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Just days ago it was lit up in red and green for christmas. There it is, looking festive there along the schuylkill river. Good evening im Ted Greenberg thank you so much for being with us. Merry Christmas Eve and happy hanukkah. Tonight we have team forecast from your forecast to holiday preparations, we begin with nbc 10s drew smith live in logans square where the festivities have just beginning. Good evening. The first mass of many planned down here of st. Peter and paul is happening right now, the menorah is lit as hanukkah has begun. Everybody were talking to is very happy to be spending time with family and getting the holidays started. It was packed for the final minutes of the Christmas Village at Philadelphia City hall. People making lastminute gift purchases. We caught an exchange on camera. Here, alex, this is a gift for you. Give me a hug. Vendors closed for the season tonight. The hectic shop something finally behind us, now its family time. I love it its a time that every
It is so intense out there. Take a look at this video. This is the traffic backup this morning from a huge pothole that opened up on 580 near livermore. Its still backed up right now. Elissa harrington is live at the scene. I understand that road wont be clear for hours understandably. Reporter problems started around 3 00 a. M. Repairs are taking a lot longer than expected. Caltrans crews will be out here until 9 00 or 10 00 tonight. This pothole opened up right at the edge of the overcrossing where you can see traffic is still crawling. This hazard is causing headaches for drivers including one man i talked to who missed his Early Morning flight. How long were in you traffic . Id say about 2 1 2 hours. Reporter it was a rough morning for thousands of drivers like Terrence Carter stuck for hours along interstate 580 near livermore. Video from sky 7 shows the line of cars moving at washington speed stretched all the way to tracy. I was more than stressed out. I had anxiety, fear of mis
Frantic moments. United asked four passengers to volunteer to get off the plane, first offering up 400 then upping it to 800 u. But when no one volunteered the airline chose four people at random and this man was one of them. No this is wrong oh, my god look at what youre doing to him. Oh, my god. Reporter you can see and hear the surprise and frankly disgust from other passengers as Aviation Police forcibly removed this man from the plane dragging him right down the aisle and this was just the beginning of the chaos. He managed to get back on that plane after he had been taken off. I have to go home. I have to go home. I have to go home. I have to go home. So he seemed disoriented. After this fee asco everyone on the plane was then asked to get off. Witnesses say the man said he was a doctor and needed to see patients at a hospital in the morning. One passenger described how things then got bloody. The passenger hit his head on the arm thats next to him, knocked him out and he got all