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

Today is Thursday, October 6th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

A man was shot at a septa station in Center City, Philadelphia.

It happened on the platform at 15th in Market Stre Street at 3.50 a.m. Thursday. The male victim was struck in the leg, police said. Both SEPTA and Philadelphia police responded to the scene. The victim's condition has not yet been released and no arrests have been made. This latest shooting comes just as SEPTA announced a new safety plan to deal with

crime, cleanliness, and drug use in stations. SEPTA officials identified areas where customers

reported concerns about homelessness. They found stations along Market Street, especially at 13th and

15th Street stations and the Nars Town Transportation Center to be a recurring problem.

That Nauristown Transportation Center, my mom just drove by there. It was very, very early in the morning, and she said, like, she could not believe how many homeless people were there sleeping. And, you know, it's a... Northstown Transportation Center? Yes. It's the Norristown stop on the... Yeah. And it's just, but it's a hub, it's a big station.

And she, and it's always been pretty bad with, you know, homeless people, but she said you could not believe how many people were there.

There's an Instagram account that, and I forget the name of it, but that it's basically all this stuff around the city and, and those.

And it's, um, you want to look. Yeah. It's just massive scale. It's unbelievable. Yeah. There's a lot of major cities that, that have the same problem. Yeah. I was watching a real sports, uh, uh, episode over the weekend and that, you know, they go to, And I forgot what city they were in, but these people, like, living in tunnels.

Yes. sports episode over the weekend and you know they go down and i forgot what city they were in but these people like living in tunnels yes and there's lots of them my brother was just in l.A.

and he's been there before and again that's you know known to be bad but he said same thing like

it was overrun it was so bad it's sad the inquiry wrote an article earlier this year that talked about, you know, how SEPTA can't keep up with enough employees. Right. So they're locking down portions of the station. But then that allows for people to break into those sections and to live in them. Yeah. And then there's nobody to check on it until you kind of stumble into it. I did it a few weeks ago, leaving an Eagles game. I walked the wrong way to get to the trolley and stumbled into like a whole encampment right there. And you know, it's a little scary when you're by yourself and you just don't know. You don't know who you're going to encounter. Well, and you're lost because you don't know how to get out. The signs around there aren't great. But it's just... Marissa, that's you? Oh, my God. Bill, what are you doing? Just hanging with my homies,

making us too.

Well, and there was a shooting there last night.

Yeah. SEPTA says the number of homeless people using its stations and trains is rising. SEPTA's scope program is focused on providing social services to the homeless. SEPTA officials also promised to secure out-of-site sleeping locations to discourage loitering and illicit behavior.

Through the scope program, SEPTA increased the number of patrol officers.

SEPTA also points out that the use of the powerful tranquilizer known as Trank may increase the risk of people falling onto the tracks.

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