Were back open on the eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway, right around university avenue. That fuel spill that was in the area, oil spill from an earlier tractortrailer accident, completely wiped out and cleared out of the way. Earlier we did have it closed here. You needed alternates and there was a little bit of a backup. Traffic moving freely through dhere. No problems on the eastbound or westbound side. If you typically take the vine street expressway, you might check in to see if theres construction. Not today. Both directions are open in between the schuylkill expressway over here and broad street. Were still in the green there. Most of our majors getting back to normal. More updates when im back in the next ten minutes and well check in with new jersey. Rosemary . Good news. Thanks for that, jess. For septa riders, the next two weeks will be very critical. Transit voters may strike if they dont get a new contract. That means bus, subway and Trolley Service could stop. Matt delucia with more on that. Septa workers two years ago narrowly avoided a strike. Septa riders are saying not again. Some 5,000 Union Members have threatened to walk off the job. The transport Workers Union voted unanimously to walk off the citys subways, trolleys and buses on november 1st if a deal is not reached before then. The big concern, of course, is that workers will be stranded and looking ahead to election day on november 8th. That could be a big concern there as well if the strike does happen. We spoke with riders who say they are concerned and frustrated. I think theyre not thinking of everyone. I think theyre only thinking of themselves. When they think about the strike, they put a lot of us in jeopardy of how we choose to get to work. Two years after the last strike threat, some of the sticking points remain today, including pension, health care and work schedules. The union claims managers are getting special treatment. Septa the Workers Union president there said that theyre telling themselves that they deserve more and that we deserve less and were not going to tolerate that. Septa responded to the vote with a written statement. They said, quote, while we hope that the union does not exercise its right to strike, we are focusing on reaching a new contract that is in the best interest of our riders, employees and stakeholders. Theres no word yet on any contingency plans if a strike does happen two weeks from now, septa Regional Rail would not be affect by this. Live in east falls, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Thanks to are that, matt. Stay with nbc 10 as the deadline gets closer. Make sure you have the free nbc 10 app for updates on a possible strike. Happening today, the hoboken train station is now back offering full service. This comes less than three weeks after the crash of an nj transit train that killed a woman and injured more than 100 people. The tracks opened this morning at 4 00 a. M. Train entering the station will reduce their speed from 10 miles an hour to 5. The train that crashed in september was speeding at the time of the accident. Today in central pennsylvania, a judge will begin hearing the penn state whistleblower case thats linked to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Former assistant football coach mike mcquery is suing the university for 4 million for wrongful term nation. He claims penn state ruined his coaching career and personal life after he reported witnessing sanduskys abuse to school officials. Mcquery also testified against sandusky who was later convicted of child sex crimes. 5 04. 58 degrees outside. Happening today, concerned residents in south jersey are expected to pack a hearing over as pipeline. Pack a hearing over the hearing will be held at Bordentown Regional High School at 4 30 this afternoon. The state department of Environmental Protection will answer questions about a proposed compressor station. Critics say it will damage air and Water Quality in the area. The Company Building the station says it also passed quality tests. One of 15 independent Mission Schools that provides education for lower income students. The new School Includes a mural that pope francis signed last year. Religious leaders all across philadelphia are coming together for a common goal, education equality. Representatives from the jewish, catholic, christian and islamic faith met yesterday. Each shared messages about the moral responsibility of educating our children. All agree that kids everywhere should have the same opportunities. One person is recovering this morning after an accident involving a Philadelphia Police car. The crash happened around 9 00 last night in oxford circle, two vehicles collided at caster and levcik. Not sure who was at fault. Delaware is announcing details for this saturdays National Drug takeback day. Accidental poisonings kill more people in delaware than car citizens. Since 2010, delaware has collected almost 60,000 pounds of expired and unused medicine in its drug takeback days. There will be 27 Collection Sites this year that will be open from 10 00 to 2 00. Eagles fans who bleed midnight green feel a little bit blue this morning after the birds dropped a 2720 decision to the washington redskins. Defense hung in there, gave us an opportunity a couple times and then we did some nice things but something that we just have to take a look at. The eagles lost their second straight game after winning their first three to open the season. The birds return to the linc on sunday to face sam bradford and the undefeated minnesota vikings. Kickoff on sunday is scheduled for 1 00. Its 5 07. The calendar says fall but it will feel theres the game right there. Lets move on and talk about the weather. Its october, feels like it will be summer today. Its already 58 degrees. By sunday and 1 00, it will feel like fall today. Today, tomorrow, wednesday, the heat will be on. The temperatures into the 80s. Very unusual. Recordbreaking temperatures are likely later this week. Heading out right now, though, it is clear in center city. There are some areas of fog in delaware, south jersey and some of the pennsylvania suburbs as well. Summerlike temperatures this afternoon, 80 degrees and scattered clouds. Partly sunny skies. It will be a Beautiful Day today. Its not just today, into the this evening wi, this evening w be warmer. We drop into the 70s and 60s by tomorrow morning. 61 right now in the suburbs. Theres that fog in delaware, 57 degrees. South jersey is at 55 degrees. That 58 at philadelphia international, 60s, low 60s for fox chase and bustleton. West mount airy is 59 degrees. It will be a warm one. Youll see shorts, probably flipflops around. Southwesterly winds, thats bringing in two things. The moisture and the heat. We get the fog and the heat for this afternoon. And any clouds that are around this morning, theyve been trying to give us a few rain drops. You see a few sprinkles mainly to the north. During the day well stay dry. 60 degrees at 8 00 in philadelphia. By lunch time, 74. Look at that temperature at 4 00 this afternoon. Near 80 degrees. Plenty of sunshine, the suburbs just a few scattered clouds, warming from the 50s this morning into the low 70s at noontime and then upper 70s this afternoon and youll see a similar warmup in the lehigh valley, too. Partly sunny, 56 degrees. A few scattered clouds at noontime. 71 and more sunshine later this afternoon. 77 degrees. Delaware, quick warmup, 78 degrees this afternoon. A little bit of a warmup this morning will thin out the fog fairly quickly. New jersey, warming to 74 degrees at lunch time. Look at that sunshine for jersey and the shore. It will reach into the lower to middle 70s this afternoon. Beautiful weather today but yes, some recordbreaking temperatures on the way. Got to look at the 10 day on 10 to show you how long it lasts when im back in just a few minutes. See you then, bill, thank you. 5 09. We are focused on 70 eastbound close the at university right now. Jessica boyington has been watching that for us. Jess, of course, the beauty of live television. At one point it looked like it was open. Youre seeing its closed. Yes. It looked like it was because one of our cameras around the grays ferry area had Police Activity and some of the cones in the area cleared out of the way right now, the two tractortrailers still in place. Its closed on the eastbound side with one lane getting by on the westbound side. Thats because theres an oil spill because of this. Two tractortrailers were actually carrying beer kegs. Police activity there. A lot of cleanup under way. Someone is over here directing traffic. The westbound side is open again. Eastbound still closed. Now, to have an alternate there for you. If youre stuck on the schuylkill expressway, or know somebody that will be, call them. Go to 394th street bridge, wharton street and then you can hop back on. Take the vine street expressway back open, we havent dealt with that construction and head back to 95 that way, whatever direction youre going on 95. Youll be fine. You can see the rest of the majors still in the green. Well keep you updated and ill be back in the next ten minutes to do so. Next, hear how both camps still worked hard to woo potential voters over the weekend. Ride sharing giants like uber and lyft are against the law right now. Next, hear when the state may vote to change that. Hey hows it going, hotcakes . Hotcakes. This place has hotcakes. So why arent they selling like hotcakes . With comcast Business Internet and wifi pro, they could be. Just add a customized message to your wifi pro splash page and youll reach your customers where their eyes are already on their devices. Order up. 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The push for pennsylvania will bring former president bill clinton to our area tomorrow. Neither president ial ticket was in the state yesterday but their supporters were out in force trying to drum up votes. Trump supporters gathered for a rally at independence mall. Their goal, to build a larger coalition for the republican nominee. Many in the crowd came from out of town to stump in whats become a key battleground state. All americans, they are black, hispanic, look around here. Its beautiful to see that. Hillary clinton supporters in the meantime gathered in west philadelphia. Among them, two women who lost their children to incidents involving police. Her daughter, sandra bland died in Police Custody in texas. One supporter we spoke with told us she has a personal connection Hillary Clinton reached out to me after my son was killed by a Police Officer. It changed my life. As i mentioned, former president bill clinton will be in our area tomorrow. Hell be campaigning in blue bell, montgomery county. Investigators near durham, North Carolina are looking into a fire bombing of Republican Party office there and a threat that was left behind. Authorities say someone threw a bottle filled with flammable liquid through the window of the headquarters yesterday. Someone also spray paint a nearby building with the words nazi republicans leave town or else. Gop nominee donald trump reacted to the vandalism tweeted animals representing Hillary Clinton and dems in North Carolina just fire bombed our office in Orange County because we are winning. Authorities have not confirmed that claim. Trump added that he is proud of his supporters in that county. Meantime, democratic nominee Hillary Clinton tweeted the attack on the Orange County gop office is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe. North carolinas Republican Party thanks clinton for her thoughts and prayers. 5 16 on this monday. The military effort to free a major city in iraq from isis control is now under way. Iraqi and Kurdish Forces backed by a u. S. Led coalition are now battling to take back the city of mosul. Iraqi soldiers launched the offensive last night. Mosul has been under isis control for more than two years now. The black smoke you see here is from oil wells that isis set on fire in an act of defiance. Officials say the bat until mosul could lead to more than a Million People fleeing the city. The fbi director told a group of Police Chiefs that people who think theres an epidemic of Police Shootings of black people are not well informed. James comey wants people to know the truth about Police Shootings. He says a National Report would show and help the nation understand if there is indeed a real epidemic of Police Killings of black men or if social media is giving the impression there is. Right now, theres no National Collection of Police Shooting reports. The fbi announced a pilot progr program. Police say a man called them, saying his wife had a gun and when police got there, she approached them with a gun asking them to shoot her. Police told her to drop it but she walked towards them instead and thats when they did shoot her. In alaska, police are looking for a person who shot a Police Officer and then drove off. Whats not on the video is the shooting itself. The man seen on the tape shot an officer multiple times and then drove away in the cruiser. Later in the video, the cruiser stopped, he ditches the car. The officer is in the hospital. The gunman is still on the run. This morning, were learning that uber and lyft are trying to reach a permanent legal agreement with the city of philadelphia. According to philly. Com, the Pennsylvania Legislature could be looking at a bill to legalize the Ride Sharing Companies as early as tomorrow. You may remember earlier this month, a judge reversed the legal ban on uber. The ruling did not include lyft. The company says it will act as if it aploos to them as well. Meantime, the Philadelphia Parking Authority is fighting back. The ppa says until there is a permanent deal it will continue to ticket drivers. 5 18. 60 degrees outside. We continue to focusc on the schuylkill expressway. Closed at this early hour. Jessica boyington has her eye on the camera. What are you seeing . Its around university avenue. An earlier tractortrailer accident that was under way with a fuel spill, oil spill involved there as well. The trucks were the tractortrailers were actually carrying beer kegs. There was a mess there. Now the eastbound side is closed. Theyre diverting all traffic off around the eastbound side of university avenue. Here what youre looking at is westbound. Those lanes, at least one lane getting by. Not huge delays at least for the westbound side. Thats not really what the problem is and what im worried about. Its the eastbound side since its closed. Make a left at 34th street bridge to wharton street and then hop back on the schuylkill expressway eastbound ramp down below. Other than that, if youre taking the schuylkill expressway eastbound towards center city, take the vine street expressway north or south on 95 in that direction. You can access the other highways there with ease. Were not seeing the construction on the vine street expressway this morning. Thats open. Coming up in ten minutes or so, of course, ill keep you updated. As soon as any lanes become open or we have updates for you there. 20 minutes past 5 00. We are flirting with record temperatures this week. Yes, midoctober, temperatures are expected to be well above normal. You just got back from vacation in florida. Im sure youre loving this. Its beautiful. But i love fall, even the chillier temperatures, its fine with me. Meteorologist bill henley is tracking this warmup for us. Not too bad out there. No, right now its a lot warmer than it was yesterday, even in the city. This is philadelphia, a live view, free of fog here. There are spots of fog coming in with the warm air. Theres a lot of moisture coming with it. Youll feel the higher humidity this morning. 60 in philadelphia. 60 in trenton. Look at wilmington at 59, along with coatesville. Much warmer than yesterday at this time. 17 degrees warmer in allentown. Trenton is up 18 degrees and up by 11 for philadelphia and 12 in wilmington. A really warm start. These temperatures warm from the 50s through the 60s, through the 70s. Philadelphia will top out at 80 degrees this afternoon. To start with, there are areas of fog, getting thicker in the hazleton area. Twomile visibility in coatesville. As you go into northeast philadelphia, the airport is just fine. Half mile visibility at philadelphia international. That may wind up delaying some flights. Check with your carrier if youre heading out or expecting someone in. Wilmington, quartermile visibility. Thats dense fog. That hasnt budged for the last hour. Some thick fog but with temperatures climbing from the 50s and 60s into the 80s this afternoon, we will see the fog quickly disappear. Right now, some of those suburbs, the cooler suburbs, cochranville at 55 degrees, exton at 56 and 53 in collegeville. Thats where youre more likely to see some of the fog this morning. If you were out overnight, you may have seen a sprinkle. Those are out of the picture for us now. A few sprinkles heading to the north and the pocono mountains in north jersey. Back to summer, too, with temperatures warming to near 80 degrees and even warmer over the next couple days. Im expecting to see record temperatures a little later in the week. For today, not likely to see the record. The record is 89. Well hit 80 degrees this afternoon. But a warming trend will have us closer to tomorrows record and breaking the record on wednesday in philadelphia. And much of the rest of the area isc going to see similar conditions. And its going to continue for that, at least the beginning of the week. Today, tomorrow, wednesday, into the 80s with morning low temperatures into the 60s. Then it cools down on thursday with partly sunny skies. We could see showers coming late thursday and into friday. That will set the stage for cooler weather to return this weekend. Back to fall for saturday and sunday and beyond. Low 60s for monday, tuesday and wednesday. 22 minutes past 5 00. Halloween not even here yet and already a lot of people are thinking about christmas. Next, what a new report says about shoppers and the deals theyll be hunting this season. I like to know how things work. Trust me, these old engines arent complicated. Medicare. Thats complicated. We knew it didnt cover everything. We learned we could be responsible for thousands of dollars out of pocket. Thats why we called Colonial Penn. I called, he listened. laughing im alex trebek. 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