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Minimum wage of $7.25 an hour but states are allowed to make their own rules and 29 of them passed state minimum wages as high as $11 an hour. in 2016 voters in four states, arizona, colorado, maine and washington passed ballot measures that gradually raised their minimum wages to as high as $13.50 an hour by the year 2020. the federal minimum wage was first introduced in 1938 during the great depression and was set at 25 cents an hour. it has been raised many times since, but the last time was eight years ago during the last recession. and some working full-time at today's minimum wage can't ...

He is heading to court. martin skareli facing fraud charges after raising cost of hiv drug by 5,000%. nyw liz live outside the courthouse in new york city. good morning, liz. >> heather, good morning to you. martin will be in brooklyn federal court a little bit later on this morning as his trial begins and jury selection will start today. jury selection could take some time. a hedge fund executive is best known for hiking the price of a drug known as deraprim from 13.50 to $750 a pill. the 34-year-old is head today court in a separate case for security's fraud, prosecutors argue skreli was run...

Drug from $13.50. shkreli's trial is expected to last up to six weeks. president trump is going to host the indian prime minister to the white house as soon as today. the congressional budget office could release the score on the senate health care bill. later this week the senate could vote on the bill before the july 4th recess. and the korean president is going to meet with president trump for the first time this week. thanks for watching velshi and ruhle. right now it's time for andr"an mitchell reports". >> partial trump travel ban

Usually comes on to deescalate things. >> exactly it's part of their job. >> so mark i have to ask you, the ceo, the buck stops guys him as well, he released a third statement calling the incident truly horrific saying no one should be mistreated this way. what kind of rights do passengers have. >> probably more tan most people realize. dot allows them to bump passengers and they have certain regulations and they are allowed to do it randomly but they have to compensate. less than 2 hours no compensation. more than four hours 13.50. it's a guide line from d.o.t. and it doesn't prohibit a lawsu...

Checks for gun sales, including private transactions. washington state voters approving a matter giving the power to judges to seize guns. arizona and colorado voters phasing in a $12 hourly minimum wage by 2020. a similar measure on the ballot in maine. in washington state approved a measure raising the minimum wage there to $13.50. the minimum wage is $7.25. california voters leaning towards a yes vote now on prop 57 the use of plastic grocery bags statewide. counts are still being counted on that one. looks very close. a lot more coverage of what was certainly a historic election. what ...