The roads route 13 blocked off. Weve been talking about cold temperatures you need to watch for icy spots. You can see a terrible accident scene. They are doing the cleanup process. Action cam live on the scene. Another accident on Burlington County 130 northbound at high street. Police had been on the scene, but they just left. Traffic is moving better now in Burlington County. Live look at 42, northbound traffic at creek road, very light volume. Reporter on the big board were showing you theres the promise of sunshine. Well be in and out of the clouds as we go through the day. Well see snow showers and flurries in central pennsylvania. At times that might filter through that should be low impact, but not a big deal. Big story this morning is the temperature, 24 in wilmington, 22 in trenton. Still in the teens in allentown and lancaster. When you factor in the winds which are blowing in the teens its making it feel like 1 in philadelphia. 9 in reading, 7 in wilmington. On the bus stop
Roll through the day. 23 in philadelphia. 18 in allen to un. Weve dipped in the teens in allentown and lancaster and reading. It feels like 11 in philadelphia. Single digit windchills in millville, reading, allentown, feels like 2 in lancaster. As we roll through the day, 23 by 9 00 a. M. 11 00 a. M. , 24. The high today at 3 00 p. M. Will be 29 degrees with the winds gusting up to 30 Miles Per Hour it will feel like the teens most of the day. Still looking at the arctic crush for the creekd, karen for the weekend, karen, details coming up. Reporter we have light bands of snow, we can see that 422 at 29. Hard to see, but you can see it on the roadway. Eastbound volume on 422 at 29. Watch if youre traveling under the snow shower that you slow it down. We have two accidents in the area involving overturned vehicles, South Coventry township Chester County, route 100, we have fire police crews on the scene. We have another accident involving an overturned vehicle otter street and old route
Is that Police Officer coming . Its been a while. We also have a this is something i am interested in what the data says. There might be a possible mitigation of calls from 311 and that was introduced in 2007 and effort to promote that and as time went on and people moved into the city we might have migration of people calling us instead of 311. Sir, just a quick question for you. Do you see the transition of more repeat calls, do you see that going from non emergency, non emergency to emergency calls . Thats anecdotally what my staff tells me. I am trying to find ways of putting some numbers behind that and seeing what the trend is. Okay. I have heard that from a number of residents in my district and it would be interesting to see that. Yes. And a final effect is the change in city. We have seen population growth, day Time Population growth and other changes in what we address more calls related to traffic issues and things like that, so those are some of the big theories and i have
Department of emergency management. Thank you anne for waiting. Good afternoon supervisors, chair farrell, members of the budget and finance committee. Its a pleasure to be here today. I am anne kronen berg executive director of department of emergency management. We have prepared a few very brief slides for you today in our presentation. You will see just four slides because wow. Right, i thought being the last one to present its something you would appreciate. We did take the what we were asked by or at least what we thought this hearing was about which was focusing specifically on response times and so im not talking about our whole department but just in that one area. We will appreciate that. Thank you very much. You realize the shorter the slides the bigger the budget gets. Awesome. I like that. Just kidding. Our mission is to lead the city in planning preparedness, communication and response and recovery for daily emergencies, large scale city wide events and major disasters. Th
Last time we checked we had 34 of the uniform work force live here in the city with a large percentage of the other living in the greater bay area the nine bay area counties and some live outside the limits but its not as many more than i would like but not as many as you would think and on the recruitment piece i appreciate the question. Last year we asked for a single function person in uniform just to deal with recruitment and there was a position funded and although i think the tide maybe turning and i find the value of having a person. They have a recruitment unit. We have a few people trying to piece things together and were proud of being one of the most diverse departments in the country. And i think when the federal Consent Decree went away there was concern there would be back sliding and our numbers in terms of recruitment and retention has remained robust. We have 52 of the department is minority and women and we have a very Representative Work force. We want to continue th