107 million americans hitting 50 miles. 50 miles or more. Locally, its about 1. 2 million philly area residents headley ad to grandmas house are somewhere else about 30 of the local population. So about three out of every ten people will be traveling at least 50 miles much thats an increase of 3 over last year, and its the ninth Consecutive Year of rising travel for this year end holiday. All of this points to a strong economy, growing consumer confidence, according to aaa, said to be the reasons why so many people are hitting the roads. In fact travel for every major Holiday Weekend this year has been up. Here at the airport theyre anticipating about 82,000 philly area residents going to be flying some place thats about 2 . So two out of the 100 of us will be flying. If youre driving, we did some check wig aaa as far as gas prices right now they average 2. 69 a gallon. That is up 24 cents over last year. You want to give yourself extra travel time if youre in a car, according to one s
In. In tucker is tracking weather weaer whiplash. Sh. Good day at 9a starts right now. You can track us right now. Ht were ready to go. G umhmm. U good day at 9a. 9 00 sorry one is the time. S e. Thursday, march 9th. Also ahead this mornings mor remember yesterday when we toldd you about that parking spotaytht going for 300,000 . 0 . Yes. Well its a bargain compareda to how much the d. C. Region owew in parking tickets. Ts coming up later we will sharel e that number that might justht jt below you away. Okay. I paid a few. F might not blow me so much away. Lets talk about this weathes though because we have one more, just one more Beautiful Day onao tap before winter makes a major come back. K. For details Tucker Barnes backrk with a first check of theckf th forecast. Fo good morning. Morng hi, guys. Hi,s. Good morning. G hey. Good to see you. Ogoveodr here. H you know well more beautifut days they wont be warm and wnd spring like. Ng lik okay. Rig right. I knew we werent gettinget say
Both septa management and the twu local 234 union. No deal yet though. Lets go to video right now we can tell you congressman bob brady is now involved in the talks as he often gets involved on labor issues. Septa management says that things are moving along but a Union Spokesperson tells me septa is giving them quote a quarter inch here and a quarter inch there rather than an inch by inch movement. So the Union Spokesperson says things are moving much slower than they could be and that is that isnt so encouraging to many commuters we spoke with include as kindergartner named william. It took me twice as long to get to school this morning. It took you twice as long to get to school this morning. Umhmm. What did you think about th that. That was much traffic. It takes 15 minutes to get to school. It took us half an hour, um 40 minutes straight through center city. This too shall pass. Its not our fault theyre having issues so i dont know why we have to suffer and the lines are crazy. Yo
Strike. This is horrible. Taking me 40 minutes just to get the kids to school and around in traffic and just its just really bad. I mean, hopefully septa settles soon. The traffic is seems like its double the traffic these days, and, you know, you got to make arrangements to take the kids to school. People to work. Definitely affecting of one. Reporter again, both sides still meeting at Hotel Conference rooms. A couple floors above me at this point. There has been no movement. No statement from either side since about 11 00 oclock this morning. I am told if a strike does end, it would take transit workers several hours to get back on the job. But right now, that is not a reality as both sides meeting to try to prevent this strike from going into a day four. Iain, lucy . All right, thank you very much, Chris Oconnell. If the september tra strike continues as Chris Oconnell said possibly into day four, be sure to start your day with good day philadelphia. You know bob kelly will help you
Of officer involved shootings over eight years and finds problems from start to finish. Among those findings, that philly police do not receive regular consistent training on the departments deadly force policy. That officers do not receive enough training in techniques designed to d escalate tense situations. And that large segments of the community do not trust the Police Department to investigate itself a controversial incident happens. As we work to build trust in all of our communities across this country the first really the first part of the trust is having the courage to acknowledge whats working and whats not working. Primarily whats not working. Reporter the report calls tasers can reduce the likelihood of fatal end counts between police and civilians. But that not all philly police are issued the device. In addition while most big city Police Departments routinely train all Academy Recruits in the use of tasers, philadelphia does not. In all the doj report finds 48 police sh