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>> bill: interesting race. thank you, peter. we'll 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 botanicals laundry detergent. bring the smell of nature wherever you are.

Cost. >> like other families, we have a mortgage to pay every month. we have electric bills and what i've heard is it's about 13% net drop in income with benefits and the wages. that's what we'd be losing every month. and so then we'd have to start picking and choosing how we're 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 they're saying is what's really at issue here, and you can hear them chanting behind me, is about their collective bargaining rights. their leaders said they're willing to g...

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. it's expected to need to close $137 million over the next few months. $3.6 billion over the next two years. what the governor is proposing and trying to push through. first off, it would guarantee 170,000 stat...

Give up financial rewards to help the state balance its budget. they really want to preserve their collective bargaining rights and that's why they say they're 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 there's a few teachers out there who have the dwuts to stand up against your union thugs and actually teach our children. you're awol. you're awol. >> reporter: meanwhile, many schools throughout the state of wisconsin remain closed today because their teache...