Vice President Kamala Harris has four campaign stops planned in Pennsylvania today, including one in Lehigh County. After Harris starts her day in Scranton early this afternoon, at 3:10 this afternoon, her campaign jet is expected to land at Lehigh Valley International Airport and one hour later, the vice president is scheduled to speak at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. Spectators are being told to arrive no later than 2pm for the rally. As of 10 this morning, the city has closed Tilghman Street, from Cedar Crest Boulevard to 23rd Street; 23rd Street, from Tilghman to Gordon streets; and Liberty Street, from 23rd to 26th streets. Harris will campaign tonight in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Former President Trump will be in Reading for a campaign stop later on today and then visit Pittsburgh tonight.
The Allentown School District has canceled school on Monday due to Vice President Kamala Harris' planned rally in Allentown. The district says the rally is expected to draw large crowds, heavy traffic, and potential disruptions that may impact the safety and security of students and staff. In addition, all after-school activities and athletic events in the Allentown School District are canceled for today. Also due to the Harris appearance, Catasauqua Area and Parkland schools will dismiss early today.
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Allentown on Monday afternoon and that means you should expect traffic to be affected this afternoon around the airport and in Allentown. State police say you should expect delays and intermittent road closures noon to 6 p.m. in Lehigh County, on Airport Road in Hanover Township; Route 22; Cedar Crest Boulevard; Tilghman Street in Allentown; Route 309; and Interstate 78 Westbound.
On CNN's "State of the Union", Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says tomorrow's Kamala Harris/Donald Trump race will probably go down to the wire in Pennsylvania, but he thinks Harris will earn a narrow win. Regardless of who wins, Fetterman expects we'll find out a lot sooner than four years ago. "It certainly won't be like it was in 2020. It's not going to be two, or three, or four days coming out of the city of Philadelphia," Fetterman says. While predicting a close Harris victory, Fetterman acknowledged that former President Trump is quite popular with many Pennsylvanians who feel disaffected with the Democratic Party.
While much of the attention in Pennsylvania will be on the presidential race, voters tomorrow will also select their next senator. Republican Dave McCormick is hoping to unseat Democrat Sen. Bob Casey. "This is a choice between choice and the status quo. I represent change. I'm a seventh generation Pennsylvanian, someone who went to West Point, combat tour in Iraq, someone who's a successful businessman and an outsider who says he'll term limit himself to two terms versus a career politician Bob Casey has been in elected office for 30 years," McCormick says. Casey defends his lengthy record on Capitol Hill. "I've got a very strong very of delivering for the people of our state," Casey says. He says Pennsylvania has received federal infrastrucutre money it had never before received thanks to his votes and his work.
New Jersey's voters continued to flock to the polls in record numbers on the final of early voting yesterday. State officials say more than 139,700 voters cast ballots at the state's 159 polling places on Saturday. A total of more than one-million New Jersey voters have cast ballots during the early voting period. Polls are open on Election Day tomorrow from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m.
The work continues to contain a large brush fire in Northampton County. "We have a piece of fire apparatus in front of every house that's long the affected area, below the fire line," says Lehigh Township Assistant Chief Brian Krische. He says the blaze on Blue Mountain has burned about 150 acres since it started Saturday afternoon. Crews started a controlled back burn in an attempt to keep the initial fire from spreading. Firefighters say they're making progress slowing the blaze down, but they expect it to keep burning for several more days.
The Pennsylvania Drought Task Force has placed 33 counties under a drought watch. Among them are Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, and Northampton counties. Two Pennsylvania counties, Berks and Schuylkill are now under a drought warning designation. Under a drought watch, residents and businesses are asked to voluntarily reduce water use by five to ten percent. In a drought warning, residents and businesses are encouraged to cut water use by ten to 15 percent.
Jewish leaders at the Tree of Life synagogue are getting support from the state as they rebuild the Pittsburgh worship center. State Representative Dan Frankel has announced that four-million dollars for the project is coming from the commonwealth's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. Work is already underway to construct a new building and establish a memorial dedicated to the eleven people who were killed in the anti-Semitic attack at the Squirrel Hill property in 2018. Construction could be completed in 2026.