Good morning. Im richard lui on this tuesday. We begin with the ferry disaster off the south korean coast. The death toll has surpassed 100 now. The search for nearly 200 missing continues. Mostly High School Students. Seven days into the operation, the pace of bodies being recovered has accelerated. Now that divers finally succeeded in entering the ferry. Families waiting at port brace for the worst. When one father identified his 15yearold sons body, he tried to resuscitate him, pumping his chest and blowing into his mouth, yelling at him to stop sleeping. And today, one teenage girl just 17 years old was laid to rest. South koreas president offered support for the families, criticizing the ships crew saying, quote, the action of the captain and some of the crew was incomprehensible, like murder, it cant be tolerated. The captain and several crew members have been arrested. The cause of the disaster is still under investigation. More than 40 al qaeda militants were killed in air stri
Released. So this was a functioning system, Good Behavior led to the sanctions, bad behavior, we happened of course quite frequently. Some refusals was met by met by some tough language from the Security Council. Not from the government, israel or anyone. It was the Security Council under the charter of the United Nations that put that pressure. Of course we know that this system worked extremely well. It was 100 performance as a matter of fact. Its not bad for any u. N. Organization to get the task and then i think its probably the only one which succeeded to make it 100 performance. So the that means that both destruction capabilities and the monetary capabilities were forcefully placed. So everything looked shiny and fine until the u. S. Government it was in spring of 1997, through Madeline Albright made the statement at george mason university, well, it looks like sanctions are disarmament is going well. If it goes well we can still not lift the sanctions which was a condition unde
The skills they need to do the jobs . Number three, how do we make sure that once they have a job, it leads to a decent living . I believe we reward the effort and determination with wages that allow working families to raise their kids and get ahead. [cheers and applause] that part of the reason why i said last night that its time for and increase in the minimum wage, because if you work full time, you should not be in poverty. Host at was the president. From the hill newspaper this morning we want to hear from you this morning whether or not you support the president s call to raise the minimum wage from 7. 25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, to 9 an hour. If you support the proposal, 3880 is the extension to call. You can go ahead and start dialing in. We will take those calls in a minute. Back to this article in the Old Newspaper the hill newspaper. We begin with a call on the support line. Reggie in west orange, new jersey. What you think about the president s proposal . Caller
An interesting choice of the first two destinations given how much the state of the union fired up the president s bluestate base. Reporter that is right. And hes headed directly into two red states as you point out. Making the case he is not backing down despite the fact that republicans just won control of congress. His first stop boise, idaho, where he will speak at idaho state university. Hell tour an Engineering Lab there and well hear him make the case that it is important to train the American Worker for the hightech jobs and that is a key part of fuelling the economy. And then he heads to kansas to talk about education. And then by the way, he will hold a series of interviews with you tube stars to broaden the message he is trying to get out. And im told by white house officials that the president is going to continue to crisscross the country to get out his case and to argue for this middle class economy that we heard him talk about last night. And to point out, he took a vict
With this traveling white house, not all the baggage is in the cargo hold as the Associated Press puts it tonight, this president heads overseas trailing questions. The latest round coming from the revelation that his eldest son was eager to welcome russian help in the campaign to elect donald trump and defeat Hillary Clinton. Quoting from the a. P. , in private, trump has raged against the latest russia development. With most of his ire directed at the media, not his son while staffers have grown accustomed to a good news cycle being overshadowed by the russia investigations, trump aides and outside advisers privately acknowledge that this weeks developments felt more serious. From politico, one trump adviser said the white house is essentially helpless because the conduct happened during an anything goes campaign that had few rules. In a predeparture interview with reuters today, the president defended his son don junior saying, i think many people would have held that meeting. Yeste