to men appearing in court in sicily in connection with the deaths of the migrants and paul is following the case for uspaul this was only supposed to be a preliminary hearing but it's taking an awful long time isn't it? >> reporter: it is. and it's still ongoing and it started just after 9:00 here in sicily 9:00 a.m. and it's just gone 7:00 p.m. and they are still hearing inside. it's a very important case. i mean it's a landmark case and the first high profile case and not just because of the numbers involved, the number of victims because this is relating to the big disaster a week ago, it's also a test i think of the italian judiciary for it and we had a number of witnesses in court telling the judge the circumstances of the sinking last weekend. we are having to have translators in. these people are from several different countries, gambia and aratrais and somalia and process of translating the questions and answers backwards and forwards is taking some time and of course you also have the men themselves who are strongly denying the charges against them. and of course the italian system itself whic

mark sherman is the associated press press reporter who wrote this story and he joins us now. also joining us is paulderson, a veteran prosecutor. let me start with mark and give us a sense of this. i've always had a sense about the court decisions of justice kennedy, about the idea of the individual, and the individual as a whole person. and yes, sex is part of that, sexual attraction is part of that, sexual behavior is part of that, but they're all part of being a whole person, a person who can love other people, and a person who will act on that love physically. and the question that's always been a portion of who an individual is, not all they are. and therefore, i thought it made perfect sense that this article you wrote suggested that personal experience with someone else may have reminded him, as we all are reminded in our lives, of gay people and straight people being people first. your thoughts? >> well, that's right. there's probably no doubt that there are several factors that go into the several opinions that justice kennedy has written in favor of the support of gay rights in the supreme

is why rand paul needs better opponents. this is the republican party doing margaret targeting. -- market targeting. but rand paul's strategy relies on that type of analytics. john: give us equation. sasha: the first variable is r for ron paul, he ran twice, and a key related a list of donors and supporters. he is going to inherit that base and he is going to want to use that to expand upon it, to look for other people who resemble him. josh: but he needs more than just dad's voters. sasha: it will be a starting point. john: he has this built-in base, that is an advantage, but usually there is something extra to that. those voters probably look a lot like the other voters that he wants to attract and bring into his coalition. sasha: this is up the core of statistical modeling. taking a small group that you know about, and extrapolate others but look like an statistically, and reach out to them. send them an email knock on their door. john: what is next in the equation? sasha: turnout. growing his votes by bringing other people in the process. in iowa, this could bring people who are too young to have a history of voting in the caucasus. this is people who are democrats o

. >>> paul is live for us live paul, the european spokeswoman in your report there saying, look, there silver bullet solution but what are the options they are talking about, if any? >> reporter: well, they are miment limited and for a variety of reasons and first of all we have if willingness of the migrants to pay money to criminals essentially to use the black market to try to risk their lives and try to make it across the mediterranean to what they believe is a better life in europe and are outside normal controls. what the european unit and commission are hoping for is some kind of comprehensive agenda and many recommendations have been put forward by italy which of course is at the forefront of this and one of the recommendations is for non-european countries like tunesia and egypt in order to try to beef up their mode of coping if you like to prevent people setting to sea in the first place. the other potential idea that has been raised is to have what australia is doing is to set up some kind of non-european holding or processing center perhaps egypt might be used for that in o

use them for longer stretches of time. youtube was a key player in driving the volume of clicks. it is also seeing momentum in mobile advertising. paul joins us. i have not looked at the quarter yet. what do you make of this? paul: i thought it was solid. there is some issues from them. the numbers came in line, or better than the street. some of the metrics remain very strong and i think one of the things investors are looking at is the youtube business you mentioned. we see time and again across the internet online video usage in terms of billions of minutes, in terms of advertising, is one of the growth areas of the internet and youtube is front and center. that continues to be for most investors an intermediate driver for them. cory: what about clicks? we are seeing the number of clicks increasing on the hold. -- on the whole. it suggests people on mobile devices were not consuming as many ads. paul: google is trying to manage the migration of their usage and users from the desk top to the mobile environment. when you look at google's metrics, you see a good growth in the number of clicks, about 13%. however, a continued negative

bill allowing vendors to confirm the department of taxation whether a company is registered as a sales and use dealer. but paul is skeptical about its impact saying it would till not provide any red flags about possible smugglers who have signed up. scott macfarlane news4 i-team. >> it does welcome any tips about possible problems. we've put that information on our website at nbcwashington.com. click on "investigations." >>> veronica is back with more about our weather. strong storms. how is that going to affect us tomorrow? >> yeah it's really going to slow us down, traffic on area roads and make nor delays with outdoor plans. as early as 1:00 a very first big outbreak of spring right? heads up folks. a high impact weather day for tomorrow. we start out with the dense fog. strong thunderstorms after 1:00. because of it all, it is going to be a weather alert day. what that means is outside of the newscast we'll still be doing weather updates. download that app. the day starts with fog. it will be widespread dense and thick early tomorrow morning. 50 degrees the temperature. so we're going to be seeing temperat

predicated on justice, opportunity and freedom. >> paul using that speech to lay out his plan for america, saying it's time to take back the country. leland vitter is us. >> good morning. with a little less than four years in the senate rand paul has positioned himself as an outsider despite his credentials. his message remains a mix of conservative libertarianism. his message will appeal to a broader odd yips, especially younger and minority voters. >> if you do nothing, you'll get 11 million more. i think having no immigration reform is a starter. you have lawlessness on the border and there's a national security risk to people who just walk into our country. the first thing you have to do is secure the border. i think there's a vast consensus on that. and if we had a bill to secure the border it would pass. >> despite his job inside the belt way, his message remains quote, defeat the washington machine, and he's already attacked from the left and the right. but they are take him seriously. the super pac linked to hillary clinton launched a page called paul off the wall.com. and he will not be alone on his five-state kickoff to begin today in new

is moving across texas while flooding downpours are drenching the gulf. >> that's right. accuweather meteorologist paul williams is tracking it all for us. good morning, paul. >> thanks reena, ryan. we have the perfect recipe for the pot to kind of overflow. the deal is this surge of warm air coming from the south along with a stationary boundary slow to move. this low will ago like a big gigantic spoon and keep things stirred up in the atmosphere dumping thunderstorms firing up ahead of that. that low will slide its way up towards the northeast but until then it stays rich with rain in the deep south. back to you ryan reena. >> thank you, paul. >>> still ahead, masters new star jordan spieth dominating at the masters. >>> jewelry store employee shackled and stuffed in a van. the manhunt under way right now for suspects. >>> plus thrift shop scare. shoppers and employees scrambling to safety after a van crashes through a store. at perdue, we know fresh chicken. well, not that kind of fresh. but we do take extra steps in our farms, trucks that deliver daily and everywhere in between... ... to bring you a fresh tasting chicken. perdue. we b

by the time you add the regulatory cost and time, the economics are not with us today, which is unfortunate. >> paul a plant geneticist at uc davis and receives no funding from monsanta for research. other facultyies do. he thinks monsanta is right to be concerned about the public is acceptance of genetically vegetables. >> you have direct consumption. resistance, whether it's rite for not may be more important for those crops. >> they like to call the marker technology as one that turns a light on in a laboratory of plant breeding, so we can see what is going on in the plant need. >> "techknow" knot a look at monsanta's dna marker lad in woodland california. here, hundreds of markers have been discovered for traits in fruits and vegetables. the first step in the process - pulverizing tissue samples so d.n.a. can be extracted by the robot. how do you extract d.n.a.? how does that happen? >> thankfully biology made dna water soluble. all we need to do is add water. >> once that has happened it is deposited into a center final, removing plant debris. >> at 3,000 revolutions per minute, it's hard to ge

paul: yeah. strictly speaking, i believe more of that $30 billion worth of equity belongs to sequoia than us. emily: and your policy ison't make follow-on investments, right? paul: yeah. emily: would you ever consider changing that policy? in order to make money off the hits that you picked? jessica: we never say never. but the problem with that, emily, is that there is a signaling thing. emily: right. jessica: and so, if we were to do follow-on investments, we are telling other investors who we believe are going to be the best, and that would hurt the founders, who are probably great investment opportunities, but we just didn't choose to do a follow on in. emily: does it bother you that sequoia has made more money than you have? paul: no. jessica: no. paul: who cares? jessica: i'm happy for them. i really like sequoia. emily: y combinator has gotten so much praise but also a lot of criticism. why do you think it is so controversial? paul: one of the most surprising things, i realized, as why y combinator became more successful, is that the more famous something becomes, the more people want to attack it. jessica: it

core right he took in 2013. >> you know, the great thing about rand paul being in the race is the dialogue it creates for those of us who love to watch this game. there is something extra spicy about rand paul and his followers that brings a whole different layer of people and potential voters to the gop. so i get excited about that and i like a candidate who will stand by what he believes, and i think following up on what you were just talking about with some of the adjustments he's made and his message. this country has gone so far away from basic rights like the right to life like national security. under the obama administration i think we can expect the contenders in the gop primary to have to answer these questions, yes, but to be able to be more honest and direct with the american voter and stand for something, more so than ever before. >> david, i want to take a look at fox news polls and show you what we're looking at. opinion of him overall favorable 52%, unfavorable 23%. you can see the numbers this is telling us where everybody is at the preference. scott walker still up there. this is only in the gop. j

use these accumulated funds to live on. in fact, the way it works is that young peter pays into a fund which is immediately used to pay already elderly paule notion of a huge accumulating trust is largely a myth. the program is, in fact, a classic case of what economists call a "transfer program." the younger generation is transferring income to the older generation in return for a promise that the next group of young people will treat them in the same way. the second mysterious thing -- at least the founders of the program would have found it mysterious -- is how the social security system could have gotten so huge. social security outlays, now including medicare totaled $236 billion in 1984 a threefold increase in just 10 years. and this growth will seem like peanuts when, a couple of decades down the road, the baby-boom generation begins to retire. we get better medical care now we live much longer, we are actually retiring earlier than we used to, and, before too long there will be many, many more of us to retire. to generalize -- social security is a successful system. it's a much bigger system than was ever foreseen. and it's a diff

us. the sun is just coming up in new york. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. let us get to the top headlines with brendan greeley. brendan: senator rand paulaking it official. he will announce that he is running for president. he will formally declare his candidacy in louisville. he is a favorite of libertarians and the tea party. he is also the son of former texas congressman ron paul. duke's celebrity its fifth ncaa asked ball title. they trailed by nine points, but rallied to beat wisconsin. tyus jones led dude to became the first -- fifth freshman to win the final four outstanding playoff -- player award. the air hernandez trial will close today. prosecution called 131 witnesses over two months. hernandez is accused of killing a man who is dating his fiancee sister. authorities are linking carbon monoxide to the death of a father and seven children. police found the bodies yesterday in a maryland home. a generating -- generator was being used after power was cut off after unpaid bills. utilities service was not say when the service was cut off. paying off major hedge fund companies. 14% this year. a person familiar with the firm says t

is in rome. first, paul brennan is in catania on the east coast of sicily. paul first to you. can you tell us what the latest is from where you are? >> reporter: well there hasn't been any substantive update in the last couple of hours. the figures are as they were about 120 minutes ago when we last spoke. it was 49 people had been rescued by that. 24 were confirmed dead. as you say, hundreds of people believed to be missing. it's important to remember these that set out from the north linnian are squalid, undorsey worthy boats. they don't have passenger manifests. it's impossible to know exactly how many people were on board, and so estimates are very much based upon survivors bears'testimony bears'testimony. what the sur ivers of this particular event are saying is that there may have been a minimum of 700 people on a boat that was little more than 20 meters long. if so then it really is a catastrophfee. there is a major search and rescue operation ongoing. the italian coast guard released some pictures from one aircraft, over flying the area which is being searched. it's shown coast guard

joining us now is paul miller. great to see you.our notes i thought was that some did a really well about bank earnings was ok is the new excellent, right? paul miller: the banks are reporting ok numbers. you saw goldman had a strong trading the number. it has a lot of volatility. they pays for loan growth. because of the 10 year yield curve is flat, you are not getting good -- as is coming under pressure. you are getting ok loan growth. it is ok. you are right. that's the new excellent. betty: does it mean the banks deserve their discount to the broader market? paul miller: well, a lot of the banks are not earning their cost of capital. unless, you will get a discount to the market. you look at bank of america, a lot of people cannot get out of the way. it cannot earn is cost of capital. you have some banks we really like, usb, wells, they are not trading at a discount but really high. you have to earn your cost of capital out there if you want to trade in line with the market. betty: is is something out of their hands with regulat

next up we have paul revere tracey and her team to join us up here (clapping) paul elsewhere vera is receiving the high end $71,000 to pursue yes, their plan around the arts programming (clapping) all right. if principle julia could join me for san francisco international high school yes applaud they're receiving nearly $20,000 to implement casey and smart programming (clapping) all right. now we have sunny side elementary could principle renee marcie come on up (clapping.) sunny side is receiving $30,000 for the writers workshop (clapping.) congratulations >> and few more we say sutro are elementary if miro could join me up here (clapping) sutro are is receiving $15,000 to implement a more built out balance program at their school (clapping) and principle martha from the mash academic high school is here (clapping) they're receiving $30,000 to reimagine classrooms for e l ls (clapping) so the last remaining wood i believe that folks were not able to make it given the busy schedule i'd like to shedded to the school bret heart and jeremy elementary and el do-si-do and school of the ar

. >> paul carol is the programme director and former u.s. department of energy official and joins us from san francisco. good to have you back. what are the state administrations of your organise aches, one is to prevent new -- organization one is to prevent new nuclear states. do you thigs it is a positive step to preventing iran becoming a nuclear power? >> thank you for having me. i think the deal is more than anyone hopes. skeptics, and supporters alike. the level of detail in the joint statements the fact that all of the paths to the bomb that iran could have pursued from uranium to plutonium have been processen and rolled back. it's what the international community was after. this prevents their path to a bomb. >> you probably herd lindsay grahamle sarcastically saying this is the best deal president obama could have gotten echoing critics saying a tougher stance would have gotten a better deal than we have so far. do you think that's the case? >> i don't think that's the case. you have keptics and opponents, what is remarkable is in the past day or two since the deal was annou

. >> it is useful even protecting the staff from you street vibrations and it is already in use at the j. paul getty museum in los angeles to protect works of art there and it's also applicable at the base of buildings especially in earthquake-prone san francisco the last major quake in italy was far to the north in 2012. testing on the statue shock absorber included simulating an earthquake twice as strong as what milan might experience. the replica of the michelangelo was used and nothing was overlooked during testing. the replica stayed upright. >> what happened is the ground moves, however, it stays in the same space per say. that's how the system works out and we did a test, and we tested it out and it looks exactly what it calls for. >> michaelelangelo worked on the pieta for 12 years until he died at the age of 89. >> it depicts the virgin mary over the body of jesus. it will prevent something like this from happening to an irreplaceable work of art. >> sacramento walt gray abc 7 news. >> tonight bruce jenner is breaking his silence after years of tabloid headlines and the former olympi

in iowa. >> this is something rand paul ought to get used to doing is try overcome this sense he is isolationist. it stems from a degree maybe unfairly from his father ron paul who is hard core isolationist type libertarian. he needs to appeal to one of the financial economic wing of the social conservative wing in the foreign policy wing of the republican party. and i think he needs to try to satisfy the foreign policy wing of the party that he is not the isolationist a lot of people think he might be. >> i think one of rand paul's great strengths is his authenticity when he talks about things like domestic policy he means what he says and his problem on foreign policy is he has made isolationist statements. he has called for leniency for edward snowden. he has implied that dick cheney went into iraq to benefit the bottom line of halliburton. he said u.s. support for syrian rebels helped arm al news are a. news are a. is he trying to at that point back to the middle. not only on iran but nuclear deal as well. hard questions he have to answer and this is the just th

joining us now is paul sweeney, who covers these companies. let's run through them.acebook, the big takeaways. >> numbers were pretty good. a lot of companies other revenue a little below expectations. underlying fundamentals were strong. user metrics were strong. and issue the investor -- investors continued focus on was the percentage of revenue from mobile users. that came in at 73% of total war -- total revenue. they continue to manage migration from the desktop pretty well. ebay came in with strong numbers. results tend to be volatile quarter to quarter but they came in with strong results and beat up on the top and bottom lines. investors really focusing on the split of ebay and paypal, its payments business. a little more color on the timing and they now tied it down to the third quarter. a little greater clock -- greater clarity on the timing will help. betty: better numbers from ebay say to people that they can survive without paypal. >> paypal remains very strong. a little stability on the market business was positively received on the market. come after th

is broadcasting. i think rand paul will be graded this. when the establishment has things like television and television consultants locked up . you have to get your message out. you have to uselternative methods. you will see rand paul do that effectively and already has. making sure we see him on his own terms, not filtered through the press. the other side is how efficient your operation is and how much money you are leaving on the table. someone who can not fund raise from big checks like jim bush as rand paul will struggle with has to make sure his operation is seamless in terms of harvesting money from small donors. when the enthusiasm strikes, and it could be quick, how many more days to see have, on those big days he has to have an efficient team making sure everything happens. we have seen today there are holes in his plan. katty: american elections are bigger, longer, and more colorful than other elections around the world. to think campaigns are at the forefront of the tech revolution? arun chaudhary: i think we are because we have such strange big, long, expensive elections. i think it is changing the kind of candidates we choose as americans. the ability to be yo

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us. >> senator paul is just one in the gop growing republican field. another republican challenger for the white house released this video earlier today. let's take a look. >> hi i'm john kasich and i believe it's time for a new day for america. you know, it's time to put aside the petty differences and divide us and rediscover the values that we all share which have made america great, values like personal responsibility, community, respect, courage and, of course, faith. >> does that mean governor nor kasich of ohio is running for president? here to answer the question himself, governor, how are you? >> i'm good. >> i've got a guy in the studio who wants to know if you're running, governor? that sounds like you're running. >> listen, he's been asking me this for to years. >> not that guy. a friend of mine from ohio. >> oh okay. i'm not a candidate at this point but obviously this is a step forward to make sure i can continue to travel. as you may not know, i was in south carolina on friday and saturday and jetted up to new hampshire and was up there

paul montgomery discovers inheritance is worth millions. he is joining us now. paul, great to see you. the inheritance. let's talk about what it was and what you discovered. >> well, it was an extraordinary story. thanks for having me today. it was an extraordinary story. what we actually discovered is a 1913 liberty nickel. it was a coin that was thought to have been lost forever. there were only five coins that were ever made. i did a gimmicky little promotion, i put out a million-dollar reward for the coin knowing full well it didn't exist, and i guess it was about a month later, sure enough, there it was, right in front of me, an extraordinary find. liz: how much is it really going to be if you put it up on the market? >> well, actually we did sell it about a year and a half ago, and it sold for over $3 million. and so it was an extraordinary, it was an extraordinary deal. i put an offer of a million dollars out. but what i told family when they brought it to me, it was worth much, much more than a million dollars. clearly the investor that bought that coin f

this is the the last film of paul walker, he died tragically in the car crash before the film was finish. vin diesel remembers his friend. >> the fact that they allowed to us feel in our hearts that we were pennsylvania making it it makes me believe that paul is here with to us day. >> furious seven opens up in theaters tomorrow. >>> that franchise is just so popular. >> unbelievable. >> yes. >> kate i couric pulls off a ultimate april fools joke. >> she appeared on the late late show with james corden when she mistakenly took a tumble. >> katie couric . >> are you okay. >> up here, up here, james. >> april fools. >> that is not right. >> she got him. >> he raced over. >> that is in the right. >> afterward couric was grinning ear to ear. april fools on him. the stuntwoman is not the hurt she's train to do this but corden was racing over to try to help. is there a stunt double. my goodness. >> look at him. >> started tumbling and then just the beeping language started. >> the beeping language. >> look at him. >> poor guy. >> let me take you. >> just in case. >> that shows it so well. >> late, late show with james corden comes your way right here on cb. thre

is he getting out of that? seamus winston. what? >> no, no, no. >> have a nice trip, see you next fall. >>> steph curry breaking ankles in la. chris paul usedthe top. steph curry is that man now. schooling chris paul. the warriors win again ten straight wins. just keep everybody healthy. >> exactly. >> nba favorites. >> exactly. goo ♪ ♪ ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh ♪ ♪ hush my darling... ♪ ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. ♪ [snoring.] ♪ hush my darling... ♪ [snoring.] ♪ don't fear my darling... ♪ ♪ the lion sleeps tonight. ♪ [snoring.] take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> count down to the rain on sunday. >> yeah, we have rain coming. >> easter egg hunts. it is looking like it is get ago little earlier in the day. >> sunrise easter egg hunt. >> early like saturday. [ laughter ] >> there you go. >> it will be a little wet. >> david letterman is next. >> we will see you tomorrow. have a good ( band playing "late show" theme ) >> from a place indicated by a red. i on the map, it's "the late show with david letterman." tonight... plus paul shaffer and the cbs orchestra. i'm ala

is he getting out of that? seamus winston. what? >> no, no, no. >> have a nice trip, see you next fall. >>> steph curry breaking ankles in la. chris paul usede top. steph curry is that man now. schooling chris paul. the warriors win again ten straight wins. just keep everybody healthy. >> exactly. >> nba favo >> count down to the rain on sunday. >> yeah, we have rain coming. >> easter egg hunts. it is looking like it is get ago little earlier in the day. >> sunrise easter egg hunt. >> early like saturday. [ laughter ] >> there you go. >> it will be a little wet. >> david letterman is next. >> we will see you tomorrow. have a good [music] ♪ and i can't change, even if i tried even if i wanted to. my love my love my love she keeps me warm, she keeps me warm, she keeps me warm, she keeps me warm, she keeps me warm, she keeps me warm, ♪ we are neighbors and best friends. i love my sister. my heart doesn't see race. love is love. our family is no less than any other family. >> male announcer: the following program is sponsored by mercy ships. they're desperate. children and parents line up by the thousands for a chance to get the surgery that wi

paul chambers is live in san francisco now. you all show us this very disturbing video paul. >> reporter: that is correct. police hope you can recognize the attacker. the homeless man was sitting in this area when the attack happened. this video is disturbing. if you take a look at video here. the man was in his usual spot sitting on a bucket when a man in a blue appears on a corner. suddenly pulls out a pipe and then strikes the victim. hitting him so hard that the man goes limp. from there the suspect picks up the pipe and walks down the street passing people and never looking back. before the attack the video shows the man walking past the homeless person several times. >> when you see an act like this it's uncalled for. in san francisco we would like to send a strong message to anybody who lives in our city or visits our city that if you attack the homeless, there is going to be consequence. >> reporter: the victim got more than 50 stitches in his head. they are looking for the attacker that left the man leading on the sidewalk. if the sus

>>> kentucky senator rand paul is set to become the latest republican to make it official what everyone already knows, that he is running for president. carl cameron tells us the rand paul who announces tomorrow is not the same rand paul you might expect. >> reporter: kentucky republican u.s. senator rand paul whose father made three long shut runs for president kicks off his own bid under the banner unleash the american dream. >> the gop of old has grown stale and moss covered. >> a libertarianber libertarian leaning conservative wants to reform criminal drug sentencing and thinks same-sex marriage should be a state issue and called for an end to foreign aid for which potential rivals especially lind lindsay game called him an isolationist. >> his foreign policy is to the left of barack obama. >> reporter: paul is younger and minority voters at liberal college campuses including berkeley and howard university. he shifted right recently reversing opposition to all foreign aid and proposing increases in spending. >> he is a libertarian which is very good and becoming more conservative because of the fact he has no choice if running for office. >> paul has b

allowing vendors to confirm the department of tack situation, whether a company is registered as a sales and use dealer. but paultical about its impact saying that would still not provide red flags about possible smugglers who have signed up. scott mcfarlane news4 i-team. >>> virginia legislators have tried to tackle this problem but can't agree how to do so. the investigation continues tonight on news4 at 6:00. meantime, the taxation department told the i-team it welcomes any tips about possible problems and we put that number on our website at nbcwashington.com along with more information about their audit program. just click on investigations. >>> now some stories we're working on right now in our newsroom. just a day after a big arrest in a high-profile hit-and-run, hear from the mother of the groom-to-be who was hit and killed while he was parked along the side of a highway. >>> plus a local police officer finds he's on the wrong side of the law this afternoon, and this officer won't be back on the streets anytime soon. >>> she died suddenly last weekend, leaving an ashburn, virginia, community devastated.

paul. we are going to talk about the cases and look forward at what the case is might mean for the future. paul will take us back to 1972 and baker versus nelson. then he will talk about how he got from baker versus nelson to the defense of marriage act during the clinton administration. mr. smith: it is a long road. a lot of people ask how we get to marriage equality and the reality is we have been working hard for a long time. you want to have a starting point. that is bigger versus nelson in 1972, in which the court was asked to recognize the right of a same-sex couple to marry. they dismissed the appeal. it was a one line rejection of the claim. this was at a time when we were not in the stone age, at least the middle ages of constitutional law. but there was still no extra protection against gender discrimination. there was recognition of a fundamental right to marry but no one in 1970 two would have thought that was relevant to a same-sex couple. most states still criminalized same-sex relationships. this was not a surprising outcome. but it was a long struggle to get from there to here. which for muc

is tuesday, april 7th 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." the duke blue devils are national champions, but criticism over one and done players. mike krzyzewski joins us. >>> and rand pauling up the presidential race. >>> and only on "cbs this morning" devon still and his daughter leah on how she kicked cancer. >>> and a look at our eye

matt: let us talk about the message. rand paul isas much of a libertarian as his father was or is. will that help his campaign or hurt his campaign? does he have to distance himself or bring himself closer to his father? doug: i don't think you can ever distance himself from his father. the challenge rand will have is that one of the most accessible politicians in washington but he also tends to be focused and undisciplined. it is not common for him to make a comment that later he and his staff have to walk back. he has to limit his excess ability and has to be much more tightly focused on what he says every day on the campaign trail. matt: i like people who are unfocused. leo: they get to run shows on bloomberg. matt: what do you think about his message? isn't it great to have someone who is not a robot? leo: i come as a democrat, find rand paul very unnerving. he is articulate. his spontaneity is a plus against the field at large. he strikes me as somebody who could appeal a bully in the midwest -- appeal ably in the midwest. i don

ladies and gentlemen, is time for someone with knowledge and experience to lead us. time for dr. rand paullead us. since medical school he was trained as many physicians are to look at problems objectively and assault them with rapid and effective in a -- analysis. a physician is also inherently compassionate. dr. paul founded the southern kentucky i clinic in 1995, a nonprofit organization giving free eye care to those in need. to perform 200 surgical cases. under laid with a medical philanthropic trip to haiti this year. it is time for a compassionate leader in the. [applause] it is also time for a uniting force. america has seen way too much division. opportunity in america. show in actions, not just words, that we are all equal under the const duchenne. young, old black, white, hispanic asian, rich poor, all are welcome. all are equal. all are prosperous. one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] it is time for principled leadership. it is time for knowledge for experience, for compassion, for opportunity, for unity. it is time for a president rand

us. turning to the race for white house, another candidate prepares to enter the field. rand paul iso pick kick off his campaign in louisville. he's already leaving hints on social media. the nail onme on his twitter page reads dr. rand paul and his twitter page has been changed to at rand paul. if any polling is any indication a new poll has him in 7th place among

is ron paul? rand paul. i'm sorry. rand paul is your guy in this field. is that true? >> yes. stuart: lou, would you tell us have one yet. i have to hear a lot more demagoguing before i settle. stuart: let me tell you. >> this is demagogue central. stuart: lou dobbs on the fence, ladies and gentlemen. >> not likely. not likely. >> i think i go back to the midwest governors. case i can case -- kasich. it was not long ago, february of 2008 2007, when barack obama announced. another words it only has been recently back in first election with barack obama he all of sudden showed up on the scene and was rung. he was a no maim name. here we are in early april a no name i think is a dark horse has a shot. stuart: none of leaders in polls their party's nomination, have succeeded with the nomination if they were in first place at this stage. campaign. it is probably important so with hold a bit of enthusiasm for any one or two of these candidates. >> will hillary clinton break that mold. 50 so 60% of democrats. >> i think democrats will come together. they may support her. they -- >> no matter how much she lieses, c

is a 720 acre rain forest that once was partly devastated by pasture use. planted. >> today, through impressive environmental efforts, it's a shining example of reforestation and renewal of biodiversity. paul foster is the founder. >> most of the trees we're looking at here we planted 12 years ago. originally this was pasture. regenerated. >> i like your garden. it's very nice. >> as an entamologist i got a chance to discover new species and check out how the animals are doing. the rain forest comes alive at night. we are going to walk every trail, swamp, or water we come across. this is a unique animal of costa rica. you see post cards with this thing. take a look. >> this is a postcard. >> wow. that's incredible. it's right now one of the things we're looking now are glass frogs. they're bright green frogs and the bottom is see through which is why they're called glass frogs. this is it. what are we looking at? >> laying eggs. and if it doesn't rain a few days, he'll urinate or water the eggs so that they don't dry out. >> that's a caring father for you. indicating creatures like glass frogs are sensitive to pollution and other things and are a good barometer of the environment. it's a t

is. they will only say they have membership of tens of millions of people. alix: paul sweeney sent us the reason why the stock is up is because of foreign impact numbers. if you back out the higher number it would be $14.6 billion. that would be the street estimates. scarlet thank you so much. breaking in the last hour bloomberg reporting comcast is planning to walk away from its $45 billion takeover of time warner cable. they will withdraw its lid -- its bid as early as tomorrow. back with the latest on this story is the hardest person in the newsroom, alec sherman. what do we expect right now? alec: that they have decided to move on from this. it will be interesting to see what they say. clearly regulators push them in this direction. i am curious to come out and hear what they say. but we have heard for months now is that they really think that they were on a strong legal footing that this deal would not have been blocked. but the fcc came at them and said we are saying we don't want you to go forward with this deal. we should look to see exactly what they say. then comcast will ha

shuster for a look at the theme by the senator and what he tells us about the campaign. >> great to be with you. >> is there a rand paul niche in the ideological range in the coming of this primary field? >> that's a question, and most republicans. most say no. they were making the effort, because the young libertarians. they were reaching out to minorities and inner city. they are thinking that that's the way to get the snom nation. -- nomination. the likely path is to the left of the field and attract the voters, and look and see there's not much of a contest. >> everything is relative. the far left of the field has a candidate who wants to spend big money on the military, even though he's not sure about foreign adventure, want to run a state. has rand paul in recent months - over the past year, been rounding his hard edges, pulling the bunches to make them a plausible member of the field? >> he has been moderating things. they talked about foreign aid. they are the ones that they need for cutting foreign aid. when it comes to the surveillance, they were saying telephone records belong the american people, and we mus

is something to do for us. >> the veteran was killed while doing a welfare check. for paul kelly, johnson's death is personal. >> i'm going to miss not seeing him. >> we have people leaving and coming from out of state. and they stopped by. >> answering calls, while officers pay respects. but for rulis, he'll practice his trade. taking care of officers who trust him with their gear. >> they want to look in their best. >>> a community coming together to recognize the sacrifice of others. >> there are several road closures along the route. the casket will leave at 10:00. it will head up win chester. we'll provide live coverage of the service tomorrow when it begins and will be streaming online at abc7 news.com and the yerba buena tunnel on the bay bridge. >> and the noise that startling berkeley residents out of their sleep. >> i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up in just a moment. >> a woman orders flowers >>> planned to ask for ransom this was the 20th time the 63-year-old asked for parole the ruling will go through review and could take up to four months before a