Now more than 200 communities, plastic bags are banned or shoppers are charged the fee to use them. That is our cover story tonight. Plastic bags have gone from a shopping convenience to what some say is an environmental nuisance. Over 1 trillion of these bags are used each year and 90 are thrown out after each use. Even worse, they can take up to 500 years to degrade. More than 200 cities in 20 states and the district of columbia have passed plastic bag regulations, ranging from complete bans in austin and seattle to fees. Aspen charges 20 cents. Do these regulations work . The d. C. Fee has resulted in a 50 decrease in the use and in los angeles, they went from using 2. 2 million bags a year to 125,000. But not all regulations have had the same impact. Residents used heavier grade plastic that took longer to degrade. Consumers were buying garbage bags. And they are currently on hold and awaiting a public vote in november. Will bag laws help reduce the litter out there or is it having
It it has been 88 years since a a march pres. Obama is set to end that street. 10 news political reporter, mark rivera shows you the huge impact this will have for tampa bay and the united states. Speemac you cant talk about tampa history without talking about cuba. Thats fidel castro raising money here in ybor for the cuban revolution. Since 1922, patrick mantecas family has published a newspaper in tampa. He said his pres. Obamas slated trip to cuba is huge. Speemac this is the thing going to china. This is carter camp david helping solve the problems in the middle east. This is big. Four generations the pages of documented and the cuban embargo. Pres. Obamas trip is trip is pushing the reset button on us cuba relations. Speemac this is probably five times or 10 times bigger than the popes visit. Speemac for the bay area this is going to be a boon for thousands of jobs. Speemac development for trade at port manatee, agricultural shipments and more. And even as president ial candidate
Feelslike temperature. It feels like 1 degree in allentown. Feels like 2 degrees in philadelphia. And these numbers in the past 30 minutes have really drop off pvery quickly, especially when that sunsets, these numbers will drop off even more, feeling like 8 degrees in mt. Pocono 6 degrees in millville. The winds will keep gusting. Take a look at the future feelslike temperature tonight by 11 00 p. M. Around the philadelphia area minus 6, by 1 00 a. M. Minus 9. North and west youll be feeling a lot closer closer to a minus 12 as we get into the late evening hours tonight. Coming up, glenn will show you more details on the frigid temperatures. A gas line break in Egg Harbor Township. In order to fix it they have to reroute traffic there. Nbc 10 Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg arrived within the past half hour. How long are they expecting these repairs to take . Well theres no telling right now. Thats what the fire chief told me a short time ago, jim and renee. We are at the i
Were live outside svu, Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Syma thanks very much. This attack happened in the frankford neighborhood involving a 27 yearold woman. She woke up to fine a strange man inside of her bedroom. It happen in the 1200 block of harrison street. Police say that intruder slash the womans face and hand, and then ran off, she is hospitalized tonight, and in stable condition. If you know anything about that attack, you are asked to contact the the philadelphia police. Developing right now, outrage in the city a as the School Reform Commission Cancels the philadelphia a federation of teachers contract with the the cash strapped School District. Protesters gathered on it side center city office of governor tom corbett but were told he was not inside. They blame him for failing to fund schools. They also made it clear that the src does not speak for them arguing teachers should not be made to suffer. Eyewitness News Reporter Noel Mcclaren is live at Union Headquarter
The arctic front is moving through and touching off a few snow showers and a few isolated snow squalls and there is one snow shower moving through lakewood and another one just south of lakehurst in Northern Ocean county and elsewhere we are dry. This is what to expect tonight. Gusty winds 15 to 35 Miles Per Hour. The coldest air mass of the season with sub zero dangerously cold windchills and also do remember that we had a little bit of melting today tonight there will be a refreeze and icy patches with slick spots ill talk about the cold to come and within we climb out of the deep freeze when i come inside of the warm studio for the accuweather forecast. Thank you cecily. Looking live outside with sky 6 hd overlooking the Atlantic City shore, not the ideal destination, but trenton folks had to spend the day outside for their work and i always feel so bad for them. Nora muchanic joins us with that. Reporter hi there monica talk about a challenge working outside in this stuff is absolu