Including the tropicana managed by the same people as the taj mahal. Cooks housekeepers, cocktail servers and others will be put out of work on labor day. Some that have been with the casino since it opened in april of 1990. We are losing 2500 employees and they will be out and looking for jobs and trying to keep them homes and their families together. Its shocking that we have done this, we are served three warrant notices before, their intense in closing and we had no idea it would come now. Reporter so 26 years after taj mahal opened the casino among fanfare and a cost of a billion dollars to open. Carl icahn is set to shut down after labor day. More on this on 6abc. Com. More from the taj mahal. Im dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Septa announced today a timeline to get the Regional Rail service back on track and 120 cars were off line for a month because of a structural defect. John rawlins is live now. This has to be welcome news for all the riders that are dealing
Of the evening, too. By the way there s still a few of those lingering spits out there at the moment. But the big news is the wind. The wind has the bite to it right at the moment. As you can see on the west side of the state, we still have showers that want to transverse across the state and brevard, you know, Osceola County and polk county, be aware though we still have showers out there and i think we ll be done with this by noon. Getting ready for the afternoon and enjoy the Football Game tonight. However if you are barbecuing outside, the wind is going to be your problem. It is not going to be a comfortable day. Look, these temperatures right now in the 40s. 45 in new smyrna and 45 in sanford. However throw in the wind. Those temperatures drop down into the 30s. Orlando feels like 38 and feels like 37 in ocala. Got some dry air trying to push the skies. That will happen tonight but in the meantime we re going to have to deal with small craft advisories and lake wind advisories and
Road occurred about two hours ago. They have shut down the lanes and this is a Police Involved crash it is going to take a lot of time to clear this one up. If you are heading in that direction take the turnpike or u. S. 441, runs parallel to i95 in that area of Broward County. The turnpike southbound at kendall drive. The entrance ramp was shut down. Now that crash has been moved over to the shoulder. 836 drivers eastbound as you are heading toward i95, you are going to see the left lane blocked off by a crash and then we have a stalled out car on the dolphin westbound as you approach the palmetto, that one blocking the right lane. Lissette . Happy monday everyone for those of you who have been enjoying the cooler weather, it continues this morning and then well see a warmup this afternoon. Dressing in layers will be key. We are rainfree, dry and air, especially inland around kendall and homestead. Waking up with 46 degrees. Good morning to you in ft. Lauderdale. 49 the same for pompa
New pictures of a rotten wakeup call. First, this blast of Winter Weather up and down the east coast, from several feet of snow up north to snow flurries here in central florida. 10s of thousands of people are trying to defrost being many of them children after spending the night at the open air citrus bowl. It is a dangerously cold night. Most of you are under freeze warnings, and the wind chill advisories are up. Thousands of families shivered feels like temperatures in the 20s. Thats right. The feels like is what is important here. It wasnt really the air temperature. It was the wind that was killing those folks at the citrus bowl tonight. We have a freeze warning in effect for most of central florida. It does not include osceola or Brevard County as it stands now, but you are under a wind chill advisory, it will feel like 20s in the morning. They have upgraded the freeze warning in Marion County to a hard freeze warning, which means there could be significant damage to plant life.
No word yet on how he is doing. Todd this morning the massive blizzard blanketing much of the northeast. These are pictures of times square in new york city. They have cleared that area of snowfall at l ast but theres a lot more work to be done. The deadly storm also leaving behind a record amount of snow, dangerous conditions and 80,000 people without power. Neki the historic blizzard dumping more than two feet in somearts of the region and the digout is just beginning. This morning blizzard 2016 books. Its no fun. No fun at all . Not a winter wonderland. Neki the strong winds and snow went up the coast crippling baltimore and philadelphia. In new york city a travel ban in effect to clear the roads that has since been lifted. Emergency, you should not be on the r ad. But the worse of the storm damage isappening on the jersey shore. The winds are horrible. Itu cutting you up. The sand and the rain. Neki more than three years after super storm sandy devastated communities theres more co