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Need2Know: Railway Strike Avoided, Queen Lies In State, California Sues Amazon

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 us 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 19. It's 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, extra coffin was taken by horse drawn carriage to Westminster Hall. King Charles the third marched behind that coffin along with his siblings and his son's. The coffin was topped by a wreath of white roses and the queen's crown resting on a purple velvet pillow. Now the queen's gonna 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 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 northeastern city of Izzy. Um yesterday it was recently recaptured from Russia control as part of Ukraine's counter effects 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, then 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 compete. An amazon spokesperson told the L. A. Times the sellers set the own prices for the products that they offer on the store. So, 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.