good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. wow, three days can be believed we made it from the midterms. the actions, fast is furious on the campaign trail. candidates in their highest profile surrogates out in force throughout the country. including the democrat s most potent weapon, former president barack obama spending the day campaigning for pennsylvania senate candidate, john fetterman. i think somebody mentioned earlier we are set our clocks back to probe and our. on tuesday let s make sure our country doesn t get backs set back 50 years. and let me just say, that has to be worth 15 minutes of your time. obama is going to be sharing the stage with president biden, his former vice president in a couple hours. they are both sharing the state with the man who served between them, donald trump. set to hold a rally for dr. oz. we have a flood of nbc news co-correspondents federal cross the country and keep our ground states, of course. including chomping at the bit right n
Yes. With that the Reform Commission voted to resolve much to the joy of critics that waited much to this day. Im excited to have an appointed school board. People will have a stronger voice. We have been going to meetings for years now. We are ecstatic. The mayor will be appointed to confirm nine new board members. The buck will stop with the mayor. I expect philadelphians toll hold me and future mayors accountable. It will be a tough road. We have a 7 million shortfall. We are no longer technically distressed, we need Additional Resources to deliver our kids the kind of education they deserve. Bill greene vote voted no. I favor local control. Board member her men ez abstained saying the board does not meet the definition. Its 5 billion and counting. If i was to employee the fuzziest of math, that adds up to distress. Now after 16 years, it seems the school Reform Commission is on the way to its end, mayor kenney expected to name a nominating committee. Board members will be named ear
Parents and other members of the Philadelphia School community telling the src, you are not wanted here anymore. Its thursday night and the big story on action news is the vote tonight in philadelphia that prestages the new era of Public Education in philadelphia. The src voted itself of of existence. Dann cuellar is there. What does it mean for Public Education in philadelphia . Jim, it means by a vote of 31 and one abstention, the district is no longer in financial distress, put itself on a course to end its authority, giving control of the Philadelphia Schools back to city. Yes. With that the Reform Commission voted to resolve much to the joy of critics that waited much to this day. Im excited to have an appointed school board. People will have a stronger voice. We have been going to meetings for years now. We are ecstatic. The mayor will be appointed to confirm nine new board members. The buck will stop with the mayor. I expect philadelphians toll hold me and future mayors accounta
Overnight we heard 20 people were injured. They just held a press briefing with officials from west chester borough. They didnt say whether there were any fatalities, but they will update us with that. Were down the street from Benjamin Franklin parkway Benjamin Franklin parkway on North Franklin street. This is as close as we can get. There are a number of fire vehicles and Police Vehicles responding throughout the night. Lets go to the video from the fire. You can see it was massive. Firefighters were blasting water on it from every which direction, the fire is under control. But theres a lot told right now, they will be looking for hot spots, of course the investigation is on going. They were called around 10 45 p. M. To investigate a report of smoke, but when firefighters got here they were met with heavy fire conditions, there were numerous vac weighingses an many rescues by fire and police. Crews along with the Police Department and fire depart entered the Building Made numerous
The cold front comes through, winds will be picking up, probably settle at lower temperature than it is right now, 48 degrees, throughout the afternoon, with rain on and off throughout the day. And that is the new weather pattern that we have to get used to for today, tomorrow, and even over the weekends, bob kelly, a chance of rain each day. Oh, i hope you enjoyed the lasts couple of days, it is over, 7 01, getting up, getting out. By popular row questions, another cool shot of the ben franklin bridge. From our camden side. Crystal clear, looking good, the flags getting work out here this morning, too, little winnie coming over the benny. Live look, 95 northbound at ridley pack accident off to the shoulder but maybe attracting little bit of brake tap headed on up to the airport. Had an accident on the overnight. That happened in the Lehigh Valley tunnel. Some of the metal conduit fell from the ceiling of the tunnel. And then caused multivehicle accident. So right now, all southbound l