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Here are some headlines from the working families' news we're reading today (after the jump).
The price of limes has risen approximately 500 percent in recent weeks, according to a produce buyer for Hardie's Fruit and Vegetable Co.
"I was running away from the inferno, trying to save myself,'' he said. Firefighters run "into infernos to try to save other people. I shouldn't even be here."
A video has gone viral of a dad tying one end of a string to his son’s loose tooth, and the other end to a remote-control helicopter. The tooth came out cleanly.
Cops say they’ve broken up an organized luggage theft ring at Los Angeles International Airport. They arrested airport workers Wednesday.
KCRA-TV captures images in Glenn County, California of funnel clouds from the air, and ground. The National Weather Service confirms a Roseville neighborhood was hit by a tornado, but no major damage or injuries were reported.
Twenty years later and what have we learned from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)? Nearly 700,000 U.S. jobs have been lost or displaced, union density in the United States, Mexico and Canada fell and income inequality has increased. The AFL-CIO's new report, NAFTA at 20, discusses how current U.S. trade policy has failed to raise wages, improve social standards or address inequality—and what needs to change to ensure that future trade agreements actually work for working people.
As the search enters its sixth day, the death toll rises to 16 in the devastating Washington mudslide that took place over the weekend. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports.
Two firefighters were killed and more than a dozen others injured after a massive fire engulfed a residential building in Boston. NBC’s Ron Allen reports.
Curtis Reissig, the construction worker who narrowly escaped a burning building in Houston, joins TODAY along with the firefighters who saved him to recount the harrowing incident.
