People to use Public Transit is there a big problem. Reporter wed like to say this all can entirely be septas fault but truth of the matter is, septa wont tell us what the problem is. We asked why the the News Conference was canceled, this afternoon, and their response, was no comment. Coming up at 6 00 oclock we will speak to somebody who is working in center city while the pope is here in her right on the transparency issue that septa is facing. Reporting live, im Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thanks, steve. Count down continues there are 61 days until pope frances comes to fill amount stay with Eyewitness News and cbs philly. Com for continuing coverage of the historical event. Hot today hotter tomorrow and days after that. Were tracking what could be a heat wave. Meteorologist kate bilo joins right now to join us when she will tell us when we will start to heat up. Feel humidity rise to go day but temperatures have been in the 80s. That business to change. Tomorrow were
Either promised to sell these passes, or promise when they will go on sale and havent. Customers we spoke to say the the delay in the problems arent the real problem what is, it is that more than a week later septa isnt saying why. Septa riders in the dark. There has to be transparency for the citizens of philadelphia it is no the fair otherwise. Reporter West Philadelphia resident alycia coffee say that above all else is the real frustration. Is there cloak and dagger. Reporter one week after the web site failure that shut out hundreds of thousands from his purchasing rail passes for popes vice tonight late september, still no announcement on when passes will be available. The despite septas inability to return the favor coffee says that shes willing to give them a pass. I dont want to be overly critical. I think this is i great opportunity for the city, and something as that is new for septa it is not like they have Something Like in their policy handbook. They are kind of, construct
Here in the pocono mountains, but its still in the 80s. Theres a lot of sunshine. Thats one of the big differences between yesterday and today. Yesterday the clouds held the temperature down and the high was 86. Its already 86 degrees in philadelphia and in allentown. 81 in mt. Pocono. So, going to be well into the 80s there and into the 80s near the shore. But the higher humidity is making it feel like it is in the 90s already. And that of course will go up as we go through the afternoon. By noon were 88. 3 00, 92 degrees. It will be feeling more like its 95 or 96. By 6 00 were still hot. Well see how long this heat wave gets and when the peak is for the sevenday in a few minutes. Skyforce10, meanwhile, over a broken water main in northeast philadelphia this morning. This happened just after 6 00 a. M. At roosevelt boulevard and sandy core road off cottman avenue. The Philadelphia Water Department tells us a 12inch main broke and crews are working to fix it right now. No customers wer