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Granddaughter and she's 5 years old. >> reporter: on this street, guard dogs are no protection. against gunshots in the middle of the night. >> saturday night between 11:00, 11:30, my mom's house got shot up. a drive by. went through that window and went to the third room of my mother's house. come on in. >> reporter: the new mayor concedes people are reluctant to trust police. with 16 officers now under indictment for pleading guilty in shooting deaths in the week after hurricane katrina. two of the victims killed on this bridge. when you read the revelations in the danzinger bridge case, not...

Constitutional amendments guarantee equal protection of the law and due process. and that those federal rights are being violated by the california state constitution. to make it very simple, he said gay people are being discriminated against deliberately by california and it doesn't matter if that's what the majority of people favor. the u.s. constitution says you can't single out a group and discriminate. that's basically in a nutshell the basis of his ruling. >> he's saying, okay, go ahead and get married but opponents of day marriage still can appeal to the 9th district court of appeals an...

California, is because he said there's no grounds to appeal in the case because arnold schwarzenegger and jerry brown, the attorney general and governors of california, have walked away from the case. they have said california doesn't care about this. we're okay with the judge's decision. so walker is now saying, phone can go to the 9th circuit because only the state of california has the right to appeal. the proponents of prop 8 who brought the case in the first place he says have no right to appeal. so this has come from out of left field, it is called the doctrine of standing. if that's the...

To specific details. but we can say that we look to get these numbers we looked at births that occurred in 2007 and '08 and well over 80% of the parents had come in before 2006. they had been here for some time. >> all right, well certainly it is good to have some facts put to the political arguments in this case. thank you both for being with us. appreciate you coming in this morning. question for every man out there -- did you get along with your dad when you were a kid? coming up, why your answer to that question could determine how well you cope with stress as an adult. it looks like a...

Sheen. this is a 911 call from his wife. >> my husband had me -- with a knife and i'm scared for my life and he threatened me. >> reporter: she did plead guilty to misdemeanor assault. his punishment, rehab, counseling and community service. and he'll have ample time to star on his hit tv show. maybe the best thing about all of this is that we're talking about domestic violence. although advocates say not seriously enough. not seriously enough. for those counselors who see thousands of victims every day that's pretty scary. they say the message should be zero tolerance and they fear the eminem...