A young boy survives a Mountain Lion attack in california. But the big to her on action news this noon is the new school year for the kids in the cashstrapped Philadelphia School district. The bells rang across the city as 135,000 students went back to school, the first day of classes comes as the district is trying to overcome a budget deficit. John rawlins joins us outside the new link high school. The new school is in an unused portion of the middle school. As the district continues to battle an 81 milliondollar deficit, still the superintendent said its important to innovate and open the new schools. School open on time for the 130 Public School kids, but future operations remain in doubt. More than 1,000 employees could face pink slips unless harrisburg approves a cigarette tax hike. Well get to a time during the year where well have to make reductions. Im concerned about that. Reporter mayor nutter at the first day of school at one of the districts New High School dubbed link for
Learn that the Fire Fighters, medics here at ladder two station and throughout the entire city will now be getting an unprecedented level of protection from any ebola virus patient that they might have to deal with, cbs3 has learned that 1600 high level protective suits are now on the way to the Fire Department along with body insulation bags which would shield any ebola patient from medics and Fire Fighters that might be called this first responders. New protection for philadelphia Fire Department first responders, has been on the way, outfit like these, about to be replaced by higher level protection. The fire commissioner confirming 1600 new jump suits have now been ordered. They include hoods, masks, and face shields. Also, body insulation bags will now be aboard all units, to isolate any ebola patient from a care giver. The the suits themselves will cover every piece of exposed skin so they will in longer be exposed skin. Reporter Fire Fighters Union President joe shuly says the t
Phone calls, from the isolation unit, and fiance and two friend have been quarantined for 51 days. Doctor had been out and about in the city all week eating at restaurants, bowling, jogging and riding on the subway, Health Officials cleared Bowling Alley to reopen but wanted to make sure it was sanitized fire. Once that is taken care of we will open the the the door to the public and hope mayor and governor come down. Reporter Police Working the scene near the apartment were caught on camera disposing of their protective gear and caution tape into a Street Corner trash can, it is not men how close they got to the doctor, or his sealed apartment. Don champion, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Lets talk some more now about that texas nurse nina pham contracted ebola while treating a sick patient. She again was discharge from the National Institutes of Health Hospital in maryland, and then spoke about her recovery. It has been very stressful and challenging for me and my family. Although i know long
Philadelphia Fire Department first responders. Outfits like these thin gowns are about to be replaced by higher level protection suits like the ones you see here. The fire commissioner confirms 1600 new jump suits have been ordered. They include hoods, masks, face shields and also body insulation bags will now be aboard all units to isolate any ebola patient from a caregiver making it safer for firefighters and medics. The suits themselves are going to cover every piece of exposed skin. The suit themselves will be more substantial and it will be thicker and better material. Reporter city officials promised last week they would upgrade the protection as the cdc changed its requirements. Governors of new jersey and new york announced plans to quarantine for 21 days any medical personnel flying into j. F. K. And newark who had direct contact with ebola infected patients in west africa. These actions that were taking jointing today i believe are necessary to protect the Public Health of th
You have good news. It will be a great weekend. Perfect to get out, make your plans, do whatever you want but you may want to take a few bricks with you because if you have papers out, or maybe just paper plate you will be finding them blowing around a little bit because we have expect windy conditions especially tomorrow. Lets take a look and see what we have at the present time. We are looking at, dark skies, but it looks nice up in reading anyway. 52 degrees your wind out of the west at 3 miles an hour. We will a relatively mild overnight time per. It is quiet on storm scan three. We are not looking at clouds and we are certainly not looking at any rain a at all. Our temperature 48 degrees at the airport in philadelphia, 48 in trenton. Fortyeight in wilmington. That 53degree temperature through Center City Philadelphia 55 in wildwood. Our temperatures this afternoon will be showing a nice little rise, by 3 00 p. M. We should be very close to that 70degree mark this afternoon. Not th