She spent many days here before she headed out to fire engine 64 in north philadelphia and you can see tonight the black bunting on the firehouse door tells you one thing, people inside are mourning. Flowers mark the spot where philadelphia firefighter joyce craiglewis often started each day on the job. The mood inside engine 64 somber as colleagues, friends and even complete strangers stood in the drive way to pay their respects. I worked with her for the last three years and she loved doing the job. Reporter lieutenant Benny Hutchins was one of about 50 who prayed for lewis family. He tells Eyewitness News he was proud to call her a colleague and friend. She continually always was outstanding and doing everything she could to make sure somebody was safe or property was saved and we miss her. Reporter hutchins says he was in shock when he found out his friend died. She was fighting a fire at this home on West Oak Lane early tuesday morning. We got an emergency activation. Reporter fir
Closer we go out to the shore points better off youll be in terms of finding more sunlight here today simply because would i say, because you are further removed from the cold front itself. But heres just a sense what our visability are like right now. They are not terrible. They are not ideal either in a couple of spots, at least, millville, under 2 miles right now. So nothing by comparison to yesterdays fog situation but you you may again still find it out there. Notice our wind is beginning to kick up a little bit, just enough that it will help keep low cloud cover around for some of you and scour it away for others. Expect that breeze will continue to pick up as the day goes on, breezy, spot of the day goes to the the shore points where you are likely the brightest too. Mildest to. Lower 50s in the philadelphia and down the shore and above average in the poconos. Vittoria . Thanks very much, katie. Good morning, everyone. It is a full blown rush hour and even before i address what
Target at roosevelt boulevard at somerton. Silent alarm tripped when these would be burglars made their way inside the store and that caused the Alarm Company to notify police. When Police Arrived they found a three by 3foot hole sawed through a rear steel door. Police then spotted two suspects inside running through the store. Those two men made their way on the have roof and eventually back down inside of the store. For hours police were searching this target with their k9 units. For more than three hours they searched and then finally after three hours the two suspects were caught, back on the roof in a very tight spot, take a listen. They went inside of a ventilation duct have of which there are several on this large roof where they found the two burglars hiding inside of a very small shaft and the two burglars were literal willly lay on top of one another where they were hiding from the police. Now this would have been the seventh target in the philadelphia area burglarized since
We begin with a christmas turned deadly by the kind of storms we dont usually see until spring. Dozens of tornadoes tore through the south and midwest including the first ever recorded in michigan in december. At least eleven were killed last night, more than 60 hurt. States of emergency have been declared in georgia, tennessee and mississippi, where about 100 homes were destroyed. Manuel bojorquez begins our coverage near holly springs, mississippi. You can see the debris. Reporter this tornado was on the ground for ten minutes as it tore through the town of clarksdale, mississippi. Storm chasers scrambled to get out of harms way as a tornado came right at them, and another slammed into a busy highway, knocking a tractortrailer on its side. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant if you look at the damage here, it is as bad as any tornado that weve had, and i have been through a lot of them. Reporter marvin and bernita sims were in their house watching tv when the storm hit. Their home was d
LEMOYNE, Pa. (WHTM) — A new Veteran-owned vintage toy and pop culture collectibles store will soon make its debut in Cumberland County. Uncle Bob’s Vintage Toys, which is owned and operated by Bob and Shelley Mastrella, will soon be opening in its first-ever brick-and-mortar storefront. According to Bob, he is now a retired United States […]