Shore on the boardwalk in wildwood tonight. Plows are working to clear the roads after a really messy drive home. The snow hit at the worst possible time. Rush hour on a friday night. Delays for some folks more than an hour and tonight the big concern the freeze. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. The snow caused serious headaches for folks today and we have Live Team Coverage for you with brad sattin in cherry hill, county, but lets start with meteorologist mike masco outside our studios in old city. Brrr, mike. It actually hurts to be out for long period of time. Good evening, guys. Good evening, everybody. Its a huddle and culled dell kind of night tonight. Youre looking at record speeds witness pedestrians moving down Market Street from point a to point b. Theyre getting warm as fast as they can. The next issue this evening and into the overnight hours is, of course, the refreezing. You can see this is just one of the many streets, of course, in phi
Million families that are using these vouchers. I think the variability is a reflection of the fact that somehow the agencies are smaller, they have less of a case load, it may be easier for them to stay on top of these things. Host we talked about the Obama Administration requesting 220 million for the housing choice program. How has that been received on capitol hill . What is the politics surrounding that budget request . Guest that would be a large amount of money that this program has had in a while. The number of families that have been served by the program was cut down significantly by the sequester and is only just now getting back up to the number that it had been. The idea of spending more money i think within the broader context, a lot of antipoverty programs are a hard sell in washington right now, and this is one of them. The Section Eight Program in particular has the stigma attached that a lot of the people that benefit from this are just receiving government handouts,
[inaudible] of morning. The last time we met was before we broke for the august work. , we are all very enthusiastic, about our better deal, better jobs, better pay, Better Future about how to build infrastructure and create a million jobs and have job training and tools for the 21st century. Im proud of our members for all of the events they had. During the work time to give us our better deal. And were getting response to that as they come back. During that time, just in case your message we had charlottesville, we had north korea, they too, and of course sadly the hurricanes. But on harvey, my daughter lives in houston. She was given me the reports and hardships that she had seen. I was proud of her, she has an art school and the first day they could go out she call for help for our supplies for children in the shelters and they had 21 suvs full of art supplies to go out. In any event, they were okay but trying to help other people. And that is what is so beautiful about houston, pe
Park has emptied out a little but not completely. There are folks behind me and a Large Police Presence to make sure they keep the peace. I talked to becialg police earlier and they say thats probably the difference this time that they had a Large Police Presence. Officers from multiple agencies on hand. They helped keep the protesters apart. Earlier when i joined you at 4 00 i told you how the rally ended. They had the ralliers exiting to the left of your screen, and that was away from the opposing view, which is to the right. They tried specifically to keep the two sides apart and did a pretty good job in doing so. And that made it honestly a nice day for a couple of speeches in the park. This is ground zero in the defense of the constitution and the most important part of this, the First Amendment. If you dont have the right to free speech and assembly, you are not free. Reporter that freedom was challenged briefly earlier today. Berkeley native Kendall Wright was angered by the pre
When do we want em . Now reporter thousands on the move through San Francisco to celebrate transgender equality. Billy cooper is feeling a lot of solidarity. Being a transgender woman is every day life for me. It is it encourages me to wake up every morning and to be a better person. Reporter many say this years trans march is more important than ever. This is a year we need to be visible. Reporter raffi simington says transgender rights are not a priority for the trump administration. The climate of heat and fear is frightening to me. Reporter the Police Presence at the march was hard to miss. Every available cop will be on duty for weekend pride festivities to keep crowds safe. But this group does not agree. Police pride. Reporter why . To keep our community safer. Reporter until recently the web side told attendees not to be friendly to cops. That information has been removed. A lot of people i know and care about have been told by the cops they have to move along because they assum