3 Things You Need To Know:: Air Traffic Control Issues

Air Traffic controls are working without pay due to the Federal Shutdown. DC Couples can start getting marriage licenses again during the shutdown. DMV restaurants are helping with breast cancer research.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, from the city that changes the world.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Peers rose with three things you need.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
To know for you Wednesday, Rose what you got for
us c us air traffic controllers while the public to
be aware that they are now working without pay. The
National air Traffic Controllers Association says its members began logging
unpaid hours yesterday. So some air traffic controllers were spotted
at various airports, including Reggae National Airport, handing out flyers.
Explaining the impact of the ongoing federal shutdown.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
The president of.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
The NATCA says that the shutdown is creating risks for
flyers because controllers are now splitting their focus between safely
guiding planes and worrying about paying their bills because they
have to you know, get.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Gass and put pot them like that.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
So DC couples can start getting marriage license again thanks to.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Action taken by the city Council.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
So the clerk of the DC Superior Court stopped issuing
therriage license after employees were furloughed because of the federal shutdowns.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
The DC Council.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Passed the Let Our Valves Endure Emergency Act glass giving
the mayor the power to issue marriage license and assigned
wedding officiants during the shutdown, So if you were planning
on getting married and started stressing, you don't have to
worry about that anymore. The bill took effect yesterday and
will remain enforced for the next ninety days, and Banks
for Breast Cancer has returned for its annual week long

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fundraiser the DMV.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
There are various.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Restaurants across the DMV to have special desserts at all.
Proceeds benefit cancer research, which is really cool. So it
starts October seventeenth and it goes through the twenty third
and since nineteen ninety nine, the organization has provided funds
for different oncology doctors to conduct like life saving breast
cancer research, which is really cool. And they're also still
accepting restaurants, so if you have a restaurant you want

(01:40):
to participate, you can still sign up for that. I'm
roso's are the three things you need to know for today.
Thank you, Rose, You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I found our next business venture. Okay, they've got to
Russia though, so I can't do it today because I
have hockey and stuff. But Russia just approved plans to
start selling advertising on space flights. Can you imagine the
show logo on a Russian rocket. Pretty sick. I can
pretty sick. So our good friend Vladdie Putin recently proved

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changes federal laws that allows advertising be placed on spacecraft's. Okay,
so I get and they're saying, obviously it's to raise money.
Sure in two thousand they launched a rocket. Carry a
piece at your National Space station. Have pizza logo on
the side of it.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Now I paid a million dollars. Now we don't have
that kind of money.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I would want more people will see it, though.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well that's the thing. I mean, it's if it's big
enough to worry, they're blasting off and there we are.
It got'd be pretty pretty sick.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, I just who's going to see it? If it's
in space?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well? What to take? Go close? Take photos? Yeah, so
that's the only thing. Or can we do like a
like a softball team or a little league team that
we're on, But like they gotta be good, you know
what I'm saying. True, So we'll go out and evaluate
the children.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
We should do that, though. I remember my field hockey
team was sponsored by this restaurant Breakfast, Lunch and More,
and that was the whole name.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
What was the more guest dinner supprise.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Desert maybe deserve.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
To maybe some apps? Who knows?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So, uh that could be here?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Okay is that are they still around?

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't know. I never went.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Do they give you guys? They give you guys like
a discount on like, uh, bring the teen jerseys in
and get more.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Probably if you want to find out the more you
want to come in.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, I think that that's that's called marketing.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I don't feel like they brought us food or anything. So,
but they sponsored.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
So if there is a youth team of sorts that
needs a sponsor, I done with that entails, but we're interested.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
We we we want to talk.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, I see that are rockets. We're either gonna get
money the Russian astronauts or youth sports.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
There's no in between.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You decide and more.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You could you want to find out more?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Click for more nine eight to text. Yes, we're helping
to give them back to the astronauts of you. You
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Speaker 3 (04:08):
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