In florence that overlooks the Delaware River s. Huge clunks of earth has given way and created a steep ravine and come dangerously close to the odells home and their neighbors. All of this is gone, and we lost all of this and we watched the piece of the fence go down and the bird houses go down. The situation became worse when the torrential rains made it worse. The pipe drain installed years ago was found do be leaking, the flowing water further accelerated the problem and they are describing it as an emergency situation. It was pouring out of here like a fire hose and the water rushing down was a river cutting through here and we have no idea how long that has been open or at what point the drain plug that they put in there had failed. The pipe was patched and technical engineers are do here tomorrow to assess the situation, but the odells are fearing that they are just a few feet away from evacuating their home. Its a relief that you find there is a reason for this and its not just
Skills. Melissa brace for impact. Wage rage may be about to hit Washington State twice whether you agree with the ongoing wage wars or not. This takes it to a new level. Despite a minimum wage hike two weeks ago on january 1st, despite having the highest minimum wage in the country, at 9. 32 an hour, Washington State wants to raise it again. Seatacs mayor who supports the second spike joins me on the phone. Why do you support this, mayor . Thank you for having me today. I support this because i see in our community that we are utilizing all of our resources to help with public assistance in order to keep our community thriving. Melissa so it is about saving taxpayer money on public assistance . Well, right now, the taxpayers pay a lot of money through public assistance. Melissa okay. You dont fear you would end up more people out of work and thus, costing the city more money . The general manager of cedar brook lodge in seatac itself is quoted saying they will have to reduce hours and
And how the humble fruit fly could break a deadly disease. The president of the philippines has visited an island devastated by typhoon haiyan. Help is on the way for thousands displaced by the storm. This is an account of what was witnessed. Reporter it was a vicious force that paralyzed leyte. It swept through the philippines friday morning. It destroyed everything in its path powerlines, roads, villages, all wiped out in an instant. The typhoon arrived three hours earlier than expected. Thousands of people were trapped when water rose as high as five metres. We were one of them right at the height. We are trying to make our way out of this place. This is a little over three hours after the wrath has been brought into the town. This place has become a ghost town. A few hours ago we were, ourselves, caught up in the middle of what is considered the most powerful typhoon in the world this year. It was hard because at some point we were preparing for a live and all of a sudden the water
Carrying 10 people was attacked by a chinese vessel. Been confirmed by the Chinese Foreign minister that indeed that fishing boat was around and 10 people were rescued was graham was mmed and 10as ra people were rescued. They were not fired upon. It was on monday. A bureaud out by chief, we do not have any details about what type of chinese vessel it was. If it was a fishing vessel or government vessel or military . We do not know. That area where the incident took place if i remember 10 or 12 miles from the coast. Side ofg try to get the the Chinese Government and they have yet to make a statement on this. The key thing is the location. Near that oil rig. The waters claimed by the vietnamese. Whynd the chinese which is it is indisputable waters. China has already maintained the rig is the basic location of where it is by the islands. On themplicated in is territory and can do whatever it wants. The vitamins Prime Minister was prime the vietnamese minister last week said china was viol
Thunderstorms, flashflood watches, warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings. Thats gone. Were left with with a dry weaned. Weekend maybe worth getting the bad weather out of the way so we can have a great weekend again. Over the last few hours few clouds, all of the precipitation is gone, the clouds will be following as well. And expect to find really pretty day coming up today. We get another one tomorrow. 69 degrees right now out at the airport and in center city, 66 the temperature in trenton and in wilmington, 63 allentown, six an in reading so you get the idea. Everyone enjoying temperatures in the 60s, at this point in the morning. By noon were at 73 degrees, by 3 00 p. M. Our high temperature, so close to 80 degrees. Now, i think the one thing you will notice today about the breeze woe would we could be finding wind gusts to up 25 miles an hour. Breezy day but far less humid than it has been over the last couple of days and far less stormy. In fact, our future weather says the clo