Now, heres nbc bay areas jessica aguirre. Jessica aguirre hello, and welcome to this news special in class action. We cover one of our most important institutions, our schools. And tonight, we begin with the issue affecting students all over the bay area, the Teacher Shortage. Now, we have been telling you about this for the last few months, lots of classrooms, but not enough teachers, School Districts struggling to fill teacher openings, and the problem is the pipeline. Fewer and fewer people are actually going into teaching. But there are new signs that may be beginning to change. At the beginning of the school year, the Teacher Shortage in the bay area hit crisis levels as districts scrambled to fill classrooms. Female weve seen a sharp decrease in the number of individuals coming out of credentialing programs. Jessica those credentialing programs are the allimportant pipeline for new teachers. Linda well, weve had an enormous drop over the last dozen years in the number of teachers
This time of the day. The snow is up into parts of maine. The icy mix, that wintery mix, is following, shaded by pink. We, though, only have the rain around so a closer look, not much going on along the major interstates from trenton to philadelphia down to wilmington. Were seeing spotty sprinkles so still misty, a few light sprinkles here and there but a majority of the rain has moved out now. Parts of Atlantic County may be spotty showers but as we go through the rest of today it will continue to clear up. Temperature now in allentown is 40 degrees. 51 philadelphia, 63 in wildwood so quite a temperature range from north to south and its going to stay like that this afternoon. Quite a temperature difference the farther south you go it could be warming to close to 70 degrees, believe it or not. So for the rest of today, by noon still the chance of a shower but overall conditions are improving. 55 degrees. 56 by 2 00 p. M. And cloudy and by 4 00 p. M. Mostly cloudy around 56 degrees as
We believe we have shut down one of the largest prescription pill mills in the city. Steve people arrested accused of illegal lee selling oxycodone pills, a pair is a husband and wife team. Mom and pop suspects allegedly raked in more than dollars 10 million, fox 5 Lidia Curanaj live in queens at one of the farm sees. Reporter you see the pharmacy, it is hard to believe this was a pill mill that put out hundreds of thousands of illegal pills out in the street, teddy bears for sale. Show chopin chemist has two lowcasions, they look like average mom and pop shop they were pill mills that sold 15 Million Dollars worth of oxycodine. We believe we have shut down one of the largest prescription pill mitts in the city. Reporter the shops owners, lilian and martin was allegedly behind the scheme, they now face federal drug charges, the couple made so much money they lived in a lavish 2 million home in greenwich, connecticut. Whether it is a corrupt doctor or agreedy pharmacist, or street level
Historic devastating expensive storm including one where governor christie spoke to Small Business owners trying to pick up the pieces. Dari today was gorgeous. The exact opposite of what we saw three years ago. Steve amazing from just a couple of days. Look at the sun. You can see the foliage in peak bloom. A gorgeous day. November is a couple of days away. How long is this going to stick around . Nick the temperatures will be cooling down as they should. Temperatures today in the 70s. Not where they should be. Im happy to report there are no threatening tropical systems in the atlantic ocean. Thats good news. 73 today. 72 at newark at belmar. 75 at newark. Low 70s across long island. And were still seeing temperatures that are nice and mild, basically in the 60s to the lower 70s or around the upper 60s or so as you move across from southern connecticut down towards newark and upper 60s as we head towards poughkeepsie. Nothing on the radar. We have some clouds out there. You look at t
His opponent with both his running and passing ability. I dont like chip kelly, maybe they fired him too fast given guys they have to choose from the job and now he is in San Francisco. Reporter story that has monopolized the air waves at sports radio 94 wip. Chip kelly have fun in nfc west where throttle will throttle your offense and rams play some pretty good defense as well. Chip, go have have fun over there it aint going to last because he will get crushed by the nfc west. Now lets go back to that report that Doug Pederson will be the eagles next head coach. Nothing can be made official nil his current team the the Kansas City Chiefs are eliminated from the playoffs. So how long conceivably eagles nation could be waiting. We may have to wait until after super bowl, if they make it there in february. Fit is pederson but it looks like it is. It is looking that way, yes. We will see new a bid. Andy reid coaching, we know one thing neither eagles or 49ers will be at the super bowl but