Place to sleep for the night. The no one there was hurt. Crews are investigating the cause of that fire. Pennsylvania lawmakers will vote on a School Funding plan. It would do away with School Property taxes and mean attack increase in other areas. Walk us through this, katy. Tracy, here it is. More than 100 pages of a new tax plan that would eliminate School Property taxes in pennsylvania. The bills author is david argle. A republican from schuylkill county. He represents parts of berks county. It calls for no more School Property taxes for millions of households and businesses beginning next july. To offsthet our goal raises the Interest Rate by 1. 5 and increases state sales tax on many items. Sales tax would be applied to Services Currently exspemt like tv service. Even work performed by lawyers and financial institutions. Also in this plan renters would pay higher taxes too. Its important to know when a similar bill was voted 0 it did fail. A man will find out how long he is going
Gloves, the wind is blowing and the temperatures are cold. Look at the breeze at 8 miles an hour in philadelphia. A bit stronger in delaware, wilmington and dover. The temperatures, 20s in the pocono mountains, below freezing in allentown. Middle 30s for interior new jersey and 35 degrees northeast philadelphia airports. So a cold start this morning, we have clear skies, the temperatures are fill falling and the wind will keep blowing. 38 at 9 00 and a chilly 42 degrees at noon time today. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. An accident scene on 95, this is between cottman and bridge, only one lane getting by. You can see that here on the righthand side. So, we do have Police Activity on the scene, a few vehicles involved and the left and center lanes closed right now on 95. So something to watch for. On the southbound side where we typically see more traffic for the morning hours. Mass t
More in ten. Fire crews in manayunk tell us that Carbon Monoxide detectors saved lives this morning. This video from baker street. Officials tell us a malfunctioning heater caused poisonous gas to spread through this home. The alarms went off. Everyone made it out a. Good reminder to check your co detector. Take a look at this. Two north philadelphia homes scorched from a fire last night. Ten people had to find another place to sleep. The fire started just before 6 30. No one was hurt. Crews are still investigating the cause of that fire. And there is a fight in harrisburg today that would change the way schools in pennsylvania are funded. It would in essence mean the end of School Property tax as we know it. Katy zachry is live in our Digital Operations Center to explain. There is a catch. There is a catch. The state senate is voting on this bill today, if passed it would mean virtually no more School Property taxes for us. That is getting a lot of peoples attention. The bills author
Reporter maybe not later in the week at least once we get past the mornings. The afternoons will feel better. Were in the afternoon today, im dplald ive got im glad we i have the heavier winter coat on and gloves. This was the cloud cover that was generated with lakeeffect snow off the great lakes to the north. They are probably seeing slightly snow shower activity in scranton. I dont know if that will make it to allentown. A little bit of that mixed cloud covered and in our sky 6 shot youre seeing that across the region. Boy, did it start out chilly this morning, 29 in allentown. 27 in reading. Philadelphia, 34. Of course with the winds blowing in the teens we had windchills this morning at dawn in the 20s in most spots. Where are we now . We bounced back to 41 in philadelphia. Similar to the number in new york city and down to the pike in washington. According to the north and west, of course we have that snow shower here and there up by buffalo and binghamton, new york. The big stor
Killing a girl trying to board her school bus last year. The judge ordered Michael Shelly to spend 23 1 2 and 24 months in jail being convicted in the death of the High School Student. He hit the High School Student with his bronco when she tried to catch the school bus which had stoplights out and lights flashing at the time. Annie mccormick was in court for the sentencing shell have more details coming up in a live report at 12 30. Police have Just Announced dui charges against a woman who drove the wrong way on a major highway. It happened on 295 exit 20. The headon collision that resulted shut down that stretch of roadway for hours. Katherine scott is live near the scene with the very latest. Katherine. Reporter sarah, thats right we now know the wrongway driver was charged with driving while intoxicated and other related offenses. The other driver escaped with just an injury to his hand. When Police Arrived on the scene, they found the driver walking around, the other driver was t