this is why on september 22nd the united employee groups of san francisco's fire department, including those representing the asian, black, hispanic, lgbt and female firefighters and paramedics, unanimously voted to express a crises of confidence in the fire department leadership and urged the mayor to immediately relieve the chief -- relieve the fire chief. and it is why on october 1st the fire chief's association, those chiefs whom the current chief have given the promotions to announced that it stood with the you nightved employee group, echoing their crises of competence specifically calling for the replacement of their current chief. colin powell said it best about leadership. the day soldiers stop bringing you their problem is the day you have stopped leading they have. they have either lost confidence that you but for whatever reason the owner of these two hotels, chesapeake lodging trust, is refusing to grant these workers the fair treatment even though it is very much the norm in san francisco's hotel industry. ~ ~ in june of this year, some workers anna flores, edwin lopez, b

hospital officials in the german city of leipzig say a united nations employee being treated there has died of ebola. >>> the south african athlete oscar pistorius has returned to court for a second day of sentencing arguments over whether he should face prison for killing his girlfriend. >>> now, could more have been done to prevent the rise of islamic state militants in iraq and syria? catty kay has been speaking to former secretary of defense leon panetta. he said he was surprised by the group's rapid rise. >> i would not have believed it would have been as bad as it is. i didn't believe that some of that resulted in some of these foreign fighters going into syria and becoming part of isis. and i think it's fair to say that although we knew that there were extremists in syria, that there are very few that kind of looked at isis as that larger threat that it became in terms of invading iraq. >> you've run the cia, you've run the pentagon. do you think that this is an enemy that america can defeat? >> i do, i do. i have tremendous confidence in our ability to defeat isis. and i'll tel

. >>> right now, a united nations employee with ebola has died while an american fights for her lifee deadly voirs. we're live with how countries around the world are trying desperately to stop the spread. >>> isis terrorists weave their way through the border town of kobani. kurdish fighters doing everything they can to fight them off but is it enough? we'll ask retired general wesley clark. >>> and uniformed police with batons out on the streets of hong kong, these pictures just coming in. we're watching as tensions rise right now. hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 7:00 p.m. in madrid. 8:00 p.m. in damascus. 1:00 wednesday morning in hong kong. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we begin with some alarming numbers out today on the ebola outbreak.

meanwhile, a united nations employee infected in liberia arrived for treatment in leipzig, germany todayernational airports in new york, newark, washington, chicago and dallas prepared new screening for travelers fromç west africa including fever checks and other measures. those measures do not apply at new york's la guardia airport, and 200 airplane cabin cleanersç staged a 24-hour strike there today citing health and safety concerns. and in washington, a mostly republican group of 26 lawmakers sent president obama a letter calling for even more stringent restrictions including visa bans and quarantines. at the same time, u.s. troops at fort hood, texas, stepped up safety training. ahead of being deployed to west africa. >> ifill: we'll hear from one of the medical groups struggling to corral the outbreak, after the news summary. >> woodruff: american and coalition planes stepped up their aerial assault in syria today, but islamic state forces syrian activists said the militants now control more than a third of kobani, a key town on the border with turkey. as the air strikes continued,

rooms that combine a combination of hotel guest rooms and teatro zinzanni actor and employees serving residential units. really guest rooms that allow out of town performers to stay for an extended period of time and be able to have coenient housing near the teatro zinzanni operation. this building defines the street edges on embarcadero, broadway and davis as a light court in the center and plan b all within the 40 -foot height limit. this project is very interested in long-term sustainability and economic sustainability and environmental sustainability and while the combination of hotel and entertainment use is very important to the economic sustain ability, we are planning green roofs, green walls and capturing storm run off which is important to the port quality and the port and meeting san francisco's green building code and enhancing the views from the service around us by having green roofs on top of this structure. there are some views here just very simple early conceptual massing views of this building. i think the key takeaways from seeing these views are that we are going to be able to fram

duncan flew through dulles airport, a lot of united employees live out that way. does that worry you? is that hyper bolick? >> well, it worries me from the stance of the fact that we have not -- you don't have awareness from the public health perspective, and it's the fact that -- we owe it to our communities, to train our communities, educate our communities. we owe the simple public health type of solutions that we could put in place, and that we could educate, and that will help. but it does concern me. it does concern me the fact that ebola has a 21-day incubation period. so therefore, that can slip -- people can slip through that has contact with ebola, can slip through, and 21 days later, something springs up, a fever springs up, and then, you know, they're getting, it sounds like a -- it sounds like probably a common cold, and turns out it is ebola. that's part of the training campaign we need to tell, and this is something where, again, it comes from the leadership. it comes from government. host: lee in sterling, virginia. this is jim in lebanon, tennesse

. >> reporter: wal-mart is cutting health care coverage from 30,000 part-time employees in the united states, who work 30 hours or less. wal-mart will be raising premiums for its other 1.3 millworkers. so that means they will have have to pay more for coverage this follows similar moves by target and home depot but wal-mart is the biggest private sector employer in the united states so is there concern other companies could follow suit. this comes as companies get ready for 2015 deadline under the affordable care act, erika and natasha. >>> also americans want healthier options at restaurant these days and now it looks like big chains are listening to folks, right. >> that is right. new stud friday johns-hopkins looked at 66 large chains and it found menu items introduced in 2013 had 12 percent fewer calories on average then previous year. that comes down to about 60 fewer calories in each item which experts say can make a big difference when it comes to fighting obesity. restaurant are offering more salad options, now one example of a food that was introduced with fewer calories, chi

washington post" reported last night that in addition to that, those punishments for united states secret service employees, that there was also, at the time, the white house knew about the allegation that a prostitute had stayed in a white house aide's room overnight. this was a volunteer who was 25 at the time. the white house says this is old news, this had already been reported and it's been discussed and the young man has been exonerated, that he did nothing wrong. we're still talking about it today, especially because of so many bad headlines for the secret service in recent weeks. >> the white house gave this statement. quote, as a bipartisan senate investigation found, allegations that changes were made because they were embarrassing could not be substantiated. so is this the end of everything? >> i don't think so. i think that there's a lot of debate about the secret service generally because of all of these allegations about what the role of secret service should be, whether it should be moved to another agency. there's a new director. what kind of changes and reforms can they make? it's been a l

. >> the fact these employees were working in the united states, they're protected under the federal labor law regardless of immigrant status. >> now, this is a quote from an efi spokesperson. she told us during this process, we unintentionally overlooked laws requiring even foreign employees to be based based on local u.s. standards. when brought to our attention we cooperated fully. now, efi paid the employees back wages to some $40,000. with fines and penalties and tells us they have taken steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. >> there is a another man scaled the fence at the white house near the north lawn. secret service agents quickly stopped him. video shows the man against a security vehicle taken into custody. one report says guard dogs were released the man tried to punch one of the animals when captured. >> fbi instructed field offices to remain vigilant because of what happened in canada today. that is the gunfire that erupted inside of the canadian parliament building fired by a gunman that was later killed by authorities. earlier he shot and killed a soldier at a

. >> the ft these employees were working in the united states, they're protected under the federal labor law regdless of immigrant status. >> now, thi is a quote from an efi spokesperson. she told us during this process, we unintentionally overlooked ws requiring even foreign employees to be based based on local u.s. standards. when brought to our attention we cooperated fully. now, efi paid the employees back wages to some $40,000. with fines and penalties and tells us they have taken steps to make sure this doesn't happ again. >> there is another man scaled the fence at the white house nearhe north lawn. secret service agents quickly stopped him. video shows the man against a security vehicle ten into custody. one report ss guard dogs were releed the man tried to punch one of the animals when captured. >> fbi instructe field offices to remain vigilant because of what happed in canada today. that is the gunfire that erupted inside of the canadian parliament building fired by a gunman that was lat killed by authorities. earlier he shot and killed a soldier at a war memorial nearby. y are

one murder of internationally protected person, three counts of murder of an officer and employee of the united states four counts of killing a person on a federal facility involving the use of a firearm and dangerous weapon and two counts of maliciously damaging destroying property by means of fire. rocket propelled grenades and automatic assault rifles were used in the first wave of the attack and mortars in the other wave of the attack. also katherine herridge downplayed two computers stolen that contained classified information including the location of the top secret cia annex in benghazi. cat tal law was not the mastermind of the plot but rather on the ground. he will be arraigned on october 20th here in washington. >> another developing story we will follow. >> developing overnight isis gaining new ground in iraq. the der or group surrounding a military base closer to the strategically important anbar providence. the heaviest day of shelling yet air strikes along the turkish border. they are helping the kurds regain control of cab bkabani. but is the operation a success? we will sort of

general services employee on the front page of papers all across the united states sitting shirtless in a hot tub with a glat glass of wine on the taxpayers' money. he returns with full benefits. how about this story? a v.a. surge yojon suspended for 14 days for abandoning his patient unconscious on the operating table before the procedure was complete. he still gets an $11 thousand bonus at the end of the year. these federal bureaucrats are living on easy treat and they are putting us on the road to surf dom. that's right.dom. that's right. and think about it. think about what is happening as result. we are hijacked by people who don't val you're our freedom. they put the state over the head of our individual. but you and i, you and i have a rendezvous with destiny because we are going to elect a president of the united states who will fully repeal the obama health law. a president whole raip in the power and size of this beheme oj federal government. we should eliminate the department of energy. environmental protection. education. and most importantly, let's get rid of that depart

not try to roll it out across every walgreens in the united states where those employees might not know what to do. >> are we going to have marketing? specialized displays at how to do it at all the different retailers doing this stuff? >> that's the question. >> typically they don't push these things that hard, right. they tend to release it. they do a lot of outdoor advertising. i would expect the outdoor advertising to have imagery around the payments and let the viral effects kick in on this stuff. my gut it will be tough, won't see widespread adoption right away. like tap to pay with cards hasn't seen it. i think it's a bit too hard for people. >> speaking of mobile payments one of the largest banks in france partnering with twitter to allow cust pleomers to trans money via tweets. it's preparing to offer simple person to person money transfers regardless of what bank the people involved use. if we think it's -- >> this is ridiculous. >> you don't like this? >> we don't have enough people it logging in registering for twitter and now people paying by tweets. six people a day will d

we're learning about the plan to keep travellers from bringing ebola into the united states, and what about airport employees? do you know this. the people who clean the bathrooms and the passenger cabins in planes, some of them are on strike today walking off the job saying their employers sht doing enough to protect them from possible exposure. and we're following a number of big stories just ahead from the fox news desk. gretchen, back to you. >> thank you so much. this guy looking to save lives. how this robot is trying to keep you healthy during your next hospital visit, and why p inventors say it can kill ebola on the spot? we'll show you how it happens. >>> you've heard of bird's eye view, but camel's eye view? find out what google strapped to that camel's tongue as he took a stroll out in the desert. right back. ... ... ... ... ... ... >>> a professional stunt man find agnew way across the bridge and beat the traffic. never mind the lane. a gopro cam shows him going up on the sides of the bridge with absolutely no margin for error. well, police near denver find an unusual intruder stuck inside a car

were working around the clock, more than 100 hours a week. >> the fact that these employees were working in the unitedhey are protected under the federal labor law, regardless of their immigrant status. >> in a statement, an efi spokesperson told abc 7 us, that we require foreign workers to be paid by local u.s. standards. efi did pay the indian employees $40,000 in unpaid wages, along with some fines and penalties. the company said they have taken steps to make sure this does not happen again. >>> uber's price war is making a lot of the drivers angry. today these uber drivers staged a protest outside the company san francisco headquarters. the drivers say they're having a hard time making ends meet since uber reduced its fares. protesters also want uber to change the driver rating system. uber is also making it more difficult for them to collect tips from customers on the uber app. >> uber does not have, and encourages its passengers not to tip. they want to make it a cashless service. >> uber did not want to comment to abc 7 news about the complaints. instead, the company simply sent a statement say

really, but what really surprised us is how little protection there is in the united states for other gay and transgender employees. >>> plus stocks bolt higher get again, but wait until you hear what is helping juice the stock market and your 401k's, and the air in new york is rarefied. you won't believe what investors are paying for what is above a building.

employees without work, little money, trapped in their pursuit of the american dream. >> most of these people have also paid substantial fees, illegally, to cover the cost of the h1b visa application to the united states. they didn't have jobs lined up for any of their employees. certainly nothing at the levels that they had promised them. essentially they dumped them into the guest house. >> as we mentioned, this system relies on the federal government's h-1b visas given each year to highly specialized workers. many of whom come from overseas, especially india. tonight we investigate these body shops. we will take you behind the scenes and pull back the curtain on this system of labor. we also talk to people who say they've been trapped in this system for years. that's all tonight at 11:00 on nbc bay area news. >>> if you have a tip for our investigative unit call us at 888-996-tips or e-mail theunit@nbcbayarea.com. >>> a security guard was shot four times outside the el terasco bar in san jose. one city councilman is asking that the bar close down immediately. >>> good afternoon. i'm meteorologist jeff ranieri from our weather underground sky camera network. a beautiful day with a few high cl

reporter: that is right, wal-mart will cut health care coverage for 30,000 of the part-time employees in the unitedates who work 30 hour or less. wal-mart will be raising premiums for its other roughly 1.3 millworkers which means of course they will be paying more information coverage and it follows similar moves by target and home depot. wal-mart is biggest private sector employer in the u.s. so other companies could follow suit. this could come as companies get ready for january 2015 deadline under the affordable deadline. >> americans still want healthier options at restaurants and it does seem that big chains are listening and they are offering these healthy options, right. >> a new stud friday johns-hopkins has 66 large chains and it found menu items introduced in 2013 had 12 percent fewer calories on average then the previous year. that comes down to 60 calories, less for each item and that can make a big difference experts say when it comes to the fight against obesity. restaurants are also offering more salad options which is gay thing. one example of the menu change chiles introduced 580 m

really, but what really surprised us is how little protection there is in the united states for other gay and transgender employees. >>> plus stocks bolt higher get again, but wait until you hear what is helping juice the stock market and your 401k's, and the air in new york is rarefied. you won't believe what

really, but what really surprised us is how little protection there is in the united states for other gay and transgender employees. >>> plus stocks bolt higher get again, but wait until you hear what is helping juice the stock market and your 401k's, and the air in new york is rarefied. you won't believe what investors are paying for what is above a building. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money." ♪ >>> i'm proud to be gay, and i consider being gay among the greatest gifts god has given me. with those clear bold words apple's ceo tim cooke became the first and openly gay ceo of a fortune 500 company. along with others, hrc praised cooke for coming out in an essay published today. in the essay, cooke says being gay as been tough and uncomfortable at times, but also says it has quote, given me the confidence to rise above adversary and bigotry. it also gives me the skin of a rhinoceros, end quote. cooke's decision to come out is a very public move by a very private man. patricia sabga has that story. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: when tim cooke took over apple three years ago, many wondered whether the co

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says it plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for a good portion of their part-time employees in the unitedhe move is going to mexico workers who work less than 30 hours a week, approximately 30,000 people. walmart does have about 1.4 million full and part time employees. a small portion with the overall population, but again, 30,000 employees that work an average of less than 30 hours a week will no longer receive health care benefits. walmart said they expect health care costs to be about $500 million the current fiscal year. they are saying for this group of employees, they will no longer have legal employment benefits or health insurance benefits. we have reached out to walmart for more comment. more details when they come back with comments. >> thanks. walmart isn't the only retailer making these moves. we've seen target and home depot. more people signing up than expected in terms of their employees as a result of the rollout of the affordable health care. >> walmart is the largest private employer in the country. its health benefits as they are currently constructed for existing labo

first of all, education of your frontline employees and your flight crews, including your flight attendants and pilots. what most major carriers in the unitedtes do through the flight attendant and the frontline employees are if you observe somebody that shows signs of illness, let's say, for example, gretchen, on an actual airplane, then you take the symptoms that you are observing, you bring that information to the attention of the cockpit crew who then talks to the airline dispatch, and when they're dispatched, they're going to work with their medical team, whether it's somebody on site with the airline or through a medical vendor, and then determine if when that flight arrives, whether or not it needs to be met by paramedics, cdc employees or local departments of health. >> i also -- it sounds like a lot of responsibility for people who are just trying to fly people safe and now they got to be worrying about ebola. that's why you're in the business that you are in. ken jenkins, thank you for your thoughts. >> yes, ma'am. >>> what about the family now of thomas eric duncan? can they sue the dallas hospital that sent him home two and a ha

employees at aig. he found himself in a fight over bonuses. the same unithat almost sank aig. >> i want to read a quote. he said, we are in effect at war. over $165 million in bonuses. >> why weren't they at war over the $100 million watching people work? you tell me. maybe i am nuts. >> crazy enough to threaten to quit the job he just started if the bonuses were not awarded. >> you threatened to quit. >> what i said was, i'm going to announce my retirement in april, 2010. i will say we have stabilized and is this time to move on. if i cannot commit to a compensation program that made sense -- people were asking me to pay in aig stock. people in the administration and government did not think we could pay back the government. how much is the stock worth? nothing. why would you stay -- >> and get paid in stock? >> he did not step down and the bonuses were handed out. afterwards, most of the highest-paid executives agreed to give the money back. but the outrage over the bonuses and his compensation lingered. >> can you understand the public frustration? not o

noncitizens and these are people who work for our embassies, people who are nongovernmental employees who work for the unitedrs, et cetera, and bring them here to facilities that are already probably worried and may be strained with patients that are previously infected who are our own citizens and there's only three sites in the country that do this, nebraska, the nih and atlanta, georgia. so i mean, the nurses that i've spoken to, the doctors i've spoken to, everyone is extremely cautious about treating infected patients who have a copious amount of secretions. these are people who can produce as many as three gallons of diarrhea a day. >> oh, good lord, doctor. you didn't have to go there. >> it's extraordinary and it's a horrible, horrible illness. we're a naive country. this continent has never seen this virus. i can't believe we're intentionally thinking about bringing people here that may have a hemorrhagic virus that could be lethal to significant parts of the population. >> are we just under a miss impression then because we've watched these institutions take care of so efficiently, so successfully,

the three employees involved are no longer with the utility. >>> the investigator unit has been following the story from the start. you can find more stories on our website, nbc bay area,.com. >>> madison bumgarner with a big fielding blunder. his bad throw to third base gave the nationals all the runs they needed. the nationals win 4-1 and live to fight another day. looks like the nationals won't be giving up easily. the giants will have to try again tomorrow to close out their divisional series against washington. nbc bay area's mark matthews is live at at&t park where the game just ended. no sweep for the giants. there will be a game 4 tomorrow, mark. >> that's right. fans walking out of the the stadium, disappointed for many of them, this is the biggest game of the year that they've been able to get to. they came early. >> those who could not get into the stadium watched through the fence. >> i wouldn't miss it. >> matt and his wife jessica wanted to be part of it. >> together we are very giant. go giants. >> that's what they say about that togetherness thing and everybody seems to ha

employees. it's roughly the sixth largest system in the united states, with about a $6 billion budget. it's pretty sizable higher education, public higher education operation. >> what does it mean that you are the president of the system as opposed to a president of just let's say the university of wisconsin, madison, of one site? >> part of the theory behind a system is that they're meant to coordinate and to develop state wide issues, issues that impact the whole state. and serve the institutions in a way that -- in terms of shared resources in helping them more effectively and cost effectively deal with some of the issues that are common to all of them. we represent each of these institutions in the capital, it's a collaborative effort on issues related to state legislation or federal legislation. >> and you reference the $6 billion annual budget for the university of wisconsin systems, state funding makes up gifts grants and contracts at about 5 billion dollars. the impacts, $15 billion plus annually. what does that mean, this economic impact? >> most economic analysis, that impact

let's give it up to the service employees, the largest healthcare unit in the country, the largest unionn the country. these are the people that have been taking care of you and she came from the dr where she was back in the fight and ever since she got out of jail but that is precisely what we need and she stands among other things the profound role for the labor movement is playing. when you watch people marching on sunday watch for those labor in gyms and that is going to send a chill. clayton thomas, where are you? he introduced himself a little bit before. let me just say in the introduction that there is nobody that we have worked more closely with over the last four or five years but we wanted to get involved in the work around at the very first person i called called said it's all right if we join this effort. they had been fighting up there longer than anybody. they thought that they would never have any problem they had so much money and is a so political power. but they are now caught up in all of that they can hardly move forward and it's mostly because of what his comrades h

employees without work, little money, trapped in pursuit of the american dream. >> most of these people had paid substantial fees illegally to cover the cost of the h1b visa application to the uniteds. they didn't have jobs lined up for any of their employees. certainly nothing at the levels that they had promised them and essentially they dumped them into the guest house. >> the system re&ies on the federal government's h1b visas. many who come from india. tonight, we'll investigate the body shops, talk to people who say they've been trapped in the system for years. tonight at 11:00 on nbc bay area news. >>> traffic noise, but not on the roadways. people on the peninsula say planes are ruining their quiet lives. >>> plus, the strange tribute before last night's giants win. we'll show it to you in case you missed it. >> really nice day. good air quality. temperatures that are just perfect. mostly sunny conditions and then by tomorrow, we have to crank the heat up. 5 to 10 degrees warmer as we get into your wednesday. then we've got more changes headed your way with the inclusion of some rain. we'll detail all the changes when we return in just moments. >>> what a thrill to be here

announced new measures today for screening passengers coming into the united states from liberia, siera leone. and guinea. customs employeesill be asking passengers questions about their health and possible ebola and taking temperatures. the new screening will go into effect at jfk, on saturday, started by airports in newark, washington, chicago and atlanta. more than 94% of travelers coming from the united states go through those five airports. joining me is dr. seema yasmin and dr. irwin. thanks for being with us. first of all, what do you make of these screening procedures? >> i think we're looking for ways to make sure we have identified as many people as possible. i think that's a reasonable stab at it. the problem is it's still not going to be complete. there will be people slipping through. there will be people asymptomatic and they will be incubating. i think we're taking the steps to try to reduce the chances that somebody will slip in. i don't object to them. >> i think about the forms that say have you had contact with livestock or agriculture for those diseases. anybody who wants to try to get through customs q

united. >> but of course there was no ban on employees making contributions in letter carriers. and the general proposition that employees could -- >> a ban on various first amendment speech and association activities. >> yes, your honor. >> a different kind of speech and association but the basic principle is still cited there with approval in citizens united. >> i don't disagree that there is authority for the congress to regulate the activities of contractors and employees differently from what they would regulate activities of ordinary citizens. >> do you think congress could ban federal employees from all contributions? >> i do not believe so, your honor. >> why not? >> because i don't think the justification is there for it. if we are talking low level federal employees somebody who work as a custodian or secretary to maik contributions it seems that would be excessive under the first amendment. it would be overly broad and of course we would look to see whether it is under inclusive as well. examinations that this court and the supreme court has insisted on making when re

electronics for imaging flu in eight employees and they worked 120-hour weeks for two months to set up the workers for country done here in the united states. it shocked federal agent ps. >> it is certainly unreasonable to bring workers here in the sil con valley or to sprrn zbrrnls. >> wow. trying to get away with it. >> u.s. prosecutors looking behind the japanese company involved in the air bag safety recall. good morning, kate. >> reporter: good morning to you. the government has now increased the number of car that could be affected to at least 7.8 million. too much force could potentially rupture and and scrape mess the dow falling for the first time in four days. we get data from unemployment and earnings from caterpillar, comcast, gm, amazon and most. apple says it's aware of the problem. >> got to keep track of those unemployment numbers this morning. thank you very much, kate. if you missed the lunar eclipse earlier this month, today is your chance to see a solar eclipse. today's partial lunar eclipse starts around 2:00. if you catch it, make sure to not look directly at the sun. >> that is very key. anthony is in for chri

she outlined from the cdc is doing in the united states and in west africa. she said ten cdc employeesare in dallas where the first case was reported in the u.s. those employees are monitoring everyone who came into contact with the infected patient. in west africa, there are more than 7,400 confirmed cases of ebola. the cdc has hundreds of employees there, trying to treat those infected and since there's no vaccine and no treatment, trying to educate communities about the symptoms and what to do if they become sick, ebola experts, though, say more must be done. >> the world is getting in the act but it's been slow. again, it was something that was over there that wasn't a major issue for either us or the europeans. and as a result, the kind of resources that we are now devoting to this outbreak would have been much more beneficial had we done it six months ago and even now, it may be totally inadequate and may need to have much more attention paid to resources. >> i also spoke it a representative from the world health organization. he said they just need more people from the united st

united. >> of course, there was no ban on employees making contributions in a letter carriers.he general proposition, -- >> the ban on various first amendment speech and association. >> yes, your honor. >> a different kind of association. the basic principle is still cited there with approval and citizens united. >> i do not disagree that there is an authority for the congress to regulate the activities of contractors and employees differently than what they would regulate the activities of ordinary citizens. >> t think congress to ban federal employees from all contributions? >> i do not believe so, your honor. >> why not? >> i don't think the justification is there for. we're talking about low-level federal employees, someone who works as a custodian or secretary to make contributions, it seems to me that that would be excessive and the first amendment. it would be overly broad and, of course, we would also look to see whether it is under intensive as well. examinations that the supreme court has insisted upon making when we are regulating speech. >> some of the briefs inmate

the atlantic city casino crisis and there is help for former employees at one of atlantic city's casinos thabs that is threatened to close. unite here health is giving two months of extended insurance coverage to workers at the taj mahal casino resort. that's because a bankruptcy judge canceled the contract, which terminated health insurance plans. coverage was due to expire on friday, but now workers will be covered through december. >>> and the battle over legalizing sports betting in new jersey is headed back to court on november 20th. a temporary restraining order that stopped the state from allowing it will expire the next day, the 21st. major sports leagues and the ncaa are seeking a permanent ban. >>> and mayor michael nutter is urging the board to vote on the second casino license for philadelphia. nutter strongly favors another casino to help the city grow by creating new jobs and bringing in revenue. it's been eight months since the board heard from applicants. >>> 5:18 right now, and bill's been talking about rain moving in, so the afternoon rush might have wet roads, but dry this morning. >> let's hope it stays that