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Unearned work. it added up to managers making an extra 34 grand and 27 employees put in for nearly $700,000. >> they feel entitled to this payment, like a perk. >> reporter: this special pot of overtime is meant for urgent work, like agents going after an undocumented immigrant on the border. but the abusers earned their ot by watching sports, catching up on netflix and commuting to work. jose claims he couldnt tell his bosses, because well, they were in on it too. >> supervisors were benefittin...

Umpire at third base called obstruction on will middlebrooks. st. louis is awarded the game run. its very confusing. middlebrooks interfering, obstructing alan craig from going home and the rule says whether you intend to or not you cant impede with the base runners roger. st. louis gets the run, st. louis gets the win on one of the strangest craziest plays youll ever see. college football. number five missouri is no longer perfect. it was upset by south carolina in double overtime. one of the m...

Houston started 2-0 on the season, now lost five games in a r row. robert griffin, iii looked like himself after last seasons devastating knee injury. the washington quarterback threw for nearly 300 yards and two scores and late in the game, rg3 led his team to a game winning scoring drive with 45 seconds left on the clock. so washington wins a shoot-out over the chicago bears 45-41. one of the top stories in the lineup section at bleacherreport.com this morning, the patriots loss to the jets be...

Statement that said veterans will find theyre support centers unstaffed and implied that counseling services for vet raps pts would be affected. third, this committee has been told that the backlog would actually end on september 30th. yet days into the shutdown, were now informed that the shutdown prevented vas planned continued payment of overtime. fourth, although a shutdown should have a relatively uniform affect across all regional offices, as suggested by your own field guide, my staff met...

Days. a 31.5% increase in about a little over six months. since the shutdown began on 1, october, the backlog has stalled. and in fact, it has increased by about 2,000 claims. vba has already furloughed more than 7,800 of its employees, half of whom are veterans. a shutdown directly threatens their ability to eliminate the backlog. weve lost ground we fought hard to take. roughly 1400 veterans a day are now not receiving decisions on their claims due to the end of overtime. if the shutdown does ...

Almost what an apple worker puts in to make iphones and ipads. apples subcontractors dont always pay the workers for their overtime. theyre sending a team to look into labor conditions and those overtime claims. chinas labor force works overtime to make a reasonably priced phone. but americans might be breaking that soda habit anyway. new sales numbers from coca-cola, pepsi, and dr pepper show soda sales down last quarter. one area of the economy thats definitely not flat, housing. take a look a...

The jobs report was the big headline this week, but there were some other important story that is matter to your money. lets put 60 seconds on the clock. its money time. >> americans today are working less than their patients, thore not necessarily by choice. the reason, the rise of part-time jobs. back in the 1860s a manufacturing worker logged 62 hours a week. today in china thats almost exactly what an apple worker puts in. apples subcontractors dont always way the workers for their overtime....

Court, details that start to fill out a picture of what they were doing over the three weeks and how isolating it is to be sequestered. we now know they spent 22 nights at the marriott hotel, they each got their own rooms. there was also a suite where they ate together and socialized. they worked out at the hotel gym, they went to movies approved by the court, and they also went bowling and shopping is, manicures and pedicures, fireworks on the fourth of july. they went out to eat a few times at...

Fight. that would have been relevant. if george zimmerman somehow knew that trayvon martin had a violent streak, if in fact he did. but theres no evidence that george zimmerman could have known of these text messages. so i dont see why its relevant at all. i dont think they should allow this in evidence. >> we have to take a quick break. when we come back, i want to play one more exchange that the witness had about some of the texts that related to this alleged fight that trayvon martin allegedl...

Is she wants it over and she wants it over now and she wants it to that jury friday afternoon. >> jeff, i saw you shaking your head. >> well, i think mark -- i actually think mark is right about the first part. i dont think authenticity is much of an issue. i agree that they can cross examine about whether there was any proof that trayvon martin actually sent it. but i think the bigger issue here is, is this material relevant? there is no evidence that george zimmerman knew that trayvon martin w...