Right now a new push to push up the minimum wage in d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser just held a News Conference about making the minimum wage 15 an hour. Molette . Reporter absolutely, aaron, good morning. And they just finished up with the mayor about ten minutes ago and some of the folks are right behind me. Their focus today is on folks who work in the Home Health Care industry. Those are the people who take care of some of the most vulnerable, the sick and the elderly. And also joining them, airport workers today to fight to live and work in the city. Lowwage workers bring their fight for a 15 minimum wage to d. C. s city hall. One check is the bills, and thats it. And i have to go to family members sometimes for reporter Tiffany Hunter is losing a days pay under the current 13. 84 an hour to be here and to speak out for the 3,000 or so Home Health Care aides in the city in the fight for 15 push thats already made its way to other major cities across the nation. Caregivers and airport wo
And tracking morning frame and tell us what its getting out of here. Weather and traffic on the fiv fives at 7 05. Good Tuesday Morning everybody im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. Welcome to fox 5 news morning. Breaking in district a suspect in custody in connection with deadly stabbing at Deanwood Metro station. Fox5 Melanie Alnwick joins us with details. Mel. Good morning, steve, alliso allison. D. C. Police would tell us only that the person arrested is 18 years old and they would not confirm whether it was indeed the young man seen in surveillance pictures that they had provided to the media yesterday and put out there as a pen of interest in the case. So that we cannot tell you whether theres a connection and whether theyre one in the same. And again an 18yearold in custody for yet another stabbing and murder of a teenager there at the dean wood metro station and violence certainly has city leaders and Community Activists coming out now, sources close to the investigation did
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