Bystander suffered minor injuries and officials did not say how that woman was hurt. Dawson was known to them last october. A dc Court Ordered dawson to stay away from the capital grounds. I want to stress while this is preliminary. Based on the initial information we believe this is an act of a Single Person that has frequented the grounds before and no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act. The Capital Building and white house were put on lockdown while the incident was investigated. There were a lot of tourists at the capital and congress is in recess so there were few lawmakers on capitol hill. Californias minimum wage is going up at least according to a deal being worked out at the State Capitol Governor Brown weighed in for a state wide minimum wage of 15 an hour. Ktvus Paul Chambers talked to experts and joins us like. The state just increased the minimum wage to 10 an hour this year. An increase to 15 an hour is the major call for concern for some bus
Were getting information about this. What we know is that at least several juveniles got onto a bus, we believe in northeast d. C. , within the last hour, assaulted the driver of that metro bus and then took off on the bus. We know there were several minor accidents for the short distance that these people had this bus. At this point we know the driver is safe. He was injured. Hes being treated right now at the intersection of minnesota avenue in northeast d. C. That is where this bus stopped. What we dont know at this point is whether there were any passengers on that bus. We dont know where the suspects are at this point. Either we do know a knife was involved in the jacking of this bus. So at this point i can tell you we have a crew headed to the scene there. Were working with d. C. Police and Metro Transit Police to get more information about this. As soon as we learn more details, well have that for you from the lye desk. All right. Thank you, aaron. Firefighter the seco your comm
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That is going to take some time. The scope of that effort will depend on how many waivers are requested. But where waivers are requested i am quite confident that kind of work will be demanded. It is being done in a haphazard way that is not necessarily rigorous and objective. I think some of this has been done internally. I do not think that will be found to be acceptable. There will be a much more impartial and objective approach that says, that is looking at this issue. If the waivers are perceived on a large scale. Thank you. We are about to take a 10 minute rate but before we do, join me in thanking our guest. Beautification to my mind is far more than a matter of cosmetics. Whole it describes the effort to bring the Natural World and the manmade world into harmony, to bring usefulness and delight to our whole environment. And that work only begins with trees and flowers and lands gapping. Lady birds bill was about beautifying the nation, her signature issue as first lady. She was
Teenager. So the United Nations is calling for calm following turkeys downing of a russian fighter jet which crash ed in syria on tuesday here is what we know. Turkey says the jet entered its airspace for 17 seconds, though russia insists it was actually in syria carrying out airstrikes against isil near the border. But nato and the United States have packed up turkey saying it has a right to defend itself. Turkey, of course, is a nato member. Lets get more from the turkishsyrian board. What is happening there . Reporter kamal, the turkish government maintains the same line, basically it was a legitimate act. And that the russian fighter jet was straying in to the territory and it got 10 warnings, those warnings were ignored, therefore the russians the tur turks tk action, this is a statement that has been replicate ahead cross the chain of command. The military says the same thing, the Prime Minister says the same thing. And president earth juan says therdogan says thesame thing, ae t