to not have operators run down the street half asleep. we are staying at the bargaining table, and we're going to make sure that everyone stays talking. and that's the only thing that we can do. >> we're told no positive negotiations have taken place here at the sheridan in center city philadelphia, in the meantime, mayor jim kenney asking anyone who can work flexible hours to do so, since this morning rush is expected to be very tough both the mayor and governor alike asking both sides to meet at the bargaining table, and work this out as quickly as possible, especially, with election day looming. this could work out voter turn out. septa those have at least tentative agreement in place before election day. reporting live in center city this morning, jan carabeo, "eyewitness news", rahel, jim, back to you. >> thank you. team coverage continues at the frank toward transportation center. justin finch live there now where many commuters are trying to find a way to work and school. good morning, justin. good morning, that's right, many commuters waking up trying to figure out a plan, that strike, that impact, is being felt here, at the frankford transportation center, and you can see hine me here, the rales are not running, and those trolley buses are lock up as those transit workers have now hit the picket lines. >> where are we? what do we want? who are we? >> "eyewitness news" at the mid vale bus depo where striking staff began their walk-off and down in south philly just after midnight, our cameras were there, and rolling, at the bus after bus pulled into that depo, atop the buses reading septa off duty. sign that strike is now underway. the drivers and depo staff pick up their picket signs and began protesting, close to 5,000 bus, trolley subway works cents working -- walking offer the job. transport local 234. now, further north at city hall, we saw buses making their final stops, many waiting in the area, and near the clothespin, for a bit take answer back by what they just experienced. and we're wondering just how they would make it home this day and for however long this strike will last. and again, back out live out here, no buses, no trains, no trolleys running at this hour. frustration dipping in, simmering overnight, and to doubt will run even hotter this morning, as more commuters wake up, make their way out, figure out how to get to work and school. coming up at 5:30, we'll hear from bus riders and other commuters who were stranded overnight, and what they are saying about that experience and this strike. rahel, jim, back into you. >> justin, see you then, jim as i was telling you earlier in high school. i would take a toll toy 30th street, a el, then another trolley. so many people depends on septa. can't even imagine this morning. >> this is causing myfoxphilly.com, not only for the travelers but also for the employees, meisha, what have you got going on in the traffic center right now? >> you nailed it, jim. everyone is going to be affected today. so what we are looking at right now how can we simplify all of this information that we have and bring it to you step-by-step as we get it. so this is with a we know right now, you guys, not in service, this is not in service right now, city buses, subways, trolley routes ten, 11, 13, 15, 34, 36. then what is in service? regional rails are the only running transportation in the city. then we have norristown high-speed line, suburban buses, trom i routes 101 and two, lucy, cct connect. so, what's this mean in the general sense? well, you will absolutely have to allow for some extra time, also, carpools, taxies, other means of transportation, if at all possible, adjust your schedules, actually on the septa website, if can you adjust your work and school schedules, you certainly want to do soment p.m. train train fares collected before boarding, heads up on that. plus take a look, some additional information you might want to no, i may be tweeting this all out for you. city government open for business. in parking on broad street between spring garden and south street. bus zones available as drop off pick up locations and also there is free shuttle for city employees along broad street, market frankford line. we know we are dealing with over-crowding. we have been all summer long for some other obviously we know what's been going on all summer long, take that over-crowding and you put it now on to the strike. it will be a headache for so many people. >> just a nightmare when trying to get out the door as it is, when it is a busy start to the day. but, at least i can report that the weather's not going to have any kind of impact on you here today. you will want to have the extra layer to go when you walk out the door. winds are light. weather is quiet. it is typical start to the month of november when it comes to the weather pattern. and it is going to stay that way all day today. so don't worry about that. it is chilly. at 29 after all up at mount pocono, definitely not that harsh around philadelphia. but you're at 42 degrees, so a lot closer to where we should be frankly, but we've been kind of slowly lately. again nice light winds out there, that's the theme of the day. hour by hour, at least couple of hours, taken across the board here, sort of slice through the day, eventually going to rebounds to about 62 for daytime high in the sunshine, though, few additional clouds with time, but don't worry about any wet weather at least not today. eventually there is another cold front scheduled across, doesn't come until thursday, so, up until that point, there is another big warm up, and then eventually another big temperature dropping. we will outline ought every those details for in you your full forecast later in the show, guys, back over to you. >> kate, see you soon, thank you. new this morning, fire rips through a home in northeast philadelphia, sending three people to the hospital. flames broke out just after midnight, on the 3200 block of calmly road. one person was trapped on the second floor, another victim in critical but stable condition, after suffering first and second degree burns, and the other two people are stable, no word on a cause. happening today, free trial hearings begin in the bill cosby septa assault case, judge will hearing arguments over what evidence should be allowed during the trial, prosecutors opportunity have 13 accusers testify to show a pattern of prior bad acts, cosby's lawyers want those women to take competency and memory tests since some allegations date back to the 60s. >> higher gas prices are now a reality in new jersey. hopefully you filled up last night at midnight, new jersey's new gas tax went into effect. but the price of gas going up a whopping 23 cents per gallon. new jersey now has the nation's sixth highest tax. we spoke to a lot of drivers, many aren't sure if the taxes are a good thing. >> i don't know, because i usually go to jersey to get gas sometimes, we're over there. but, i guess it is about time, you know, i really, you know, i hate to be to see gas going up anywhere. >> now man we have to budget for the gas, you know? so can't complain. just got to deal with it, worst things in life, so. >> well the jump in price began at midnight. will fund the state's crumbling roads and bridges. well, donald trump is trying to make pennsylvania red again. >> and with a week to go until the election, he'll make a stop this morning at private event in king of prussia. along with runningmate, mike pence. hillary clinton meantime campaigning in florida. now, while trump continues to attack clinton on the e-mail scandal, vice president biden and house minority leader nancy pelosi campaigned on clinton's behalf at dinner here in philadelphia. vice president criticized trump over that excess hollywood tape. >> they tell me this is lockerroom talk what this guy is talking about. like hell it is lockerroom talk. anybody talk like that in our lockerroom gets their rearend kick. >> how can hillary manage this country when she can't even manage her e-mail? >> and the trump campaign did confirm melania trump's visit to suburban philadelphia. she will be in berwyn this thursday at 2:00 p.m. at the main line sports center. >> well, ohio governor john kasich voted early and it wasn't for donald trump. the former gop presidential hopeful followed through on not voting tore his one time rival. he wrote in arizona senator john mccain's name. how much, the cleveland tell report kasich's write in vote will not count because mccain is not one of the certified write in candidates on the ohio ballot. well, up next, we've got the latest developments on halloween festivities that have turned deadly down south. sadly, two of the victims are children. we'll have the latest. >> plus police officer makes a daring rescue, pulling a senior citizens from her burning car. see this incredible body cam video, plus what caused this fire. and now this. >> there you 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the traffic center good morning, you guys, so everyone will be wondering this morning, how is this going to to affect my commute? so i bring you all of the information that we have in the most simplistic terms we have them. so first, what you need to nope, this is what is not in service. we have city buses, subways, subways, trolley routes ten, 11, 13, 15, 34, and 36. make note of this. so, in alignment with that, what then is in service? so with a we have in service, regional rails is the only running service in the city. plus we have norristown high-speed line, suburban buses, trom i routes 101, and 102, lucy, cct connect. >> then there is some parking changes as well around the city. so heads up on this. solo have flat rate of $10 per ten hours in certain garages. make sure to check the parking garage you typically use, check those out. also, no parking on broad between spring garden and south street. drop off and pick up, in the bus zones, so heads up on that. a lot of were you wondering about that. and also, you guys, this is just an extra note that just came in. there is going to be extra hour added to meters and kiosk, as well, so, for example, if you run over your time, a little bit, you are going to be graced with a extra hour in most areas. so that's good to know for a lot of us running into some problems this morning, parking becomes an issue, that's going to help you out a little bit. then we have some extra tips. allow extra time, probably no brainer, but certainly give yourselves some extra time, we will be dealing with a lot of over-crowding, plus, if you can finds alternate means of transportation, you certainly want to. carpooling, taxi, other means, anything that you can do to try to avoid any of these better either shutdown or that you can expect over-crowding, you want to do so. also, adjust your schedules if possible, schools, appointment, at work, the rest of it. katie, i cannot even stress how much this is going to affect not only our morning commuters, afternoon commuters will be affected, our p.m. commuters will be affected. >> this really affect almost everybody. >> and the problem, too, until they come it an agreement, we're stuck with it, so just ongoing. so follow meisha on twitter, follow cbs philly on twitterment, follow the angers on twitter all information as we come in. talking much quieters things on the side of weather, things very, very tranquil overall, nice warming trend that takes place in the next few days, today typical early november day though. fall foliage pretty much at its peak at this point though. here around the philadelphia county area. outline ers to the southeast, you have got high foliage at the moment. but, not peaking just yet, although, this is about the time where you are going to see the most vibrant colors. i actually drive-thru wynnefield pretty often. there is one little stretch of wynnefield avenue that is just so vibrant right now. beautiful, beautiful colors right now. so, you can tell, that we're at the peak. regardless, it is still quiet weather pattern out there, no wind even out there to blow the leaves off the trees, storm scan, very, very quiet. eventually i do think you'll see few additional clouds off to the southwest right now, lifting in as warmer air starts to nudge in, that warm air is really going to send us on spike on the thermometer, which you will see in the seven day, but we will take you few the next few days pattern wise, high pressure that's the story, today, that's the story, tomorrow, not the story on thursday, though. that's when our next cold front becomes the main weather headline, it does bring in some additional rain probably even few thunderstorms out there, generally into the p.m. hours. so afternoon, toward evening, is what we are thinking for the timing there. temperatures as they stands now, chilly. you are in the 30's in a lot of spots, only 42 at the airport, below freezing even in quakertown. get you through the rest of today though, expect high to hit very typical 62 degrees, normal high on november 1 is 61 degrees. so we're very close to that. we expect to drop down to only 49 tonight. no where near as harsh as last night was. even then without the winds wasn't that bad. looking forward in the forecast, good stuff. 76 degrees come thursday, tomorrow's my personal favorite, gem after day with the sunshine, but the rain comes in late in the day on thursday, then, the bottom gets pulled out from underneath us, back to the 50's for few more days, guys, back over to you. >> katie, thank you. for look at newspaper headlines, from across our region. >> from the cover of the trentonian, mercer county board of social services is using fabric softener sheets to combat bed bugs. the welfare offers on wolf err ton street has been the site of several infestations in recent months. bounce fabric softener sheath being placed in the agency's bathrooms, along with signs instructing people to wipe down their clothing in the event they're expose today bed bugs, since the bugs will clinic to the dryer sheets. >> and on the front page of the reading eagles, the landmark abraham lincoln hotel in downtown reading is ceasing operations, the owner of the 86 year old mainstay plans on converting hotel rooms into apartments, balloon, dining, ball rams, will remain open. >> from the intelligence err, montgomery county republicans have lost a bid to have the county extends deadline to except completed absentee ballots. the deadline to file an absentee ballot is friday. ballots must physically be in the office no later than 5:00 p.m. that's look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> developing right now, in mississippi, three people killed and several more are hurt in a crash while celebrating halloween. >> the crash happened in the small town of chunky, about 80 miles east of jackson, police say two children and one adult were killed when a car hit a flatbed trailer pulling people heading to halloween festivities. the three people killed were all on the trailer and were all related to each other. >> small community. this is bad thing to happen anywhere. when it is local, it really hits home. you know, these are good people, our hearts go out to them. >> police say some of those hurt in the crash also had life threatening injuries, the small town has population of just about 325 people. a man in a stolen electric car leads police on high speed chase in l.a. >> now watch as the driver speeds down the wrong side of the road, the chase for the stolen chevy volt took place in the san fernando valley yesterday, ended with police placing the driver in handicuffs. police say he tried to harm himself with a sharp object before they took him into custody. incredible video there, sante fe new mexico police officer being called a hero this morning, after he pulled 87 year old woman from her burning car, the woman was driving on the flat tire and on her way to a doctors appointment when the tire caught fire. doctors check her out and she is okay. >> well, police say a 12 year old boy may have been drunk at the time of this car crash in pleasant valley texas. police don't know how he started driving the suv. but he crashed head on into another car, kept going, and crashed into a pour pole. the young man could face several serious charges, two people in the other car were not seriously hurt. >> well, we are hearing the voice of the gunman who went on a rampage at an orlando night club. hear the 911 recording for yourself just ahead. >> plus it is major news this morning, we will have more on the septa strike. hey, in the. >> good morning, guys. yes, we give you the latest on the eagles at the trade deadline, an old friends wants to return to philadelphia. you'll love this name. we'll tel katie: my mom was a restaurant hostess at a neighborhood favorite - a place for a good, family meal. she juggled customers, cooks, waitresses - and never 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deadline, the eagles have been rumored in the market for a wide receiver, mainly tori of the 9ers or from the bears? could it be terrell owens? we'll know, the 42 year old unemployed star tweeted he's available to help the birds, more likely the eagles do nothing before 4:00 p.m. i'll be honest, guys, totally on board with to. why would they need the help? they just cannot stretch the field on sunday against the cowboys, carson wentz's average passe tempt was less than fifth yards down the field, not it mention he was hurt by at least four drops. their second leading receive is her running back, darren sproles, with 227 yards. doug pederson talks about why they didn't take more shots down the field. >> dallas played too deep against us than what we've seen in previous weeks. you know, i thought that carson was very efficient with the throws he did make. >> you know, they are kind of defense, kind of gives you some underneath stuff. how it played out. we had some shots called, and i just have to check it down, that's just what they gave us. >> sam bradford's ones undefeated minnesota vehicle syringes now lost two in a row after losing to the bears in prime time last night. bears rookie, jordan howard, ran for 153 yards, and touchdown, and bears quarterback jay cutler who missed the last five games with a thumb injury came back, and put the bears up 13-nothing, with that pass to al sean jeffrey, who i just mentioned, the bears beat sammy v and the vikings, sorry, meisha, 20 to ten. avenue very important announcement to make. we need your votes for the friday football frenzy game of the week. and here are your choices. we have west depford at collingswood, cherry hill west at camden catholic, and upper moreland at marple-now town. you have until tomorrow to vote. so get them in because cbs-3 wants to come to your school. >> the world series picks up again tonight in cleveland with the indians just one win away from their first championship in 71 years. chicago conditions haven't won it in more than a century as we note but fun loving manager joe madden not worried, or halloween costumes for the trip to cleveland. players stopped, signed autographs for fans on the send off. indians, lead the cubs, three games to two. so, keep it relaxed, they're down a game, but that's important. >> what kind of costumes were those? >> they were pretty lame, but keeping it loose. not that great. >> cubs. >> you are? >> works for me. >> other way, 71 years, or 108 years, been a long time. >> thanks, pat. >> well, our live coverage of the septa strike continues in the next half hour on "eyewitness news". >> our team is covering this from every angle to help you navigate your way through the rush. jan? >> reporter: septa on strike. i'm jan carabeo, reporting live in center city philadelphia this morning. coming up: how much progress was made in negotiations here overnight? and the main sticking points straight ahead. meisha? >> so, how is this going to affect you and i, guys? what's in service? alternate options. what about parking? all of those answers coming up. katy? >> yes, meisha, one day closer to the weekends, now that septa's on strike, can't come soon enough. we are at this point expecting lots of sunshine for you out there. temperatures that are little cooler than what we're going to find in the next couple of days, but, you get the extra hour of sleep. bonus. don't forget, time to fall back, turn the clocks back for daylight saving time. come back with the rest of robert kearney: i fought for my country in kosovo and iraq, and i've been a republican all my life. but i'm the father of three girls. i can't stand hearing donald trump call women pigs, dogs, and bimbos...and i sure don't want my daughters hearing it. i want my girls to grow up proud and strong, in a nation where they're valued and respected. donald trump's america is not the country i fought for. so, i'm voting for hillary clinton. hillary clinton: i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> would be commuters at broad and olney. septa on strike with much of public transit this morning grind to go a halt. good morning, i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm jim donovan. septa strike is the top of what you need to know in our morning minute. >> as of november 1, officially on strike. >> no word how long this strike will last, just spoke to septa spokesperson who tells us no negotiations haed