Labour day, increase in sick days by president obama. I signed a new law requiring federal contractors who allow employees to work on our contracts to earn up to seven sick days paid a year and stood up to unions holy war. Accept them as ministers women ordained at an illegal ceremony leaving them facing excommunication from the Catholic Church plus. Strike up the band. Grammy winner shares his music, mission, message after witnessing the rise of the u. S. Flag rise over the embassy in cuba. Which begin on the border between hungaria and serbia. At this hour, thousands of refugees are being stopped making the journey to europe. Tensions boiled after os refugees clashed with police. Some got through, and started walking authorities the capital budapest. Andrew simmonds is on the border with more on the clashes and tensions. Reporter families following in the weary footsteps of thousands. Any hope that therell be a refugees exodus into austria and germany is diminishing. Nothing changes,
President obamas meeting with Vladimir Putin. Stage fright. Check this out, a very scary moment for Carly Fiorinas plts campaign. Carly fiorinas president ial campaign. Well, goo good evening. After six days in the u. S. , pope francis has wrapped up his historic journey. On his way in the air to the vatican city right knew. His final message is be open to miracles of love. He confronted the vat carn sex x scandals. Jonathan martin is there. He told us there were likely as many as 1. 2 Million People here in this area to hear the pope. Youve seen some of the pictures, there were realize crowds all the way back here from where the pope spoke on Benjamin Franklin parkway. There were people who were just happy to be here and see the pope and hear his message. On sunday, pontiff had a somber message for u. S. Bishops. He told them he just met privately with a number of victims of clergy sexual abuse. Translator god weeps for the sexual abuse of children. These cannot be maintained in secre
Lows here in philadelphia last time we were below freezing was april 16th of this year. But then a warming trend. We completely turn it all around as we head toward turkey day. It is a mild thanksgiving. How long will this last . Ill have answers in the seven day forecast when i join you back inside. Shots fired, another monday full of frustration after eagles once again get thumped at home. This morning Angelo Cataldi of our sister station 94 wip traded jabs with head coach chip kelly. Do you yell at them if they play real badly. I dont think you have to yell at green men. I think every Single Player in that locker roomies as disappointed or more disappoint then anybody in the city in terms of how we played and what the outcome of the game was. For someone to yell at them, they are not twoyear old they are grown men. They know what is going on. That is Harry High School stuff. That doesnt flow that doesnt work. That is not what what people talk about. If that is what people want, peop
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. As part of our california election watch 2014 coverage we focus tonight on criminal justice at the ballot box. Voters will decide the attorney generals race. Democratic incumbent Pamela Harris faces opponent ron gold a republican and former attorney general. Proposition 47 would downgrade nonviolent crimes such as drug possessions or small property theft from a felony to a misdemeanor and thousands of state prisoners serving time for those crimes could have their sentences reduced retroactively. Scott schafer leads our discussion. Proposition 47 is the latest proposal to reform criminal justice in california. Its supported by liberals like the San Francisco d. A. But also by conservatives including Newt Gingrich. Some Law Enforcement groups are saying it would give a free ride to criminals by shifting away from incarceration toward Community Based treatment and prevention measures. Joining me for a closer look, criminology at Berkeley Law Scho