Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi
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Arent aware that the president will be making his speech about the environment today but they live it on a daily basis this is a very outdoors state youre very aware of the outdoors when you are here and i think people even some officials are quite costly to talk about manmade Global Climate change but at the back of many peoples minds is or what can we do about this were seeing this happening on a daily basis and then for the fires for instance the hotshot crews that are brought in from all over the country a very thinly stretched i know fire officials are thinking well if alaskan summers keep getting hotter and longer were not going to have the resources to deal with things like this and were not talking about Something Like deforestation where you can replant trees were talking about glaciers that of tens of thousands if not millions of years old rapidly disappearing and theres not much without radical policy change that anyone here can do thanks so much i think gallagher there. Cen
Under a mile this morning so you want to be on the lookout for that. Most everybody is below 70 degrees. Always a bargain at this time of the year. 63 in chan tilly nownd 68 in quantico. This fog will be goneshortly and temperatures in the low 70s by 9 00 and todays High Temperature 88 degrees. Ooks like a beautiful day. Thank you, thank you. Northwest, a great update. Canal road between foxhall and arizona avenue the iconic picture im looking at right now on National News where the folk are standing on top of their vehicle there on canal road yesterday, everything hasc reed and they have cleaned it all up. All lanes now open. As we zoom out a little bit. Kirby road atlo123, fing and damage from rain there. Much of all this flooding may have subjecteded but distant mean local roadaf are s for driving yet. Check out the scene in northern virginia. Yesterdays flood water took out a portion of this road in mclean. News4 camera caught many of close calls. One man is trapped with his two ch
Well, it sure looks like a swastika in the front yard of an east bay home. Tonight the man who put it there says it is a symbol, but not a symbol of hate. His neighbors arent buying it. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney joins us in el sobrante. Terry . You look at it and say that is a swastika, but the guy who built it, johnson says no, it is not. Its an ancient religious symbol from centuries ago. Nobody is buying it, as you mentioned, but also they say this guy means no harm. Iben invented. Reporter thats how Steve Johnson tonight is defending this symbol that he just installed in his front yard in cement at the base of a tattered american flag. It doesnt represent anything. It represents me not having to pull weeds over in that part of my yard. Thats what it represents to me. What does it represent to you . Reporter to neighbors we spoke to its not the tibetan sign as johnson claims, its a swastika. Its offensive. Renee schultz has been a neighbor of johnsons for 27 years, says he has n