Cornell, thank you. Sacramento police have made an arrest in a deadly shooting that forced police to cancel the new years eve fire works show. Yes. Someone at a fight in a bar in Old Sacramento last night. An employee tried to break it up. And killed. Armed Security Guard on the gunman got into a shootout. About 100 people just scattered. Immediately so, much people were running and falling down. Mayhem. Just scary. A Security Guard and two other people were injured andz;c a Police Officer grabbed the suspect as he tried to get away. Police have to call off the new years eve party. Its it through 40,000 people. An this new years day, we turn our attention to continuing battle over the infamous fiscal cliff in the hands in the u. S. House of representatives. Republicans were balking at the deal. The speaker of the house has not even call forward a vote yet. Now, following the fate of the compromise, show this go something. This Senate Passed its compromise fix at 2 00 this morning. Its
The germany dakotas is up 2 . This, of course, follows big gains that we saw on monday, the last trading day of 2012. Still another story for the markets in asia that were open. But see markets continue to be closed in tokyo where shares dont begin trading again until thursday. In china, the shanghai was also closed. In new zealand, that market is closed. You can see the hang seng was up by 2. 9 almost. Bombay and australia also trading higher. At this point, we are beginning to see the u. S. Equity futures, as well. Lets look, and youll see the dow future up by 148 points. No surprise after what we saw around the globe with some market already trading higher. But most markets seeing this as a relief that something got passed, that you are not going to see much higher taxes kicking in on americans making less than 400,000. You will not see the immediate spending impacts. What the markets think longer term is still in question. Again, the dow futures which just began trading are up by 1
Is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening, im kate snow in tonight for brian. After weeks of negotiations and lastminute holdups over the fiscal cliff, Congress Late last night finally passed an agreement on taxes and spending. In a moment, well tell you what that legislation means for every american. But its what the house did not do last night that caused an uproar today. Lawmakers left before considering a bill to help victims of superstorm sandy, and that had republicans from hardhit states taking aim at leaders of their own party. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at her post on capitol hill once again tonight. Kelly, good evening. Reporter good evening, kate. So the house had not taken any kind of vote on a new years day in nearly 60 years. And when they did so, they got that tax deal done, but only minutes later, a new controversy popped up, over Government Spending. And it spread through here furiously, and with real impact. New york and new jersey got angry and got action ove
Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, im tahman bradley. Im reena ninan. We begin with the aftermath of the execution of Steven Sotloff by the isis islamic group. A candlelight vigil was held for him last night. His death is also on the minds of many in the obama administration. Gloria riviera with the latest. Reporter president obama is in the uk meeting with so many key allies. A lot on his plate, ukraine, russia, but, of course, isis and with the u. S. Policy and what it will be. Pressure is building for president Obama Meeting with nato allies to clearly define u. S. Strategy after he said the terror group isis will pay the price for the murder of american journalist Steven Sotloff and james foley. Well either fight them now or fight them later because theyre not going to stop. Its disciplined. Its well financed. Its military. Its a state. Its a government and they move with lightning speed. Reporter lightning speed and a sophisticated social media campaign. Terrorism observers say
The big reveal. Yes, it is a watch. We are just getting our first pictures right now. Stainless steel, looks really cool. Youll see lots of it in the minutes, hours, days, weeks to come. Part of the big reveal here from apple. Lets take you inside where weve been sitting and watching whats coming down the pike. Two new iphones called the 6 and 6plus. They are larger, they have new cameras, they are faster, and they are thinner. Price tags will start at 199 for the 6 and that will go to 399 for the 6plus. Its 299 to 499. Tim cook also announcing a new Payment System to be used by those phones called apple pay. And then the watch, which literally minutes, seconds ago has been unveiled and that is going to be the big reveal of the day. Again, the one more thing is the watch. Thats what we are just getting specks on. Ill go back inside and tweet out more information for you, along with some photos, but it has been, so far, a very big first hour for apple in todays reveal. One thing were wa