Problems. He battled parkinsons disease for decades. Jimmy isaac fought back tears as he remembered the boxing 11 gent. With all the violence, killings, muhammad ali doesnt want all that. Reporter this memorial built in his honor newspaper a celebration of his life that impacted fans far beyond this city. Born Cassius Clay Ali changed his name converted to islam and then refused to serve in the vietnam war. It was a decision that saw him exiled. He started as one of the most despised and hated men in the country and our children need to know the real story. Everybody was not on alis side. Reporter basketball great Kareem Abduljabbar who faced criticism for his conversion to islam counted ali as a men to. I may be seventwo but i never felt taller than when standing in his shadow. Im the greatest. Im a poet. Im a movie star. Im a actor. Im a fighter and most of all, im pretty. Reporter ali wasnt known for his humility. Long before he became a threetime heavy weight champion, he knew he w
May be responsible. Good evening, omegas dean. Im ukee washington. Neighbors are shaken up by the death of the 77yearold man. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live at Police Headquarters with where the investigation stands tonight. Trang . Reporter jessica, no arrest in this Violent Crime that has neighbors rattled. Police believe up to three juveniles may be responsible for this mans death. Well being check led to grim discovery on the 6300 block of theodore street in southwest philadelphia. Officers found her 77yearold neighbor dead in his living room with head trauma. His son called police after not hearing from his father since friday. Someone broke into the mans home twice thick weekend. There may have been an incident where he got beat up by kids in the neighbor monday morning the kids broke into the house. Assaulted him, injured him, killed him. James jackson lives next do door. He heard a loud noise around 1 30 a. M. Monday but didnt think anything of it. I heard a bang and
Interstate 95. This was the scene on the northbound lanes of the highway near the brandywine river bridge in wilmington. Police say the 36yearold man was taken to christiana hospital where he died from his injuries. The driver of the car remain at the scene and was unhurt. At one point traffic was backed up for miles with only one lane getting by. Traffic is now moving. Also tonight new information is revealed about what caused the deadly amtrak derailment one year ago. Good evening, everyone, im ukee washington. Hi, everyone, im jessica dean. Those details come just one day before federal officials are set to release their report. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt is live in our sat center with what new details were learning tonight. David. Reporter jessica, Situational Awareness that is the phrase officials are using when describing Brandon Bostian what may have led to the crash it means he lost focus for few moments. According to bostian he became distracted after hearing that so
Philadelphia international airport. Now al onow approaching to inch. Were now nearing 5inches of rainfall for the month of may. Hard to believe. Wilmington were picking up about an inch and a half of rainfall, wildwood over a half inch, closing on a half inch in plymouth meeting. National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for the next if yo couple hours alog the i95 corridor where we could see small stream flooding. Storm scan3 showing us the trend. This is a three hour loop. This rain swath doesnt budge. Some of the heaviest rain falling along the i95 corridor. Moderate to heavier pockets of rainfall starting to spread east a little bit where we had drier conditions across parts of gloucester camden and Burlington County. That rain starting to push into mount laurel. Shower activity starting to work its way into parts of central Burlington County where weve had the driest conditions throughout the evening hours. Rain full intensity starting to let up especially across berks and
Of homes. Were talking green roofs. We know theyre good for the environment but what exactly do they do . Good question. Nicole brewer with the benefits of going green. Those stories and much more straight ahead but we begin tonight with the threat of Severe Weather this weekend. Good evening everyone, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. There are a lot of Outdoor Activity planned for this first weekend in june so lets get right over to meteorologist lauren casey in for kate tonig tonight. Youve been keeping a close eye whats coming our way film were getting into that season where we have to keep an eye on the potential for Severe Weather. Today we started with some showers. Didnt bother anyone too much other than having to break out the umbrella. Dry conditions live look at Center City Philadelphia still clouds, mild temperature at 71 degrees. Winds are light and out of the south storm scan3 showing us quiet conditions. Just little flare up of ground clutter there over the last coupl