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To check this out, get some eyes on this to see how this progressing throughout the morning. Right now the traffic tracker is on 395. Headed down to 95 and virginia for us. 395 southbound after washington boulevard that crash we have been talking about for a little bit here, all lanes are now open. Nothing else to worry about in that area. Prince georges county into and out of town, no problems. Maryland 95 at 198 also rolling along quite nicely. 66 as youre headed in to town, out of town, we are nice and green. Remember to listen to our friends on wtop when you hop in your car for the latest on traffic. Guys . Thanks, melissa. Its 5 01. Out of wisconsin four people are dead of a shooting on the bridge in the eastern part of that state. Take a look at this new video in. One of the four People Killed is the gunman. One person is in Critical Condition. At this point police s ....
president later this morning. right now we here from stuart varney, anchor, fox business network. how do you analyze this number for the month? the mostlyally important number of the day is the rise in the unemployment rate to 8.3%. three months to an election the president does not want to see the unemployment rate rise. we also had a rise in the so-called real unemployment rate from 14.9 to 15%. the other side of the coin is the number of new jobs created. that is another important number here. 163,000. if you look more deeply you will find the number of new jobs created in june was revised lower. so you ve got a rise in the rate. 163,000 new jobs but fewer new jobs in the month before that. a rather negative report of all. bill: that is paltry where we are now. you say the real unemployment rate? yeah. bill: explain that again, stuart. technically that is called u-6. that unemployment rate includes those who are unemployed. those involuntary littlely doing part ....
have created 4.1 million in the last 3 1/2 years. bill: that big number is 8.3%. there are political implications of that number. stuart, thank you. see you at 9:20 on fbn. a little context on the board behind me for the unemployment rate. this goes back to december of 2007 when the economy started seeing faltering right? we were at 5% unemployment. it spiked to 10% in 2009, the high point. december into january. then started slowly moving down until the last few months we saw it flat line. now we see the uptick yet again. 8.3% which amounts to 12.8 million people without a job. and that rate is also well above the yellow line here, right about 6% or a little lower. that yellow line, that is the signal where we need to be in order to get a healthy economy. we are a long way from that at this point. patti ann has more. patti ann: bill, response coming in on those jobs numbers. reince priebus, the chairman of the republican national committee saying quote, president obama ....