And military experts, the United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u. S. Military. Our military must be focussed on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs. In the military would entail, thank you. Transgender Service Members have been able to serve openly in the military since last year. When defense secretary ash carter ended the ban. There are between 2500 and 7,000 transgender Service Members on active duty and anywhere from 1500 to 4,000 in the reserves according to iran corporation study. And that same study determined allowing transgender people to serve openly would have only minimal impact on readiness and health care costs. Todays announcement seemed to come to a surprise to even the pentagon which is deferring all questions to the white house. California congresswoman and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi slammed the president in a Statement Released just a
Tonight, news coming in of Lightning Strike this is evening. At least three people hit. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on about tuesday night, and we begin with that white house admission today that President Trump did, in fact, help his son, don junior, write that response, that explanation as to why don junior and several others met with that russian lawyer in trump tower. We learned the president worked on don juniors statement while on air force one while he and the first lady were traveling back from the g20, but the president s personal attorney repeatedly said the president had nothing to do with don juniors statement. Why the changing story . Abcs chief white house correspondent, cecilia vega, leading us off. Reporter tonight, an admission from the white house President Trump himself helped craft his sons first statement about that Infamous Trump tower meeting with the russians, a statement that ultimately proved to be misleading. Don junior initially clai
Baseball doesnt work out he can try gymnastics. He maemade the catch, walking funny today. Well start off with cities up and down the west coast waking up to a rare and dangerous heat wave. The blistering heat will threaten alltime records as Health Officials and forecasters warn this will be a scorcher even for cities that rarely see these temperatures. This morning, the Pacific Northwest in the grips of a historic heat wave. Being out on the water is great, cool off and get in the shade. Reporter in seattle the thermometer could hit triple digits this week, thats only happened three times in the past 123 years. A major concern because only a third of homes in the metropolitan area have airconditioning. Im going to go jump in a lake. Reporter and portland, oregon, expecting the strongest heat wave in nearly a decade. Highs there reaching 107 degrees. Today its been swamped. We sold about 130 or 140 pieces of air conditioners, probably sold about 150 fans. Probably this time next week
Their homes. Six Evacuation Centers opened up. One woman made it to an evacuation shelter but was worried about her daughter. I have a handicap daughter that cant walk and the ambulance wont come in and take her. They refuse not to come in. Shes got to get out. This is the first time the emergency spillway has been used after recent rains damaged the main channel. The emergency evacuation orders will stand until officials know the situation is safe. A team from the bay area is headed to help and theyre trained to assist in potentially dangerous swiftwater rescues. Amy hollyfield is live for us at menlo park. Everyone rushes out, and these guys rush in. The Swift Water Rescue Team got the call to rush in just as the evacuation orders were made. They took off last night. Theyll stage in chico and be ready to go if needed. People may not get out in time. Well be there to possibly assist in rescues. Swift water environment is very dangerous. You know, were trained to handle that. This team
Watch watches, some of the items police say was stolen. Some of the crimes go back as far as 2013. Police say they caught some of the suspected thieves in the act over the summer. And the case led them to a jewelry store, run by this man. In january, police executed warrants here and other shops they say he operated. A massive trove of jewelry, coins, watches, gemstones, silver houseware and cash. Reporter thats when he was arrested. They began with sorting what they found, some in buckets and some staffed in chests and some in the store. The setup was consistent with a large jewelry fencing operation that included pillow casewi cases is stolen jewelry. Reporter he told me police have no proof of the crimes hes charged would. Im innocent and nothing besides that. We may discover more crimes that have occurred. And there is the possibility that some of this stolen jewelry came from other criminals. So we got a lot of work left to do here. Reporter police say they want to be if you own a