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this morning. the arrest in that massive leak of sensitive u. s intelligence documents. but we're learning about the 21 year old who worked on a massachusetts military base and the chat room he belonged to online where he allegedly posted the documents. the fallout from the breach spreading from ukraine to other u s allies and adversaries changes that could be coming at the pentagon. south florida underwater, the damage from what's being called a once in 1000 years flood and the concern about just how often we're now seeing these 1000 year flood events in this country. the new mystery surrounding the murder of a tech industry executives stabbed on the street in san francisco police now revealing it was not a random attack, a entrrendin a dime
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, a million of them the major heist in a walmart parking lot, and why a truck loaded with money from the mint was parked outside walmart overnight, plus cleaning up the streets with robot trash cans and later the lost dog and his 150 mile adventure home crossing the bering sea. york. this is america this morning. good friday morning, everyone i'm andrew denberg from g infra rhiannon. we begin with the young man arrested in connection with that leak of sensitive u. s intelligence documents. he worked on a military base in massachusetts, his arrest and the leak of such wide ranging classified information is shining a spotlight on a social media platform he allegedly used discord is used mostly by young people. critics say it has little oversight and has become a breeding ground for extremists. t man the
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leak of highly classified pentagon documents, is expected to make his first court appearance. 21 year old jack teixeira faces charges under the espionage act, fbi agents in tactical gear converged on his massachusetts home yesterday, news helicopters first spotted him reading on the back deck. he then emerged with his hands on his head, authorities say to share a is a member of the massachusetts air national guard based at otis air force base, working as an it specialist in the intelligence wing. is like a movie. i would have thought people who know him say he always expressed interest in the military and enjoyed gaming. i went to high school with him. i knew of him. good kid. not really. a whole lot of i would never have kind of taken him. somebody like that. kind of crazy. federal investigators have been looking into the leak of dozens of apparently classified pentagon documents exposing top secret intelligence on everything from ukraine to iran to even u. s allies hours before to share his arrest. a report in the washington post described the alleged leaker as
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someone posting documents to impress young men in a chat room on the social media platform. discord the washington post interviewed a teen who says he was a member of that chat room. it felt like i was on top of mount everest. i felt like i was above everyone. else to some degree. and that, um i would i would be able to practice some people that i knew stuff that they didn't popular with teens, experts say discords lack of content moderation allows conspiracy theories to spread, the new york attorney general's office last year announced it was investigating discord in connection with the racist mass shooting at a buffalo supermarket. investigators say the teen gunman detailed his plans weeks earlier on discord. discord has said it is cooperating with the buffalo investigation, as well as the document leak investigation. of course, the big question is. how did the 21 year old allegedly get his hands on classified documents? a b cs and win has more on what the pentagon is saying. good morning. good morning. andrea defense secretary lloyd austin has already ordered a review of how
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the pentagon managers who gets access to sensitive information , austin says the process will look into intelligence access and control procedures. to quote prevent this kind of incident from happening again. we spoke to a former intelligence official and the biden administration. he says the pentagon must do more to protect classified information. we need to do a lot more to safeguard classified information. thousands of people have security clearances. sensitive information is readily available over computer systems. we need to do more to use high tech to track inappropriate handling and disclosure of this information. we have an uncomfortable number of active duty military law enforcement and government personnel. who may be adopting, or at least find resonance in extremist or conspiracy theories , and they are willing to act on it, whether it's an act of violence or to engage in activity, such as disclosing classified information. the suspect in the pentagon lead case worked with communication
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systems at the massachusetts air national guard. u. s official describes that role as combat it keeping the military cyber infrastructure running. it's unclear if he had security clearance, but we're told it's possible he worked on computers that contained classified information. andrea mm. thank you. it's being called once in 1000 years event, the relentless rain pounding south florida is finally letting up today but not before trapping people in their homes, closing a major airport and raising more concerns about just how often we're now seeing these 1000 year floods in this country here's a b cs lionel maui's this morning streets looking like canals with neighborhoods underwater and people trapped after broward county, florida was swamped with one third of its annual rainfall in just seven hours. we were perilous to stop it from flooding in on both doors. more rainfall last night after storms dumped more than two ft on wednesday, smashing records driven around the city, and there's not one area of the city
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that has not been impacted. this video from the sun sentinel shows car after car stranded in both directions. downtown fort lauderdale and before the roads could even drain or dry. another storm. that car is creating awake. lauderdale airports still closed last night, the tarmac and access roads inundated. this man paddleboarding in his neighborhood in pembroke pines, but the high waters were life threatening for others. swamp buggy about eight ft. off the ground and take a look at the water level. that we are driving through at this point. we're on our way to gentlemen that is handicapped and unable to make it out of one of these mobile homes, widespread flooding, making rescues difficult and dangerous. cars got water all the way almost to the top, and i was really scared. then i came out and i slept over here at my neighbor's house. at one point more than 600 people were taken to shelters. rescue crews are doing a grid search in hard hit areas, going home to home to ensure people are safe. lot of
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people are still left in the neighborhood, and i'm worried about many of them and then it's a it's a absolutely horrific. schools there will be closed again today, but the airport is finally set to reopen. andrew andrea. lionel thank you. last summer alone, the us saw five flood events described as 1000 year floods from the midwest to texas and california, a recent study warned floods are becoming more frequent and less seasonal due to climate change, and our infrastructure is not keeping up. today is deadline day in the battle over an abortion pill on the market for decades and appeals court ruling restricting the use of mythic kristen is set to take effect after midnight tonight. the justice department is asking the supreme court to intervene. but if the high court refuses, the pill will no longer be available by mail and only women up to seven weeks pregnant will be able to get it. a group working to outlaw abortion, challenged the drug's approval. meanwhile breaking overnight florida governor rhonda santis
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has signed a bill banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. the white house called the new law extreme and dangerous. the man accused of fatally stabbing a tech ceo in the streets in san francisco this month, faces arraignment today. the suspect is 38 year old tech entrepreneur name among many police say he and the victim bobbly knew each other. but investigators did not provide a motive, only saying it was not a random crime for many neighbors say there were no red flags. this is a complete shock that all of us in the building is very welcoming. very kind. he's good neighbor. bob lee moved to miami but was in san francisco on business. us border patrol agents are being redeployed to handle an influx of migrants about around el paso, texas. migrant encounters are up 10% since february. they increase comes just weeks before the covid related title 42 deportation policy is set to expire. overseas, more violent demonstrations in france
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protesting a plan to raise the retirement age. nearly 400,000 protesters hit the streets yesterday. more than 100. people were injured and angry crowd even broke into the headquarters of louisville thanh in paris. time now for a look at your friday weather. looks like another stormy day across florida's east coast could see more flooding downpours. they're also very rainy and stormy across the carolinas and back across the great plains. meantime here in the northeast, the big stories, the heat record warmth again from new york city to philadelphia, but this is the last day of the record highs across these parts of the country, because here comes the cold front and some rain this weekend to cool us off even snow in the upper great lakes. yes winters hanging on in duluth, minnesota accuweather meteorologist kevin costner.or n people planning their summer vacation, but first a pretty
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penny or in this case, dimes two million coins are stolen from this truck. how the heist unfolded and new testimony at the lorry val oh murder trial, the idaho mom charged with killing her kids for a religious cult what her long
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donate a kidney to my husband. emotional story on g m a authorities in philadelphia trying to find who stole $200,000 worth of dimes. they were stolen from this truck in a walmart parking lot late wednesday or early yesterday. the truck was carrying the coins from the philadelphia meant to florida, but the driver went home to sleep for the night and left the truck in the parking lot and missing dimes. about two million of them weigh about £10,000 cameras in the parking lot could be crucial to the case in hollywood, florida driver and captured the moment of passenger train slammed into a truck. that
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was hauling cars, sending the vehicles crashing onto the ground. the truck had been stuck on the tracks. no one was hurt testimony from a key witness in the trial of lori valued a belt . she's the idaho mother accused of killing her two children as part of a doomsday religious cult with her husband, chad. in court yesterday. melanie give described as lori valued. abel's former best friend testified about lori and chad's extreme religious beliefs she shared with me that. he they had been married. and another time period, said laurie believed her kids were zombies and that her son, jj, was possessed by an evil spirit. she told me he would, you know calling upon refrigerator and go top of the cabinets and he was acting, um just more aggressive . prosecutors also played a phone call gabe recorded where
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gibb is heard asking lorie and chat about jj's whereabouts, asking, where is right now, and that was because jj children's bodies were found on chad's property months after they went missing. gib during cross examination, tried to distance herself from the notion of zombies as the defense questioned her own religious beliefs. you were involved in some of these. ah casting out of devils and evil spirits. ah, wi li,ight, correct. and during the times that you were doing these, uh these castings or yeah. casting on spirits. did you ever feel like this was the wrong thing to do? it felt very unusual. um it was very innocent to me testified that laurie told her she and chad believe their spouses were going to die. and then she and chad could be together. the couple also face charges in the
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murder of his ex wife, tammy and lori faces charges in her husband's death in arizona. lori and chad have pleaded not guilty . her trial is expected to last eight weeks. surveys warning about the shortage of nurses across the country and found 100,000 nurses quit during the pandemic and more than 600,000 nurses with at least a decade of experience plan to quit or retire in the next five years. the main reasons burnout and fatigue coming up, remembering the woman who invented the mini skirt ahead. should your boss be required to give you religious holidays off the battle now at the supreme court? (vo) if you've had thyroid eye disease for years and you go through artificial tears in the blink of an eye, or...your eyes feel like they're getting kicked in the backside, it's not too late for another treatment option for thyroid eye disease, also known as t-e-d.
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a legal battle that could change the american workplace. it centers around this question. should your boss be required to let you take religious holidays off because abc is devin dwyer? gerald graff spent years delivering the mail during the week and worshiping faithfully on sundays. that is until 2015 when amazon contracting with the postal service to deliver packages, they began to ask people in my position to deliver on sundays or holidays, and i told them i'm not gonna be able to work on the lord's day at all. at first, the postmaster accommodated graph, but a year later, his boss said things had changed. said that basically going to find another job where you're going to work sundays. this time unwilling to compromise, his faith graph transferred to a post office nearby, one that had just four carriers and still did not deliver on sundays. but as demand for amazon delivery soared. graph eventually could not avoid sunday assignments. shifts he chose to skip 24 times over two years. graph resigned
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in 2019 and sued. federal law requires employers to accommodate the religious beliefs of workers and less, it would pose an undue hardship on business, the postal service in two lower federal courts say graphs, refusal to work sundays was clearly a hardship. graf who now works in the mailroom at a private retirement community wants the supreme court to force employers to be more accommodating of the religious beliefs of workers. but rachel lazar with americans united for separation of church and state, says the impact could be sweeping. this case opens the floodgates to every employee in the workforce being forced to carry the burden of someone else's religious practices. whether it's in a pharmacy contacts, asking to not feel birth control prescriptions or in a workplace asking to have the right to discriminate against lgbtq. people there to devin dwyer, the supreme court
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hears the case next week and we'll keep you posted. in sports daniel snyder's controversial tenure as owner of the washington commanders is about to end snyder has reached a deal to sell the team for $6 billion to josh harris, the owner of the philadelphia 76 ers. snyder has been investigated for harassment and financial misconduct. police in denver are trying to find the person who dropped dinger the dinosaur, the colorado rockies mascot, someone tackled him. during the game against st louis. dinger is okay, but the suspect is now wanted for assault or dinger. coming up inflation nation, the ham and cheese sandwich costing $29 plus the lost dog and his 150 mile adventure home crossing the adventure home crossing the bering sea. ♪ i like to move it, move it ♪ ♪ you like to... move it ♪ we're reinventing our network. ♪ ♪
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>> mr. identified, arrested, and now will be brought to justice. reggie: a suspected killer in custody. what we are learning about the man accused in the high-profile killing of lee. kumasi: egregious text messages sent by officers now available to the public in a new report this morning. reggie: fort lauderdale still underwater. unprecedented rainfall causing flooding, keeping the airport closed and schools also closed for another day. these images are frightening. unbelievable. good morning this friday, april 14. kumasi: we will check out what is going in our area. drew: a little breezy out there this morning. through the city and in the east bay, we see the wind from san francisco to oakland, 13 to 16 miles-per-hour. we don't expect wind to be an
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