Due to a weather related incident on the tarmac. Jessica rae after months of anticipation. The day is finally here star wars the force Awakens Opens tonight. Leaving fans all over the country giddy with excitement. These stories and more. On abc9 news this morning. Jessica rae the Federal Reserve is increasing Interest Rates for the first time in nearly a decade. And the nations largest banks have already started raising their prime lending rates. Making things a little more expensive. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the story. Do you have a credit card . A car loan . Mortgages . Listen up. Fed chair janet yellen announcing the Federal Reserve is upping Interest Rates from a record low of zero to onequarter of a percent. And while it may be a good sign for the economy . Yellen . The federal funds rate was held near zero to support the recovery of the economy from the worst financial crisis and recession since the great depression. It may not be go for your wallet rates have been kept low in o
After saving a man from house fire last year. Cory simonson and Matthew Tranel are two of 24 people honored with Carnegie Hero medals. They saved a man whose wheelchair got stuck while inside a house fire in maquoketa. The medal is given to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others. A man is arrested after deputies respond to a reported burglary in progress. It happened at a home north of dunkerton this morning. Chad clark of waterloo was arrested. Black hawk county sheriffs deputies found clark as he was leaving the area. Clark was taken to the black the drug company ceo who came under fire for raising the price of a life saving drug 5thousand percent was arrested early this morning. Fbi agents arrested 32year old Martin Shkreli on security fraud charges related to a firm he founded. The federal case accuses him of illegally taking stock from a Biotechnology Firm that he started in a new york lawyer is also accused of
To get a lot more crazy. You wont find mayberry rfd on the map, but if civility is something that you want, you couldnt do much bet erter that on the settle in grovetown, georgia. It is one of the best places. The army fort is down the road are and the citys 12,000 residents are active or military. Crime stats can be measured in stolen bicycles. Here sis a veteran investigator for the county. How big is the crime . Hardly any crime. Dozens of homicides would you say . Maybe one a year. And they did a homicide in 2011 one that sent people scrambling for fresh ammo. You wondered what is going on. So many terrible things happened so quickly and so many taboos broke enn on a suburban street that the mind reeled. We were so much praying for the fam the family. The neighborhood was shocked. It began here with two best friends on a street called hot springs drive in grovetown. Kay parsons had moved into the neighborhood in 2005. She was a devoted wife to her husband david who worked at fort g
Wednesday morning. Im willie along with natalie and tamron inside studio 1 ark. Al out on assignment. This is shes perfect from todays house band 5 seconds of summer filling up the plaza, rocking the plaza and will do another song. Like that. They debuted here on our show i guess july 2014. If they dont well, they know now because they are in the green room watching. Thank you, guys. They are like were nobodys house band but well call you that. Exactly. Well talk to them in just a couple of minute. Meanwhile, all talking about this World Series Game last night not just because of the baseball but because what night game one. World series, royals mets in kansas city. A lot of people waiting and anticipating this one, but there were some technical difficulties during the broadcast. Fox actually lost its picture for a while and had to put up a slate explaining they were in the middle of a technical problem and nine minutes later it happened again. Heres how it unfolded. So funny. We have
From one of his states newspapers. Green strike. A green laser hit. Another passenger plane hit by a laser, this time over san diegos airport. The second incident there in recent weeks. And they are kind of hot. One of pop musics biggest acts, 5 seconds of summer heating up the fall and we have a huge crowd counting down to a live concert on our plaza today, wednesday, october 28th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. 5 seconds of summer, or as we might say in an hour 5 seconds of soggy. The band is here, a huge crowd out on our plaza, they will play rain or shine in just a little bit. No umbrellas out there right now. Thats a good sign. Meanwhile, big debate tonight. Well talk more about that, but well start with our top story. Plenty of drama during the opening game of the world series between the Kansas City Royals and the new y