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Sophisticated device? >> they is difficult to judge. they are saying it has the potential to work and was a powerful bomb. >> sounds like this is a case of see something, say something. >> reporter: definitely. three contract workers for the city saw it. they notified police. authorities say they are the heroes. >> well done. pete, we are putting up this video. it is a suitcase. police are investigating this. it is again in spokane, washington. they cant be too careful about what happened on mon...

Landscape. theyre really -- theyre reticent to hire people and give them benefits at this point. so theyre really focusing on hiring freelancers or contract workers. theyre worried that as we see our government stimulus run out, other temporary factors are fading. theyre worried how the progression of the economy -- of the recovery is really going to go. theyre also worried about taxes. they want to know whats going to happen if federal income taxes go up when those bush tax cuts are taken away ...

Including their 41 police officers. and some were rehired as contract workers, though, fred. >> oh, my goodness. so, of course, i want to know, what do they do as a substitute, not having police officers? >> well, no. theyre contracting some as contractors. and so theyre basically -- >> so they do have them its just -- yeah, theyre not paying them. >> exactly. >> okay. all right. so meantime, you know, what are the other extremes, i guess, or the extent that other places may have to go? >> yeah,...

Make. coming from the labor movement it was hard to make that decision. unfortunately because of the liability our police department had incurred because of $12 million of claims, we could not maintain insurance with any other company if we continued to have the employees we had because of the liability that was incurred from before. >> i did a story recently on a town here in georgia that has to get rid of its police force and had the county come in and serve the people of the city. you said 96...

Clear here. we hope a lot of those people get jobs as contract workers through the state. >> yes. >> thank you. happy fourth of july to you. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> all right. california state workers could see their paychecks slashed soon. the governor ordered salaries lowered to the minimum wage if sacramento doesnt pass a budget. one spokeswoman warned this isnt a scare tactic but a legal requirement. and for more than 30,000 u.s. troops injured in iraq and afghanista...

Working for b.p. trying to clean up the mess. >> we are here to ask for your help. >> reporter: they now want a long-term contract to clean up. he runs two shrimp boats that now sit idle. >> unpredictable for the shim shrimping business. >> reporter: the coast guard performs safety checks for the boat but what about the crew? >> we are worried about us too. if you are working, youve got to do it. you have to take risk thoon. >> reporter: you need the money, so you are just going to go? >> yes, y...

Some of the toughest critics of b.p. in all the world are here, too, and weve been getting an earful from them about the incidents happening over in the gulf of mexico. now, b.p. they know has had a string of safety problems, a history of safety incidents. best known, a fire at a texas city refinery back in 2005 which left 15 people dead. many more injured. that and other problems including this latest spill put down to by these critics, cost cutting at b.p., profit seeking. that has singed the ...

Full-employees benefits and such. >> last week, he said hes been looking at tax receipts and some other indicators and think there will be a sharp hiring push later this year. there are others who are saying companies cut so dramatically, that they are going to have to -- if the economy gains traction, theyll have to hire back pretty consistently. labor economists tell me theres this long-term unemployed that have been out of work six months or longer that are really out of luck right now this t...

We have create add lot of low skilled jobs that dont pay as well as the manufacturing jobs we lost over the past ten years. thats a big issue here. whats the quality of the jobs coming back? tony, we have talked about permalancers, contract workers, independent contractors. you get a job and the boss says, but you will be a contract worker. were not handling your health insurance or anything else. thats 30% of the work force now. >> we are anticipating a pop here as the government ramped up empl...

There, but never stepped in. >> obviously, one girl is completely beating up the other. >> reporter: this witness to the attack is asking the same question we all are. how could this have happened? >> i think we can all look at the facts of this one. really? youve got three male security guards there and they couldnt do anything? doesnt seem like security. >> reporter: under the current rules, the guards were limited in what they could do. >> in fact, transportation authority says the guards are...