Id say you had your eyes off the road for about 3 seconds. Mark its an alternative because in minnesota texting while driving is a primary offense. Officer sees texter, officer pulls texter over. So far in iowa this year. There have been 108 tickets given out for texting while driving. In, minnesota almost 3,500. You can change book change driver behavior. Thats what minnesota is trying to do. Mark a bill that would have made texting while driving a primary offense didnt go anywhere this year at the capital, but Traffic Safety experts site a Des Moines Register poll last year that found 83 of iowans favor tougher enforcement of the ban against texting while driving. Pat hoye from the governors Traffic Safety bureau told me there is a good chance a bill to make texting in iowa a primary offense will be introduced again next session. Stacey . Dropped to less than 2. 00 a gallon. We got it selling for 1. 99 at the kum and go on keo way in downtown. This could be just be the beginning as g
Threatening more attacks specifically in new york city. Police in new york and washington, d. C. Have already stepped up security. Peggy, back to you. Thanks so much. Home safe after witnessing a massacre. Members of a california band are speaking out about their paris concert that turned into an international tragedy. Eagles of death metal is on stage last friday when gunmen attacks the bataclan theater in paris. Baend member s say they were abe to escape out a back door. Band members released a Statement Today saying they are, quote, bonded in grief with the victims and theyre still coming to terms with what happened. Theyre putting all future concert dates on hold. Still ahead on nightly news, a closer look at the chilling propaganda video isis just releas released. Lester holt is reporting again from paris tonight. New at 5 00, the paris attacks are on the minds of many in the bay area. With the super bowl less than three months away, San Francisco is double checking its security p
It said the economy could well hand handle a rise in interest rates. The minutes from the Central Banks last meeting in october provided the clearest evidence yet that most but not all policymakers think the time is right for a rate hike and that a delay could increase market uncertainty. That helped stocks extend their gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 247 to 17,737. Nasdaq jumped even more in percentage terms, gaining 89 points, and the s p 500 added 33. Steve liesman has more now on the thinking inside the central bank. Minutes of the feds october meeting make explicit what the statement had already said, that the fed is fast on its way to its first rate hike in nine years at the upcoming december meeting. The october minutes say that most fed members thought Economic Conditions would be met in december to hike interest rates, and they made clear that the october statement was designed to send a message that will be appropriate to hike at the next meeting. To be sure the
Hand handle a rise in interest rates. The minutes from the Central Banks last meeting in october provided the clearest evidence yet that most but not all policymakers think the time is right for a rate hike and that a delay could increase market uncertainty. That helped stocks extend their gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 247 to 17,737. Nasdaq jumped even more in percentage terms, gaining 89 points, and the s p 500 added 33. Steve liesman has more now on the thinking inside the central bank. Minutes of the feds october meeting make explicit what the statement had already said, that the fed is fast on its way to its first rate hike in nine years at the upcoming december meeting. The october minutes say that most fed members thought Economic Conditions would be met in december to hike interest rates, and they made clear that the october statement was designed to send a message that will be appropriate to hike at the next meeting. To be sure the meeting took place before the h
Significant areas such as times square or many of the tourist atracks or stadiums or major events, but the soft targets. R rorter tonight thth nld released a a statement saying in part the v veo reaffirms what officials already knew, which is that new york city is a target. The statement goes on to say there is no credible specific threat to times square or anywhere else in the city. Lester . Stephanie gosk in times square. Lets bring in michael leader, from the natatnal count counterteteorism center. Michael, we heard stephanie say no credible threat. Weve heard that before. Yet we are reminded no one saw paris coming. Give us an idea of how worried or concerned u. S. Intelligence officials are. U. S. And western officials are extremely concerned, lester. Because the fact is the sophistication of the plot, the breadth of the plot in paris, that was undetected. That is what scared people. They realize people could be motivated and inspired by isis and now we see that isis could operate