does join us. amtrak workers are not involved, but many of the amtrak rails are owned by those freight railroad companies. this news was just announced moments ago in a statement. amtrak said started thursday it would cancel all long distance trains. as you mentioned, that is to avoid possible passenger disruptions while en route. obviously both sides are still negotiating and trying to reach an agreement before friday. it s not only the amtrak lines that will be impacted. for example, here in chicago already at least nine of the 11 metro lines have been suspended due to this possible strike. one travel expert who we heard from says this will be more if that strike happens than a travel nightmare. listen in. it s really going to bottle up the freight system. we have supply chain problems already. the ports are clogged. you throw in a rail strike and tens of thousands of containers can t get to where they want to go. that affects stores in our everyday lives. if this hap
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130 this morning in mountain view. The chp didnt share a more specific location, though. Wu was driving a blue 2018 ford escape with a missouri license plate reading vb 9v1w anyone who may have seen the vehicle or the wus is urged to call 911. Moving on to the north bay now and the high speed chase ending in a spectacular fashion, police say a driver trying to race away from officers topped speeds of 110 miles an hour on highway 101. The driver tried to take the exit onto petaluma boulevard and couldnt make the turn. The electric car crashed over the barrier and landed in the marsh, sending flame chunks of car battery flying onto the road. This is not something we normally deal with. This is probably the first crash that i came out to where there was batteries in the road on fire, and so its going to be an evolving uh training, i guess, and evolving as we go. And learning more about these vehicles. The chp says the car was so hot they couldnt even move the crashed car. They had to call
Rain and severe storms as the winter blast moves east. Up to two feet expected in some areas as we kick off one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Good morning, america. Hope youre well this friday morning. A lot of you getting ready to travel for the holiday this weekend and could face a messy one. It is a busy friday morning. Looking forward to speaking to Leeann Tweeden. She is here live in the studio with us. That is just ahead. First we want to get to that breaking news a fivealarm fire outside philadelphia overnight injuring at least 20 people. Look at this scary scene. And take a live look at it now. Abcs eva pilgrim is there in westchester, pennsylvania with all the details. Good morning, eva. Reporter you can see that smoke still coming from this building. The roof completely gone. Fire ravaging it overnight. A lot of the people inside they couldnt get out on their own and they needed help. Overnight workers scrambling to save elderly residents from a massive fire devour
Ever created. We will let you decide. Not that we needed a song. Also ahead forget the real, or artificial debate, how about, upside down, for right side up the Christmas Tree trends that has us talking this season. All that and more on this very special christmas addition of good day philadelphia. We thank you very much for still waking up early with us. Maybe you had friends coming downstairs and you will have surprises underneath your tree good morning. Good morning thomas. Merry christmas. Turkeys in the oven. Im sure you are prepping, getting ready perhaps putting the ham in. It will be a great day. It will be a great day. Let us know what you are making as well, are you a ham person, goose, do do you lamb. We have lamb come up later today. I try to switch up up from thanksgiving, we have a turkey ham burnout. I will also do some fish. That is wonderful, like shrimp scampi, as you are getting ready on this day, and all of the kid are, thank you. What better way to start off then w