Capitol Protesting News Today

>> bill: interesting race. thank you, peter. well be in contact. peter doocy live in charleston. >> sandra: the fox news channel will bring you to west virginia as we host the primary debate. a lot of at stake. may 1, mark your calendars at 6:30 p.m. eastern time. our colleagues bret baier and martha maccallum will be monitoring. thousands of students marching on the capitol protesting gun violence in schools and calling for changes to our gun laws. a live report on this coming up. . gain botani...

Cost. >> like other families, we have a mortgage to pay every month. we have electric bills and what ive heard is its about 13% net drop in income with benefits and the wages. thats what wed be losing every month. and so then wed have to start picking and choosing how were going to make our house payments and still do other things. >> reporter: now as painful as those financial hits would be for state employees, what theyre saying is whats really at issue here, and you can hear them chanting beh...

Going to other states. so we need to have a voice. >> live now to the front lines of the wisconsin budget showdown. our cnn casey wayans is at the state capitol. walk us through the plan that seems to be causing such commotion and such anger among the people there. >> reporter: well, what the situation is here, like with many states, wisconsin is facing a very large state budget deficit. its expected to need to close $137 million over the next few months. $3.6 billion over the next two years. wh...

Give up financial rewards to help the state balance its budget. they really want to preserve their collective bargaining rights and thats why they say theyre here marching but many others who are in wisconsin and have come to the capital are not sympathetic to those arguments. >> shame on you for abandoning your children today. at least theres a few teachers out there who have the dwuts to stand up against your union thugs and actually teach our children. youre awol. youre awol. >> reporter: mea...