Who lost both legs to diabetes. Homeless for years he now has roof over his head but not much else. Im still panhandling but thats only to supplement my income and its hard its practically always near the end of the month. Reporter right. When his ssi check comes. Walk further youll meet peter welch whose homeless and makes no excuses. Failures in my life have come because of decisions and things ive said and cup and i see that happening in this country far too often. Reporter homelessness is up in the city this year. Panhandling is well according to Homeless Services director liz hirsh puts it down to one key element. Take wild guess. This is the opioid epidemic. Some of the folks youre seeing may not be homeless. They may be panhandling out here for money, but, um, yeah, its a big hairy problem. Reporter thats the up tick hyped you and liz another that the demographics prove it more young people for instance. Now, if you meet valerie who is homeless and has a history of opioid abuse
It was a gorgeous day yesterday. Lots of sunshine and another nice spring day, 51 degrees. Right now clear in philadelphia. The suburbs running cooler in the 40s now, 43 degrees new jersey, interior new jersey has dropped down to 40 degrees and 42 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. Cool start. Well see enough sunshine these temperatures will be warming into the low 70s this afternoon. Right now, society icill is 53 degrees, 43 degrees in chestnut hill. When im back in ten minutes, well go through futurecast hour by hour to show you what is on tap for today. Traffic wise, lets find out. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Jessie . Were starting off on the vine street expressway right now around 24th street. We are open in both directions so you dont have to worry about the ongoing construction that might set you back. A lot of times we have it closed between broad street and the schuylkill expressway until about 5 00 in the morning. Right over here, no problems around 24th street
Right now police are on the scene and theyre looking for the man who escaped from prison in south jersey. Theyre focusing on a service area along the garden state parkway. Lets show you where that is. The forked River Service area in lacey township, nbc 10s matt delucia is live there. Police say theyll decide sometime in the next couple of hours whether or not nearby schools will be open today. Tell us what you know about that. Reporter well, tracy, at this point, were still waiting for daylight as far as whether there will be anything more in the way of a plan for the search. We have seen state Police Vehicles throughout this service area and around the garden state parkway within the last hour. We saw some of the vehicles leave as well. Every now and then, another vehicles come back in and around this area. As far as the schools are concerned, we do not know that at this point. Lacey township posted a notice to its residents within the past few hours saying there is no known danger t
That was not true. Reporter that were under construction. Cops were here looking under the houses that are under construction in case he tried to get in there which is something he might have done. Reporter today after being taken into custody, bob kel was transported by the department of corrections in this white van to the state prison in trenton. Hes to be medically evaluated and then interrogate bide 57 special investigative team. Passaic county man escaped last week from a minimum security facility in harrington. Correction officials have not said how buckel escaped. Previously the 38yearold had spent 14 years behind bars for man slaughter and causing the death of a 10 month old baby. Well, buckel was discovered missing may 3rd. Part of the Ongoing Investigation how he got out, was it something he engineered by himself or did he have yup . Whatever the case most likely when hes recaptured his escape will likely add years to his current sentence. Live in trenton, john rawlins chann
Its feeling like out there this week before new years day. Saturday night im walter perez the big story on action newsis return of mild even warm weather this weekend and its mild out there now and temperatures rise overnight if you like wearing shorts on Christmas Day get ready youll need them once again tomorrow. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is at the action news big board with the forecast. Melissa. Taste of spring coming our way for the second half of holiday weekend. The high today in philadelphia 63. 60 in washington d. C. And 56 in pittsburgh and definitely mild across all of the midatlantic region. When you look at 24 hour temperature change its 12 degrees cooler in city than it was same time yesterday and 9 degrees warmer in pittsburgh and 8 degrees warmner buffalo and thats because were tracking a change that is also coming our way. Were finding that change first in the form of some precipitation. Heres Storm Tracker 6 live double scan radar you can see light rain showers scat