A full day of harvesting. Mariano follows her children into new mexico and colorado. They live in share home in texas for only part of the year. Onions have to be harvested by hand. Workers clip off the roots, and green tops and collect them into burlap bags to cure in the field. Theworkers earn between 80cents and 1. 75 per bag of onions for the young man that work at a very fast clip, that means they could any up to 20 an hour, however most of these people are earningless than ten. That means theres an incentive to bring kids out. There by making them more productive. The u. S. Government estimated that hundreds of thousands of children, like annabel la, and evalyn, are hired to work in the fields. It can be back breaking work. Currently federal law allows for children as young as 12 to work in the fields unlimited amount of hours outside of school. In any other industry, kids need to be 16 to work. There are some exemptions to allow them to be 14, but they are limited hours and they
Voting was extended for five hours because of a massive influx of vote percent. It comes in the middle of a war that has killed 6,000 people. It really doesnt matter here. Assads victory is guaranteed. Reporter lets go through the reasons, tony, or some of the reasons why assads victory is guaranteed. Number one, the only people who could vote are living in areas controlled by the government. Number two, the opposition candidates, if you can call them that, neither of them are known at all. One of them said that they would be honored to come in second. Number three, well, this vote is being held during one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. When syria votes, the only panning seen is from bashar alassad. The symbolically cast their ballots in blood. There were other options. Today syria is returning to peace and security. Start to go rebuild the country and comprehensive reconciliation. Reporter critics say this is all stage managed to give assad cover to continue crushing
State. Well, the polls have closed in several states includes new jersey, massachusetts, what voters is a decided today offers an intryinging look at the parts. Governor races in new jersey and virginia, and six states have more than 30 battle measures ranging from a hike in the minimum wage, new taxes on the sale of marijuana, and 200 million bond issue to save the houston astro dome, and there are cities electing mayors like atlanta, detroit, houston and new york. Lets begin with the governor races, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie said hes not concerned about lack of support from the states tea party republicans, and from the looks of the polls he has no reason to be. Christie is expected to win in a landslide over democrat barbara bono. We just heard that the Associated Press has just called the race for governor Chris Christie in the state of new jersey. But its been a different story in virginia why Terry Mcauliffe faced off against a conservative opponentopponent ken cuccine l
Voters across the country are heading to the polls from coast to coast, al jazeera is tracking the big races. On the east coast two state houses are up for grabs in detroit and new york, were tracking races and were keeping an eye on the race in new jersey. The first stop is new jersey where the nasty governors race is coming to an end. Mike viqueira just outside of washington, d. C. Mike, good to see you again. If you live in that media market, im talking about virginia, parts of maryland and the district you have been treated to a particularly nasty race. Well, thats right, and polls close in about an hour. In large part the race is about the future of the Republican Party. It is changing every year now, becoming bluer and bluer when was once solid read. You have a social conservative, ken cuccenelli, of course and friend of president clinton, Terry Mcauliffe. Mcauliffe has outraised his republican counterpart, and hes outspent him on television. By a factor of 101, and it has been v
West virginia residents have finally been told they can now drink from their taps again and the ban was lifted a day ago many are complaining about a very peculiar spell and robert ray is live on the scene in charleston and say the water is safe now so what exactly are residents still concerned about . Well, the residents here in charleston, West Virginia are concerned about the fact that you know its been a few days since the water bans are lifted and people have been flushing their pipes out but a lingering odor is rounds like an licorace or candy and after the water is flushed out describing the smell inside their homes and others described discoloration and we are in a restaurant here this morning where folks have been having brunch throughout today and this particular restaurant is serving only bottled water to its customers and they are using the water just to clean the dishes. They own three restaurants here and they have been impacted pretty heavily by what has happened. We hav