Breaking at 11 00 oclock tonight, news that a struggling Atlantic City does not need. There is talk tonight another cass zen know could be headed foreclosure. Good evening, im chris may. Im jessica dean. Theres talk on the boardwalk the Trump Plaza Hotel and kaseen 93 may shut down. High witness News Reporter Todd Quinones is live in Atlantic City with the details. Todd . Reporter jessica, right now, we are still waiting to hear back directly from officials here at trump plaza to confirm what in fact worry hearing tonight is that were being told that notices to employees may be sent out as early as monday. Ive been back and forth between being depressed and angry all day. Reporter new jersey state senator and former Atlantic City mayor jim whelan tells me credible sources are telling him come september, unless a buyer steps in or if theres some kind of dramatic financial change, trump plaza will be shutting down and laying off roughly 1,000 employees. Id love to stand here and tell peo
Todd . Reporter jessica, right now, we are still waiting to hear back directly from officials here at trump plaza to confirm what in fact worry hearing tonight is that were being told that notices to employees may be sent out as early as monday. Ive been back and forth between being depressed and angry all day. Reporter new jersey state senator and former Atlantic City mayor jim whelan tells me credible sources are telling him come september, unless a buyer steps in or if theres some kind of dramatic financial change, trump plaza will be shutting down and laying off roughly 1,000 employees. Id love to stand here and tell people particularly the employees dont worry, well fight, well safe your jobs. Id be lying any way you cut it its not good day for Atlantic City and not good news for our economy. Reporter he indicates the closing of trump plaza would follow along with down turn for Atlantic City cass soon notice since pennsylvania and other nearby states legalized gambling. Roger gros
88 degrees. Little bit of the breeze but lots of sunshine still. Lets see we have at the present time. Have you notice that had big full moon outside or opened your window and looked outside, unbelievable the we will talk more about that. Storm scan three you can see nothing in our area. There are a few clouds off towards the the State College area but otherwise it looks like a nice start to the day and it will be a very nice finish to the day too. 71 degrees in philadelphia. Sixtyseven in trenton. 69 degrees in wilmington. Cooler in the poconos at 62 and along the shore we have temperatures in the middle 60s. The dew points are higher then they were yesterday. Slightly more humid to take. It will be increasingly humid over next couple of days. Really not that bad at 62 degrees right now. You can see we are dealing with the super moon, this is a full moon this morning, the the moon is closest point to earth so it business 30 percent brighter and we have more coming on the 12th which is
Ohio. So lebron and all his greatness heading back to the cavs. You got to think all of a sudden they are an eastern conference favorite, no doubt about that. Contender again. Enjoy the nba season because its going to be fun unless youre in miami. The power struggle between d. C. s mayor and city council took another twist today. Mater vetoed three key parts the mayor vetoed three key parts of the 10 million budget already approved including the socalled yoga tax and the mayor calls it the underfunded streetcar project. Reporter the latest power struggle focuses on a contingency fund, money the mayor can move around when the need arises. Mayor gray said the budget as it stand now prevents the next mayor from doing that for everything from bad weather to school funding. Unforeseen things happen. Something could happen in the wintertime. We had a brutal winter this past year. We had 28 separate and distinct snow events and we had to get the snow off the streets. Nobody would ever argue t
Good afternoon. Rick and sarah are off, im matt odonnell. In the news a small explosion sends employees rushing out of a Chemical Plant in south jersey. Detectives speaking to a man suspected in a reported sex assault in the Spring Garden neighborhood. The big story, escalating in the middle east. Hamas firing rockets and some of them aimed at the airport in tel aviv. Israel responding. And it is the fourth day of air strikes, neither side backing down. People are gathering in center city to show support for israel. A live look at the action cam at a solidarity rally on j. F. K. Boulevard infront of the israeli consulate. Lets get the latest on the conflict. Abc news correspondent Karen Travers is live in washington. Moments ago israel Prime Minister said no amount of International Pressure will prevent them from responding with force. A significant escalation of violence in the middle east. The Israeli Defense forces says hamas fired more than 44 rockets at israel overnight, 11 interc