>> let's talk about this a bit with matt thorn, the executive director of out serve.ce defense network. when you woke up and saw the tweets as we did, what went through your mind. >> quite flabbergasted. we weren't anticipating this today. but it's the latest example of sue dough policy by twitter and it's a blatant disregard for transgender members who have been serving openly since october of 2016 >> the organization helps legally with folks in the lgbt community in the service. the president said this change was all about medical costs and disruption within the military. we know there's the study that the rand corporation put out that said there would be minimal impact on readiness and we also heard minimal impact on the co so is this about transgender rights here or do you think that the president is sort of using this issue as a pawn in his campaign as he's looking forward to 2020? is this more red meat for his base >> i couldn't begin to tell you what the president is thinking. nor do i want to probably get into his head at this point. it seems to me that it's p

punished in the present as well joining us this morning mandy and family r council government and matt thornyou. matt i want to start with you. >> any idea this decision or this announcement or this tweet was coming? >> no. we had no idea this tweet was coming. >> and first reaction when you heard it, and where do you go from here? >> um, i was quite flabbergasted that this president decided to use social that he wanted to fire 15,000 plus individuals who are serving this country with honor and who have vowed to give their lives if necessary to defend our values around the world. we don't tweet federal policy in this country so i don't understand where he was coming from with this, and in his tw tweets so i mean quite frankly i was just, you know, take a back that this was the manner in which he decided to say something on this subject. >> so before we get to mandi, matt, let me stay with you for second. obviously you're disappointed with the process this went through. would it have made a difference if this would have gone through, say, more traditional washington channels getting the penta

matt pellman looking at i-95. >> reporter: i-95 has been a thorn in our side all morning long.disabled truck taking out a lane. farther south it's like a beach under the ben franklin bridge, sand on the roadway, a tractor-trailer jackknifed and spilled fuel all over the road. traffic needs to roll slowly over that. schuylkill expressway slow in both directions heading toward the vine because of a crash. mount laurel, you get the idea, a crash near route 73. taking out the left lane in both directions. slow going along 295 in mount laurel. the garden state parkway near somers point has cleared. we're back up to pace there. >> let's head outside to david murphy and talk about the stormy night and what's ahead. >> reporter: lots of rain and flooding on the roads here and there. storm tracker 6 live down scan shows you light rain passing through philadelphia. i've got a light sprinkle on the terrace. steadier rain east of allentown and more cells pushing through delaware and getting ready to cross the bay in south jersey. 73 degrees in philadelphia, a little bit muggy. warm and hum