Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20161101 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A November 1, 2016

The suburbs which are covered under another contract and we will get into that in just a second but we are taking you questions. Alex you had one on twit fur you purchased a transpass for the buses, can that be used for the Regional Rails. Survey says, yes, at all train stations in the city you can use that bus pass except for the forest hill and somerton station. Now as far as a refund, credit we are going to get into all that after the strike is over. Lets bring in from septa headquarters Heather Redfern on the phone with us. Good morning. Good morning. Lets get to it. What is not running today this morning with the strike. Anything in the city of philadelphia is not running, so all of our buses, market frankford line, broad street line and trolleys, ten, 11, 13, 15, 34, and 36. Mike brought up an interesting question. What is with the number 90 high low number here. That is for our suburban bus routes. Anything from 90 up, those are suburban, those are running but they will drop you, drop passengers off before they get to the city. Where those, for those buses affected, the new drop off, the drop off point are listed on our web site. Suburban bus routes are 90 or above. They are running but they will in the cross the city line and bring you in the city. Yes. Okay, cool. Now back to the maps here for a second here, tell me what is running this morning. Cct is running. So if anybody had an appointment on regular cct service just to get that out there you will get picked up. Lucy in the University City is running for anybody going out that way. The the suburban bus routes norristown high speed line and 101, 102 trolleys, big thing, around the city is Regional Rail and that is operating this morning. We have talk about refund, credits, what have you, we will address that all after this is all said and done is that correct. Correct. What is word down there from behind the doors at septa headquarters, what dawn tell us. Negotiations stopped last night and i dont have any other further information at this point. There is nobody behind the talk talking, in talks at the moment right now there were no talks overnight. I dont know if they have resumed yet. Heather redfern we will check back throughout the morning. We can come back again. Parking options a flat rate have of ten dollars for ten hours at select ppa garages. We have put the list up on facebook, twitter, instagram, whole 9yard. Also go to fox 29. Com for those parking garages and they will fill up fast. We are seeing delays on i95 from the northeast in the city steady crawl from the schuylkill in. Ninetyfive from the airport this center city, accident east on 422 right here near oaks interchange and we are line up here on the vine street expressway. Certainly seeing that heavier presence on the roads, and lets go downtown to septa headquarters where steve is out front all morning long, steve, over to you. Reporter lets go tour last question. This shows they are not agreeing on anything. The you know why . Willie brown says they were going to keep negotiating last night, reporters asking that specifically because you they said if you are willing to keep negotiating and after midnight why arent your drivers. He said we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. Again septa says they are not negotiating at last talk with reporters. They are only ones that talked to us after midnight time. Were negotiating. So they cannot even agree on that. How long do these strikes last . Well, willie brown says no idea but you we can tell you from screens since this show started in 96, we had our first septa strike in 98 with good day philadelphia. That lasted 40 days. Sound like a movie title. Two most recent ones, 05, 09, six and seven days. You can gauge what to expect maybe from that. No end in sight. The first day is worst day. Heres willie brown just past midnight, updating us. We have agreed upon minor things. We have been working on this for two years. We have conceded. We have been working on this for two years. Thing that gets me most when you consider pensions when you asked about pensions. We are not being greedy. I think septa slapped the riding public in the face and taxpayers in the face when they told you they would do pension reform. What they did was line their pockets. We found money said here is money. How do you do pension reform but yet, you give yourself 500 a month up to a you this dollars a month increase. That is thiefry. I think it is crazy, and i think it is nuts because people, we all use the septa system. 800 i believe, i seen on the news earlier almost a Million People air expected in it. I really think they need to come back on and resume services because this is crazy. I dont understand why they always need to go on strike because this effect as lot of people that need to travel to work, doctor offices, and they need to go to schools, et cetera. I work every day. I work two jobs. I dont know how to get to work tomorrow. It effects everybody out paying bills. Reporter a woman i spoke to said this is ten, that is right, ten strikes just since 1975, for septa. Seventyfive, for people my age, it doesnt sound like that was too long ago. We have pickets, bond fires here at mid veil and wissohickon avenue and bond fires and work picket out where karen hepp is. Great that you are on the story because you are an expert on something and that is the shoe change that women do, running shoes, to work, the heels at work and then maybe ensue serio going to a third slippers behind the desk. But you might want to give advice on female shoe fashion during a septa strike because fashion goes out window it is all about comfort, karen. People will be walking. You are right. Even men will be doing it a lot of people will be biking as well. Bicycle coalition has been putting out information, suggesting that people do it and there will be 20 or 30,000 people if they live close enough that is a great option to get in and avoid traffic because we will have grid lock. They have nice bike lanes. Thinks eat thorpe us bus depot right here jammed packed full of buses not moving anywhere. Over here interesting to go see this is where the trolley lines will go right in. This is where trolley cars are park over here and then, of course, we have a dozen people on strike. Steve talk about the issue. Pension reform. Septa is saying we are offering raises and more job security, but this can be a a real bear because they are trying to get kids into school, to go to publish schools, it is all safe for archdiocese schools are off but rest of the Public Schools, they have to if the those kids in. It is hard on parents and hard for people to get in. So the workers are saying, look, we know this can basically paralyze the city. If you are a working kind of person and i talked to a trolley operator. He have is a gary mason. He is in a cast. He said bear with us. These are important issues for all of us. Heres what he had to say. Well, for one thing, they should understand especially if they work every day, and we have rules and guidelines that we have to go by,. We have to stand and unite for what we believe in and what we need to stand for. That is what we have to do. That is what they are doing. They are picketing. They are sitting around there with the the big fire there. The whole city now has to figure out how to come to grips and deal with this. Like mayor kenney said we are all in this together. Lets car pool, flex time and still operate our city even though our Mass Transit System is shut down. Mike and alex, back inside to you. All right, karen, word of the day is, ugh. A lot of people are so frustrating. We are getting lots of tweets. One guy said he is personal uber driver today because he is trying to car pool everybody around. His family and friend. Yes. Let us know how you get to school or work today. Hit us up on twitter. We are going to get back out to this, because here we go again, bill cosby back in the courtroom. This is another key hearing in the this Sexual Assault case. His defense team argues that bill cosby, hoist now 79 years old, is now blind and therefore unfit to stand trial. Umhmm. Lauren is on the case in Montgomery County, lauren. Reporter you are right, his lawyer says he wont even be able to identify the accusers if they are asked to come here to the hearing that is scheduled for today and could last through tomorrow. Lots of lawyers on both side, it will be here. But this is latest attempt to clearing his name. Judge oneill will hear a few specific arguments in the case, first whether a deposition by cosby admit to go using drugs to give women for sex can be used at his trial. Another key issue is whether prosecutors can bring up cosbys prior bad acts against a dozen other women. The cosby, who is expected to go to trial, in june 2017 is facing three sex Assault Charges facing a even counter with Temple University employee Andrea Constand. She said cosby drugged, assaulted her inside his Montgomery County home. Her story sound similar to that of nearly five toss even other women who have come forward, since then, saying cosby did the same thing to them. Prosecution will argue in favor of the allowing the testify there these women saying cosby has a pattern to do with this. Lots of legal experts say the case will not get thrown out but we will learn today or tomorrow what evidence will be allowed in this case, when it is tried, next summer, mike and alex. All right. We will be there, the minute you see bill cosby. 7 11. One week to go, week from the election day Donald Trumps retargeting states where Hillary Clinton had a edge, a couple weeks ago including the state of of pennsylvania. We combo from plea to light blue over the last 24 hours . He will be in valley forge this morning for a rally at double tree hotel, by hilton. In king of prussia. That event begins at 11 00 this morning. Surprises just keep coming is there a talk of the constitutional crisis and discovery of new Hillary Clinton insider emails has put president obama in a tough spot. Yeah, doug luzader report on all this in about two and a half minutes, go. Reporter it is like good morning, look at president s Aggressive Campaign schedule in the days ahead. That tells you what states are really, really going to matter, as we get closer to election day here. Meantime he is trying to strike a balancing act. He wants to support Hillary Clinton to be his successor but doesnt want to under mind this renewed investigation, fbi investigation in, to clintons email arrangement. Light moments on Hillary Clintons Campaign Plane last night as they celebrate halloween but there is a scary day ahead for clinton and donald trump. For trump still uphill battle involving three states. He need florida, ohio, North Carolina to come his way. That puts him in the game. The losing think of those three and it is long road. Reporter take a look at president owe bams Campaign Schedule this week, florida, ohio and North Carolina hoping to block trump. There is no case here. Reporter dont second much to join democratic pile on of fbi director james comey who said fbi uncovered a new trove of clinton insider emails. The president believe trek or comey is a man of integrity, man of principal and he is a man of good character. Reporter trump argues clinton if she wins could be prosecuted over her classified emails. Her election would meyer our government and our country in a constitutional crisis that we cannot afford. Reporter truth about the only legal option republicans would have at that point would be impeachment. Democrats, meanwhile, say fbi is investigating the Trump Campaign Paul Manafort ties to russia and director comey has a double standard. Surrounding Democratic Party chair donna brazil, more evidence that while serving as cnn contributor, during the primary she actually fed debate questions to the Clinton Campaign to help edge out rival bernie sanders. Cnn has now cut ties with her. Both candidates are really moving in this final week with little added confidence. Trump Campaign Thinking a state like pennsylvania, for instance hey be warming to trump. We will see. The Clinton Campaign very confident and optimistic in the final days. New york post report ago this they have even book a fire works show a celebration tire works show for new york city, on election night. Some might say dont get ahead of yourself but you have to plan. Either way both candidates have ties to new york. Well, true, i dent think she should be buying fire work yet. Bobbies the star of the show today. Giving us details on the septa strike. Wish i could get a bus and take everybody to work. Regional rails now, operating with across the board 30 minute delays and already overcrowding. If you remember back from the 09 strike the concern was folks standing up to the edge of the platform as these lath forms started to get real crowded. If you you try to uber or lyft systems as an option today, go to their twitter pages. We have put links on our page, dont Pay Attention to a lot of the false savings coupons that are out there go to the official pages for uber and lyft and follow the coupon code. They all have coupon codes. Lyft is 50 bucks off your first ten rides which equals five dollars a ride over the course of the next week or so. What is not running today, none of the city bus, trolley services. There is no market frankford line, in broad street subway. We have 30 minute delays. Mike and write talking a few moment ago Regional Rails will get you through suburbs through 30th street station. The airport Regional Rail line is running. So heres an option take airport line, take it to the airport, grab a snack, catch a cab brings you back into center city. We have to think outside becomes here as this is all taking place, you know, first tim this morning. Suburban buses and trolley routes, they are operating because they are on a separate contract, outside of the city. So the paratransit, systems they are running, and the lucy loop is running as well. But expect delays because of all of those systems that are running those buses and trolleys in the suburbs are going to be stuck in the same traffic jams as everybody else. Sueby back over to you. Of all of the problems you just described one thing that will not give you a problem this morning is the weather, everything is tranquil, calm, and we hardly have a cloud in the sky. That is why it got so chilly overnight. As we look ahead in our fox future cast we will see lots of sunshine today, lots tomorrow, a few clouds here and there but it is thursday, that is the day you have to plan on afternoon rain. That is how computer models are giving it right now. Maybe after three or 4 00 in the the afternoon and maybe some thunderstorm and with a cold front coming through things will get chillier after thursday. Right now it is chilly below freezing and in the 20s in mount pocono. Below freezing in allentown, pottstown, 42 in the city. Thirtyeight in wildwood. Wind are not as high as yesterday. 52 degrees today, just ideal. Seventythree tomorrow and 77 on thursday before that rain comes in. Then were child gannon friday with the temperature in the 50s, saturday, it will be a high of 61. Remember, saturday night into sunday, that we change the time, we will fall back, we will get an extra hour of sleep but remember, mike and alex, by sunday it will get dark really early. Really early. 7 17. Well, let me hold up the metro here. Pretty good head line here. Hey, hey doug, coach doug, we have a few questions, yeah, we have a few questions for you. Accusations. Yes, Doug Pederson answering tough questions about his play call there sunday night especially one late in the game. In the Fourth Quarter eagles were in a position to kick a field goal and take a two possession lead. He calls a screen that gets blown up and takes them out of field goal range. So paul always has his score card, his grade car every Tuesday Morning after the press conference and i dont see any as on that report card and he asked questions five reasons eagles lose to the cowboys. And they are. Ready, okay. The fumble. See dak run. The pass defense. The curious call, wonder which one that was. And the fake punt. So lets go back to the curious call, question and reasons number four. Why . Turf coach this play better. We make that play we are inside the 20yard line. When you look at it on film we are inside 20 with the first and ten or if anything it works. It is a fourth down and youre kicking the field goal from close inner then what happened. But if you really trust your defense you could kick the field goal and if you dont make it, keep them from scoring there mid field. Kick a even longer one by a yard at the end of the first half. That is what being a coach is all about, pressure. Big story, that they didnt include there was dropped passes. Maybe we need a new wide receiver. People have been saying that. Could that wide receiver be with the 49ers now. Torey smith, bless you alex, go for it. The nfl trade deadline is this afternoon, man at 4 00 oclock and there are rumors we may get this guy, torey smith of the 49ers. As he showed right there in that clip he can catch a wide open pass. So we will keep an eye on it. Check out fox 29. Com throughout the afternoon because 4 00 oclock again is the deadline. And howie roseman, 3 30, 3 58, 59. Yeah, latest trade. Remember, torey married a Plymouth White Marsh High School graduate. Her name was sheneille. That was a while back. The shes not in high school month. But they are still together and maybe she wants to come home and be next to her family. Coming back to thanksgiving. That is true. Were playing on new years day good that is right. 1 gallon 2 gallons. 3 gallons. And up, and up, and up. It goes into effect, it is in effect right now, 23 cents per gallon ext

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