over transgender rights and visibility. in the latest high profile controversy, a backlash is brewing, over trans influencer dylan mulvaney after two major brands sponsored the tiktok star. our newsroom reporter naomi choy smith brought us up to date on the story. again, dylan mulvaney has found herself at the centre of a storm of controversy over these partnerships with these two major brands in the past week or so. now, for those who may not be familiar with dylan mulvaney, she is an extremely famous tiktokker. she is an actress, she is a comic, and she has about 11 million followers on social media. she chronicled her journey, hertransition to womanhood, as she called it, online, and she got more than 1 billion views, so she is extremely popular in the social media sphere. now, that has garnered the attention of all kinds of major brands, most recently. and she also met with president biden in the white house, actually, just a little while ago, in october, to talk about trans
what s surprising to me is that white house came at opposition last night but haven t done anything legally about it. do you get the sense they did not have a motion for an emergency appeal ready? we saw two blunders which is sprie surprising with a high profile controversy. i would have had a emergency appeal ready to go. they clearly didn t and undermines their case with courts if they re saying that this is an imminent national security matter, it s odd if they wait a few days or over 24 hours to file an emergency motion. it should have been ready to go within minutes of that order coming down. the second mistake is they overestimated the number of visas that had been court ordered by a little over 40%. those are the types of mistakes you don t often see in high
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning our starting point today, tropical storm beryl washing away holiday plans in northern florida and georgia. it made landfall overnight with drenching rains and driving winds. the hurricane force winds have died down a bit but the beryl will be a super soaker as they call it. rob marciano is tracking the storm at the severe weather center, good morning. not usual to have one but two tropical storms into the month of may, not even into the beginning of hurricane season yesterday. 70-mile-an-hour winds last night at one point, this close to being a hurricane. there s the radar picture showing you the center distinctly 50 miles to the west of jacksonville florida and all the rain and thunderstorms rotating off the ocean so this will be slow to weaken and it will weaken as far as the winds are concerned but the rainfall becomes the bigger player through time. they could use the rain but don t want it all at one point. this is c