In northeast alabama tornadoes ripped apart homes and businesses leaving animals to roam the roads and killing three people and critically injuring children at a daycare center. Trees and 18 wheeler beds and things, actually tilting over or near tilted over. Trucks and barns no match for strong winds gusting over 60 miles per hour. We are lucky that nobody was hurt here tonight. It could be the other way. In tennessee, the storms also turned deadly. This as people get a better look of damages done. After the raging wild fires swept through the resort area. Dolly wood spared and she said in a statement she is praying for the families affected by the fire. Including those whose homes were gutted and belongings scorched. The governor calling this the largest forest fire in a century resulting in three deaths and forces more than 14,000 to scramble for safety. This man is still looking for his mother. She called me at 8 30 and said the house was on fire and i said get out immediately. And
And temperatures in the 30s for washington, philadelphia and new york city and 20s up in binghamton and as we look back throughout the year this will indeed be the cold eflt air we have seen in philadelphia friday through sunday since february 18th. Its been 10 months since we had highs only in the 30s. Definitely want to bundle up. Well talk about the bone chilling numbers coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thanks. You can get the latest forecast any time at 6abc. Com weather and track any rain coming into the area with stormtracker 6 live double scan radar. And interact with the Action News Weather Team on facebook and twitter. We are following breaking news out of investigator asnounced that two juveniles are charged in connection with the deadly wild fires in gatlinburg, 14 people have died and 2,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed in these wild fires. The two unidentified juveniles are charged with aggravate the arson. Just in from Philadelphia Police this is the
Police officers vehicle. You can see where he wound up in the woods of ridley creek state park. Skyfox was over the scene right along west chester pike. Thats why police were back out today combing the woods searching with dogs and choppers to find him. The beautiful park is always popular but on a day like today, it was packed with hikers and bikers. They didnt know what to make of the massive manhunt. We come here a lot we just like to hike and stuff. Just a nice area. I didnt think Something Like that would happen. I hope they find him very soon. Be aware of your surroundings and everything like that. Please take another look at this suspect. Investigators say he is very dangerous and they have him wanted right now for stemmed murder trying to run down that police officer. They say he lives in philadelphia. If you have any information please call 911 and report it immediately. From newtown square, im karen hepp fox 29 news. Back to our breaking news we first told you about during th
But they have a lot of questions about how and why it fired this afternoon striking and killing a fouryearold girl. She was hysterical crying it just saying safe by baby, save my baby, save my baby. Margie is describing a mothers call for help after her fouryearold daughter was shot in the eye inside of a bedroom in home on 1800 block of north 20th street in north philadelphia. The child was transported to Hahnemann Hospital where she died just before 1 00 this afternoon. I told her what happened. The kids were playing upstairs and next thing she she found her baby lying on the floor like that and ran outside. Reporter she ran into a Health Clinic across the street to get help. The nurse came and took her pulse and her heart rate and somebody get get the oxygen thing. She was gasping for air. Reporter police say the circumstances of the shooting are under investigation. They are trying to determine who was home at the time, how the gun went off, and who the gun belongs to. We have a fo
This morning. Headed toward delco and philadelphia. There you can see it the on ultimate Doppler Radar there is another line of then are storms moving through baltimore right now heading toward northern part of the delaware and more rain in southern delaware. The what is happening is a warm front is moving, northward, the result of the warm front will be really hot temperatures today but before that happens, weve got a little action. We will zoom in closer and you will see that red and pink underneath lightening, that is where heavy downpours headed toward you in tredyffrin township. We will see if that holds together before it gets to philadelphia and then that other line moving a cross Chesapeake Bay but we still that have excessive heat warning in effect, for the urban areas that includes philadelphia it could feel as hot as a 106 degrees. We are not kidding with this heat. The it is pretty dangerous. A heat advisory for everybody else. So these could be dangerous, feels like temper