thought was guarding the property at the time they arrived. brooke singman has the latest. todd, ashley we are learning that they were dead by the time the import authorities arrived. the two other victims, eric james williams survived the horrifying and back in the united states, travelers from north carolina went so that they tell me took procedure and the mother giving this update, she is doing okay, she is crying, watched two of them die. they died in front of her. this photo shows nikki in the back of an ambulance after rescued from the mexican authorities, they cross the border and brought to a hospital in texas shortly after they were saved. the victims were held in this small shack located in rule part of eastern new mexico where they got lost and mistaken by members of the drug cartel for drug mules. mexican police arrested a 24-year-old mexican national with the violent kidnapping and the suspect identified as jose guadalupe and accused of guarding the shack where
we ve got some closure here but a lot more questions now to jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. hi, jacqui. we learned the three objects shot down since friday were most likely linked to commercial research projects, private companies and not to china s spy balloon program. despite that, the president says he makes no apologies for shooting down that spy balloon even after china has called it an overreaction. all week though the white house has been saying we re going to soon learn more about these new policy recommendations and national security advisers putting together for how we will better deal with future potential airborne threats given that we re now detecting more objects in our airspace since we ve dialled up the radar and we learned today that we re actually not going to hear the details. i ll be sharing with congress these classified policy parameters when they re completed and remain classified so we don t give our road map to our enemies to try to
it s a family s worst nightmare. it s happening far too often in this country, far too often. while we gather more information there s one thing we do know to be true, we have to do something to stop gun violence from ripping apart our communities. president joe biden marks another deadly mass shooting by once again calling on congress to pass gun reform legislation. we ll bring you the latest on the victims and the investigation in just a moment. plus evacuations, toxic chemicals, and now thousands of dead fish. a train derailment in north eastern ohio has a community still on edge nearly two weeks after the crash and massive fire. and the white house says it s not aliens, so just what are the three objects that were shot down by the u.s. military over the past several days? well, a possible explanation from the intelligence community just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, february 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your
and winds of change. cloud computing, augmented reality, and 100km/h yachts! how sailgp hopes to get the video game generation on board. this we start with the cost of borrowing because it is on the rise again. in the next few hours the bank of england and the european central bank are both expected to increase their main interest rates by half a percentage point to their highest in m years as they battle to bring inflation under control. good news for savers of course, but piling more pressure on businesses and many people with loans and mortgages. for the bank of england, it would be the tenth rise in a row and would take the cost of borrowing to 4% its highest since 2008. on wednesday the us federal reserve announced a quarter percent increase a much smaller rise than in recent months. but its chair, jerome powell, warned that it would not be the last. as samira hussain in new york reports after in new york reports a year of aggressive rate increases after a year o
releasing new video of the wild chase that led police to the arrest of two career criminals accused of robbing a dozen people on tuesday. todd: the suspect are expected to be prosecuted in federal court. marianne has details from los angeles. marianne. marianne: two career criminals, including one who declared he wouldn t stay in jail long are accused in a crime t spans several burrough. the robbers were arrested in upper manhattan in a stolen white mini-van. wallets and jewelry was taken from victims and the group hit a local motel onnen 82s boulevard. one suspect is carlos perez, known member affiliated with the crypts. he had nine arrests for gun possession and alleged beating of a 79-year-old man in november. suspect alvin velez had 11 prior busts dating back to 2001 for sexual abuse, drugs and attempted murder and was paroled in 2021 and he s been arrested five times since then, most recently drug charges earlier this month. chief essex said none of the suspects shou