Administrations guidance to Public Schools over allowing transgender students access to bathrooms and other facilities. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. 202 7488002s,. You can post on our facebook or twitter pages as well. This guidance came out last friday. It was a joint letter by the Education Department and Justice Department. It says that as a condition of receiving federal funds a school agrees they will not exclude separate deny benefits to or otherwise treated differently on the basis of sex any person in its Educational Programs unless expressly authorized to do so under title ix. The letter also gave specific guidance when it came to the use of restrooms and locker rooms. Heres some of that section from the letter which you can find online at the Justice Department and education to urban. A school must allow transgender students access to facilities consistent with their gender. Themchool may not require to use bathrooms inconsistent with their gender. A scho
The extended forecast low thirties and when we have temperatures in the low to mid forties near the coast still some rain showers up on the Eastern Shore but this activity is rolling out tides are still high and were going to have some minor tidal flooding this morning cuppa light flurries down rocking not dont know that thats even making it down to the ground. Colder air is out to the west this is going to come in temperatures will be trending down in the coming days. Today we see that high close to normal around forty nine to the rain showers and this morning up from the Eastern Shore more sunshine later i will have the chili details come in a cycle of Virginia Beach years Ashley Hart Craig beach traffic actually on to sixty four still moving very well even though we just kicked off the morning rush hour but were still tracking deep green their east and westbound will give you a quick live look right now from clinton parkway just to prove the traffic really has not even picked up in
Away from the region out to the less colder air some snow showers on the other side of the mountains so were going to be watching that in general today temps are starting off low forties with those thirties and one but were going to warm it up into the upper forties this afternoon so enjoy today temperatures pretty close to normal. Theres a chance we could see a couple stray showers this evening may be of mixed area off to the north say the Northern Neck later tonight well talk a little bit about that going to talk about the big push of cold air thats going to be a big talker coming up as we head to the weekend we see the temps right now heres asher with the luggage arrived. Com or here on the Traffic Network maps craig would not have any big issues working right now hopefully we stay that way ill keep a close eye on things for now i give you a couple of looks not too far from each other. Starting on for sixty four near freeman avenue and poindexter is a live look at traffic headed nor
Thats for sure temperatures today actually close to normal. We have one more day to soak it up i enjoy the relatively mild conditions today because it does turn a lot cooler for the rest of the week. This morning temperatures in the thirties forties near the coast forty five right now and oceanic shower still up on the Eastern Shore. We had the rain across syria it was fairly light precipitation right now things winding down down on the current acts out a few more showers down there it would dock in corral youll see little button that up on these for sure right now for a northampton mackinac counties are still seeing showers aches then back over towards teens year and as we take a look off to the western side there of the bay just a few sprinkles exiting the Little Pencil and the Northern Neck so thats whats out there this morning as we expand the view you can see theres a little break for today and a quick look at the future cash you can see the temperatures will climb up through the
Agree some will make changes to it. So this has many months to play out before it becomes law under the proposed Defense Budget the navy could be absorbing a seven billion dollar reduction in fiscal twenty seventeen funding according to newly released documents obtained by our partners at defense news under the plan the service would reduce the number of ships its buying and uniformed personnel could be cut by sixty four hundred sailors below previous forecasts this proposal reflects the hard choices weve made in the context of todays security environment and economic constraints and it does not leave much room for needed flexibility still pentagon leaders point out the fleet will ultimately grow we will get to three hundred chips in fy nineteen will get to three hundred and eight ships in twenty one which is the requirement and one part of this budget already drawing fire on capitol hill the one point six percent pay raise for the troops which does not keep pace with the private alrea