but sea-tac washington, 20 minutes outside of seattle, will have the country's highest minimum wage, an hour. more than a five dollar increase from the rest of washington state. but it does not apply to every job in that city. more on that in a moment. >>> some folks in favor of minimum wage increases say they could help boost the economy. but opponents say they could force businesses to hire fewer workes. dan springer is live from our seattle bureau. what are some becomeses saying about this increase? -- businesses saying about the increase? >> they're saying what you expect. job providers are looking for ways to get by with fewer employees because they can't absorb a 60% hike in what they're paying. airline baggage handlers, ticket pryce is will have to go up but a judge's ruling says the $15 minimum wage will not apply to jobs at the airport because only the port of seattle can set pay and work rules at the airport. but there's still some 1600 jobs outside the airport affected, mainly at hotels, parking lots and rental tar companies. the hotel general manager says he plans on redu

kim owns three hotels in sea-tac and the land where he wanted to build a fourth but not now. >> thisr business and we are right in the area so we are putting everything on hold and see what happens and see if the financing comes through. >> reporter: late last week a king county judge ruled the $15 wage did not apply to airport workers only those in the surrounding city. unions will appeal. and in the other washington, where president obama wants to raise the ral minimum wage to $9 an hour. in sea-tac, washington, dan springer, fox news. >>> a hearty congratulations to one of the industry's legendary work horses. vick ratner of nbc news radio retires tomorrow. he has covered virtually everything in his 40 years at the network. he has reported from 54 countries and every u.s. state except south dakota. fox news senior political analyst and former abc man brit hume calls him a fair-minded reporter and as nice a man as i have ever known. congratulations, vick, on making it to retirement. >>> was al qaeda involved in the benghazi terror attack? the fox all-stars after a quick break. [ fi

all economists eyes will be focused on little sea-tac, washington, a town of 27,000 people. itself in the middle of a growing debate over minimum wage by setting the highest rate in the country at 15 tuesday an hour. a judge's ruling will limit the impact. the judge ruled the 4700 workers at sea dark airport are not entitledded to the pay increase because only the port of seattle has the authority to set pay work. so 1600 transportation workers and hotel workers are still affected. employers are looking for ways to get by we fewer workers. one hotel gm says he will cult hours and staff. one says he will close one of two restaurants and lay off 200 employees. then there's the jobs that won't be created. a owner of three hotels wanted to build a fourth but now that likely won't happen. >> uncertainty is bad for business and we're right in that area, so putting everything to hold, see what happens, and see if the financing comes through. >> reporter: organized labor financed the $15 ballot measure which passed by a mere 77 votes elm a local socialist spearheaded the effort even

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is a real grassroots movement to get a livable wage for american workers, he didn't mention the sea-tac workers in washington state who got voters to approve a measure increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, which is a big deal if you're a worker at the sea-tac airport. >> no, i agree with you, and it's one of my favorite topics too. over the decades, there have been so many things that interrupted a discussion about inequality. the right has been very strategic about throwing side issues in the way so we never got to have this debate. it really does unite americans across racial, ethnic, regional lines. this idea of i'm not doing better than my parents. they would throw social issues out there. they've sort of divided workers with things like abortion, with things like, you know, anti-union rhetoric and things that have turned workers against the idea of unionization. so we haven't really had that discussion. during the obama administration we haven't because of the constant barrage of republican attacks on anything that the president did. so he hasn't had the opportunity to do thi

that's from an airport worker in sea-tac, the seattle-tacoma airport. little town that has the airport in it that voted by a squeaker to rage the raise there quite a bit. >> to $15 an hour. is the sky going to fall in sea-tac? it didn't happen on san francisco. it hasn't fallen on the state of washington which had, until recently, the highest state-level minimum wage at $9.19. we have empirical evidence all around the country that when you raise the minimum wage, the job -- the employment effects are negligible. in fact, arguably it's good for business, and it's good for taxpayers because those low-wage workers don't have to rely on food stamps as much. $7 billion a year according to a uc-berkeley study in terms of public subsidies. just in fast food. >> $7 billion a year. >> so it saves taxpayers money, but it's good for business. >> right. because they go out and then they spend things at best buy. >> and walmart, they buy more burgers at mcdonald's. and if mcdonald's workers could make $15 an hour, they could actually buy more hamburgers at a higher

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a look at the latest breakthroughs and gadgets in the high tac world next technology update stay with us. although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh i heard about the scandal involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this celebrity scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the any t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if the situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making pro l.g. p.t. statements then people who are currently defending any right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v. channel for violating the star's freedom of speech think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a h

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the city of sea tac is the first in the street sweeper of a fifteen dollar minimum wage for last month voters passed the ballot measure that would do that. airport workers a pay raise of more than double the current federal minimum pay and the ending of this next year. president obama is addressing the minimum wage in his speech yesterday other cities might need to begin to follow suit. you know that there are airport workers and fast food workers and nurse assistants and retail sales people who work their tails off. and i still living and or billy above poverty. and that's why it's well past the time to raise the minimum wage for the real fight the war was worth it we turn onto rt correspondent marina park nine am. what began one year ago here in new york city with just two hundred employees has exploded into arguably the biggest wave of protests in the history of america's fast food industry thousands of saskatoon. it's high in the one hundred cities throughout the country how to go for a binge on thursday. nancy are based in minimal wheat and the right to due to new heights without

i don't i haven't seen any positive proposal coming out of tac accept a lot of leg gnashing of teeth in and complaining i haven't seen a single positive proposal coming out of those guys now one interesting thing that i do want to raise a point that i want to raise is that as soon as the n.s.a. scandal broke it became pretty clear that the director of national intelligence james clapper james clapper had actually lying to congress take a look at that. does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly. now these days the author of the patriot act congressman james sensenbrenner is calling for clapper to be prosecuted for lying to congress what do you think about those efforts do you think they'll actually go anywhere i don't think they're going to go anywhere i mean that clearly he lied clearly with contempt of congress but people in that position get put on trial they don't you know they get a pass and he probably knew that going in and that's why people keep lying and you know there's no cost to lying

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state's international airport might be the testing grounds for the future of minimum wage the city of sea-tac is the first in the country to approve a fifteen dollar wage floor last month voters passed a ballot measure that would give airport workers a paper raise of more than double the current federal minimum beginning next year and president obama addressing minimum wages in a speech yesterday said other cities might need to soon follow suit you know that there are airport workers and fast food workers. versus just. retail sales people who work their tails off. and are still living at or barely above poverty and that's why it's well past the time to raise a minimum wage that in real life thank you all right was that harry truman was in office for more on the fast food protests we turn now to our to correspondent marino. what began here in new york city one year ago with just two hundred employees has exploded into arguably the biggest wave of protest in the history of america's fast food industry thousands of fast food employees in more than one hundred cities throughout this country have

state's international airport might be a testing ground for the future of minimum wage the city of sea-tac is the first in the country to a prove a fifteen dollar minimum wage for last month voters passed the ballot measure that would give airport workers a pay raise of more than double the current federal minimum pay at the beginning of this next year and president obama is addressing the minimum wage in his speech yesterday he said other cities might need to begin to follow suit you know that there are airport workers and fast food workers. nurses systems retail sales people who work their tails off that are still living or barely above average and that's why it's well past the to raise a minimum wage that in real right thank you were very true thank you. for more on the fast food protests we turn now to our correspondent marino. what began one year ago here in new york city with just two hundred employees has exploded into arguably the biggest wave of protest in the history of america's fast food industry thousands of fast food workers in more than one hundred cities throughout the coun

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. >> the students noted that camel orbs look a lot like the candy tic tacs, even have the same minty, and can be used to circumvent tobacco bans in schools. its frustrating, says sneegas, since smoking bans have been successful in getting people to give up cigarettes. >> more smokers do quit. they cut back drastically. >> they're shamed. >> and, you know, cutting back is a great first step. and sometimes they go to the point of saying, "well, i can't smoke at work anymore; it's time to quit. i want to quit anyway. it's time to quit." >> her main worry is that if smokeless catches on, people will end up like justin billings, smoking and snusing. justin billings says he may use the dissolvables or snus to try to quit cigarettes someday, but not now. now he smokes and snuses any chance he can, and i mean any chance. >> here in can brush my teeth. i can eat dinner. >> you brush your teeth with that thing in your mouth? >> it kind of doesn't make sense, but with the teeth brushing, it's either because i forgot and it's already in there and i just finish the teeth brushing. >> you're reall

of course, sea-tac taking the lead and doing a great job with that. hotel workers being raised up to $15 an hour. is that feasible nationwide? >> absolutely. the people who take care of us in airports, people like myself who fly 100,000 miles a year, we know that our lunch will cost maybe another nickel or another dime or whatever. but if you don't pay those people enough money so that they can live at a sustainable level, they're not going to have any money to spend in the economy. the economy will not roll if there's not money in the pockets of the lower middle class workers in this country. we have to give them a decent standard of live. >> makes absolute sense. let me play devil's advocate because the big argument against raising the minimum wage is that it style ofs hiring. you can hire two workers at the minimum wage for the price of one worker at the proposed wage of $15 an hour. so have you seen that in washington with the higher wages there? >> no, this state is doing very well. we are -- we're not without our problems but we are hiring in ma

and localities like sea-tac, places where the citizens demanded better wages and are winning, you getit's power to the people. and finally, when they're joined by 76% of americans, including a majority of republicans who say they would vote to guarantee workers a better wage, well, at some point, that little trickle becomes a wave. and that wave knocks over everything that stands in its path. so don't tell me that a living wage is impossible. don't tell me that walmart is immovable. don't tell me that congress won't act. because what i realized on black friday was that that wave is coming, and you either get in front of it or you get out of the way. and what happens if they don't? let's say walmart says no way, no how, not now, not ever. gradually, and then quickly, just as my feels about walmart have changed is and i no longer feel good about shopping there, more and more people will find they would rather go elsewhere. maybe not go anywhere at all, in fact, and shop online, where the prices are just as cheap, and the location even more convenient. but don't worry, walmart. when that

it's a tiny municipality, sea-tac, where the seattle-tacoma airport is.y passed a wage hike under the logic that most of those workers work in an airport and that airport can't go anywhere. and what i like about this, too, is it's a little bit of policy experimentation. if the doomsdayers about this are right, the negative consequences will make themselves know and discredit this move. if they're wrong, we'll find out in either direction, so i'm looking forward to this little laboratory of minimum wage policy. josh barro. >> arizona governor jan brewer, a republican, forcing the medicaid expansion through her same party legislature in a knockdown, drag-out fight, first saying she'll veto any bill without it and then will veto any until they expand it. members of her party called it a traitor, but she got it done. as chris put on his show at the time, she was a baller. >> she was a baller. nancy giles. >> it was a wonderful, wonderful year culturally for black film. >> absolutely. >> over 18 -- i think 18 at last count, with black leads or directed by afri

food workers striking this week, recently a vote out in seattle that hiked the minimum wage around sea-tacirport $15 an hour. if it were raised substantially what would it do to employment and incomes? >> this clearly is a question where beauty is in the eye of the beholder. obviously if you're at the bottom rung and a nonskilled worker you want the minimum wage to be raised $15 an hour. that would give you an income of maybe about $30,000 a year. certainly you can provide better for your family but that's a bill that has to be paid for by employers and any republican will tell you and a lot of democrats will tell you, employers will have to pay that bill and you have to look at the burden born by small businesses, by the folks who -- >> it's not just employers paying that bill. >> consumers would be paying it. >> we as a society pay that bill. here in new jersey, we have about a third of our families that are we call asset limited constraint and employed, households that are earning -- not earning enough to make a living in their community. a paycheck away from losing their job, if they l

i don't i haven't seen any positive proposal coming out of tac accept a lot of leg gnashing of teeth in and complaining i haven't seen a single positive proposal coming out of those guys now one interesting thing that i do want to raise a point that i want to raise is that as soon as the n.s.a. scandal broke it became pretty clear that the director of national intelligence james clapper james clapper had actually lined it to congress take a look at that. does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly. now these days the author of the patriot act congressman james sensenbrenner is calling for clapper to be prosecuted for lying to congress what do you think about those efforts do you think they'll actually go anywhere i don't think they're going to go anywhere i mean that clearly he lied clearly it was contempt of congress but people in that position get put on trial they don't you know they get a pass and he probably knew that going in and that's why people keep lying and you know there's no cost to

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voters in sea-tac, washington, approved a $15 wage.s like chicago and new york are calling for wages of similar levels. i think what's driving this is what president obama called the defining challenge of our time in this economics talk yesterday. the fact is, the restaurant industry noted that the majority of the jobs our economy is creating are in these low payment fields like restaurant and retail. these aren't team jobs if they ever were. now tens of millions of adult americans spend their time cycling through these careers, these jobs. at $9 an hour, they're not sustainable. so what the fast food workers are calling for is a raise in pay and sit down with the industry for negotiationing a plan to transition to a higher wage, a higher productivity business model. >> how does the industry afford it? at the end of the day, higher wages is going to mean -- i mean, it's going to feed through and we're going to get higher cost of food, aren't we? >> so the road map for how to do this is what's happened with other similar industries in t

that is tac being escorted out of that party meeting. now many purges have happened in north korea but few have been made as public as this one. with those pictures being released, also a long statement read on state television, giving what the party said were the reasons for uncle jong being purged. statement said in part, quote, abusing his power, he engrossed in irregularities and corruption. had improper relations with several women and was wined andy restaurants. idealogically sick and extremely idle he used drugs and squandered foreign currency at casinos while he was receiving medical treatment in a foreign country under the care of the party. so what does all this mean for north korea and indeed for the united states? experts worry that it could lead to greater instability and a power struggle within the regime. that of course never good in an already-unpredictable nuclear-armed nation. also worth remembering while merrill newman, an american korean war vet who was seized in north korea back in october was released this weekend a

air fares, $49 between sea-tac and san francisco, lax to seattle running at $89 went away.ska both down. stock trading today. san francisco international airport joining other airports around the country to offer her a dogs to stressed out passengers. the program is called the wag dubbed a should begins today. other airports around the country do this as well. that is your west coast amended. dennis: the ftc targeting piano teachers. has it gone completely out of control? your response to what is bugging me ahead. tÑ dennis: the ftc targeting piano teachers. here's what you had to say, says entire dog eat dog rules sound nice on paper but equal opportunity does not mean all are equal in ability. the best should get more. matt miller says targeting is right and massively powerful trade group controls billions of piano keys which one picked off the old man? when you have 40 clients and make $12,000 a year there's something wrong. mike kelly says i felt threatened by piano teachers for some time. now i can play my juice heart in peace. cheryl: hello. many travelers were worrie

tac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning to you. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me for this special edition of "cnn newsroom" as we remember the life and legacy of nelson mandela. first breaking news in the last hour, brand new jobs report is out with the lowest unemployment rate in five years. we'll tell you how the markets and the white house are responding this morning. >>> also an arctic blast, this is dallas, where the mercury has dropped 50 degrees in just the last 24 hours. colossal ice storm putting on the freeze from texas to tennessee. and in johannesburg, remembering the man who went from prisoner to president, we'll have the latest on funeral plans for the anti-apartheid icon, nelson mandela. >>> first to that breaking news on the economy, americans are getting back to work, 203,000 jobs were added to payrolls in november, and the unemployment rate ticked two notches lower to 7%. that's the lowest unemployment rate in five years. our chief business correspondent christine romans is here to break down the numbers. better than expe

a judge in washington state has ruled that sea-tac's new voter-approved law establishing a $15 an hourorkers does not apply to nearly 5,000 airport workers. the judge says that seattle tacoma international airport is outside the city's authority because it is owned by the port of seattle, a separate government entity. support of the laws are allowed to appeal. christine owens is executive director of the national employment law project. she joins us from washington, d.c. that news out of seattle last night, how big is it? >> it's not really a surprise. you know, we found that in these ballot campaigns, the opponents challenge them all the way. we generally win them and they're still challenges so we're not at all surprised by this decision. it's the same judge who initially ruled it couldn't be on the ballot to begin with and that decision was overturned by the state supreme court. supports will take this back to the supreme court. it's really too early to speculate as to what the court will do. i think the important thing is that this jeannie is out of the bottle. it can't be put back

. >> everything from the food tac off the trucks, the food truck phenomenon, the pop-up restaurant ifu're right about all that. but let me ask you, in downtown l.a., and you have collision of all these great things occurring and the homeless. homeless population in downtown has mushroomed over the last ten years. isn't there a collision of sorts? >> you look at new york, it's part of what the city is figuring out. the government there, they want the renovation, but part of if is sort of -- >> what you had before is downtown was basically a ghost town full of homeless pipe. now there is some economic development happening which can't be but for the good to be able to get jobs going down there. >> true. >> so michael, fascinating. broadly cooper, friend of the show. you say he is now an a-list guy. >> oh, it was the a-list. >> mika just woke up. >> look at that picture. what is important about that picture? >> no socks. >> no socks. >> so i can just say this. you were mocking me for wearing no socks like four years ago. i'm so far ahead of the curve. >> we didn't mock you. >> you know w

issue, even in the pacific northwest, although there could be flight delays into ctac airpo -- sea-tac airport. the snow in the mountain passes. the snow level is above the mountain pass level. so that is certainly helping with any folks trying to get over the mountains. it's mostly just rain at this point. in the northeast, though, in boston just outside of boston, about 45 miles to the west, we saw some slippery road conditions with the wintry mix early this morning. although, it is up to 44 degrees now. there could be some slick spots out that way, especially in the higher elevations. 31 degrees right now in minneapolis. it's only going to warm up to about 34. the warmest air is sitting down across the south with miami at about 80 degrees this afternoon. as we go into tomorrow as everyone heads back to work, we'll see more of a wintry mix in the minneapolis area, although it doesn't look like anything too intense or too heavy. still a few spotty showers in boston. for the most part, for everyone traveling today, it doesn't look like too big of a deal. >> that's good news. thank you

we stole the tic tacs and all the wrigleys.t me a horse. >> an arabian pregnant. the question is do i give back the foal or keep the horse. i had to give back the baby horse. >> if you are scoring at home, wayne newton sent 16-year-old brooke shields a pregnant horse and sent a 747 to her to send her to the show. >> my friend lisa and i had a good time. we did drink champagne. the evening ended up for her watching her feet in the toilet. >> that is the rest of the story we will tell you tomorrow on "today." >>> it is the end of the year. a lot of people were talking about the words used and overused in 2013. selfie was word of the year. not getting a lot of love at lake superior university. selfie was the run away winner in the list of words people wish would go away. >> other words? twerking. twerk. >> i can live without twerk. >> any words. carmageddon. >> twittersphere. hash tag. obamacare. >> that is not going anywhere. that is not going -- it is not good. fan base. i rely on that. >> fan base? >> i don't want that to go aw