Right now on nbc news at 5 00. Stuck at the gate. Passengers were ready to leave atlantic international, but the plane was forced to stay on the ground. There were no pilots because no one from the tsa was there to screen them. Were live with the details. Ted, how did this happen . Reporter well bad weather played a roll in keeping the plane on the ground here. It was not the only factor. The crowd started to get a little testy on the plane. The flight has been deplayed for hours, but he and other passengers on a spirit flight to boston became more upset when they were told why he would have to wait while longer on the ground at the airport. Its a gate agent and an update and said that the pilots are on the way, but they can not get to the plane because theres nobody to process. The tsa folks are waiting for someone to come back. Spirit flight 382 was supposed to leave at 5 00 but he says that bad weather elsewhere in the country kept passengers from boarding until 8 00. He says that h
James feet a cloudy one as we are looking at a live picture cloudy enough at the airport is registering some delays a little over an hour 65 minutes because of the low visibility hit you have any plans to pick any one of that and bonn Early Morning flight that could be some problems open san jose youre doing just fine if the forecast for today that britain down 40 the Morning Hours no surprise there cloud conditions cool a little breezy if temperatures and allowed gifted temperatures warmer to low 60s were looking at amendments approved for the coast that will be the lunch hour as we head toward letter on apricot kids getting out of school if youre heading home look for partly cloudy afternoon generally. James we have allowed most of the ease with shoreline your extended outlook listed over to. The to since reporter without any major hot spots so far if you have to use the bay bridge this morning if so makes it get the full tank of gas you been sitting in the back of the bay bridge tol
Light. Transform lightly worn wood and concrete into beautiful barefootfriendly surfaces. Fox 29 news hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. Breaking news right now on fox 29 news at 10. Skyfox over Woodbury Heights new jersey where authorities tell us a car has hit three children. It happened right around 8 30 tonight on chestnut avenue. All three are at Cooper University hospital. The driver also went to a hospital. We do not know their conditions or how old they are. And the Police Investigation continues. To our other top stories. First grader takes heroin to a philadelphia elementary school. The child had more than a dozen baggies of that dangerous drug. Shawnette wilson is live at the school in fair hill. Were any students hurt. Reporter four children im told were taken to Saint Christophers Hospital for children just to be evaluateed. School officials tell me no one opened any of the baggies and they did not ingest any of the heroin. Still as you can imagine parents
One of its top drivers for cheating handing out one of its largest penalties ever. Is this new deflategate scandal going to take down more superstars at the track . And good morning, america. Welcome to april. April fools day. Who is the rookie at the table . That would be me. Have fun today. Happy april fools day. I wish the weather was a joke. A bit rough. We need to deal with that. No no not yet actually. No, we want to talk about april fools day. Weve already seen a number of fun pranks overnight. Google famous for them. Check out, guy, what theyve done to their google maps and turned it into a giant pacman game and can do it for your street. Lots of fun to be had. We are going to begin with Severe Weather, heavy rain in oklahoma overnight causing a lot of flooding. High winds and hail across the south and rob marciano here to track it all. Really. That flooding some of that came 5 inches of rainfall in just a short amount of time south and east of oklahoma and had cars stranded th
Far . Yeah yesterday was, 87 degrees. Thats one degree hotter than it had been so far. It will be hotter this afternoon. Theres a southerly wind that will help boost our temperatures. In the 60s now. Pleasant start. 66 degrees in philadelphia. Pottstown is 65. 64 in trenton. Wilmington lower 60s for mount holly and Atlantic City. In the 80s this afternoon. Go through it neighborhood by neighborhood with the future weather when i come back in 10 minutes. Right now lets check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington on a tuesday morning. Hey, bill. Back to work this morning. Out on the schuylkill expressway checking out the philadelphia area to see whats going on. On monthgomery drive, eastbound lanes which are in here. Headed towards the center city area. Still a 12minute trip from the blue route no problems. Injuries ri roads from the 42 freeway, drive times, no problem. Northbound from 55 walt whitman bridge, no problems. Speaking of bridges, the rest of the bridges, ben