And beijing. In midfebruary, the end of the Chinese New Year, the city is crowded with people. For a temp company dispatching laip laborers to factories, this is the busiest time of theborer the busiest time of the year. With improving standards of living, securing factory workers in china has become difficult. Every year fewer people apply for the jobs. The start of Chinese New Year is especially challenging because many workers quits during the season. To make up to this loss, this company recruits people from rural villages all over china. More than 10,000 laborers are registered at the temp agency. For a week after the end of Chinese New Year, large busses are chartered several times aal. The agency goes to great length to transport workers from remote villages. Factory workers who are once the backbone of the chinese economy were usually young men from rural areas who couldnt find jobs elsewhere. They were called farm mechanics, despite the long hours and low wages, many rural you
Still some drier slots there, Merrimack Valley up into southern New Hampshire, but i think for all of us by the time we get into the rush hour commute, good chance of wet roadways and a breeze coming in off the ocean. Another wet day. More on the weekend forecast ahead. Sarah time now for fast track traffic with. Kris Kris Anderson in for danielle gersh. Kris morning, everyone. Smooth traffic rolling into town. Yes, its early. Well show you what youre dealing with if youre headed out this morning. Everything looking good on route 1 in saugus. South of town, ten minutes from the split to the tunnel. If only we can keep it that way. 3, 24, 95 connecting with 128. Good shape there. The pike from framingham from 495 in fact all the way into boston, no real backups. A couple construction zones out there picking up those cones around 5 00. They should be clear. 93 headed from the north enter boston, looking good, as well. Split to the tunnel just ten minutes. 12 minutes 128 to 93 and 11 minu
R0 this allows for more units of housing and belowmarketrate housing which guess balanced nee needed the city tishman inspire has been a great partner we look forward to working with them im note this is 100 percent units a union and has our support this is significant i mean local folks will be employed making good minimum wage and for our youth through our student apprenticeship programs i cant stress that enough we urge you to move this project forward today by recommending it for approval to the board of supervisors thank you for your time. Thank you. Commissioner president fong and commissioners my name is alicia im a resident of rincon park and a member of the safe house the park and the Association Im speaking in opposition to the proposed one hundred foot height increase on fulsome ill focus my discussion on a financial deal the city is making with the developer to increase the height from three to four hundred feet this deal is a grateful for the developer it is a steel is a v
31 in allentown. And below freezing in reading and trenton. Were down to 29 in lancaster 34 in wildwood and 31 in atlantic city. There is still a wind blowing the same wind that you felt yesterday as we dug through the afternoon and thats giving a wind chill making it feel like its 25 in the city, 19 in allentown 17degree wind chill in reading, 23 in wilmington, 20 in trenton and 25 in millville so Everybody Needs to bundle up a bit. As we roll through the day you can see were going to be fairly sunny with a few high clouds digging in later today. 32 degrees by 9 oclock. Then by noon 38. We are going to get up into the 40s with a high of 45. Well probably hit that rather late in the day, perhaps around 4 oclock and then back to 42 by 6 00 but there will be a pretty blustery wind blowing and youll need coats from start to finish. More on that possible wintry mix for friday coming up with future tracker 6. Karen. As we look outside we have Early Morning problems. You can see the flashing
Blowing. 29 degrees in allentown, 27 in reading, run in wilmington and in trenton and 33 in wildwood. And when you factor in the wind dropping down out of the northwest it feels like its in the 20s and teens across the region. A wind chill of 27 right now in philadelphia so bun dim. Its a cold test on the way to school this morning, kids. 34 degrees on your Storm Tracker 6 app right now. By 8 00 were liable to dip to about 31. By noon back to 38 and well spend the afternoon in the 40s. 45 by 3 oclock. Well probably get up to, ooh man, about 45, 46 for a high and that will be around for clock this afternoon. Karen, we do have the chance of a wintry mix on friday. Its a light march snowfall. Just as we get ready for the arrival of spring. Ill have details coming up in that sevenday. All right dave. I want to give you the latest with this accident. Its right on the roosevelt boulevard southbound near ridge avenue. We can see a must be of emergency workers. Looked like we had more arrive a