i have consistently insisted and the postmaster general has assured thee me that we are going to avoid layoffs and that all of the employees in these facilities will have the opportunity to pursue another role within the postal service or to accept at their -- if they wish, early retirement incentives. i'm told none of these facilities will close before the end of the year. as i said, today's news is disappointing and difficult for many in my state including postal customers, employees, and small businesses. still i think it's important to note how far we've come from the postmaster general's original plan to where we are today. originally they sought closure of 250 processing facilities nationwide. today's aunemployment, 140 -- aunemployment, 140 and called for the closures of 340 rural postal service. the original plan targeted nine plants for closure.

these are postmasters.ve the ability to establish different levels of employment with different types of compensation based on how we work with our postmaster associations. that is what we did in this case. >> you do not need to negotiate this with the union. >> this is not a negotiation. >> to what degree is this decision in response to house republicans who are not happy with the senate bill and have asked the postal service to find more savings, and who are reluctant to give the postal service what they described as a bailout? >> when we went out last year and we heard the customer's and the issues that were brought up, we set to work back then. this is not something we just came up with in the last couple of weeks. we have been working through this plan. we have sat down with each of these -- as you mentioned before, the labor unions. not labor unions. we have postmasters' association. we sat down and worked with them for solutions going forward. it has been a good work in progress. a lot of thought and

in fact, about a dozen years ago, when i started working at montpelier, the postmaster had this space as his office, this wire cage was still in place, and where this box of mail slots was, was his little window to speak to the people who came into the post office. what we decided to do was the montpelier post office was very important to the local community and we didn't want to lose that, so what we decided to do was move the post office to the far room of the station, which is beyond this wall, which is what was called the freight room and that's where all the freight from the trains was stored until it was placed on the trains themselves, so it was a big, empty room. we moved the postmaster and the post office over there, and we decided to open this up as an exhibit space. the decision to whether or not to put the white and colored signs over the doors of the train station was a very contentious one. we consulted any number of people, including the african-american historical society here in orange, and a number of consultants, people like roger wilkins, rebecca gilmore-coleman, l

postmaster general, do not make any of these changes until may 15. give congress an opportunity to come up with a way to save money for the postal service, to preserve the postal service, and to do it by way of legislation, which is why we were elected. he said reluctantly -- he didn't want to do it -- reluctantly he gave us a letter and said i won't do anything until may 15, i'll give the house and senate a chance to do their work. if you'll remember, mr. president, i called senator lieberman, chairman of the administration committee, and government operations committee, and said to him with this jurisdiction we've got to roll up our sleeves and get to work. he said we're ready. senator collins and carper and others will work together to pass a senate bill that achieves postal service reform in a fairer way. and he did. the same day i called chairman darrell issa, a california republican chairman of the house committee with the responsibility for the postal service. and i said to chairman issa, we now have until may 15 to do our job, to pass a bill

the postmaster general says they are almost bankrupt and that congress has failed to act. the change will eliminate about 130,000 jobs nationwide and save some $1.2 billion a year. >>> a south bay accident victim found alive after going a full week without food and water on the side of a road is now making progress in the hospital. the doctor says 25-year-old michael sanchez has improved in the last 48 hours. he was initially in a coma, with you it now off a res prater and breathing on his own. he crashed his truck near highway 101 on may 8. he apparently wandered off into some thick plush and collapsed. he wasn't found until tuesday. >> he did suffer some sort of blow to the head. the nature of that blow would only be speculation, except to say that he had a blow to the head. >> sanchez's young age and good physical condition likely helped him survive the juror deal. >>> 3 women have been targeted in a scheme targeting elderly asian women. the women charged told their victims they were in danger from evil spirits. 5 victims in all were told to jewelry and money in a bag f

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postmasters. is emily stevenson mr. reuters. thanks for being here. what is the plan calling for. >> like you said originally, the postal service was planning on closing several thousand small post offices that were mostly losing money. and now the plan as of last week is to reduce hours at about 13,000 low-traffic post offices around the country. those post offices could see hours cut to between two hours a day or six hours a day and then they're also going to be offering retirement incentives to postmasters to try and reduce the workforce. >> curious what led to this new plan. was there an uproar over the possibility of closing all these rural locations? >> there was, as you can imagine, i'm sure. whatever a post office closes, the community gets upset. they have a connection with those post offices. you also seo saw in this situation members of congress get pretty worked up about post offices closing. the reason in some cases was because people felt like the postal service didn't do enough econ

the postmaster general says operations are simply too big given declining mail volume. the agency will consolidate 140 mail processing centers within the next year including 48 this summer. most will occur next january and february after the busy election and holiday mail season. another 89 would close in 214. postal service had previously planned to close over 250 mail processing centers beginning this summer, but it was awaiting congressional action. congress has stalled over a bill and the post office says

earlier this month they had written letters to the postmaster general urging the post office to hold off on closing these facilities but postal officials saying they can't wait any longer, congress remains deadlocked on exactly how to help. and when facebook shares go on the market tomorrow, they will start at $38 a share. washington keeping a close eye on all of this, and jamie dimon of j.p. morgan chase confirming he will testify before the senate banking committee. the date is to be determined. he will talk about the company's $2 billion loss earlier this month and as he announced the loss from that hedge fund investment. let's begin with this story as republican senator bob corker is calling on the speaker to do what the senate will not do on the debt, a story from russell burm burman. he says he is calling on john boehner to do what the democratic controlled senate will not do and honor last august debt ceiling accord by rejecting a senate passed highway bill and postal reform legislation. recommendations from a senate republican as speaker of the house john boehner following up

this follows announcement last week also from the postmaster general or the spokesman from the u.s.ng to keep open rural post offices but just with shorter hours. there is lot of discussion about what d.c. should do if anything to help the post office. and the national postal service. we're still waiting to hear any recent lugz -- resolution on that. for now the 600 urban and suburban host offices and satellite stations that were proposed to close down are going to stay open. we'll keep you updated more on this. jon: brand new stories coming up next hour. spy drones used in the war zone, now they could be coming to the skies over your neighborhood. is that a little unsettling? we're live with the story. >>> also baseball great roger clemens getting some bad news at his perjury trial. what the judge just ruled. how it could affect the case against him. we'll go in depth. >>> plus developments in the search for a missing fbi agent. the hunt is taking on new urgency. we'll tell you why coming up. jenna: severe weather across parts of the nation today. extreme heat sparking dangerous fi

going to change the business model, not close your post office, but in the future we'll not have a postmasterce wants to reduce by a third their mail processing centers, that will save a lot of money as well. we changed the arbitration guidelines so that arbitrators who are working in the benefit negotiations between the unions and the post office have to consider among the factors the financial condition of the post office. they don't have to do that now. >> delaware senator tom carper, thank you very much. >>> the postal service is having problems, the obama administration continues to take in donations to the tune of $43.6 million. over 437,000 people donated in april and over 169,000 of those were giving for the first time. also, 98% of the donations the campaign received were less than $250 and the average donation was $50. are so amazingly good, you'll get lost in an all-beef hot dog world. what was i supposed to wish for? why am i wearing a bow-tie? where did i leave my bicycle? after all, when you're enjoying the beefiest, juciest bite of pure kosher beef, nothing else matters. goodne

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president grant's administration congress voted back pay with accrued interest, and grant named him postmaster in alexandria, virginia. any questions at point? [laughter] yes, sir. >> you mentioned early this your presentation that when the war began, mexico proclaimed a defensive -- [inaudible] did they have any military strategy other than just to fight defensively and maybe kill enough gringos that we'd go home and leave them ahone? what was their military strategy? could you elaborate just a little bit? >> well, i don't know what their strategy was other than to send troops to the rio grande. and to stop the united states from sending troops down there. they had no invasion strategy, and i think -- actually, i think they believed they could beat the u.s. army. as i said, the mexicans held the u.s. forces in low esteem, and they had a larger force, and i think they thought they could defeat 'em down there, and that would be the end of it. but it seemed -- as soon as taylor crossed the river, the mexican, mexican general command sent an emissary up there to warn him that they had crossed the

postmaster general patrick donahoe spoke in washington: >> a balance here between costs and services is an important issue, and we think we ended up with a win-win here for our rural communities. plus, at the same time, we're able to take the necessary costs out of the postal service. we've listened to our customers. we've listened to the communities that we serve. we're going to keep listening. >> holman: the postal service has said it expects to lose $14 billion this year. the new plan will save an estimated half a billion dollars a year, once it's implemented. nicholas katzenbach-- a key advisor to presidents kennedy and johnson-- died overnight at his home in skillman, new jersey. in 1962, katzenbach wrote a justice department brief justifying the naval blockade during the cuban missile crisis. he also was point man for school desegregation-- confronting alabama governor george wallace on national television, in 1963. katzenbach became attorney general in 1965 and later, served as undersecretary of state. he was 90 years old. another death of note, the hairstyling pioneer vidal s

it does not allow the postmaster to close 250 mail processing centers and 3,000 rural post offices thathe subsidy also fully funds the union retirement funds. some in congress say taxpayers should not be forced to sustain a business model that started going out of business long ago. >> the post office is not in the 21st century. it's still 50 years behind and we have to bring it up. we have to modern iertss and allow us to take advantage of the market trends that allow for better delivery of the postal service's mail. >> reporter: how much could this bill cost you? log on to foxnews.com. if you make $30,000 to $50,000 this will cost you $55. if you learn $100, your share 1,000. the senator argued this is not a bailout. only rate payers, those who buy stamps pay the cost. we typically rely on the congressional budget office that shows and on-budget score to taxpayers. megyn: a construction worker falls into a massive vat of acid and his co-workers risk their own lives to pull him out. what you do it? big questions as to what the president plans to do with the potential second term. the w

the postmaster general made the announcement yesterday.id they are moving forward with cuts because they can no longer wait for congress to agree on a solution. the closings will begin this summer in an effort to save billions of dollars. by 2014 the post office is expected to have cut 28,000 jobs. that's the tough part. >>> 7:26 now. rg3, did you know this, was on the big stage in front of a national audience last night. next highlights from his appearance on late night television. >>> plus some call it the battle of the beltway, the nationals and the orioles go head to head at nats park tonight. coming up a closer look at the match-up. >>> as we head to the baek -- break, we've got a live look outside. this is one of my favorite donna summer songs. >> this is a good one. >> "on the radio." >>> right now at 7:27, we will be right back. [ mechanical l humming ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter

senate passed a $34 billion bailout bill last month that actually forces the postmaster to accept taxpayers he doesn't need and buildings he doesn't want. the bill prohibits the service from closing 250 mail processing centers and 3,000 mostly rural post offices. republicans like that. the subsidy also fully funds the union retirement fund. democrats like that. who's not happy? well, congressmen like republican dennis raz -- ross who says taxpayers should not be forced to sustain a business model that went out of business long ago. >> if we don't cut it, are we willing to borrow more money from china to fund it? >> reporter: so to find out how much the senate bill costs, log on to foxnews.com/yourmoney and check out the taxpayer calculator. if you make $30-$50,000, that 34 billion will cost you about $55. if you earn $100-$200,000, your share is about $400, and if you're in the top tax bracket, you're going to spend about $4,000 a year just on that bailout bill. there's a competing bill in the house, jenna, that would allow the agency to close offices and stop saturday service, and that wo

. >> i wonder if part of the postmaster general's plan was to go back to congress and put the pressures would not go along with that. >> you think it was a machiavellian plan. interesting. >> it's possible he put forward knowing he was going to get cut back and negotiated. everything is a negotiation. i get that. >> if you were in charge of fixing the post office, do you know how you'd do it is this. >> you have to recognize the world has changed. >> would you increase the prices? and what does it do to the media business? the magazine industry, newspapers. there as a lot of businesses that would fundamentally shift, right, depending on what the ultimate outcome is -- >> and as i understand this, and i'm into the a post office expert, all they're talking with b it potentially delivering saturday delivery, which is not when i get most of my magazines. >> they're talking about slowing down delivery, if you're used to getting time magazine on whatever day it comes these days, that you'd get it two days later. >> the biggest point is how do we cut into the government expnd turs and deal wi

senate passed a $34 billion bailout bill last month that actually forces the postmaster to accept taxpayerthe service from closing 250 mail processing centers and 3,000 mostly rural post offices. republicans like that. the subsidy also fully funds the union retirement fund. democrats like that. who is not happy? congressman like republican dennis ross, who say taxpayers should not be forced to sustain a business model that started going out of business along on the ground. >> what do we need to do to make sure we cut something that needs to be cut and if we don't cut it, are we willing to borrow more money from china to fund it? >> so how much would that senate bill cost you? log on to foxnews.com/your money to check out the calculators. if you make between 30 and $50,000, that $34 billion bailout will cost you about 55 bucks. if you earn 100 to $200,000, your share is more than $400. if you're in the top tax bracket, it's not cheap. it's going to cost you more than $4,000 for this bailout bill. there is a competing house bill that would allow the postal service to close post offices, stop

so although the sample was huge, everybody was, and james farley, who was the postmaster general at the time said land done will take maine and vermont and that is it. that is exactly what wound up happening. what we saw here in a lovely clip i think is, an inflection point in the history of politics in the united states and perhaps the world i guess which is the coming of television to politics. it has changed, television broadcasting and the combination of that with computers, with polling, with scientific methods of sampling has changed the way elections are run in this country and has changed the nature of politics and so we're very, very fortunate to have as guests people who live this life and know this world as i don't personally. i mean, i don't get it. i don't understand why tweeter, like going to change the world. we had a discussion prior to this meeting and i was told that, that if i'm lonely between now and election day all i have to do is move to akron, get a job in a goodyear factory and tweet, you know, i'm a white male and i'm a factory worker here in akron and i just d