Just because he deserves it. Reporter a procession of hundreds of Police Officers from several states waited in line to pay their respects to wilsons family who sat outside before going in the funeral home. Like i just said to his grandmother she just gained 7,000 additional family members. Wilson died after trying to stop an Armed Robbery at this game stop last thursday. Wilson was buying a game for his son when detectives say brothers carlton hips and Ramon Williams came in and tried to rob the place. He sacrificed his life for others. We deserve to pay him respect. Reporter eagles head coach chip kelly even stopped by. He dropped off a signed football for wilsons 10yearold son. Leaving two young boys behind behind. One, 10yearold not had enough time with his dad but a oneyearold that will never have any real memories of him and thats tragic. Reporter commissioner ramsay tonight said in his seven years in philadelphia he has lost eight officers under his watch in the line of duty. A
10 00 oclock in the morning. A viewing will be held at 7 00 oclock in the morning three hours before that but tonight thousands came out in officers wilson native West Philadelphia to say goodbye. As night began to fall officer robert wilsons patrol car sat out in front of this West Philadelphia funeral home where thousands came to say goodbye. When i seen it on the news like i cried. I cried. Reporter robin never met the third its 30yearold father of two but she told Eyewitness News she was medical to come out tonight to honor him. He deserve it. I didnt even have to know him just because he deserves it. Reporter a procession of hundreds of Police Officers from several states waited in line to pay their respects to wilsons family who sat outside before going in the funeral home. Like i just said to his grandmother she just gained 7,000 additional family members. Wilson died after trying to stop an Armed Robbery at this game stop last thursday. Wilson was buying a game for his son when
I think we have to go with that. We are dealing with a lot of rain. We could be finding about an inch of it cloudy, rainy out there, it may be foggy in a couple of spots we look at the ben franklin bridge, courtesy of the campbells field camera. Now as we go down to rehoboth beach, you can see it is raining there as women. In fact, it is raining in all parts of the area. Storm scan3 showing that. Couple of areas where you find the yellow, where it is getting little bit heavier so, you can just be expecting to find conditions as we go through the day continuing to be in this rainy pattern and as we zoom in little bit, you will notice that we do find some of those rain showers especially, right now, to the west of philadelphia. But expect to find them moving into philadelphia, as well. Just a rainy day but thats all it is. 39 degrees temperature in philadelphia, 36 trenton 38 degrees in wilmington, 37 in allentown now up in the poconos it is 34 degrees, and there is a freezing rain advis
At the top of the screen you see shades of blue, up state new york theres freezing drizzle up there. For everybody in time delaware and Lehigh Valleys its mainly rain. Well zoom into the philadelphia area, you can see route 1 reporting moderate rain, route 130, black horse pike the new jersey turnpike. Its wet theres a lot ponding the traveling speeds, smarveght well issue this as a matter of fact well issue this here. Use caution driving this morning. Some of it will be heavy at times, in addition to the ponding there will be lowers visibility thanks to the patchy fog that started to develop. The day planner looks like, periods of rain, thearls when the heavy thats when the heaviest will occur. Temperatures start to shoot up 54 by 3 00 p. M. 56 by 6 00 p. M. Reading, 2 miles. Allentown, 2 1 2. The poconos coming in under a mile. That will be a concern this morning, when i step back inside ill talk about when all this rain moves out of here. Cooler weather to return in the sevenday for
Millville, philadelphia, pilots half inch of rain. Up to this point in doylestown,. 43. As you can see theres plenty more to go. This extends into the ohio valley pittsburgh, cleveland troilt detroit all seeing wet weather. Thats the back edge pushing through washington, d. C. The metro area. That will swing through this afternoon. The steadiest rain shut off around 1 00 p. M. Give or take, and then we have scattered showers. 56 degrees morning rain, afternoon showers, it will be on the mild side, however. When i come back in just a few minutes, ill let you know when this moves out and drier weather moves in and cooler numbers in the seven day forecast. Now the final goodbye for officer Robert Wilson iii. The caisson procession started marching early this morning to the palestra. Thats where a viewing is underway. This is a live look inside. Annie mccormick is outside the palestra with more, annie . Reporter eva officer Robert Wilson was an year veteran of the force, when he died in th