Process. The workers have to have a voice and they have to stand up. The port activity is going to be restored to full capacity. A fiveyear tentative agreement will leave coastal ports and it ends a 9month labor dispute. California exports like agriculture has been riding on the docks waiting to get out. President obama ordered the labor secretary perez to come to San Francisco to intervene. He still has confidence in the arbitration system. I think it is an efficient system that works. Sometimes it takes too long and in this case it took too long. The labor dispute between the long shore men and the association caused significant damage to the u. S. Economy. He has 800,000 worth of garment imports off the coast waiting to get into port. We have had orders canceled and we had Department Stores can sell their orders. Confidence in the port has been shaken leaving the ceo of the National Retail federation must dedication ourselves to finding a new way to ensure that this nightmare scenar
Weather throughout the morning. It looks like it may taper off a bit but we have stronger storms to come. Well talk more about that. Now though in the high country they are getting dumped on with lots of snow. Of course it is tough getting there. You would need the chains. We have advisories up there as well as we could see upwards of two, maybe six feet of snow and maybe two feet right there at lake level, lake tahoe. How about that . Well again good for the holidays but not for the travelers. Thanks. We may see breaks in the rain which will allow people to clean up storm damage we have already seen. In the north bay a husband and wife narrowly missed being crushed by a falling tree yesterday morning. A douglas fir came crashing down on top of their carport as they were getting into their car. Part of state highway 1 in may reason a total wash out thanks to flash flooding. It was closed in both directions yesterday afternoon. The storm slowed traffic all over the bay area on one of th
70 killed in three days. Plus. Im harris in la paz bolivia, where modern technology is being used to do more than improve the quality of life of the citizens of this country. We begin in iraq where the u. S. Carried out a new round of air strikes against fighters from the Islamic State group. U. S. And iraqi forces bombed areas where they are trying to protect the haditha dam. Its the first time the u. S. Hit factoring in the superiedominated sunni dominated area of anbar. Defense secretary chuck hagel commented on the situation. First the Iraqi Government asked for support in the strikes. Second it was the Iraqi Security forces on the ground who conceived of the operation. They, too, the Iraqi Security so far as air force is conducting strikes. Haditha dam is important facility for iraq. Lets go to jane arraf in baghdad for us. What is the latest on the battle for haditha, and why are the americans focussing on haditha . Haditha is important infrastructure, the dam, the secondlargest
Why doctors are hopeful of a breakthrough. A ceasefire between ukranian Government Forces and separatists has been breached. A government checkpoint in the port city of mariupol came under fire overnight. Its the first serious violation of the truce declared on friday. Harry fawcett has this report from mariupol. Reporter it took a little more than a day for ukraines ceasefire to go up in flames. This was the result of a heavy assault on mariupol, closer to the center than anything that came in the proceeding days, when prorussian forces swept in from the east. What is clear from the event of the last couple of hours is that the ceasefire is over. What we did see was a deal of damage inflicted on ukranian forces, positions around the area. It could be that the russian backed forces are trying to make the most of that. Earlier the ceasefire appeared to be holding, allowing a view of what hours earlier had been a battlefield. It was a battle waged amid the villages of this territory. Bro
The iraqi army says its launch an offensive to take the nearby damn. Iraqi and u. S. Helicopters are targeting positions around the city. Meanwhile, Kurdish Peshmerga forguforces have retake be a hi. They fill in june when their fighters pushed inside kurdish territory. Jayna rav is live for us in baghdad, how far with the u. S. Go in this, jane. Well, this one section extremely significant, sammy, because it marks a new front essentiallily. Its the First Time Since this Campaign Began that the u. S. Is push near the Syrian Border and its a particular concern to americans and iraqis where a lot of it is where i. S. Fighters and end with his come back across the order. These air strikes around the damn which the u. S. Takes pain says point out is a way of keeping americans safe as well given the possibility of the Islamic State Group Opening the flood gates of that damn, into extrue think are you important indicating a wired fight here br what sort of position are sunni tribes taking in