Area. This is a new layout. Something you want to Pay Attention to, especially if you head from 295 to the 42 freeway, parts of new jersey. Were clear on the ben and the walt but scheduled opening on the tacony palmyra, thats schedule for 5 10. Well see backups approaching that. Take the betsy ross as your alternate. Thats nice and clear. Vai and tracy . And we continue to follow breaking news. The 5 00 a. M. Deadline has come and gones afaculty are deciding whether to strike at more than a dozen pennsylvania universities. We continue to check with the Faculty Union. Theres no indication of whether a decision has been reached. The strike threat involves these stateowned schools in our area, east stroudsburg, kutztown, millersville, west chester and cheney. Neither penn state nor temple is involved in this. Teachers are concerned about salary and Rising Health care costs. Theyre upset about new rules like cutting back on sabbaticals and changes to research an online education. The state
Talks. Five universities are impacted. Take a look. Monique braxton is live with how it is effecting students. What can you tell us . Reporter hey, vai. Faculty here a west chester have been walking the line since about 5 00 this morning. We also learned winter and spring class registration is suspended. West chesters university 17,000 students watching this are being told to go to class and study. Some have received email to the contrary. One student told us she got an email from one of her science pro fesse professors. I am hoping its sooner rather than later. I want to graduate on time. Hopefully the state gets a message and comes up with some type of agreement. Reporter back out here live now you can see the students walking through the concert hall. They are staging a class walk out at this time. The faculty members have been on strike more than six hours. The governor says the results strike will have far reaching effects from years to come. In just you should two years i have in
Thousands in our area. Faculty members in 14 state universities are now on strike. Pro fess sorries walked off the job at 4 00 this morning. Nbc 10 was at several of the schools today, professors at West Chester University held picket signs and they marched on campus. The five local communities impacted. East stroutdsburg, kutztown, millersville, cookstown. Randy, what is the pulse there on campus as the students are impacted by this strike . Reporter this is the scene happening at campuses all across pennsylvania. These professors left their offices and classrooms early this morning and they tell us theyre not going back until they get what theyre calling a fair contract. Theyre not even allowed to go back on to the campus itself, so theyre out here on the street. Some students supporting them, others questioning how long this strike could last. With classes shut down, students take to the streets, like cookstown senior ashley mave supporting the professors. I support them because the
Come back morning. Now to another developing story, across pennsylvania, more than 100,000 students, their education is on hold indefinitely. Professors went on strike at 14 different state owned universities. Teachers marched on the picket lines. Randy gyllenhaal has been talking to professors and students today at cookstown university. Randy . Reporter and these talks, im told, hit a brick wall late night. Now the professors are on strike. Im told one of the main sticking points in these discussions was the rising cost of health care. So i want to go into some detail here, the state commission which oversees these colleges wants the faculty to pay higher premiums, about 15 to 30 a month. They also want to have a new deductible. And 1,000 in new out of pocket expenses. The state says all of this is necessary because they facing a budget deficit and other University Employees are already paying that new health care plan, but the faculty members i spoke to said their finances could be i
Has spawned a parody to end all parodies. I want to know what they told the accordion player they were doing. I love these Little Market areas in different towns around the world. This particular one is in china. You can get everything, from hats, to umbrellas, to deliveries. And i do mean of the human kind, because watch this. See this woman walking here with this man, shes pregnant and in labor. Oh the man with her is actually a Good Samaritan there kind of giving her a hand, but as time progresses, ambulance is taking forever to get there, and the babys not slowing down. Baby wants to come home now. And watch this, people standing there, this man actually helps deliver the child. On the street. Look at it, everybody just crowds around. Okay, i guess this is happening. And the world around her on the street probably has no idea, everything just keeps going, here comes baby. They did a good job protecting her from the elements, but its still pretty wild that this happened so quickly.