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Get into that coming up marty back took a date thanks a lot. In taking a step back several counties in california including right here in the bay area are making changes to their plans to reopen as the coronavirus cases spiked across the country and we have Team Coverage for you this morning on the plans to scale back the reopening kron fours will tran in Contra Costa County this morning. But were going to start in the north bay with kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in marin county which is allowing some businesses to reopen this morning. But not as many as originally planned. Sarah. Marty thats exac...

Deployment in germany comes at a tremendous cost. And just stunning legal victory for the community in the United States the mostly conservative Supreme Court rules that a 964 civil rights law protects gay and transgender people from discrimination at work. Welcome to the shore u. S. President donald trump has announced a large cut american troop numbers here in germany trump said he would reduce those station here to around 25000. 00 now thats down from a figure that fluctuates between 34 and 52000 troops said hes responding to germanys failure to meet its defense funding commitments to nato....

Who want to do the same thing. That discrimination is because of sex. Because the adverse employment malesis based on the employee to confirm about how men should behave that men should be attracted only to women and not to men. There is no analytic difference between this kind of discrimination and forms of discrimination that have been already recognized by every court to have addressed them. For example, discrimination against men who are effeminate rather than macho. That discrimination is because of nonconformity with an expectation of how men should behave. The attempt to carve out discr...

This morning, the long march for equality for lgbt q americans took a step forward, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that federal employment discrimination protections do in fact extend to lgbt q americans. Believe it or not, before today, it was allowed, the federal government did not say you could prevent let me say that a different way, before today it was not a settled legal matter that you could sue your employer for firing you solely on the basis of Sexual Orientation a sexual identity. In 2020 in america it was still okay to discriminate against people because of the Se...

Lord, inspire our senators to know that you are still on your throne working for the good of those who love you. Listen to our prayers and give us wisdom, courage, and integrity that will enable us to glorify you. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Gra...