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Become the 11th state to approve marriage equality. before you secretly google that, we are talking about delaware. today, delaware state senate voted 12-9 to approve the same-sex marriage bill. this afternoon, the governor signed it into law. it goes into effect july 1st. last week, rhode island became the tenth state to allow same sex unions. up next, a stunning report from the pentagon. 26,000 sexual assaults in the military in one year. what defense secretary chuck hagel had to say about it next. the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual...

Sulu on "star trek." there he is. he's gay. today delaware became the 11th state to approve marriage equality. this thing's moving. there's a flip side here. enter rick perry comparing the boy scouts' ban on gay members to former texas governor sam houston's refusal to pledge his loyalty to the confederacy in 1861. here's perry with the family research council's tony perkins. >> the greatest governor that ever served this state was sam houston, and from this library that i speak, he made a powerful decision that cost him his governorship. he was against slavery and he stood up and very passi...

First more people are dead across america in that meningitis outbreak that officials linked to injections for back pain. the infections have spread to an 11th state. federal health officials report two more deaths bringing the total now to 14. 170 people reported sickened. one of them, the first confirmed case in the state of idaho. the feds say all of the victims received the tainted injections tainted with some sort of fungus and that the rare meningitis strain is not contagious. it doesn't pass person to person. now we're learning the massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company that made tho...

Treatment represents idaho's first case associated with the fungal meningitis outbreak. officials say a total of 39 people in that state received the potentially tainted injection but nationwider diseal estimates up to 14,000 people were potentially exposed to the tainted injection. the centers for disease control says roughly 90 percent of those at-risk patients have already been contacted. >>shepard: a lot people have never heard of the pharmacies that put medicines together. they avoid the larger medicine factories and cost less. what do we know of the pharmacy? >> these are pharmacies, com...

>> the death 208 -- toll is up to 14 from the outbreak of the meningitis attached to steroid use, injections to relieve back pain. some fungus got in it and it is we killing people. more americans received exposure to the tainted medicine and now we hear of another case from another state. that is ahead.