Living paychecktopaycheck and the sector of Union Strikes looms larger than it has in years. A partial look at how things are on this labor day. Welcome to washington journal. We begin asking you about the Biggest Challenges you see facing American Workers. Going in the discussion. If you are currently employed and working, the line is 202 7488000. If you are looking for work, unemployed, 202 7488001. If you are retired, use 202 7488002. We welcome your comments via text. That is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from and you can post your comments on facebook, x and instagram cspanwj. The Biggest Challenges you see facing American Workers, things like job security, pay, remote work, unions, etc. 202 7488000 is the line to use for those of you who are working. 202 7488001, if you are unemployed or looking for work. We will get to your comments and suggestions momentarily on washington journal. We will start with nerd while its look at seven stats about American W
Over the next few days so i will launch into it. Concentrate. At the moment the weather is not looking bad at all, i think for the rest of todayit bad at all, i think for the rest of today it is a case of Hazy Sunshine and mainly dry weather. But from mid week onwards its looking horrible across some parts of the country and really a lot of rain on the way. The Satellite Picture with storm babet spinning around just to the west of portugal but the Weather Fronts and rain bearing clouds all the way to the north. Look at this complicated weather maps over the next few days with a huge area of low pressure with a huge area of low pressure with lots of Weather Fronts spinning around, we will see waves of rain coming our way affecting different parts of the country at different times and actually other parts of europe as well so a thoroughly miserable autumnal picture. This is the Rainfall Accumulation as the days go by. Obviously the darker the blue the more amounts of rain and in some are
Staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. There is a major news break out of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza
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