Critic of raising the minimum wage, the fight for 15 movement, expansion of overtime pay, paid sick leave, and the Affordable Care act. He has been accused of domestic violence. We will get response from labor ,eader Mary Kay Henry representing over 2 million workers. Then to oakland, california, where mourning continues after at least 36 people were killed in a firire at the ghost ship warehouse. They were amazing, yoyou kno . They were amazing. It is the people i didnt know i can even it is mind b blowing. It is heartbreaking. Amy we will speak with bay area dj nihar bhatt who survived the fire but lost t seven of his frfriends. All of that and more coming g u. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President elect donald trump has picked fast food ceo Andrew Puzder to become the next secretary of labor. Puzder is the head of the company that franchises the fastfood outlets hardees and carls jr. He is a longtime republican donor who has b
With scott pelley. Pelley john glenn, the last of the mercury 7 astronauts, the First American to orbit the earth, died late today. He was 95. Back in 1962, america was losing the space race. The soviets had already sent a man into orbit, and just six months after that, they detonated the Worlds Largest atom bomb. So the pressure and excitement were sky high that february day shining spacesuit, compressed himself into friendship 7. School children held their breath watching black and white tvs, Grand Central terminal stopped in its tracks, eyes glued to a big screen, and president kennedy waited to exhale at the white house. 3, 2, 1, 0, ignition. Pelley minutes later, feel fine. It would be his signature catch phrase for the rest of his life, a life of many orbits, remembered now by nancy cordes. Reporter from the cosmos to capitol hill and then back again godspeed, john glenn. Reporter john glenn was an astronaut, a politician, and a patriot i had i guess you could say 47 years of fed
Next week, another blast of next week, another blast of cold, and it . . . . Next week, another blast of cold, and it . . . . . . . . . . Rooms come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. With eight times more fragrance control, the air wick . Scented oil warmer lets you dial up or down for the perfect amount of fragrance. No matter the size of the room. Today donald trump made another cabinet appointment that shows hes turning america in a new direction. Hes nominating a labor secretary who believes that wages are often too high. This comes a day after naming one of the epas biggest critics the agencys new administrator. Also today, dean reports that the president elect got into a twitter battle with a labor boss. Reporter the president elect made his second visit to ohio since his election, and while his stop in columbus involved soothing the survivors of last weeks attack at ohio state, getting back at any and all critics was still on his mind. The latest to draw mr. Trumps wrath was chu
We could have had this, snow measuring in feet in western new york. Oh, yeah, this is in new york. There are areas like in western new york, buffalo out there, 19. 5 inches of lakeeffect snow. All of that and the schools open on time we understand. Yeah, they know what theyre doing. As opposed to us. It is a very cold weekend ahead. This lakeeffect snow, first t lakes are warm because it was a warm fall. So when you get the cold over the open, warm lakes, heavy snow. Coming toward the catskills here and pennsylvania and northern ohio. If you have travels over the next couple day, you could run into that. Bigger picture, snows, even in west virginia. A lot of clouds into the mountains out west but we are dealing with sunshine. So with the sun at least temperatures are responding nicely. Still quite breezy. Hagerstown. 30 Miles Per Hour in hagerstown. And washington gusting to 25 Miles Per Hour. Right now, 39 degrees in town. Freezing for win chester and front royal. 37 in for winchester
Before we do now as we call off each crirn, they will stand and well have old glory, the flag thats been taken around the world, presented to each one of them and theyll be saluted for their service. Presenting the flags is a father and son team, jason atiri from the national defense. Iversity and his son r. Garnett h. Hammond. Mr. Hammond enlisted in the u. S. Army reserves Officers Training corps while attending howard university, as an army soldier, he served in the you apparent theater in world war ii serving in england, france, and germany and was a tech 5 sergeant and served as a mail clerk until receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1946. After the war, mr. Hammond worked as the United States National Postal museum in washington, d. C. For 35 years. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Garnett h. Hammond. Second is mrs. Burt bresher, serving with a woman accepted for volunteer emergency service, the waves, a unit of the United States naval reserve, mrs. Dresser was stationed as pontiff point