There you see heavy rain accompanied with high wind. There you see Galloway Township and atlanta county going into burlington county. Mystic island briefly heavy rain and damaging winds near about 60 miles an hour. Thats another thing we can expect for our shore points. Winds near 60 miles an hour. This is damaging wind speed. Weve already seen a 71mileanhour wind gust at philly International Airport. So thats one thing well definitely keep you on top of us as we go through the rest of the afternoon. Lets head over to first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Im adding up our peak wind gusts. 71 miles an hour at Philadelphia International airport. Lehigh peak wind gust of 55 miles an hour. 48 in northeast philadelphia at the airport there. 48 Miles Per Hour in new castle. If we show you what that looks like, if we map it out for you, all the reports of strong peak wind gusts, this is what it looks like. A lot of our counties seeing really strong wind gusts. This is turnersville with a
You are alive. Okay. Now what . Brad of the 238 aboard amtrak train 188 the 710 out of d. C. Seven are killed. 200 suffer some form of injury, several critical. Philadelphias mayor says it is amazing to him that the sevencar derailment wasnt much worse. He describes seeing mangled cars scattered off the rails people screaming a desperate search for survivors. To see it in the daytime is almost indescribable. I it is papeful. It is amazing and incredible that so many people walked away from the scene last night. Brad the train just pulled out of philadelphia 30th street station on the way to new york. The cub where it crashed as a 50 Miles Per Hour speed limit but the train was reportedly going more than 100 according to information gathered from the black box data recorder. The engineer already questioned by police. It seemed to go around the curve fast. Too fast for the car to stay on the track and it went flying. You could feel being in midair for a few seconds. Brad of course the nt
Hi, everyone. Im tamron hall. Developing news this hour. President obama bringing his call to action on gun control to chicago where hundreds of people have been killed by gun violence in the past year. The president is expected to arrive in his hometown any minute. Chicagos gun crime rate has been on the rise, 42 deaths in january, the most reported for that month in a decade. 506 People Killed last year, up from 435 people the year before. The white house says the economy will be number one on the president s agenda, but the president is also expected to push for stricter gun laws. It will be the first time hes taken up the issue during his threeday poststate of the union tour. Before leaving for chicago, the president got limb emotional at the president ial citizens medal ceremony at the white house. He handed out posthumous awards to the families of six administrators killed protecting the children of those at the sandy hook massacre. They gave all to the most innocent among us, th
Called for a ban on weapons. People are going to be able to buy all kinds of guns and use them legally for protection, for sport, for hunting. There may be a small category of weapons that can drastically increase the incidence of gun violence. Thank you so much congress janikowski for your time. In chicago, the crime rate, ive watched it tick up for years. The mayor talked about the lax gun laws. Gun trafficking is something we have not talked a lot about. What do you think the president needs to say today . Well, hes going to acknowledge the fact that in chicago there are the strongest very strong gun la laws, but people can go to city boreds other to indiana, right across the state borders and buy without a background check all the groups that they want. That is exactly why we need national regulations, why we need universal background checks. The accessibility of guns is just too much. Its interesting, i was talking with a republican conservative from louisiana yesterday and hes wa