And we are committed to working with the union and treating the individuals with the respect they deserve. Supermarket owners and bottlers say they are praying the price with layoffs and furloughs. The money goes to fund prek programs. And the mayor fired back saying that the initiative created 250 jobs. The mayor spokesperson said in a statement. That the soda industry sunk to a new low today. They are holding hostage the jobs of hard working people in their battle to overturn the tax. If the tax went away the company would bring jobs back and they call it a scare tactic to keep other cities from enacting a similar tax. If they are still selling soda outside of the city, pepsi doesnt only distribute in side of the city i dont know why they are laying off folks im not sure. I would like to give the tax a year to be collected and see an actual impact. Now, the teamsters released a statement. Our worst fears are realized and called the layoffs devastating. Sara bloomquist, channel 6 acti
Good . Whose that . Carson wentz. It was this time last year the eagles got the ball rolling, setting up the foundation to get wentz. How active do they need to be in free agency and with trades to get you excited for 2017 . Im excited as it is. Because the Free Agency Period is really exciting. And frankly its all we have, all right . Lets be honest. Its all we have at this particular time. But always been able to pull something out of his sleeve. So im look forward to what he can do this year with a salary cap situation thats not really good. Be creative with a trade or a lower priced free agent. See what happens. They have about 8 million to play with right now. Wentz is excited to see what the eagles do. Caught up with the eagles quarterback at the philadelphia sports card show in king of prussia. After some time out wentz is working out, working on his mechanics and hoping the eagles are working on finding him a goto receiver. So, carson, what have you been up to . A little bit of
Had sex with. He identified the victim by name, a 14yearold girl, he drove to her house in berks county. And they found a victim in berks county. And that luciani came to her house in 2010 and had sex with her when her parents were away and she was only 14 years old at the time. He was arraigned in boyer town, and charged with two counts of deviant sexual intercourse with a child and unlawful account with a minor and the other victims are unknown to authorities. Our investigation is activity and ongoing, every case of sexual abuse against a child is terrible and well relentlessly pursue every case of sexual abuse against any child in pennsylvania. He is held at the Montgomery County prison his bail is now set at 1 million, they are urging other potential victims to contact the Child Predator hot line at 3851044. Live in the center, dann cuellar, channel 6 action news. Thank you. This was the scene today one day after the fire attacked a peco substation in the 2600 block of west westmor
Moving coming to the demonstration instead of going to work and educating your students . Well, those teachers were not shy as pushing right back. When this argument comes up, that teachers should be in the classroom and not out here protesting, what do you say to somebody who has a problem with what youre doing . Its important for everyone to realize that teachers are a tremendously dedicated group of people we teach children to make important decisions. By being here, were modelling that. I struggled up until last night with my decision. Im really glad i came out. Reporter you decided to come because i could, and if i didnt come, who was going to come . Theyre role models at the end of the day to the reporter they wont get to see them to today. No, but their absence shows just as much. Reporter as you well know, there are a lot of other opinions on line right now that are the stark contrast to what you just heard. We should also tell you that this was far from the only protest going
45 degrees. Still seeing gusty winds. Winds gusting to 33 miles an hour in philadelphia. Gusting to 31 in trenton. And that wind will be a factor in our forecast over the next several days. Well watch this area of low pressure in the lower midwest move to our south but that plume of moisture will expand and it will be cold enough with an arctic front moving through to see rain rapidly change to snow during the Early Morning hours. As we go hour by hour you can see the clear skies with clouds building to the west. The clouds move in late tonight. Rain moves in and then changes over to snow very rapidly. All snow in the poconos Lehigh Valley and reading by 5 00 a. M. Right along i9 i95 corridor rn changing to snow even in Philadelphia National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather advisory to the north and west of the city into the poconos for accumulating snow and it will begin to stick once again during the morning and maybe some snow squalls even in the afternoon. Coming up well