t. alex waonight starts with alicia menendez in for alex good morning, chris i m alicea menendez, alex is off, christmas eve, one of the coldest nights in our nation s capital. by the time the sun went down, temperatures were hovering around 18 degrees. it was this night, one of the coldest nights of the year, the season all about welcoming the stranger as the republican governor of texas decided to deposit a number of migrant asylum seekers, including children three buses filled with migrants arrived in d.c. late saturday night, where they were unceremoniously dropped off at the vice president s official residence. they were sent there by the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, to make a political point about what is happening at the southern border. the buses are filled with families and children, many of them wearing nothing warmer than a t-shirt. governor abbott did not tell anybody ahead of time he was going to do this, but agents met them in front of the vice
Ohios process . As of right now, is that you either have to have been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for a year and or you have to have a doctors note saying that you qualify that can mean that they have to send in your bone density, your weight on a charge in comparison to cis girls of the same age or height, and comparison its anxiety inducing because every time i never know if im going to be approved or not i will never forget the de that i got the email he that she had been approved to play. My mom came into my room and she was crying and i asked her what was wrong and she said that i was approved to play. She just looks at me with tears in her eyes and im crying and shes crying and were hugging each other. I said the state agrees that im a girl i think i almost just blacked out because it was so amazing for me. Its allowed me to make a lot of friends its allowed me to have a place where i can feel safe and be myself and its not questioned even if youre getting things turned her he
Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper. Theres a heated battle across the country right now over transgender girls and women. And if states have the right to bar them from sports unless they compete with boys and men. The laws on this differ from state to state. And at the elite levels, each sport makes its own rules and who can participate over the next hour, well take you behind this emotional and politicized issue and how the controversies affecting the lives of athletes around the country around fifth grade, i think is when i started to notice i didnt exactly fit who everyone thought i was i always felt trapped trying to become her the first time i felt that i truly belonged was plane on the girls softball team. All right. Im ready. One going out the middle nice job, right i was horrified a few months later when i found out that that might be taken away why . Im get It Job Number and ohio bill that would ban Transgender Athletes from girls and womens sports is moving throug
young boy just has a sweatshirt on a sweatshirt you think of all of the parents, when parents and their kids, 40 degrees, and 18 degree weather a little kid with a sweatshirt on, and you re just going to dump him near the side of the road because you want to show how tough you are and you want to be meaner than ron desantis because you believe that s the way to win in the era of donald trump i mean, it s just heartless. it s completely heartless. and it also demonstrates that the republican party, they really didn t have any solution. i used to give some of these guys the benefit of doubts that maybe in their heart of hearts, or mind of minds, they re really trying to reach a solution they re just trying to be mean they re just trying to demonstrate how tough they are and they re trying to play to a certain base and there is a sizeable base of the republican party that eats this stuff up. you see it all over twitter and
tina takes us inside her home to show us what little remains. her bedroom, open to the outdoors. this is where my baby would have been sleeping. and yet, in her living room, the christmas tree and the presents, untouched. tina, it s really something. i mean, your christmas tree is about the only thing still standing in the house. yeah. just down the street, james moore. a father protecting his children in a closet under the stairs. it sounded like a freight train coming through. you could hear stuff being ripped off. it was scary. the top of the house is gone? yeah, the whole top. we was pretty blessed. could have been a lot worse. you ve got your mayfield cardinals sweatshirt on. yes, about all i have left. i know. what i had on that night. inside his home wow. all the walls ripped off the house. on both sides. it s just incredible. and you can see, none of the