YORK’S NEW HISTORY CENTER. THIS IS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON WGAL NEWS EIGHT AT SIX STARTS NOW. RIGHT NOW, THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD IS MEETING TO RECONVENE. CONSIDER A DECISION TO CANCEL GAY ACTOR MALIK PANCHOLI’S VISIT TO A MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR AN ANTI-BULLYING EVENT. GOOD EVENING. I’M JERE GISH AND I’M SUSAN SHAPIRO. WGAL NEWS EIGHT’S TOM LEHMAN IS OUTSIDE THAT MEETING, AND JOINS US LIVE. YES. AND, JERRY, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE AUDITORIUM INSIDE THE BUILDING BEHIND ME. THEY ARE HOPING THAT THE BOARD WILL REVISIT THE DECISION THAT IT MADE LAST WEEK TO CANCEL. MALIK PANCHOLI’S VISIT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN, AS IT WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED NEXT MONTH, BRINGING UP A LIVE LOOK FROM INSIDE THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER HERE AT CUMBERLAND VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING INSIDE OF THE BUILDING RIGHT NOW, AS THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE HOSTING THIS SPECIAL MEETING, SOME OF THEM ADDRESSING THE CROWD AT THE ONSET OF THIS SESSION, THE BOARD MEMBER WHO ACTUALLY MOTIONED FOR PANCHOLI’S VISIT TO BE CANCELED ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED TO THE CROWD THERE FOR LANGUAGE HE USED DURING THE DISCUSSION LAST WEEK, WHICH AT TIMES TOUCHED ON PANCHOLI’S SEXUAL IDENTITY. HIS LIFESTYLE, AS IT WAS MENTIONED DURING THE MEETING. NOW THIS MEETING IS HAPPENING AT A TIME WHEN A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HOPING TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THE BOARD’S DECISION AS PART OF PUBLIC COMMENT, WHICH IS ONGOING RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE HOPEFUL THAT THE BOARD WILL REVERSE A DECISION TO CANCEL PANCHOLI’S VISIT AND ALLOW HIM TO GO TO MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR THAT ANTI-BULLYING. IT DOES BRING IT DOES BRING ME A LOT OF HOPE. AND I’M HOPEFUL AGAIN THAT THEY LISTEN TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS. IT WAS VERY CLEAR HOW MANY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WANTED THIS TO BE RECONSIDERED. AND REINSTATED. AND I THINK THEY’RE DOING THE RIGHT THING BY RECONSIDERING IT. AND LETTING PEOPLE SPEAK THEIR MIND. NOW, DURING LAST WEEK’S VISIT, DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WHO SUPPORTED THE DECISION TO CANCEL PANCHOLI’S VISIT CITED HIS SELF-DESCRIBED ACTIVISM ON ISSUES LIKE DIVERSITY, THOUGH SOME BOARD MEMBERS WHO DID VOTE TO CANCEL PANCHOLI’S VISIT LAST WEEK HAVE SAID DURING TONIGHT’S MEETING THAT THEY MADE A DECISION WITHOUT BEING FULLY INFORMED. HAVING ALL OF THE INFORMATION. OTHERS, THOUGH, HAVE DEFENDED THEIR DECISION, SAYING THAT THIS IS STRICTLY ABOUT POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND NOT MR. PANCHOLI’S SEXUAL IDENTITY. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE COVERAGE OF THIS EVENT COMING UP. WE HAVE A CREW INSIDE COVERING THE EVENTS AS THEY UNFOLD TONIGHT, AND THEY’LL HAVE A LOT MORE FOR YOU COMING UP ON WGAL NEWS EIGHT AT TEN AND 11. BUT FOR NOW IN SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP, TOM LEHMAN WGAL NEWS EIGHT. SHOWERS AND SOME HEAVY RAIN MOVED THROUGH PARTS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY TODAY, AND A NEWS EIGHT VIEWER SENT THIS PHOTO OF HAIL IN MIDDLETOWN, DAUPHIN COUNTY. AND TONIGHT COULD BE ANOTHER GOOD NIGHT TO COVER UP THE PLANTS. HERE’S STORM TEAM METEOROLOGIST ETHAN HOUSTON. HOW COLD WILL IT GET? ETHAN, I EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO BE BACK DOWN INTO THE 30S OUT THERE ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. AND THE STORMS THAT WE SAW BEFORE THAT PRODUCED THE HAIL. THAT’S AN INDICATION OF HOW COLD THE AIR IS UP NEAR CLOUD LEVEL. WE MADE IT TO THE MID 60S. BUT WHEN YOU GO ABOUT 8 TO 10,000FT UP IN THE AIR, THAT TEMPERATURE QUICKLY DROPPED BELOW FREEZING. WE ARE LEVELING OFF RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE VALLEY. WE ARE SEEING SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS. WE STILL HAVE THAT STIFF BREEZE, BUT TEMPERATURES ARE ABOUT A DEGREE OR TWO JUST BELOW AVERAGE. BUT IT DOESN’T FEEL THAT WAY IN SOME LOCATIONS THANKS TO THAT STIFF BREEZE. STILL TRACKING SOME LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS IN PARTS OF THE VALLEY, MAINLY IN PERRY COUNTY AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF DAUPHIN COUNTY, INTO CUMBERLAND COUNTY. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF UNDER ONE OF THESE SHOWERS, IT’S ONLY GOING TO RAIN FOR ABOUT 5 TO 10 MINUTES, BUT SKIES WILL CLEAR AS THE WINDS DIE DOWN THROUGH THE NIGHT TONIGHT. NOTICE THOSE TEMPERATURES DOWN INTO THE MID TO UPPER 30S. THAT’S WHY IT’S AN IMPACT NIGHT BECAUSE OF THE THREAT FOR THAT FROST. BEST CHANCE FOR THE FROST WILL BE NORTH OF THE TURNPIKE. MAY HAVE TO DO A QUICK SCRAPE ON THE VEHICLES IF YOU PARK THEM OUTSIDE THROUGH THE NIGHT TONIGHT, BUT YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO COVER UP THE PLANTS OR BRING THEM INSIDE IF YOU CAN. AND IF YOU’VE ALREADY WENT AND BOUGHT THEM FOR THIS EARLY SPRING, MORE SPRING LIKE WEATHER AND EVEN SUMMER LIKE WEATHER WILL BE AROUND AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE WEEKEND. FIND OUT WHEN THAT UPDATED TEN DAY FORECAST HIGHS WILL BE UP NEAR 80 DEGREES. I’LL LET YOU KNOW IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES. THANK YOU. ETHAN, AND YOU CAN STAY UP TO DATE ON THE STORM TEAM FORECAST BY DOWNLOADING THE WGAL L APP. A MAN WHO POLICE SAY SHOT THREE PEOPLE, INCLUDING A FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD, IN HARRISBURG LAST SEPTEMBER WAS JUST ARRESTED IN PHILADELPHIA. THE U.S. MARSHALS RELEASED THIS VIDEO OF THE ARREST OF 47 YEAR-OLD SEAN JASON. HE WAS ARRESTED AT A HOTEL. THE MARSHALS SAY FOR A MONTH, THEY HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING WHETHER JASON WAS IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA AND THEN THEY LEARNED HE HAD CHECKED INTO A HOTEL. THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, JASON ANSWERED, AND HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. JASON FACES THREE COUNTS OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE IN CONNECTION TO THE SHOOTING. SEPTEMBER 9TH ON NORTH STREET. INVESTIGATORS SAY AFTER A DISPUTE WITH NEIGHBORS JASON SHOT THE THREE VICTIMS. JASON WAS ALSO CHARGED WITH ARMED ROBBERY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY YESTERDAY. YORK POLICE ARE ASKING FOR HELP AS THEY INVESTIGATE A SHOTS FIRED INCIDENT. POLICE SAY SOMEONE FIRED SHOTS LAST SATURDAY MORNING AROUND TWO ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION OR SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, YOU’RE ASKED TO CALL YORK POLICE. A STATE TROOPER WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH OVER THE WEEKEND IN ADAMS COUNTY. STATE POLICE SAY THE TROOPER WAS RESPONDING TO A CRASH JUST AFTER 130 SATURDAY AFTERNOON, USING THE EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIRENS ON THE CAR. THE TROOPER WAS GOING SOUTH ON EMMITSBURG ROAD OUTSIDE OF GETTYSBURG. WHEN POLICE SAY THE DRIVER OF A VAN PULLED OUT FROM A STOP SIGN AT MILLERSTOWN ROAD AND INTO THE TROOPERS PATH, THEY CRASHED AT THE INTERSECTION. THE TROOPER AND TWO PEOPLE IN THE VAN WERE TAKEN TO YORK HOSPITAL HOTEL IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY WAS EVACUATED FOLLOWING A FIRE THIS MORNING. IT HAPPENED AROUND 245 AT THE HAMPTON INN IN LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP, FORCING 125 GUESTS FROM THEIR ROOMS. THE LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR SAYS THE FIRE STARTED IN A ROOM ON THE THIRD FLOOR, AND THE WOMAN IN THAT ROOM WAS NOT HURT. HE SAYS THE HOTEL’S SPRINKLER SYSTEM CONTAINED THE FIRE DAMAGE TO A SINGLE ROOM. SOME NEARBY ROOMS HAD SMOKE DAMAGE. THE CAUSE IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. GUESTS WERE SET UP AT OTHER HOTELS. LANCASTER COUNTY’S ELECTION OFFICIALS SAY THE PRIMARY WENT SMOOTHLY, BUT THERE ARE STILL HUNDREDS OF VOTERS WHO DID NOT HAVE THEIR VOTE COUNTED DUE TO MISTAKES ON THEIR MAIL IN BALLOTS. NEWS EIGHT’S BARBARA BARR LIVE WITH AN UPDATE FOR US TONIGHT. BARBARA. THE CHAIR OF THE ELECTIONS BOARD HERE IN LANCASTER, JERRY, SAYS THAT 21,000 MAIL IN BALLOTS WERE RETURNED AND RECEIVED HERE. AND OF THOSE, ABOUT 300 WERE SET ASIDE DUE TO MISTAKE FROM DATES TO SIGNATURES. SO THEY WERE NOT COUNTED. THIS, DESPITE EFFORTS TO EDUCATE VOTERS ABOUT HOW TO FOLLOW THE RULES. WE HAVE ABOUT 300 BALLOTS SET ASIDE FOR VARIOUS ISSUES. NO SIGNATURE NEW SECRECY ENVELOPE DATE ISSUES. LANCASTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER AND ELECTIONS BOARD CHAIR RAY D’AGOSTINO SAYS HE HOPES EFFORTS TO EDUCATE VOTERS IN PROPERLY FILLING OUT MAIL IN BALLOTS WILL EVENTUALLY ELIMINATE ERRORS AND PAY OFF SO THAT ALL VOTES WILL BE COUNTED. WE’RE HOPING THAT PEOPLE WILL GET THE HANG OF THIS AND BE ABLE TO. YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THOSE INSTRUCTIONS AND GET GET THAT RIGHT. HE ADDRESSED GUIDANCE ISSUED IN AN EMAIL BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ON ELECTION NIGHT REGARDING IMPROPERLY DATED BALLOTS. IT SUGGESTED ELECTIONS WORKERS COULD COUNT BALLOTS WITH MISTAKES SUCH AS NOT PUTTING IN THE YEAR OR USING EUROPEAN DATING METHODS, BUT D’AGOSTINO SAYS THAT RUNS CONTRARY TO THE LAW, AND RECENT COURT DECISIONS. I COULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, AND I WILL. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. QUITE FRANKLY, BECAUSE THE DATE THAT THAT MATTERS, THE YEAR MATTERS. SO NOW THEY’RE SAYING IT DOESN’T. THAT’S JUST THAT’S UNFORTUNATE, QUITE FRANKLY. SO AS YOU CAN SEE IN HERE, QUESTIONS ABOUT DATES AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE AND GUIDANCE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE STILL PERSISTS. SO THEY’LL TRY TO IRON ALL THAT OUT BY, OF COURSE, THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, WHEN TURNOUT IS EXPECTED TO BE MUCH HIGHER. SPEAKING OF, TURNOUT HERE IN LANCASTER WAS 29% FOR THE MAY PRIMARY, AND ELECTION OFFICIALS SAY THAT’S ABOUT NORMAL FOR THIS PRIMARY. LIVE IN LANCASTER, BARBARA BARR NEWS EIGHT. REPUBLICAN HOUSE LEADER BRYAN CUTLER WON HIS PRIMARY LAST NIGHT. CUTLER, OF LANCASTER COUNTY, BEAT HIS CHALLENGER, DAVE NISSLEY, BY NEARLY 700 VOTES. WITH NO DEMOCRAT RUNNING. HE IS ALL BUT GUARANTEED REELECTION. WE SPOKE WITH CUTLER TODAY ABOUT HIS PRIORITIES. HE SAYS HE WANTS TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS ON ISSUES RANGING FROM EDUCATION TO TAX RELIEF. WE ALSO ASKED HIM ABOUT CALLS TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE. I ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE BETTER ALTERNATIVE WOULD BE TO RAISE THE POVERTY TAX EXEMPTION. THAT’S AN ISSUE WHERE WE TAX POOR PEOPLE. IT RAISES ABOUT 110 TO $150 MILLION OFF OF THE LOWEST INCOME EARNERS. IF WE WOULD INCREASE THAT LIMIT, I THINK THAT WE COULD REALLY PROVIDE REAL RELIEF TO THEM. AND WE SHOULD NOT ASK BUSINESSES JUST TO PAY MORE. WE SHOULD ASK GOVERNMENT TO TAKE LESS. CUTLER SAYS THE CURRENT EXEMPTION IS JUST UNDER 40,000 AND HAS NOT BEEN RAISED SINCE THE 1990S, AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF YESTERDAY’S PRIMARY RESULTS. AND LEARN MORE ABOUT SOME KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE VOTING AT WGAL DOT COM. UPMC IS CUTTING ABOUT 1000 JOBS, OR ABOUT 1% OF ITS WORKFORCE. A SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE LAYOFFS ARE SYSTEM WIDE, PRIMARILY AMONG NON-CLINICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF. SOME OF THE CUTS WILL BE THROUGH ATTRITION, CLOSING OPEN POSITIONS AND ELIMINATING REDUNDANCIES. IN A STATEMENT, A SPOKESPERSON SAYS THE ENTIRE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO FACE THE REALITIES OF A STILL EVOLVING POST-PANDEMIC MARKETPLACE. A PIECE OF LAND NEXT TO WELLSPAN PARK IN YORK WILL NOW BE DEVELOPED. THE YORK COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HAS AWARDED THE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS FOR THE LAND TO THE OPERATORS OF THE YORK REVOLUTION AND ROYAL SQUARE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION. THEY WILL DEVELOP BALL PARK COMMONS, A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING THAT WILL INCLUDE HOSPITALITY AND OFFICE SPACE. THE TEAM IS TARGETING 2025 TO START CONSTRUCTION ON A BIG JOB TODAY FOR MOVERS IN YORK. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HISTORIC ITEMS WERE ON THE MOVE. WGAL NEWS EIGHT’S ED WEINSTOCK JACQUES IS LIVE TONIGHT WITH MORE ON THIS MONUMENTAL MOVE. MONUMENTAL MOVE. HI, SUSAN. WELL, THIS IS WHERE THE ARTIFACTS ARE HEADED. YORK COUNTY’S NEW HISTORY CENTER THIS WEEK. IT IS FILLING UP WITH ARTIFACTS AS THE HISTORY CENTER MOVES TOWARDS ITS OFFICIAL OPENING. WE’RE MOVING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS AND A LOT OF THEM ARE VERY, VERY FRAGILE. IT IS A MOVE THAT REQUIRED MONTHS OF PLANNING. NOW IT’S UNDERWAY THIS WEEK AS HISTORIC ARTIFACTS ARE BEING MOVED ABOUT FOUR BLOCKS TO YORK COUNTY’S NEW HISTORY CENTER ON PERSHING AVENUE. EACH ITEM HAS TO BE HANDLED CAREFULLY. BOOKS AND BINDERS AND LEDGERS FROM BANKS THAT HAVE LONG SINCE FOLDED AWAY. THE NEW HISTORY CENTER IS CLOSE TO OPENING LATER THIS SUMMER. IT WILL BE A STATE OF THE ART CLIMATE CONTROL FACILITY, WITH MORE ROOM TO DISPLAY YORK COUNTY’S HISTORY FROM THE LAST 300 YEARS. WE’LL HAVE PHOTOS THAT WILL HAVE NOT BEEN ON DISPLAY BECAUSE WE HAVEN’T HAD THE CAPACITY TO DO IT. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS PEOPLE WILL SEE IS A HISTORY MAKERS TOWER. IT HAS PHOTOS OF THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS THAT MADE YORK WHAT IT IS TODAY. THIS BUILDING WILL GIVE YOU THE WHOLE STORY OF YORK COUNTY’S HISTORY. WELL, HERE’S THE DATE TO MARK ON YOUR CALENDAR. THE HISTORY CENTER, SET TO OPEN IN EARLY AUGUST IN YORK COUNTY, ED WEINSTOCK WGAL NEWS EIGHT. ED, THANK YOU. COMING UP NEXT, A CREDIT ON THE SUPPLY CHARGE FOR YOUR ELECTRIC BILL. THE CALL A NEWS EIGHT VIEWER RECEIVED THAT HAD THEM WONDERING WHAT’S GOING ON. I’M CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROACH. I’VE GOT THE ANSWER COMING UP. WEATHER WILL BE DRY FOR THE YORK REVOLUTION HOME OPENER. JUST DEFINITELY WANT TO WEAR A SWEATSHIRT OUT THERE AS TEMPERATURES DROP FROM THE LOWER 60S FOR PREGAME DOWN INTO THE MID 50S, BUT SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE GAME THIS LATE MARCH. CHILL WILL BE WITH US FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, AND THEN IT’S GOING TO START FEELING MORE LIKE SUMMER ACROSS THE VALLEY. AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND, WE’LL HAVE THE FULL DETAI