Tens of thousands of hourly workers walked off their jobs today in the protest against low pay. Holding rallies at fast food restaurants around the country. They demanded a 15dollar minimum rage. Diane esther brook is in downtown chi for us, where protests have been going on, and these rallies, lets face it here. Theyre about a lot more than fast food workers these days, arent they . Oh, thats right tony. Weve seen healthcare workers and security and clerical workers. Theyre also demanding the right to unionize. Shouting battle cries and waving signs protesters outside of this Mcdonalds Restaurant blasted the chain for what they call unliveable wages. Were tired of working for multibillionaires who are making money off of our hard work and we cant survive. We demonstrated for a 1 dollar minimum wage. Fast food workers started the fight for 15 movement two years ago, and its a fight for other low wage workers as well. Security workers making more than 15 an hour, walked off of their job
Reporter monitoring of syrian basis like this one has pekd up evidence engineers have loaded the chemicals which combine to form the deadly nerve agent sarin into bombs that could be dropped airplanes. Satellites have seen trucks moving among want bunkers where the weapons and agents are believed to be stored. U. S. Officials say the evidence is strong but circumstantial not definitive. But that combined with fighting infighting in the suburbs of damascus, has led to fears of what the assad regime might do. We asked jeffrey white, a former analyst for the Defense Intelligence agency, what would happen if the rebels cut off damascus . Its the end of the regime. The regime can hang on for a while because it has troops in the city. It has ammunition and supplies and so on but it means the city will fall. It cannot stand alone. Reporter u. S. Intelligence does not believe damascus is likely to fall right away, but white had an estimate. You can feel it. You can sense it. It looks like the
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Whether the u. S. Enters the war in syria appears to be up to the dictator Bashar Alassad. On monday, david martin reported that the assad regime had given orders to prepare chemical weapons for possible use to put down the revolt that has been raging in that country for more than a year and a half. President obama said the use of these weapons of mass destruction would be totally unacceptable. Well, tonight, david has new intelligence to report, and we have three stories on the breaking news in syria. Well start with martin at the pentagon. Reporter u. S. Intelligence so far has not detected any signs syria is loading chemical weapons on to aircraft, but defense secretary panetta said it appears the embattled assad regime is preparing to do just that. There is no question that we remain very concerned, very concerned that as the opposition advances, in particular on damascus, that the regi
His leg was shot. Two brothers changed. Victims of the Boston Marathon bombing learnt to walk again. And christians celebrate Easter Sunday as thousands flock to hear pope francis. Good morning to you and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford coming to you live from new york city. Theres more anguish and heart ache in south korea as divers recover more bodies from the wreckage of the ferry that sank on wednesday. More than 50 people are confirmed dead. As boats come asheer with bodies ashore with bodies, loved ones watch. Some calling for their children to wake up. Others too overcome to speak. Divers are making head way as the weather improves. Prosecutors are asking to keep the ships captain behind bars. This as evidence mounts against him. Al jazeeras adrian brown reports that parents are struggling with their worse nightmare. We have seen more and more bodies brought ashore. There has been basically a Shuttle Service of coast guard vessels going out to the submerged ferr
Well start with martin at the pentagon. Reporter u. S. Intelligence so far has not detected any emgns syria is loading chemical weapons on to aircraft, but defense secretary panetta said it appears the embattled assad regime is preparing to do just that. There is no question that we remain very concerned, very thecerned that as the opposition advances, in particular on hemascus, that the regime might very well consider the use of chemical weapons. Ing eporter monitoring of syrian basis like this one has picked up evidence engineers have loaded the chemicals which combine to form the deadly nerve agent sarin, into bombs that could be dropped airplanes. Satellites have seen trucks moving among want bunkers where the weapons and agents are believed to be stored. U. S. Officials say the evidence is strong but circumstantial, not definitive. But that, combined with fighting in the suburbs of damascus, has led to fears of what the assad regime might do. If it feels cornered. We asked jeffrey