Storm. Sandy is no longer classified as a hurricane, but her punch is practically still strong. Reporter about three hours ago i would have been stand investigate hudson river, the powerful storm surge caused the waters of the hudson to overflow the sea wall, come into this park and out into the streets of new york. Waters have receded, but the danger is far from over. Sandy brought on shore south of roared ashore south of new jersey early monday morning, packing sustained winds of 80 miles an hour with gusts over 100. The storm blew out windows and flooded streets up and down the east coast. Tearing up atlantic citys famous board walk. The storm cut electricity to more than 200 million storms and businesses. This is video of the Power Substation exploding in new york. We knew it would be a very dangerous storm and the storm has met our expectations. Reporter new york city is all, but shut down. The powerful storm surge from Hurricane Sandy pushed the waters of the hudson river through
These wind and cold temperatures it will be deceiving. Wind 13, 17, 12 miles an hour around the region and that makes it tiehl like the teens and 20s this morning. It feels like 15 degrees in lancaster and 19 in wilmington and 9degree wind chill this mount pocono. With that sunshine were only in the 30s by lunchtime. We will stay in the 30s, all daze, we may hit 40 degrees, but it is going to feel like the 20s all day long and get used to it, bob kelly this cold air is hanging around all weekend long. It is definitely that time when you want to make sure you have gloves, scarves, hat, especially little ones standing outside waiting for the bus later this morning. Good morning. 5 01. No problems at all on the freeway headlights coming toward the city, light volume so tar this morning. That is usually the deal for start of our friday morning rush hour, east bound on the schuylkill nothing out of the ordinary, 14 minutes into i95 through the construction zone, and disabled on the blue rou
Out into the cold. Yeah, im wet. I was shivering until they gave me this blanket. Reporter he was one of three patients in the pool doing therapy on his knee when the fire alarm sounded at aqua hab physical therapy and fitness sent. I left my keys, my wallet. Luckily for our Therapy Staff we only had few patients so it was easy got them out of the pool, out of the clinic, closed the system down made sure all the staff was out and we were outside very very fast. Reporter once outside it just look like a small little fire but it progressed like win five minutes i would say the whole roof was it. In flames. People were working on the roof at the time. But thats all we know. Reporter the crew questioned by authorities. Got kind of crazy out here for a minute,. Thats the dome that went up that was over the pool. The soot start coming down the smoke you could barely see. Reporter touching off small spots as far as blocks away. 50 pieces of equipment, a 150 firefighters, paramedic and support
Working to fix them. We checked this morning and those crews were starting to shut down lanes between 95 and route 13 near newcastle, so keep that in mind if youre headed out on the roads. The closures will last through 5 00 monday morning. Drivers tell us its an inconvenience, but a necessary one. Youre kidding me . Where . 495 between 95 and u. S. 13. Oh, man, you got to be kidding well, at least its getting fixed. Crews will not be finished with the project this weekend. That same stretch of 495 will have closures next weekend, as well. Lets head to chesters county where a teachers aide at conestoga county in berwyn is accused of having sex with a student. Arthur phillips is charged with assault and unlawful conduct. The School District says that phillips began working at the school in 2006. Officials tell us he is now suspended and will be fired. In mercer county, Princeton Police want you to take a good look at the sketch of this man they say groped a woman on the street. Accordin
Those of you headed up to the high country. We saw snow there the past couple of days and you may see more. Speer and arapaho are closed by the Convention Center downtown, a car hit a pedestrian and took off. The victim was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Well let you know when its going to reopen. The area is busy this morning. Overnight, one person hurt this morning after a shooting in denver. Now police are on the hunt for whoever pulled e last night. One person was rushed to the hospital. If you know anything about it, call denver police. The deadly and destructive Hurricane Matthew is losing strength but the category 1 storm is still a threat, flooding towns and wiping out roads and producing massive storm surges. In South Carolina, i95 is closed after Hurricane Matthew washed out the road. Florida narrowly avoided a direct hit and at times the iowas only a short distance off damage, four people have been killed, and 1 million homes and businesses may not have power.