For lost people. Reporter how will it cause inconvenience for you . Oh, man, boy, i aint going to say that on camera. Youre not real happy about. Know it will cause me a lot of inconvenience. Im active person y stay in the house. With the strike will keep me in the house. Definitely looking hopefully they come up with an agreement before tonight. If not, who knows. Reporter septa really urging people to start planning for this. We do know the Bike Share Program being expand. Uber being expanded. Contingency plans are being made for University City as well as for the school district. Excused absences will be allowed so really a lot of planning is going into this but again negotiations continue to be underway at this hour. No real news to report. We will have more in about an hour from now. Guys, back to you. So much to talk about. All right, thank much, brad. Lots of hospitals and schools do have a contingency plan should septa workers strike. You can get all the breaking details on our
All right. You ponder away. Well talk to you soon. Developing to night thousands upon thousands of folks are waiting to hear if septa and its employees union can strike a deal. The clock is ticking down for the deadline for a walk out or that deal. Workers have been threatening a strike without one if they go off the job thousands who rely on buses, subways and trollies to get around could be stranded. Theyll need alternate plan. Brad sattin talked to some of those nervous passengers hoping that both sides avoid a strike and hes live in center city tonight. Brad . Reporter yeah, iain, theyve been negotiating now since july, it is 6 00 oclock p. M. The deadline here is midnight. So of course time is running out. Just a few moments ago, septa actually had a brief News Conference and the highlights of that no deal yet. Spokeswoman telling us that there are quote still many unresolved issues here but they are committed to staying at the bargaining table. More thon in a moment. First lets t
Trying to be creative and staying, trying at leave torque keep calm. This is horrible. Its take mowing 40 minutes just to get the kids to school and around in traffic and just its just really bad. I mean, hopefully septa settles soon. The traffic is seems like its double the traffic these days ungot to make arrangements to take the kids to school, people to work. Definitely affecting everyone. Reporter now, as this strike now threatening to continue into its fourth day, there is growing concern whether this strike will affect people getting around on election day. Septa threatening to night to file an injunction against the union to prevent that from happening. Negotiations continue, of course, well have more at 6 00 oclock and throughout the night. Guys. You know we will, Chris Oconnell on top of it all. We are monitoring the breaking details on air and online at fox29. Com. If the strike continues, into a fourth day, bob kelly will help you weighed through the mess starting tomorrow
We dont know at this point, but water was covering the cars at one point, and they were able to shut down the water main break, probably, about 30 minute ago. Ukee, jessica, so the good news, that water is receding. But authorities with the Water Department have a massive problem on their hands. Considering this happened once, in january, 2014. This happened in june, 2015. And this happened again, just today. Take a listen to somebody that tells me theyre pretty upset. Peoples cars are out here, new cars, old cars. I hope it is not ruined, i pray it is not. But lord just seconds from going inside of my car. Three times in three years, there is a problem. I wouldnt have the answer we need more information. Clearly some frustration, taking live look at chopper right now, you can still see the water although it is receding little bit, because they were able to get that under control. But, i pose the question to the Water Department. They tell me clearly there is issue here. They have a pr
We dont know at this point, but water was covering the cars at one point, and they were able to shut down the water main break, probably, about 30 minute ago. Ukee, jessica, so the good news, that water is receding. But authorities with the Water Department have a massive problem on their hands. Considering this happened once, in january, 2014. This happened in june, 2015. And this happened again, just today. Take a listen to somebody that tells me theyre pretty upset. Peoples cars are out here, new cars, old cars. I hope it is not ruined, i pray it is not. But lord just seconds from going inside of my car. Three times in three years, there is a problem. I wouldnt have the answer we need more information. Clearly some frustration, taking live look at chopper right now, you can still see the water although it is receding little bit, because they were able to get that under control. But, i pose the question to the Water Department. They tell me clearly there is issue here. They have a pr