Good night im walter perez. A community in philadelphia hit the by a vandal but real scare on an overseas flight bound from new jersey a sick man is escorted off the plane after fears he could have ebola. But the big story on action news is confirmation that a little boy from Hamilton Township has died of event owe virus 68. First known fatality linked to that illness and another little boy from the same school is sick and Health Officials are taking quick action. Action News Reporter andie mccormack has the store friday Mercer County. I received a call from the state and cdc last evening, and that is when we referred it on to the medical examiner and she made confirmation this morning. Reporter four yearold eli waller could be first case where enterovirus d68 is the actual cause of the death. Saturday the Mercer County medical examiner announced elis succumbed to the virus last thursday. This friday, the the enters for Disease Control confirmed the samples were in fact, d68. It is a r
The winds are pretty brisk and they will dry off some of the roads however standing water could be problems, this is what to expect overnight, any snow showers tapering off to flurries and temperatures dropping down to below freezing and we have problems with black ice and that will be a problem especially with the bridges and overpasses, be careful around that, and ill talk about the return of sunshine and gradually warming temperatures coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Check back in later cecily thank you. Now lets switch to ardmore, Annie Mccormick is out talking to people today. Keeping up with the annie theme, when i think of a day that is gray and lonely, and right now there is no precipitation, you still have the winds and its making it cold out here. Its kind of crumb and nasty. This week noreaster continues to linger, Holiday Shoppers enjoyed a break by Late Afternoon but earlier in the Day Center City residents ventured out and commuters dodged the wet flurries that
The predawn hours, and all the snow is gone now, that the temperatures have gone up. Take a look at stormtracker 6 live double scan, we still have snow showers around the region, having little impact particularly in the areas where they are highlighted in darker shades of gray, the brighter band in wilmington and south jersey and most cases you find wet roads for the afternoon hours, and anything that doesnt have a chance to thaw out could refreeze. Lets take a look at the wide view, lots of clouds around and more snow showers in senlt central and western pennsylvania, in terms of snowfall, some of this has melted. In malvern we managed 1. 5 inches and lehigh counties representatively a half inch, one inch in horsham and Atlantic City some snow made it to the show, not much. 3 inches along the coast. Temperatures up and down the mid Atlantic Region are above freezing, you have to go up to binghamton to see the numbers in the 20s and a decent wind is blowing and that make its not feel l
Line as we head into the remainder of your evening a few leftover flurries watching those temperature below freezing. So that means on the roads especially those bridges and overpasses you have to be careful for some slick spots. Coming up well talk about the weekend weather, what to expect at the linc on sunday as well as when to expect, yes, temperatures in the low 50s. Iain and lucy. Scott, thank you. You can keep track of the weather on our website just head to myfoxphilly. Com, click the weather tab at the top of the home page for the latest Weather Information and live radar images. To a developing story now out of the Oxford Circle section of philadelphia. Police have just released video of an Armed Robbery where gunmen stole thousands of dollars from two men and thats not all. Robbers also stole one of the mens passports right before his flight overseas for his mothers funeral. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live outside northeast detectives and, dave, police have got to want the
Old he died before emergency crews could get him to the hospital. He died right here at the scene. Now the Plumstead Police chief responding, he says officers are in the relevant i stage of the investigation to try to figure out exactly what happened here as we stand here there is no crosswalk that we see the pedestrian may have been using. There is a very busy road not too many people cross, because of the heavy traffic on the road. You see the early part of the investigation. We dont know what levels of fault there was from either party right now. We wont know until further on in the investigation. Back out here live again the 59 yearold victim tied at the scene. Police are in the process of notifying his family. We have heard this so much, in the last week but, with the weather warmer and message from Law Enforcement the is that if you are a driver be on the look out for pedestrians and if you are a pedestrian strand as many people are with this weather they are out and about be car