Thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to mornings on 2. It is saturday, august 1st, ill claudine wong. Im paul chambers. Happening now, b. A. R. T. Is repairing a vital section of track near the transbay two, no service from west oakland and embarcadero stations. Service will resume early monday morning. 80,000 riders who rely on the Transit System on weekends must find another way around. Made plans with my friends. So those plans are out of window . Now they are out the window, of course. What this is addressing is some of the wear and tear of a system thats almost 45 years old. Now, starting saturday, september 5th, b. A. R. T. Will again shut down the transbay tube during the Labor Day Weekend. Both closures will allow b. A. R. T. To cross trains from one track to another from the west oakland station to the transbay tube. With these changes b. A. R. T. Says if there is a delay they can move trains around easier and reduce the length of the delay. Taking a look at this map from
Cristina rendon is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. Reporter heather, we are seeing traffic, but its no different than any other saturday when people are trying to get into the city, so this is typical right now, but there is an increase in ridership on the ferries. The weekend weve been warned about is here. Barts closure of the transbay tube means many are finding an alternative mode of transportation. Its why the San Francisco bay doubled routes, already seeing a 24 increase in ridership compared to a normal weekend day and a 6 increase on the route between vallejo and San Francisco. Its working quite well. We have four boats in constant operation at alamedaoakland service. We have three boats on the vallejo service. Reporter they have been at capacity on nearly every ferry leaving the east bay, and with that comes long lines. It hasnt been too bad. I mean, its a longer wait than expected. Weve been here about an hour and 15 minutes. Reporter one family visiting from out
Humidity kills you here, but if you have outdoor plans we are looking good today. We have nice sunrise shaping up this morning right now of a. M. , there you go, live look from the Atlantic City camera, sun over the ocean right there, beautiful shot. Thats going to be going to be the trends, plenty of sunshine and thats sun will go to work and warm us up. 71 degrees currently at Philadelphia International airport, 60 in allentown, 62 red willing, 66 in millville in urge new jersey, 56 degrees, up in mount pocono, and some suburbs also on the cool side as well. Many spots already dropping into the 50s, early this morning, so comfortable start to the sunday, 59 degrees, in quakertown, winds are calm, slitly out of the west to northwest, again thats dry winds, just like yesterday so humidity levels stay on the low side. We can see that in the buy point temperatures, in the 50s right now. Thats pretty much un heard of in the middle of summer so enjoy it while we k that will change, storm s
Clouds to our south will remain there fair weather clouds should build for the afternoon with increased heat. A loft sunshine around, low humidity levels, forecast hi, make it up to near 90. It will be close. Good shot at reaching the sixth day, before the sea breeze kicks in, and at the poconos, looking good, mostly sunny, high near 90 degrees 80 degrees. Relief in the seven day and well get to that in a few more minutes. Justin, thank you very much. If you want septa Regional Rail pass the for the upcoming papal visit bet ever cross your fingers passes go on sale starting tomorrow through on line lottery. Cherri gregg from sister station kyw news radio 1060 is litsch at septa headquarters with details good morning. Good morning only 350,000 pope passes will be up for sale and if you want one, you are going to have to take a chance by signing up on line beginning monday morning. At 12 01 monday morning phase one of papal pass sales goes live, and for 23 hours and 58 minutes anyone, ev
Is reporting that cecil the lions brother jericho has also been killed. The group says jericho seen here on the left was shot today. There is a conflicting report from at least one other Wildlife Organization that jericho appeared to be alive and that his gps was sending back a signal. Minnesota Hunter Walter james is accused of luring cecil out of the park to kill him in early july. The search is on for a violent robber who struck in central park. The thief, a panhandler who appeared to use when it his request for money was denied. Take a good look at the sketch. He approached a 53yearold man asking for money, saying he was hungry. When the victim refused to give him anything, the suspect choked that man until he passed out and then ran off with his cash and other belongings. A string of gun violence left one man dead and five others wounded. All of this in brooklyn. For many there, enough is enough. The victim killed 24yearold donald smith. He was shot in a barrage of bullets at a ho