AFN
NEWS ON THE HOUR
Thursday, February 15, 2018
1)
AP Radio News: I am Tim Maguire. Broward
County Florida School Superintendent Robert
Runcie tells WPLG-TV. “There are
numerous fatalities. It’s a horrific situation.” A shooter opened fire this
afternoon inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida.
The Broward County Sherriff’s Department says at least 14 people have been shot.
Junior Nicholas Rhoda tells WPLG he
was with a group of students who first thought it was a fire drill. “So, they pulled
the fire alarm; we all left out of there. I heard at least five gunshots. Me
and my friends, we ran as fast as we could by the westerly gate. We hopped a
fence, went to Walmart and I called my family, my friends.” The Sherriff’s
Department says the shooting suspect is in custody. The AP’s Josh Replogle reports from near the
school. “Hundreds of parents have gathered right before Stoneman Douglas School
here in Parkland. There’s a lot of confusion, a lot of tears, a lot of people
crying on the phone trying to reach their children inside the schools. About a
few hundred yards away, we could see a triage unit where several hundred students
have been separated away.” In a tweet, Sherriff’s Department writes that the
victims have been and continued to be transported to local hospitals. There is
no word on identities of the victims or their conditions.
2)
President Trump breaks his silence. After days of questions following his praise
for an aide who resigned in his spouse abuse allegations, the President’s
broken his silence. “I am totally opposed to domestic violence and everybody
here knows that.” The scandal over what senior aides knew about the allegations
against Rob Porter has led to doubt
about the judgment and futures of officials like chief of staff John Kelly, but Vice President Pence is giving him a vote of
confidence, telling Axios Kelly’s done
a remarkable job. That’s the AP’s Sagar
Meghani reporting. This is AP Radio News
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I
am Steven Greenberg talking about your
next job. The fastest growing part of our workforce is American 65 and older. According
to a new study, the number of older people with jobs rose by nearly 35% between
2011 and 2016. In 2011, about 6 and 1/2 million Americans over 65 were working in
the U.S. That’s according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2016, that
number had shot up to nearly 9 million people. Management positions and jobs of
sales and office support are the most common jobs for older workers. Only 1/3
of the workers over 65 say they’re working because they need the money. Twenty
percent say because they enjoy working and many others say they work because it’s
healthier to work than to retire, and they may be right. A recent study published
in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found that those who continue
working after 65 actually have a lower risk of death from any cause. With your next
job, I’m Steven Greenberg.
