In the news a wild scene tonight in delaware, a raging inferno burning several homes, the blaze grew to four alarms along bay avenue near beach road this broke out at 7 30, two homes are believed to be a total loss. Another two were badly damage. Fire fighters battled the blaze for hours before gaining an upper hand no word how it started. Investigators are looking into whether todays gusty wind contributed to a house collapse in the torresdale section of the city. Home under construction on state road near linden street came crashing down at 2 00 oclock. Home next door was also damaged no one living in that home was injured and as you can see here, the Christmas Spirit remains intact though. And what a sight this was in pemberton, new jersey where a tanker truck rammed into a home there it happened at 7 30 this morning, on route 38, near birmingham avenue. Fortunately the house was vacant and no injuries were reported no word tonight why the driver who control. And in Atlantic City a
The 20 yearold driver facing dui, reckless driving and Marijuana Possession charges. But police say revenge was motive of a shooting this morning in darby boro. Officials say multiple shooters fired at a home on the 200 block of north ninth street, People Living there are related to 26 yearold ra shawn overton, overton is a person of interests in the shooting death of the man killed in the boro this past friday. Updating now a little girl who was attacked by a racoon inside her own home. Four monthold journey Blake Rodgers was released from st. Christophers hospital today. She needed 64 stitches in her face, after the frightening ordeal on thursday. It happened on 29100 brook of north 22nd street in north philadelphia, and mercifully her eyes are okay. Her uncle tells action news that she will not need digsal surgery. Thank goodness. Devon train station caught fire today, fortunately no one was injured but damage as you can see is pretty extensive. Authorities say the fire started at 1
How expansive this cold is. Its snowing just south of new orleans right now. The cold air all the way down to the gulf coast state, now for us in our region, you know its on the cold side. Today a little better than it was yesterday, but look at these numbers right now. These are the current wind chills across the midatlantic. 18 . D. C. , 13 in hagerstown, 2 in state college. Yesterday we had negative numbers. It is 3 below towards columbus, ohio. And we have colder air moving in. It wont be tomorrow, though. Right now temperatures 26 degrees in d. C. , 25 in reston, 22 the current temperature in gaithersburg. So, another day that is below freezing and thats why the potomac is frozen. And its going to get a lot more frozen over the next couple of days because we have colder air coming in. Frigid air continues. We might get freezing in spots but not a lot. Tracking storm for thursday, a chance for snow in parts of the area. Not everybody is going to see it but im going to break it down
If it was 25 today, it could be 40 degrees colder than that or at least feel 40 degrees colder by friday morning. Thats the kind of cold air were talking about. Doug, thank you. Its hard to keep the chill from getting into the house right now. You probably needed an extra layer at work, too. Its the same at some local schools. Check out this retweet from our scott macfarlane. It shows 48 degrees inside a Montgomery County classroom today. But for another School District, the trouble started even before the bell rang. News4s Meagan Fitzgerald is in Fairfax County. Meagan, what was the issue with the buses . Reporter well, Fairfax County officials tell us the problem is the school buses have been sitting outside in the freezing cold weather like they are behind me here for the last two weeks while students were on winter break. So, this morning when they started them up, some of them didnt turnover. Others broke down later. But this is just one of several issues we saw in School District
Live in wheaton bruce leshan, wusa9. Very Long Time Coming bruce, thank you. So we heard the word closure, but it comes with a push qualifier. A conviction of Lloyd Lee Welch and details that will likely be revealed in a virginia trial will help, but only the discovery of the girls remains will ultimately put an emotional end to this for some people here. So now question get reactions from the community that was changed forever by this case. Our scott broom is at the Oakland Terrace Elementary School where the kids who went there 40 years ago with the lyon girls have all grown up and where many are still living in that same neighborhood. Scott . Reporter yeah, this is the school the lyon sisters attended and there are still a lot of people around here like me about my age, theyre in their 50s and went to this school with the lyon sisters and remember all this vividly and always bruce just reported, we hear again that word repeatedly as we talk to people, closure. It feels like theres s