Span of only one hour. President obama delivering his year and News Conference to the White House Press corps end of his annual christmas vacation in hawaii. And on one point he even contradicted himself on the numbers in the same sentence. Take a listen. More than half a million american several through health care and the first three weeks of december quantify since october 1st more than 1 million americans have selected new healthinsurance plans to the federal and state marketplaces. So all told, millions of americans, despite the problems of the website, are now poised to be covered by quality, Affordable Health insurance come here stake. I now have a couple of Million People, maybe more who even have health care on january 1st. And that is a big deal. We have got several Million People were going to have health care that works. The first month and a half or lost because of problems of the website and about as bad a bunch of publicity as you could imagine. And yet you still have go
Hill area. Bensalem looking at some of that moderate rainfall but a lot of lightning. Thunder activity across the area so if you hear thunder you can be struck by lightning. Also moving into south jersey, sections of central delaware, some very heavy rainfall right now. Moving through sections of kent county. So this is really round one. Take a look to the west. The actual cold front that will continue to head in our direction and we have some sunshine in between these two linelines that were watching so that will help to destabilize the atmosphere. The other concern, through late tonight a Flash Flood Watch posted for the entire area. Watching out for the threat. Heavy rain that is the highest threat. Watching for damaging winds and also the potential is there for some hail out of these systems. As we watch what to expect, a line of slow moving showers and thunderstorms ponding on the roads. If you encounter flooded roadways, turn around, dont drown. As we progress throughout the over
Committee and also stop the strike while both sides get back to the table, but the unions say they have a way they want to solve this as well. We have consistently said that, you know, binding resolution to this dispute is the one we think is appropriate. Reporter there may be another answer that gets the septa Regional Rail lines running again with septa and two unions representing 400 engineers and electricians back to work. Septa management is expecting the white house to appoint a president ial emergency board to pick up the talks. That would stop the strike and resume service on the 13 Regional Rails. The question now is when . We intend to continue the strike until such time as were compelled to by the law to return to duty or we reach a resolution to the dispute. Reporter Regional Rail travelers typically lower on weekend but next week could be disastrous for the Delaware Valley if a stop gap isnt reached before then. Monday morning when the rush hour Business Community returns
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. We begin with breaking news tonight. A shooting outside a gun store in northeast philadelphia. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im dawn tim menage it happen at the Delaware Valley Sports Center a short time ago. Lets get right out to fox 29s drew dickman live at the scene. Drew, what are police saying tonight . Reporter dawn and iain so far police arent telling us two men were leaving the shooting range when they were approached by a man and woman and robbed at gun point. Those suspects stole seven weapons from the two victims including some revolve verse, then police say the male suspect shot the 67 year old man one time in the groin. That victim was rushed to aria torresdale hospital. Niece surgery and currently in Critical Condition. The suspects got away in a darkcolored car with heavily tinted windows. Investigators had believed they had tracked that vehicle all the way to south philadelphia near
Deaths but fresh documents from a congressional investigation they indicate at least one current Vice President was made aware of the problem as early as 2005. A man who worked closely with Ceo Mary Barra herself. We have the vicechair of the house energy and Commerce Committee that uncovered evidence with us here tonight, congresswoman marcia blackburn, republican of tennessee, joins me right now. Thanks for coming on the show. I have to tell you, that the information you made public last night a bombshell, really. Talking about doug parks, currently the Vice President of product programs for gm, knowing years ago, nearly a decade ago there was a problem with these ignition switches. Tell us of his relationship with mary barra. How close are they . Well it seems they are fairly close. He is one of her principle advisors and part of the leadership team. What we heard from miss berra, a couple times before us, she has assemihe willed a leadership team. Their Senior Leadership team. It a