The sole survivor of a capsize at sea stuck from days on the bottom of the atlantic. A good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Its good to have you with us. Im drait. In a major development. The engineer of the train apparently admitted to a nunion representative that he nodded off at the controls. It happened while the train travelled at 82 Miles Per Hour. The ntsp removed the commoout ear rail employees union, citing a breach of confidentiality when they talked to the media. Al jazeera correspondent has the latest on the investigation. For the First Time Since the metro north Train Derailment leaving four dead and Dozens Injured attention is shifting from mechanical failure, focussing on the trains engineer. Based on this data, theres no indication that the brake systems were not functions properly. It was suggested from William Rockefellers camp that human error was ta play. Saying that he became dazed, suffering highway hypnosis. William rockefeller revealed to a Union Offi
Good to have you with us. With the house of representatives taking the day off, todays attempts to end the Government Shutdown and raise the debt ceiling are focused in the senate. The two sides remain far apart. Senators have spent the day laying out their positions, both on the floor and in talks behind closed doors. There has been talks of a shortterm increase in the debt ceiling, which the country is scheduled to hit on thursday, october 17th. But a white house Statement Issued after president obama spoke by phone with House Minority leader nancy pelosi praised her efforts to pass a oneyear increase hinting that the Administration May reject any attempt to fix the problem for only a few weeks or months. John terrett following the process from capitol hill. There seems to be a lot of talking but very little action. What actually went on this weekend . Any progress . Reporter there has been some progress, but its pretty miniscule. Its kind of tough to find. We know, for example, harr
From families before making the final decisions. This is about the health and wellbeing of our kids the studies are inconclusive about the direct link about School Scores and our kids will be happier and healthier and thats good enough for me. If after getting a lot more from the community the School Board Approves dr. Stars recommendations the earliest those changes would go into effect would be for the school year starting in august 2015. Bob, thanks. A lot of people talking about this. The proposed start time a hot topic not just for parents. We aired an editorial from our general manager at fox 5. Hes against it. We posted it on myfoxdc. Com. After it aired we add asked for your feedback and melanie emailed saying im a current Junior High School student and i personally hate waking up early. Heres one from george. He says if we did have later start time we might be less tired but we wouldnt be able to come home and complete our homework and work parttime at a store. Breaking right
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Check the market and talk to the judge. Dagen we have to hit your slender. We have gains on the market right now despite the betterthanexpected numbers from adp, Nicole Petallides at the new york Stock Exchange. Nicole you mentioned adp, which was better. We also got new hom home Sales Numbers better than expected, we are seeing the market with three Straight Days of selling and they might have scooped up some opportunity. Right now Dow Jones Industrial of 41 points, a gain of one quarter of 1 . Microsoft hitting new highs, Goldman Sachs and United Health care and other leaders. Intel a winner. The fear index up 6 days in a row, is pulling back a little bit. It was interesting to watch very closely to mak seve it would toa seventh day of gains. The longest streak of gains since april of 2012. Boosting the Share Buyback program 8 billion, heavy volumes, big news, keep an eye on that one. Back to you. Connell lawmakers have approved a measure to overhaul the state Public Employee pension