salaries, but. heather: $128,000 bonus, whether you get out at the end of the year, is a lot of money to a lot of folks in this country. absolutely, you are taking a lot of risk to do it and you could be fired the next day. thank you very much, brenda, we appreciate that. thank you. thank you. gregg: the tense stand off in wisconsin, ratcheting up a notch, right now, let s take a live look inside the state building, capitol police said they were going to clear out and shut down the building at 5:00 eastern time, and, so cleaning crews could come in and prefers, there you see them, sit-in and they are not budging and they say they are ready to be arrested if it comes to that. we re tracking the story as it unfolds, what will happen here? mass arrests? stick around. we will show it to you. to keep in balance after 50,
tabloids. mr. gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago and he stands by that denial. a very difficult time for the gore in the headlines because just last month al gore announced that he was separating from his wife of 40 years, tipper gore. al alex? that happened a month ago today. thanks, kristen. all right, everyone, fair warning. this next story, might gross some of you out. it certainly creeped out the passengers on a usairways flight from atlanta to charlotte. someone put a container of spoiled meat in an overhead bin. when the plane started to taxi the runway passengers spotted maggots falling from above. he stood in my seat and looked up in the compart. and said, oh, my god, and slammed it back down. when i think about that, that s nasty. the plane pulled back to the gate and everyone was evacuated. cleaning crews were called in.
expecting a thousand people here to apply for these jobs and more than 2,000, about 2500 actually showed up and a bunch of them are still here filling out applications. some of them standing for hours in the cold and snow for part-time jobs that range from security guards to concession workers to kitchen staff to cleaning crews. clearly, there are loot of people willing to stand for hours in inclement weather for a shot at some city paychecks. i wouldn t let this stop me. i need the job. i have been out of work for a long time. i mean years. i have got to find something. what kind of work are you looking for. whatever they have available because times are hard. whatever is available. i m ready to go. well, all new hires will attend a short four hour version of red bull college, shepard, where they will learn the company s customer-friendly culture. shepard: won t they? what is this to do for the local community? are they speaking of it? well, they are saying it could be hug
leventhal live at red bulls arena in harrison, new jersey. all right. so 500 jobs, what are they looking to fill, rick? reporter: kitchen staff, box office workers, security personnel, concessions, retail, cleaning crews, pretty much everybody you d need to work an event, and they will be working maybe 30 of them a year in this brand new state of the art facilities, and if they re lucky, they may even get a red bulls scarf like i got today. jon: what does it mean for the local economy? reporter: let s bring in the mayor, ray mcdonough. what does it mean for harrison and for the surrounding area? about ten years ago we took 270 acres of old industrial site and put a plan together to redevelop it. reporter: kind of an economic impact for your community? it s going to create jobs, it s going to create ratables to the town because this is only the beginning of it. you re going to have retail, you re going to have housing all around here, office buildings,
have no power right now. we want to go to the ground and our sara lee who is out toughing it at reagan national airport. we got the breaking news about government offices being closed and the airport being closed. what s going to happen now? well, don, right now at the airport it is a standstill. take a look behind me. usually over at the x-ray machines you might have a line of travelers. the traffic that comes through here on sunday night would have people standing around to get their bags screened, but if you take a long shot down the terminal you see there is really not a lot of people here at all. pretty much there s the security personnel here as well as some cleaning crews and just a few, i guess you could call them hopeful travelers, some stragglers that are hoping that they ll reopen the airport sometime tonight but does not look like it s likely. take a look at this, the board, canceled, canceled, canceled. if we take a look at some video that we captured before the sun went