People. He did not make it clear how the ban will affect transgender troops already serving. The announcement came in a surprise tweet on wednesday morning. President donald j. Trump says he has banned Transgender Americans from serving in the military in any capacity. Reversing a rule put in by the defense last year. The president tweeted the military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender and military would entail the tweet left unclear if the fate of the thousands of transgender people already serving in the military. And the hundreds currently undergoing the process of transitioning. The announcement brought bipartisan condemnation from lawmakers on capitol hill it is clearly designed to discriminate, rather than to focus on those who can serve our country. Reporter john mccain the chairman of the Armed Services committee criticized the president for making the announcement via twitter saying in a statement, there is no reason that serv
Mission south for just a couple minutes. It looks like they may have had more crews arrive on scene. Ill let you know if they have any lanes blocked. Out of the Altamont Pass, web 580, might get wet coming into livermore off 205. Back to you. North bay hospital got a rush of people coming through the emergency room doors having a hard time breathing and feeling nauseous, reporting their eyes were burning. They dont know whats making them sick, only it seemed to start at the same time that a mystery odor wafted over their neighborhoods. Bob, we stild dont know what the smell is. Vallejo activated its Emergency Command Center . Reporter partially activated and also recommended to shelter in place. Good morning, chris and sam. The latest from the Vallejo Fire Department, they had gas monitors in place in the southern part of the city where this odor was emanating from. Those monitors continue to report safe readings. The city is working with pg e to see if there was pass some sort of natu
Reporter no, they are not willing to make that connection just yet. But they say they are taking it step by step. And right now the u. S. Coast guard is taking samples to determine the source of that sheen. Were not being told its an oil slick from a spill. So there are no containment efforts being taken yet. Thats not to say we want it to spread. Its not like its an oil slick over the water that they can put containment around. Reporter the Vallejo Fire Department is working with the coast guard to determine the source of the mile long sheen across north San Pablo Bay. Es unclear whether the smell is what sent several dozen people to local hospitals with respiratory problems last night. Cant breathe. Eyes watering. Dizziness. Gna nauseating. You could smell it by 780 and i80. I thought my truck rear end blew up because it smelled so bad. When i i came to the water front i had to roll my windows up. Reporter the Ferry Service canceled two ferries this morning that usually carry around
Si cannot smell it. Im told that it is dissipating. Earlier tonight about 600 people called 9 is 1 to reportu some sort of strange order in the self. Theyre trying to figure out if that has anything this. Take a look at the video right now. This is a look from earlier tonight, again, more than 600 calls came in led to a shelterv in place, much of the people went into the hospital. Immediately sentencing out the fire department, pg e, what is in the airc thats making everybody call in with a smell theyre reporting natural gas smell. They went out with the airu fo rs and there. When pum m lay up live in the hospital firefighter what he described as burning rubber. Ootss are dent ic spoke to said it smelt like aring. The tarring you have on your roof. In any event they havent figured outc exactly what it i. The smell may have gotten into peoples homes this might be a good idea to air out your home÷ to get that smell out of it. Sent multiple people to the hospital with respiratory÷u pr
Create its own weather. You get a lot of hot air. It has to go somewhere, that air is going to be rising, and eventually it does have to come back down, and its going to create downdrafts. It is very steep terrain, as we mentioned. And the brush is so, so bone dry as many of us know with this drought in effect. This is going to be a firefight that could go on for a couple days in here to napa county. We sure hope they get containment of it. But right now conditions are not on their side when it comes to temperature and humidity. 90 degrees. Humidity values in the 20 range. As we heard from firefighters, this is dry enough to spread the fire across the brush like lighting a piece of paper on fire. Thats how quick it spreads to these trees. No major fire windstorm in effect but that is the good news. The humidity is going to make it difficult. The other thing is the wind. Check out these wind values. On the north side the wind is coming out of the northeast. On the Southern Side of the f