Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted important harvests; now, COVID is making it even harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. This story originally appeared on Underscore.news
the back of your knees as hard as you can. if you can t get your butt down on the ground, you can t go. reporter: he teaches customers you have to hold on to this rope and listen to the guide. but when you see the mist coming up at the water falls, you re about to go over, you forget a lot of things. that s what happened to the gentleman. he froze. forward, forward, forward. get down. hold on. good job. see, you re getting close to being ready. reporter: a lot of people make it down the falls okay and then they let go and start high-fiving and that s when they get thrown off the boat instead. the man who got rescued here on tuesday came to a few minutes after on shore. he s going to be just fine. this is russ 25th year of guiding folks down here on the white salmon river. in 25 years, one time, he s only had to jump in one time to save somebody. for abc news, in white salmon washington, i m dan kazuto.
police fired tear gas canisters. it s not clear if that s what caused his wound. olson s injury prompted occupy wall street protesters in new york to rally in his support the movement continues to show life around the world. occupy protesters in pakistan marched on the world bank s offices in islamabad chanting down with capitalism. a deal made in europe is putting money in your pocket this morning. stocks jumped at the open after european leaders agreed on a plan to end their debt crisis. the dow jones up right now. we are looking at about 240 is the latest there. the deal hammered out in brussels aims to stabilize european banks and the european bailout fund. the u.s. economy picked up speed during the third quarter. more good news. the government says gdp grew 2.5% between july and september. so that s almost double second quarter growth. gdp it s a broad gauge of goods and services that are produced by american workers. a grim revelation from the wife of the man behind
bring it back to this live picture. chad myers, now to this. the rich are getting richer in america. new video of a baby rescued from the rubble and twitter war with the taliban. time to play reporter roulette. the new report contains the top 1% making more money and that s not the case for middle class. where does it come from and what does it say? you re absolutely right about that. this came out of the congressional office. it looked at how much income here in the u.s. has grown from 1979 to 2007. you know what it found? that the wealth gap is big but it s getting even bigger. you look at the top 1% of the population. incomes grew 275% for the middle class. incomes grew only 40%. in dollars and cents, what does this mean? if you earned $43,000 back in 1979 when gerald ford was president, in 2007 you only earned $60,000. that s not much of an increase. pretty sad, if you ask me, brooke. so why the disparity wean the rich and the middle class? that s a good question.