107 million americans hitting 50 miles. 50 miles or more. Locally, its about 1. 2 million philly area residents headley ad to grandmas house are somewhere else about 30 of the local population. So about three out of every ten people will be traveling at least 50 miles much thats an increase of 3 over last year, and its the ninth Consecutive Year of rising travel for this year end holiday. All of this points to a strong economy, growing consumer confidence, according to aaa, said to be the reasons why so many people are hitting the roads. In fact travel for every major Holiday Weekend this year has been up. Here at the airport theyre anticipating about 82,000 philly area residents going to be flying some place thats about 2 . So two out of the 100 of us will be flying. If youre driving, we did some check wig aaa as far as gas prices right now they average 2. 69 a gallon. That is up 24 cents over last year. You want to give yourself extra travel time if youre in a car, according to one s
Creek. 49 in San Francisco, we have almont at 35, 37 in danville. Here is a look at the forecast. It is a cold one as we got to the morning hours, especially in the 40s as we get into the upper 50s with low 60s. 59 in oakland and 59 in livermore. As well as morgan hill. Not a lot of change going on for most of the area, but i do see a matter what coming our way for the weekend. We will look at coming up. We have a look at the altamont pass. , maybe a little heavier for you because of closures in livermore. Tesla road is closed in an area near the carnegie recreation. You could not get onto tesla road is people are going to be using the altima pass a little more and that is going to make it just a little bit busier. It is already busy anyway on the 205 and 580, but since tesla road is out of commission, it is going to be more cars on the altamont. In the valley, interstate 880 is moving well, and at the bay bridge this right will be home pretty soon. The San Francisco 49ers are on bail
Correspondent Kristen Welker and capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell. I feel like were doing sideline reporting of a major Football Game or something. Kelly, let me start with you because i know in the last hour there have been a lot of fluid motions going on behind the scenes, but break it down, the expected plays well see through this hour. Well, there are some critical nuggets to report, thomas. Ive been able to report in the last half hour that House Speaker john boehner has signalled to fellow republicans that he is prepared to rely on democratic votes if necessary to pass something. Now, that means the senate has to come to a deal, and we expect that could be announced within the hour. Right now Senate Republicans have been going into their own team meeting. I was able to talk to a number of them as they were headed into that meeting. They expect to sort of get the lay of the land and find out what the next steps will be. Im also told that at least going into that meeting t
Buses around area. Rally started with several dozen people at 4 00 this afternoon. They chanted and gave speeches as the crowd grew. They marched into west oakland and they even stopped traffic at times. They say the hope of public display raised Public Awareness about the decision. Its a great injustice what happened this weekend and everybody stopped and this thinks for a second, hey, this is could have been my child. Last night, a much different scene, a small group vandalized the downtown area. Keira shows the cleanup today. Downtown oakland is riddled with damage from last nights demonstration that turned to destruction. They showed about hundred people marching from the plaza after the verdict was read. They shattered windows and graffiti businesses and vandalized a police car. Protestors used blocks to break the windows as customers took cover under tables. It was scary for everyone. Everyone understands why people are so angry. There is not a lot of animosity i guess towards th
Odonnell. I feel like were doing sideline reporting of a major Football Game or something. Kelly, let me start with you because i know in the last hour there have been a lot of fluid motions going on behind the scenes, but break it down, the expected plays well see through this hour. Well, there are some critical nuggets to report, thomas. Ive been able to report in the last half hour that House Speaker john boehner has signalled to fellow republicans that he is prepared to rely on democratic votes if necessary to pass something. Now, that means the senate has to come to a deal, and we expect that could be announced within the hour. Right now Senate Republicans have been going into their own team meeting. I was able to talk to a number of them as they were headed into that meeting. They expect to sort of get the lay of the land and find out what the next steps will be. Im also told that at least going into that meeting there had not been a final decision made on a key sort of procedura