Probably because my battery is dead, but assuming that our viewers can hear you, david, where are you coming to us from . Florida. We are in the Sunshine State of florida. All right. Well, thats great, so youre in florida. I want to ask you about this contest youve launched. You have a web site and a video. Tell us about the idea behind this Treasure Hunt. Heres how it got started. I was in philadelphia, pennsylvania, 1977. I was on the mike douglas show and that week, mikes cohost was anthony newly, the composer of the song candy man, and as i was running down the aisle, throwing jelly bellies to the audience and packages, the thought occurred to me right at that moment, some day, i want to have a contest where i give one of my candy factories away to a perfect stranger, willy wonka style. I apologize if viewers heard your answer, but im still working on my battery pack and ear piece. I do want to ask you though, if you havent yet, why did you decide to do this . Why did i decide to d
Shortfall faced by many of those cities. Tonight i am drawing your attention oa controversial third topic that we first covered last november, that brings those two together in chicago and in other cities. Red light cameras. You know what im talking about, cameras that take photos of drivers who run through red lights. Cameras that result in tickets that can cost drivers between 50 and nearly 500. A drivers desire to avoid those tickets is a key reason that advocates say the cameras reduce crashes. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says independent Research Shows a 13 o29 reduction in injury related crashes at intersections that have red light cameras. Now the snoourns institute is funded by Auto Insurance companies and in california and nevada insurers can raise premiums on drivers who have red light tickets so there is a conflict of interest there possibly. Many drivers dont know theyre there and that is a argument that they are a dealternate to running red lights. That is a
The other is the large budget shortfall faced by many of those cities. Tonight i am drawing your attention oa controversial third topic that we first covered last november, that brings those two together in chicago and in other cities. Red light cameras. You know what im talking about, cameras that take photos of drivers who run through red lights. Cameras that result in tickets that can cost drivers between 50 and nearly 500. A drivers desire to avoid those tickets is a key reason that advocates say the cameras reduce crashes. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says independent Research Shows a 13 o29 reduction in injury related crashes at intersections that have red light cameras. Now the snoourns institute is funded by Auto Insurance companies and in california and nevada insurers can raise premiums on drivers who have red light tickets so there is a conflict of interest there possibly. Many drivers dont know theyre there and that is a argument that they are a dealternate to
Attention oa controversial third topic that we first covered last november, that brings those two together in chicago and in other cities. Red light cameras. You know what im talking about, cameras that take photos of drivers who run through red lights. Cameras that result in tickets that can cost drivers between 50 and nearly 500. A drivers desire to avoid those tickets is a key reason that advocates say the cameras reduce crashes. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says independent Research Shows a 13 o29 reduction in injury related crashes at intersections that have red light cameras. Now the snoourns institute is funded by Auto Insurance companies and in california and nevada insurers can raise premiums on drivers who have red light tickets so there is a conflict of interest there possibly. Many drivers dont know theyre there and that is a argument that they are a dealternate to running red lights. That is a bigger debate if cities are using the red lights more to boost rev
59 degrees in wilmington, and well into the 50s, now, 55 degrees up in the poconos. Where it had been in the 40s this morning. You can see, that were starting on a warm day today. Then, we move out to northeast philadelphia, 62 degrees, 57 in mt. Holly, a lot of these temperatures, warming up quickly. And our temperatures will be warming up quickly. Seventynine by noon, and by 3 00 p. M. , 84 lovely degrees. Ill be back with the full forecast all week, coming up. Todd . Carol, thank you. We begin with breaking news, fire ripped through mt. Airy Apartment Building sending two people to the hospital. The fire officials on the scene say, they smelled gasoline, and the fire is being called suspicious. Syma chowdhry picks up the story live from the scene. Syma . Reporter residents woke to up scary moments earlier this morning, not one, but two fires, were set, on 7400 block of stenton avenue. Now there is happened, around 2 30 this morning, at the Chestnut Terrace apartments. One fire was s