Alleged actions of certain lawyers as well as others in attempting to deny benefits to miners who are suffering from the debilitating effects of black lung disease. Black lung disease is caused through the inhalation of coal mine dust, and it tends to i should say it leads to severe breathing complications and is found mostly in central appalachia, in particular the states of pennsylvania, West Virginia, kentucky and virginia. According to the department of labor, black lung disease contributed to the death t deaths of over 75,000 minders from 1968 to 2007. That averages to over 1,900 miner death cans per year over deaths per year over a 39year period. Thats an extraordinary number. Im a not sure how widely reported that number is. And while overall rates have dropped since 1968, Research Conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and health shows that there has been a spike since the early 1990s particularly in the most severe, fastprogressing type of black lung disea
Middle east peace process. Ut oh what a film that name on the evening commute that i doubt if it meant a great deal. The ending left my scrap until by the deputy Prime Minister shinzo have a complete stop and think eight or eight hours. Aging youre watching cctv new zine one among the Ukraine Parliament is now meeting at this hour after the opposition said it will cost three vote of no confidence in the government the opposition is trying to oust the cabinet of Prime Minister. Nikolas eyes of god and one thrilling president ial elections. It was unclear whether the opposition will get the required two hundred and twenty six most in the four hundred and fifty seat parliament. The opposition controls about one hundred and fifty cc and independents hold thirty five the governing party of regions has been losing support of its own members protests have been held daily in kyiv since president baked again until that backed away from an agreement that would have established fleet race and dee
Recall on the chicken, but kroger and food for less decided to remove the chicken from those affected plants on their own. Other major stores continue to stock it. Its still on the shelves. We shot this video at a San Francisco supermarket tonight. This is raw chicken from foster farms directly from three california Processing Plants that have been identified by the usda as having been contaminated with salmonella. Tonight weir learning usda threaten todz withdraw thaer inspectors effectively shutting the plants down if foster farmings doesnt come up with a corrective action plan. The usda is giving foster farms until tomorrow to come up with a corrective plan. The Company President said in a statement this evening foster farms is responding with new and already implemented practices in the affected plants. A spokesman told me tonight he could not confirm foster farms correctivea plan had already been submitted. It is not recalling the chicken from the flants that had salmonella contam
Evening. Game time 5 00. Thats traffic. Back to you. Some breaking news now out of libya where Prime Minister ali zeidan has been released just hours after he was kidnapped at gunpoint. He is already back at work, too. This video shows zeidan arriving at his office. Earlier today an arab network got this image as gunmen took him from a tripoli hotel. Its believed the kidnapping was in retaliation for a weekend raid by u. S. Special forces that captured a libya al qaeda suspect. Contract talks for bart go down to the wire. Bay area commuters are fed up. Our exclusive poll finds that threequarters of bay area adults oppose the strike by union workers. Kpix 5 reporter anne makovec is at the walnut creek bart station with growing support for a move to stop strikes by transit workers statewide. Reporter that coolingoff period ends at 11 59 tonight. We dont know if there is going to be a strike. The unions have not given their 72hour notice. But they are not required to do so. So that means
5 00 a. M. Begins now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning. Tuesday, december 18. I am cynne simpson. I am scott thuman. Lets get to a meteorologist jacqui jeras. , but its working its way out. It will improve gradually day, so bethe patient. Half of the day looks a lot better. You can see the clouds lingering. We have a little patchy fog developed across the area. Well off to our west. Possibility of this morning as well. 50 degrees in manassas, 48 in culpeper, and 55 in fredericksburg, 48 in gaithersburg. For today, clouds and fog will t through midmorning. Turning mostly cloudy by noon, 58 degrees. Cloudy by 5 00 with 53 degrees. The sevenday forecast, in a few minutes. First, traffic with jamee whitten. Good morning. A quiet start. O problems on interstate 95 in virginia. No. The through stafford and our and over theg inoquan and here we are springfield. 395. E trip continues on to the beltway is running without any problems in virginia and m