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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Tuesday, May 1st. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning. In the news this morning, yesterday was the last day of Philadelphia's parking ticket amnesty program.

For a $50 fee

tickets issued before 2013 were being forgiven as long as tickets from 2013 through 2017 get paid.

Payments, payment plans were available for people who could not afford to pay their tickets in full.

Hundreds of people lined up at the Philadelphia Parking Authority building at Ninth and Philbert

Streets, the long line stretch for about two blocks blocks as some people waited more than five hours to have their parking tickets forgiven.

Residents were complaining that they were standing for hours without water and only one restroom that had run out of toilet paper.

Several people passed out after standing in line for so long.

Some people began arriving to line up at 4 a.m. Monday for their last chance to have the tickets before 2013 for given. Monday marked the last day that the PPA was doing this. So at about 10 o'clock, the PPA began issuing vouchers to those who remained in line. The vouchers will allow them to return to take care of their outstanding parking tickets. Only a handful of people were in line about 3 a.m. this morning with the vouchers in their hand. 3 a.m. Yeah. Vouchers were given out to those who were still waiting inside the building on Monday. The voucher, however, extends the program's deadline until the end of business on Friday, but that is only for those who have the voucher.

So no matter how much you owed in parking tickets, you would just pay $50 and that would wipe the slate clean if it was before 2013. Right, yeah. So I think it was, I think it was $50 before 2013. And then, but you're, you know, from 13 to now, you had to have the parking tickets. Right, right, right. So, I mean, it's pretty good deal, but everybody waited until the last day to go pay their parking tickets. Passing the hell out. It was just crazy. I think people probably didn't expect that they were going to wait in line that long, where there were several people probably starving and thirsty and then passing out. Well, you have a city full of people or people just sit. You know how people accrue parking tickets. Yeah. Oh, and a lot of people too, you know, especially if you live in the city, like sometimes you just kind of, you ignore them and they build up. Exactly. It's like I throw it in the glove compartment. Yeah, exactly. So if you're given an opportunity like this, but they probably shouldn't have waited until the last day. Pierre O'Barre would be the first to admit that he is totally guilty at doing that on a regular basis. I had a friend who, this wasn't in the city. It was out in Westchester, but when we were in college, she would get a parking ticket and throw it in the glove compartment and shut it and pretend like it was just a piece of paper that sat in there. And when I tell you, I was in her car one time and I opened it and they literally, like it was like a movie. They fell out all over the place. And I was like, what is this? I'll guarantee you there are many like her. Well, listen, they went. So the car was in her dad's name and they put like they what is it the boot on the car yeah yeah yeah yeah

and there was a warrant for the dad's arrest because it was in his name so they he owned a business

they went to his business and he was like what are you talking about and sure enough it traced back to her

and she'd pay all this money to get rid of those parking tickets that's why you have lines of

thousands of people yeah exactly they're not fake You do actually have to pay them. Police have revealed that the day after the shooting, a resident reported seeing a woman matching Jen Air, Gerardo's description outside of the victim's home two days before the crime. This, you know, the murder, suicide happened in Radner. Police can't say for certain had the resident come forward beforehand that they could have prevented the crime,

but they're using this as a reminder to residents that if they see something to say something,

16 hours after Meredith Chapman had been murdered in her kitchen,

Radner police received a message from a neighbor who lived near her Lowry Lane home in Rosemont.

The email said a woman matching Jen Eyre's description had been seen standing near the tipster's driveway just two days before the crime. It said that she was fixated on Chapman's home and was clutching a pair of binoculars. It's wild. Yeah, police said those binoculars were later discovered in a black SUV that Gerardo had rented to drive from her Wilmington home to Radner on the day of the murder.

According to investigators, Gerardo shot Chapman after she discovered the 33-year-old was having an affair with her husband.

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