With a flat tire. They stopped. And good thing. Because the guy with the flat was dave matthews. No word whether he sang where are you going on the way to the show. But he did repay his Good Samaritan fans with front row seats. I woke up this morning, i said, okay, yeah, that really happened yesterday. And the moral of the story . Always pick up hitchhikers. As long as they are dave matthews. And thank you for watching abc news. World news now coming up soon. Overnight break stuff. Tune in to gma in the morning. And as always, were online at abcnews. Com. Have a great night. Breaking news in oakland where the standoff between police and protestors has intensified in the past 15 minutes or so. It is another night of anger in the streets ov Trayvon Martin verdict. Good evening. Carolyn has the night off. Minutes ago sky 7 hd was overhead as protestors and police face off in downtown oakland. Officers made at least 5 arrest tonight. Of we are on the phone live with the very latest. Just f
Experiences having bottles thrown at them. People are here protesting the fact that George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin in florida. This has been the third day of protests in oakland. Last night nine people were arrested. Before we go, this is an empty building with a sign you may have seen in oakland an old abandoned storefront with a boarded up window. Police made nine arrests and most of those arrested have addresses outside of oakland. Thank you. The protests turned violent if los angeles with 13 people facing charges after this scene last night. A group of 150 people broke off from a larger group and started attacking cars and businesses and swarm add driver smashing a car until they took off. A local news crew was also attacked. George zimmermans parents told Barbara Walters they fear for their sons life. The couple are speaking out for the First Time Since the aquittal in shooting death of unarmed florida teen George Zimmerman. They are concerned
Then go is widely believed to have committed suicide in 890. 00. The us fed leaves Interest Rates unchanged but leaves the door open for a later cut so what does that say about the American Economy and about the Central Banks independence from a pushy president. Also on the show the u. S. Hopes to bolster its coal power plants unveiling new rules that scrap of missions targets and will likely slow the ships renewables. And will take you to a school in a world gonna where the power of play is helping to keep the lights on. Welcome to business im Stephen Beard thanks for watching. The Federal Reserve has left the key lending rate unchanged in the 2. 25 to 2. 5 percent range but some fed officials apparently expect
a rate cut by the end of the year announcing the decision fed chairman Jerome Powell pointed to concerns over weakening Global Growth and volatile International Trade relationships just a day ago similar preoccupations prompted the European Central bank to signal that its ready
And new guidelines on Cyber Security. Well get to jack lews confirmation in a moment. First the cbo director Douglas Elmendorf testimony. He warned of the sequester could cost 750,000 jobs. Could you tell me in terms of the negative Economic Impact of the sequester, the. 6 , what does that translate in point of lost jobs . Our estimate is that the sequester alone would reduce gdp growth this year by zero point six percentage points. It would lower that gdp at the end of the year. We think that would reduce by about 750,000 jobs. 750,000 jobs between now and the end of 2013, right . Right. That is a whole lot of jobs. We should be working overtime to prevent that kind of job loss. If you were to replace the deficit reduction through that austerity program, the cuts to the sequester with a plan that accomplishes the same amount of deficit reduction spread over the 10 year period, you would not have that hit on jobs . Right. Our analysis, the republican leader, mr. Cantor had it right las
A summit with the norths leader kim jong un. And polls open in irelands historic abortion referendum the mainly catholic nation and one of the strictest abortion laws in durham a close result is expected. Im serious almost kind of welcome to the show the former hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to hand himself over to new York City Police and just a few hours time on charges of Sexual Misconduct more than seventy women have made accusations including rape against the cofounder of the miramax studio in the Weinstein Company the allegations gave rise to the need to movement this would be the first time weinstein has been formally charged since the avalanche of allegations emerged. Was Harvey Weinstein was once one of hollywoods most celebrated moguls the studios were behind a string of oscar winning film. In weinsteins hands an actors career could be made or broken but his store began to fall last october when the New York Times published multiple reports of serious Sexua