Good morning. The birds will return to the practice field in about 90 minutes from now, but before that head coach doug peeredson spoke to reports. He said the team will prepare like they have a game this weekend. Obviously were on a much bigger stage now playing for the super bowl. But the journeys the same, the rides the same, its just pederson also said next week wont be a vacation for the players. Hell keep the intensity going. And Philadelphia City council is giving the team its official congratulations. Randy gyllenhaal is live for us in city hall. Randy, what do you have . Reporter a packed political agenda here for the first meeting of the year. Theyll do resolutions trying to bring amazon to philadelphia, also one about the new philly school board. But first things first, nothing more important than the birds. The city council will officially honor the Philadelphia Eagles for their Upcoming Trip to the super bowl. Lets take a live look right now inside the city hall chambers w
Officers apprehended him, he is also in the hospital. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live outside of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where officer hartnett is being treated. Katie, how is he doing . Vai, i spoke to his dad not long ago and he said hes out of surgery, hes in good spirits. As you said, the injured officer was brought here to penn Presbyterian Hospital. Since then hes undergone hour hours of surgery. Hes spoken to detectives in his hospital room about being ambushed and shot while sitting in his patrol car. One of the first People Philadelphia Police officer Jesse Hartnett saw when he woke up from surgery his dad. I love him. Im very proud of him. Hes an excellent person. Reporter Robert Hartnett gets choked up thinking about the close call his son had while patrolling streets of West Philadelphia thursday night. 33yearold officer hartnett was stopped at an intersection when police say a gunman walked up to his patrol car shooting rapid fire at him. Heres the radio call. Shots f
Rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate area tonight. Lets begin with double scan radar and cecily tynan at the action news
Way it looked in manayunk tonight, lightening, thunder, and absolutely torrential rain. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is what happens when heat and humidity reach the breaking point. And most of you saw it and heard it tonight. This is a time lapse from sky six in center city philadelphia. It went from utterly stormy to utterly spectacular. The rain made driving a tad dicey on route 202 in chesterbrook tonight, and flash floods made driving down right difficult, in reading. Tonights storms knocked out power to thousands across the area, more than 5700 peco customers are still in the dark, mostly in philadelphia a. While Atlantic City electric is dealing with over 11,000 outages. Del marva has more than 3,000 outages, and new castle county. Pse and g says power is out for more than 28,000 customers, across the the entire state of new jersey. Meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph have been following the storm as it ran rampant through the tristate a
A gas station clerk stops an amber alert, hour a womans instincts saves a baby girl. But the big story on action news is the chance of more downpours as we head into a long Holiday Weekend. Right now a Flash Flood Watch is in affect for much of area. As we look live here at the scene from cape may from sky 6 hd, today accuweather is tracking more heavy rain heading our way in the aftermath of strong storms last night. And we are keeping an eye on hurricane arthur this noon, this is the picture from the International Space station as it churns off the coast of north carolina. There is a mandatory Evacuation Order for people in the outer banks. And people are told to leave to avoid getting stuck on the islands. While not making a direct hit on the jersey shore, it could bring dangerous rip currents to the atlantic. Lets go to david murphy for more. Lets start with radar, stormtracker 6 live double scan we are seeing development of new cells be probably some thunderstorms starting to pop