P you tell me. Pi will in a few minutes. P okay. P all right. Pdave see you then. Plets check roadways in meantime p9 oclock straight up were in inellas county a couple pincidents to talk about. Pnew crash reported at gulf to pbay boulevard in u. S. 19. P1 westbound lane is blocked. Pbut you can see were dealing pwith both eastbound and pwestbound direction delays in pthat area. P also, sticking here along the pu. S. 19 corridor in pinellas pcounty traffic signal work pscheduled to start right now pintersection gandy boulevard. Pso well have what were hearing inellas park police directing ptraffic in that area as crew dos psome work and so you could see psome delays throughout the day. P we continue to follow this pnews alert at the pinellas pcounty courthouse on 49th street pin clearwater. Pand this is the scene here. Pthis a live look. Psheriffs office is confirming pthat several suspicious items phave been found outside of the pcourthouse. Pright now the building has crime pscene ta
The presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 56, the nays are 43. The amendment as modified, has passed. The presiding officer there are two minutes of debate prior to a vote on the reed amendment number 919. Mr. Reed mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from rhode island. Mr. Reed mr. President this amendment is based on legislation that senator blumenthal and i introduced in the last congress to close a major loophole in the current Corporate Tax law by putting an end to unlimited tax writeoffs for performancebased executive pay. In 1993 congress limited the deduct act of executive deductibility of executive pay to 1 million with the exception for performancebased compensation. But over the last two decades corporations have made the exception the rule and the weve seen increasingly more pay designated as performance even in some cases where the company is not doing very well for the shareholders. Its been estimated that between 20072010, 121. 5 billion of executive p
Sentence. Good morning. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Thailand a weekend of violent protests as street fights broke out over the fate of the Prime Minister. Demonstrators want her out, thinking she is a puppet of her brother. Four are dead, 50 injured as protesters try to take over government buildings. A distinct shift in the antigovernment protests on sunday. For the first time in seven days police in bangkok are fighting back. Heavy use of tear gas as they faced off with protesters at the metropolitan police headquarters. Several thousand protesters crowded the nearby streets. Back and forth surges as they chipped away at the barricade. They were soaked with whelm calcal chemicalladen water. Suthep thaugsuban rallied his protesters. He showed fatigue. This is one group surging into the main complexes. They have three destinations, minister of commerce and two telephone stations. Sunday was victory day before the protesters hit the streets. B
Just hours ago north korea released a video of an American Veteran confessing to deck aith old war crimes. Eightyfiveyearold mee Merrill Newman has been held by that country for months given his advanced age and Health Conditions we urge you to release in newman so he can return home an reunited with his family. 85yearold Merrill Newman was about to leave north korea after a tenday tour in october we he was arrested. He is now on tv talking about trading guerrillas 60 years ago. They attacked a Communication System and killed three innocent operators and they laid the munition supply and using explosives obtained from attacking the mine and they attacked the kpa and harassing operations of the rear base ten times. The statement that contained oddly constructed statements and grammatical errors saying that newman had met with soldiers that he trained during the war. I asked my guy to help me look for families and relatives living in dp committee and i gave their addresses to the guide i
In iraq the government in anbar says it has retaken the city of ramadi, a day after it was seized by militants linked to al qaeda. They remain on the edges of ramadi and fallujah, as local tribal leaders consider their next move. Both cities are key regional centres and witnessed fighting. We have more from al jazeeras imran khan. After a standoff lasting days the iraqi army is ready to go to the city of fallujah, and fight the Al Qaedalinked group i. S. I. L. The agreement to do so was heartfought. Sunni tribes insisted they be part of the situation. Others disagreed saying i. S. I. L. Fighters were protecting fallujah. The standoff is an indication of the sunni tribe and shialed government disagreements. Nouri almaliki now has an agreement to act. Translation theres increased coordination between the army and tribesman. The army provides the tribes with weapons and everything they need in the battle against the terrorists. The issue will be resolved within one or two days of expellin