nearly 3 million travelers today and complicating things, very bad weather. rain and snow are pummeling the northeast and we ll have a live report in a moment. first. every day i wake up it s the same day, and i wait a minute or two to listen for the familiar sounds i m used to hearing on there is nothing. this is the first birthday he is not going to be with us. to be the last one, we need to bring him home. every one of them need to come home and not in coffins. dana: hoping against hope israeli families welcoming a deal to free at least 50 women and children after six weeks of uncertainty. bill is off today. good morning, john. john: good morning, dana. john roberts, america s newsroom. we ll see how this day unfolds in the hours ahead. diplomatic breakthrough was negotiated by qatar with help from the united states and egypt. the pause scheduled to last for four days initially. israel says it is willing to extend the truce in exchange for more hostages. hamas
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore the final wake of 2016 and what a year it was after days of choking smog, we counted the economic costs of chinas pollution crisis. Good morning deja, hello world. Happy holidays and glad you could join us that this edition of Asia Business report. It looks like stocks are enjoying a bit of a santa claus rally. 0vernight, it was down slightly by 33 points. 0verall rally. 0vernight, it was down slightly by 33 points. Overall it has been a rollercoaster ride. It started with what felt like a freefall in chinese Commodity Prices followed by the shock of brexit and the bigger surprise then of donald trump as the next president of the united states. We asked what spurred such volatility . It is another year of sub powered growth in global trade and that is what defines what is important for asia. That in itself allowed for the kind of populism that we saw that led to the mac and donald trump. For asia, the week growth that all