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Store up to 200 hours of entertainment in hd. Plus watch live tv anytime with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. Thats powerful. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. We begin tonight with breaking news. Septa says no deal yet. That means there is a good chance workers will strike in two hours. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. A strike would shut down septas Regional Rail lines. Fox 29s dave kinchen live in center city. Dave, are the sides still tal talking. Both sides are still talking at Liberty Place. Both sides acknowledge a strike is looking more and more likely. Ibw and blet at this point see no reason to expect that we will not be on the strike at 12 0 1 00 a. M. Saturday morning. Reporter its not looking good with less than two hours for septa and two unions representing 400 electricians and locate como tiff engineers t
Officials with both of those unions came out and spoke to reporter as few minutes ago and announced their 400 members between the two unions would not be reporting to work tomorrow morning. They are currently in the process of informing their rank and file members not to report to work tomorrow morning. What that means Regional Rail lines in our area will be shut down tomorrow morning. That will affect according to septa numbers about 60,000 or so riders lets show you or lets let you hear listen to a few Union Officials when they came out here and spoke to us not long ago. We have reiterat reiterateedt that septa agree to binding arbitration. They have not answered that yet but we dont expect the answers to be any different than the previous requests that weve made to settle this dispute to a binding dig. Its basically a strike . Essentially were expecting to be on strike at 12 01 tonig tonight. We have friends that live in this community. Were from this community and we did not this t
Including two critically important border crossings. You ran for president promising to end the war in iraq. You did. Now youre redeploying troops. Are you worried about your legacy . Cristiano ronaldo, oh its a great cross . And it is an equalizer. World cup heartbreak. Just seconds from victory, team usa has to settle for a draw in a wild game with portugal. The United States needs a win or tie against germany to move on. Obviously were disappointed. You know, hopefully well get the job done. Bowe bergdahl has been moved to an outpatient facility at jant base san antonio to continue his rehabilitation. More wicked weather from wisconsin all the way to texas. Five tornados touched down in two colorado counties. In minnesota, the mississippi and other rivers have been overflowing their banks for days. Oh, my oh my oh my its really something. Its scary. Ill still shaking. American soccer star hope solo spent a weekend in jail. Shes accused of assaulting her sister and nephew. A father a
Some Holiday Events are adapting to the coronavirus, including here in manhattan. The 94th annual thanksgiving day parade was still as festive as ever. The streets were largely empty thanks to planners adapting the program to prevent crowds. And Los Angeles County urged residents to cancel all plans, even outdoor gatherings. California is struggling to get its cases under control. Officials say theyre seeing the, quote, most alarming metrics weve ever seen. We begin with our current and future president s. Each with a different approach to those metrics and each spending thanksgiving differently. Today, president elect joe biden is spending the holiday in delaware with his family. Meanwhile, President Trump is golfing at his club in northern virginia. He canceled his annual trip to maralago in south florida. Joining us from washington are nbc News White House correspondent cara lee and with us in rehoboth beach, delaware, is nbc political reporter allie vitaly. It seemed like President