Think about the fact that the average employee at the department of education makes 103,000 per year and the average teacher makes 50,000. People keep telling we have a money problem in education. I think we have a priority problem. We are supposed to spend 700 billion annually on education. We can do better. We should demand better. The second part of the choice act, kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual potential. Everyone in america deserves to understand their own potential. What we say is that if you cannot get in the education your child needs in your zip code, you should make the idea portable just like we have School Choice for honor roll kids, we should allow the same thing for kids with special needs. A great story is a young lady, at the time she was five years old and going to kindergarten and she had down syndrome, rachel lewis. Doing pretty well in mainstream classes. The teachers got uncomfortable with her being with other students and tried to pus
Moons out there, we dont have any clouds out there. We dont have a check mark in the win column either. Hopefully that will change tonight. It will be nice and bright. Right now, the temperatures are cooling under Crystal Clear skies. 49 degrees in trenton. Pottstown down to 45 along with millville. Temperatures are running 10 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday this time. Bright sunshine, 52 degrees at k, near 60 at 9 00. Then into the 60s as the wind kicks in at lunch time today. 65 degrees. Your hourbyhour forecast. When i come back, first, jillian mele has traffic. A live look at Spring Garden street, you can see it very clear. We have conduction there. Heading into new jersey, the 42 freeway looking great at creek road. No problems to report there. That is in the midst of that longterm Construction Zone out near route 235. Route 55 northbound, exit 35, that ramp is blocked because of overnight construction. Thats expected to be out there until about 6 00 this morning. Chris. 4 2.
Tonights americas newest midsized suvs are put to the test. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crashed seven of the newest models on the market, the results, well it may make you think twice before stepping inside. The institutes Vice President joins us with the results. Russ, great to have you on the show. Little us a tell us a little bit about the test because it is different than the government uses. This is a different kind of test. This is called a small overlap front crash test. It is done at 40 miles per hour. It replicates what happens when a vehicle may drift over the center line of the highway and just clip other vehicle, headlight to headlight or go off the road of the highway and hit a tree or a telephone poll on the drivers side. It is based on research that shows 25 of the serious injuries and deaths that occur in frondal crashes are in these small overlap impacts. They have to be very common. How often do you hit dead on the front . I think it is pretty rare. Tha
Employees were signing their furlough letters. All three are trying to be positive about the situation and hope it will be resolved quickly. My wife and i, we are going to take this day by day. You will be prepared for anything as it comes, just like we have been in the previous years. According to the lieutenant colonel, National Guard troops who are deployed and on active duty will continue to be paid. Those who will be attending drills or are on reserve status will not. Those getting ready for deployment and training for deployment will continue to train and will get paid. But the ones that are normal drilling status, like the majority of us, will not be drilling this weekend, and we will have to postpone it until the future. And they wont get paid. Like many federal employees, those who were sent home here today are hopeful that some compromise can be reached and the government will get back to business as usual. We never know what is going to happen up in washington, but we hope f
Now free after he was kidnapped by armed rebels. Ali zeidan taken by gunmen from a hotel in tripoli where he lived. The abductors released this picture they say was zeidan in captivity. Al qaeda threatened retaliation last week after the capture of terror suspect of abu anas al libi. Several groups accused the government of colluding in or allowing the raid. But that was strongly denied. The libyan Prime Minister is freed after briefly being kidnapped from a hotel. Here at home, the u. S. Facing its deepening crisis. As the Government Shutdown enters day number ten. Theres no compromise in sight. And the price tag of that shutdown is going higher. Now costing upwards of 3 billion and counting. But there may be a glimmer of light at the end of this tunnel. Abcs Tahman Bradley has the latest from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter diana and john, good morning on this tenth day of the Government Shutdown. A big meeting between president obama and House Republicans. But its not cle