Heat from furnace that blasts hot air into classrooms. But it is not just the furnace, the Elementary School of 300 kids has pool of rain watt their forms on its olds roof and leaks right into classrooms. When it leaks, and i have to double up classes, or move them to the library, juster relocate them. It is an interference to the instructional needs. The School District says the windows, furnace, leaking roof are among 12,000 of what it calls out standing repairs identified in assessment of the conditions in district billion dollars action, stunning price tag, 4. 5 billion, 3 billion of which, theyll need to spends in the next decade to fix urgent problems. Fran burns, districts chief operating officer, believes the assessment provides a road map of the districts building repair needs. We understand the need. And i think, you know, if there was a place and time foreign if a structure investment, were ready for it. City schools will have to look to the state legislature to cover some r
Morning but dont get too upset by that because its not going to be around that long and overall its looking like a really nice day ahead. Here are your temperatures in the north and west suburbs. First of all weve got some 30s out there in places like pottstown and quakertown. 40 in chester. Center city at 42 as is the airport. 40 degrees across the river in cinnaminson, 39 in hammonton, 43 in the villas outside of wildwood and 41 in hockessin, delaware. As we take a look at winds not all that strong. A lot of our reporting stations not coming in this morning but youre getting the idea that the winds arent an issue. As we go into the afternoon things are going to get nice. We start out a bit on the cloudy side with a temperature of 41 by 7 oclock but zooming up to 59 degrees by noon and your high today will be all the way up to 65 around 3 00 or 3 30 this afternoon and probably Still Holding the low 60s by 5 oclock so that mild air we have been promising starts to enter the region toda
Sunshine and winds staying light today. Even milder air on the way for thursday and friday. And then saturday some rain. Well talk about that coming up in that sevenday, karen. All right. No rain right now on the roads. Were dry and clear on i95 at academy. Thats your southbound traffic headed towards center city. So if youre coming from levittown or bristol, no worries just yet. Light volume to start you off. Vine street expressway was closed overnight for construction. You can see traffic moving fine right now. However, the crews will return again tonight at 11 oclock, shut the vine and all the ramps down in both directions then. On the big picture, no major issues on your highways. Looking pretty good. Now over in upper darby we continue to have victory avenue shut down near route three, thats for that train accident investigation from yesterday so just is it ick to state road as your alternate. Live on your air bridges like the ben westbound traffic coming into the city moving just
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Right, chris . Reporter actually its starting to feel like summer now, temperatures are climbing into the mid 6r 60s in several locations. 57 degrees in slatington. 47 in bethlehem. Cooler in the Lehigh Valley. Quakertown, 58. Malvern, 61. Same number for center city. Media, checking in at 5. Glassboro, 61. Dover, 66 degrees. Hammonton, 64. Woodbine checking in at 60. Satellite and radar we pushed all the cloud cover from yesterday out to sea, so a few clouds hanging around, were seeing generally clear skies on city avenue. A few showers to the west, most of that will stay to the west today. Forecast for today, testers are close to 60 degrees now temperatures are close to 60 degrees now. Were seeing mostly sunny skies, by lunchtime, 78 warm and breezy. Winds gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour. By 4 00 p. M. Feeling like summer. Look at that temperature, 85 degrees in the city. That is normal for june 28. Here we are Easter Sunday. Other locations around the delaware and Lehigh Valleys. 85