an agreement. This is big this morning has been
reached and a potentially catastrophic strike has now been avoided
this morning. That's because President biden just released a
statement just after five a.m. This morning saying the White
House has a tentative deal now to bring better pay
, improved working conditions and even peace of mind around
health care costs. When it comes to these freight
drivers, the strike would have disrupted shipping and passenger
lines at an estimated cost of$2 billion a day
, Shannon Yeah. And officials from the both sides
met for long hours in Washington, D. C
. With labor secretary marty Walsh. And it was
a much needed win for the White House this morning
. And that's where we find our own aerial Hickson
live in Washington, D. C. With the
very latest good morning area. What can you tell
us? Good morning, Shannon and baker. The
White House announced a tentative agreement between rail companies and
unions representing 100,000 workers early this morning. It likely
averts Strike that could have brought supply chains in the
world's biggest economy to a standstill by midnight Friday.
Something the Biden administration said would be a quote,
unacceptable outcome for the economy and American people negotiators met
for 20 consecutive hours at the Department of Labor before
the 12 railway unions put the strike on hold.
The tentative agreement includes better pay working conditions and peace
of mind with health care costs. The National Railroad
strike could have energized already surging inflation delay, food
and supply shipments and costs as you mentioned, and
the US economy would have cost that$2 billion dollars
per day. Now the president called the tentative agreement
a win for thousands of rail workers as well as
the companies who will now be able to quote retain
and recruit more workers the new contract because it gives
rail workers a 24% rage increase over the five year
period from 2020 to 2024. It also includes an
immediate payout of$11,000 on average. The deal now
goes back to the unions for a vote after which
there will be a cooling off period of several weeks
. In preparation for the potential strike though, Amtrak
had canceled all long distance trains. Norfolk. Southern
issued embargoes for certain ship and BnsF Railway's stop removing
refrigerated units into non coastal facility. So it's unclear
when or how those shipments will get back on track
. Yeah, but no doubt huge news that this
was averted here area. Let's talk about something else
that the President is dealing with here and that's what's
happening across the pond with the Royals. The president
, what's the latest with his trip to attend Queen
Elizabeth the second's funeral here. Well, the president
called king Charles the third Wednesday to offer his condolences
on the passing of the queen and during that call
, he mentioned visiting the queen in june recalling her
quote kindness and hospitality. He also talked about the
quote great admiration of the american people for the queen
, which he says deepen the relationship between the US
and UK. President biden wishes to continue a close
relationship with king Charles and plans to attend the queen's
funeral with the first lady on september 19th. So
a very big call there. Yeah. And we
will definitely be having that live coverage when it happens
on monday aerial Hickson. Thank you so much.
Live from Washington. All right, let's talk about
the queen here. Queen Elizabeth the second left,
Buckingham Palace. The last time on Wednesday Mr coffin
was taken by horse drawn carriage to Westminster Hall.
King Charles the 3rd march behind that coffin along with
his siblings and his son's. The coffin was topped
by a wreath of white roses in the Queen's crown
rest on a purple velvet pillow. Now the queen's
gonna lie in state for four days until her funeral
on monday. And at one point yesterday, lines
for the public viewing stretched through London for almost three
miles. That's pretty far. Alright, well,
power outages in the US are becoming more frequent as
climate change increases extreme weather. The analysts from research
group Climate Central found that 83% of all reported power
outages were caused by a weather really related event.
From 2000 to 2021. Now that's everything from drought
fueled wildfires to damaging storms such as tornadoes and hurricanes
. And those numbers by the way are climbing of
64% since the previous decade. Texas reported the largest
number of weather related outages since 2000 followed by michigan
California, north Carolina and pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Ukrainian
president Vladimir Zelinski made an unannounced visit to the northeast
city of Islam. Yesterday it was recently recaptured from
Russia control as part of Ukraine's counter offensive here now
is um was a major logistical hub for Russian forces
in the north of Ukraine. Over the weekend,
Russia's Defense Ministry announced that troops were being removed from
is that in an effort to regroup that in light
of the Ukrainian advance their well California's attorney general filed
an antitrust lawsuit against amazon on Wednesday claiming that the
retailer Stifles competition and increases the prices that consumers pay
across the Internet. Now, the suit is limited
to California, where officials say Amazon had around 25
million customers, but if it's successful and it could
be a broad impact across the country, Amazon penalizes
sellers on its site if they offer products elsewhere for
cheaper prices. The state alleged. Now that makes
it harder for others to come. An amazon spokesperson
told the L. A. Times the sellers set
the own prices for the products that they offer on
the store site and the company is hoping that this
case of course will disappear. All right. Let's
move to Detroit. President biden a gearhead of himself
with his own vintage 1967 Corvette paid a visit to
the north american auto show in Detroit, that's where
he announced a$900 million investment to build 500,000 charging
stations across 35 different states. Now, while he
was at the show, the president drove an electric
cadillac SUV. But apparently Shannon, he said he
really preferred the latest Corvette z 06 instead.