it's a town that's part of the z larger community of rockford, illinois. >> rockford is located about 100 miles from chicago. about 20 miles south of the wisconsin border. it's a big small town. >> definitely more of a blue-collar community. a lot of manufacturing, a lot of people working hard to just make a better life for themselves. >> right away, you notice that manufacturing history when you come to this town. you can see so many industrial plants as you stroll along the river downtown. to locals, that's what rockford is known for. but to outsiders, this place is usually known for something else. >> when a lot of people first hear about rockford, illinois, they think of the rockford peaches. it's the first women's baseball league. >> of course, "a league of their own" was based on our own rockford peaches. >> are you crying? >> no. >> there's no crying! there's no crying in baseball! >> even though tom hanks and the rest of the cast didn't film "a league of their own" in rockford, the field where the peaches actually played is being restored as part of a tourism push for rockford

anna: let's talk about a new lab called the grid in rockford, illinois. are going to illinois after this, it has just been unveiled. what is the goal and what are you excited about there? henry: the grid is one of the most exciting things we have done. one of our products is electrical power innovation. we have an enviable position on the commercial and other platforms out there, but the grid is an integrated lab that allows us to test one megawatt motors and the ability to scale up to larger motors. i talked about over time, you will be able to remove thermal burning engines and create hybrid solutions for these motors? this lab is at the heart of enabling that to happen. so the lab will be able to test and to end systems, if you will, so we see how they interact with thermal burning engines, and we will do a grand opening for that lab tomorrow in rockford, illinois. when i'm done here, i am going there, and we have good government officials there as well and will do a legitimate opening with them. i am proud of the work the team continues to do, but it

. >> was talk about a new app called the grid in rockford illinois you're here now were going to be goingto illinois after this. it has just been unveiled. what is the goal? >> the grid is one of the most exciting things we have done. one of our businesses selective power generation with debt of about 75 years. we are on a lots but we have an enviable position of most commercial and defensive platforms out there. what the grid it does is moves it to the next level to an integrated lab that gives us to test 1 megawatt motors and also has two scale up larger motors. i talk but over a period of time you'll be able to remove thermal burning engines or at least remove some of the lower and create hybrid solutions with these motors. this lab is at the heart it's enabling that to happen. so what you will see the lab will be able to test end to end systems if you will so we can see how they interact with thermal burning engines and so forth variable to the grand opening for that tomorrow in rockford, illinois. my finish this i'm going there. we are going to a legitimate opening. i am really proud

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. >> let's talk about a new app called the grid in rockford, illinois. now, but you're going to be going to illinois after this because it'sll just been unveiledded. what is the goal, and what are you excited about there? >> the grid is one of the most exciting things that we've done. one of our businesses is electric power generation. we've done it for about 75 years. so we're on a lot, we have an enviable position on most of the commercial as well as defense platforms out there. what the grid does is takes us and g moves it to the next leve. it'so an integrated lab that gives us the ability to test 1-megawatt motors and down and hasca the ability to scale up. i was talking about how over a period of time you'll be able to removee thermal-burning engine r at least some of them and. >> create hybrid solutions for it with these motors. this lap is at the heart, it's actually enabling that to happen. but what you'll see is that will be able to test end to end systembl ises, if you will, so e can see how they interact with thermal-burning engines and so for

now we hear many can we south into egypt because the rockford crossing there is close. one of the reasons why the you, when in a group say, who mandatory in crisis is looming there. any relief coming for those palestinians? while we understand that their trucks on the addiction side for the moment, there are no tossing about the whole situation in gauze as deteriorating by the hour. i had the chance to talk to one of our colleagues there. another fellow journalist in garza who is also himself on the move is from garza city and move down to the southern part. and he was telling me how difficult it is. you know, he still had some fuel in his car, but there's not much gasoline left at the gas station stair refer from one to the next for people. how? because those who don't have transport. they go buy food, others going donkey cards. the water situation is a problem, there's no electricity. so they're all kind of problems. and we heard from that job here. it's also warning that they cannot, it's impossible to evacuate those hospitals because to move those patients. it's rea

out in rockford, illinois.frank pollard broke new ground simply by making the team at camp grant's. pollard was one of about 1000 african-american soldiers. among the 30,000 troops at the camp. and the camp was segregated, just like the rest of the army. but pollard went out for the main camp team anyway, and he wound up making it. he was the only african-american soldier to break war football's color line. that's something that pollard's older brother, fritz pollard, couldn't even manage. fritz, who had been an all-american and ended up making both the college and pro football hall of fame was spent world war one coaching segregated black regiments at camp meade in maryland. now, frank pollard made the team, but he was a backup at the time. regulars played 60 minutes in most of the games. he did get off the bench in the team's fourth game and played a few minutes as a substitute and in a camp korean victory. that was it for his war football career, but his war football career carried some significance. now. no

out in rockford, illinois.frank pollard broke new ground simply by making the team at camp grant's. pollard was one of about 1000 african-american soldiers. among the 30,000 troops at the camp. and the camp was segregated, just like the rest of the army. but pollard went out for the main camp team anyway, and he wound up making it. he was the only african-american soldier to break war football's color line. that's something that pollard's older brother, fritz pollard, couldn't even manage. fritz, who had been an all-american and ended up making both the college and pro football hall of fame was spent world war one coaching segregated black regiments at camp meade in maryland. now, frank pollard made the team, but he was a backup at the time. regulars played 60 minutes in most of the games. he did get off the bench in the team's fourth game and played a few minutes as a substitute and in a camp korean victory. that was it for his war football career, but his war football career carried some significance. now. no

out in rockford, illinois.frank pollard broke new ground simply by making the team at camp grant's. pollard was one of about 1000 african-american soldiers. among the 30,000 troops at the camp. and the camp was segregated, just like the rest of the army. but pollard went out for the main camp team anyway, and he wound up making it. he was the only african-american soldier to break war football's color line. that's something that pollard's older brother, fritz pollard, couldn't even manage. fritz, who had been an all-american and ended up making both the college and pro football hall of fame was spent world war one coaching segregated black regiments at camp meade in maryland. now, frank pollard made the team, but he was a backup at the time. regulars played 60 minutes in most of the games. he did get off the bench in the team's fourth game and played a few minutes as a substitute and in a camp korean victory. that was it for his war football career, but his war football career carried some significance. now. no

mandatory an aide from egypt is expected to be sent to gaza, israel continues to bomb areas near rockford crossing the line from moscow. this is our t international. i'm rachel rubel at the latest on the israel. how much conflict funerals have been held and gaza. city for 18 victims. oven is riley, are a strike that hit in ancient greek orthodox church in the palestinian enclave. on thursday. the the footage shows mourners and grieving over the bodies following the strike on friday . many people, both muslims and christians, were seeking safety. their from is rarely selling the greek orthodox patriarch and of jerusalem said targeting the church constitutes a war crime on palestine. it says dozens of civilians were also injured in the attack. well, some bodies remain trapped under the rubble is really military admitted. the church was bombed by one of its jets by mistake and says it is now reviewing the deadly incident. here's what one of the survivors had to say. and the like nice, they've been showing everything even churches in most all houses. boom. so we relocated to the judge, but th

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same suspicions from the republican base, from republican members despite the fact that he is a rockford conservative. but steve scalise still has the same relationships that kevin mccarthy did without the skepticism. >> scalise, they are very loyal, they will been with him for years and you need that, you need to you go ament your whipping operation with somebody like that who has the loyalty built in. >> and because he is dealing with many of these challenges. came kayla, we know the biden white house is watching this because they will have to work with whoever is ultimately selected here. and they will have to grapple with the fact that there is no sitting house of representatives right now really until tuesday which is unprecedented reality in american history. what are they looking for, who are they talking to and what do they expect at this point? >> right now they haven't really weighed into this speaker debate. they said they didn't -- or the president's word he didn't want a vote in the matter. but whoever it is, they need to work with him. and that is spis something thatn was a

he had roles on "welcome back, kotter" and "the rockford files."ld. >> gio: what a career, what a life. all right. >>> and we are going to start this half hour with a closer look at the developments in the middle east. israeli forces are widening actions on the ground in gaza. abc's ian pannell joins us again from israel near the gaza border with more on this breaking news. ian, good morning again. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, again, gio. we're hearing the sound of heavy bombardments of gaza. we're hearing tank fire to one side, mortar fire to the other and also seeing a lot of movement of military vehicles through this area. we know israeli forces are now inside gaza. they say they're expanding ground operations. the idf releasing video showing their forces inside, it says. israeli fighter jets overnight launch what it says was the heaviest bombardment since hamas attacked israel, killing over 1,400 people. the idf claiming it hit 150 targets killing two senior hamas commanders, as well as fighters and destroying underground tunnels. hamas for

important distinction with stellantis to keep in mind they have agreed to reopen their plant outside of rockfordt is significant, because it's not often that you see a uaw contract where an automaker says, okay, we will reopen a facility sometimes they talked about closing a facility and they don't close it, but reopening a facility that's been idled, that doesn't happen very often. and finally in regard to ford, in the last half hour, we heard from the credit ratings upped on ford, more stable outwlook going from stable to positive, i should say following this contract being locked in place with the uaw between ford and the union. guys, back to you. >> wow a lot of stuff going on there, phil, thank you very much for rounding it all up let's trade this one dan, really interesting, the labor costs, too, when phil put up that wall tesla all the way down at $45 an hour compared to $87 to $89. >> andthe big story this year, the degradation in their automotive gross margins at tesla. all that math, you just do the math so, the margins are going to be lower for gm and ford, going to make it that much

before this strike, many people said stellantis will never bring back the plant that it shut down in rockfordreement with the uaw and it's adding a battery plant in terms of that facility if you take a look at shares of gm and ford and much of it will be made up by overtime and that will take time, kelly. it's not like they can make it up real quick and it takes time to make up for a days' work of product and it will take some time and they expect to make up what they lost in terms of vehicle production over the next six weeks for most being haves. >> what about the larger issue transition to electric vehicles and it was unclear how much of their scrapped plans the last couple of weeks were because of the strike and how much it reflects the more difficult economics of that business going forward? >> i think it's both, and right now they're saying it's because of the economics, but the economics are influenced by what's happening with the strike and the fact that their costs are going up over the next couple of years. so where they haval e allocated certain amount of money in '24, '25 and '26.

step-by-step she is the share for the long list of credits include guest spots on love boat, the rockford graffiti will remember somers is that mysterious beauty and the white thunderbird. she was a regular entertainer in las vegas in the 1980s and in the '90s she had great success promoting the thigh master helping to sell millions of the exercise tool she also wrote diet and self-help books, postek show in appeared on dancing with the stars. she spent the last two decades battling cancer died in her sleep last night at her home in palm springs next to her husband buried ray today her family issa statement saying quote suzanne somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of october 15. she is survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years. >> was surrounded by her loving husband alan, her son bruce and her immediate family. her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on october 16. instead they will celebrate her extraordinary life and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly. somers will be buried at a private f

, a uaw won a big commitment from stlellantis stellantis agreeing to reopen its plant outside of rockfordtting a battery facility there that's a huge win for the uaw. as you take a look at shares of ford, keep in mind that ford has said they are gradually resuming production at the plants that were on strike over the last month, month and three weeks, month and a week or two, so the bottom line is this guys, we will get details and the ratification votes, details over the next couple days on stellantis and gm, ratification votes will take place over the next week or two back to you. >> phil, thank you phil lebeau with that breaking news on gm's deal. >>> oil prices are easing right now despite middle east tensions rising today, the world bank saying oil prices could reach, quote, unchartered waters if the israel-hamas war escalates comments as the conflict enters the fourth day now let's get to jay gray live in tel aviv with the latest >> reporter: good morning. to something that's unfolding right now, hamas has released a video with three of the hostages that are being held. now, obvious

we're talking record highs possible from mobile, alabama, all the way up to rockford, illinois.y through the start of the weekend. and dry. i know. let's get a check closer to home. >> bam is an nba super star known for his big game and, of course, his big heart. the miami heat center forward has been giving back to the community ever since he became a pro. he is joining us live from miami just as the nba season tips off. bam, good morning to you. thank you for joining us here on gma, my friend. i got to start it off. lot of people going, bam, that can't be his real name. where did bam come from? >> bam started me and my mom. i was probably 1, 1 1/2. it started because i flipped over a coffee table. [ laughter ] >> whoa. >> we were watching the flintstones at the same time. that's been my name ever since. >> bam bam. bam bam. >> speaking of coffee table, you should have played football like me it sounds like. you've been fantastic. you led the heat to the nba finals last year. this year lot of competition out there. lebron james with the lakers, victor with the san antonio spurs

they will reopen the plant outside rockford, illinois meanwhile, the uaw threw a curve ball they said we will expand the gm strike and call in the plant in tennessee. in spring hill, tennessee. that plant builds three cadillac models if you add the production at that plant along with the other plants already on strike for the uaw for gm, that means 50.8% of general motors u.s. production has now been stopped by strikes. is that enough to get gm and the uaw to finalize agreement? gm putting out a statement after a new strike in spring hill, tennessee saying we have continued to bargain in good faith and our goal is to reach agreement as quickly as possible speaking of agreements, stellantis and ford have agreements in place and they outlined the ford agreement which includes $8.1 billion in new commitments to facilities that the uaw staffs. we will see ratification votes in the next couple weeks while that happens, you will see ford and uaw workers return to work and gradually production will begin or restart at the plants where strikes were taking place. >> phil, in terms of what's on

stellantis a big push from the uaw is to reopen the plant outside of rockford, illinois the belvedere plant. they idled it earlier this year. they have no intention of restarting that plant. sd stellantis does not. the the uaw wants the plant reopened what happens do they repurpose it as a mega hub for parts and distribution one idea which has been floated out there. that is not the same level of pay as the final assembly plant. that is one example, becky, where the contract with stellantis has different sticking points than the contract with ford or gm they are generally speaking in terms of the wage increase which will be in the same area and expect them to come in at 25%. >> to that point, phil, how far does this trickle out? we are talking about the specific companies and all of the supplies in the ecosystem will trade and those non-union will use these as new baselines for everything or not? >> reporter: yes do i think they will get 25% for some of the suppliers? no i don't think they will get 25%. you are right, andrew. this resets the map in the auto industry for uaw and non-un

i would like to thank administrator again for visiting my hometown of rockford, illinois, earlier this year, to witness replacement of lead service lines into homes. families were solving the problems. the district that i represent, illinois's 17th congressional district, have some of the highest percentages of lead service lines of any district in the country. last congress, we passed a bipartisan infrastructure law, which included funds for lead pipe replacement. i'm proud of my colleagues for the work they put into the bill and the work that we're doing today. we're all doing it today, keeping communities safe and healthy. but as we're all aware, congress is facing an appropriation. as of right now, we do not have a set plan to fund the government be on this weekend. should the government shutdown, what would be the impact of that shutdown for beneficial programs like lead service line replacement? the epa is implemented at. >> well, thank you for hosting me, your district. it really was a good day. it's always a good day when you watch the extraction of lead service lines, and ec f

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