Iowa should expect a mix bag of freezing rain, rain, and some snow as the day progresses. Snow totals with this system could top the 6 mark in central iowa, so stay with local 5 for the latest. Nikki also coming up on local five news at ten. A fort dodge family faces tragedy after a Christmas Morning car crash will change their lives forever. Nikki december 26 is boxing day see how people here in des moines celebrated the holiday from across the pond. Nikki president ial candidates took a break from the campaign trail this holiday, but they are still busy preparing for the iowa caucus, now just five weeks away. Local 5 news at 10 in hd starts now. We are iowa nikki welcome to local 5 news im nikki davidson. Glad youre with us tonight. Our big story a tragic has left a Fort Dodge Community hoping for a miracle. As a recovers from in the hospital. Reporting what the hospital will confirm at this point they are their conditions. Iowa state Highway Patrol was traveling miles away from fort
Coastal flirting with 70s to 90s. Sal. We do have traffic that is is doing pretty well, steve, so far on this tuesday morning. Lets start off and take a look at some of the commutes here with the east bay and south bay. Traffic is moving along okay. I need to go to the east shear freeway. The east shore freeway 17 minutes between the carquinez bridge and mccarthur maze. Now to the bay bridge toll plaza where traffic will be getting a little bit slower as you drive through. As you drive out to the cash lanes on the right you can see a line forming. And in the south bay we are talking about northbound 680 that accident has been cleared. The rest is moving along very nicely as well. 5 01 lets go back to the desk. As you heard sal say interstate 680 is open again after a multivehicle crash shut it down earlier this morning. Ktvu fox 2 janine de la vega is joining us live. Youre in san jose so what happened and what is happening now janine. Reporter we moved off of the freeway because it wa
Something. In the u. S. House, the republicans widened majority for the biggest margin since the truman association. Let my people go this republican won despite a legendary temper and this gop congressman won reelection despite facing felony charges. What now for the Obama Administration and how will the Congress Govern . Just because we have a two party system doesnt mean we have to be in perpetual conflict. All that and more now. Welcome into a special edition of power politics. Im david shuster. Im michael shure. What a night last night was. Nobody could have predicted what happened. Washington is now looking ahead to the final two years of the Obama Administration after republicans gained majorities in the house and senate in last nights election. Republicans calling their victory a mandate against president obamas policies, the gop is painting to anxiety over the economic recovery as a major reason americans voted against democrats. The gop now has their biggest majority in the h
Begin. Ice cold in the snow. How could it be so . It came without thanks. It came without packages, boxes or bags. It look like the grinch stole christmas. Retail sales down 1 . Not having a positive impact on the stock market. Down 183 points. How about the price of oil. Where are we now . That is within shouting distance of a six year low. Here is the story. Commodity prices are falling. Copper is leading the way. The price of gas continues to fall. Down another penny overnight. 338 year ago. Down 128 gallons. Here is the key indicator. Interest rates. It bounced back. Historically, a very low level. Our go to guy on commodities. Eric, i want to stay away from technical details. What is your evidence that prices are falling . I am not claiming deflation is in play. Prices fall too hard, too fast. Hearing people talk about deflation. Leading in some air out of the bubble. That is a good thing. The grinch as the analogy. I look at it this way. The grinch comes around at the end of the
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