airline pilots, majority of them, 71% voted to join the airline pilots association union.he company already warned earlier in the year that could put benefits and pay up. that is a concern for jetblue at a time of increasing competition. back to you. >> appreciate it. still ahead on "way too early from wrigley field," understanding the significance of the 100th anniversary. we'll talk to mike barnicle about what this field means to baseball and chicago. this field is fantastic. >> and the ruling on the pirates/brewers ball. we'll talk about that when we come back on a special edition of "way too early" from wrigley field! all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o

. >> socialism, after the fall of the associate union, china becoming a purely capitalist country, hugohaving not succeeded. socialism, really? >> the only reason you're talking to me is because an out-and-out socialist got elected in a major city in the united states. time for working people to remove the shackles off and march ahead. (chanting) >> reporter: but why exactly 15? well, that's what the university of washington researchers found is the self-sufficiency wage in seattle for an adult with one child. the bare minimum, that is, for survival without public or private help. union leader david rolf co-chairs the minimum wage community. >> there is a lot ofeninger in our community about what's happened to wages, not just recently, but over 40 years in america, that we've seen essentially economic growth since the late 1970s, unaccompanied by wage growth for the bottom 90% of wage earners. >> reporter: in stark contrast of wage growth all americans saw from the 1940s to the 1970s. if paychecks had kept pace with economic growth, says researcher lorie -- >> the minimum wage would be

during sca 5 hearing, the amendment reached support from 28 organizations from medical associations, student unions and other educational organizations and in fact it passed in the senate overwhelmingly with a 27-9 vote in january. yet, since that time. sca 5 has been stalled in the assembly and a task force has been installed to investigate this issue. there have been studies done and it is clear that there is significant decline in our state universities throughout the state of california and it's important that we look at rectifying the situation. it's time for the senate to vote which after complaints they decided to shelf the issue. it should be in the hands of the california voters to decide. and what this resolution is doing is it's urging the assembly to take action in order to allow the voters to make that decision. i think this is a really really important issue. it's an important issue because i was qualified. this doesn't mean that you are not qualified to attend these universities. i was qualified to go to uc davis. i had a lot of challenges coming from san francisco, from my community

the airline's roughly 2600 pilots will join the airline pilots association union which represents about pilots. jetblue's stock dropped after the announcement because of fears that costs could rise. >>> coffee lovers may be in for a jolt. coffee bean prices have jumped to their highest levels in more than two years. it's thanks to the drought in brazil which severely damaged coffee crops. the big coffee companies buy their beans way in advance so these sky high prices haven't dripped down to customers just yet. but unfortunately, experts say we will see higher prices in a couple of months. ouch. frank and juliette? >> hurts at these hours. who knew skechers would be the huge winner at the boston marathon along with the men's champion? >> reporter: well, that's right. when you think of skechers sneakers, you probably don't think about long distance running but it turns out that the boston marathon winner meb keflezhighi crossed the finish line on monday wearing not nike or adidas but skechers. part of their new performance sneaker line called go run which is compared to nike's lightweigh

>> well, we out reach for the associations and the union square business improvement district and san francisco council, and the district merchant association and the san francisco chamber of commerce. and immediate business neighbors. and supervisors of district three. and san francisco department of central station and permit and code enforcement and san francisco police departments of abc. and the unit. >> great, thank you very much. >> i will appreciate the out reach. and i know that this district three supervisor is okay with this request. why don't we now hear from our police department officer. >> good morning, mr. chair, and supervisors. director of the liaison unit and mr. mana has filed an application with the california beverages seeking a type 21 license for 300 kearny street and he has been operating with a type 20 which is just a beer and wine. the application has profp to be with the community and he reaches the people that live in the area and the residents of the hotels in the area. during the 2013 january to december, police calls reflect that had only had four polic

union free. they have voted to join in the pilots association. n the support of 70% of jetblue's pilots. investors did not like the move. a prediction of massive job cuts at barclays. it could slash 7500 jobs. about 5000 of the job losses may come from the fixed division. that is today's company news. it still gives pause -- the president of the united states will be greeted in tokyo by the imperial family at a state dinner. we will look for that in the coming days. margaret, what is the goal of the president? what is the number one goal as he comes to japan? goal is to try to breathe some progress back into the tpp. the other one is to convince the allies in asia and china that what has been going on in russia and the ukraine is not a roadmap is to proceeds. in china gets more aggressive with the islands. >> what does it mean to president obama? >> he have been trying to pivot to asia for several years and keeps getting pulled away for situations in syria or egypt and now it is the ukraine and russia. the pivot is supposed to be the u.s. and redi

presentation that the eu ukraine association agreement i think you are aware of the dwrelta, european strategy of meeting in september where the head advisor to putin on the customs union in his threats towards ukraine mentioned that this idea of joining up with the association agreement was a sick and suicidal. now, in your presentation you seem to have a dim view. i wonder if you would clarify what actually the effects might have been of the signature of the association agreement and whether or not also this association agreement and the customs union as russia has contendred mutually exclusive or whether you see any possibility of any compromise. >> all right. let me pick up a final question here given our time. >> thank you very much prime minister. in fact, to support your argument about mr. putin i've made the argument he may be a middle class kyle gorbachev in an entirely different dress. i wanted to follow up on what you think putin's view is for the short and longer term. you have been fairly general in where you think things are heading. i wonder if you could be more specific. you've read his letter to 18 members of the european community about what he wanted

union. its pilots have voted to join the airline pilots association after voting against unionizing twice before. nearly three-quarters of jetblue's pilots voted in favor this time. jetblue had been the only major u.s. airline without unionized workers. >>> whatsapp has reached a major milestone. the mobile messaging service now having more than 500 million active users. they share 700 million photos and 100 million videos per day. facebook acquired whatsapp this year for $16 billion. whatsapp plans to offer free voice calls in the next few months. >>> two students at syracuse university are attempting to fight smartphone addiction with their new app. it's called talk. once it's downloaded, users create a profile that links to facebook and twitter. you then create a game. and the object of it is to stay off your phone as long as possible. they say it might help people stop living in the virtual world and start living in the real world. >> power button can do the same thing. just shut it off. >>> lobster may not be much of a bargain for long. the number of baby lobsters is about half of what it w

bailout and take over these underfunded and bankrupt pension plans almost all of which are associated with unionizedlans. and according to the numbers on the pbgc website the unfunded liabilities is 10 of billions of dollars. so where is that going to come from? taxpayers unfortunately probably do have their necks on chopping block. gerri: dan, slight tweak to what you said there, my understanding these specific plans, this flavor of plan, is not supposed to be bankrolled by pgbc. it is not supposed to be bankrolled by taxpayers yet i certainly expect the queries, the requests, demands for money to start piling up. do you? >> well, you have the single employer plans. you have the multiemployer plan. pbgc is involved with some. but the key thing to understand is, that any defined benefit system, which means that some employer at some point in time, promises we're going to give you x automatically, when there is really not the amount of savings, funding as they call it, to back it up, right, means somebody will be left holding the bag. lit is pgbc which of course ultimately means taxpayers and the hea

sparked a lot of this crisis in ukraine was the notion that ukraine would opt for the european union association and the custom union. these need not be exclusive. multilateralher trade negotiation going on in asia. china is very much involved in that. we are not a part at that. it is a much more superficial agreement. through, this treaty it is a huge boost overtime to our economy and the integration of asia. i will bet a fair amount of money that china will seek to join that. many leaders in china now see potentially joining that as providing a political leverage to carry out economic reforms at home that they want to pursue but they face vested interest in opposition. that is a huge win. that demonstrates american initiative and capacity to shape favorable outcomes in a region. it bridges some of the geopolitical divide. focusing on ukraine too much may be -- wouldn't want to focus on the military side of this alone. >> ukraine crisis is a crisis about economic integration. it is about uncertainty. >> it was sparked by that. it is becoming a different kind of crisis. >> let's get back to the

the protests in kiev were about president viktor yanukovych refusing to sign an association agreement with the european union. soon it turned to something else. the excessive use of force by the police and other security forces led to a significant radicalization of the protest movement, calling for an investigation into the deaths of 121 people, including 121 protesters, police and other officers between december and february. the report says the interim government should ensure accountability for all human rights violations, independent investigations, prosecutions, sanctions of those responsible for the violations. >> the u.n. team looked at the situation in crimea. the report says measures by the new crimea authorities make it difficult for people who want to keep ukrainian citizenship to stay. the unhcr says permitting forces carry out security operations violates human rights. they should, he says, disarm and disband paramilitary units, and enshaw law enforcement is carried out by the police. >> the situation in the east of ukraine is tense after pro-russian demonstrators took over buildings. >> in the

association agreement. i think you are aware of the european strategy meeting in september where the advisor to putin on the customs unionin his threats toward ukraine mentioned this idea of joining up with this association agreement, saying it was sick and suicidal. you seem to have a dim view. i wondered if you could clarify what the effects would have been of the signature of the association agreement, and also whether this association and as russiaoms unions, has agreed to mutually exclusive , whether you see any possibility of any compromise between the two types of organizations? >> let me pick up a final question here given our time. >> atlantic council. thank you, prime minister. to support your argument about mr. putin, i have argued you might be a new mikael gorbachev in different dress. cap not immediately but over the longer term. i wanted to follow-up on what you think putin positive view is for the short and long-term? you have been fairly general and where you think things are headed. i wonder if you could be more specific. to obviously read his letter 18 members of the european community about what he wan

what was your take on ukraine's process of negotiating association an agreement with the european union, and hearing from moscow, concerns that would mean a weakening, a setting of the economic ties that are deep with russia? >> the problem is, the yanukovych have made the right thing just announcing one of the goals of the policy would be having an association agreement with the european union. he even managed to ensure people supporting him in eastern ukraine that it was the right thing. majority of population supported that. but then two weeks prior to signing this agreement, he started to study documents and understood from the documents and also signals from moscow from mr. putin that this document would kill the whole economy. he started to say, i will not sign this. it's not the behavior of the leader of the state and a national army when it just two years negotiations and then after that, initialize everything just to say i wouldn't sign it. that's bad governing, bad ruling. of course, maybe it could be better conditions agreed with better negotiation process, but still, at leas

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unionized pilots. pilots voted "yes" late yesterday to join the airline pilots association. jet blue employs about 26- hundred pilots who had rejected unionization in 2009 and 20-11. in today's cover story---one measure of how happy consumers are with various industries--- the american customer satisfaction index says airlines as a group are falling out of favor with customers. the american customer satisfaction index found more passengers complaining of cramped seats. airlines have been installing so-called "slimline" seats---lighter with thinner cushions that take less space. helping southwest airlines, for example add one more row, boosting revenue four percent while cutting fuel costs by ten million a year. but tony rubit doesn't see that savings passed on to him. "they're adding more seats but raising costs (to passengers) and it forces most consumers to find an alternative means of travel." one carrier, allegiant air is monetizing this trend in reverse. it's installed two rows of larger seats for passengers willing to pay up to 50-dollars more. "i wouldn't pay it but i

economies of the developed countries among them are from home countries of the association of east asian nations european union australia and united states russia and japan investment flows to russia rose by more than five hundred percent for the top of the value of investments was conducted in the form of mergers and acquisitions the state committee on development and reforms of the country noted that despite the fact that the volume of chinese investments abroad is still not that large. their quality is constantly improving. this year some of the peripheral countries of the year so to make debt interest payments can be no more than one hundred and thirty in the mirror. the dead bird of these countries three times higher than that of the rest of the countries of the monetary union. this was stated by the newsagency rambler side of the financial times bestseller percent of the government has applied for through countries namely portugal ireland italy greece and spain goes towards the fate of debt obligations whereas the other thirty countries. if you're looking youth retreat that is on average three point five

his wife barbara was a union stewart for the california employee association and it's clear that they both left a very important mark on their children because we are all aware of the amazing work that their son mike has done and continues to do as the local two. as president of the labor council, so i would ask that we adjourn the meeting in the memory of jack casey today. thank you. >> thank you supervisor campos. >> mr. president that concludes role for business. >> why don't we go to general public comment. >> the public may comment up to two minutes on items within the subject matter including item 23 whether the board should into closed session. in addition to the items on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. police note public comment is not allowed on those items that have been subject to public comment by a board committee. direct to the board as a whole and not to individual members. those using translation systems will be allowed more time. remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. >> let's hear from the first speake

should we have a more clear idea if you're a trade association or union or church broadcast network,should the rules of the road be more clear for you as well as for the irs? heart of our issue and our challenge has been in terms of the examination side of the issue is that we get 60-70,000 applications a year for tax-exempt status. the majority of those are 501(c)(3)s. i think it's a million 600,000 texas improvisations out there, about 100,000 our social welfare organizations and then only a small percentage of those are political advocates. with all sorts of other organs nations out there, and what we are trying to do is we have a big backlog on the (c)(3) special because that's where it gets because a lot of them got decertified for not filing by statute, not filing their annual report. so we are taking a look, totally new look at how we process 501(c)(3) applications at the front and because i'm concerned about the backlog there is people are concerned about the backlog. a lot or usage would do good things. part of our challenge is historic for all the obvious reasons we treated

associations the beach today. but when it comes to the customs union. even its name implies the context that is more there than just cost them species. the eurasian economic union is more about economic integration and anything else. the new level of integration teams participating countries the possibility to move the goods capitals played the forest service is proving he's a powerful impetus for expanding markets increase in taxes to do the racing product competitiveness and improving be administered if operators. these countries word is interested they would not be moving to get into words. their common goals the general purpose of the euro seconds to play some economic pragmatism. it clearly follows these development director at the same time the council is aware that the rusty with the issues that must be addressed they consider to be an adequate solution is to be found. the focus on particular aspects of work with and beat you're asian economic union the possibility of expanding its membership by including other cis countries. we will cover these

the members of the new association were approaching the integration constantly first that the customs union was created to live there was a common economic space over the recent years the trade turnover between kazakhstan rational roos has doubled and reached twenty four billion dollars export back to court or products has increased by seventy four percent as the export of confectionery chop increased by three times the total volume of freight transportation is increased by seventeen times. we'll see a competition issues of our state are also quick question do we have to work on but i must say that as a result of competition are businesses get stronger action which will not let go of the typical coincidence he was nice but the nt according to the new re edited agreement of the european economic union for the audit states for the punishment will be considered by the recent economic war for example the composition the cost of a cotton subsidies to comfort them by the truce competition rules have been included to the text isn't pro version is designed to make additions to the maximum people co

the protests in kiev were about president viktor yanukovych refusing to sign an association agreements with the european unionbut soon they turned into something else. the new united nations report says the excessive use of force by the special police and other security forces led to a significant radicalization of the protest movement. it calls for an investigation into the deaths of 121 people, including protesters, police and other officers between december and february. >> the interim government should ensure accountability for human rights violations committed, prosecutions and adequate sanctions of all those responsible for the violations. >> the u.n. team looked at the situation in crimea, where a controversial referendum led to the region joining the russian federation and a de facto annexation. it is diff for people that want to keep ukrainian citizenship to stay. >> the u.n.h.c.r. says: >> of course, the area of most concern now is eastern ukraine. the situation remains particularly tense after pro-russia demonstrators took over government buildings in self cities. >> in the east of the report says

that happens very soon for georgia is it is on track to sign its association agreement with the european union, which will deepen its relationship with many of these same countries. a are hopeful that will have positive impact on how they assess its worthiness from that. >> i will stay outside ukraine and maybe use a quick second round to talk about ukraine to do you were justin moldova -- about ukraine. you were just in moldova. as we try to learn from the things that we could have done or that the alliance could have months ukraine in the and years leading up to this crisis, which i'm not suggesting anyone could have foreseen what do you think are the most important steps to strengthen the transatlantic alliance with moldova to send the right message to russia and to perhaps prepare them for the potential of some kind of offensive action from russian -- >> we have intensified our collaboration and cooperation with moldova. secretary kerry was there in december. as you said, i was there again a week ago sunday. our primary effort with moldova has been to support their preparations for an asso

beauty and the bill garnered the support of the wisconsin professional police association which is the state's largest police union. its passage was at it a pass to tease me with bipartisan effort with representatives on both sides of the aisle expressing concern that police investigating their own friends and colleagues undermine confidence in the agency well it seems like the federal government is not the only institution conducting surveillance or just learning about a secret test of mass surveillance technology conducted by the lapd. the city of compton california. our teaser monday leno has that story. los angeles county sheriff's department is coming under fire today after was discovered that was when the plane over the city of compton to survey of the city the experiment was happening back in twenty twelve that the department never let any of the residents know i was appalled at the cavalier attitude of the sheriff department around not notifying the rest of the city of compton. in other cities where they have calmed down this time that surveillance mass surveillance experiment they have gone to the city co

association. on behalf of the union he said in a statement, this is a very serious issue and we will address aggressively. the clippers coach cancelled practice but says that he hopes the fans continue to support the players. the owner will be sitting out the playoffs. >> have you actually heard from sterling himself? >> he has not -- well, he has in the point that you know, i was asked do i need to talk with donald. and i passed. quite honestly, i don't think right now is the time or the place for me, at least. >> reporter: the most pressing questions now, what will the nba have to say and how will clippers fans react when the team takes the court in game five of the series tuesday night? >> stephanie elam, cnn, los angeles. >>> the sad truth that the opinions expressed were too common. a lot of people who feel that way just try not to get caught saying so out loud. what should the nba do about donald sterling and will that change anything? joining me is isaiah thomas. clearly this guy is a jerk. but what was your reaction when you heard this? >> when i first heard it, you are disgusted. you are outrage

russians and we should be offering the russians a deal, whereby ukraine is free to associate itself with the european union, but a free ukraine also has a normal relationship with russia and we both participate in providing kind of a finish, finland like solution to the ukraine problem. >> fascinating insight. zbig, thank you so much. we will be right back with more. when folks in the lower 48 think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. thousands of people here in alaska are working to safely produce more energy. but that's just the start. to produce more from existing wells, we need advanced technology. that means hi-tech jobs in california and colorado. the oil moves through one of the world's largest pipelines. maintaining it means manufacturing jobs in the midwest. then we transport it with 4 state-of-the-art, double-hull tankers. some of the safest, most advanced ships in the world: built in san diego with a $1 billion investment. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter

and we should be offering the russians a deal, whereby a free ukraine is free to associate itself with the european union, but a free ukraine also has a normal relationship with russia and we both participate in providing kind of a finish, finland like solution to the ukraine problem. >> fascinating insight. zbigniew, thank you so much. we will be right back with more. [ laughter ] smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. you stand behind what you say. there's a saying around here, that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. around here you don't make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look. the annual company retreat. planned, as usual, by this g

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ukraine hinder, prevent from drawing closer to the european union and the acting government says it wants to go forward with the associationith the european union. so you have seen russia even after the annexation of crimea ratchet up pressure, raising gas prices 10 days ago, and now you see these takeover of buildings in eastern ukraine which have all the hallmarks of a russian special services operation. >> what can russian authorities do to put pressure on putin? the west isto me taken some financial steps in the european union has applied visa and financial sanctions on individual russians. at has had some impact. the russian central bank over the last four or six weeks has had to spend $25 billion to support the ruble will stop -- support the ruble. you see large amount of capital flight coming out of russia. a given the fact they have not moved to defuse the crisis but has piled on more pressure and is doing these provocations in eastern ukraine, it is probably time for the united states and additionalion to ply sanctions. >> how close are we to an actual war here not only between ukraine and russia but a larger conf

when viktor yanukovych chose not to sign this document on the association with the european union, it was not an abandonment. he said that would deteriorate the social and economic situation in ukraine. he wanted to think about and work on the document. this led to unconstitutional takeover of power. that, othersiked don't. ukraine,utheast of people began to get worried about the future of their haveren, meaning that they -- there was a desire to cancel russian minority that is even though not exactly a minority in that part of ukraine. they are an indigenous population. the attempt was made to cancel early decisions about the use of their native tongue. what began happening is that instead of setting up and helping these people, the , the local oligarchs, timeonaires, and by that there was additional discontent and people began to offer the wrong reasons. what did the kiev authorities do? they put them in prison. they were threatening to use force in the east. the east began to arm themselves. instead of starting attempts to start a dialogue on monday began -- a dialogue, they began