Thank you for coming. I am david cook. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest person in history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus ends the biographical portion of the program. Now onto the breakfast mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging. No filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when this session ends. He will take several pictures of the session
Here we go. Thank you for coming. I am david cook. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest person in history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus ends the biographical portion of the program. Now onto the breakfast mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging. No filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when this session ends. He will take several pictures of
Manufacturing jobs council. This event was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Here we go. Folks. Here we go, here we go thank you for coming. , i am david cook. From the Christian Science monitor. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. Our guest grew up in the pennsylvania coal fields. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest United Mine Workers of america the youngest person in , history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. He brought the mine workers into the aflcio. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in and reelected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus end
The white house is to ask congress for emergency funding. Vice president mike pence says more than 300,000 people have registered for disaster assistance. President trump has pledged 1 million of his own money. And just outside houston, a fire is still burning at a flooded Chemical Plant. 0ur north america correspondent james cook reports. It is an unsettling sight a fire smouldering in the water. This plant makes organic peroxides which must be kept cool but when the hurricane hit, the powerfailed and now they will explode. They planned for this, but not well enough. Police have a simple message get out, now. Already 15 officers have been to hospital for checks amid fears of fumes in the air. I know they got all kinds of chemicals, and ijust dont know which ones is in the water and coming down into my house, which means i got water into the house right now. So its going to be pretty nasty. As specialist teams roll in, the messages coming out are confusing and contradictory. Reports of
The remains of harvey caused significant flooding in nashville. Most of the flood water in houston is expected to recede by early tomorrow but each day the extent of the damage becomes more clear. 37 people were killed. Ten percent of the buildings in houston were flooded. There are shortages of Drinking Water and some areas are running low on food. There is danger from polluted flood water. Don champion is in houston. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Even as flooding persists the recovery is underway here, but to the east the threat from harvey isnt over just yet. The rivers in south eastern texas could crest today potentially bringing more flooding to towns already hit hard by harvey. Thursdays stranded residents were still being rescued from high flood waters. If beaumont a hospital was evacuated after a storm knocked out the citys Drinking Water supply. The National Weather service says a flood threat in the our ya exists until the middle of next week. We underestimated. We did