and particularly radical laborers. right the people who had been on the front lines of the strikes and activity. and all of those kinds of things. so this was part of the longer american history since chicago, and 1880s of this tenuous relationship. the fights had played out in newspapers, and mines, in a number of places. the ballot box. and sometimes as you saw, the streets. this was a tenuous relationship and the country seemed particularly because of capital, labor and workers and business interest, very much at odds. that's safe to say. the other thing i'll tell you about san francisco in 1916, this image maybe doesn't have a lot to do with it. we don't have a lot of images of the groups. you should know for maybe obvious reasons, there was a very vibrant and very alife anarchi anarchist community. you have labor forces and anarchist. holding meetings, they were advertising in local newspapers. you could come to meetings if you want. many held in german and italian. many were immigrants. they had newspapers, and t

radical labors. the people on the front lines of strikes and activities, all of those things. this was part of this longer american history since chicago and hay market in the 1880s and the tenuous relationship and the fights in san francisco and across the country had played out in newspapers, in minds in a number of places. in the ballot box. and sometimes the streets. so this was a tenuous relationship and the country seemed particularly because of capital and labor and workers and business interests to be at odds. that's safe to say. the other thing i'll tell but san francisco in 1916 and this image maybe doesn't have a lot to do with it because we don't have a lot of images of these groups. but you should also know there was a vibrant and alive a anarchists in the city. they were holding meetings, advertising in local newspapers. you could come to the meetings if you wanted. many of them held in german or italian because many of the anarchists were immigrants. they had newspapers and they were o

laboring on labor day. our survey found a nation overcome by work as more americans have hardly a moment as more and more americans have hardly a moment to savor friends and relaxation. we also found a distinct union difference. union members polled were much more likely to receive labor day off, for example, and more likely to receive overtime pay if they were scheduled to work. nion was -- the majority of those polled reported working more holidays, taking fewer vacations, -- and bringing more work, night. the result has been flat wages, skyrocketing inequality, and diminishing opportunity. when i started i mentioned our democracy. i want you to really listen to studies show that only 30% of millennials believe it is essential to live in a democratic nation. at first, that statistic absolutely startled me. i started to absorb it a little more, it made sense. think about what young people have been forced to endure in their formative years. inequality,nomic hateful rhetoric and division, skyrocketing stude

well, i mean, we're talking--the topic this week is la semana laboral, the labor week. tell us what that is and what it entails, if you can. jesus: yeah, thanks, the labor week is an effort made by the mexican embassy and the whole consular community in the united states. we have 50 consulates in united states, so the whole consular network, along with other consulates, in this case the consulate general of peru, the consulate of guatemala, and the consulate of el salvador, we are all joining efforts, along with a lot of different agencies, labor agencies. the goal is to provide information to empower the hispanic workers. this year, the title of the week is "know your rights at work: the well-informed worker." damian: i mean, and that topic is not only for the spanish-speaking, the immigrant community. i mean, when you know your labor rights, you're talking about every american or immigrant worker. and we have some video, some examples of some of the workers out there. now, are the other countries, peru and other countries, joining in because they saw how well it's bee

that is laboring on labor day. our survey found the nation overcome by work as more and more americans have hardly a moment to savor family, friends or relaxation. but we also found a distinct union difference. union members polled were much more likely to receive labor day off, for example, and more likely to receive overtime pay if they are scheduled to work. workers with the union contractor also more likely to have paid time off in general. but still, the majority of those hold reported working more holidays, taking fewer vacations, and bringing more work home at night. .hat means less freedom freedom to take time off when you or a loved one gets sick, rest and recharge after giving birth, attend your child recital or sporting event or just catch up on household chores. just one areas where our economic rules have been written to benefit corporations at our expense. over the last several decades, the labor movement has faced a corporate and political onslaught like no other in history and the result has been fl

department of labor with groups, companies, nonprofit organizations coming unions, and joint labor management organizations and so many others to design programs. apprenticeships will teach skills that are transferable and portable within industries resulting in even more job opportunities. finally, i want to thank the president for his leadership on this effort and i want to thank ivanka trump in the office of american innovation for their tireless effort on this initiative. workforce education begins under educational institutions. students attend schools become lifelong learners, but they also attend school to acquire the skills that lead to good, safe jobs with sustaining wages. workforce education is a joint effort between the department of labor and the department of education. so i want to thank secretary devos for her partnership in her after his poor working hand in in this initiative and she and i have attended so many events where she spoken and i've spoken because this really is and effort to train the department of labor in the department of education. she is going to say a few w

labor department, labor-management standards are in this area. in 2016, 93 indictments and 87 convictions. employees sentenced to home incarceration for embezzlement, union officers and embezzling union funds, union employees sentenced to prison for larceny of over 154000 and union funds. embezzling over $350,000 of union funds. -- and i can out go on -- one more case, the -- it city star, where involved the union boilermakers where it went on and on about how they pretend to revise their procedures internally and two years later, they were spending the union dues money on lavish hotels, parties, etc.. i bring this up because when you talk about the union movement, the union site so many workers want to join the union but they rarely discussed the fact the have to payployee union dues or you will get fired in non-right to work states. those union dues you have to pay or you get fired and often those union dues wind up getting embezzled by corrupt union officials, etc. it's a story not told about the union movement enemies to be focused on. in ae

as a result, they squeeze labor, cheap labor, make labor work in unsafe conditions. if we have the ability to enforce that, then we could raise their standard of living at their level and give us a level playing field. the same thing here. if our labor laws are not enforced or enforced improperly or unfairly, they don't meet international standards which they don't, other countries could insist we do the same if we have a trade agreement with them. that would raise the standard up for everybody. the mexicank at worker or the canadian worker as an enemy. they are trying to make a living just like we are. thatthe agreement itself disadvantages both of us. so we want to remove that disadvantage i go from there. trade can be a good thing if it benefits everybody but it was not designed that way. nafta was not written that way and that was not the intent of nafta to help workers. quite the contrary. the intent of nafta was to give corporations and upper hand and that's what they got. >> from the monitor? >> thank you for being here today and i would like to ask do you see

labor has always been under attack. i can think of a time in our history when we were not. >> we are going to go to noah from "the l.a. times." >> thank you. a question related to that. i am hoping you could talk about the deterioration you had with the trump administration that led to your resignation from the manufacturing council. two, to discuss whether it was possible for trump's truly re align of political parties, by putting pressure on republican and democratic leadership, i doing something that would've capitalized more on the working gains he had. something that might've gotten popular support. >> we obviously didn't support mr. trump in the election. >> we obviously didn't support we actively supported his opponent. after the election, they reached out and we reached out. we talked. what i said to them, is that we will judge you by what you do. if you do things good for working people, we will support them. if you do things bad for working people, we will oppose you. when he started attacking health and safet

, in other words, cracking down on labor. using this as an opportunity, right, against the closed shop, for example. and against labor elements that had been so strong in the city. and the other thing -- and i will give you a couple examples of this in just a second -- is there was also very much a vibrant anti-immigrant attitude because those things seemed to go hand in hand. the condemnation of course as you would imagine came very quickly from the press. this was a very dastardly act as we know. the los angeles herald called it a diabolical crime in san francisco and it has disturbed the equilibrium of the entire state of california they said. the authorities acted quickly, claiming that they would find -- and these are their words -- the swarty man responsible and that seemed to have these kinds of undertones about who might have been responsible for this. and they really started to focus their emphasis for the perpetrator on what they would have called lodging houses, they were really kind of single occupancy hotels, pla

evidence of labor m.p.'s on the doorstep thing their leader well if you haven't done that you might want to few more seats and you've been governor right now what is the scale of the treachery even if you sit there in parliament thanks to jeremy goldman's leadership was also going to believe them to still hate it because the reason they've always hated him is because he's unelectable while he's just he just. avoided a landslide against him you know that a socialist agenda does not play well with the electorate it's totally been debunked the idea that they're wrong the centrists the blairites they are they've just been proved wrong i thought this was going to be a funny interview last night while i make love to. all the rest of it but this of course does have serious consequences in the immediate future for the national health service for the food bags and all the things you talk about you're going through to yes. i will be able to be able to cope with it because she can't now steamroller over everything she

oh how come labor are a left wing has never really come up where an adequate way to fight capitalism i understand obviously wef the communist manifesto and the works of marx there is a critique of capitalism but i start necessarily a road map of here's how you create a parallel system as far as i can tell but can you comment on that or maybe my question is just completely off base well this is exactly what the trustee s. were trying to do in minneapolis my father under his party name of jack ranger wrote next a labor party when he pointed out the impossibility of the labor movement trying to work within the democratic party it was basically a link between wall street and the mafia in the corporate sector he said they need their own ari and the government systematically not only in the smith act but later through the of united's cointelpro tried to move against any kind of an activist in the labor movement tried to be really independent either of the mafia controlled unions as bob finch wrote a whole book on on unfair or independent of democratic party so you ended up having the a.f.l

is cointelpro tried to move against any kind of an activist in the labor movement tried to be really independent either of the mafia controlled unions is bob finch wrote a whole book on on on there or in the end of democratic party so you ended up having that a.f.l. c.e.o. affectionately call that f.l. ca becoming the main and because of the war in vietnam. war against the socialism of america you had to leave the union leadership move to the right with the government moving to remove the get rid of any labor union leader who didn't make a fatal deal with the vested interests to prevent a real labor party so now you're through nineteen fifties nineteen sixties the whole argument was over what is it that makes the labor movement think that yes there were. within the democratic party and finally now that we see a fight between up bernie and now we see that in the open the impossibility of the democratic party really representing the interests of labor or even of industry and i look back to the one nine hundred seventy s. where you had a bear market on wall street stocks suffer terribly

union leader who didn't make a fatal deal with the vested interests to prevent a real labor party so knowing your through up the ninety fifties ninety six these the whole argument was over what is it that makes the labor movement think that as they were. within the democratic party and finally now that we see the fight between up bernie and every now we see that in the open the impossibility of the democratic party really representing the interests of labor or even of industry and i look back to the one nine hundred seventy s. where you had a bear market on wall street stocks suffer terribly but wages went up because they were tagged to inflation and america's wage earners actually that was a golden era at the nine hundred seventy z. if you work out a car wash you can still afford a home and you have some financial independence so shouldn't those seeking greater parity of agency in this economy want to see the stock market crash want to see interest rates go up to help the stock market crash walk in the not cheerleading for a crash in the market because this never wall street suffers

absolutely. >> i have a question about the child labor laws. you said they were declared unconstitutional. >> the federal one. >> and the ratification of -- it was never ratified. so how is it that it eventually passed? >> that fair labor standards act in 1938 not only set a minimum wage for workers in various occupations and made the 40-hour workweek the workweek for those who were not going to be paid overtime but it also abolished child labor in most industries. that was the first federal law that survived the supreme court. when the fair labor standards act, a lot of people thought there was no way it would survive the supreme court because other laws had not in each of those categories but the supreme court changed enough by the time the fair labor standards act came before it that it was permitted. the constitution was never amounted to make that possible. it was a change in the supreme court itself. great question. and i just couple of things i wanted to encourage everybody to see and listen to the hello girls speaker. she is magnificent

we have labor growth challenge with aging baby boomers. we just adjusted our forecasted immigration, for example. we don't see immigration increasing very much. and then we see the productivity returning to somewhat like a normal level, but not at the very high levels that existed at one point back in the '70s or something like that. our use of research and data, we do look at a broad range of evidence. we look at studies, look at historical data for federal programs. every year in fact, we do an analysis of federal programs to see if they're behaving the way we forecast and adjust our forecast every year. we do read a lot of research. one of the things we started to do lately, which i really like, is we started to look at some the areas we don't know much about, what's going to happen in things. when we think there's a gap in research. so we started to put up occasional blocks we talk about a topic that we have trouble with because there isn't just much research on it, and hope would be folks look at our blog and see some areas that we th

alex, secretary of labor acosta and secretary of education betsy devos gave an update. the secretaries will each give remarks about their discussion with the president and will then take a few questions. questionsp your related to today's discussion on workforce development and apprenticeship. i will turn it over to secretary acosta. >> thank you, and good afternoon. pleasurest say it is a to be here to update president trump on the optimistic outlook of the american workforce. discussedpecifically our process of implementing the executive order in apprenticeships. the president's top priority is jobs and more jobs and the department of labor is implementing his vision to make sure americans have the skills jobs.eed to fill good there are 6.2 million job openings here nationwide. this is the highest number on record. yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. americans want to work. american companies want to hire. we need to close the skills gap tween the skills demanded by the workforce and those offered by the american people. this is why the president signed this

presiden of trump's first e for labor secretary before withdrawing his name. his book is titled job creation, how it really works and why government doesn't understand it. >> the book is called job creation, how it works and why the government doesn't understand it. the co-author is andy pozner. you talk about a certainty factor in norfolk. >> at the time we wrote it back in 2009, 2010, there was a lot of uncertainty in the economy because of the actions president obama was taken that went along progressive lines and economic lines i think the business community would have preferred. so with respect to energy and regulation there was great uncertainty about where the government was going and what kind of obstacle that would become. so we tried to convey the message the government would provide a positive certainty that we could rise out of that recession ....will be still in a recession until june of 2009 so we were out of it technically but i don't think people for years actually thought we were out of it in reality. if you want that kind of dynamic economic

today secretary of labor alex acosta and secretary of education betsy delaware vas gave an update on work force development policies and apprenticeship initiative and secretaries give remarks about their discussion with the president and take a few question. please keep your questions related to o the today's discussion on work force development and a paren tiesship with that i'll turn it over to secretary acosta. thank you and good afternoon it is a pleasure to be here to update president trump on the optimistic outlook ons the american work force today we specifically discussed our process to implement executive work on apprenticeship and it is jobs, more jobs and even more jobs and department of labor implementing vision to ensure that americans have the skills that they need to fill good safe, jobs. there are 6.2 million job openings here nationwide. this is the highest number on record. yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. americans want to work american companyiesment to hire. we needs to close skill gap between those skills that are demanded by the work force and thos

there's such a great divide between american labor and mexican labor and even mexican documented labor, the braceros, that for him this divide becomes really, really challenging. on top of the divide, the actual tensions, the ethnic tensions between mexican americans and mexican migrants, the tensions between american -- you know, americans and folks, you know, born in mexico, he also finds that the mexican government is augmenting their exploitation, right? he finds that the mexican government is augmenting their exploitation. gabbie says it, right? gabbie clearly tells us they're being detained. the mexican government isn't doing very much for them, right? the mexican government isn't working for their interests. the mexican government sort of, you know, leaves them out in the cold. and this is not the first time, right? because there are multiple, you know, moments where workers, you know, try to do more and the mexican government did very little for them. some moments counsels interceded a bit for braceros, but their power is limited, right? so what do we know at the end of this ar

the supply of foreign labor is at a record high. the foreign-born population right now is 45 million. i think there is 25 million foreign workers in the united states. >> two questions for you. first, does the trump administration plan to defend court?a program in stephen: we are not going to make an announcement on that today. there is ongoing litigation and doj and dhs are reviewing that. i will say that whatever we do will prioritize the interests of >> we talked about yesterday and policy. can you speak more specifically about that. what't children -- elements of the policy are you choosing? sarah: -- stephen: we looked at the australian system, the canadian system. we took things we liked, added things that make sense for america. the most compelling about the australian system is the efforts to make sure immigrants are financially self-sufficient and make sure they are able to pay for their own health care and things of that nature. that is one of the things we took from that. the points based system that canada has has a lot

labor program. the bracero program literally creates another wave. so when people start to talk about temporary guest worker program and talk about the reality of guest workers right now and when the guest workers are used as a potential solution to immigration policy and immigration reform, you all need to remember that the bracero program didn't solve undocumented immigration it augmented undocumented immigration. that is one reality. what do we know about the period right before the guest worker program? the 1930s? [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] >> repatriation. >> which is when the -- [ inaudible ] >> what what it does and what you're pointing out is there is a moment that when there's deportation what 1942 does in the 1940s is bring back mexican migration to areas like maybe michigan, illinois, in the midwest. where these sort of populations were hit so hard by repatriation, so it reinvigorated mexican migration to states that been hit hard by immigration. traditional areas like texas, california,

with japanese laborers to fillet boar vacancies -- to fill labor vacancies, and they were sent off to do construction on the tacoma eastern. and all this came to a head after a labor strike which took place in 1904. the japanese struck when they found out that pierce county had placed a tax upon their, upon them solely for being japanese. and they went on strike and struck for, to have that tax repealed so that they could have that extra 20 cents, which was a big deal. i mean, that was 20% of their wages recouped. the, most of these men worked for a dollar a day, but they were under contract with labor tongs that were located in san francisco, in seattle, portland or vancouver, british columbia. and they took a percentage of their wage. so having a tax on top of the commissions that were being taken by the labor tongs was very problematic for them in actually earning a decent wage. so having the chicago, milwaukee, st. paul and pacific in 1909, they had to settle for second and third best on just about everything. it put them in kind of a conundrum economically. there was vast stretch

protective labor legislation for women in their statings. so they did a lot -- they had a lot of legislative goals in common with white women. but they also had goals that were peculiar to african-american women that had to do, of course, with racial justice. and those two came to the national scene in the early 1920s. lynching was one of the major concerns of african-americans in the early 20th century and the most important most visible, most energetic anti-lynching crusader was ida wells. who became ida wells barnett. beginning when she was a young journalist in memphis, ida wells then began publishing pamphlets that tallied the numbers of lynchings each year across the united states mostly in the south but not exclusively in the south for sure. and she exposed the lie that white southerners told to justify lynching which is usually that there had been a rape, a black man had raped a white woman, right, that was the excuse given so often by lynchers. and she showed by a study of white newspapers -- so she's using the white press. she show

- rain from harvey arrives saturday (harvey makes landfall, again, later this morning) - nice for labor day - dry & seasonable for back to school tuesday today: mostly becoming partl tonight: partly to mostly cloudy. lows: 56-64 winds: sw 5 mph thursday: partly to mostly cloudy. seasonably warm and humid. stray shower. lows: 81-85 winds: wnw 5-10 mph this morning.. families in texas -- left looking for their loved ones.. as relief efforts continue ahead of another dose of rain from harvey as it prepares to make landfall again. rescues are still going on around the clock as floodwaters continue to rise.. and right now the big fear..is that the death toll from this storm will grow. so far according to the washington post..at least 22 people have died across texas from storm related causes and that number is expected to rise in the coming days and weeks as water starts to rescede. an undetermined amount of people are missing. over 35-hundred have been brought to safety in houston alone. and right now a mandatory curfew is in place in houston until 5 am local time to prevent potential looti

and then getting back to victoria's point about labor, it's not labor per se, it's labor unions. that's what you meant to say. that's what you actually meant, right? >> yes. >> but labor sounds like it's everybody, but it's not, it's labor unions. in fact, the progressives were part of a very strong unionist movement. unions didn't represent everybody. they represented themselves. in particular they didn't represent african-americans. they were generally racially exclusionary. they did not represent women. they were white male dominated unions. and that is who the progressives strongly supported. and that was who promoted this particular legislation. and so at that time there was skepticism about unions. there was skepticism by african-americans about unions because they were so dominated by white and males. and there was skepticism by businesses about unions, and there was skepticism about other people. and the constitutional hook on which the skepticism was grounded was the notion that it wasn't within the police power to favor some subset of the population over others. everyth

on the federal side, there would be the cuts and influx out of the department of labor. they were trying to get card checks through they have regulations that would require attorneys. they tried to make them liable for the employees of the franchise that would have destroyed the franchise business model. so the increase to $48,000 to the salary level below which the overtime pay. the businesses in general economically you progress with the secretary of the treasury a progressive presidents we were going to have some problems in the next few years but we were trying to stave those off. it is a financial cycle you can walk into and it's going to go up which quite honest with m ast the advisers thought at the ti time. they thought it would be 4% of gdp. but back in 2010 the white house projected growth in this cycle or the influence of government rather than improve the economy and create jobs. >> i think the only president that was more progressive than barack obama the idea has been to expand government power and put the ability to control the economy in the hands of an e

we'll get a better gauge on that after labor day itself. i think this weekend we'll see our numbers are up. but should be a real push for the labor day weekend because kids won't be in school thursday and fry, so it makes it so people can come down earlier. >> reporter: he's encouraging people to stick with their plans if they're headed down this way. >>> one storm to the east and another much bigger one to the south of us, now the question is how will all of this affect our labor day weekend. doug's in the storm center with our first look. >> it is going to affect our labor day weekend. that's harvey. first take a look at what we saw today, rain coming through, some locations picking up a inch of rain, 1.6 inches, in dc around a inch. we saw 30, 40, 50 milesho really starting to cool, really starting to calm across our region, a much nicer day tomorrow. but harvey still going down there in the gulf of mexico, you can see it trying to make its way on shore in parts of texas and louisiana, bringing tremendous amounts of rain here. the latest

guest workers to come in and fit the labor gap, the labor shortage in this country in the fields during the war. and the program winds up lasting into the '60s. it's very hard to form a union that is effective when growers can easily bring in undocumented people or presaros to help break strikes. so that was problem, a tension between the farm worker history movement and the stories of undocumented peoples. a lot of you talk about this in your histories and i had many students talk about it. two other books that i think are important in trying to understand this history, marian paul, she's a former journalist for the los angeles times. her book, the union of their dreams, interviews through oral history a handful of people who were key activists within the ufw. it's a multi racial group. she interviews filipinos, mexicans, whites, men, women. it's a diverse book, right? so she captures their story and she try toes argue that in order to understand the history of the union, you need the stories of ordinary people, right? so that is one reason i have you do this oral history assignment is

labor history since the beginning of this country, right? so, again, it's a really landmark, significant event on a national and even an international scale. another takeaway that i want you to leave with tonight is, you know, this is a united states history survey course, and if you think about everything that you learned up until this point, much of it has been focused on the american south, right? we started off talking about the end of slavery, the reconstruction period, about how slaves were integrated as freemen, right, and free women into the society, right? we talked about northern industrialism, but we haven't talked a lot about the american west. we talked a little bit about the conquest of the west and the incorporation of native americans into reservations, but we haven't talked a lot about the american west, so that's one way i want you to think about tonight's lecture, is that we're trying to integrate, trying to insert the american west into stories about the united states, right, in the 20th century. in terms of civil rights

for labor secretary before withdrawing his name. his book it is titled "job creation: how it really works and why government doesn't understand it." >> the book it called "job creation, howe it really works and why government doesn't understand it." the co-author is andy pudzer. mr. pudzer, you talk about the certainty factor in your book. >> guest: yes. well, at the time we wrote it back in 2009, 2010, there was a lot of uncertainty in the economy because of actions that president obama was taking, but went along processsive lines as opposed to conservative economic lines which i think the business community would have preferred. so with respect to tax, with respect to energy, with respect to regulation there was great uncertainty in the business community about where the government was going and what kind of an obstacle it would become. so we tried to convey the message the government would provide some positive certainty so we could rise out of the recession -- we will still in the recession until june of 2009 so we were out of i

so the main group excluded are chinese laborers. chinese laborers are excluded. at the very beginning the exclusion act just says for ten years. so it's sort of like an incremental step. so chinese laborers are excluded, but, like you were saying, there are exempt classes. teachers, students, travelers, merchants and diplomats. so it's not only racially based, it's class based. it's those who want to learn about the united states. it's those who want to visit the united states and spend money here. it's those who are engaged in international trade. so, again, u.s.-china relationships and economic trade, and of course diplomats. but those who are the bulk, the vast majority of chinese at this time, laborers, are barred. it's important because this is the very first time in u.s. history that we bar a group wholesale based on race. remember when we were talking about the irish immigration, the anti catholic movement and how even the know nothing party that had a national platform, they went so far as to advocate for restriction, right? they wanted longer times for n

he's not a lawyer with any relevant labor experience. he has no record, no public positions on relevant labor law. what he is is a well-connected capitol hill staffer. his only qualification that i can find is that he's drafted some legislation for a committee in the house of representatives, and that does not stack up against the resumes of any other member who has served on the board, democrat or republican. and this lack of experience is dangerous. it means he won't know the intricacies and historical development of labor law. he'll simply be a rubber stamp who brings a political agenda to the board because he has no on-the-record opinions on these issues of his own. and that was clear from the beginning -- from the hearing on his nomination when he would not properly commit to recuse himself from any issues that he worked on and to approach issues with an open mind, which brings me to the second reason. if somehow senators can make an excuse for his lack of experience, we can't deny that this is the opposite of the message that congr

plus -- labor day weekend is coming up. and this guy made sure he got one last dip in the pool before they close find out how they got him out. cooler tomorrow - rain from harvey late friday through saturday - drier sunday & labor day monday - irma could strengthen to a hurricane today today: partly sunny. seasonably warm and a touch humid winds: nw 5-10 mph tonight: stray shower or storm early. mostly cloudy. becoming breezy. lows: 53-59 winds: n 5-15+ mph friday: mostly cloudy. unseasonably cool. showers arrive late. highs: 65-69 winds: ne 5-10 mph reported at a chemical plant just north of texas. adrianna hopkins at the live desk with the details.. two explosions rocked a flooded chemiclal plant.. live pics.. right now, police are searching for a searching for a woman who tried to abduct a seven-year-old boy from a metrobus.. in northeast d.c. it happened yesterday morning on the 92 bus, near 8th and "h" streets. police say the boy was riding to school with his 13-year-old sister when a woman tried to abduct him. witness

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yuka: he moved on beyond labor informed -- labor reform to see how long -- bringing deficit down by nextear. ar example, michelle takes look at what's in store for the french government in the coming months. president moved into the palace with an ambitious goal to reform the country. business leaders say he needs to move fast in order to be successful. >> you have to do it in the beginning of your days. then you see the results of it, two years or three years later and -- later. severaluel macron has bold economic teams up his sleeve. he wants to cut public spending, saving the country 60 billion euros over five years. he is also set to overhaul the pension system by reevaluating payouts. the pro-business leader wants to gradually reduce corporate tax year33% to 25% by the 2022. it is no secret he will want to stay in the eurozone. he wants a dedicated eurozone finance minister. the french president is trying to push these through parliament in the coming months. despite his popularity plummeting since he came to power in may. olivia: m more of the business headlines for you now. the fr