I think eric did a great with job of talking about some of the problems that we see, that economic inequality seems to breed political inequality. We also have Health Inequalities which is, you know, tightly related to income. And i think what we should be focusing on is the welfare of our nation. And, i mean, that does include focusing on the welfare of those at the bottom of the income distribution, but we shouldnt lose sight that there are people in the middle who really, you know, have seen their incomes stagnate over the last 20 or 30 years. The body language suggests that robert would like to [laughter] i mean, obviously, i worked in the poverty programs for 18 years, and im really focused on the bottom. I will offer this, though, there are some solutions on the income inequality issue. And one of them is and im a believer in the transparency with regard to the ratios between ceos and the workers. That rule has been passed. Sec is trying to enforce it. Thatll with be a good thing
Minutes. Now ladies and gentlemen please rise for the National Anthem sung by diane from enzi oc. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome citizenship chairman michael reiser. [applause] diane ty you should know is not only a talented performer and artist, she is also a very talented fundraiser and her connection to the National Conference on citizenship is working with our service year project. You may have heard the term the franklin project. Its all a line so we appreciate your efforts on our behalf and we appreciate you bringing her talents to our state once again. [applause] i am significantly less talented. [laughter] and coc is honored to partner with Users Conference with all of the eagles in the room please stand up . People from American University please stand up. [applause] yes. Thank you for being here. This is a fall break for aau and faculty and most of the administration is at a retreat. They are students and campus in a number have joined us and we appreciate the
Coming up. Millions and millions of Holiday Shoppers now logging on from coast to coast and well take you behind the scenes of a very busy warehouse on this cyber monday. Reporter and should bicyclists be banned from riding on some sidewalks . The city council is set to take a vote. Mornings on 2 starts right now. Row lot doing a whole lot of heavy lifting at a Distribution Center in tracy. All of the merchandise already being processed today, cyber monday. Tara moriarty is live at the center in tracy. Coming up, she will bring us a behindthescenes look at how the Worlds Largest retailers robots are rising to the occasion. Good morning. Well come to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Thats a big story, too, as well. Whats ahead of us . Well, today is kind of the little quiet day. Theres some rain out there. But tomorrow is the main system. It will probably take us into Late Wednesday or thursday. This is the system a lot of people have
Like a river and started freezing and it was gushing from a broken water main. It was a transmission main and there was no customer complains of low service or loss of service. But the impact on the morning commute was severe the break was discovered at 6 00 this morning and police shut down all 12 lanes of boulevard and traffic came to a stand still and clogged side streets as drivers searched for a way around and crews got the water shut off at 8 15. And traffic was allowed on the outer lane a while later. If it had simply cracked the repair would have been much faster. We are able to clean up the middle lanes well have the middle lane back open. Sometime later tonight. Right. Probably 8 00, 9 00, the water main is under the Center Median if it was under the road surface the repairs could take a month or more. This is the height of the water main break season that goes until march then could happen any time. We have crews working 12hour shifts every day of the week addressing the bre
Voted not to indict the Police Officer who shot and killed michael brown. Earlier in the day, at howard university, about a dozen students left class to attend a discussion on knowing their rights. Back at the department of justice, dozens of protesters showed up for what they called a diein to reenact the death of michael brown. After staging the diein, they made their demands clear. Now organizers say theyre going to plan a demonstration to be held in front of department of justice every monday afternoon until they get change. In fact, another demonstration is planned any minute. Reporting from the department of justice on pennsylvania avenue, Mark Segraves, news4. It took just 20 protesters to shut down rush hour traffic in d. C. This morning. Take a look. They delayed the commute for thousands today on this monday back to work. They held signs and chanted against the decision not to indict Darren Wilson. Cars were stopped coming into the city on the 14th street bridge. Protesters a