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Good morning, everyone. im carol costello in for kiran chetry. dare i say happy friday, the 13th. >> yes. it is a lucky day. im john roberts. i promise not to sing this hour. lot to talk about this morning. lets get to it. brand-new details on the serial stabbing suspect caught at the aint trying to flee israel. we now have a name and a face. turns out the police had him at least twice before he almost slipped out of the country. same-sex couples in california, five days away from being free...

Six days. >> this is just a continuation of his judicial tyranny to destroy the will of the people and to impose the will of the minority upon the majority. >> reporter: still, gay and lesbian couples lined up in san francisco city hall hoping the judge would permit them to get married immediately. >> its disappointing. but its one setback on a long road. >> reporter: last week judge walker effectively overturned proposition 8. the 2008 voter approved measure that bans same-sex marriages in cali...

>> reporter: we have a statement from the national organization of marriage which supports proposition 8. it says in part when a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling that totally overturns existing supreme court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is stay his decision and let the higher courts decide. obviously prop 8 supporters making it clear they plan to appeal this ruling and try to keep this ban in place but barring any sort of decision or reversal federal the appeals cour...

Something thats true. >> its life and it will happen for us. >> its like one step forward -- >> and one step back. >> yeah. but you know its life and you got to take it through its courses. were not going to give up. >> reporter: we have a statement here from the national organization of marriage which support proposition 8. it says, in part, "when a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling that totally overturns existing supreme court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is stay hi...

Goes to appeal. we have some live pictures, can we put that up? i dont think so. a judge overturned californias proposition 8, but then the ruling was put on hold. and new government figures show first-time unemployment claims jumped to a five-month high, 484,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. youre online right now. reynolds wolf is the man today. man, whats hot? >> take a look at this. a 2200-year-old gold coin found in israel. amazing to look at. wonder how much that th...

Captured the suspect in a series of vicious stabbings in three states. he was trying to board a flight to israel. is this a criminal case? is there any threat to homeland security? im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." well, we begin with the breaking news. an important ruling today in the legal and political fight over same-sex marriage. the breaking news this hour. a federal judge in california has announced the timetable for lifting a temporary stay in the case that overturned pro...

Pacific time at which time the judge says all persons under control of the state of california shall cease to apply or enforce proposition 8. so that means that the stay will remain in effect for a few more days. now this obviously gives some time to the proponents of prop 8 to pursue their appeal with the court of appeals, but the judge says that the stay he put into effect will cease to be effect on august 18 at 5:00 pacific time and at that time same-sex marriage can resume in california. tha...

Brand new hour of "americas newsroom," and a lot popping today, im bill hemmer, welcome here and good morning, patti ann. patti ann: good morning to you, too, im patti ann browne in for martha maccallum, and this is the same judge who overturned proposition 8, californias voter approved ban on same sex marriages. and, backers of the ban will undoubtedly appeal. bill: bill the decision stoke already raging fires an debates in the golden state? we mean that figuratively, not literally, claudia cow...

Now, then there would be no time for them to rule on the appeal. >> shepard: "the associated press" says this: judge vaughn walker set the deadline for time to appeal to the u.s. circuit court of appeals. if the appeals court fails to act by 5:00 advance time august 18th. then gay may do can go forward. i guess there were those in california, the opponents of prop 8, had hoped that it might be lifted now because there were a bunch of people ready to get married. >> they were in part because one ...

To have a higher court put the ban in place would cause choose. the other side argues the state can handle it. an estimated 18,000 same-sex couples were married in california before voters passed proposition 8. claudia cowen is in san francisco outside the federal courthouse. i guess we expected a decision before now but now we think pretty soon. >> reporter: actually were in front of city hall. we were expecting a ruling by now. and this delay is turning a long morning into a fairly tense after...