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
male announcer live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. The top story is the fiscal cliff. Theyre just approved the votes to approve the fiscal cliff. This prevents tax hikes for the middle class. This magic number to pass was tutored 17. So it did receive. House speaker, john boehner voted yes. This was the first sign and the next is the president s desk that should happen fairly soon. Other big stories two people are killed in a crash after a police chase in San Franciscos Mission district. Its caught on south bay. Our top story tonight. The fiscal cliff. The house is now voting on fiscal cliff tax increasesit looks as though the senateapproved bill will get enough votes to pass. For the middle class and earning over 450thousandit also extends unemployment bill is 217. Meaning thea Police Chase Ends in a deadly crash. Two people were killed this morning after a driver crashed into a liquor store in san francisco. This is Surveillance Video. A third person was badly
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Exiting bit of slow traffic exiting on to route 50 coming into cheverly northbound on 295. But other than that, youre okay. In fact, lets take a live look outside and show what you it looks like here on route 50 heading for the beltway coming in from annapolis. You can see that traffic volumes are still pretty light. Lets go back over to the maps this time heading over to the other side of town. 270 southbound, youre going to go id say about 31 miles an hour as you leave route 109 toward 121. A last live look a little further south near Montrose Road in rockville. Still a little heavy as well to the point where the lanes divide. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 6 11. Back to you guys. Thank you, monika. It is official. The house passes the fiscal cliff bill and president obama is thanking congress for passing it. But when he spoke late last night, he said he hopes for less drama in the future. Theres looft work still to be done lot of work still to be done. Now the bill heads
Tomorrow and the next day. Even partly cloudy on friday is not too bad as we keep the forecast dry. But by saturday were tracking the opportunity for a little bit of moisture to move on through. Monika . So far so good out on the roadways but you know a lot of people are coming back to work today and that means that traffic could get sticky pretty soon, at least when it hits 5 00 in the morning, thats what happens. If youre traveling on the northbound side of i95, youre okay in virginia. Southbound 270 out of frederick no issues to report from i70 down to the point where the lanes divide. Lets take a live look outside and show what you it looks like here on the beltway at georgia avenue. Looking good between 270 and i 95 on the north side of town. All of your major thoroughfares look great coming down to the beltway. Lets take a look at our maps again. This time over to the bridges inside the beltway. No problems at the roosevelt bridge, memorial bridge, 14th and the 11th Street Bridge