Alarm raging fire in West Philadelphia steve is on the scene right new. They goes. We will there been in a second. If you dont have to be outside today then just stay at home. Seriously. It is below freezing. Wind chills are making it feel even more unbearable. Sue serio has your full forecast and it the gets worse before better. We might break a railroaded today. Below freezing it is 25 below, freezing. Check this out u. S. Coastguard called into rescue a father and son on the sail boat. Where they were sailing when they had to call for help g day, it is monday february 16th, 2015. Im glad it is a holiday. You can stay in the house. By the the way, elementary kid were going to go to School Catholic schools now they are not willing either. Everybody is in Public School in philadelphia and Parochial School in philadelphia, stay home. People having to work and be outside today. Fire fighters. And they could very well have a snow day tomorrow. And make it a five day weekend for these kid.
Health plans though there were some exceptions to this general cost shift onto workers, whether it was through valuebased insurance design, Wellness Programs or telemedicine. Lots of changes going on with the benefits being offered to workers. The next set of slides, some of this was already covered but the next set of slides just goes through the timeline of all the Different Things that affect employmentbased coverage. You have the slides. Im not going to go through them individually, but you saw 2010 was a big year for provisions affecting employmentbased coverage. 2014 was a big year for provisions affecting employmentbased coverage, and even to 2018 you have the excise tax on Health Care Plans on horizon also known as cal tax, which well talk about in a few minutes, and a few provisions that didnt have effectiveness dates in the legislation that employers may have to address at some point. Just a couple of items to go over. One, the employershared responsibility provision assuming
When commissioner pai and i disagreed last year on the way the slick lawyers were trying to take advantage of our rules on broadcasting. We are going to fix this. These are rules that have been in place since the bush administration. As the commissioner said weve got a rule making under way on this. We are going to issue a new Public Notice on this to make sure that this specific issue is teed up. And we are going to make sure that this that designated entities have the opportunity to participate and not to have designated as period beards for people who shouldnt. And senator i want you to know that ive been pushing for change in this since 2010. Its been a constant refrain from me to ensure more opportunities in the space. As you know, as was said, we are reviewing those applications. No final nothing final has been said. People have an opportunity to weigh in. Great. Thank you. Important issue. But i cant leave without addressing the commissions recent order. You know, i think its on
Links to Council Member web pages, visitors were greeted by a message reading in part i am muslim and islam is my way of life. It stayed that way for an hour or so. Nbc 10s drew smith is live in the Digital Operations Center. How did this happen . Well that is still being looked into. But right now you can look at my ipad, it is loading up just fine, the website. That was not the case earlier. The good news no Sensitive Information appears to have been hacked during this. The bad news is heard from a local cybersecurity expert, this site was a prime target. Hacked, the morning after the pools closed probably not a coincidence. Because of the election. Reporter rob davideo says the hackers who took the website down werent after money or information. This is a very low disruption type of activity. Reporter in fact they even passed on some advice. Your security is very low. Patch your security. Reporter the International Hacking group cybercommandos claimed responsibility for replacing th
Its dry right now, we do have clouds that are moving in and rain is not that far away. Its a live view from center city. A lighter breeze and the wind will stay light. I will stay field the radar screen which shows wet weather in western pennsylvania thats around here later this morning and sticks around in the afternoon hours. 64 right now in northWest Philadelphia wilmington 50. Pottstown, 52. And across south Jersey Atlantic City 47 degrees along with allentown and the pocono mountains also in the 40s. Clouds thickening up 59 degrees by lunchtime. Theres a chance to see rain drops falling at that time. Hour by hour and future weather back in ten. Well take you to video first. This crash is causing Early Morning problems in lancaster avenue in montgomery county. Look at this firefighters tell us the driver lost control. It caught fire and the driver and passenger got out safely before it burst into flames. Lets find out how its impacting traffic on that stretch. Nbcs Jessica Boyingto