Because just the weather alone or the starving. Reporter michael faced his emotions head on. In a moment of fight or flight, he was ready to run. He was gone. What he was doing was wrong. Reporter he left treatment with an anonymous ride he wound up on the streets and robbed of his blonings but knew he could get money and get high. Ended up going to a meeting down there and walked into the meeting. Somebody had seen him on the news. And said what are you doing here . What are you doing here . Youre supposed to be in treatment. He didnt use. His jaw dropped and at that moment, he started being flooded with emotions. Reporter Liberation Way considers it Community Intervention and proof that its a process and people care. The lady that scooped him up and as he stated his Guardian Angel made sure that he wasnt going to leave her grips until he ended up back where he is right now. Reporter the troomt center staff got him back to rehab by midnight. Success is he decided to come back. Hes tal
Lots of sunshine. And into the 60s for the suburbs. Philadelphia, up to 66 degrees along with delaware today. Ill break the forecast down to show how quickly the temperatures move up when im back in less than ten minutes. First Jessica Boyington has the first alert traffic. Yeah. Starting this morning on the schuylkill expressway. Were closed here in between the vine street expressway and south street for a construction project. Here, what youre looking at is the traffic being diverted off to the vine street expressway. This is the closure rate here. The schuylkill eastbound. Its traffic moving toward center city now. That will be there until 5 00, for another half hour or so. In philly, watching part of the shooting investigation. It happened around 1604 juniper street. For two to three blocks in either direction around the area, theyre blocked off there. Its going to be difficult there, as well. The blue route drive times okay, 14 minutes both directions from the schuylkill. Speeds i
Amongst the people that still work there, and the investigators . Well, i wouldnt say im the best person in the world. I think that there are probably a lot of good people because most of us dont take bribes, and most of us are really more interested in doing the right thing than we are in lining our pockets or having a lot of glory, but i think the way that you have to do this, of course, is to set a standard, and you need to make it very clear to all of your staff that there are no favors, that there are no gifts, that you will not tolerate anything of that sort. You got to do the kind of thing that liz holtzman did in brooklyn, which was if someone flashed a bag to get a free ride on public transit, they were fired. I mean, you got to be serious about that, but at a larger level, we have to look, also, at issues of, i would say, Institutional Corruption. There are far too many supervisors, and a lot of them were made that for reasons having nothing to do with running a good office.
Hoping the state will cash in, but not everyone agrees. And today, both sides sound off. Among other changes to pennsylvania gaming laws, house bill 271 allows up to 40,000 slotlike gaming terminals, known as vgts, in bars, bowling alleys, and truck stops. The house of representatives passed the bill 102 to 89 with support from both republicans and democrats. With me now is Pennsylvania State representative maria donatucci, and state representative mark mustio joined us from harrisburg. So, lets start out, why support this bill . Whats in it for pennsylvanians . Mark mustio several years ago on the appropriations committee, we were tasked with finding nonbroadbased tax revenue for the state. And currently in pennsylvania, there are anywhere between 25,000 and 40,000 illegal poker machines. And other states have legalized video gaming terminals in bars, taverns, restaurants, and clubs, illinois being the most recent, and theyre generating approximately 350 million a year to their genera
Night and were concerned about whats going to happen next and thats the possibility of a period of freezing rain late friday night, Early Saturday Morning well to the north and west of the metro area. Winter storm watch posted there. The metro area, we could see at times freezing rain early on saturday morning. We any it will be minimal with minimal impacts but something well keep a close eye on the entire storm watch 7 team son storm watch for you. John. John all right, doug, thanks very much. The warmest temperatures we experienced, that came before the sun even showed up this morning. So if you ventured outside, the wind was absolutely vicious when this cold weather blew in. Jeff with a look at how people are dealing with the cold. Just watching people cross that bridge today, jeff, they looked freezing. Jeff yeah. Not easy, jonathan. The windiest day weve seen in a long time and we started the story today with lets find some really windy spots. For this live broadcast lets lean int