Same-Sex Marriages in Washington, D.C. Now Legal
BLITZER: Lisa Sylvester is monitoring other top stories in THE SITUATION ROOM. what's going on?</s>LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there Wolf. Well, same- sex marriages are now legal in the nation's capital. More than 100 couples filled out applications today to get married. There is a mandatory waiting period of three days. D.C. now joins Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont in allowing gay marriages. Independent Senator Joe Lieberman and a dozen Democratic senators today introduced legislation that would repeal the don't ask/don't tell laws and gays in the military. The legislation would prohibit discrimination against service members on the basis of sexual orientation. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Carl Levin was one of the bill's sponsors.</s>SEN. CARL LEVIN (D), ARMED SERVICES CHAIRMAN: People are not allowed to serve. It diminishing or readiness, denies us and robs us of men and women who can contribute to the defense of their country and our country.</s>SYLVESTER: And four senators are urging the Obama administration to stop a stimulus program they say will funnel more than a billion overseas. Charles Schumer, Robert Casey, Sherrod Brown and John Tester want a moratorium on all pay outs from a clean energy grant program. They introduced legislation to stop payments to projects like a Texas wind farm set to receive hundreds of millions of stimulus funds, even though most of the jobs it creates would be in China. A Detroit school was evacuated after a homemade device leaked powerful fumes in a hallway. There were no injuries, and a student at the Phoenix Multicultural Academy is now in custody. Detroit police say the device contained household chemicals. Wolf?</s>BLITZER: Lisa thanks very much. He came, he saw and he clobbered his opponents. The Texas Governor Rick Perry, now that he's roundly defeated his Republican opponents in yesterday's primary, how might he fare against former Houston Democratic Mayor Bill White? And could Perry be an early Republican fast for the next presidential race? Stand by.