The airport today. Nbc 10s matt delucia joins us live. How are conditions right now in. Traci and vai, one of the busiest travel days of the year and some of the folks are coming to the airport this morning trying to get out for their holiday destinations. Right here youre looking at terminal e, the ticket counters slightly busy. We saw a rush earlier and if we take a look upwards, you can see it there by the security checkpoints. Those lines have already been forming and getting longer as we speak so it is getting a little bit busy here as the day goes on. We did ask Philadelphia International how many people they are expecting this week. 610,000 travelers through next monday. Today is actually the third busiest overall travel day. You just heard traci say about 77,000 people are expected to come through this airport today. This coming sunday will be the busiest day with everybody coming back home, but another live look here. The good news today, its looking like decent weather. Just
Neutrality. Lawsuits are expected to be filed over the new rules. It could be years before anything actually happens. And a reminder for this story, comcast is the Parent Company of nbc 10. Harry hairston nbc 10 news. Right now at 6 00 nbc 10 uncovers new information about an alleged isis supporter arrested by the feds and his connection to our area. Federal investigators say the 30yearold man financed a plot to fly two other terror suspects to syria to join the Islamic State group. The man lived in a dover delaware apartment and operated a kiosk inside the dover mall. Nbc 10s Christine Maddela is live from the operations center. I know youve been digging for new details on this story all day, what have you uncovered . We obtained the federal criminal complaint against the three men. Two of them have ties to our area. We find out what those two men did in the delaware valley. Today we confirmed Abror Habibov lived in a dover, delaware apartment. He owned a kiosk at the dover mall and o
Artist when the Program Began in 1972. How does a person become a street artist . There are two major tenants. You must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. A street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. This committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. What happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location . This would be a magic time of year. You would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. As the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. That is how sought after the spaces are. You might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. What other areas can a licensed street artist go to . They can go to the Fishermans Wharf area. They can go in and around union square. We have space is now up in the castro, in fact. How many are there . We have about 420. Are they here all year round . Out of the 420, i know 15
Across the street, we had the highest vacancy commercial rate in the city. What we are seeing now at midmarket is that Everyone Wants to be here now. Of course what that means that Everyone Wants to be here, what does that mean for the Arts Community that has always been here. This is going to keep artist and the Artist Organization here. It was great to work with the California Community loan funds and the office of Economic Development to make this a reality. Over the past couple of year with hard work and procuring money and Property Owners we were able to procure these sites to ensure the arts remain here permanently. This is a huge effort. Its not just the elected officials that get to stay here. Its the main Market Community that holds this together. Whether its the collaborative that continues to advocates for Public Safety and all of you that make this a viable and dynamic and Exciting Community and diverse. Thats the challenge here. We are trying to revitalize this area and st
Revisit the numbers. We believe this amount is sufficient but i dont want to come back and short change us again. Let me suggest this. We will talk Public Comment but i want suggest that we continue the items and not take amendments hold on. We need to do the extension amendment now and do the numbers amendment next week if we can advise you to work on it together. Okay. And if i could make one other comment . I am sure i would appreciate and my colleagues at the other departments would appreciate if maybe we could have a Small Working Group in next fiscal year to see ways that we can expedite the contract approvals for the board. Right now they average six and eight weeks and mr. Rose is accommodating but Everyone Needs time to do their Due Diligence before we bring it here and we find ourselves short in the process of getting in front of the board so the departments can do a better job of starting the process earlier but maybe we can look at the process and see some streamlining to b