She and 6200 others lost Natural Gas Service yesterday. Crews replaced equipment in a regulator station today but have not identified the cause of the outage. It gets cold quickly. Lisa and her husband visited the red cross shelter for an update. We slept in one room and closed the doors kept ourselves warm with a lot of blankets. Reporter 200 crews are going door to door to ignite pilot lights and check gas appliances in homes. Great. Do you want it on or off. Just on for a while. We need to have access to the home so if at all possible, we encourage people to try to stay home if they can. Reporter he stayed home from work to wait for pg and e. He may inquire about how this may affect the bill. We do have a claims department. If there are concerns we encourage people to call. Pg and e is not saying when the utility expects to have service restored. In Discovery Bay, abc7 news. What a hassle. Lets give you moyer information about the cold weather. Sandhya patel is here with the update.
Paycheck since july, she knows a number of people cant make that sacrifice, it is a symbolic move on her part, but shes urging others to follow her lead. Also coming up at 5 00, a group of county republicans took to the stage in the capitol today and had very harsh words for the governor. For now live in the digital operations center, Deanna Durante, nbc 10 news. You might remember the superintendent of the School District of philadelphia had said they would run out of money next month without a state budget. We spoke to dr. William height again today. It does eliminate this january 29th decision on whether or not we can maintain our ability to meet payroll. We now can for a much longer period, but it doesnt take us completely through the year. And still ahead at 4 30, just how soon the district could see the funding and just how much dr. Hite thinks they will get. Now to a traffic alert, lincoln drive still closed this afternoon after a crash that injured a Pennsylvania State parole o
Education funding is not a cut. Reporter a group of state representatives slammed the governor, but he did release funds to schools, social service agencies, and counties. Most have been borrowing, spending reserves and closures without cash from the state. They have been pawns in this despicable game this entire time. Reporter Madeleine Dean defended the governor, saying she and many others never felt theyd get to the last week in december without a budget. Its exhausting. Reporter also of Montgomery County is supporting dean and the governors call for lawmakers to get back to the capitol and vote on a budget plan. One that calls for Pension Reforms and Education Funding increases. What we cant do at this point is the rhetoric of blaming each other, whether its republicans and democrats in the house or senate or the governor is not the solution to pennsylvania. Its grownups going back to harrisburg, doing their job, and getting a final product the governor will sign. Reporter late tod
Warren whos been busy tracking this storm. Latest information coming we watched this all night and mainly to the north. That is where the main issues are as far as the sleet and ice go. It will be warmer by the morning rush, so it could be sleet overnight but wake up to rain and wet roads. Ice will be in the poconos there. Thats where the temperature could be below freezing. Were looking at heavy rain throughout the morning but it ends by noon. Heres the latest radar this was 8 00 oclock latest shows that area of sleet moving in but again its north. Pretty much 78 to the north is where were seeing that mix here on ultimate doppler. Temperatures are still into the 30s just wet roadways but it could coming down as sleet. Little close up view across allentown that area of sleet just north of allentown mixing to the rain and to the south. Rain will be the big story pretty much everywhere south of 78 tomorrow morning. Right now just light rain in philadelphia and light rain in upper montgom
We are not expecting anything that severe here. But people out in haddonfield tonight in their sweatshirts and heavy coats our area will see everything from sleet to freezing rain in the Lehigh Valley to heavy rain everywhere else. It could make a mess of your morning commute no where the where you are going. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Iain page is off tonight. Im lucy noland. We have Live Team Coverage for you. Fox 29s brad sattin is live in allentown under a big old umbrella. Lets get to meteorologist dave warren whos been busy tracking this storm. Latest information coming we watched this all night and mainly to the north. That is where the main issues are as far as the sleet and ice go. It will be warmer by the morning rush, so it could be sleet overnight but wake up to rain and wet roads. Ice will be in the poconos there. Thats where the temperature could be below freezing. Were looking at heavy rain throughout the morning but it ends by noon. Heres the latest radar