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This weekend, but again, these are fast moving pieces. Were looking at uber and lyft that might be exiting california because of some new requirements that they treat their freelance workers like employees. That could be a costly issue for them, so much so even though it accounts for about 60 of their combined business, the state of california alone they would still leave rather than put up with that. In new york city, forget about the virus, forget about eventually opening up gyms next week, th...

Death. Puerto rico has 683 confirmed cases of the zika virus including 65 pregnant women with symptoms of the virus and that one death. Five patients with suspected syndrome of paralysis. The cdc also says one patient with a confirmed zika infection died from severe an normally low blood platelet levels. And the cdc is saying deaths from zika, all though theyre rare highlights the possibility of severe cases as well as the need for continued outreach to raise Health Care Providers awareness of p...

Its memorial day, may 30th. A wicked weather weekend turning deadly in some regions. Texas flooding claims five lives and dangerous rip tides move up the east coast. New details vounlding a 400 pound gorilla killed after a 4yearold boy fell in his enclosure at a cincinnati zoo. Libertarians pick their candidate to battle the donald, they reveal a person to take on trum am. Police have new leads on a deadly shooting in houston. A rookie running on fumes wins the indy 500 and we hohn yort fallen o...

Mohammed ali to the cemetery, where he will be laid to rest later this morning. Taking a route through the city where he was born and raised and learned how to box. A very public memorial will begin roughly four hours from now, alib, died a week ago, ali a threetime heavyweight champ who defended his title 21 times in his career, arguably the best fighter of his generation, but he was more than just a boxer. A decision also cost him three years of his prime as well. It helped to fuel the opposit...

Right now gaming out all of the sthar yos as they are waiting. Today there was a rare sighting of Robert Mueller today headed to work at his office. You see him there in the baseball cap. And all eyes are on the special counsel as he wraps up his work. Mueller was appointed 673 days ago by then acting attorney general Rod Rosenstein. And despite the president publicly attacking the investigation more than 1,100 times according to the new york times, mueller has gotten results. So this these are ...

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It has been slow to arrive, but high speed rail could be coming North Atlantic Rail The North Atlantic Rail project will include a tunnel under Long Island Sound through New Haven to Hartford, create a new line from Hartford to Providence, RI (½ hour travel time), and connect multiple mid-sized cities, including new service from Springfield, MA to Brattleboro, VT & Keene, NH. It would also include extended new service from Danbury, CT to Pittsfield, MA. In 2016, federal officials unveiled a pl...

Survive. >> they want to get all these environment projects done in ten years and its impossible. you lose jobs and lose wages. >> reporter: more concerns about the party from voters like paul. >> theyre more liberal. theyre attempting to be socialists. >> reporter: there are plenty of countries across the country like lucern that went from blue to red during the last presidential election. trump won michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania by less than 80,000 votes. former pennsylvania governor and...

Under control, sure we do, but thats an issue for another day and an important issue. >> governor ed rendel, thanks for joining us on this labor day, we appreciate it. thinking about the residents of your city right now, search a lot of people having to sort of take stock of everything they have lost and rebuild their lives really, how are recovery efforts going so far in your area? >> you get into some of the smaller towns that were harder hit, like port aransass, rock port, theres still a lot ...

Rendel. the congressman wants to vote on raising the nations debt limit. do you think thats a good move here? >> my complaint with some disaster relief bills in the past, is they tack other stuff on. lets have the disaster bill go through, i think it will overwhelmingly pass on a bipartisan basis, then we can deal with the political issues later in the week or next week. >> lets talk about some of the other things that are on congresss plate right now that they need to do or get done next month....