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Across northeast nigeria where boko haram is most active. the pentagon could soon release its ban on transgender people serving in the military. ash carter called current regulations outdated. a defense source says the white house has been pushing the pentagon to lift the ban. but other officials have said more time is needed to study medical and legal issues. the human rights campaign hailed the decision. age we going agend we are going to take a quick break. malala is attempting to help syrian refugees.

Now revealing a secret memo from 2010 outlined the administration's potential use of military force against americans in the united states of america. joining us is the man who broke the story, bill gertz, the national security columnist for "the washington times." good morning, bill. who told you about this? >> a defense source brought this to my attention and was fairly concerned about it; said this appears to be the latest step in the administration's decision to at some point use force against american citizens in the future. >> do they give any instances when that would be appropriate? be...

stories. hello everyone. i'm don lemon. you're in the cnn newsroom. we're going to get you up to speed on today's headlines. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky is under suicide watch this hour in pennsylvania's center county jail. sandusky will be sentenced in about 90 days. he had no reaction and kept a blank expression after last night's conviction on 45 counts of child sex abuse. a full update on today's developments just minutes away. and this is just in to cnn to the severe weather center. they are tracking a new tropical storm in the gulf of mexico righ...

storm force strength. you can see just to the exterior of the storm we had 17-mile-per-hour winds and the wind speed now being clocked at 60. we're likely to get this as a tropical storm very soon. we're waiting on the advisories. once we have that we will be able to get a much better picture. this is the current spaghetti model plot. we call it that because the lines look like spaghetti. they actually indicate quite a divergence and where some models are taking the storm, westward to texas or to the eastward into florida. it's really interesting. you don't even see anymore that are ...

>> he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i can't tell. >> what do you think? >> really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. >> that's what a lot of people suspect. all right. let's talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now you've had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, they're concerned that they want the u.s. out of afghanistan, about 70% say it's time for the u.s. to come h...