A very good saturday morning to you. Right now, in this country, some 61 of workers, 18 and over, have access to some form of paid sick leave. About 49 million American Workers lack paid sick leave. Thats what we are talking about this morning. Only three states in this country require some form of paid sick leave. Here is a map this morning from the National Partnership for women and families. Those three states, california, massachusetts, and connecticut, connecticut and massachusetts laws provide 40 hours of sick time per calendar year. Calendars taxed at 241 hours. Law goes into effect in january. There is also over a dozen cities and municipalities around the country that have their own laws when it comes to paid sick leave but president obama has proposed a sevenpaid sick leave california year in his state of the union address. Here is the president on tuesday talking about that proposal. Today we are the only advanced country industry on earth that doesnt guarantee paid sick lea
Foot, has caused river levels not only rise rapidly, but to go to places theyve never seen before. Now that the rain has moved out, the threat has changed, but it is not, by any means, over. The safety of our neighbors and protecting property wherever possible is what we are in the business of doing. So to give you a better sense of the scope of this flooding, check out this chart. So it predicts water levels in st. Louis, as you can see, for the mississippi, and weve highlighted two areas here for you. Peak flooding, which is expected on thursday, when the mississippi will be 15 feet above flood stage, and then also that second area on the bottom right, where you see its marked january 11th. Monday, january 11th is when water levels are expected to finally return to normal. Turning now to developments today in the war on terror. This afternoon, a wake was held for Staff Sergeant joseph lem, one of the six u. S. Troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram Airfield last week. The tali
today. as crit chris christie and jeb bush launched sharp attacks on senator marco rubio who responded by rolling out the endorsement of a conservative rock star. house benghazi chairman trey gowdy. with polls in iowa and nationally showing rubio in third place behind businessman donald trump and senator ted cruz, the florida senator was slammed today, for missing votes. with christie, who is coming on strong in new hampshire ripping rubio by declaring quote, dude, show up to work and vote no. and if you don t want to, then quit. while the superpac supporting bush went after his former protege with a $1.4 million tv ad buy. charging rubio was fundraising, instead of attending top-secret briefings in the capital after the terror attacks in paris and san bernardino. rubio has missed important national security hearings. i have a post tonight for senate attendance record, chris has been missing in new jersey for half the time. but candidates i think as we get down the stre
with about 50 participating online. given that, is trump s organization even capable of beating ted cruiz in iowa? reporter: some are operating under the assumption that trump supporters can get them out to caucus. the question is whether he can convert people into actual caucusgoers. it s more difficult on the ground. but i do think that the open question is how many new voters are they going to bring into the process. if the answer is not very many, then donald trump will have a tough time beating ted cruz on the ground here. but if the answer is all of these thousands of people who are showing up, then it s a totally different story. so i think to a certain extent there is a sense that he does have a team that knows iowa very well. chuck lautner worked for rick
ago to discuss his touching account of what it was like when president obama met with the sandy hook families. we ll have more on that in just a moment. plus what the president had to say in his final press conference of the year. also this morning, it s now officially year two of the improved relationship between the u.s. and cuba. new details about what exactly the new friendship will look like. we ll also be joined by the south carolina lawmaker who wants to make men jump over the same hurdles to get a viagra prescription that women have to clear in order to access abortion services. we begin with president obama making a visit to have been on his way to hawaii to visit with victims family members and first responders. those meetings lasting much longer than expected. morgan rat ford has the dehe tails. reporter: between morning. governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency to help the community recover. this comes 16 days after attack. president obama offer