Spot all about good food and family. Hi, good evening im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We begin tonight with a push by new jersey lawmakers to raise the age for all Tobacco Sales and that includes ecigarettes. Diana rocco is in pennsauken right now with more on the proposal. Diana. Reporter ukee and jessica, the new age would be 21 and with this new bill lawmakers are now trying to get teens to stop smoking before they start. Smoking may soon be a lot harder in the state of new jersey for young adults. The legislature is now tackling a bill that would move the legal buying age from 19 to 21 years old. Im very much in favor of it. I think its a positive thing and it could help a lot of people quit smoking. Not quit but not start it in the first place. Reporter inside sage diner in mt. Laurel some of the younger diners see classmates taking less smoke break at school while others say its about sending the right message. Its not good. Its not healthy. Everything that weve read and all
Old. Im very much in favor of it. I think its a positive thing and it could help a lot of people quit smoking. Not quit but not start it in the first place. Reporter inside sage diner in mt. Laurel some of the younger diners see classmates taking less smoke break at school while others say its about sending the right message. Its not good. Its not healthy. Everything that weve read and all the medical journals and all the doctors always tell you how detrimental smoking is. Reporter the state would lose 1 million in revenue every year on cigarette tax. We certainly move the drinking age from 18 to 21, um, and weve had better out comes. Reporter one of the bills sponsor said would save millions in health care for would be smokers who never start. Moving it just a few more years we know that the young minds dont develop until much later, and if they adopt addictive behaviors early on in life they will continue with these sort avenue dick tiff behaviors. Reporter hawaii is the only other s
Sunday. You will sleep through most of the rain. There wont be any eagles game to watch. I wore green. I am in the habit of wearing green. Yes. The coachs interviews. Okay. We will accept that. You know, the year is one week old and we are going going in to a eight for january 8th and also, it will be decent temperatures today. Not as cold to start this morning but bus stop buddy still has a winter coat on and his gloves. It is in the 30s right now, in fact, 39 in philadelphia a, already. We expect to get to a high of 46 degrees with cloudy skies, little bit milder perhaps then yesterday. Bob . Sue, good morning everybody. 6 01. Couple accidents a live look at the platt bridge, heading toward the the airport, accident mid span, only one lane opened, this is a four car accident on the pennsylvania turnpike, eastbound right here near that Delaware Valley interchange as you head east between street road, heading over toward the Delaware Valley connection bridge. In West Philadelphia, that
3 wrap up 3 hold hold 3 were watching this in the pit crew traffic center. Center. 3 you are looking live at 3 this morning an Anderson County man is recovering from dog bites after deputies say they responded to a bomb threat. 3 the swat team was called out to Hawthorne Drive thursday night. Deputies say the mother of ronnie cannon called Authorities Saying her son was on drugs and claimed to have a bomb inside the house. Crisis negotiators worked for two and a half hours to get cannon out and then sent in a k9 officer that safely brought cannon outwe spoke with one neighbor who was told by police to get to a safe place. 3 3 3 there was already a cop in my front yard and he told me to get back inside. And i told him i have children inside and he said you need to get your kids and get out to a safe place and thats when we left. Left. 3 i mean weve had trouble with the neighbors in the past, thats just how they are. Are. The Anderson County bomb squad said the device inside the home was
Won some money. They told us not the a sipping will number that hit was on the ticket. You are one of those people that just started to buy in the the lottery, holding on to hope. I hold on to hope all the time. I will give it up to you. It is january 8th. This is such a date for famous physicians. Elvis presslys physician today, david bowie. Wow. How is that. I didnt know he was born on the same day as elvis. Well, weve got the 40 degrees. The that is a a normal High Temperature for today. That is things are looking up temperature wise at least for the next couple of days. We have 7mile an hour wind out of the north east. Feels like 35 out there. Sunrise time is 7 23. As predict temperatures have been going up every day. Now we are above freezing, in allentown and reading and lancaster when we were in the teens this time yesterday. 26 degrees in mount pocono. Thirtynine in millville. Thirtyeight in dover. Cloud cover kept us from going to get too cold last night so we heard 21 degrees