is it new. we had it last year. why don t you talk about it. the red and gold stripe neck tie is for any senior who was accepted to a four-year college or university. and that s why you re wearing it. we make a big deal exactly. we make a big deal of presenting the seniors, one of our rituals that we do at the school. on fridays during college admission season, when a student brings in his letter, we exchange his red tie in front of the entire student body with a red and gold stripe tie. and that s what we did yesterday when mayor daly came to the school and was able to bear witness to the last students getting the red and stripe tie so we could make that 100% college acceptance mark. matthew, where are you going to college? i m not sure yet exactly. i ve been accepted to several illinois schools, 11 in total, howard, fisk with full tuition scholarships, east illinois and
all right. as it says, odds and ends, a horse is a horse of course, of course. for those of you old enough to remember that. take a look at what one of our i-reporters spotted in plano, texas. that is a woman on a horse at a starbucks drive-through. makes sense, right? of an all, everything is bigger in texas, so why not be a little bit more bizarre, too. you can lead a horse to water but somehow i doubt this one drank the coffee, although starbucks new trenta sized makes for a nice trough because it s huge. don t you think? all right. it s the top of the hour. live pictures now in wisconsin. right down from the capitol. look at all of those people out there. the crowds have been getting bigger by the day. days of protests now by teachers and members of the teachers union. the snow is not the problem
interested in someone out of work for six months or longer. this is a company that issued a classified ad that said it would not consider or review anyone not currently employed regardless of the reason. some of the concerns were aired before the eeoc include the fact that you have a disproportionate unemployment rate in this country, depending on who you are. this could hurt some people more than others. for example, the unemployment rate among whites is 8%. among san franciscos, 15.1%. in particular are there are economists who are worried about the disabled and people who might be trying to get back into the market. it also discriminates against stay-at-home moms trying to come back because they need to get more money because their husbands maybe are not fully employed or don t have the job they used to have. this is something they are looking into. i ll tell you, among the trade groups that testified was a human resources trade group that
for the next couple days, beautiful couple days in the northeast. this cold front starts to push its way on by and as it does, today and tomorrow will go by the way of the cold front. sunny and warm, so nice to see those winds. punxsutawney phil right for at least a week. thank you. it is beautiful here today. we need it. let s talk about this. we kind of know what s going on, but we really don t want to note about it. food beers and cooks with stomach bugs still coming to work. check please or maybe no check. researchers studied food bourn illnesses talked about a lot of restaurant staff, and talked to them. what they found not very appetizing. elizabeth cohen is all over this one. elizabeth, is this really widespread? please don t say yes? it s not horribly widespread but you should know about it because it s not exactly rare either. so take a look at this. what this study found is that 12% of restaurant employees in
and to get people back to work and get the state moving in the right direction again. i understand what you re saying. to get this many people out three days in a row with the weather there and with this current economic climate, people are concerned about jobs and don t want to make a wrong move. that says a lot about how these people feel about it, whether it s 5,000, 10,000 or 30,000, even if there are millions of peep in the state, that s a lot of people out there to be protesting. you understand that, don t you? actually it s not when you get a percentage. there s maybe been 30,000 in the last three days. 10% of the public employees throughout the state. okay. the head of the teachers union says the budget argument is a smoke screen, mr. fitzgerald and calls the bill an attack on all labor organizations. is that the true aim? no, it s not. collective bargaining stays in place in in bill. they are able to collectively bargain their wages. so it s not a smoke screen. it s re