Federal Health Care Benefits to be tested for drugs. For our first 45 minutes, talk about the details of the case. We want to gain your thoughts on the topic. Heres how you can reach out to us on the phones. The numbers are on your screen. On our social media channel, you can reach us on twitter, facebook, or email. As far as the polling, we posted a question must night. There is responded this morning. For those taking it, 75 say that yes, people should be tested. No,t 594 people said welfare recipients should not be drug tested. You can leave comments and participate in the polls if you want. Join the conversation there. Make your thoughts known on twitter. If you want to give your thoughts and comments on the phone, please use the numbers provided. A little bit about this case. The decision was made on new years eve. Here is the reuters writeup grid the judge struck down the law requiring Drug Screening for welfare recipients. He says it by leaps it be constitutional protections. Ri
Woman when it should have taken half the time. It is disturbing to think politics played a role in the traffic clogging first responders. Florences family do not blame anyone. My first reaction was would it have affected anything . But i guess it would have. Reporter do you think it would have had any impact on the final result to your mother . No i really dont think so. I think she was 91 and i believe in my heart she was already gone when the ambulance got there. Now this scandal has also prompted a class action lawsuit. The suit claims those lane closures leading from fort lee, new jersey to the George Washington bridge trapped a lot of people on the road. The suit claims also the traffic jam caused those people to be late for work, docked pay and to endure other economic hardships. The lawsuit was filed thursday against governor christie and one of his former aides and two appointees to the port authority. It asks for punitive damages. Dont drink the water. That is what the governo
2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with the latest on the new jersey traffic jam scandal disrupting the administration of governor Chris Christie. Federal prosecutors have have begun a preliminary investigation as has the state assembly, and 60 jersey residents have filed a federal Class Action Lawsuit against christie and the state. Christie says he knew nothing about the lane closings into the George Washington bridge last september. The closures led to major delays on what is the busiest bridge in the world. The scandal plans to undermine possible president ial plans governor Chris Christie may have. He was asked if he would consider resigning considering what happened. Thats a crazy question, maam. Im telling you i had nothing to do with this. So, no, i never gave any thought of doing that at all, nor would i. Marlie hall is here in new york with more. Good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Thousands of documents relate to the scandal are schedule
Diana rocco is live outside Helium Comedy Club in center city with more, diana . Reporter jessica, joan rivers certainly had an ago all have of her own. She was a trail blazer in her field and tonight many are not remembering the way that she died but the hilarious way that she lived. The voice, brooklyn born queen of comedy may be gone but not soon forgotten. Joan rivers lived a long life in the public eye making people laugh for more than 50 years. A lot of female comics in those days, it was more men, so she was sort of out there as being, opinionated and full of herself, but it was a lot of fun to see her. Reporter as she was when comedy was a mans game. She got her break on the tonight show in the 60s. Johnny carson telling her that she would be a star. Famous for poking as much fun at herself as the celebrities that she roasted, becoming a permanent fill in on the tonight show. After she started to get all of the face lights she made jokes about that. I remember she made a joke o
Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers . Theyre more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor Market Conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. They are more concerned with where a highskilled immigrants will take a Conference Call with her is at his home or whether that home is listed as a p