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In may, the minimum wage increased to 9. 15 an hour. Five cities opted out of johnson countys increase. A Polk County Task force wants to increase the minimum wage there to 1075 an hour by january 2019. It recommended a plan to the board of supervisors earlier this month. If approved, the county would start the increase at 875, next april. A pacific hurricane is getting weaker, but could still make landfall on hurricane madeline is a category 1 storm with sustained winds of about 90 miles per ho...

Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day lots of sunshine, a light north wind, and low humidity will make for perfect conditions to start meteorologic al fall. The average high this time of year is around 79 so this is actually rather typical. Tropical storm hermine will continue to block the weather pattern through the weekend with our next chance of storms arriving around labor day. At that time, warm temperatures and higher humidity will also be in the area. Have a good one tod...

Also joins us. Michael, ill start with you in buffalo and then come back to new york. The campaign is certainly happy with the way things have been going. Not only yesterday but for the last week or so. The polls, we talked about on the network, the fox poll shows the race getting closer. The fundraise numbers we show in the broadcast certainly shows donald trump had a lot of things it seemed to me two different trumps. Diplomatic by day and then at night hard line trump. Did that speech help in...

The water from flooding these apartments in largo. Man in green shirt it was still about 4 1 2 inches of water inside of the house. In sarasota. Voluntary evacuations are in effect with shelters open. And officers going door to door. Looking for anyone in need of rescue. Woman in neon poncho like up to here, officers were coming up to me and their gun belts were under water, they were up to here in water. Woman i looked out my back window and my backyard was flooded. And the water was 3 feet fro...

Plan on a great day lots of sunshine, a light north wind, and low humidity will make for perfect conditions to start meteorologic al fall. The average high this time of year is around 79 so this is actually rather typical. Tropical storm hermine w weather pattern through the weekend with our next chance of storms arriving around labor day. At that time, warm temperatures and higher humidity will also be in the area. Have a good one today mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High...

Today will be fantastic as highs rise into the middle to upper 70s. The continued lack of mugginess will also be nice. This weekend, High Pressure is a lock and will keep the upcoming weekend quiet with moderating temperatures into the 80s for sunday and especially labor day. Next week, our weather should trend a little more active with thunderstorms possible on tuesday and wednesday. Have a great week mostly sunny, high around 77. Tonight clear, low around 54. Tomorrow mostly sunny, high around...

Hillary continuing email scandal and is the epipen ceo the new pharma row . The latest face of corporate greed between the report says mylan executives jacked up prices of the lifesaving drug to line their own pockets, the ceo is here to talk about skyrocketing drug prices in a foxbusiness exclusive interview. Wall street the first trading day of what is usually the first trading month of the year, the nasdaq in the green ahead of the allimportant august jobs report. And florida is bracing for h...

Drivers more fairly, the Airport Commission took its first step to regulate uber and lyft, classifying them as Transportation Network companies, last week. Officials say theyll be requiring those companies to get permits to operate at the airport for a monthly fee. As far as what the fee will be, thats still under negotiation. But, its about creating parity with our cab drivers. Kevin says he appreciates the change. Perhaps he wont want to give a customer the boot net word. Uber told us the comp...

Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day in all areas. Highs will drop into the upper 70s today with lower humidity levels as well. Our wind will people believe the city is wasting their time and money. The city is holding an inforanal meeting tonight to explain why the city needs updates. The city council wants to fix crumbling sidewalks and put them into neighborhoods where they dont exist. Homeowners will have to cover the cost. Council members say the ordinance has been around...

For our chances with rain kaj . Plan on another breezy and warm day. Storms will be knocking on the northwest door later today and into the night. Heavy rain is possible out of any storm given the amount of heat present. A few storms northwest of waterloo will carry the risk of a few strong wind gusts as well. Overall, the weather pattern will be very active for the next 36 hours with heavy rain the main risk going into wednesday. Rainfall totals over 2 still appears possible over the northern h...