This is the way it looked today at the ft. Lauderdale airport as smoke bloomed up from a boeing 767 just before takeoff the engine caught fire forcing passengers to escape down those evacuation chutes taken was potential nightmare for passengers and crew and all Things Considered it was an example of tragedy averted. Thursday night, and the big story on action news tonight is the cry of plane on fire. Action News Reporter chad pradelli is live in the Satellite Center and chad, you have all the details. Jim, a boeing 767 carries 24,000 gallons of fuel. So, if you can imagine the panic from passengers as they saw flames shooting from the engine. This is cellphone video of the 767 on fire as plumes of black smoke billow. Engine is on sglir Dynamic Airways is taking off from for the louder dial car ak as when another pilot noticed leaking fuel. Out of the left engine looks like its leaking a lot of i dont know its fuel or fluid leaking out of left engine. Do you copy. Yes, sir, we copy. We
The town of bell about 30 miles west of gainsville and initial reports indicate that a man shot his adult daughter and her 6 children before shooting and killing himself. That gunman has been identified as 51yearold done spirit and all of the shootings happened at his home 4bg today and at a News Conference tonight Police Confirm six deceased grandchildren ranged from 3 months to 10 years old and police say they do not have a motive now and they did say spirit has a criminal history and that officer hes been called out to rural home on numerous occasions and again tonight, eight dead and six of them children in a murdersuicide outside gainsville florida of course stay with action news tonight as we continue to gather information. The fbi ten most wanted list has a new name on it tonight eric freen charged with an ambush that killed a straight trooper and injured another and there a 175,000 reward for information leading to capture and funeral took place for the man suspected of killing
First alert meteorologist looks ahead to another first alert. Shee 234rks a . We have another first alert weather day out for tomorrow. Because of some areas that could see a switchover from rain to snow through theover night hours tonight. That is a possibility. This will mainly be areas north and west for tomorrow. Certainly not everyone this morning flt it was the looding of the shore. Tomorrow, watching areas north and west. Possible icy spots once those temperatures really start to drop down. But we are still watching this very slowmoving noreaster, most of which is up in new england. Were getting kind of the back end of this system. So locally, we have some very light rain through parts of the Lehigh Valley and in the poconos, it is kind of breaking up. We are still seeing some snow in those higher elevations. As we go through the overnight hours into tomorrow morning, this will be staying in the forecast. Heres future weather. The changeover will be a little later in the morning
We begin a full year of recovery after the storm. Sandy slammed into the eastern seaboard one year ago today. Affecting the lives of millions of people. Take a look at these before and after pictures. This one shows a battered road in seaside heights, new jersey. A different scene a year ago. And this one, one of the more iconic images, a rollercoaster in the atlantic. That ride, now gone. The sand filled the streets of cape may, new jersey. You can see it nearly came to the top of that street sign. And damaged homes, including these at ortley beach. Thats where abcs Tahman Bradley is live for us. Good morning, tahman. Reporter good morning, diana. Good morning, john. Here at ortley beach, theyre still rebuilding. This boardwalk here is new. And the sand behind me, brought in to protect buildings from rising water. All along the east coast, theres a lot of signs of progress. But a lot left to do. One year after sandys fury, on the east coast, recovery. And the sea port is open for busi
Franklin. Many of those that come here are exoffenders and speculated on her assailant. She is fair and polite. I cant say nothing bad about her. Its the people she employed, im sure they were the ones involved in the stabbing. As far as her, she is just trying to run a business. Well, off camera we heard similar sentiments, they like miss franklin, they liked that she gave those that made a mistake in the past a job and a chance to find meaningful employment. And they say that some folks that came to this office from time to time were intimidating and frightening. Miss franklin remains in critical but stable condition. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We want to go live now to a News Conference happening right now in pike county as state police begin a News Conference on a shooting of one of their own. Other local agencies are assisting us and doing just a fantastic job and do that end, my good friend, ed franco, a special agent for the fbi. My name is ed hanko, the fbi