Day. Septa says 56,000 kids in philadelphia ride septa to get to school. Roughly 30,000 to district schools, almost 21,000 to charters. The archdiocese was unable to provide us with a number today. Yellow school buses in philadelphia will continue to operate. Septa strike or no strike. But a walkout would ground he city buses, trolleys, the subway and el. It normally takes two transfers for this student to get from southwest to her school at broad and spring garden. If there is a strike my plan is to try to make it but if i dont make it ill just email my teachers. Reporter and theyll send you the information. I didnt feel the School District was unable to tell us if any of its schools had developed any carpool or other alternate plans. But mathematics civic and Science Charter School was preparing. Parents calling staffers today were told the school would open early and close late to accommodate dropoffs and pickup. With many of its kids normally using the subway to get to school, it s
I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. Pope fran sais rivd in koub ato cheering crowds before a journey that leads him to the u. S. And right here to philadelphia. Stage is set and over the coming days a final touches will go into place for this historic visit. Saturday night im walter perez the big story on action news is the building anticipation for at rifle of pope francis to philadelphia. Today we got a little glimpse into what we can expect to see in less tan a week the upon fivd arrived in cuba and will travel to the u. S. And make a few stops before arriving in the delaware valley. We have Team Coverage of the final preparations and we begin with action News Reporter Nora
Abc Elizabeth Herr is live with more on what we can expect to hear from the president tonigh tonight, elizabeth. Good evening to you. White house Officials Say tonight dont expect major policy announcements the president is aware the country is very concerned so he could call on kang gross take action. We have gun shots, we have gun shots. And the attack in San Bernardino is forcing Law Enforcement officials and communicate toy wrestle with possibility of new home grown terror threats prompting president obama to give a Rare Oval Office address it a shaken nation. I think hell talk about actions since not just 9 11 but paris to keep americans safe. Huddled with Top National Security advisers saturday as fbi is investigating computer and phone files to figure out ft. Two shooters reached out to isis or other radicals ba the attack. We have hundreds of people running down leads all over the world on this trying to understand the electronic record around the two killers. The fbi also raid
A freeze watch is in effect. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. How cold is it going to get . Lets get right to fox 29 meteorologist kathy orr. The coldest air of the season will shatter Everything Else weve seen this morning. We were in the upper 30s. Much colder come tomorrow morning. Freeze warning in effect for most of eastern seaboard. Extending down into the mid atlantic. Were not alone with this cold. Where you see the purple that is where we have the warning and were talking about temperatures in the 20s come tomorrow morni morning. Not just sweater weather but winter coat weather. Ultimate doppler you can see the winds have subsided so we no longer have a threat of sprinkles, nurseries or gropp pell as you may have seen snow pellets earlier this evening. Right now 27 in the poconos already. 33 degrees in pottstown. 41 in philadelphia. And 34 degrees in millville. The average first frost in allentown is october 16th right on schedule for that. In philadelphia its novem
It is going to be another warm one. Your high of 84 hits around three and then were at 81 by 6 oclock and again humidity more noticeable than yesterday but in most cases were going stay dry today. Karen we have some rain later on in the accuweather 7day. Details coming up and youve got issues there, dont you. Thats right. Were talking bo that overnight shooting that tam and sharrie have been speaking of. Its impacting your morning commute. Torresdale avenue shut down between distance and hellerman. Stick to frankford as your alternate. You can see police blocking off this portion of torresdale avenue. We have portions of ditman street and mcgee blocked off all in this general area so use some caution if youre headed out and stick to the alternates to avoid any delay. Walker and levick are good alternates to deal with ditman and mcgee closures right now. Lets go over to the roosevelt boulevard. Its looking pretty good at ridge avenue with no delays as you head towards the schuylkill but