Sarah wroblewski in for shiri this week. Sarah winds picked out of the southwest in boston and 39 feet like it is in the mid30s and hartford and we will have to watch for temperatures borderline the freezing mark in some spots and if the clouds do thin out, it could be tricky spots. Otherwise the clouds, they are pretty much hanging tough through the majority of the day despite few breaks in the cloud cover. Temperatures. Into the 40s already. Upper 40s during the afternoon, the clouds still hanging with us and then we will notice clouds thickening up but the chance of a few sprinkles overnight tonight and into early tomorrow, so this afternoon, highs looking pretty nice, typical for this time of year, if not a few degrees warmer. We will show you when the sun returns as well as the risk of rain is in the forecast but we need to get a check of traffic now with julie grauert. How is it going out there . Julie sky fox over peabody route 1, 4 cars off to the far lefthand shoulder. Overall
John, what do you do for a living . Caller had a heart attack. Disabled. Host income and where does it come . Caller on social security. Nonstarter. Is a i own my own home. The only thing is with my health bad, it hen it goes so doesnt matter how muchoff make. You dont have enough, you know, ability to actually spend it. Host so you feel that were in a class warfare here in the u. S. . Caller i live in a small town, the small thrown is dying. Populated byown is people who have lived here all of their lives. Most of the jobs are of city, staflt, you know, county, and federal government jobs. Those are all owned by people who have grown up here. Now, we do have some factories here. Those people are immigrants that have moved into else. And everywhere theyre increasing in town. And theyre theyre the only the that are working in lowpaying jobs. And theres no chance of them a had three schools. Like the the people immigrants or Everything Else, cast off to one school. The two towns together
Must be expert riders willing to risk death the daily. Wage is 25 a week, which is a large sum of money for the time period. But of course, risking death daily comes with this type of occupation. The telegraph comes across the prairie and often times the is stretchede across the sagebrush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the planes. With the telegraph laid out across the prairie, annals would run through it. Native americans learned the talking wireman more white people coming down the prairie. They would use it for ornamented accessories or jewelry, etc. The story of the trails ends with the Continental Railroad bringing in mass populations very rapidly through the western United States. It also begins a new chapter with the modern highway that we now have today. I hope visitors take away from the Interpretive Center here in appreciation of the people that settled the american west. They were not large people. They were tough people with
The country protested this week to raise the minimum wage. Theyre looking for 15 an hour. Should the minimum wage be increased . Call us and tell you what you think on the democratic line, 202 5853880. The republican line at 202 5853881. Independent line at 202 5853882. A special line we set up this morning for minimumwage workers 3. 202 585388 you can also join the conversation on social media. Or send us an email. Our first guest this morning is steve jamison, a reporter for the huffington post. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Of these were at one fast food worker protests in South Carolina earlier this week. Tell us what you saw and what it was all about. Caller i went to charleston, South Carolina. This was about workers who were demanding 15 an hour. Its a living wage. And union recognition. I followed about two dozen workers. Many of whom were declaring oneday strikes. Others had the day off and joined the protest and they took part in civil disobedience. They protested
Did you make any commitments . We are above 2 . We are one of only four countries. Estonia, greece, and britain in the european union, and america, four out of 28. We have stayed above 2 even at a time when we have one of the biggest budget deficits anywhere in the world. I think that is important. I think it is worth looking at what the declaration says pretty what is remarkable is there has always been the 2 pledge in nato, but it has never been set out as clearly as this. It is very clear what has been signed up to. It makes a differentiation. It says those meeting 2 should aim to continue. Some year after year have not been spending 2 . It says allies whose current proportion of gdp spent is below on this level will default any aim toward [indiscernible] an aim to move toward the 2 within a decade. I would argue theres a lot that has been achieved. Proper Training Missions that will go to countries like jordan and georgia and iraq. Here an important breakthrough in terms of getting