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At noon, campaign 2014 debate coverage begins with the North Carolina Senate Debate between kay hagan and republican challenger tom tillis. Our guest on newsmakers this week is mary kay henry, head of the Union Representing 2 million unions in the u. S. And canada. This follows protests over wages and fast food restaurants. Your union participated in nationwide protests. 500 people were arrested. These workers are not members of the union. Why are you participating . We want to support any workers joining together to improve their lives. The food workers are one of most underpaid and undervalu...

Perspective, because they had the willingness to risk arrest and bring more attention to the economy that does not work for them when they work really hard and cannot even afford basic necessities. We support their demand for 15 and a union, because when people have more money to spend in their local communities, they are going to be able to buy groceries, go to the hardware store, by more close for their kids, and get the economy going again, in every community in this nation. The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled in your favor. I said mcdonalds is liable for employment and wage v...

Around the bay. Plenty of sunshine and numbers into the mid90s today inland. A few degrees of cooling in low 80s in san jose. 60s along the coast. 70s into the east bay. Details and then the cooldown for the week ahead, coming up. Breaking news out of richmond where a suspect has died in an officerinvolved shooting. Shortly after midnight, Police Responded to uncle sams liquor store. Officers are not saying what happened, but an altercation occurred leaving the suspect dead. The officer was not injured. As protocol he has been placed on administrative leave while that incident is being investi...

Coming up, Deborah Potter on the controversial life of the late dorothy day. She was a convert to catholicism who fed the poor, defied authority, opposed all war, and is now being considered for sainthood. And this weekend of the Grammy Awards, kim lawton looks at the new mainstream success for contemporary christian music. Welcome. Im bob abernethy. Its good to have you with us. There was more attention this week to the ethical debate weaponized drones in the war on terror. The discussion came amid a Senate Intelligence Committee Confirmation hearing for john brennan, nominated to be the next...

Live from the kgo broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. It is sunday, september 14. Lets start with a quick look at the weather, heres the meteorologist. Hi, everyone, live doppler hd depicting cloud coverage along the shoreline. Low clouds and fog are just over parts of the bay here. Temperatures are in the 60s for most areas. 63 in san carlos, yanother warm afternoon for most of you, we had a little bit of cooling yesterday in our inland east bay. That continues today, well have the high clouds in the mix for some of you, but overall, mostly sunny conditions, we have 80s for much of the sout...