Views. dan spring ser covering from for nous seattle. tell us, what exactly did the court rule here? it s significant that this is the ninth circuit court of appeals which is largely considered the most liberal appellate court in the land t. upheld the right of world vision, which is a humanitarian aid organization, based here in seattle, to fire three employees based on nothing more than the fact that they no longer believed in the tenants that world vision did, which is the tenants of the trinity, that jesus was define, and so divine, so the employees stopped going to prayer meetings, chapel services and all of the sudden they started to branch off into their own meetings and going their own key of david sect meetings and the world of vision said we can t tolerate this, even though we reach out to people of all faiths, we need to have the continuity of people believing what we believe when we go out and provide our services, so they fired these three
Employees and they sued. martha: so what s the ending here, what s the impact, winners and losers on this, dan? reporter: well, this was being watched very carefully but aid groups around the country, around the world, really, because so many of them are faith based and they were watching to see what the court would do and they upheld the right. by the way, the appeals will continue because the losers in this case, the three people who were fired, have said that they want to have the full ninth circuit court of appeals weigh in on this and pole the supreme court down the road. martha: we ll keep an eye on that, dan springer, thank you very much. bill:bill: in the meantime, it s topic number one, the issue of the day, the president presis top economic adviser put bad news on the economy, what he said about jobs and whether or not we ll see the unemployment rate go down any time soon. and have you seen this? martha: it looks like a movie but it s not as it s real. terrifying moments
Oh, no. are you serious? are you serious? are you serious? martha: it s a very tough video to watch, and you hear that person in the background saying are you serious. this sparked really a national debate about police violence. a seattle police officer caught on camera punching a 17-year-old girl in the face and this is a confrontation with another girl over a jaywalking violation. dan spring ser live in seattle with the details on this. dan, you know, this was it happened a few weeks back. what s the fallout been from this? well, yeah, plenty. what was most shocking i think is what you said at the top there, this was a jaywalking incident. people just don t expect something like a minor infraction to end like that with a police officer punching a 17-year-old girl and the fallout was swift, the police officer was taken off the beat, this case is being reviewed, the aclu came out against this police
No such luck for small to medium-sized businesses, companies with assets of 50, to 100 million saw the audioo audit rate drop 1 percent, something to think about as tax day approaches. gregg: fox news is on the job hunt, of course, and in cascade, oregon, nestle is looking to build a wart bottling plant, bringing much needed jobs to the area. wait a minute. environmentalists are putting up a fight there. dan spring ser covering it, he joins us from our seattle bureau. what kind of an impact, dan, an economic comact, would a water bottling plant have in cas calade lox? yeah, gregg, it would be huge, it would be a $50 million plant that nestle would build and that would of course bring construction jobs but beyond that there would be 50 permanent full-time jobs at that bottling plant and that may not sound like a lot but it would instantly be cascade lox s largest
This country just get thrown away gregg: while they lack jobs, they do not lack for water in cascade lox, it rains 80 inches per year, sometimes up to 100 inches a year, that spring, gregg, produces about 8000 gallons per minute at its peak in the spring. nestle wants about 224 of those gallons per minute. gregg: we heard the comment about plastics, but dan, would this plant cause any specific known harm to the environment there? reporter: well, the state is studying that right now because the water as i said is state water and it s currently being used to keep a fish hatchery going and in that fish hatchery, there are endangered sockeye salmon trucked in from oids so the state wants to know if that water is suitable for the fish. keep in mind it s suitable for humans, it s being consumed as well water that would be transferred to the hatcheries being consumed by humans, but the bigger question that she alluded to is the question of bottled water and the environmentalists are fightin