Steve d. it has been nearly two years now since that massive coal ash spill. A pipe under a coal ash wood goon from duke ruptured. Tonight, the Energy Company is giving us an inside look at the cleanup of the power plant. We have been following the story since it broke in 2014 and we town of eden. We got a look at the whole operation today of what it takes to close down a plant. They have to empty out these huge lagoons and ship the contents out by the train loads. Almost two years ago, the [indiscernible] risk posed by duke energy. All of these lagoons were on line and filled with toxic sludge and sitting right next to water sources. Back in 2014, which sent all of the toxic sludge into the dan river. Duke had to dry this out and excavate it and store it. We made significant problems last year moving coal offsite. We expected to exponentially increase that with our rail a system rail system now in place. Much of this is being shipped out by trains into landfills in virginia. The other
Beach, 61 in Marion County and ocala. The sticky day today. We was seemingly cloudy skies and you see it on your planner. Temperatures staying in the 60s. 60 6 at noon, late morning early afternoon we will see a better chance of rain redeveloping and thunderstorms possible this afternoon. Have your rain gear and umbrella before heading out and showers are possible through the evening drive. Then we start to clear out tonight and we cool down and we will track that and the rainfall totals we could expect we will have that ahead 5 31 am. I4 with deneige. I noticed slick roads but on i4 at 436, anyone leaving Altamonte Springs, looking good in both directions. Typical volume no crashes to report on i4. The crash from overnight hours, sam lake roads as Doctor Phillips blvd. , troopers have been able to get it out of the with the keep in over for them. Nancy . A construction crew is to blame for a gas leak that sent in Orange County family to the hospital. Kimberly eiten just got on scene a
Today to take closer look at the damage. And good morning midlands. We still do have rain that is moving through the midland. Really late in the parts of central and central calhoun, and some sprinkles and far southeastern sumter county. Outside of that, so more rain is coming out of georgia. Not out of the woods yet, and we are dealing with milder temperatures. And 56 degrees in the head off to school, and hour by hour, we will be dealing with the showers and temperatures that will actually start to drop. 56degrees by 10 00, 55 by lunchtime and as we get into the lunchtime, 53 degrees. Start to taper by 6 00. Temperatures down to 50 degrees. As we get ready set out for the thursday morning commute, give yourself extra time. The roads are wet but traffic is light. Interstate 26 by pine grove road, traffic in both directions is looking pretty well. The accidents on the thoroughfares. There is a slow down as you come off of dekker boulevard, about 11 Miles Per Hour is soon as you get pas
Sugary drinks that are not selling like the used to. Welcome to Market Makers. Im Stephanie Ruhle. Erik schatzker is out today. Have a special cohost this morning. There is nothing worse than a person sitting next to a person getting their name five euros sample deli bobby o scarlet fu is in the newsroom wholesale inventory data. Wholesale inventories increase at a slower rate in the month of december. Again of 1 10 of 1 . Looking for an increase of 2 10 of 1 . This marks a slowdown from the 8 10 of 1 that we got in the november period on the month over month basis, that was a drop slightly larger than what economists had been anticipating. Carl written on a word warned that this would not generate thats pretty much the case right now when you look it how stocks are performing. They are holding on to their games. Hard to say. Stephanie it is time to take you to topic the stories of the morning top business stories of the morning. Shares of cocacola are trading higher this morning. Coke
Peacefully. A group called coalition for economic or real justice. The people are organizing and i think its important for people to organize and organize together there are problems in this country and we need to pull together as one and get the problems addressed. Those gathers are expected to march and that is expected to cause considerable problems for commuters during the evening rush. Its unclear if they will go north and broad or south on broad or east on market. You should expect road closures and detours in center city. Behinds are expected to attend this evenings rally. Im sara bloomquist channel 6 action news. Now to matt pellman in the Traffic Center with more on how to get around tonights rally. Reporter so shirleen as sara just said we dont know exactly where they will go but like market and broad youll expect detours and delays and stay several road as way from city hall some of the numbers streets fanning out from city hall. We expect detours from the septa bus routes t