This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show, to tell us what is on your mine by tweeting at, and facebook. Com. This was a day of protests in cities across america and around the world. Hundreds of fastfood workers demanding higher pay walked off of their jobs. It was part of court coordinated one day strike. Here in the United States labor organizers from the service employ International Union join the protest to call for raising the minimum wage in this country to 15 an hour. Right now the federal minimum wage is stuck at 7 25 an hour. President obama is calling on congress to raise the federal minimum to 10. 10 an hour. Most fastfood workers make more than the National Minimum, but not by much. They bring home an annual income just under 19,000 a year for fulltime work. That falls behind the poverty line for a household of three. But businesses like mcdonalds dont like higher wage mandates. They say the increases cut into profits, raise prices, and lead to la
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Royce, for five minutes. Very ce well thank you much, mr. Speaker. And this saturday, on january 11, people throughout our country here, people throughout the world will be observing Human Trafficking awareness day. The start of this new year, i think, is a fitting time to focus on the shameful fact that human slavery is not a relic of ancient history, that in fact its with us today, its a brulal reality, a reality faced by more than 20 mill
Over control from his russian colleague. Hello. Ed search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet is continuing into its third day. Well, this is a picture of the plane on an earlier flight. 239 people were on board the plane en route from beijing when it simply vanished from radar saturday morning. In the latest developments, an earlier reported sighting of a lifetime raft off the vietnamese coast has been proven unfounded. The malaysian government is sharing intelligence with the americans and chinese after it found two stolen passports were used to board the flight by two passengers. Well, the latest news conference, the transport minister explained why they are calling on International Help to try to identify the men. I have been linking up with the intelligence agency. The u. S. Intelligence yesterday. The Background Information and the visuals have have been recorded. And those are being eye jested by the relative agency. So until we get more information, i will stop because i do not
Nations bank. And a job market that looks very much different today than it did just a year ago. And thats where we begin tonight. One of the biggest things in the American Economy undergoing significant change is the labor market. The Unemployment Rate is coming down, but the amount of people looking for work is at a record low. Those out of work for an extended period of time now have no safety net. Veronica is caught in the crossfire of the new economy. She is one of the 3 million americans who are out of work for more than a year. That 1200 a month has been an economic lifeline. Not having that money is devastating. I dont know where im going to get money to pay my rent, to buy food, to pay car insurance. Its it almost leaves me speechless just trying to articulate what it means not to have that money to fall back on. Reporter whats next for her . Its complicated. Armed with a phd in law enforcement, it was not that long ago when she was earning more than 75,000 a year, owned a con
First up, a check on the weather forecast. Mike . Noticeable trend, record High Temperatures are possible for the 10th day in a row. Here is the day planner, it will hours for the bay we are in the upper 30s to mid40s and a few high clouds from time to time and upper 50s at noon and midtoupper 60s at the 4 00 hour and enjoy a delightful evening with smiled temperatures in the low 50s. Inland we have frost as usual mostly in the north bay and a few in the east bay valley and midsecretary by noon and record highs are possible with near 70 at 4 00. We will be mild at 7 00 and 52 and along the coast, fewer clouds this morning with temperatures in the lowtomid 60s for better part of the afternoon and we could spike to 70 at Half Moon Bay. Enjoy the colorful sunrise and temperature is 51. Enjoy that. Hopefully you will enjoy the commute. Unfortunately i am afraid not so great, we have five to tenminute delay in bart in the east bay direction because of a track switching problem. No service o