Work. That leaves us with enforcement Taxpayer Services and i. Tchl. So when you take a cut, weve done the best we can to try to balance that. And our appripriations come in those buktds, so to come extent, were constrained by where the proepuaters put the funding. We have probably 3,000 fewer people answering phone calls right now than we used to have to go along with the 5,000 fewer enforcement people and the 5,000 we put into Identity Theft, so were making a balances decision to try to figure out how do i minimize the negative impact of the cuts im going to take. Depending on how you measure it every revenue officer, criminal investigateor produces somewhere between 100,000 a year each. So we know when we ineffect leave money on the table, you can talk to any agent and theyll tell you we know its not a question of guessing. When we look at returns we start with the returns that have the biggest problems and so, were leaving on the table, tax cuts for tax cheats, there are people who
Peacefully. A group called coalition for economic or real justice. The people are organizing and i think its important for people to organize and organize together there are problems in this country and we need to pull together as one and get the problems addressed. Those gathers are expected to march and that is expected to cause considerable problems for commuters during the evening rush. Its unclear if they will go north and broad or south on broad or east on market. You should expect road closures and detours in center city. Behinds are expected to attend this evenings rally. Im sara bloomquist channel 6 action news. Now to matt pellman in the Traffic Center with more on how to get around tonights rally. Reporter so shirleen as sara just said we dont know exactly where they will go but like market and broad youll expect detours and delays and stay several road as way from city hall some of the numbers streets fanning out from city hall. We expect detours from the septa bus routes t
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Could just be beginning. And let the boonanza begin. Its halloween morning and exactly 20 years since today dressed up and were marking the occasion with a reveal thats been decades in the making. Today friday, october 31st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, halloween boonanza. With matt lauer, and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a. A friday morning, happy halloween everyone. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker, natalie morales. Marching band out there . A band outside. What a crowd you guys. A way to celebrate on the plaza. People dressed up, were going to show you them. One of the shows that starts one way and ends differently. Our crew getting in the act as well. Well have a lot of fun. 8 00 hour today. Everybodys halloween but were thinking christmas. We moved ahead. Merry christmas, honey. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. That dramatic end to the nearly two month old search for eric frein suspected of ambushing two tr