A tweet from the president to ban transgender people from the military. A huge crowd gathered in the castro for an emergency protest in response to the president s announceme announcement. Their intens was to show that to San Francisco stands with the transgender community. It was a stunning about face from candidate trump who vowed to defend the community more strongly than his opponent would. Reporter 69 years to the day president harry truman deseg reigated the military, President Trump is making his own changes but ignored questions about his tweets making headlines. A tweet announcing a major change to military policy, tweeting that u. S. Government will not allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military, siting tremendous medical cost and disruptions. Its not a simple one but the president feels its the best one for the military. And doing it on the 69th anniversary of president trumans integration of the military is a particular slap in the face. We
The Senate Republicans are struggling to fulfill their promise to repeal and replace the foueredable care act as you know. A contentious debate is happening right now. The bill under consideration tonight is being called the skinny repeal and even insurance groups are coming out in opposition. Heres abc News Reporter. Reporter senators are barrelling towards a vote hope tooling repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. But they dont know what theyre going to be voting on. Its a good first start. In terms of making prosress, Senate Republicans are considering whats being called a skinny repeal. But even republicans arent convinced of it. Its policy is a disaster. The skinny bill as a replacement for obamacare is a fraud. It would only roll back parts of obamacare like the mandate all have insurance. That could leave more americans uninsured over the next decade. Its been dubbed a sheep in wolf s clothing by aarp. It angers everyone. Conservatives who know its a i sirender and moderate
Further Safety Inspections can be done. This same type of ride made by the company, k mg broke apart yesterday during the opening day of the ohio state fair. One person was killed in the accident and seven others were seriously injured. The state has asked all owners of this particular ride throughout the state to keep the ride closed until further notice until they can make sure everything is secure. We will be following their request. Reporter even before the order came down from the state inspectors officials at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk decided at 8 pm last night to close the fireball ride out of an abundance of caution, and as the spokesperson points out, the ride that failed in ohio is portable, taken apart and put back together different events. The fireball at the boardwalk is fixed and permanent. We had a Safety Inspection that morning and had no reason to be concerned until we saw what happened in ohio so we made the decision to close our ride until we get more information. Re
Up 4 00. Were already into thursday, which is the beginning of the weekend, in my mind, good morning shall everybody. Good morning, gang. No wonder why somebody has time off coming up again. Good morning, car glenn morning. Bob kelly. Im here. Nothing worse than the traffic guy getting stuck in traffic. Schuylkill expressway, little shutdown, but five minutes can mean a big difference. So did you have that internal conversation with yourself. Dow. Maybe i can take this particular stuck dead in the water. Oh, here we go. And when you dont have jelly donuts, it is really bad. No good morning, sue. Morning, it will be a day of changes, of weather changes, because probably have some thunderstorms popping up before the day is through. Getting ready for more tomorrow. So, eight out of ten today. It is actually quite comfortable outside. It is 68 degrees, with 78 relative humidity, despite the southerly wind, now the time is 5 55, so, got to wait little while for that. It is 68 degrees here.
Im dan ashley. It all comes after the very public and vulgar remarks for umthe president s new Communications Director, anthony scaramucci. Abc News Reporter. Reporter two out in just seven days. First White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and chief of staff, Reince Priebus is out and john kelly is in. Reince is a good man. John kelly will do a fantastic job. Reporter President Trump tweeting i am pleased to inform you i have just named john kelly as chief of staff. Hes has been a true star of my administration. General kelly has been a star. Done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. Reporter tension between priebus and new Communications Director scaramucci hit a boiling point in a shaulking, profanity raced tirade. He called him a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic. But despite that, priebus tells wolf blitzer there are no hard feelings. This is not like a situation where theres a bunch of ill will feelings. This is good for the president. Reporter sources tell abc news