Septa reveals its new plan for selling rail passes for the upcoming papal visit, and its all about entering a lottery. Good evening im ukee washington. Jessica has the night off. Septa announced this new way of purchasing passes after its first attempt last week crashed the authorities website. Eyewitness News Reporter todd quinn nope joins us outside septa headquarters with more how this lottery will work. Todd. Reporter ukee, after somewhat embarrassing and also dramatic reboot septa has decided to go with a lottery. Not everyone will be a board with demand out weighing supply getting papal passes for septa Regional Rail was never a sure bet. Now, septa has set one day game of chance. Instead of it being first come first serve. Its a lottery that people who are just looking to get to work when pope francis is here will have to play. I dont know. I just think it will be kind of a mess. If you dont within the lottery whats plan b for you. I think my work will have to figure out somethi
Somewhat embarrassing and also dramatic reboot septa has decided to go with a lottery. Not everyone will be a board with demand out weighing supply getting papal passes for septa Regional Rail was never a sure bet. Now, septa has set one day game of chance. Instead of it being first come first serve. Its a lottery that people who are just looking to get to work when pope francis is here will have to play. I dont know. I just think it will be kind of a mess. If you dont within the lottery whats plan b for you. I think my work will have to figure out something out for. After crashing demand crashed the e commerce site last week the Transportation Authority came up with the Online Lottery idea to cree and create a fair system. So on monday, august 3rd at 12 01am, to 11 59 p. M. Riders can roll the dice and log on to the side site. No matter what time you enter your lottery submission, everyone has the same chance of being selected. Reporter customers will get one shot. Randomly selected w
New plan will put body cameras on all state troopers in new jersey. And an arrest at a delaware intersection after a truck lands on a car. But the big story is the Camden County man that led police on a chase through philadelphia and south jersey. The suspect was stopped just before 10 00 last night when an officer clipped his van flipping the vehicle over. Ryan ritter was released from the hospital and is now facing charges. This chase began in oakland, new jersey a Police Officer tried to pull over ritter for some outstanding warrants but they went on a two state chase that lasts two hours this is how it ended a Police Cruiser clipping the back of the van and sending the cruiser side over side. He came out with his hands up, with a tiki barber jersey on. He went to the hospital for observation but was returned to southeast dsks early this morning. We are lucky that no one else was injured because of this. Lieutenant John Stanford says that Oakland Police led the chase with state poli
This morning could be more crucial than most. The Federal Reserve will decide whether to raise Interest Rates. No change is expected in the Unemployment Rate, now 5. 3 . We will break down the numbers on bloomberg tv as soon as they are released. The first republican president ial debate could be revealed, that the party is a house divided. The top 10 candidates in the latest polls skirmished last night for a National Tv Audience on fox. Is there anyone on stage who is unwilling tonight to pledge your support to the eventual nominee of the Republican Party, and pledge to not run an independent campaign against that person . We are looking for you to raise her head now if you will not make that pledge tonight. Mr. Trump . Tom was that fair . He set him up so bad for that. Vonnie pretty amazing. Brendan all three moderators really went at donald trump. Vonnie i have to read out his answer later on. It is hilarious. The first of 12 president ial debates. Brendan it is going to be a long y
During us from capitol hill is nancy, senior Congressional Correspondent for bloomberg. Tell us about what the president requested for 2018 and what were his Top Priorities. The president stuck with the overall number in the loss, the budget control act, requesting that basically a little bit over a trillion dollars, 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for but with in and that number we really parted from the budget control act numbers and he requested a lot more for defense programs about 54 billion for securityrelated programs and covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. Thats a violation of the budget control act there but more than that its a very politically unpopular. Yes, members really like the defense number increase but they dont like taking it out of defense programs, agriculture, cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs, cut 15 . Labor, health, education rams, cut similarly. State department programs, cut tremendously. Cong