This water main break on roosevelt shut down all lanes yesterday and all but one lane is open this morning. Jesse gary is live with more on the status of the work there. Reporter tracy, crews will return later this morning to try to finish the job of replacing a section of the 16inch pipe that failed. That break in the transmission main made a watery muddy mess for commuters yesterday. All lanes of the boulevard at bluegrass road were closed due to flooding and debris on the roadway. The only vehicles out for most of the morning were frontend loaders and street sweepers clearing the mess. The Water Department Officials Say seasonal temperatures lead to this type of problem. This time of year the Water Department sees the highest number of water main breaks. The cold temperatures are usually the culprit. Reporter this break is not impacting commercial or residential crews or customers. Crews hope to finish repairs later today. Coming up later today, they have to do more lane closures. R
Forecast. Not too bad this morning, bill. Not too bad. We should be in the 20s in the morning and thats where we are right now. The wind is kicking in to south jersey, but its not blowing in clouds this morning. The temperatures are falling right now. Just down to 29 degrees in philadelphia. Thats down 1 degree in the last hour. Allentown, 26 degrees. A cold start but well see bright sunshine today. 26 at 7 00. By 9 00 closer to 30 degrees and the middle 30s at lunchtime and climbing. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather when im back in ten. Lets get back to the breaking news now with a crash on a major roadway in philadelphia. Jesse gary is live in Oxford Circle. Jesse, where are you and what is happening there . Reporter chris, along the boulevard here, just minutes ago a flatbed truck removed the most serious damage from the twovehicle crash here on the boulevard. And now the southbound lanes have been reopened. Traffic is moving again. Well look at the video now
Helped in the case because of surveillance cameras in the jefferson train station. And the Philadelphia Police credit septa police with recognizing green as someone that they have spoken to before. Information was developed almost immediately via the video surveillance. And the fact that septa police recognized this male as someone they had made contact with in the past. And, of course well continue to follow this story, look for a live report coming up in about 30 minutes. And we have more breaking news this morning, just within the past few hours, president obama sent a letter to Congress Asking them to formally authorize war against isis. The draft Resolution Says the militants pose a threat to the u. S. Homeland if left unchecked. The authorization to use troops would be limited to three years. It would not allow for longterm large scale Ground Combat operations like those that we see in the past in iraq and afghanistan. President obama is expected to talk about the legislation at
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Increase buybacks in the new year. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for this friday, november 22nd. Good evening everybody and welcome. Investors poured more money into stocks driving the dow and s p 500 to new alltime closing highs. For the s p 500 it was a milestone day and settled above 1800 for the first time ever. It is now up seven weeks in a row and now stands 27 , the s p above where it started the year and if the index stays at that level through year end, the annual gain will be the greatest in 15 years. The favorable reading on midwest manufacturing helped stocks today, so did a report on job openings. Here is how the market closed out. The dow up 54 points, good for the 41s record close of the year and the nasdaq added 22 points and less than nine points away from the 4,000 milestone and the s p was up nearly nine to close at 1804. One dow component didnt benefit, were talking about intel. Shares tumbled more than 5 , now just yesterday intel was the best pe