It broke out around 3 45. The 12,000 block of white drive. You can see extensive damage here. The flames are now automatic, but the house was pretty much fully engulfed when nair fighters arrived here. We still have smoke rising from the chimney and the Center Portion of that house. Too early to say exactly what caused this blaze. But certainly, theyre doing their job trying to get a better look inside the home. Weve seen firefighters use ladders to go up into the second floor. And their big priority here is determining whether anyone was home at the time that this fire broke out in the studio. Megan, were going to keep checking in out there the morning. And were also going to check in with storm four meteorologist tom kierein. Tom. What we dont need is more rain and here it comes. More rain moving into western maryland. Eastern West Virginia, its very light rain, may hold together from hagerstown, winchester, down to luray. Low 70s to the west. And weve got some breaks in the clouds.
Orange. Were talking damaging winds in excess of 60, 70 Miles Per Hour we could see some Power Outages and more Straight Line wind damage. There kohls be isolated tornado tornado, small hail a threat, some downpours and also vivid lightning as we watch those cells kind of move toward our area over the next several hours hours. So you can see were pretty quiet, dry right now across parts of the area. However, as we watch how things play out, you can see by five, 6 00 oclock the activity starts to move toward the pocono mountains, Lehigh Valley and then it continues to move into sections of Chester County, montgomery, bucks county by 7 00 8 00 oclock. Watching some of those cells as well as watching the potential for a bowing company indicative of some Straight Line wind damage potentially boone 9 00, 10 00 oclock you can see it finally moves into parts of south jersey as well as central and southern delaware before it moves on out of here. So the bottom line the timing of the system sta
Im george spencer, nbc 10 news. Chilling new details in the murder of a recent drexel graduate. Investigators say Jasmine Wright was on the phone with her mother when she was attacked as she walked into her apartment last thursday. Her mom heard a struggle and then the phone went dead. Police say james harris raped and killed wright. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live at Philadelphia Police headquarters, where harris is being questioned by detectives right now. Jesse, you found out something in harris past that shocked even the police . Reporter thats right. He has a long criminal history stretching all the way back to the late 70s but in 1982 he went to court charged with murder. Ultimately he was convicted, found guilty of manslaughter for killing his father. Hes a monster, a career kral criminal. He has been locked up 31 times. Reporter police point to dna and fingerprint evidence as proof james harris snuffed out a young life earlier this month. Investigators say the excon was hired to tak
Duty as a Philadelphia Police narcotics officer when the incident happened back in 2013. A judge originally declared a mistrial in the case last october. Gibson, by the way, is the former soninlaw of former pennsylvania governor tom corbett. The deal is done. Today the Philadelphia Phillies officially traded fan favorite and longtime pitcher cole hamels just hours before the trade deadline. Comcast sports nets amy fadool joins us. Hamels has done a ton here in philadelphia. What did he say about leaving . He talked so much about leaving and the legacy he will leave here in philadelphia, it was kind of a bittersweet moment. We will hear from cole hamels. The baseball trade deadline did pass at 4 00, just a few minutes ago. Despite having 24 hours to get through all the paperwork and physicals, the hurdles were cleared and it is official. Hamels is headed to the Texas Rangers. He took to the podium in the phillies media room at Citizens Bank park for his final press conference before hea
A huge invention for people that live in center city and people that live outside of the city have to be aware of major highway closures the schuylkill will be closed from the blue route to i95 eastbound and westbound it will be closed from i95 to u. S. Route 1, the roosevelt extension and route 76 the vine street expressway, will be closed from the schuylkill to the delaware rivers. In addition to that, city avenue between lancaster avenue route 30 and belmont avenue will be closed in both directions to all traffic, that is because that is where the pope will be staying in that area. So that area will be shut down to traffic as well. Major inconveniences coming and the ben franklin bridge will be closed and the one bright spot, i95 will remain open. That is the only major highway that will not be affected by all of this, people that live in center city will be most impacted. And people trying to get around the city like the major highways like the schuylkill expressway they will not b