Learn and rehearse Classical Music. This is all thanks to project step which stands for string training and education program. The rigorous yearround classical string Training Program for minority youth invites them into the world of Classical Music from which they have traditionally been excluded. Now, to offer some more insight into this very unique program which is even reaching the white house, we have invited gabriella sanna, the project step executive director and also with lauryn phinney, a 17yearold violinist who has attended and excelled within the program. Welcome to urban update. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for inviting us. Reporter gabriella, let me start with you. Take me through the program. And tell us our viewers what it is all about. Project step was prompted by the realization that certain racial minorities are largely underrepresented in this imbalance by providing indepth rigors of stringtraining to children of color and latino. And the program started with a
Theyll be meeting at 9 30 this morning to discuss this. Were talking trains, buses and trolleys. Thats where the sense of urgency comes from. They met late last night. Were getting closer to the midnight deadline. Some of the big hangups, the union wants to increase pension for employees, keeping health care afford an and make schedule for septa employees more consistent. We spoke to a cab driver who was around for the last septa strike back in 2009. He said if both sides dont reach a deal it will be the passengers left waiting. Nobody, no cab was down here because they couldnt get here even. And also they couldnt people were standing in the line,c 10 150 waiting for a cab but there were no cabs. We know that schools and employers are planning to offer extended Shuttle Services in case of a strike for students as well as staff. We know that uber and lyft are considering whether or not theyll be able to Discount Services near septa stations for other riders. Commuters are hoping it doe
What is to come. Today, saturday, november 26th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im Sheinelle Jones alongside dylan dreyer and we have Hallie Jackson here with us. Happy to have you here on this side. Nice to take sitting with you after stuffing myself for two days. And we start with a busy news day. Lets get to it. The top story is breaking news overnight. Cubas long time former leader fidel castro has died at the age of 90. Castro in power for nearly 50 years was in Failing Health in years. His brother, raul castro announced his death. Life. Reporter to his followers, he was commander or fidel. To enemies, a dictator. One of the worlds last communists. The illegitimate son of a land owner. He graduated with a law degree and doctorate. Tried running for the assembly until power seized. In 1953, castro led a coup. Castro ended up in jail for two years after it failed. In mexico, c
Spots, if you are headed out early this morning, especially from the city on south, and eastward, i think we get a break later this morning, but into the afternoon, once we get the daytime heating we start to fire up more showers and storms, in the city right now, we have low clouds, little fog, reducing visibility, little bit. Authorities see the tops of some of the sigh scrapers, current temperature 75 degrees, light breeze out of the southeast at 6 miles per hour, really pumping in the humidity, and you can see, pockets of heavy rain, north side of the city up into bucks county, then you head into south jersey, salem county, moving into northern Cumberland County batch of heavy rain moving off to the north and northeast, again, get stuck in one of the showers, brief heavy downpours, ponding on the road, very low visibility, but they move out pretty quickly, and then to the afternoon, casino of same deal. Mid 70s over most locations, all reporting stations up from the Lehigh Valley d
Again hit and miss stuff. So just keep your eyes to the sky. It will warm up pretty rapidly today. 77 degrees currently, calm winds, does feel like 78. So humidity running high. Current showers right now, twohour loop. Starting to diminish. The exception is central ocean county south of toms river, still dealing with slow moving shower, very heavy rainfall over 3 inches of rain, from that little system right there, but showers beginning to move out of bucks county, and south jersey looking whole lot better, too, over the past hour, flashflood warning stays in effect because of the heavy rain over central ocean county, that continues to about 11 00 this morning, still some flood advisories in effect for bucks county, part of northeast philadelphia, extending into northern Burlington County into trenton, from earlier showers. So there could be little bit of urban flooding going on being some of the smaller streams or creeks on the rights. Mid and upper 70s for the air temperatures, dew p