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On thursday friday morning we have to begin with breaking news out of louisiana. A theater packed turns to tragedy after a gunman starts firing. Three dead including the gunman. The victims ranges from teenagers to people in their 60s. The scene right now live outside the theater in lafayette, louisiana, an active scene. Authorities have been busy and at this hour they continue their investigation including a part of this has been exemployeding suspicious packages that they found in the suspecte...

Supervisors supervisor peskin has been asked to be appointed by mr. Coaker any initial comments supervisor peskin recovered to the clerk of the board survey on march first stating healed to serve on the commission do either of you have questions or statements as to the folks to make about that seeing none, lets hear from Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Good afternoon david pilpal im in support of supervisor peskin i think hell do an excellent job representing the city an bcdc go...

This morning. Thats why we get you this first alert, nbc10s Pamela Osborne is on her way to allentown ahead of this mornings snow. Pamela, where are you and what are the conditions like right now . Reporter good morning, well, we are heading north on the northeast extension. Im getting the camera around so you can look at the loads here. Youll see some sort of precipitation coming down. So far, as i mentioned, were try here right now. Heading north. And were going to keep an eye on the roads. As...

Passed away. Announcer nbc10 news starts now. Its 5 30. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im rosemary connors. A lot going on this morning. We want to start you off with the weather. Were issuing a first alert for Lehigh County and philadelphia. Lets get to erika martin. Things are dry but a little deceiving. The first alert has been issued for Lehigh Valley. Berks county. Montgomery county. Keep in mind, North Chester county. I do think youll see snow as well. St...

Posting second quarterly growth. Exports rose 10 . Housing construction shrank by 6. 2 , the Second Straight Quarter of contraction. The latest figures supports the federal reserves view that the u. S. Economy grew more rapidly in the Third Quarter than the first half of the year. Many Analysts Expect that fed officials will not raise Interest Rates next month amid uncertainty of economic policies before the president ial election. They predict that a rate hike will come in december. U. N. Membe...

The Federal Reserve says the economy is growing at a modest pace. The central bank saw inflationary pressures rising. Will it be enough to raise Interest Rates . Erik schatzker is in washington with the latest Economic Data. Give us the interesting points of the book this time around. The book could have strengthened a case for a rate ite two weeks from now but did not. You heard those words and you said it yourself, modest. The key word in these anecdotal reports, modest economic growth, modest...

Elevations above 3500 feet. Larry snow covered secondary roads. Darcel its led to buncombe county schools updating the calendar. Karen wynne joins us. Larry karen, the last day of school has been pushed back, right . Karen larry, it has. Its been pushed back to june 8th. School leaders say it was a tough call to make this morning because originally it looked good. But after transportation workers found widespread black ice, they decided to close school for the day sending out a second notificati...

Aye. There is no discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today. Also like to welcome [inaudible] relacing rob [inaudible] the City Attorney. Thank you for being here. Pleasure to be here. Introduction of new business by Board Members. Nope. Seeing none. Iletal 7, director report. Director riscon members of the board qu public and staff. Want to start by asking the director of tax and Accessible Services to come forward. I am so pleased to be mere in honor of joyce furrow. She is t...

Applause. Congratulations. Very well deserved. [applause] the mta board i thank you. It is a great blessing and honor to work and serve my fellow colleges at mta tax and accessible service. They make my job a piece of cake. [inaudible] is to create a work place that delivers Outstanding Service in the taxi staff promises to do everything we can to help ourselves and each other honor our agreement coninstructively and compassionately. On behalf of our team, [inaudible] genie, alvin, eric, samanth...

On thursday, a house subcommittee looked at marijuana use, its legalization in some states and its relation to Transportation Safety. Issues included the ability to operate vehicles, testing for marijuana use, and the challenges inin creating a federal standard for Donald Rumsfeld driving under the influence of socalled recreational drugs. Witnesses include a representative of the center for Substance Abuse prevention. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Its chaired by florida congressman john micah...