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
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
No limit, the ecb unveils a 750 billion euro bond buying plan to sue the markets. Christine lagarde throws the full weight of the central bank behind the single currency. The greenback becomes the haven of choice as u. S. Futures selloff again. Liquidity evaporates in the fx markets on fears of a lockdown in london. Stimulus from every angle, global fiscal support soars to trillions of dollars. I count almost 4 trillion of support. The rba cuts rates. Until the one hour start of cash equity trading in europe, and it looks like the wheels are starting to turn in little more risk on. Futures in europe are higher, they were lower minutes ago. Coming back as we see asian markets closed. S p futures still down 1. 6 , nowhere near the limit they bounced off of earlier. U. S. Futures also showing smaller losses than previously, as all this stimulus comes out. We are hearing talk of one trillion from the u. S. , 800 billion from the ecb. It adds up to about 4 trillion from Central Banks and go
That right now the focus needs to be on cleanup. Here even at this hour there is nonstop cleanup activity going on. You can see it behind me. Ever since the flood victims returned home last night and this morning. In the midst of the cleanup many still want to know why they didnt get more warning about the flooding. The flood victims held a Community Meeting here this afternoon, how and where to get assistance, a big complaint is why wasnt there more morning. This woman was trying to salvage whatever she could from the home shes lived in for 40 years. We didnt get any warning whatsoever. Reporter the mayor and other state leaders came to fire station 34 to acknowledge the first responders. We have a simple message today. That is tank you. Reporter but when the city was alerted and why it didnt do more are still unresolved issues. The santa clara Water District warned the city at 7 30 a. M. On tuesday about the rising water. Sources inside city hall tell me that warning was actually, as
The numbers weve been crunching all morning long, it looks like we have the chance of seeing the spillway finally stop as of this evening. Right now its at about 101 in terms of capacity. Still definitely over capacity, but as we continue to see these scattered showers through the Early Morning hours, its not going to be a significant amount of rainfall, which means, thankfully, we arent expecting to see too much rain and we should be drying out as the incoming week is also on the way. We are seeing 40s. If youre waking up right now, pour yourself a nice cup of coffee, because its still chilly out there and its going to stay pretty chilly throughout your Early Morning. But we will be climbing into the 50s. Take a live look right now at that Doppler Radar, you can see those spotty scattered showers. Theyll be more focused through the coastline. And there is a chance well see more light rain later on today. That means we will be keeping a chance of showers throughout your entire saturday