Oh, boy. Good day, it is monday, december 15th, 2014. Glad to have you with us. Good morning to you, you serio. Got news is with this shift we slept right through that eagles game. I know. I saw it on twitter this morning thoughy didnt watch one play. Thank goodness. Waking up, to this news. But were happy you choose us to tell you. Whatever that means. Anyway, good morning. Monday morning, uneventful on our satellite and radar picture. We have some clouds around but not really showing up on the radar and anticipating our next system coming through probably tomorrow, with a little bit of rain but we will talk about that. That is not until later on in the day. We are right now at 43 degrees, in philadelphia. Not bad, for a morning in december, when were often in the 20s and 30s. In fact, mid 4s is our average high for the the year. We will call it a little milder then average. Breeze out of the northwest at 9 miles an hour. 7 15 is now our sunrise time as we get close tore that first da
North. We are starting off with rain for the weekend. Coming up, ill show you the timing of that and how long it will last. Back in philly today, former mob boss joey merlino returns to the city of brotherly love to make an appearance in federal court. Prosecutors say he violated his supervised probation in florida but merlinos lawyer says the feds made a mistake and his klein the has done nothing wrong. Lu ann cahn has been covering merlino for years. Shes live in center city. Lu ann, whats going on here . First you have to remember that joey merlino served 12 years in prison for racketeering and he was just about to finish three years of probation. If he crossed that finish line, he wouldnt have to check in with anyone and thats when the feds said, whoa, wait a minute. Not so fast. I missed the mummers parade. Reporter the u. S. Attorney says youre still an active member of the mob. The guys mental. Reporter hes mental . Joey merlino is now 52 years ole, tan from living the last few
Something under investigation this morning. Armed suspect shot and killed after getting pulled over for a traffic violation. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabeo is on the scene in frankford, frandford avenue, with more details. Jan . Reporter ukee, erika, frandford avenue has reopened, near unruh avenue, this morning, but you can see, a large Police Investigation still here, investigators are awaiting a tow truck, to take away that vehicle, that is the center of this whole thing, that white car, right there, across the street, thats where all of the activity surrounded this morning. Now, what we know is that this all started as a traffic stop. Weigh we dont know is why this escalated a shooting, now, police tell us, the victim is 26 year old man from northeast philadelphia, with a criminal record, that the two officers involved have been on the force less than a year, both rookie cops. Now here on scene, see the police have been taking a look at that car, that white car, all morning l
Its 5 30 on this sunday. Meteorologist ted florendo is tracking the changes in the forecast. Humidity is going up outside. Going to feel a dramatic increase for sunday. That and possibility of showers and thunderstorms for the day today. Not the case right now though though. Were rather tranquil across the region. This is a live look at boat house row. Winds are calm, dry, and looking at overcast skies this hour. A warm morning too. Not long ago we started off mornings in the lehigh valueley 40s and 50s. Allen town 73 degrees, 73 philadelphia, trenton 71, wildwood 75, wilmington 74 degrees. Temperatures will warm up today for sure. Were going to add the humidity on top of that. Dew points up to 71 degrees. Thats going to make it feel muggy. With the upper 90s, its going to feel hotter. It should be dry and mostly cloudy. By the afternoon, we have the threat of showers and isolated thunderstorms too after the 2 00 hour. 88 our high going to feel like 90s. 84 by 7 00 p. M. Chance of scat
Council Rock High School south matched those in the community grieving three sophomores. The 15 years were killed saturday morning when the suv they were in crashed near lake wamapaupack in wayne county. One day you wake up and bit end of the day everything is crashing down. State police are investigating the rollover crash and what led to it. The victims were in the suv with three other teens also injured. Ryan learner who played basketball and soccer attended st. Johns United Methodist where the church opened its doors sunday for anyone that needed to talk. The pastor has known his family for a decade. Ryan was an awesome young man, full of energy and full of vitality. He loved god. The trangic loss spread quickly on social media with so many in the tight niingt Northampton Community remembering the wrung man. They were young. I knew all three of them and played basketball with shamus and ryan. Shamus family said he was youngest of eight children and loved playing sports. Cullen casp