People moving in next door. Its a good thing. Right now its a little bit of a bad thing cause of the dust. But were looking for the new business to come into the community. Reporter for decades perceptions about Public Safety and homelessness have plagued parts of market east but with plans to overhaul the gallery and other projects like this one on Chestnut Street paul levy of the Center City District says markets east is turning the corner. This is part of a completion of a 20 year process of really diversifying snot only officers and healthcare but retail Hotel Residential so a really active vibrant city thats coming to market east. Reporter so, it would seem things are in motion here on market east. This is east market. Thats the name of the project. This big project between 11th and 12thth streets and chestnut and market. It is a major undertaking the estimated price tag 500 million dodges it will probably take four to six years to complete. However they hope to have the first ren
Growing numbers of republican lawmakers who have expressed concerns about trumps executive order on immigration. Among them pennsylvania senator pat toomey. Toomey released a statement this morning saying that while he supports increased vetting, unfortunately the initial executive order was flawed. It was too broad and poorly explained. Lehigh valley republican congressman charlie dent told the Washington Post he understands trumps intention but the order appears to have been rushed through without full consideration. And democratic lawmakers continue to speak out against trumps executive order today. All called the policy unsafe. In fact its not enhancing our national security. In fact, it might be strengthening the recruiting for isis. The executive order is unamerican, i think it ultimately makes us unsafe and it should be modified and hopefully we wont go there again. More than ever this is a time that we should be doubling down on American Values and understand that doing sole ma
County all point to the and west into the poconos where we will experience blizzard conditions. This is from midnight through 4 00 p. M. On tuesday and still winter storm warnings for philadelphia and most of southern new jersey and delaware. So, with that that blizzard warning, what it means, whyp ite of the combination of how much snow is going to fall at a rate of an inch to 3inches an hour and then you combine it with winds of over 35 miles an hour, reducing visibility to a quarter mile so the two of those combined, that lasts three hours or longer, makesit a blizzard so again, its the combination of wind and its the combination of reduced visibility. The storm time line 10 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. As the snow arrives, the height of the storm 3 a. M. To noon and mid to late after noreaster it wraps up and moves out and are looks like mainly snow philadelphia north and west. That mixing of sleet at times for wilmington interior southern new jersey and mainly rain in those far southern
Philadelphia classes resumed following the lockdown. At the town hall meeting the president announced the former students detailed for police for allege allegedly having a gun was released. Its my understanding the prosecutor decided to not to press charges there was not enough evidence to press charges against him. Beginning monday students will have to not just show but swipe ids to enter buildings and the system would flag those not currently enrolled. While other Security Issues were also discussed both in practice and theory up to and including the possible use of metal detectors sometime down the road that was debated and talked about today. I have more on that when were back at 6 00. Live in center city, john rawlins, channel 6 action news, ryan. John, thanks very much. From the delaware newsroom today a fire forced everyone out of legislative hall today in dover. It started before 2 30 this afternoon. Firefighters say they saw smoke coming from the top floor of that building. A
This point but come out here onto ellsworth, not exactly a small side street here in south philadelphia and you can see it is still snow covered, really packed down despite the fact that we have seen plows coming through. This was another day for snow removal but as you can see lined me, theres just so much snow. The challenge today was figuring out where to put it. The sound of shovels echoed all across the city this afternoon. Day two of the cleanup, no more excuses time to dig out those cars. Theres a lot of snow and we just kind of like neglected it until like last minute and were paying for it now. Reporter so much snow some said they have no choice but to do what city all asks that you dont, throw it into the street. You dont want to block somebody else who shoveled they spot so you kind of throw it in the middle of the street. They say dont do that. I have nowhere else to put it. Reporter crews were scooping up the snow and hauling it over to an empty lot over at the broad and w