Good afternoon. Reporter erika, pat, good afternoon to you both more information on that offers nervous a minute. This just into our news room, Philadelphia Police have now confirmed the suspects name who was shot and killed by Philadelphia Police earlier on today. Take a look at this picture his mugshot he was well known to police. This is devon gusher, wanted for murdering a pregnant woman last fall. Police say she was an innocent bystander, hit by one of his stray bullet, now hes dead, and officer he got into a gun fight with this morning is recovering. Philadelphia brothers in blue, rush to the area torresdale hospital, shot while serving arrest warrant to murder suspect fortunately, the officer wearing special body armor meant to protect caring out most dangerous jobs. Fortunately he did. Had it been Patrol Officer we would be having different discussion, it was low enough where this particular vest has extra flap. Shooting unfolded here in northeast philadelphia, just after 6 00
Im Shirleen Allicot in for lori stokes. Today i go wednesday, all 3rd. Bill evans is here with the exclusive forecast. We are kicking off the doug days of august. We will talk about interesting weather this week. But todays monday, hot and humid weather continues. We look at a temperature of 70 across the area. Parts of the area low 70s. Central park mid70s to 77 and we like 70s. Hanover 61. Its not so warm up in the suburbs. 73 out to the hamptons and Shelter Island and Northern Branch on long island, the far east end. Hiding 90 today. Like 95. The week. It is. Into the 70s. We will talk about that in the Heather Orourke is here. Yes, i am. How was your weekend . It was great. I cant tell you. I was on a secret mission. I figured you were. Maybe i can get information out of you after this report. We will talk about 78 west near exit 3 a tractor trailer fire. A couple of lanes are closed down. On to the belt parkway, westbound near bay parkway an shut. 3 trains no service between 149th
71 islip to bridgeport. 63 poughkeepsie. 75 around central park. We will get to 79 by 9 00. 90 this afternoon with the humidity it will feel like the mid90s. Hot and humid august dog days. Those are coming to an end thursday. We will talk about that in the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up in a moment. How are you doing. Im doing all right. We have an issue with the two trains. We have mechanical problems. Thats downtown near grand concourse you will find the 2 by the 5 line as a result. Long island railroad, new Jersey Transit doing fine. Metro north waterbury branch, ongoing work in bridgeport. No major problems at the hudson river crossings. Minor delays across the board. 78 to the westbound side near exit 3, tractor trailer fire extinguished. Crews are out there now trying to clean up the debris from the tractor trailer fire. One lane is open. Then we have 51st, 52nd. Street cleaning rules are in effect. We begin with the developing story out of new jersey. A new Jersey Polic
He tried to go inside of the store. He started a fight with the owner. And he hit some girl. Police say the 30yearold was driving the mini van that rear ended a parked nissan bouncing into people on the sidewalk which includes three Jersey City Police officers and also a row of cars. He says the mini van came from that direction and someone said you. Julian paulino stopped the driver from going into his corner store and stopped him the sidewalk. He then walked down the street to check on the injured officer. He says when i left the Police Officer had a broken leg. She was nervous and crying. Is that his red mini van . No. Natalie heard the crash a few minutes later she saw her 30 yearold cousin being arrested a few blocks away. At the time she didnt know the two incidents were related. Car. I dont know about him being in at all. Now, jersey city has not released the names of the three officers who were injured nor have they provided an update on the female officer who remained here at
In a coma. A private Funeral Service was held yesterday near atlanta. Happening today, City Council Members are holding the town hall to tackle questions about a deadly legionnaires disease outbreak. The number of cases climbing now in the south bronx. Four people are now dead, 71 others sick. Health officials expect to see even more cases. The town hall is tonight, 6 00 to 8 00 p. M. At bronx museum of the arts. 4 34 just about. Time for weather and traffic on the 4s. Its monday morning. As michael says, it was feel more pleasant. I thought so. The humidity is coming back, right . Compared to what we had over the weekend, it is coming back. It was a fantastic weather weekend. Today the mugginess creeps back in. Especially by later this afternoon. You can see in the weather headlines, continued hot temperatures near 90 all weekend long. Well do that again today. Tracking a chance for storms tonight and tomorrow. We have a cooldown coming our way deeper into the week. Heres a live look