North. We are starting off with rain for the weekend. Coming up, ill show you the timing of that and how long it will last. Back in philly today, former mob boss joey merlino returns to the city of brotherly love to make an appearance in federal court. Prosecutors say he violated his supervised probation in florida but merlinos lawyer says the feds made a mistake and his klein the has done nothing wrong. Lu ann cahn has been covering merlino for years. Shes live in center city. Lu ann, whats going on here . First you have to remember that joey merlino served 12 years in prison for racketeering and he was just about to finish three years of probation. If he crossed that finish line, he wouldnt have to check in with anyone and thats when the feds said, whoa, wait a minute. Not so fast. I missed the mummers parade. Reporter the u. S. Attorney says youre still an active member of the mob. The guys mental. Reporter hes mental . Joey merlino is now 52 years ole, tan from living the last few
Other than the tractortrailer that was responsible for this incident. It continued and there was louder bangs and booms and screeching tires. I knew exactly that there was a crash. Reporter officer robert wood was at the Dunkin Donuts during the crash and ran over to help the victims. He says some were trapped, crying out for rescue. At least one car crushed like a soda can. Ive been here 16 years and this is the worst ive ever seen being right there at the time that its happening. Now you can see traffic back open just within the last few minutes on route 222. Meanwhile, that driver facing vehicular homicide, aggravated Assault Charges as well as a long list of traffic violations. Police say he was cooperative but is now in custody to face those charges. We did place some phone calls to his Trucking Company based out of berks county. They have not returned our calls. Live in berks county, randy gyllenhall, nbc 10 news. Doug shimell is in reading where the suspect is being held. Doug,
Warm down to the south. But as we go through the night tonight, the temperature of anything is going to go up. And so the icing generally early in the evening and temperatures going up along with fog later on tonight. More on weather trouble as we head toward the weekend with the sevenday in a few minutes. See you then. In the meantime, heres a live look at interstate 380 up there in the poconos. Drivers are telling nbc 10 theyre slowing down because of slick conditions on these roads. Nbc 10s doug shimell is live in milford township, bucks county. What are the conditions like where you are right now . Its a light rain, temperature at 32 degrees according to my phone app, my ipad has it at 31 degrees. When you talk to the turnpike crews, they say they are pretty much all salt all the time. The turnpike crews were out ahead of it. A snow and sleet mix along the northeast extension that truckers hoped would not be like last weeks thanksgiving storm. That was bad. It come quick. It was re
Where any kind of Health Care Worker contracts Something Like this, you want to know how it happened, where was the flaw . Where was the opening in the protection . And when they nail that down, well all know when it was. Reporter hopefully that will happen before anybody else contracts it in the u. S. Every Health Care Worker has to be trained and ready. Do you have the equipment, the personal protection for the ems workers . Absolutely we do. All the right sizes, extra equipment, people have weve reviewed the buddy system for removing the equipment once were done with a patient. Now, im going to head inside where that Ebola Task Force is meeting. Im going to ask members what they plan to do to keep those First Responders and the public safe. Ill let you know what they have to say. Christine madella, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 medical correspondent dr. Nancy snyderman has admitted some members of her crew violated a voluntary quarantine to protect against ebola. They picked up food at a rest
We will see temperatures pushing into the mid40s by noon. Cold by 9 00 p. M. At 37 degrees. Your 7day forecast is coming up. A family flees to the roof of their house to escape an Early Morning fire in philadelphia. They tell us it was no accident that they are the victims of a fire bombing and someone may have done the same thing to their next door neighbors house just two weeks ago. Matt delucia is live in germantown where it happened on east culture street and it looks like there is new activity out there this morning. Reporter ive just learned the six people who live in the house are being helped by the red cross and this morning weve seen some recent Department Going in and out of the home trying to retrieve some belongings. But it was just about two weeks ago i was out here on the scene when the fire happened right next door and sadly the folks around here are starting to get used to it. A rude awakening around 1 00 this morning. Five adults and a four month old infant with you s