dollars in our two reserves, intended to carry a down economic cycles like the one recently worked our way through. in the budget year and the budget year plus one we are projecting to the possibility to the stabilization reserve and draw money from the rainy reserve for purposes of (indiscernible). --just over 20 million dollars in deposits, ending balances of 147 million dollars. there is a policy itself is in london the -

given the proposition ends that supervisor avalos mentioned, trying to increase the tax rate this tax is progressive and is dependent on the amount of churn that we see in the commercial market. it assumes that level of activity we have seen in the last year will continue in the next two. we are actually updating our transfer tax estimate as well as part of the updates on the board on things that may have changed since the budget, we are expecting to see weakness in that. nothing leads us to revise budget year estimate by the budget generally assumes continued strength. >> i know harvey rose -- looking at the legislative analyst report the president chiu, and the board of supervisors on revenue and expenditures i am wondering if you could comment on the potential risks a supervisor breed said, digging into the budget stabilization reserve or other reserves. what are the risks involved? >> we can provide more information on this. the city does like everyone else, goes through economic cycles, revenue cycles up and cycles down. proposition a and the policy that followed were meant to in

at san francisco city hall since the friday decision by the ninth circuit to lift the stay on the proposition 8 case. doors opened for business at 1:30, and couples lined up to tie the knot. deanna and her partner, ca sandra, wanted to get married in 2008 but couldn't when prop 8 passed. they drove here from fresno to get it done now. >> i kind of laid back, no need, everything will be great. and i was not about to make that mistake this time ryan. >> the marriage licenses will continue be issued to same-sex couples uninterrupted. this morning anthony kennedy denied an emergency appeal by defenders of proposition 8. >> i now pronounce you, partners for life. >> some couples traveled for hours to get married now, like wes and todd from los angeles. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> i feel great. >> we waited for 16 years. >> outside city hall, the pride festival continued, and included another historic first. members of the military in full uniform recruiting. >> we want to reach a democrat that pry to "don't ask, don't tell" we weren't able to engage. >> because of the historic decision leading happy to

. >> we have new information tonight on the proposition 8 case. the supreme court today rejected a request from prop 8 supporters to halt county clerks from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. the 9th circuit court acted prematurely in allowing marriages to resume. which usually comes within 25 days of the ruling. justice anthony kennedy denied that request. >>> san francisco city hall stayed open all weekend for couples who wanted to tie the knot. scheduled to close at 8:00 tonight. court houses in contra costa, alameda counties will reopen tomorrow to large numbers of same sex couples wanting to get married. alameda opens at 8:30 and santa clara will open at 9:00 tomorrow morning. >> a drug company voluntarily pulls thousands of bottles of baby aspirin off store shelves. what a pharmacist found that prompted that recall. >> a hot air balloon goes down on southern california freeway. we'll hear from an eyewitness about what he saw and heard. . it's ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. no w

the group now argues since the court never addressed the merits of the proposition then the ban is essentially valid. a ruling is not expected until next month >>> and coming up next at 6 o'clock, the media frenzy has begun as a new member of the royal family is expected any way day now. we're going to take you to the london hospital where the duck esz of cambridge is expected to have her baby. >> why bay area teepers are getting a two year pass to the exploratory yum. >> just a few piers down at the america's cup where the racing has begun and one of the teams in head-to-head action today substantially faster than the other. we'll fill you in with a live report coming up. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game

at san francisco city hall since the friday decision by the ninth circuit to lift the stay on the proposition 8 case. doors opened for business at 1:30, and couples lined up to tie the knot. deanna and her partner, ca sandra, wanted to get married in 2008 but couldn't when prop 8 passed. they drove here from fresno to back, no need,. everything will be great. and i was not about to make that mistake this time ryan. >> the marriage licenses will continue be issued to same-sex couples uninterrupted. this morning anthony kennedy denied an emergency appeal by defenders of proposition 8. >> i now pronounce you, partners for life. >> some couples traveled for hours to get married now, like wes and todd from los angeles. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> i feel great. >> we waited for 16 years. >> outside city hall, the pride festival continued, and included another historic first. members of the military in full uniform recruiting. >> we want to reach a democrat that pry to "don't ask, don't tell" we weren't able to engage. >> because of the historic decision leading happy to weekend, ornizers expected anywhe

. >> >> we believe that the subject proposal fails to meet the requirements of the proposition m, policy 8 that states that our parks and open space and their access to sunlight and vista be protected pr development, in addition the sponsor's statements regarding policy 8 and the application for priority general plan finding are in many respects non-responsive to that policy requirements and the sponsor has cited that the planning department eer report including that department could not locate the records and require for a permit and neighborhood designed feature, policy number eight does not require that the open spaits and access to the sunlight and vistas have approval or would be a required neighborhood design feature to be protected from development. >> while such criteria do relate to eer and sequa, policy number eight carries no requirements for the access to sunlight and vistas be protected from the development regardless of what is in the habitat and further to maintain the public stairs and the portion of 72 crest line of the 9 foot wide strip adjoining the public stairs and t

you have heard a little bit about the doma case in the proposition 8. my job is to come from --talk about legal implications. the good news is that same-sex marriage advocates did not go around the country raising millions of dollars of money to fund these cases to bring them to the supreme court for the result that we got. they wanted to nationalize a redefinition of marriage that would be imposed by the judiciary. they did not get that. they lost. they did not come here to get a default judgment. the good is it is it does keep the marriage somewhere where it belongs which is in the hands of people and their elected representatives. and pointed out that is where it belongs. they're reading it into the constitution. that is not the way to decide one of the most contentious issues that we're facing today. that is the good news. we still have the state's in our elected processes for now as a backstop on these things. we have not put-- we can see how this plays out in various states at least for now. the bad news is everything else. the legal implications a

confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead. well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what about alan what about iran state what about iraq that's very unilateralist well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't just look at a loan you have one of the old movies left of those limits in iraq everybody little child everybody rather great powers and from the people of the middle east which is most important a great cha

both doma and the proposition eight cases were divided. e of these important cases, we are privileged to hear from an accomplished group of panelists who have offered their formidable talents to help us better understand what happened last week at the supreme court and what future impacts these cases might hold. we have the professor of jurisprudence at amherst college. he received his phd from the university of chicago where he is a student and he was one of the principal architects of doma. edward weyland is the president of the ethics and public policy institute. a graduate of harvard law school and former assistant to anthony scalia, he participates in the u.s. senate judiciary committee. a graduate of harvard law school and duke university, she is an assistant for judge clarence thomas. we would like to give our panelists an opportunity to respond to one another and finally we will open up the floor for q&a. before we dive in, a brief word about why we gather. as catholic and people of goodwill, we seek to understand the events of our

of the population of the united states is covered by marriage equality. >> reporter: the lawyers battling proposition say it is effectively dead because the justices said those defending it had no standing. >> they said they had no concrete injury. they cannot point to anything that harms them because these two loving couples, and couples like them throughout california, are now going to be able to get married. >> reporter: they say at most, the high court has thrown california and gay marriage into somewhat of a legal limbo. >> we remain committed to the continued enforcement of proposition 8, until there is a statewide order saying otherwise. >> reporter: even as it wiped doma out, the court doesn't specifically say the states have to legalize gay marriage. supporters of traditional marriage certainly have a beef with what the supreme court has done here. they're saying how can five justices decide these crucial questions about marriage when the voters and the legislators in 38 states have decided differently. one of the biggest problems with gay marriage is in most states where it has become legal

confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what is the united states look i would about iraq that is very unilateralist. well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't just look at a lone you have one of the day but it's less noisy lemond in iraq everybody well child everybody rather great powers and from the people of the middle east which is most important a great challenge

discussing the proposition 8 case. i would like to begin by outlining how vice president dick cheney and hamas supporters of marriage say the relation between the constitution and marriage. it is quite simple. it is important to distinguish the constitutional question from the policy question. it leaves the matter to the democratic process for resolution. to the states in defining the basic constitutional marriage and to congress in addressing what marriage means and the various provisions of federal law. it is permissible to retain traditional marriage laws. it is permissible to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions. the claim that a person has a constitutional right to marry another person of the same sex mplausible which unfortunately is a different matter from predicting how the courts will rule on it. been ae has all-always marriage of man and woman. this reflects the elementary biological reality that all the opposite sex units -- unions generate children. this is to encourage the generation of children in

confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what about iran's a little bit about iraq that is very unilateralist. well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't just look at a lone you have want to look at the whole but it's left to those limits in iraq everybody little child everybody rather great powers and from the people of the middle east which is most important a great c

i will be discussing the proposition 8 case. to begin by outlining how vice president dick cheney and hamas supporters of marriage say the relation between the constitution and marriage. it is quite simple. it is important to distinguish the constitutional question from the policy question. it leaves the matter to the democratic process for resolution. to the states in defining the basic constitutional marriage and to congress in addressing what marriage means and the various provisions of federal law. it is permissible to retain traditional marriage laws. it is permissible to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions. the claim that a person has a constitutional right to marry another person of the same sex is wholly implausible which unfortunately is a different matter from predicting how the courts will rule on it. herridge has all-always been a marriage of man and woman. elementaryts the biological reality that all the opposite sex units -- unions generate children. this is to encourage the generation of children in the c

. >>> we have new information tonight on the proposition eight case. the supreme court today rejected a request from prop eight supporters from issuing same-sex marriage licenses here in california. the backers of the voter approved ban. justice anthony kennedy o has jurisdiction denied that request. >> i now pronounce you spouses for life. >>> together for 33 years, you are looking at the faces of a newlywed couple in san francisco. since friday, city officials say they have issued more than 500 marriage licenses to same- sex couples. a sign on the wall of the clerk's office sums it up. license $99, ceremony $75, equality priceless. >>> san francisco city hall stayed open all weekend for couples who wanted to tie the knot. it was closed just over two hours ago. other bay area courthouses will reopen tomorrow morning to what is expected to be large numbers of same-sex couples wanting to be married. santa clara county will open its doors at 8:00 in the morning. >>> you definitely know how to throw a parade in this city. >> joining pride in san francisco.

mentioned there was great interest in the proposition eight decision in california. are writing for the l.a. times and the chicago tribune. did you do different stories? i did not have time to do two different stories. the l.a. times was much more interested in getting something up on the website. is actually much more interested in the newspaper. -- l.a. times wanted to get because of the great interest in what this meant for california. assignmenthave the of reporting what it meant for california? did someone else get that angle? >> the court cleared the way for gay marriage in california. that was the bottom line. people were not that interested in standing. they decided the case in a way that left judge walker's opinion . that meant gay marriage very soon. it was about 24 hours, if even that. you could tell the way the court decided the case, it put it back in the hands of the california officials. the attorney general, jerry brown, very interested in seeing prop 8 go away and allow gay marriage. that is what i said. you talked about writing stories in advance. ho

why in the world with the republican party by into the proposition that is so undefined in terms of its reach that at best a top-selling? >>>> i think the bill will get to the house. >> a death spiral?l? >> no. we are a long way from the bill being complete. lou: what if they don'tbou appear? what if it fails the prospect of the hypothetical? >> i don't think that isgo true.h >> with the congressman.h lou: if it does pass? doe >> of course, not tickets spiral either way. successful republicans are rumbles sides to make the cases to all americanss, w whether hispanic, african-american men, white, . lou: how many meetings have been held on immigration? >> republicans are democrats >> i don't keep a tally dzhokar tsarnaev --. lou:. i do. i pay attention they have not had any. that is a shame. >> to come into a republican sponsored meeting to really express themselves. >> i have been a part of them and have conducted them and another one in los e angeles. lou: friday? >> friday afternoon in santa ana. lou: we will be there. last time the folks were squeezed out of the deal may be will be di

none of the defenders of proposition 8 ever had the right to be in urt could.so it's just left with those two couples. but the governor of california, the attorney general of cat call have said we never thought proposition 8 was constitutional. and so they are directing all the california officials to issue same-sex marriages starting in about a month. >> so-- (cheers and applause) >> but you're saying-- you're saying that technically at the moment it is that narrow that ruling. >> that's absolutely right. at this moment, because the court of appeals put everything on hold until the supreme court could decide the case, everybody is sitting going, if i day now. but there's this legal process. it keeps lawyers employed and that makes it a good thing. and we're just, you just need to wait for us and we'll get around to it. >> so it could be that we do civil rights on a case-by-case basis. so does that mean that brown versus board of education potentially only applied to brown? >> i think i know a certain southern lady-- who would be quite interested in it. >> she

both lawsuits asked the court to grant a hearing, the proposition 8 is still valid and most of the statees with advertising banners may become a thing of the past in san francisco. city's supervisors are considering an ordinance that would ban the advertising above the city. it comes after residents complained about noise from planes that are carrying the banner is. the faa may also object to the ordnance. a decision will be made by the city supervisors next week. >> it is today one of the parent scene for william and kate. the excitement of the third in line to the throne is not slowing down. here is a live look from outside of st. mary's hospital in london. we are still waiting to learn the baby boy's name. it is expected that the duke and duchess of cambridge will come out with their new son and show him off outside the hospital. >> the buzz of or royal baby can be felt all over the world. the british commonwealth of ontario canada found a special way to announce the baby's birth. niagara falls and eliminated the falls was blue lights signifying the arrival of a boy. >> in new zealand

now since the group never addressed the merits of the proposition then the ban is valid.amilla harris filed a brief urging them to deny the petition. a ruling is not expected until august. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay" a new meaning to the term hot rod. >> i'm scott budman at stanford with the latest car to run completely thanks to the sun. we'll take it for a solar powered spin coming up. >> and solar power looks pretty goo inland but across the gg maybe not so much. low clouds across the bay this morning but some 90s inland later on. we'll talk a little more about that in your forecast when we come right back. . >>> and good saturday morning to you. a strew from san bruno mountain. you can see above the low clouds this morning. the tops of the clouds sitting closer to about 1400 feet this morning. that's down from about 2,000 yesterday. so a little compression of the marine layer. we'll see the inland valleys warming up a few more degrees this afternoon. our temperatures this morning ranging from the 40s in parts of the north bay and some 50s around san francisc

over the last 10, 11 years, we have been implementing that. now, proposition a, that will allow us to add about six more. >> this is part of a bay trail? >> not the sand and cisco bay trail, which goes all the way around the bay -- the sand and cisco bay trail, which goes for all the way around the bay. >>. walking trail or bicycle? >> it is both. >> ok, dan has to go. thank you very much. >> thank you, enjoy the water. >> ok, we're going to go around to the front door and look at this. the ferry building was originally built on woodpiles. that were driven down into the mud. not the bad rock. it is almost impossible to find bad rap here -- it is almost impossible to find that rocked -- bedrock. they brought this so they could build the ventilation shaft, and the construction materials were brought here. the same thing is true if you go up to camp mather. a lot of what you see at camp mather was built, part of the construction shack and places for people to lift when they build the dam. the same thing is true here. this is the bart ventilation shaft and the fer

my organization drafted, put on the ballot proposition 36 back in 2000, and that included at the time doubling state funding for drug treatment by $120 million a year. we made the mistake of only putting it in there five years and eventually the lending was cut and saved taxpayers a huge amount of money, what we saw when we polled other states around the country on prop 36 -- because there are prop 36, because it prohibited incarceration the first two times somebody was arrested for possession if they did not have a criminal record, it was in fact a fairly substantial decriminalization statute in its own right. what we found was that even in southern states, florida, significant majorities, over 60%, believe that people who had an addiction should not be sent to jail the first or second time, jail or prison the first or second time that they were picked up on drug possession. so you saw that as sort of a moral notion and you also see the cost-savings argument. when people -- i could critically say, look, most drug treatment does not work most of the time for most of the people who pur

the defense is taking the gamble on all or nothing proposition. either murder or an acquittal. the prosecution is saying no, we want space in the middle for a manslaughter or aggravated assault conviction. the jury is not supposed to compromise. they're supposed to find every element of any crime for which they find this defendant guilty, but in reality, every courtroom lawyer knows they often do compromise. maybe jurors who want murder conviction, jurors who want acquittal, they split the difference on a lesser charge. >> let's talk about the closing arguments. what's the strength of the state's case, what would you emphasize if you were making the argument? >> first of all, if you haven't watched this trial in detail, this is the part to watch. the closing arguments are always the most dramatic part of any trial. and i'm sure especially in this trial where the lawyers on both sides are really compelling speakers. this is the part to watch. the prosecution starting at 1:00 today. for the prosecution, they need to prove that this was an intentional killing with ill will or hatre

is not a huge amount of shadow that will cast for about a half hour during certain parts of the year. proposition k was passed in the 1980s and since then we have seen shadows erode the quality of life in our parks. as a couple examples in herman and bow decker we have seen by the project sponsor zone 37 percent. in partner square, 39 percent of the available sunlight shadow. saint mary's 52 percent and 32 percent of union square is shadow. that's why i asked the partners to resolve their differences. i want to remind you colleagues for those who are not following land use. i think we came close to this matter. when discussions started about two weeks ago, the appellants in this case were at 350 feet, the project sponsor was at 480 feet, there was a gap about 130 feet that was attempted to be brinld. -- bridged. the two sides got close. the appellants were willing to consider a height that was 75 feet taller, the project sponsor was considering a height that was 35 feet shorter. they have come to 25 feet. we have decision in front of us on whether or not to cast the vote for the appeal. i plan to