Strike, though. Thousands of uaw workers hit the picket lines. The first walkout to hit the big three all at once. Plus arm shares are, well, still looking good ahead of the open, looking to extend those gains from yesterday. It was the biggest ipo of the year and quite a significant day. And rally paused. Stock index futures, little changed after the best day for equities of the month. Lets begin with the uaw striking against detroits big three simultaneously for the first time in that unions history. Phil lebeau is in wayne, michigan, after talking to gms mary barra, and joins us with more. We are outside of the Michigan Assembly plant. It is the ford plant where they build the ranger pickup truck as well as the bronco suv. A very popular model. Heres what this strike is doing in terms of its impact not just at ford but also gm and stellantis. Total number of workers, approximately 12,700. Just under 13,000 uaw members who are now on strike at the ford plant here in wayne. The stella
Right is an air quality map which gives you a a sense of their analysis and the dark blue areas are the highest concentration of par tick you lat matter and the brighter the grown the lower the concentration of the matter. The developer studyed the location of the residential areas near the garage and found that the project added 0. 5 or sorry,. 05 to the exiting background measure of 8. 5. And what this means is the projected volumes of cars in and out of the Retail Center garage is not a significant contribute er to air quality. Available for the public here on the table is a memo from the environmental consultant describing their study of the issues. Should you have questions on air quality, karen cone from the department of publichealth is here today and can share her insights on the matter. Ill conclude with the next step in the process as i mentioned were discussing the revised concept with five point and the team and anticipate receiving the formal sematic design application des
Honor Taylor Branch. Taylor is best known for his trillage of the Civil Rights Movement, america in the king years, the first volume parting the waters won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Two successive volumes and still remain essential text to any understanding of the role that Martin Luther king played in transforming our nation. Along the way, taylor won an in addition to the pults administer prize and many other prizes. I think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970 when he took a very low paid job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washington Monthly, a very small circulation political opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I strongly suspect that taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself but working for victor navaski at the nation magazine here in new york. Both of us arguably became buy og gras fers aft
Months. The city manager said they had no idea what was going on until an anonymous pitch told them in may. That prompted the city to hire an outside agency to start an investigation which reveals on four different dates in 2014, the fire chief drank alcohol on the job and drove a city vehicle. He failed to answer calls to supervise a fire at an apartment last year and found to have wrestled with a subordinant during an argument. He is a 20year veteran with hayward fire and promoted to chief in 2012. He is seen in this department recruiting video posted on youtube. Contreras was suspend for a month in june. He is back to work. The city explains why they decided not to fire him. He has been an excellent fire chief and excellence employees. Everyone makes mistakes. People are human and he has taken full responsibility for his actions and he has been subject to appropriate discipline. Part of the discipline he has to sign a last chance agreement with the city conditions including not drin
Contain it while wading in anklehigh water. Its rarely seen in this city that never sleeps. Sandy set a 13foot high wall of water rushing through new york harbor and that water pouring into the subway tunnels. The head of the mta calling it the worst damage seen in the 100year history of Public Transit here in the city. In a most dramatic fashion, sandys winds caused a twisted crane to dangle perilously more than 70 floors up over midtown manhattan. Look at that. Emergency crews worried that it would slice through like a hot knife through butter. When i saw is the reports of the firefighters in queens or Downtown Manhattan i could see in my minds eye not only the buildings and the planes, but the people. Its a lot to get you up to speed on and we are waiting for mayor Michael Boomberg to speak, and we do want to get the latest from the jersey shore which as we told you took the direct hit from sandy as that storm came ashore near Atlantic City in the southern part of new jersey. Nbcs r