. >> reporter: close to 100 people rallied outside washington, d.c. city council chamber as council members inside voted to raise the city's minimum wage to $11.50 an hour. >> congress' failure to act, and congress' failure to take care of those left behind not just from the recession, but as the people who make the most have done better and better, we've become a city of haves and have nots, and a country of haves and have nots. step up and make sure that people have a living wage. >> reporter: with little hope congress will raise the minimum wage t wage. in september california governor jerry brown approved a gradual rise in the state's minimum wage to $10 by 2016. last month the town of seatac in washington state raised to raise the local minimum wage to $15 an hour. the highest in the country. >> people finally will make ends meet without having to work two or three jobs with decent pay and decent benefits. this is great for the workers and the community here. >> reporter: in d.c. city council every member greed the old minimum of $8.25 an hour was too

the d.c. cityouncil just approved an increase in the minimum wage to 11.50 an hour eventually, one of the highest in the nation. tomorrow, fast food workers demanding better wages, too, $15 an hour. all of this as wal-mart opens its first two stores in d.c. today. 600 people hired, more than 23,000 applied for those jobs. the d.c. city council wanted to keep wal-mart out. come january, extended jobless benefits fob for 1.3 million people expire, no more government checks. will the democrats fight to keep the money flowing? good questions. we've got other headlines. former tyco chief dennis kozlowski is in prison for improper use of money. rightly or 0 wrongly, he was the poster boy for corporate greed. and 180,000 bucks on booze, that's government. used the money allocated in your budget or lose it. last one, again with spending, the new york yankees opened their wallet and signed outfielder jacoby ellsbury seven years, 142 million dollars. after the biggest drop in the month. first losing streak s

d.c. council really stood in the way of all this the minimum wage conversation now is really distraction from real regulatory reforms could boost business in the city. re reforms like expanding the d.c. opportunity solarship program so people have more educational choices. this is a mask of a much deeper problem. melissa: jonathan -- >> all walmart can do, all walmart can do is trade. they trade with their customers. they trade with their employees. it is all voluntary. everyone is satisfied. unfortunately the councilman has the ability to use force. that is exactly what this is. the minimum wage is force against employers and employees. does neither of them any benefit. the one it does help are the unions w really behind this movement. not because they make minimum wage but their wages are indexed to minimum wage. we're trusting same institution that bankrupted autos, the education industry, the airline industry. we're putting economic policy in their hand and d.c. is ground zero right now. melissa: we'll leave it there. anks, guys. >> thanks. lissa: cops around the country have high-priced alternative to high-speed chases. are have you heard abou

the d.c. city council put through a measure that expands includees loss to restaurants and bars. act requires employers to provide up to five days of eight sick leave for year two resident -- to restaurant and bar workers. the mayor said he is not yet received the bill but will most likely sign it. the d.c. mayor's race dinner -- that is it for me, now back to you. >> thank you. a roadside message turning heads in prince george's county. neighbors say they have had enough and they want something done. that is coming thereis warm and wet out this morning. >> a great weekend, though. a lot of record temperatures. >> temperatures soared into the 70s. it is unbelievable, but yes, records broken at all the major airports. today is our final day of warm weather. 60 degrees this morning here outside the belfort furniture weather center. it is going to be rainy all day long, so keep your rain gear with you. those plumes shows of moisture is stretching from the southeast all the way into the mid-atlantic. here's a close-up of our live super doppler that shows the entire region inundated.

city. hello i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. the senate finally passed the bipartisan murry ryan budget deal today so now that congress as found a way to fund the government at austerity levels for the next two years is about time we found a way to extend unemployment insurance past december. by that and more in tonight's law in the rubble and president obama says that we don't have time to listen to the flat earth society when it comes to global warming or the republicans in congress willing to do anything to sabotage the i'm looking forward on climate change legislation is easier said than done so what should the president do next to fight back against the greatest threat to our species has ever faced as bill backer jacketed director of the presidential climate action project and i had special wednesday conversations with. you know this today the senate passed the bipartisan budget deal. which now goes to president obama to be signed and he's already expressed his support for the deal and while the deal does address some of th

so what if you wanted to be twenty today i want you running a piece criticizing the d.c. city council for their been your ears failure to deal with this problem now here's the eleven dollars here's the truth it's not a good start it's a terrible idea and here's the truth we just had a release that came out and explained that washington d.c. has the highest number of residents who are higher income of almost any other city in the united states. because all your minimum wage is going to do is affect those people who are not a part of that it is going to have very significant effects and last time we talk about this going to affect the fifteen or twenty percent of the people who are living in the homeless shelters who are working full time as a person who recently has encountered people who are sitting in homeless shelters what they say is they want a chance what your support of this does and what the council's passage does is it takes away that jail what does he does this do it's money into the hands of job creators you know how many no it doesn't we are putting johnny into the

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walmart who wanted to go into the city of d.c. er had stores there, they planned up a six stores, a couple thousand employees, the city decided they'd tack on a minimum wage for walmart alone, calling any other big box retailer but put them at a disadvantage to other retailers. walmart said, forgets it. we'll scrap the plans for six stores, thousands of employees, they start to pull out and the d.c. city council to their credit said, hold on, we're not going to do that. when you raise a minimum wage, you tell businesses what they have to pay, they may choose to go somewhere else. i find it interesting that walmart keeps getting the brunt of the leftist ire for taking other small companies out of the game yet jeff bezos at amazon tells smaller publishers either get leaner, get bigger or get out of the way, but he's held up as a hero. online. this is all about the unions. walmart pushes back at the unions, no one else does, so walmart gets beat up by the left. >> the national restaurant association reports that really a small percent

opening two new stores to good crowds but whether it opens more spores is now uncertain after the d.c. citytentative approval to raising the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour by 2016. the district's current minimum-wage is a dollars and $0.25 an hour. walmart and other major retailers battled the city earlier this year when the city council passed another bill that would have hiked the minimum wage to $12.50 an hour, so-called living wage supported by unions but retailers call the bill unfair because it would have applied only to employees and big box stores. walmart threatened to halt the expansion plans of the bill became law and mayor vincent gray vetoed it as a job killer and unfair for singling out retailers but the city council responded yesterday with unanimous veto-proof support for this new minimum-wage bill which would apply to all workers in the city. the bill's sponsor thinks the city, not walmart, has the leverage. >> a very attractive market, one of the highest disposable incomes in the nation, we are approaching 650,000 residents, so this is an area of growth. an institution lik

. >> for growing cities like washington, d.c. an increase in affluent young professionals is driving up prices. >> you have more millennials coming into the area. the jobs are here. so that the demand for hire quality apartment brings a higher cost to living here. >> washington, d.c. is the fourth expensive city, and the city has swelled by 25% in the last ten years. primarily new young residents who typically rent on the very same street oh two miles south rising rent is changing lives. >> it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: kimberly is a long-term resident of a building called heritage at shaw. it used to be lincoln west west moreland, and was run by section 8 housing program. drugs, prostitutes, gangs. >> the crime was really bad, so many shootings that was going on. yeah, we stayed in the worst part of it. >> earlier this year private companies that owned the building opted out of the city's partnership. now it's renovating the units one by one and is charge high marketplace rents. it's only a matter of time until her family's p

they decide it's not a good case and they don't take the case any further i understand there's a d.c. city council hearing tomorrow and recommendations from this report will be discussed what are some of those recommendations what are you hoping to see comes out of this this hearing. so the two key things we really want to see is external oversight of the police department we want an expert to assess police department policies and practices and make sure reforms are actually implemented and restore public confidence in the police department that they are taking these cases seriously and treating victims properly and with respect and the second thing we want is transparency and and the right of victims to have an advocate present during police interviews i think will provide support to victims while they're going through a difficult process and ultimately help law enforcement by keeping victims in the system and i think it may discourage some of the more troubling behavior we saw we have just about a half a minute left what are some of the consequences of this i mean already sexual sold as

. >> the washington, d.c. city council has approved one of the nation's largest minimum wage rates for 2016. he would rise in two years from $8.25 an hour to $11.50 an hour. the measure was approved unanimously, meaning it could withstand a veto from the mayor. mayor vincent gray vetoed a living wage requirement large retail stores earlier this year. a senior navy investigator has pleaded guilty to bribery charges as part of widening corruption case involving top officers and a longtime pentagon contractor. john beliveau is the first of six senior officials to be linked to wrongdoing by the firm glenn defense marine asia. the company's executive, leonard glenn francis, is accused of bribing navy officials with money, gives, and sex workers to win government contracts. when defense marine asia has won hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to oversee port visits and security during navy stops of foreign harbors. john beliveau faces up to 20 was imprisoned. chrisrsey governor christie is facing a controversy ov

the washington, d.c., city council voted today to raise the local minimum wage to $11.50 an hour, onethe highest in the nation. it takes effect in 2016. and on wall street, the dow jones industrial average lost nine points to close at 15,875. the nasdaq fell five points to close at 4,023. still to come on the newshour: tech titans visit the white house; a drug maker stops paying doctors for promotions; a ukraine in turmoil turns to russia for aid; el salvador's tough stance on abortion; making "downton abbey" and other masterpieces; new york's experiment with micro- apartments. >> ifill: we turn to the latest developments over the reach of the government's surveillance program. tech executives from 15 leading companies-- including google, facebook, twitter and apple-- met with the president at the white house today. the companies came with a list of concerns about government surveillance on the day after a federal judge questioned its constitutionality. margaret talev covers the white house for bloomberg news. so what was on the executive's agendas who showed up at the white house tod

passed laws increasing their own minimum wage the latest poised to do so is right here in washington d.c. city council unanimously unanimously approved a measure to increase the city's minimum wage to eleven fifty an hour that still needs to be approved by d.c. mayor vincent gray but this increase comes just as one of the largest employers of low wage labor wal-mart opens up two stores today here in washington d.c. the first two wal-mart's to ever appear in the district one person very vocal on this issue of the minimum wage and workers' rights is artie's very own tom hartman who made this argument on wednesday night as he was promoting his new book the crash of two thousand and sixteen productivity has continued to increase in spending sixty six on a fairly linear scale wages flattened out starting in one thousand seventy eight really sort of flat you know ninety the minimum wage right now be over twenty dollars now that's the minimum wage that's like a teenager starting out with bottles if that is simply happened. of course you can tune into tom show the big picture every weeknight at seven

city. >> washington, d.c. is experiencing a beer renaissance of its own. we visited one of the city's micro breweries opened in 2009 dc 31 bro brou . they got in the craft business as it was taking off and didn't look back. >> this has been great for us. business is booming. it's not just a story unique to us in d.c. the craft brew culture and industry has taken off and come into its own. we've been lucky enough to be part of that locally here in washington, d.c. >> reporter: d.c. brow owners like many brewers across the nation see craft brew industry more than just a cool job but an important local contributor. >> i think there was a demand for it. culturally the city had changed from that place of transient and there was a lack of identity to people putting down roots, stilling down here and people craving something to represent d.c. not just in beer form or product form but in the cultural form. we were able to step in that role a little bit and help people make that identity. >> reporter: many craft beer enthusiasts say their beer is the local appeal. >

many spots breaking record highs including new york city, philadelphia, d.c. many spots in the 70s. changing. much colder air moving in. out of the northwest, arctic air is pushing out of the lakes. you'll see soaking rain along the i-95 corridor new york city, boston, d.c., and still freezing rain likely on to northern new england. john and diana, back to you. >> thank you, jim. >>> here's a look at the rest of the day's weather. snow showers in kansas and around the great lakes. rain and snow in the pacific northwest. dry, warm and pleasant for the southeast. >> temperatures in the northeast will range from the 30s in new england to 60s in the mid-atlantic region. highs in the 40s and 50s from alabama westward. 60s in southern california and parts of arizona. >>> an amazing story from seattle here. 16-year-old has her eyeglasses to thank for being alive. alanza bryant wound up with a bullet lodged in the bridge of her nose after her house was the target of a drive-by shooting. the bullet broke the frame of her glasses this slowed the bullet enough to not penetrate her head enough

d.c. to new york city are alley deteriorating. look at the traffic cam right now. the roadways empty. ey should be empty. look at that snow piled up on the roadways. that's the scene in washington, d.c. very different scene in new york city. cloudy skies for sure. don't worry, the snow and the sleet is on the way, and temperatures are going to plummet as we track on into the evening hours. take a look at the map here behind me. as a matter of fact, this is i-70 just east of i-270 right outside of frederick, maryland. the roads are looking horrible right now. so folks are highly advised to use caution on the roadways. temperatures right now, mostly below freezing from pittsburgh to philadelphia, washington, d.c., richmond around 33 where we saw a great deal of snow. i-81 is targeted as we track into tonight really into tomorrow. we look at snow, sleet, freezing rain as we track into tonight and tomorrow. this is a very impressive band producing snow across central portions of pennsylvania. this is the band that already produced the snow across washington, d.c., and it's making its way t

have delays to report even with the active weather across the east coast. 61 and washington, d.c., new york city at 54. even chicago we're looking at snow. it's going to be cold, 22 degrees. make sure you're bundled up if you are headed to o'hare. looking good across the bay area. let's talk about other travel concerns. mike's in with traffic. >> we'll handle the local stuff. you handle the flying stuff. i'll send you a picture of sunny skies to my cousins in chicago. 880 with the headlights in fremont fast truck scales, an easy light drive and the map shows the same thing, the speed sensors t yellow, goodness i'm ahead of myself. 880, closed down toward mission boulevard. we have road crews going on. now you can't access but you might be slowed by the crews 680 and 880. the tri-valley, 580 is your commute direction out of the livermore valley no. problems for the dublin interchange. a crash on altamont pass road has things slow but on 580 out of the altamont pass you're fine. no problems or on the peninsula for 101 through palo alto. >> thanks a lot. 4:42. the mega deal expected to bring a boos

washington, d.c. city council tried to go even further this year targeting just one business, wal-mart. demanding the retailer pay a minimum of $12.50 an hour. wal-mart responded by threatening to stop construction of three of its six planned locations in dc. but in september the district's mayor vetoed the proposal. >> since that bill was vetoed we're proceeding with all of our stores in washington, d.c. we had our hiring center open and 6,000 people showed up for those jobs. >> david tobar is wal-mart's vice president of communication. its worth noting of all the corporation "sunday morning" reached out to wal-mart was the only one that would provide an interview. >> we don't want people to stay in entry level jobs. we have clear data shows that there is a tipping point in terms of their productivity if they stay in entry level jobs too long. >> higher paying retail and fast food jobs often require longer and unpredictable hours. single mother, nancy salgado has turned down chances for promotion to care

d.c.'s city council chairman phil mendelsohn and montgomery county councilman mark elrich. there you both are, excellent. thank you both for joining me. chairman, if companies went out and did this would be price fixing, bid rigging. why can counties do this and it is not illegal? >> i don't think that analogy works at all. melissa: why not? what is wrong with it? >> for about 60, 70 years the federal government set minimum wage for the country. three jurisdictions set minimum wage for the region. you can't compare that with price fixing. the fact is that the minimum wage in 1968, if it had kept pace with inflation would be roughly equal to what we agreed to wage the minimum wage too which is $11.50 over the next several years. this isn't about price fixing this is about public policy and it is about helping roughly, you know, improving the -- melissa: finish with that. helping roughly, because you're taking me to my next question and maybe other councilman wants to take it. we're only talking about lessf . and you're ban banding together and putting a lot of effort behind

d.c. in oakland, city hall was filled with voices as well from. another choir. city hall resounded with voices tonight. local officials paid tribute by reading from his writings. san francisco held its memorial to nelson mandela in city hall. mayor ed lee called his values san francisco's values and will have a book to sign lieu friday. >> there is outrage tonight in a texas town and else wrchlt i imagine a 16-year-old drunk driver killing four people in fort worth will not serve a day in jail. ethan couch's blood level was three times the legal limit he's getting ten years probation the lawyer argued his wealthy parents were to blame because couch was used to getting whatever he wanted. that includes starting to drive at 13 and being allowed to drink. one man whose brother was paralyzed is furious. >> to me it's not right. if you go out and drink and drive and kill more people, now we're going put you in prison? >> couch's attorneys argued that the teen needs treatment. the judge doesn't think she can get therapy in jail. couch may end up in a long term treatme

rain will stretch from boston into new york city, d.c., philadelphia. we're going to see more frezing rain across portions of new england. all the way down into the gulf of mexico the rain extends. >> jim, thank you. >>> the other major story this morning. there are reports that credit cards with the stolen numbers of target customers are now showing up on the black market. the retailers' across-the-booed deals this weekend not enough. >> aditi roy has the story. >> reporter: it's the busiest shopping weekend of the year. and more fallout of the security breach in target stores nationwide. now the largest bank in the u.s., j.p. morgan chase is putting limits on those who shopped at target between november 27th and december 15th. nearly 2 million chase debit card holders who shopped there that time are told they can only withdraw $100 from their didn't cards on any one day and limit total purchases to $300 a day. chase say this is is a precaution to protect families. >> chase is the grinch that stole christmas from families all across america. >> reporte

d.c. public schools still have a long way to go, especially when compared with the state school systems. back in 2007 among all the public school systems in the city d.c. finished dead last. >> baltimore's 4th and 8th graders are at or near the bottom for math, but their reading scores are among the highest for 8th and 4th graders for urban school systems. >>> new information on the nsa phone surveillance scandal, today the white house task force is recommending that records collected by the national security agency be stored by phone companies or some other third party. the advisory panel is also suggesting that the nsa obtain a court's permission before performing individual searches of phone and internet records. >>> will the holds are of two lucky winning mega millions tickets sold on opposite sides of the country will split a whopping $648 million. those tickets were sold in atlanta, georgia and san jose, california. as of the store owners who sold those tickets are feeling lucky, too. >> reporter: you can't miss the sign at the gift shop in san jose doctor they sold one of two winning meg -- san jose where they sold one of two winning mega m

temperatures in the 40's from new york city to d.c. a little bit colder to the south of us.lk is at 39 degrees. looking at an area of low pressure across the outer banks of north carolina, this is going to continue to intensify and lift off towards the north and east. impact on our area, a few at a clouds, maybe a sprinkle or two. not expecting a whole lot. this will keep our skies partly to mostly cloudy for the day tomorrow. temperatures will be a bit milder, into the lower 50's in some areas. this is what our computer model forecast is showing, about 48 degrees by 1:00 in the afternoon. depending on how much sunshine we see, we could break into the lower 50's for the day on tuesday. a warm front by thursday is really going to push our temperatures northward, into the mid to upper 50's around 60. after that, much much colder air on the way. chilly tonight, 28-35. tomorrow, mostly cloudy. we could see a bit more sunshine late in the day. 48-53 for our high. our extended outlook will show warmer temperatures ahead. lower 50's on wednesday, near 60 on thursday. friday, i beli

d.c. where the city council is voting to raise the minimum wage.emocrats are now worried about heading into the midterm election, and with the senate up for grabs, so the president is going there, speaking to a liberal think tank, the center for american progress who is sponsoring the talk. he is bolstering his base, renewing some of his themes he has been talking about and setting his agenda not only for the state of the union speech coming up presumably last month, but also for the last three years of his presidency, stephanie. >> all right. we'll check back with you later >>> the president and other senior officials will take part in a youth summit at the white house. dozens of young people will gather to discuss the affordable care act, the economy and other important issues. >>> congress has a lot to get done before the end of the year, but it's not clear if the work will be finished since lawmakers don't plan to spend a lot of time in washington. libby casey good morning. what are the pressing items, and how much hope that they will getdown?

would raise crime. >> violence appears to be dropping. >> some towns like chicago, washington, d.c., new york city make it nearly impossible for people legally to carry a gun. >> this is 50 pages. who understands this? >> it took hours and hours to fill out the forms. we had to call the police station 50 times to clarify what it meant. finally it was done. >> to get this notarized go ahead and sign here i will full in the rest. >> then you have to go in person to police headquarters. here they finger printed me asked me to list reasons why i should be allowed to have a gun then they charge me a $430 application fee. they said they would get back to me. at least they were polite. others tell a different story. robert martinez served in iraq and afghanistan. >> i have ten years military experience. >> i would think a military vet could keep a hand gun in his home for protection. >> it is not so easy. >> why do you want a gun permit? >> to be able to protect my family. a couple months ago a man was beaten to death out in front of my building. your shots go off it is like boom, boom, boom. >> he thoug

d.c. streets and he'll tweet you back ways to contact city officials if you need to comment or complain. ome drivers have cited murders and violence against cabbies. the d.c. cab commission says undercover operations are effective and it relies on passengers to complain. today officials released new data saying this year they've investigated more than 1,100 such complaints and taxi inspectors have issued over 8,000 tickets for violations ranging from illegal fares to refusing service. >>> somewhere out there tonight there's a mega millionaire who may not even realize they've struck it i rich. two winning -- struck it rich. two winning tickets were is told last night, each of them 200a -- were sold last night, each of them 200 worth a -- each of them 200a whopping amount. >> they were a combination of lucky numbers. >> that comes to about 120 million bucks after taxes. that leaves us with a second winner still a mystery. he or she bought that ticket at a small gift shop in san jose, california. >>> proof the dog is man's best friend, the seeing eye dog came those owner's rescue >>> from th

as those air masses collide, rain will stretch from boston into new york city, d.c., philadelphia. we're going to see more freezing rain across portions of new england. that rain stretches further south ward, along the eastern seaboard, all the way down into the gulf of mexico. john and diana, back to you. >> jim, thank you. >>> the other major story this morning. there are reports that credit cards with the stolen numbers of target customers are now showing up on the black market. the retailers' across-the-board deals this weekend not enough. >> and now limits on how much some customers are spend at target. abc's aditi roy has the story. >> reporter: it's the busiest shopping weekend of the year. and more fallout of the security breach in target stores nationwide. now the largest bank in the u.s., jpmorgan chase says it's putting limits on those who shopped at target between november 27th and december 15th. that's when store officials say as many as 40 million accounts were compromised. nearly 2 million chase debit card holders who shopped there during that time are being told the

. >> reporter: phil mendelssohn is chairman of the d.c. city a downtown marked by skyscrapers. it preserves the city feel to the city and also enforces the landmarks. it's a unique feature about the city that we like and we don't want to see it change. >> reporter: but while he and his colleagues on the city council want to keep the height limit in place, mayor vincent gray wants congress to change it. >> we're growing very rapidly for the first time in a long time. >> reporter: harriett tregoning says eventually there will be nowhere to build but up. she's imposing a height increase of 40 or 50 feet by now. >> we'll soon run out of developable land as least as it's currently zoned. >> reporter: but mendelssohn says hit constituents are passionate about keeping the height limit in place. after all they only have to look across the potomac river at the gleaming towers of virginia to see what washington could some day become. what do you think the chances are that 10 20 50 years from now there are going to be skyscrapers in washington, d.c.? >> i

d.c.. when he came back, he did not run immediately. he had a choice of running for city council. he could run for an at-large seat or he could run in his home base, which was the eighth ward where he sort of originally nurtured his political ties back in early 1970s. ward istrict or that also the poorest ward in washington and the most overwhelmingly black. he believed, and apparently wisely, he would find the most sympathetic audience for his return in that ward. he won ended up going on to be elected mayor after that. that probably would not have happened had he chosen to run for mayor in his first time back out. hastings, case, alcee he probably made a mistake his first time back. he ran in the statewide primary for secretary of state in florida. one of the reasons that was very difficult, again, raise i think is premed here. florida state wide has about a 20% african-american state. democratic primary electorate tends to be between 25% and 29% african-american. in his first secretary of state race, his percentage pretty much trended pretty much was right about the percentage

those of you in d.c., new york city and boston, brace yourselves.ra steele is in the weather center. how normal is it for temperatures to swing back and for the that dramatically? >> it happens. when you get cold air that's record breaking in the northern plains and upper midwest, it is incredibly cold and ice advisories and wind chill advisories. so certainly it is quite cold. that arctic air is in place, all the moisture coming from the south. here's tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., still right just getting toward washington d.c., snow will start around 11:00 or so. then watch the ice. the ice will be the biggest play maker with this, potentially a quarter of an inch or so. then we'll watch it more north or northeast. this is different. washington d.c., winter storm watch, the only big city with a winter storm watch. the snow starts in the morning with the sleep, then maybe an inch or two of snow, potentially a quarter inch of ice. biggest ice will be west of washington, the suburbs, philadelphia the snow starts in the afternoon, potentially an inch of sno

new york city 40 today and washington, d.c. 48. d.c. tomorrow 54 and new york city 54 a nice warm-up. look at this by sunday. zero the high in minneapolis and well below zero for the low. detroit about 10. chicago, 8. toronto 15. it's those last straggling people. if you are one person with a power line that is going to put up three more houses that is the last power line. the triage, if one line can get up 50 homes, they are going to do that line first before they do the one that can only get three or four houses back up. by wednesday, new year's day, 30 in new york city and thinking somewhere around 24 for the ball drop here in new york city itself. the air is fairly dry across the country and this right now, is a static cling alert. you have to wear natural fibers today because if you wear po polyester you will get static cling all day today with the dry air. >> was that an official static cling alert? >> it was. >> noted. >>> post-christmas shopping is in full swing. a new figure suggests it was a very busy and merry holiday shopping

city. washington, d.c. 36 degrees. lots of sunshine except across central florida where we could see a couple of showers. after such an active start to winter we did start to see things calm down. >>> now for entertainment news. the film out of the furnace has put markers into a fire storm of controversy. members of the native tribe filed a lawsuit against the writers and producers behind the film. the plaintiffs mark the character as negative stereotype and false representative of their people. >>> and verbal jabs for jennifer lawrence saying she hopes the oscar winner grows up in 2014. the feud was sparked after lawrence accused "fashion police" of teaching young people to judge others. >>> upton split from ball room dancer. it is all about new beginnings for a couple of reality show divas. basketball wife star is showing off the $1.4 million engagement room she received from carl crawford. the couple is also expecting. not a bad christmas gift. >>> a terminally ill child watched in awe as the mega star descended bef

city. >> the d.c. board of election victim a petition that was signed him and he qualified to run. it will include four council members. he was asked repeatedly why he waited so long to announce his intentions. he is referring to the federal investigation that alleges that a campaign helped elect him in 2010. for people associated with the campaign like guilty to felonies. they wasted no time reacting. he said, he was elected under alse pretenses and deserves second chance because he ran a co-opted campaign. before leaving, mayor gray said that a strong record of three years of progress should count for a lot on election day. andhere is fiscal stability economic development. look at the education and the way people are getting back to work. >> i think it is interesting for him to say that considering the fact that he has been in battled on the first day that he -- em battled from the first day that he took office. he will appear on the april 1 democratic reimer a ballot. this is the first public campaign event that is expected in january. >> thank you very much. lower temperatures

only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at vermont avenue cat to entertain the entire world as a citizen and as a human being said there were pictures of the syrian ambassador as well as indian women visiting from various parts are not the world, a british parliamentary women can to visit so she basically became doubled for women and children and all lives of people of color around the world. >> so it sounds like the book is partially about d.c. at time as well as about her. >> guest >> it is about the city and one thing in here i hadn't known about but i know a lot of a certain vintage have a problem with the hospital and she was presbyterian when she becomes a methodist in the 1920's she comes to washington, d.c. and attends the methodist church the hospital is owned by the church and they did not allow the colored patient to have access to the hospitals in 1945 the work on the streets on the hospital because she was denied. in the baptist church in a variety of others challenged the c

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d.c. would have one of the highest minimum wages in the country. one of the richest cities in the world. >> that report from the americans, and joining us here is d.c. council member vincent orange who has been part of this discussion about raising the minimum wage in the city, itself. let's talk a little bit about this because there is this notion you actually were pushing for a higher wage. the mayor says he wants lower than 11.50. how do you figure out what that is? >> well, as indicated, i introduced legislation that calls for a minimum wage of $12 and $0.50 per hour. as you have commenced the dialogue, we had montgomery county in maryland. >> neighboring. >> neighboring. and we decided that, you know, it would be best if we could build a consensus around the ner and the consensus was $11 an $0.50 an hour. a business coming into this area continue pick one jurisdiction over the other. we would be uniform and the three jurisdictions would count for about two medical million people so this is a place where a large retail or any business can do business and prosper and at

huge, historic riots were already under way on that april afternoon in cities like washington, d.c., and wilmington, delaware. they rioted for days in chicago. police killed 48 protesters and rioters in chicago and arrested more than 2,000 people in the city of chicago. 90 chicago police officers were injured themselves. block after block of the city of chicago was left a smoldering, blood-soaked ruin. and the reason america was rioting on april 6th, 1968, is because two days earlier on a hotel balcony in memphis, tennessee, an assassin's bullet had ended the life of dr. martin luther king, jr. by the time of his death that spring, it seemed like any awful thing might be possible, even in a little town in indiana. 1968 opened with the united states escalating the war in vietnam, the ted offensive. it opened with police officers killing three students who were trying to integrate a bowling alley in orangeburg, south carolina. then there was the murder of dr. king, who represented hope to so many people, and to really, the future of our country. and then the riots in which dozens more p

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