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Looking at strong sales to aerospace and construction customers. Alcoa executives are keeping a cautious tone as worries linger about the budget battles in washington. You look at the businesses, you actually see that the endowment dow stream businesses are hitting new records profitabilities. Another quarter of that and record year. Thats great. When you look t upstream where its basically about the commodities coming down, the cost curve, we are coming down on the cost curve 4 point. On the smelting business, our aluminum business. So thats pretty much what the quarter looks like. Ceo Klaus Kleinfeld said sentiment rather than market fundamentals will be driving a rebound in lump naluminum price its good that we start with alcoa. The earnings season is a shocker, a shocker shock to the system. Yeah. A shock to the system. You ease in, you know, never we reported alcoa but you what if you had to start with google or or apple or ....
The apparatus of the state will begin i think very soon to process applications for same-sex marriage in the largest state in the union. bill: i want to get to bret now down in washington. we have a decision on doma, we have a decision so far i guess you could call a partial decision in california regarding proposition 8. yeah, this is a big day for gay rights supporters, for folks who have been fighting this battle for a longtime in california, in particular, and for the lawyers who have been battling on the prop 8 case. david boyz who is the main lawyer for vice president gore and his challenge obviously for the presidency, and ted olson, well respected both of them and this is a big win for them in the big picture. whether as the judge said it doesn t deal with the merits of the case, but the jurisdiction. in essence it comes to the same conclusion, that california in just a few weeks will likely resume gay marriages in a state ....
0 when it came time to defend these two measures in court. in both cases the government officials who would be responsible for defending them said we are not going to do it. in the prop 8 case there were supporters of prop 8 case, they took up the case. in the matter of doma house members took up defense of the law. but neither one of those parties defending those two measures don t have the proper standing to be here. it s possible the court looks at them and says those aren t the proper parties to bring the cases. it would be disappointing to folks on both sides. hundreds of them today, thousands waiting for a ruling and for it to be left unsettled would be a tough blow for both sides. bill: if they get to the core of these cases there are numerous possible outcomes. i count a total of 8. what do you have? reporter: i say that times infinity. when the justices come together you just need five votes on one coalesced point. but there can be splitoff opinions, multiple dissents. they ....
Before. how do you think that, public opinion, can affect these arguments? well, again, you spoke earlier about how having a member of your family or a friend or someone you know who s gay can affect you, well, public opinion polls can do the same thing, even to the sitting supreme court justices. more than half of the country now supports same-sex marriage, but so when you talk to the lawyers who are opposing olsen and boiz and against same-sex marriage, they say, you know, public opinion is shifting. nine states plus the district of columbia now allows gay marriage. that s why the supreme court ought to let it play out in the states and not shove this decision down people s throats. on the other side, david boyz and ted olsen says, if the court decides in our favor, maybe they ll think it s not such a cataclysm if they decide in our favor and that they won t be doing too much of a heavy lift here. so, you know, each side makes the argument that this could affect them positively. ....
and, kate, you know, after that, ted olsen decided to take the case. then he picked up the phone and he called david boyz, the liberal lawyer he had defeated in bush v gore with whom he had become really good friends after that court case and said to him, david, will you argue alongside, with me on this case? and it took him about a nanosecond for him to say, sure, i m on board, and now the two of them have really taken this for the past few years all the way up to the supreme court. they ve won in the courts in california. right. and now they re defending their case. and, you know, people might find it strange that these two men could come together, but i ve heard over and over again that people who argue on opposite sides of a case before the supreme court, they disagree with each other on the legal issue, but they absolutely respect each other because they re the only two people who know how hard it is. well, that s interesting, kate, because that s exactly what david boyc ....