their coach, pat fitzgerald, says that's compensation enough for student athletes. >> i'm a football coach, i'm a teacher, i'm an educator, alright? this isn't what i signed up to be, i signed up to help these guys develop to be the best they can be, not to be an employer. >> but in january, his players demanded to be considered employees, becoming the first college team to seek a union. >> guys come in here and bash all day, then then they're injured 5 years down the road and they get nothing. >> right now, athletes don't receive long-term medical care, and can't collect a paycheck or form a union. the national collegiate athletic association -- or ncaa -- sets the rules for college sports. but those rules could soon be overturned. fault lines investigates the multi-billion-dollar business of college football, the players who produce that wealth, and their demands for a more equitable game. >> i just hope the ncaa does understand that some things do need to change. >> the first thing right behind me, you guys see our lovely bookstore. lots of orange apparel. you guys all got coupons

. >> northwestern wins of course for pat fitzgerald who only lost once since he has been at northwestern. still more to come as we get you ready for nick saban and 8:00 eastern time. we'll leave the alabama crimson tide against the wisconsin badgers. we're just getting started in 2015. stick around. >>> saturday night i'm walter perez a teenage girl dies during a sleep over in new jersey. >>> plus clock strikes midnight, on tebow time in philadelphia eagles released high profile backup qb, making a little room on the roster. >>> but the big story on "action news" is start of the labor day weekend 2015. there is a lot going on all across our region as we get ready to bid farewell to the summer vacancies on. we have team coverage of everything you need to know, "action news" reporter jeff chirico is at made in america festival where party is well underway and meteorologist melissa magee is tracking your weekend forecast but we will

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pat. >> thanks, meagan fitzgerald at the basilica. >>> the silver spring transit center is officially open to business, with 30 bus base to help ease congestion in the area. today is the first day it's handled a full day load. we have more on what commuters think now that it's finally open. first,i iv have to tell you, th little drizzle we had felt like a downpour. >> would he needed it. do we get more, doug? >> we really did need to get rain. unfortunately it's barely a drop in the pockbucket. you can't even see it falling here, but it is falling, 69 degree right now. we talked about today being a very cool, rather dreary day. this is exactly what we're seeing across our area. take a look at the numbers. these numbers are really quite amazing. 72 over towards easton. that's closer to the water temperature of the atlantic ocean. but you come inland, 54 degrees right now in luray, 59 towards win chester. culpeper at 59 degrees. this is where we're seeing steady rain, only 2/100ths of an inch so far, a very cool, dreary afternoon, especially west of the blue ridge. take a look at hours throu

going to be packed and the basilica officials here, pat, tell us that this entire process should be complete by sunday. >> all right. meagan fitzgerald, thank you, meagan. >>> cubans are getting ready for the pope's visit. workers are building a platform next to the cathedral. he will use the platform to address young people. the pope will stay until tuesday when he departs for washington. the pope and the vatican were instrumental in the warming of diplomatic relations between cuba and the u.s. you can stay up-to-date with the road closures and security alerts by downloading the nbc washington app. we'll send you a letters whenever road closures are announced. >>> now to this afternoon's big decision that had everyone keeping one eye on wall street and the other on their bank accounts. the federal reserve just decided to keep u.s. interest rates at their record lows. the fed hasn't raised rates in nine years, but even though the u.s. economy seems to be growing and there are increasing fears about the economic slowdown in china and a lot of uncertainty in global finance. the announcement came just two hours before the closing bell a

fitzgerald. you have a huge trading floor. >> how are you? liz: great. traders are chatting and betting, what are they betting the rate will be? higher, lower, stand pat. >> the market is calling for a 30% chance they do tighten. we think they are going to tighten. if you look at the rhetoric that's coming out of the governors, they want to tighten, trying to figure out any way they can, they missed the window when they should have tightened nine months ago, they want to maintain the credibility and are going to tighten tomorrow. liz: i'm talking to traders, i've gotten everything but stand pat. there could be a possibility of maybe a tiny one, a 10 to 15-basis-point. everyone thinks it's a quarter of a point. they're saying 10 to 15 points. >> i'm not believing that. liz: you don't believe that. >> look, i think they have said all along, it's 0-25 basis points, that's what they talked about for rates, that's the target. if they say 25 basis points, they're going to make the argument they're not really tightening, going to the higher end of the range and come out with dovish comments going to be data dependent going forward. they're going to go to the