dan springer in seattle with the details. reporter: lauren, nicole, good morning.had a collision between major companies in the city governments where they operate. it comes down to this. do brand must rely on innovation and the city council more often than not all that good regulation. in the right-hand industry, the company's views ricers as contractors whose drive on my stability. readers in theology or need protection. seattle became the first city to practice an ordinance allowing them to join a union of the rules for who gets a boat just came out. only drivers to giving 52 rights in the last three months will be eligible to vote. anyone who tries to do brand that would be forced to pay union dues. that would disenfranchise that the drivers. we spoke with several drivers who only worked for extras any money. they said they would quit doing it and forced to join the union. >> i'm not sure how much union can help with the safety or if they are assigned a schedule. then it would defeat all the purpose of the site. >> they pulled out of austin texas over requireme

dan springer is live in olympia, washington. hell dough. >> reporter: 12 electors in washington state just passed behind in the in olympia and will be sitting down and passing out ballots and then voting officially on president and vice president. the whole processso should take 30 minutes but 200 protesters were in to the rotunda and through the cappal, trying continue news the vote of other electors in other states as they have an organized effort to change the outcome of the election. sim larry protests around the country, denver, illinois. the message is the same, that trump is not fit to be president so so far we he no reports of republican defectors but one individual got attention in texas. a republican elector said he would not vote for trump. we just know he need -- they have to get 37 people who are republican electors in one state to deny donald trump the presidency. >> tell us about the stop trump efforts there. >> reporter: there's a loose every time online and special media and then more pointed effort by the so-ca

. >> dan springer shows us how the country is remembering those lost in pearl harbor 75 years after thek. >> wednesday december 7th marks 75 years since the attack on pearl harbor. the event that plunged the united states into world war ii. the surprise attack was an attempt by the japanese military to neutralize the u.s. naval fleet in the pacific killing 2300 soldiers and wounding an additional 1,000. those who witnessed the bombing remember the moment vividly. >> we could see the airplanes flying and bombing, you know. >> and the black smoke. >> and the black smoke. yeah. and the fires. >> and the woman came screaming out of her two-story house and said look. so i looked down. we were on a hill. and there was smoke. you could see the smoke. >> a survivor of the uss arizona recounting the horror of that day. 80% of those aboard perished during the attack. >> parts of the whole thing, they -- if i do talk about it, i cannot sleep. burned all over. put blankets over them. >> the japanese mainster plans to visit the site of the tragedy later this month. >> i will visit pearl harbor and t

in tacoma, washington dan springer, fox 13 news. those are protester marching through charlotte north carolina last night. they are angry with prosecutors in that city. that outrage stems from decision to not charge a police officer with the shooting death of a black man. fox's jackie has the latest. >>> difficult day for the entire scott family. protests break out in charlotte, north carolina after the district attorney clears a police officer who fatally shot a black man keith lamont scott. the da saying officer brently vincent acted in self-defense. the incident which was cut on camera, prompted riots to break out back in september. i'm fully satisfied with entirely convinced officer use deadly force was lawful. had a gun. this morning, i got the opportunity to meet ms. scott and her sister to extend maikon doll lenses personally. and to go over in detail all of the evidence in this case. hundreds gathered outside the police department wednesday frustrated by at decision. >> tired of police brutality and in our city, nationwide.

in seattle, dan springer, fox news. >>> tomorrow, we'll examine what president-elect trump has said and could do about american energy and infrastructure. if you miss any of the reports, you can check them all out on foxnews.com/specialreport. >>> a transition source -- trump transition source telling fox news tonight president-elect trump is delaying until january an announcement regarding servering ties with his businesses. transition sources say that there's way too much going on with cabinet picks to wedge the business press conference in. they say it will likely happen in the first week of january. one source adding, quote, we were trying to get it all done, but we bit off more than we can chew. delaying it is not a big deal. we'll get it done. >>> over on wall street today, stocks were mixed. the dow gained 40 today. it is the 15th record close since election day. the s&p 500 lost 3. the nasdaq dropped 32. >>> speaking of big money and big business, a lot of people in the financial sector are hoping president donald trump keeps his promise to roll back many of president obama's hu

in seattle, dan springer, fox news. >>> tomorrow, we'll examine what president-elect trump has said andld do about american energy and infrastructure. if you miss any of the reports, you can check them all out on foxnews.com/specialreport. >>> a transition source -- trump transition source telling fox news tonight president-elect trump is delaying until january an announcement regarding servering ties with his businesses. transition sources say that there's way too much going on with cabinet picks to wedge the business press conference in. they say it will likely happen in the first week of january. one source adding, quote, we were trying to get it all done, but we bit off more than we can chew. delaying it is not a big deal. we'll get it done. >>> over on wall street today, stocks were mixed. the dow gained 40 today. it is the 15th record close since election day. the s&p 500 lost 3. the nasdaq dropped 32. >>> speaking of big money and big business, a lot of people in the financial sector are hoping president donald trump keeps his promise to roll back many of president obama's hundre

. >> dan springer live in seattle. thank you.'ll be right back. >>> she was off to celebrate her birthday when someone broke into her mom's van and stole the presents. then cops showed up with a trunk full of presents. thapgs for joining us. >>> it's noon on the west coast, 3:00 on the east coast, 9:00 p.m. in berlin, where investigators say they released their suspect on an attack in a christmas market. now, the race to find responsible before they strike again. we'll take you live to germany's capital city. within hours of the attack, cities around the world across america began to respond plus, an american woman, the taliban is held hostage for years now appearing in a new video and in her husband's arms, the children they had in captivity. today, detailing their horrifying

bill: now 6:30 local time, dan springer with the latest from near that scene. reporter: yeah. hi, bill. a tense 12-hour standoff between police and a barricaded gunman who had already shot and killed one police officer ended in dramatic fashion about 4:00 this morning. some police officers actually had been inside the house on the first floor throughout the entire ordeal. the gunman, meantime, was upstairs in a bedroom using two children as human shields. at a couple different times, police and the gunman exchanged gunfire. police used flash bang grenades, they tried negotiation, and eventually they decided they couldn't wait any longer. >> we negotiated through the night. the negotiations failed. we went in, took one of the kids when we had a chance, and he grabbed the other kid, and one of our officers felt he had a shot, and he took it. suspect's deceased. we grabbed the other kid, both kids are safe. >> reporter: and that suspect is dead. the fallen officer was a 45-year-old man and a 17-year veteran of the tacoma be police department. he and his partner ha

. >> dan springer was just live in our pacific northwest newsroom. dan? >> reporter: yeah, shep. that heated rhetoric has some people on both sides of the pacific concerned that the two largest trading partners in the world could be headed for a breakup. >> they haven't played by the rules. and i know it's time that they're going to start. >> reporter: during the campaign, trump said he would label china a currency manipulator. back out of the transpacific partnership or tpp or hit them with tariffs up to 45%. all needed, trump said, to correct a $356 trade imbalance with china. the tough talk as many in the u.s. are worried about a full-blown trade war. >> the strain that has happened over a last number of decades is we trade both ways. the downside of that is there is pain being inflicted both ways. >> reporter: analysts expect boeing to feel the pain first if tensions escalate. >> the chinese government long history of using aircraft orders as reward or punishment. >> reporter: but peter who lived in china eight years and now exports alaska fish battling tariffs up to 30%, say

dan springer shows us how the country is remembering those lost in pearl harbor 75 years after the attack. >>> wednesday december 7th marks 75 years since the attack on pearl harbor. the event that plunged the united states into world war ii. the surprise attack was attempt by the japanese military to neutralize the pacific killing more than 2300 american soldiers and sailors and wounding an additional one thousand. those that were there remember it vividly. >> we could see the airplanes flying and bombing. >> and the black smoke. >> and the black smoke and the fires. >> and the women came screaming out of her two-story house and she says look and i looked down and we were on a hill. and there was smoke. you could see the smoke. >> a survivor of u.s. arizona recounts the horror. 80% of those aboard perished during the attack. >> parts of the whole thing. [ crying ] if i do talk about it, i can't sleep. we burned all over. they got hoops for the beds with the blankets. >> japanese prime minister plans to visit. >> i will visit pearl harbor and the u.s. arizona to pray for the dead. never a

olympia, washington, is one of the cities where protests will be held today, and dan springer is thereth more for us now. >> reporter: yeah, jenna, there's just a single protester holding a sign outside the capitol here in olympia, so we expect more action in the next 45 minutes or so. back east as you've been talking about, the electors have already started gathering in capitol buildings in the eastern time zones, and they'll be voting at the top of the hour. out west here about four hours from now they'll do what has always been a routine, you know, just kind of thing they do every four years. but this year there is a concerted and coordinated effort to deny donald trump the presidency. and a couple of the leaders of the so-called hamilton electors' movement will be in olympia today picked to vote for hillary clinton if she won the state, which she did easily. but now two electors say they have a more important duty. they have been lobbying republican electors in all the states won by trump urging them the vote for ohio governor john kasich, and they will do the same. if 37 republica

in tacoma, washington, dan springer, fox news. >>> in jacksonville, florida a hostage standoff during an armed bank robbery is over with the suspect in custody and all 11 hostages are safe. sheriff's deputies had received a 911 call earlier this morning about gunfire at the community first credit union. when they arrived, the bank robber was still inside. a s.w.a.t. teak and negotiators were called in. the bank robbery suspect surrendered after a couple hours of negotiations. >>> 7 people are confirmed dead in a string of fires in tennessee. the first fire started monday in gatlinburg near the great smokey mountains national park. investigators think it was human caused. strong winds sparked other fires and forced thousands of people to evacuate. there's still a lot of danger for first responders and families who are trying to return home. >> the search is so important to go into all of these homes, all of these rental cabins, all of these, you know -- you know, search every house in gatlinburg. that is a hard job because you have trees down and power lines down, some of which are liv

in seattle, dan springer, fox news. >>> classic holiday treat but there's new twist on the old-fashionedandy cane at one shop. here's a hint. they don't taste like peppermi peppermint. >> trouble in one shore area real estate market. atlantic county is in the middle avenue foreclosure crisis but is it any worse than anywhere else fox 29's hank flynn went to atlantic city to find out. >> reporter: fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. in the 3.7 seconds it takes ry watson to beatifferently. the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sister can live ream it... ...while his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month online for the first year. cable can't offer that. only fios can. >>> scare in germantown tire shop when plea robbers stormed in this saturday it satisfied thanksgiving. one of the robbers forced an employee to the ground and hit him in the head with an office. the other ransack

peggy is the springer span iel mix puppy that dan and andy bought for their kids as an early christmasou know it, thieves broke into their home yesterday and stole a bunch of electronics and took peggy too along with her leash and colar and dog food. that's evil and grinch-like behavior. the powells are offering $750 for peggy's safe return. >> i hope peggy comes home. >>> in tonight's consumer a lert, a baby product company is recalling 29,000 strollers. there are reports of children suffering from minor bumps and bruises when the gb strollers folded. they were made between march of 2015 and march of 2016. >>> they're supposed to be the citizens are paying big time because of student loan debt. 100,000 seniors have as much as 15% of their social security benefits garnished to pay for student loans. >>> as you may know, out sourcing and automation are putting a squeeze on jobs across the country. >> according to career cast the most endangered jobs are meter readers, jewelers, tailors, disk jockeys and tv broadcasters. the topmost endangered job is for the mail carrier. >> i'll leave t