Identified as Christopher Rice. Now lets talk about the officer, who has quite the family. He is celebrating the fourth anniversary of joining the police force today. His father is on leave serving in the military. Were also told he has a brother who serves as a traffic agent. Again that officer is expected to be okay. Hes surrounded with family here at lincoln hospital. The suspect, were told, is in serious condition after being shot during this gunfight. We are told he is 19 years old, Christopher Rice. Get this, he was released from court yesterday at 11 00 at night and he was out on the streets, police say, at this party and shot at an officer. Well continue to follow the latest on this investigation. How great to see that officer giving the thumbsup from his hospital bed, something we dont see very often. Update you throughout this newscast. Another developing story here. We are learning more this morning about the man charged with ambushing a Philadelphia Police officer. That fri
I want more. Reporter we asked him about a street we found in elmhurst, untouched. During the snowstorm is one thing, but in the day after the snowstorm every place should have been touched. Reporter the city measures these socalled tertiary streets in miles. 350 miles of tertiary streets in queens. The city tells me they have covered 98 of them. By our calculation that leaves a little under 12 miles to go. Thank you. Long Island Railroad commuters are dealing with some big issues tonight. Four lines are still shut down. Tracks and platforms are covered in snow, forcing many to find alternate ways to get around. Reporter trains are running here in mineola and service was restored this afternoon on the porlt washington Port Washington branch. The railroad is dealing with delays system wide tonight and there remains no service on four branches, hempstead, West Hempstead and far rockaway. Brianna was trying to get to her job in manhattan when we found her standing on a platform in hicksvi
District here and if they are caught jail may be the result. Repulsive is the word for it. But yes, its todays day and age. I never thought i would see this on one of my properties. Reporter tonight the station bar and grill is open for regular business. And police would appreciate a tip call to help catch the perpetrators. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Police in south jersey are looking into reports of attempting lurings in two communities on the same day. Evesham Township Police gave us this Surveillance Video of the vehicle they say was involved. They say an older man and teenage girl ask sd two kids if they wanted candy and then the car drove off. And police in oakland got a similar report on the same day with the same description. Sara bloomquist will have a live report on this at 5 00. Police say a man died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning and tied his death to last weeks blizzard. They say his exhaust pipe was blocked by the snow and he went to the hospital but
Forecast it the will be kind of steamy. We are looking at temperatures in the 70s to near 80 degrees this morning for most so weather by the numbers on a scale of one to ten we will give it an eight because of temperatures near 90, today as well as that humidity on the rise. Seventyone allentown. Seventytwo reading. Seventyfive wilmington and millville. 90 degrees will be the High Temperature today, it will be steamy. There could be a couple of isolated showers around, and then, coming up we will talk much more about the potential heat wave, rainfall chances this week and we have another hurricane, bob kelly, believe it the or not, to talk about. Here comes fred, right. Good morning. 5 01. Fred and rest of the gang getting up and getting out. Ninetyfive, northeast philadelphia, headlights working through the Construction Zone at cottman avenue. Everything is open. Off ram wraps blocked overnight and they will be, on the overnight, all this week but we are ready for a morning rush hour
7 to hold it during school. Investigators also found eight bags of crack cocaine on a second floor bathroom. All four students were taken to the hospital. Tonight sources working this investigation tell nbc 10 the 13yearold tested positive for marijuana. Now dhs is also investigating. His moir saysther says he had marijuana in his system but he did not bring the drugs. That case was crack, not marijuana, he did not touch them he did not distribute them out to no one. They have it wrong. They did not do it. The 13yearold did not do it he is in the clear. As we come back out live, detectives just lost the point here where the 13yearold lives with his parents. They would not tell us what they found inside. Police making it clear this is an ongoing investigation. Nbc 10 news. A bitter blast of cold tonight, even the heavy coats are not keeping out freezing temperatures for people out here in center city. It is not only cold but windy, too. Nbc 10s meteorologist Sheena Parveen has more. It