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Wash. county officials aren’t giving up on rescue mission. Fire Chief, Travis Hots says “we are going to exhaust all options to try and find somebody alive.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has had a lot to say over the years about leveling the election playing field between special interest big money donors and regular everyday voters and small donors, by calling for public financing of elections and other reforms. He even made that a major pledge in his last campaign four years ago. But now, with a chance to move toward fair elections, Cuomo has gone strangely silent.
The fire chief in charge of the Washington mudslide rescue operation said crews are facing "unreal" challenges but have not abandoned hope of finding a miracle survivor.
Snohomish County, Wash., Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots reflects on a recovery where he witnessed volunteers pull a mudslide victim from a car.
A small town is pulling together to help the victims of the deadly mudslide in Washington state.Volunteers have poured into the fire station in Darrington, about 12 miles from where the land gave way on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and leaving 90 missing or unaccounted for.
A lawyer from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher reviews the major recommendations the firm tells N.J. Governor Chris Christie he should make in wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal.
The "Give America a Raise" Bus Tour, organized by Americans United for Change and a coalition of allies, is stopping in Pennsylvania this week to continue spreading the message about the need to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is one of the speakers this week at rallies in Wyomissing, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The overwhelming majority of Pennsylvanians, 70% in a recent Quinnipiac poll, support raising the wage, but many of the state's members of Congress are extremists who vote with the tea party often enough, according to Americans United for Change, that more pressure needs to be put on them to do the right thing.If you think America's working families need a raise, sign the petition.
It could take weeks, months or even years for the community of Oso, Wash., to recover from the mile-wide mudslide that buried the rural town in one of the worst landslide disasters in U.S. history.
LIVE VIDEO — Washington state officials hold a news conference to update the search through debris left by a mudslide that killed at least 16 people and demolished dozens of houses.
Attorneys conducting a review concerning allegations related to the George Washington Bridge toll lane realignment hold a media briefing to discuss the findings of the review and take questions.
