Style. Abc 7 News Reporter Terry Sweeney is live on the isle. Happy new year to you. This is one of the spots that a lot of people came to check out the tracitional way of bringing in the new year. Look at what i am talking about. Talking about fireworks, folks. 250,000 people were expected to be piling up in the area in San Francisco. Well show a number of the fews. Display of 4500 devices lasted 15 minutes and that is shorter than the 4th of july fireworks. The crowd on new years eve is easy mood. S of other spots including here on Treasure Island with one message, here it is. Happy new year everything is nice and clean and beautiful. I like the people and food, it is great. That man in town from peru to enjoy the holiday. Getting around town was busy. A Luxor Cab Company offering a free ride from 10 to three. As far as b. A. R. T. Goes, a lot of people taking advantage of it 250,000 rode that last year can about the same this year. A couple of arrests and people had to be taken to t
It is not done. And so, part of the reason that i wanted to speak to all of you here today is to make sure that we emphasize, to congress, and that members of both parties understand that all across america this is a pressing concern on peoples minds. Reporter again, on the issue of tax increases and who constitutes the wealthiest of americans. The president was originally pitching a threshold of 250,000 a year in income. Republicans wanted to see that as high as one Million Dollars. The deadline is midnight eastern time. Keep in mind, even if congress misses that deadline they can put off the tax increases or refund them retroactively. Katie marzullo, abc7 news. A lot of us worried about our wallets. One item that wont fall off the cliff is milk. Committees agreed to one year extension of the farm bill. Committee approval is a good indication the full congress will follow even though the bill hasnt reached the floor. If the extension is not okd, the price of milk could double by next
Captioned by closed captioning services, inc. Breaking news is president obama just having spoken from the white house on the boss built of a fiscal cliff deal. One that could avoid raising taxes for everyone. Good morning im kristen sze and im cheryl jennings. Katie is the news encouraging . Reporter more pressure than news about what the deal might be. This was not the big announcement about an agreement on the fiscal cliff. The president did acknowledge theres been progress and he spoke while surrounded by americans who he pointed out cannot afford a tax hike. A source close to the negotiations we know what might be on the table now this current tenty deal. One, as far as tax hikes are involved republican and democrats have agreed taxes would not go up for families that make less than 450,000 a year or individuals who make less than 400,000 a year. As far as Unemployment Benefits thats could be extended. The president mentioned tuition tax credit extended. Where theres still a great
Should be gone by 4 00. San rafael is looking dry and inis going to get showers and thunderstorms and a tremendous seasoning rain. Temperatures in the lowtoupper 60s. We have had a dry spell and the oil has collected so we want to be careful, slow down the speed and watch for ponding on the side of the roads, san jose 280 away from 17 is quiet so far so it is going to be friday light . We help so. Southbound sigh, no traffic as you head up toward 101 and we will take a wide look at san jose and see how everything going, 101 is clear at 66 Miles Per Hour near the san jose airport and 28065 Miles Per Hour at top speed along highway 85 and no accidents and we are dealing with this on the Marina Boulevard offramp, three cars are involved and one lane is blocked but in delays. Thank you, leyla gulen, we have the victory parade and after the victory a couple of days ago followed by a lot of hard work for the planners of the parade in San Francisco. Nick is hanging out with the stars of the p
76 inland and 63 to 70 along the coast into San Francisco. How about the community, leyla . I really wish i were at that game yesterday. It was fun. You went . I watched. It was fun watching. All right. You werent there. No. All right. Good morning, everyone. Heres a look at walnut creek. Southbound side of 680, looks like everythings moving along just fine there, envious of that drive if youre stuck in this. It is going to be a really nasty one, very slow. 37 miles per hour, could be a lot worse, though. Coming into the pass, you will find those brake lights. Things will improve, but we have the construction in the eastbound direction, eastbound 580 to northland road until 9 00. Katie, eric . Leyla, thank you. 5 01. We can get used to this world series thing. Were bound for it again this morning. Giants fever spreading around the bay area after the team had one of its most dramatic wins in franchise history. Last night with the giants trailing 43 in the eighth, Michael Morse launched