Protests continue there on the streets. And their desire to reach a just and impartial verdict doesnt always work. Thats the nature of the system but i have every confidence that it will work in the future. Its just a bump along the road to justice. Of bumps. Again, most hung injuries get retried and those that get retried are usually 70 or so in favor of conviction, about 20 something percent in favor of youve been listening into a News Conference law norgsment officials talking about the hung jury which was seen as a blow. People are now in front of the courthouse. Theyre protesting the judges announcement, which you can see here from up above. The jury was locked in intense deliberations for the past two days, even telling the judge yesterday they were deadlocked. And now with the jury unable to declared this a mistrial and the Police Officer on trial is charged with manslaughter. As you might know by now, freddie gray died earlier this year while in Police Custody and the Police Officer was the first of six officers to stand trial again, freddie gray, 25 years old, died after he was injured while being transported in a police van. His death sparked demonstrations and chaos throughout the city of baltimore. Well continue to watch this story throughout the evening. The Federal Reserve raising Interest Rates for the first time in nearly a decade. Key Interest Rates will be going up a quarter point. That means banks will offer slightly higher interest for cash deposits but it also will cost more to borrow money. And variable Interest Rates like mortgages will also go up. Authorities say its a good sign for the economy. This action marks the end of an extraordinary sevenyear period during which the federal fund rate was near zero to support the recovery the economy and recession since the great depression. Experts say despite the increase, rates will likely remain historically low in the near future. Stocks on wall street jumped when the announcement was made. The dow leapt by more than 200 points. Closing the day at 17,555 and the nasdaq jumping almost 14 points to finish at five,009. Some breaking news were watching out of foxboro right now. Police sending us these pictures of boxes of unstable dynamite found in an old construction business. Officers say the state Police Bomb Squad took the dynamite to a safe location and detonated all of it. Experts with explosives say the dynamite was volatile and could have been very dangerous. We have a crew headed to the scene and will bring you more it. The swampscott principal was placed on leave as you might and the superintendent revealed he was using a school issued computer for inappropriate activities. Dan hausle is live in swampscott with more. This is the second shoe dropping after the suspension last week. The principal giving a little bit more information about why this happened but saying she still has to hold back some things for legal reasons. Reporter parents and students leaving the high school today surprised and confused as the principal qoits under a cloud of uncertain allegations. Im very disappointed. Its disheartening to hear. I was told it had something to do with the computer but i dont know exactly. It could be anything. Principal edward off the job ago. The superintendent telling parents in a letter she accepted allegations at this point ever involved any swampscott students or any other Swampscott School district employees or officials. Its a little scary that he would be doing that on school property, whatever he was accused of, that was serious enough that he needed to resign. If he did Something Like that on school property, im okay with him resigning. Reporter no answer at the beverly home. Beverly police say they recovered state Police Detectives to the home last week and thats when he was put on leave on what was then called pending personnel matters. The assistant principal taking over his duties. And the d. A. s office wouldnt comment on why the detectives went to the principals house and in fact wouldnt confirm there was any type of investigation related to this matter. Dan hausle, 7news. The case against Danvers Court just a day after the jury convicted him of killing his math teacher, also charged with attempted murder accused of attacking a Public Service worker while he was in custody. The jury who convicted him yesterday didnt know about that case. Chism showed no emotion yetd yesterday when a jury found him guilty of rape asking killing chisms defense team is expected to appeal. Police found Colleen Ritzers body in a wooded area near the high school. Prosecutors say chism killed her in a bathroom at school and then moved her body outside. Were following more news today as changes are unveiled to system. Homeland security secretary jay johnson says the revisions would better inform the public about threats toe this country. The department of Homeland Security will soon be issuing new public advisories called bulletins which gives information on developments in the Terror Threat and respond. Secretary johnson spoke on the new security measures that the public should expect an increased presence of Law Enforcement across communities in the weeks ahead. Recent attacks and attempted attacks sparks internationally and in the homeland, werent increased wan increased security as well as increased public vigilance and awareness. Johnson also made clear that there is no specific or credible threat right now and the department has actually been creating the system for months. President obama announcing he california tomorrow to meet with the families of the victims of the attack. Private meeting with the families of 14 People Killed at Inland Regional Center on december 22nd. The president has spoken out against the attack trying to reassure americans that this country will beat the threat of terrorism. And now to the race for the white house. Donald, you know, is great at the one liners, but hes a chaos and hed be a chaos president. Jeb bush taking the gloves off and going after donald trump at the final republican president ial debate of this year. National security and isis really dominated this debate. And today candidates were back on the campaign trail. Lets get to Ryan Schulteis with more. And the iowa caucus is just weeks away. No real debate but a reaffirmation from trump that he wont go third party. I am totally committed to the republican party. I feel very honored to be the frontrunner, and i think ill do very well. Reporter but trumps not the frontrunner in iowa, Ted Santa Cruz and marco rubio was on wednesday. S. What rubio is trying to do is fend off his fellow freshmen and trump, im the consensus pick. You cant carpet bomb isis if you dont have planes and bombs to attack them with. Reporter as well as immigration. He was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border. I was fighting to secure the border. I would like to introduce the next president of the united states, Hillary Rodham clinton. Reporter democrats are also looking forward to iowa. Hillary clinton headed there after a stop in omaha invited by billionaire warren buffett. You know, our economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house. That is just a fact. Reporter after the debate, trump went to arizona, comfortable his doubledigit lead in National Polls will hold through the holidays. And two more republican iowa caucus. In the newsroom, Ryan Schulteis, 7news. Some good news for patriot fans. Julian edelman suited up, looking good back on the field but just as it looks like the patriots are going to get deal with more injuries alex scorningry live for us with more. Its about that time of year where players have been banged up and its been a rough season for patriots on the injury front but they are not getting any gifts. Its hard to compare year to year. Weve lost a lot of guys. Reporter the pats lost more guys on sunday in houston. Dominic and eric blunt will be out for the rest of the season. I know its disappointing for all of us. But, you know, were still playing football. So the guys that are out there gotta keep fighting. Keep practicing hard. James white and manatee bowl was assigned to the practice squad. On sunday. They do a go job of preparing everybody for anything and whatever can and cannot happen in the game. I think he does a good job keeping everybody on their toes. Reporter back on his feet, Julian Edelman was moving well at his second patriots practice in suffering a broken left foot on november 15th and until he returns to game action, the pats offense will keep chugging along. Every team has injuries, every team has like injuries to deal with. Its no different, but just something thats unexpected and you have to adapt. Edelman was looking sharp at practice though its still too early to tell if hell play sunday against the titans but certainly everything is headed in the right direction for the patriots wide receiver. Alex corddry, 7news. And still to come, a scare for passengers on a southwest flight when moments after runway. And breaking news on live tv. How a tv News Reporter found himself in the middle of a bank robbery story. Then at 5 30, a worcester doctor answering to charges. Hes accused of taking secret pictures of a woman in a bathroom stall. And then coming up in just one hour. This malden mother talking about the terrifying moments when a wall comes crashing down on top of her and her child. And he may be a big arrive, but last night, even celtics fans were cheering for a lebron. What he did for one young man. Those stories and more coming up on 7news. The. Southwest airlines jet running into trouble on the tarmac and veered off the runway moments after landing. More than 100 passengers were on board when it went into a ditch. That situation led to panic for passengers passengers and several were injured. Christa delcamp has details. Reporter the faa is investigating why this passenger tennessee tuesday night. Southwest Airlines Flight 31 originating from Houston Texas was taxiing to the gate and got stuck in a ditch after landing at Nashville International airport. Everything is normal and then we hear this big pop. Reporter photos show one of the planes emergency slides deploy. The safety of our suffers and focus. Eight passengers on board the boeing 737 were transported to a local hospital after suffering minor injuries. Mostly bumps and bruises according to nashville fire department. It was satisfactory. It was really scary. But we were on the ground. It could have been a lot worse. Reporter tuesdays incident comes just days after another southwest flight made an Emergency Landing in san antonio texas. That aircraft landed safely after part of the wing appeared to be at what the airline calls an irregular angle. Before the christmas rush when millions of americans are expected to fly home for the holiday. Recovery crews have been removing the airport and a spokesperson for the International Airport says the incident did not cause any delays and all runways are open and operating. In the newsroom, im christa delcamp, 7news. Next on 7news, it is star wars week here at 7. Were counting down to the big premier and today jr has some fun facts that not a lot of people know about the movies. And good movie weather tonight as well as we track some rain in here. In terms of tonight, it is dry. Cool day overall, take a look at the numbers ahead. Ahead at 5 30, a california man lucky to be alive after a close call. Tonight hes talking about the moment this metal beam came to the south temperatures in the 60s down into cincinnati, 50s down into d. C. This is the mild air that will try to return here the next couple of days. I think well get into the 50s at least for some of us tomorrow, especially south of friday. But it does come with some wet weather, nice and dry out there right now. The overnight hours tonight. Once we get to the predawn hours tomorrow, 2 00, 3 00, 4 00, 5 00 in the morning there may be patchy drizzle that develops. Temperatures close to freezing in northern worcester county. Southern new hampshire. For the rest of us it is above freezing. During the morning commute, the better chance of more soaking rains, that would be for the ride home from work so the evening commute does look like the wetter of the two commutes. Looks like this rain will taper off overnight. A few dry breaks. But overall expecting the bulk of the wet weather to occur tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. About a half inch of rain in the city of boston could get up cost to an inch down in the cape and the islands. Freezing. Well watch this area for a for the rest of his above freezing, 43 degrees starting off in the city of boston tomorrow. The showers and mild weather getting their way off for the weekend. Back into the 50s early next week. Best chance of rain next week guys. All right. Thank you, chris. Many fans of the Star Wars Film, all of them, films. Heart. Some of them so obsessed they know even more about the galaxy far and far away than george lucus himself. Jeremy reiner showing us some stuff you might not know about star wars as new england awakens. Its still unreal to me that were getting new star wars. Its just never thought in my lifetime i would actually see episode 7. Reporter film critic robert chism got to see the advanced and to get you ready were digging up some new stuff about the old films. Lets start about the old one. Sir alan called it fairy tale rubbish but his paycheck was Luke Skywalker almost had a different name, Luke Starkiller and even episode 6 return of the jedi was part of the name game. Up until the last minute it was. Revenge of the jedi. Reporter the name was changed just before release. A bigger budget for the phantom menace meant propose got fancier. But the communicator wasnt technical at all. The gillette womens razor they took apart for those. Reporter if the auditions worked out differently you might have seen a member of in sink. And in 1978 a star wars hailed special aired on cbs. One critic called it the worst two hours of television ever. We celebrate a day of peace. That would not happen today, you wouldnt get the lord of the rings holiday special or Something Like that. But at that time, rudolph followed by some wukies, whatever works. One more thing, every Star Wars Film until this one was released a week after creator george lucus birthday in may. This one might not follow that trend but Star Wars Episode 8 is already set to debut in may of 2017. In the newsroom, im jeremy reiner, 7news. How about that. We need more jr. Christmas special. Heres more jr for you. Were heading home with jeremy