The white house after two weeks vacationing on marthas vineyard. He travels later today to nevada where he will deliver a speech on green energy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 24. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you. Weather. Still extremely dangerous wildfire situation in Washington State. Across that state, 16 large wildfires are still burning. They cover more than 2920 square miles, more than a third of that area has been consumed by a massive complex of fires. Abcs Kendis Gibson is there. Reporter tonight, the wildfires in washington growing to a staggering 374 square miles. Authorities fearing the return of extremely dry conditions and no rain in sight could make fighting these fires more difficult. The atmosphere instability has the potential to affect all fires in the comrix. Reporter thousands of residents under evacuation orders. Mark desdier rushing to save his lake house at the height of the fires, caught in a firestorm. Inst
Vacationing on marthas vineyard. He travels later today to nevada where he will deliver a speech on green energy. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 24. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning to you. We begin this half hour with weather. Still extremely dangerous wildfire situation in Washington State. Across that state, 16 large wildfires are still burning. They cover more than 2920 square miles, more than a third of that area has been consumed by a massive complex of fires. Abcs Kendis Gibson is there. Reporter tonight, the wildfires in washington growing to a staggering 374 square miles. Authorities fearing the return of extremely dry conditions and no rain in sight could make fighting these fires more difficult. The atmosphere instability has the potential to affect all fires in the comrix. Reporter thousands of residents under evacuation orders. Mark desdier rushing to save his lake house at the height of the fires, caught in a firestorm. Instant
As a mother, i have now been forced to raise a son who is going to remember what happened to his father that i cant take away from him he is at an age every understanding. I hurt more for him and his lost. The two officers involved in sterlings death have been put on administrative leave and baton rouge have handed over the investigation to the f. B. I. , a vigil is planned for tonight, im sure well see many more in baton rouge, sarah . Jim, thanks, now to fox5 exclusive dc firefighter under investigation after inflammatory posts on facebook made in response to the Baton Rouge Police shooting. Paul wagner live in foggy bottom with this exclusive story, paul . Reporter laura, sarah, Norman Brooks has been on the Dc Fire Department he works here athen gin 23, in foggy bottom, on the campus of George Washington university. This is what we know from sources. That around midday today, Norman Brooks, went on facebook, and made a rant, basically, typed out a rant, angry at Police Officers, an
[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we think some of the money could be found to fund the services that these folks are providing. The Systems Commission is submitting to you 2014 insurance renewal rates within the coming days. Now negotiations between kaiser and hhs staff has been [inaudible] so far and they use proposal which was the last offer. With kaiser refusing to negotiate for month hhs staff has outlined the issues for you folks to consider when this comes to you. Members have trended younger and healthier and requiring fewe
Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average of 1015 increase so basically the city is recognizing that other sectors that they do business with has the realities of business such as health care and workers comp goes up but what does the Nonprofit Sector . We have the same realities and workers have to pay the bills and we deserve to be compensated fairly for the hard work that people do, so pie colleagues gave you some really testimony abo