I felt like i was on a cruise ship in my house looking out at the water. Things were floating and it was not pleasant. The consistent high tides, the wind doesnt allow the tides to drain properly at low tides, so you have this stacking effect, which makes each subsequent tide even worse. Reporter ocean city suffered only back bay, no ocean flooding. The bigger issue, substantial beach erosion up and down ocean citys seven miles of beaches. While there were no breaches to the dunes, in some spots the sand dropoff is three to six feet. This as surfers take advantage of the swells. Definitely a lot colder now that the storms passed through, a lot of the warm water moved out, but the waves are definitely big from the hurricane offshore. Reporter today assemblyman sam fiocchi wants the states beach erosion commission, which hasnt met in more than a decade, reactivated. Hes asking for double the amount of federal funding to preserve new jerseys coastline. A lot of times the sand is still in
Alarm welcomed passengers at amtrak train 55 at 30th street station. Except this time it was a false alarm. We were awaiting previously. It was just everyone was waiting. Reporter josh is here from london. He got on after the derailment. Seven were hurt, one seriously after the train jumped the track after apparently striking rocks on the track. All the most able bodied people adopted an older person and got them down the train tracks and out. Reporter they found the trains conductor. I put him on my back and he held on to my neck like this. I just told him to hold on and just balance yourself. Like just stay in line so i can get us out of here. Reporter piza was one of the 102 people to board the buses to other trains which took them to several places including phillys 30th street station. Its hard to forget these images over Port Richmond just five months ago. Investigators say this amtrak train was traveling faster than 100 Miles Per Hour when it derailed, injuring more than 200 peo
When i come back in the next ten minutes well check mass transit. Breaking news overnight, two Police Officers hurt after their suv slammed into a tree. Katy zachry is live on scene with us. Right outside of the prehospl where one of the officers are being treated. Here is video of the Early Morning crash that happened overnight from bartram avenue, not far from the philadelphia airport. A Police Captain on the scene tells me two officers out of the 12th district were driving on bartram avenue when they hit a tree. And from the looks of it they hit the tree pretty hard. Both airbags went off the driver, an officer in his late 30s, were told has neck and back injuries. He is here at press bthe hospit. The police on scene would not release the names of the officers involved in the Early Morning crash. Im told theyre trying to figure out what caused the vehicle to leave the roadway, if it was a mechanical or driver error. Theyre also looking for surveillance cameras and video. Theyre reac
Cooler stuff to the west. 34 in buffalo. Where they are expecting snow showers tonight into tomorrow morning. Binghamton, 35. Pittsburgh, 39. Charleston, 40 degrees. Forecast for today well start out with sunshine. By afternoon, 54 degrees by lunch. 3 00 p. M. , 57. 6 00 p. M. , 55. With a high of only 58. Normally we should be around 10 Degrees Higher than that. 68 degrees. Over the next few nights canadian air malice settling in. Tomorrow night canadian air mass settling in. Tomorrow night, a thick killing frost. Overnight a home in pleasantville went you up in fl. Firefighters were called out around 11 00 p. M. They found a well developed fire in a home. Crews brought in firefighters from neighboring departments to assist. There are reports of injuries and action news is working to determine the severity. New this morning, police in Delaware County are trying to figure out what caused a fire that killed a man. Flames broke out on collingdale avenue around 11 30. First responders arr
We dont have any of the fastest of the five cities in the world but comes to Internet Access in america, so were not in the world leaders. We are somewhere in the middle of the pack. We also have a very deep Digital Divide. Having inaccessible kampf is very correlated tear socioeconomic palace. Have a people have Internet Connections at home, but that number is even lower for people with incomes under 30,000 per year. Rich people tend to have an and also 9 percent of americans cannot access the internet revenue because it has not been built up to their area. Added we get here . It seems like the internet was started here. What is the divide . Why has it not gone to people sums . Quite a street. A great thing about the internet is that you can reach anybody. That is the whole point. A universal a Disability Program all idea was that the content provider, like google, would not be subject to the lens of a telecom provider, but we have this huge split between the ideals and openness of th