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High wages, overtime pay, everybody back at work and those workers did more than improve their own lives, they changed america. within weeks more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law [cheers and applause] and today there are no children working in factories. [cheers] we have national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. ewould get paid overtime and we now have a 40-hour week. that's right. that's right. because of the workers here in lawrence and all a...

And those workers did more than improve their own lives. they changed america. within weeks, more than a quarter of a million textile workers throughout new england got raises. within months, massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a minimum wage law. and today, there are no children working in factories. we have a national minimum wage and national worker safety laws. workers get paid overtime and we now have a 40-hour week. that's right. that's right. because of the workers right here in lawrence and all across the country, we have weekends. the story of lawrence is a stor...

When looking at 9% unemployment around the can trin. you have contracts to build light rail or street cars that are going to be going up in houston and atlanta. are these temporary gigs or for people could these be the start of long-term careers for folks? >> i think they can definitely be the start of long term careers in places like sacramento where we're expanding our light rail facility n charlotte where we're building a new gas turban plant, we're spending money retraining people. in charlotte, textile workers who will be working in a gas turbine plant, same thing in iowa, retraining work...

seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. >> that's right. in fact, we're waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that's the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. >> strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wan...

All the violence that has come has come from the regime. the protesters here have defended themselves against that violence. but as they continue to remain peaceful and they plan to march to make their voices heard tomorrow, as one protester told me they will take cairo bit by bit if they have to until mubarak leaves. >> sharif, there was a a story printed in "the l.a. times" within the last 24 hours that said that the root of all of this is labor. did this whole thing start because of labor issues? what do you know about that? >> well, look. this uprising is led mainly by the youth generation...