There. Shawnette . Reporter dawn and iain, very powerful ferguson protest just wrapped up here behind me inside 30th street station. A crowd of people then left here, marched down to city hall halting the start of rush hour traffic. Lets go inside and take a look at pictures we were able to get when this protest started. Take a look. You can see that this is being called a dive in protest dye protest i should say held in response to a grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson who since retired from the police force. Dozens showed up and dropped to the floor at 30th street station and remained there for four minutes and 30 seconds symbolizing the time they say Michael Browns body was on the ground after he was shot and killed afterwards you can see the crowd stopped traffic as they marched to city hall. Were brothers and sisters in this country. Racism needs to stop. You know, we shouldnt be afraid that our children will get shot and know their lives wont matter. Reporter
Vehicle, 10 counts of aggravated assault while driving. The list goes on and on. You can see route 222 here is now open. The Dunkin Donuts opened as well but a whole different scene early this morning. Skyfox capturing the hour hick seen on route 222 in maiden creek township berks county around 6 30 this morning. Cars on the side of the road on their roofs. Three vehicles wrapped around a Dunkin Donuts sign after a tractor trailer plowed into a line of traffic stopped for light. Basically you could feel the impact, you know, sounds of things smashing. Reporter officer robert wood just happened to be in the drive through line at the Dunkin Donuts when panic hit. The tractor trailer barreling down the road slamming several vehicles right into the sign. When i got out, everybody was kind of going crazy saying call 911. They didnt realize i was right there. Reporter wood called Emergency Responders the fire and Police Departments and then went to work helping the many victims at the scene.
Hitandrun. But first, more dreary weather just in time for the holidays. A lull in the action right now as people make their way around Rittenhouse Square but more wet weather is on the way. A live look now at storm scan3. You can see another system headed toward our area. That system will make for a very soggy Christmas Eve. Good evening, im jessica dean. Chris may is off to night. Meteorologist kate bilo keeping her eye on things from the cbs3 Weather Center tonight. Kate. Thanks jessica. This is a large scale storm system thats impacting much of the eastern half of the nation some snow a cross portions of the great lakes in the upper midwest but its the rain that will be an issue for us. Not snow this time around but very warm air moving in with this system almost Tropical Temperatures are in the 70s along the gulf coast today. You can see the rain and even some strong thunderstorm along the squall line moving into portions of georgia at the mommy. For us its the rain and its liftin
Very warm air moving in with this system almost Tropical Temperatures are in the 70s along the gulf coast today. You can see the rain and even some strong thunderstorm along the squall line moving into portions of georgia at the mommy. For us its the rain and its lifting northward right along the i95 corridor as we head through the overnight hours and into early tomorrow it will be with us all day tomorrow. Also dealing with patchy dense fog. Mist and drizzle outside tonig tonight. A break in the action from the instead yesterday rain but again watch for that fog if youll be out and about visibility down to third a mile in dover. A half mile in the poconos and 1 mile in wilmington the fog can um up on quickly dense here in Chester County. Play it safe. Timing it out we can see light rain through the overnight hours but its really tomorrow morning around sunrise that the instead yesterday of the rain starts to move and in it just comes in waves all day long. 3 00 p. M. Still raining. 7
8 00 oclock this morning at the height of the morning rush. Septa tells us all of those passengers were in philly by 9 40 this morning. Lets take a look at some video that we got for you just as this line began running again. Initially they had buses running from the glenside station to warminster and then again as i mentioned the trains started running but that wasnt in time for a lot of passengers that we talked to voicing their frustration over all of this. Again, septa telling us as they now have a cause for those downed wires. Well hear from them. Were also going to hear from a frustrated passenger who told us she missed all of her classes at temple today because of this. Lets listen. Normally my day im home before 3 00 perfect because i have a whole day to finish my homework i just literally i havent been home yet. And back here live now septa tells us that they are still investigating again the trains are up and running but it was weather the cold weather that caused those wires