Shut it down. Reporter as the religious holidays of passover and easter begin, along with spring break, about 500 people who work for prospect aviation and prime Flight Airline companies are striking. Theyre walking the picket lines, they say, for better wages. Health care and paid sick leave. And most tell usy;wx they make between 5 and 7. 25 per hour. I receive tips. As you all know tips are not always guaranteed. Sgt2in days i go home with nothing. Im a mother and im a grandmother. I work hard i pay taxes. And i and my coworkers deserve a decent wage. Who can feed four kids off of 7. 25 . I have mortgage car insurance, like everybody else in here and, like, my coworker said we are here for respect and more money and we aint going nowhere until we get our money. They also want to sign up with the union. So coming up at 11 30, well tell you how they have support from the local union, the faithbased communities, and members of city council. Back in about 25 minutes. Live now from outsi
Also coming up this hour what started out as the ultimate tight dream is now 20 years old. A look at the origins of the undersea link between britain and Connolly Europe and continental europe. Francois hollandes twoYear Anniversary as president of france comes as he takes the Lowest Popularity score of any french president since world war ii. Marc perlman will be on hand to talk about the 18 Approval Rating and if the president can pull out of it. Lets begin in the eastern ukrainian city of donetsk flights to and from the local airport have been suspended. France 24s Robert Parsons is in donetsk. What do we know about why the airport was shut down . We heard the announcement that all flights were being canceled this morning out of donetsk. I went to Donetsk International airport and i discovered that actually internal flights were about to depart. I spoke to the head of the local press service at the airport and he explained that the flights that were leaving where and exception and t
Doughnut. And naturally Donald Trumps hair, but instead of running your fingers through that. Would you like to touch the iron. Sure . Hasbro is using the new versus old token to try to pump up sales of monopoly. But watch out, kitty, that iron steams. The iron not very nice. Remember, you can follow me and what is going on here in the situation room on twitter and tweet me. Thank you for watching. The news continues next on cnn. You are in the cnn newsroom, im in for don lemon. Lets get you up to speed for the stories making news this hour. First, this storm and now the digout. Some parts of the northeast got off light, and other parts got slammed with more than 3 feet of snow. The blizzard is over, but they have a few days of hard work ahead before life returns to normal. 100 miles east of los angeles, that sound, Police Helicopters you can hear them there as they took over the air today over the San Bernardino mountains searching for annexcop. Christopher dorner has been the target
Say egypt has been a very important element in the stability of the middle east over the past 25 years. It is hard to calibrate. California gregoire they are, where theyre going. The president of egypt was proposing sweeping constitutional changes a few weeks ago. It is very unclear. Whether you freeze the kind of aid at this point or slowdown is a very legitimate question. Host the news of the morning, latest Unemployment Rate remains unchanged. 7. 8 . The economy adding 155,000 jobs in december. This from the bureau of labor statistics. Reaction . Guest the Unemployment Rate is too high. I do not think that is the number we should focus on. We should focus on the number of new jobs. The Unemployment Rate can take up or down depending how many people are looking for work. It is not necessarily directly a reflection of the improvement of the economy. 155,000 is okay, not great. It takes 80,000 or 90,000 jobs i cannot remember the exact number just to breakeven. It is in the plus territ
Voices. Both are being flown to washington d. C. Right now for analysis. The two killed are 16yearold girls from china. They were part of a 35 member group of middle School Teachers and students taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. The flight original lated in shanghai with a stop in seole, south korea. Two of the runways remain closed. Passengers are being told to expect long delays and Flight Cancellations again today. And we are learning more this morning about the search for answers in this fatal airliner crash. As we mentioned, the ntsb is on the scene. Their south Korean Counterparts are on the way. Matt keller joins us live from sfo with the latest from a briefing, matt, that was held just a short time ago . Yeah. Actually it was a oneonone interview with the ntsb chairman. She was here at sfo. They have gun their investigation. Now she did confirm to me that the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered here at the crash site. They are both