Sexual assault. Marianne rafferty is live with a fight that is escalating across the country. Marianne good evening. Reporter good evening trace. In his opinion temporarily blocking rules j David F Bowman says he hopes the state and School Boards can negotiate in good faith and strike a balance between protecting transgender students and the rights of parents to bring up their kids. Three School Districts in Monmouth County were sued by the state back in june after adopting policies that require teachers and staff to inform a parent if their child wanted to use pronouns or School Facilities that did not conform to their sex at birth. That injunction is temporary while the larger case plays out in the states civil rights division. Temperature attorney representing the Marlboro Board Of Education saying that process could take years. In the meantime he writes the School District is now severely constrained in its ability to notify parents about important issues involving their minor chil
Schools are allowed to keep a childs sexuality a secret from their parents. The Senior National correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the breaking information on this. Kevin good evening. Reporter evening trace. Three Monmouth County new jersey districts are being sued by the state of new jersey for passing versions of policy requiring teachers to inform parents if a student is seeking a transgender accommodation, such as using a new pronoun or bathroom. Today was the first time the state publicly argued its case against the middletown, marlboro and Manalapan Englishtown School Districts, districts whose leaders agree that the aim here, trace, is to strike a balance between care for the children and the rights of parents. I dont think that our policy is discriminatory in any way. I think we carefully crafted it to be compassionate and to actually attend to the needs of our district. Reporter meanwhile a spokesperson for the Office Of The Attorney General in new jersey said in a
More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
Reporter evening, trace. This is the second federal indictment for the former president out of jack smiths investigation. The 2024 gop candidate who leads the field by a wide margin has already pleaded not guilty to 37 counts related to his alleged retention of Classified Records from his presidency. Only this time were talking about four federal charges, including Conspiracy To Defraud the u. S. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. And conspiracy against right. Notably resist allege the president knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen which, they claim, stoked the fires of january 6th. Quote, these claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false, but the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate creating an Intense National atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administration of the elect
White house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. Republican president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to Ashley Strohmier live in the New York City news room with the very latest on this. Ashley, good evening. Reporter hi, trace. Yeah, the Biden White House has routinely denied involvement in suppressing Negative Information about covid19 vaccines on social media. You might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then White House Press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. Take a listen. Is there any concern the things youre trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we dont take anything down. We dont block anything. Facebook and any private Sector Company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Reporter but internal communication between Top White House officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly different picture, even when face