Septa reveals its new plan for selling rail passes for the upcoming papal visit, and its all about entering a lottery. Good evening im ukee washington. Jessica has the night off. Septa announced this new way of purchasing passes after its first attempt last week crashed the authorities website. Eyewitness News Reporter todd quinn nope joins us outside septa headquarters with more how this lottery will work. Todd. Reporter ukee, after somewhat embarrassing and also dramatic reboot septa has decided to go with a lottery. Not everyone will be a board with demand out weighing supply getting papal passes for septa Regional Rail was never a sure bet. Now, septa has set one day game of chance. Instead of it being first come first serve. Its a lottery that people who are just looking to get to work when pope francis is here will have to play. I dont know. I just think it will be kind of a mess. If you dont within the lottery whats plan b for you. I think my work will have to figure out somethi
Somewhat embarrassing and also dramatic reboot septa has decided to go with a lottery. Not everyone will be a board with demand out weighing supply getting papal passes for septa Regional Rail was never a sure bet. Now, septa has set one day game of chance. Instead of it being first come first serve. Its a lottery that people who are just looking to get to work when pope francis is here will have to play. I dont know. I just think it will be kind of a mess. If you dont within the lottery whats plan b for you. I think my work will have to figure out something out for. After crashing demand crashed the e commerce site last week the Transportation Authority came up with the Online Lottery idea to cree and create a fair system. So on monday, august 3rd at 12 01am, to 11 59 p. M. Riders can roll the dice and log on to the side site. No matter what time you enter your lottery submission, everyone has the same chance of being selected. Reporter customers will get one shot. Randomly selected w
Fortunately 476, construction southbound at 95 at davidson, the exit has cleared. I am following construction taking out the left lane on the northeast extension between the exits for 63 and the exits for route 63 and route 22 and i78. 95, 76, and 476, typical trouble spots all looking good this hour. Thank you. Breaking from overnight in philadelphia, a woman is dead after someone murdered the mother in a city neighborhood. Monique braxton is live near the scene. What have you learned . Reporter she was shot execution style once in the head. Neighbors interviewed by homicide have returned to the scene. Some were startled after hearing a loud bang last night. Were getting a look at the young working mother killed here. Relatives and friends tell us the 22yearold was shot once in the head in her secondfloor bedroom. Her 2yearold daughter who was nearby of unharmed. Dukowsky worked for a local dentist. Theyre puzzled by the murder in their midst. Beautiful, sweet, would do anything for a
Wow, it feels wonderful out. Especially considering were in the midst of a heat wave. The poconos 49 degrees, temperaturewise its not all that bad. We dont have too much humidity to speak of. If you have a chance to get out early and enjoy the comfortable air. Yesterday, philadelphia, 90 degrees, we managed to hit that for only 15 minutes, out of a 24 hour day only 15 minutes were we ever in the 90s thats all you need. As long as philadelphia keeps punching out 90s the heat wave continues. Atlantic city another 90 degrees. Everywhere else made it into the upper 80s. Wilmington, 88. Yesterday, pottstown, 87. Allentown, yesterday, topping out at 86. Current temperatures, tanersville, 58 degrees, look at the 50s showing up north and west. Coatsville, 59. Oxford, 59. Chester 59. Saint davids getting into the 60s, 61. Kennett square 61. Levittown, 64. Mid 60s across south jersey and delaware. Buena, 65. Satellite and radar, just like yesterday should be another day featuring full sunshine.
Satellite and radar, we have a few high, thin clouds to the south pushing across the delmarva, the virginias and the carolinas. Seeing cloudiness this morning everybody else, bright sunshine. We expect to see sunshine throughout the duration of the afternoon. Lunchtime, 85 degrees, look at all the sun. 3 00 p. M. , 88. 6 00 p. M. , 88. We should manage to climb up to 90 degrees which would keep the heat wave going. Sun sets at 8 14. Thunderstorm chance we dont have any today or tomorrow, but they increase as we get toward the middle of the week and the pattern changes with the set of thunderstorm activity here, it turns sharply cooler in the sevenday forecast. Ill have that in just a bit. Breaking right now. Malaysian officials have confirmed metallic debris found on the shoreline of the French Island is not connected to the missing malaysian flight. On wednesday a wing flap turned up. This morning malaysian authorities confirm the flap is from a boeing 777. It is the same type of airc