Designed for high demand. Reporter so heres how it works. Starting at 12 01 a. M. For one day customers get one shot to enter the on line lottery through septas web site n that time customers can order ten passes for each of the two available days and set preference preferences like time slot and rail station. Drawing is random. If a customer gets select they will get an email saying congratulations and opportunity to pay for the pass. We want to be able to get the papal passes in peoples hand so at least they can make some serious concrete decision about their transportation plans. Reporter septa officials wanted to assure us that this on line external company will have a way to check for nefarious activity like mass purchasing and ticket scalping. They will have a way to check for that. This all happens one day august 3rd, for just 24 hours. Reporting live from center city im Steve Paterson for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thanks steve. Count down continues. We are 60 days away from the pop
Sound like another hot one. Absolutely air conditioning will be cranking looking ahead to the afternoon with the steaminess that is out there and really more than anything it is humidity that will make it oppressive. It will be hot. We will see days lake this every single summer. We have to be smart. It will be fun. We have to get through this. Take it easy stay hydrated take brakes and you will be fine. So often we say if you can stay inside with you when you have to work Landscaping Construction you are outside. Storm scan three is quiet. We have High Pressure on our side. Still, clear skies but because of that that sun will be scorching us as we go in the afternoon. The excessive heat warning has been issued along i95 from wilmington up to trenton and all those surrounding count that is starts at noon time today for heat index that will be topping off around triple digit territory. Thinks beginning of what we think will be worst of the two day stretch of heat. 79 degrees your actual
Financial in a 4 billion deal. Ceo will join us in a few minutes. And why the etf market may be getting a bit too hot. And after the bell outrage over the pentagon pushing afghanistan and iraq war veterans to pay back enlistment bonuses. Well have details coming up. We begin with full Team Coverage of the blockbuster buyout of time warner by at t. Eamon javers is covering regulation. Julia boorstin, lets start with you. This is a vertical deal through directv and uverse tv services and perhaps more important its 133 million u. S. Mobile subscribers. Time warner ceo saying all of at ts data will enable the company to create more content that Consumers Want and create ads that work. Theres going to be basically more effective advertising. It wont be as disruptive. You will have more efficiency. That means more cost of great programming being made on tv can be advertising that is useful to you rather than something you are not interested in. Reporter at t ceo Randall Stevenson says time w
Officer. He has an unblemished record and looking forward to having his day in court. Reporter attorneys for some of the officers pointed out that when they are held in pretrial detention as two of the officers are, they are in a special housing unit meaning they are confined 23 out of 24 hours a day. That is designed to protect them but the Defense Attorneys argued it would be a hardship. The hearing for the sixth officer john splicer is expect within the next 24 hours, here in federal court. Live from the u. S. Courthouse im walt hunter, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Walt, thank you. Three innocent lives taken too soon, hundreds gathered to say good bye to the siblings killed in the carjacking crash in north philadelphia. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao has the the story. Reporter they came by the hundreds, mayor michael nutter, elected leaders and an entire community all to support a family dealing with the unimaginable, burying three children just 15, ten and seven years old. Everybod
They werent tapped. They had resolve that god was still in conn troll. Reporter childrens mother 34 yearold Keisha Williams was not able to make this service. She was critically injured july 25th and is still hospitalized this evening. In the meantime this memorial continues, to grow and another vigil is planned at the end of the month. Reporting live from north philadelphia, jane carabao cbs3 Eyewitness News. Donations are pouring into help family of the carjacking crash. Eyewitness news at philly fit on washington avenue in south philadelphia. All of the proceeds from todays classes will go to the family. In philadelphia we are all one giant community as a big city but very small place and we know that were all inter dependent so this is just one kay of showing that no matter where you are within the city we are all connect and that we all support one another. Reporter there is another class at 7 30 tonight. Well, developing news now Philadelphia Police have released the identity of