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Prepope state. It is monday night and the big story on action news is pope francis and the city of philadelphia. They may never come together again, but both will have memories of september 2015. The latest from the parkway. You never think that youre standing somewhere where he was like ten feet away. Fairmount is trying to get back to normal. For at least a few days it will still be tough to navigate as the papal stage continues to come down. It is crazy, so busy. You cant even recognize anyth...

Almost creeping down to 52 on west texas. The ten year steady at 2. 18. Our road map begins with the last trading day of the year. Full day. No half day for the markets on this new years eve. Better than expected weekly jobless claims number helping futures point slightly higher this morning as investors look to end 2014 with a bang. Sony hack sent the company back to the stone age. Forced to revert back to note pads. And why ipads could make a comeback in 2015. First up, stocks are edging highe...

Darkness. Schools are letting students out early. This is a live picture of the area seen by our affiliate news helicopter. The problem was apparently caused by a major cable failure. Officials at dte edison are working on the problem and the power is slowly coming back on. Detroits mayor will give an update later this afternoon. General motors, one of the only big three auto makers located in downtown detroit says there has been no impact at the Renaissance Center headquarters. Now to Courtney ...

Repeated budget cuts have tested blms ability to keep up with industry demand for new permits and to enforce safety and environmental standards. Thats why the president s budget calls on congress to support a strong on shore inspection program, partly funded through fees. This proposal takes a page from the offshore Energy Industry where industry pays fees for permits and inspections. Which means we can keep pace with the work load, and we dont have to divert funds from other programs to support...

President obama, you may remember earlier this month declared Venezuela National security threat. Find out why, and the reasons leading up to it. Tomorrows washington journal starts at 7 00 a. M. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, the chair of the fcc, tom wheeler, anna house hearing on a house hearing. Then deputy sec...

Budget and programs, im going to walk you through the specific items i think were requested to be presented this morning and well be happy to answer any questions. As mrs. Pose said, theres an increase in the funds that were dedicating towards safe and complete streets and also towards improving our Transit System specifically in the transportation context. So as you remember, we had come to you before to talk about the budget itself and how to implement the upgrades and remove the areas where i...

Reinforced that with the public involvement and what youre seeing there is the what the current cip recommendation needs to focus on improving those corridors and were looking at increasing our bicycle parking and our goal is to have at least 500 spaces fer year and the cip is recommending doubling that to 1,000 spaces per year. On the proposed improvements, well be doing a number of improvements which include looking at ways to fix specific complex at intersections and increasing bicycle parkin...

Been focusing on those corridors and the areas that are outlined in the black, theres 50 miles that the board requested us to focus on. Weve been working to prioritize those areas. We try to make them more like the areas thats in green so theres high capacity corridors continuous. In the five year vip recommendation, and again, this is a recommendation. The initial back strategy had three scenarios, one was the business as usual scenario which was without current funding and a Strategic Fund sce...

Areas. Bicycle has gone up over the five year period given our interest of improving those areas and traffic areas are showing large increases. So this is a new slide as well. So this is slide 27. So on safe and complete streets program, if you remember is a combination of a variety of our programs which is bicycle, traffic, our school program, access ability and traffic signals. Were projecting to spend 275 million over the five years gip and 1. 9 billion on reality and transportation sub group...