Airlines plane onboard a Spirit Airlines p pne continues to escalade after seven passengers were kicked off the plane over a disagreement about seat assignments. Or was it racial discrimination. Heres abcs Pierre Thomas you are watching a confrontation which ends with a group papaengersall black being removed from this commercial jet. Some those kicked off are crying racism. Wright sot im really humiliated, just for the simple fact that, you know, you hear about this stuff happening in america, you know discriminationissues. But was it really happened is in dispute. Police say they were called after an argument broke out over a double booked seat. Nats an African American male passenger apparently was frustrated. And some witnesses say a white Flight Attendant considered at lelet one in the group a threat. Willie french, passenger the stewardess got a little nervous and they wanted him to leave the plane. But while harsh words clearly were exchanged, other passengers were confused gges
Thanks to low gas prices. Its been the gift that keeps on giving all year. The National Average for gasoline has dropped below 2 dollars a gallon, triplea estimates drivers are saving about 550 dollars total this year. Experts attribute the current excess of crude oil and a fall in demand for the drop in fuel prices. Deborah if youve been procrastinating your Holiday Shopping, you may not be out of luck. Waiting until the last minute, could even benefit your bottom line. Mark ellwood, author bargain fever the sales this year are looking better are desperate to sell us things many stores are offering anywhere from 20 to 75 percent off already reduced prices today. Plus, because of the unseasonably warm sthe winter. Theres deep discounts on cold weather clothes and accessories. And if youve waited this long. Dont feel guilty. Only ten percent of americans have all of their Holiday Shopping done. Now, if you still need to ship gifts to your loved ones, be prepared to dig deep into your wa
There is among a lot of people a consensus as to what the ingredients of a progrowth fiscal policy are. It will be a fiscal policy that yes, did give more confidence in the long run that we have a path on entitlement spending and revenues and were not pushing off unbearable burdens to the next generation. That is very important. Its also part of a progrowth projobs fiscal strategy ensure that you can invest in the things that are important to growth and productivity. If you could hit every single fiscal goal that you wanted and your tiny percentages of your students could read or perform well in school, nobody would say that your Economic Growth strategy was working. On the other hand, if some of those thing are going well and you have a completely unsustainable future, thats not so great either. You have to think about this as part an over all progrowth, projobs strategy. Also, theres no question that right now we still need to give this recovery more momentum. We cannot possibly be s
Mr. Mayor, have you purchased Illegal Drugs in the last two years . Yes, i have. I have saved more taxpayers money than any mayor in torontos history. I was elected to come down here and clean up the mess. And i know i have done that. Have i made mistakes, counselor thompson . Youre absolutely right i made mistakes. Now, mayor rob ford cannot be recalled, but his colleagues have been pressuring him to step down on his own. This meeting, it just resumed moments ago. The mayor there, rob ford. Youre seeing him. He said he will not leave, but he did tell the 44 counsel members he wont talk to police. He now says he is clean and he has come clean to the people of toronto. He said theres nothing left to hide. Have you admitted all your problems . I cant come i dont know what else i dont know . I dont know. There might be like a coat hanger left in my closet, i dont. I dont know whats left. Counselor, i made mistakes and thats it. I dont know what else i can say, counselor. I have not missed
Penalty. Joining us tonight, the stepmother of the mom who died on the table last night. A botched execution in oklahoma is renewing the legal debate over capital punishment. Breaking news from the state prison. Last nights botched execution of a death row inmate. 38yearold Clayton Lockett. Convicted for the murder of 19yearold stephanie nieman. The first of two scheduled executions did not go as planned. It was clear something was not right. Witnesses said that lockett tensed, crashed, clenched his teeth. He was struggling to get up, to talk. It took lockett 43 minutes to die. And to what is typically a process lasting 6 to 12 minutes a awe even when the Death Penalty its justified it must be carried out humanely. The state needs to be certain of its protocols and its procedures. They wanted to hurry up and get it done. With as little transparency as possible. Off awe using a new untested, three drug lethal injection. Untested cocktail of questionable drugs. This combination has never