Only a few hiccups and as you said the number of people there that became an issue. The expectation going into the parade. 2 to 3 Million People there. An established report today of an analysis made by an organization in britain estimated 700,000 people there. The city officials here skeptical of that analysis. They believe it was a larger number of people. They think it was the largest organized event they have ever seen here in the city in a parade fashion. But could not produce the numbers for the 700,000 figure. Going to the cleanup. The cleanup is still going on and the city has a good handle on it. At this point they collected 60 tons of rubbish from the parade in excess of any other event that may have happened prior in philadelphia. Obviously a significant number of people here and they left a lot of trash behind. We heard from Police Commissioner ross about Police Activity during yesterdays parade here in philadelphia. We made two arrests yesterday. One was for assault on pol
Soon from minneapolis. In the news Police Released new video in the hopes of catching a rapist in the powellton section and they brace for a super jam of planes and jets. But the big story on action news at is the investigation into the murders of two women in northeast philadelphia. They were found overnight in their home on griefy street. That is where bob brooks joins us live now with the latest on the investigation. Reporter yes rick, police say this happened in an executionstyle. Both women was shot in the head. And now theyre trying to get to the bottom of what happened. And two women in northeast philadelphia were killed and according to detectives they were found shot in the head in griefy street. The woman on the first age 56 in the wheelchairhe wn she was killed and the second woman on the second floor llway where sheas pronound dead. This started w came in with a gun. When they got to the home there door. Answered the d the front s witness and cooperating with the investigat
This happened at a home two blocks away straight from where we are standing on the 200 block of torresdale drive and it started when the homeowner christopher bye shot at his wife at 2 30 this morning. The wife was not injured but fled the home. The Police Arrived and the standoff began and a few hours later bye allowed his children to safely leave the home and police using a bull horn to reason with mr. Bye and then they demanded he come out and surrender that happened a short time ago. And now this area just reopened. Were found shot in the head at a home in the 1200 block of green street. They were talking to a man insized the house at the time of the shooting and now police are calling him a witness. No word on possible suspects or motives. The auto body shop was destroyed in Chester County and the blaze broke out along the 200 block of 3rd street in oxford. The shop was part of the sunoco station. And no injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is still under investigation
Handy. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. On the plus side it was mild today. At least. Can you imagine if we were below freezing because wed be buried in snow. Now, while that may have been welcomed news for, you know, lets say the ski areas like the pocono mountains, the rest of us dealing with all kinds of wet, kathy, including flooding. Yeah. When we do translation from rain to snow wed be talking about feet of snow. We picked up two to 3inches of rain in many locations especially south and east of philadelphia. That heavy rain that moved through earlier that set off thunderstorms in south jersey is moving up into Central Jersey and off the coast. Temperature is 63 degrees. The high today 65. Feeling more like april than february. And the warmth is pretty much going to stick around. Not 60s but well above average. The 63 in the city. 48 in pottstown. 52 in the poconos. Warmer than allentown. Its all about location and dover right now strong southerly winds and 66 degrees. We do have som
Takes in the areas root they have taken on the viking theme as well and has sting featureorg up news ating live in inneapolis, im sara ws bloomquist, chann 6aco you. Thank you. Ers also ngtonitthe teamrd from coach players today. Hey there rick and ay birdsin the twin cities the walk through and agthy media session and as you can imagine a lot of questions from the birds centered around tom brady andhes to be successful find a way to slow down the future halloffamers. A four time super bowl vip. We talk about tom brady the most in nfl history. Four times and looking for the sixth ring and he was the guy that beat the eagles 04 and 05. The buy that the defense has to heans love to hate. And i got a rare chance ton with tom brady. Time the eagles we3 y faced you and your coach. And they still harbor bitternessuncanny it has tak years and here you are agai oiously different teams they zation racticed against them three or four years ago a times, and i have a lot of respect for this team.