Dozens of workers at the u. S. Capitol. The employees walked off their jobs to demand more money and union protection. Withe live in the newsroom the workers news to the president. They claims is the first time in history that lowwage federal contract workers have gone on strike. While it is only for one day, they say that is enough to send a strong message to the president. Uplifting,c might be the stories of those marching, it is much different. My daughter is in college. Kind of sad, trying to up your kids in college. He works in the cafeteria at the capitol. So does thomas jones. It was a tough decision for me to do this but today, the president needs to know what is going on. What is going on is that while they are feeding the most powerful people on the world, they are on food step food stamps. Living on public assistance, i dont like that. President obama did use executive action forcing private companies to pay more. Now, these workers and some members of Congress Want obama to
Patchy fog on the eastern shore, including easton. Temperatures in central maryland around 62 degrees. The 50s in western maryland. 54 in cumberland, 58 degrees in hagerstown. This is what you can expect for today, 66 degrees as you step out the door, 86 degrees by midday. Plenty of sunshine in the forecast, mostly clear skies by dinner time, 71 degrees. Now over to sharon at traffic control. Good morning. Good morning. It looks like i spoke too soon about the lack of problems out there. We have picked up our first one of the morning, 95 southbound just approaching the fort mchenry tunnel. Were not seeing any delays though. We dont have any delays on the beltway either. 55 is your average on the top and west side. No problems on 95 between white marsh and the beltway. 52 between the beltway and the tunnel. That could be because of that accident. No real problems in this particular shot. Thats a look at 795 at mcdonugh road. No delays officially yet. Now wjz has the stories people are t
The battlefield. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Get International Help to come here now. This is really really like worse than hell. Worse than hell. Disaster and despair in the philippines philippines. Over 10,000 people have been killed by the super typhoon. U. S. Marines are arriving with supplies. We dont have water. We dont have food. No matter how bad and how vulgar it sounds thats how we communicate. Thats how our friendship was. Richie incognito talking about the bullying controversy, and he claims he is not a racist. I hope im wrong. If they didnt allow Richie Incognito to say this rash shally motivated word. If youre black, you know what it means. Talks on the nuclear deal and the Nuclear Program broke down over the weekend in geneva. Did you lobby against it . Lobby . Yes, of course. Thats an understatement. A big relief this morning after a 200pound satellite predicted to crash into earth landed. Theyre teaming up to make sunday
Mcdaniel college in westminster is opening late at 10 00 a. M. Because of a power outage. Days after a typhoon devastated the philippines the government and International Relief agencies are still struggling to get aid to those who certainly need it. Here is Susan Mcginnis reporting for wjz. Typhoon haiyan came ashore in vietnam this morning as a category 1 storm. Far weaker than the potential recordbreaking typhoon that crashed into the philippines friday. Tens of thousands are feared dead but getting an accurate count is hard is Communication Systems down in many areas. Jim eds is a photographer from florida who was in one of the hardhit areas. It was complete chaos. Just a mass of people trying tot out of there for security reasons and because theres no food or water. President obama said his thoughts and prayers go out to the people effected by the storm. He ordered the pentagon to deploy marines to assist in recovery efforts. The first waive of u. S. Government aid arrived. Food,
Discussing the idea because it would give them time to fix the problems out of view. Some remain skeptical such a deal is likely to happen. The stock finished the day up almost 6 . On wall street, investors found little reason to buy as the dow snaps the sixweek winning streak closing at a onemonth low and volume was light but not just today, all week long. Logging the lowest volume week since august of 2006. In the end, the dow closed down 72 points to 15,425 and the s p fell 6 and nasdaq off by six months. The timewarner, cbs dispute. The agency is urging them to resolve the dispute as soon as possible and its ready to act if this dispute continues. Acce separately timewarner customers filed a classaction lawsuit in milwaukee and seeks damages for breach of contract and compensation for every customer in southeast wisconsin. They will miss the packer game. Thats one reason why the suit was filed. J. C. Penneys shares slid near lie 6 as a nasty spat between the largest shareholder and