Weather forecast. Its a chilly one, bill. If you end up having to walk or ride your bike because of the strike youll have to bunt udle this morning. Most suburbs in philadelphia have dropped into the 30s this morning. 34 right now in the philadelphia suburbs. The Lehigh Valley, just below freezing by 2 degrees at 30 degrees. Its cold in new jersey, too. Those 30s in delaware will warm into the low 60s. c well get a nice warmup today, near 60 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. And enough sunshine to warm the suburbs, new jersey and philadelphia into the low 60s later today. Ill walk you through the forecast hour by hour to show you how quickly that chill will disappear when i come back in just a few minutes. Well see you in a little bit. Now back to our breaking news. Septa is on strike this morning. As we told you, no transit buses, subway or Trolley Service within the city limits of philadelphia. Septa and its transport workers broke off contract talks at midnight. Live Team Coverage of t
Depending on where you are going. Here the picture you are looking at Jefferson Station, septa ambassadors are directing people to the regional rails, which will get them home, we have heard stories of rush hours lasting, two plus hours, yesterday. I spoke to one woman who wasnt even going to do it, she ran one day so how do you prior to run to work. Have a listen. So how to you wrap your head around getting yourself ready for that . You just to have plan, you know, clothing, plan if you you bring your lunch to work, plan the route, and otherwise, it is hat been that bad. We have had good weather. So hoping that continues. Reporter passengers are optimistic that some deal is hatched and sooner then later they tell me their patients, of course, is wearing thin. Something from the office of Emergency Management we are told that for the most part, City Services are running smoothly, i check with philadelphia police, they have not had any effect on their budget for deploying officers, of c
Depending on where you are going. Here the picture you are looking at Jefferson Station, septa ambassadors are directing people to the regional rails, which will get them home, we have heard stories of rush hours lasting, two plus hours, yesterday. I spoke to one woman who wasnt even going to do it, she ran one day so how do you prior to run to work. Have a listen. So how to you wrap your head around getting yourself ready for that . You just to have plan, you know, clothing, plan if you you bring your lunch to work, plan the route, and otherwise, it is hat been that bad. We have had good weather. So hoping that continues. Reporter passengers are optimistic that some deal is hatched and sooner then later they tell me their patients, of course, is wearing thin. Something from the office of Emergency Management we are told that for the most part, City Services are running smoothly, i check with philadelphia police, they have not had any effect on their budget for deploying officers, of c
Eddie looking at me funny. I said i was going to punch you in the face. Okay. Laughing. Hes laughing. All right, 7 01, well, day two of the strike. And yes, so, enter day two, having to deal with this again, so Team Coverage this morning, Lauren Johnson in center city following negotiations, steve keeley is at fernrock, talking to commuters, karen hepp more on the traffic headaches that the strike is causing. But first, we want to go to bob kelly. And we have a segment this morning, and every day of the morning of the strike, calling on kelly. You simply give bob kelly septa strike questions, and he has the answer. All right. So, sends us your questions, make sure to use the hashtag for bob fox 29 septa. Than should avoid everybody calling me all day long like they did yesterday. Okay, here is the first one from juneberry. I how about the city pitching in and freeing up Street Parking in center city . Thats a good question. Good suggestion. The mayor was in here yesterday. I doubt it i
Both septa management and the twu local 234 union. No deal yet though. Lets go to video right now we can tell you congressman bob brady is now involved in the talks as he often gets involved on labor issues. Septa management says that things are moving along but a Union Spokesperson tells me septa is giving them quote a quarter inch here and a quarter inch there rather than an inch by inch movement. So the Union Spokesperson says things are moving much slower than they could be and that is that isnt so encouraging to many commuters we spoke with include as kindergartner named william. It took me twice as long to get to school this morning. It took you twice as long to get to school this morning. Umhmm. What did you think about th that. That was much traffic. It takes 15 minutes to get to school. It took us half an hour, um 40 minutes straight through center city. This too shall pass. Its not our fault theyre having issues so i dont know why we have to suffer and the lines are crazy. Yo