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
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. it s here 6:00 here in the big apple, 3:00 p.m. in california. what s likely to be a long, sleepless night and soggy weekend lying ahead for much of monterey county. the county is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding in that state. these are new images of the levee that failed around midnight local time. mandatory evacuations are now under way in parts of the that county. a string of deadly storms has unleashed massive flooding across the central and northern portions of the state. at least two people have died in this most recent storm. this week s atmospheric river is the tenth to hit the state this winter. it s dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas and several feet of snow in others. let s begin in monterey county, the site of that levee breach. cnn s mike valerio is there. mike, the state of that breach, could this continue to dump more flooding into that area? what can you tell us? reporter: tha
Breaking news at five. Major problems on highway 24. A motorcycle crash blocking lanes in the eastbound. And Police Activity in the area blocking an offramp. Now at five. We might stop em and ask are you lost can we help you. Kron four lets you ride along with a private security service. Paid by an oakland neighborhood concerned that the o p d cannot protect them from violent criminals. We been having a lot of breakins in houses and now vehicles taxpayers who say they cannot depend on their Police Department any longer. They are giving up on the oakland Police Department to secure their neighborhood frustrated residents in the Oakland Hills are now paying a private Security Company to do the job earlier today kron4s Haaziq Madyun road along with one of the guards. While he was on patrol if we see something out of the ordinary, someone who looks like they clearly do not belong up here, theyre not here to see anybodywe check them out reporter checking out suspicious persons here in oakla
Coastal areas perry this morning. An east bay landmark will be reduced to rubble. An Historic Building at cal state east bays campus is coming down. Kron 4s mike pelton is live in hayward this morning with more on the implosion and why this building has to come down. Mike. Airline piquancy is standing there 13 stories that is scheduled to come down to hours from now appeared were standing a few yards away from the building itself for safety reasons appeared the University President and others will be here in a short time to witness this historic landmark being demolished. The building has sat empty for the past two years and it was determined that is the most seismic invulnerable building because of the earthquake fault. Scientists are taking advantage of this opportunity and have cited hope to get a better idea of how or where the hayward fault lies and it will be using this bill meanthis buildig explosion for seismologists to determine the earthquake possibilities appeared this build
David DePape, a former East Bay resident, was sentenced to 30 years for assault and 20 years for attempted kidnapping, which would run concurrently, for the 2022 attack.