To and ffm school. We will be picking children up at homeless shelters and motels any place that has been designated a stop that we need to go to. The district has used Cab Companies to get students for several years, but dispatching individual cabs got expensive. So its trying a new Program Using small number of students at first. School leaders say this should cut costs nearly in half and address safety concerns. 12 47 13 just looking at as many of us being parentssthe ththught of putting our kindergartener or first grader on a cab, which is public transportation, could be kind of scary for both the parent and for the students hayes says it could expanddthe program in a few months. The districts homeless specialist says many are shocked to hear how many students are affected by homelessness in the district. Last year we had 620 homeless students and thats prek through 12th grade. The district says this nts van will also mean more to younger students than you might think. Its always o
Trapped, or worse. A Police Officer on patrol was going by and heard cries for help. They seemed to come out of the darkness at grays lane and millcreek road at 4 23 in the morning. After investigation he found a car in the creek bed with one male in it who was trapped in the car. Reporter the driver told rescuers from the Marion Fire Company that he lost control of the chevy avio and went off the road through dense brush and into trout run around 7 00 monday night, some nine hours earlier. We tried to show you how completely enshrouded at night, you would never see it. Thats why they say this was part luck, part miracle. It took more than an hour to get him off. They had to take the door off and the roof off to get to him, and the front kind of rolled onto his feet and legs, so we had to take the dashboard and steering column. Reporter the driver was taken out on a backboard and neck brace but alive. If no one saw him until that Police Officer heard him, if that Police Officer wasnt c
Allegheny avenues. Eyewitness News Reporter Elizabeth Hur is live with more on what drivers can expect. Liz . Reporter chris, what drivers can expect is basically what you see behind me here. Overnight lane closures with cones up and then crews off to the side busy at work. Now, we are told Officials Say these crews will be at work during the week from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. A familiar sight for commuters construction work along i95 will be extended starting wednesday night. Now to include the stretch between the girard avenue and allegheny interchanges. This Officials Say is part four of sick phases. The ultimate goal here to reconstruct and improve 3 miles of i95 and in the end the corridor will be widened to four travel lanes in both directions. So for now the changes you will notice immediately Officials Say will be the repainting the lanes and shifting of the traffic pattern. The work will be done overnight but for some commuters, they believe the added confusion will only mean
Liz . Reporter chris, what drivers can expect is basically what you see behind me here. Overnight lane closures with cones up and then crews off to the side busy at work. Now, we are told Officials Say these crews will be at work during the week from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. A familiar sight for commuters construction work along i95 will be extended starting wednesday night. Now to include the stretch between the girard avenue and allegheny interchanges. This Officials Say is part four of sick phases. The ultimate goal here to reconstruct and improve 3 miles of i95 and in the end the corridor will be widened to four travel lanes in both directions. So for now the changes you will notice immediately Officials Say will be the repainting the lanes and shifting of the traffic pattern. The work will be done overnight but for some commuters, they believe the added confusion will only mean more congestion. Were local. So, um, cant imagine this being good for quick trips to and from the city.
Again and he is still in Critical Condition with two other people involve in the crash. As for james mcnair better known as jimmy mack, he will be laid to rest tomorrow. We are live from New Brunswick cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thank you for the update. Stay with Eyewitness News for continuing coverage of the investigation in the Tracie Morgan crash, we will have updates here on television and on line at cbs philly. Com. It has been a dreary day all across our region but we did manage to stay relatively dry, tomorrow that will change, as we ares once again tracking storms. Lets check with meteorologist kathy orr, shes keeping tabs on what sound like drenching rains, kathy. Here we go again, this was our brief break, chris, we have had clouds, cooler temperatures, better than heavy storms. That is what they saw in baltimore, washington, virginia, where sun came out, torrential downpours. Easterly wind will protect us at least through tonight and first half of the tomorrow, and t