John why are food stamps going up if unemploymt is going down. The Unemployment Rate is high and that obcures a people who left the work force altogether that are not counted. As for politicians encouraging that, that is a horrifying notion. The idea of going on food stamps is something that should be s painful we only go on them a bef time so there is an incenti to go back if the work force. Rick, you have all of the s and iear four of them every hour and government volunteers specifically going out to encourage people to get food stamps. There is it a big push to get people on food stamps. I dont think it is it promoting the food stamps but getting informatio to pple who need them so they know they are there to get the i think there is a lot taking place thate need to recognize. We have surprisingly good news on unemployment. There will be i lag for that anditching off food stamps d get back to work. Victoria 15 million more people on food stamps than four years ago. The scary thing
The last 24 hours, close to an inch, a little over an inch in the north bay,. The timing of the next storm, plus advisories coming up. Ama developing storm news out of San Francisco where cleanup concludes after a tree came crashing down. It smash the oning of this gas station. A branch of the tree smashed a car window. No one was hurt. John alston is on the scene and will bring you a live report tonight at 6 00. The weather system has created delays and traffic jams, on the ground and in the air, as travelers head to their holiday destination, were live at San Francisco International Airport with more. Reporter we have had some heavy rain for the past hour or. So this unsettled weather brought with it some flooding and also a change in wind direction. The wind shift has caused sfo to cut back on flight arrivals and departures by more than half. The more than rain flooded some city streets. Here in San Francisco, deep standing water caused drivers to slow down before merging on to high
Will receive federal benefits. The state still considers the unions unlawful. More americans simply stopped looking for work. The u. S. Government is warning americans attending the olympics in russia saying Healthcare Centers are untested, and there is a risk of terrorists, kidnappings, and bombings. We have more new next hour. Inside story is next on Al Jazeera America. For more an any of our stories head over to our website at www. Aljazeera. Com. Last month looked good. New applications for Unemployment Benefits were down. Layoffs were down. The table was set for a great january jobs report, and then no, thats the inside story. Hello, im ray suarez. In thes are looking at all the promising data and forecasting better job growth in 2014. The economy added 1 8,000 jobs in 2013 up until december. Maybe the u. S. Jobs market had finally turned the corner after years of promised corners that didnt work out. Then a not so great number. Well talk about what it might mean and what it doesn
People could not recite the states, the margins. If you could take us on places where the vote is open, places that could conceivably together add up or on their own add up to 270 for joe biden. Lets do that. Lets take a quick look at that march to 270. We dont have alaska and we wont have that for a while. The presumption is that that goes to donald trump. North carolina we wont have for a little while and a put that in trumps column for the moment. This is just an exercise. It doesnt mean that will happen. Lets say that happened in georgia and now were looking at nevada and arizona. At the moment joe biden has the lead in nevada and arizona. If that continues to be the case, there you have joe biden with 270. But we dont know. Because we havent gotten enough votes counted. So lets take those out of play. In fact, take them all out of play and lets look at pennsylvania. If you put that into joe bidens column today, joe biden gets 273 and he wins pennsylvania. If you put it into Donald
Welcome everybody, im neil cavuto and this is your world. You are looking at a country that will be getting a lot of attention over the next few hours. The former Vice President will be speaking soon. In miami where we understand now that polls are tightening and rapidly. So many have already voted that it will be confusing to read. A lot of shops and stores are boarding up on fears of escalated violence or at least disturbances, no matter who wins and even if we do not know tomorrow night. Lets get the latest read right now from john roberts who is following all of this closely. Good afternoon to you. President trump just completed his final rally in pennsylvania for the 2020 campaign. Talking for about an hour and 1t the wind is blowing here at 20, sometimes 25 miles an hour. The windchill is well down into the 20s but there was a big raucous crowd here today to wish the president well. The president wishes they will all get out and vote because pennsylvania is typically a late votin