Moment but first katie has a check of the bone chilling forecast and meishas check of the road. Good morning, guys, happy hump day. We have one accident and down tree but i just hope you are heaters are working because my goodness walking outside the door what a shift. Really cold outside. It will stay that way for next couple days. Worries happening right now. We will get to the wind chills in a second. It is quiet in terms of storm scan. We are not seeing anything flying across the radar at all , throughout the day, later tonight, cold in place there is a disturbance that comes through and that will touch off light snow which we will get to we will let you know who has best opportunity to see accumulation but for now lets talk about the cold. This is your temperature change, it is not represented, wind chill not representing air temperature but how far have temperatures dropped since this same time yesterday yesterday, it wasnt terribly harsh but it was cold, now you are as much as 2
Because of the bitter cold. Eyewitness News Reporter alycia nieves is live along the parade route on broad street where fans are braving the cold for a front row seat to all the action. Hi, alycia. Reporter rahel, it is cold out here. We see people out here drinking their hot cocoa, drinking their coffee trying to stay warm. Some even doing things like putting hand warmers in their gloves. Others just o jogging in place all for this and it seems to be well worth it. 120 Year Administration unique to philadelphia is under way right now. Happy new year to the Delaware Valley from your mummers. Reporter bands and performers dancing down broad street for the mummers parade entertaining a sprinkling of fans standing on the sidelines most of whom clearly decided not to let the subzero temperatures stop them from experiencing the one of a kind annual show. It didnt stop us. But its really cold so we bought a lot of gear over the past couple weeks just so we could be ready. Reporter with fans
Different about this team. I can just feel t we know the patriots might be a strong football team, but we will take it, no one second guessed that will i have to say i kind of felt the same way, there was something different. Karma. So excited. Looking outside, as we point out in the morning, earlier, center city you have some real issues, because the partying went on, lots of down polls and whites. At least the weather cooperating but you might need your ice kramer this morning. Plenty decent layer of eating were hearing reports from the eyewitness weather watchers, letting us know thats an issue, so give yourself extra time. If you do have to get into the office today, i know a lot of people are excited to take the day off. But it is storm scan at least quiet at this point. Now we just have to wore bit left over icing not only windshield but on the roads, look how marginal the temperatures are with the freezing mark. Mid 30s, low 30s, so if you are close enough to freezing, like we i
Fortunately staying far enough out to sea so that south jersey and jersey shore only saw cloud cover. Heavy rains were well off shore. As that storm continues to strengthen and pull off to the north east, it is generating some pretty good swells. Matter of fact heres a live view looking down at the the Atlantic City beach and we have three to 4foot waves, good three to 4foot waves battering the beaches once again this morning and that is producing those rip currents. Matter of fact some beaches yesterday in avalon were closed because of the rip currents that were developing and some beach erosion that was taking place. The beach patrol is out there right now. They will be surveying things to see if they can open up the beach this morning. Heres the call for the beach, rip current risk once again is on the moderate side, you have to pay close attention to the life guard. Wind north at ten to 15 miles an hour. Sea of three to 5 feet. Rough surf. 86 degrees in the city. Jersey shore aroun
Or the hearing will come to order. Certainly pleased to have the Witnesses Today and members of the committee. We are going to try to minimize the time we spend talking so we can maximize questions and what we can learn from those. Certainly impossible to ignore the public outcry with things that involved passengers has recently as i believe even yesterday one of the most widelt reported incidents was in chicago with united flight 4011 and lots of lesson to be learned and im sure we will hear some of those from the airport and airline and industry and looking at what happened along with the chair and senator nelson. We sent a letter and it said the last thing a paying Airline Customer should expect is to be taken off and airline and the purpose of todays hearing is to follow up on the letters we sent some of the responses we got in finding out what we are going to do so that does not happen in f the future. This needs to occur between now and september 30 and part of the hearing is30 t