Overnight fire ripped through the Parkland School district bus garage in orefield and Eyewitness News reporter alycia nieves spoke to School Official about how they plan to get students back in the classroom. Reporter Early Morning inferno in lehigh county, this explosive 3 00 a. M. Blaze raged right next to the middle school and inside Parkland School District School bus garage. The explosion that is everybody is reporting was tires popping off the buses, as the fire was going on. Reporter sixty newly purchased buses and the garage itself were burned to the ground. Another dozens or so buses parked outside the garage were also damaged, the Authorities Say from either debris flying from the fire or the heat given off by these flames. We lost some windshields, some mirrors, headlights. Reporter despite roughly two milliondollar in damage and 25 percent of the district s fleet destroyed, no one was hurt. I fell and it said no school due to a fire here. Reporter school for brook and thous
Kind of news we like to report but unfortunately we have to in this case and police say that somebody did break into st. Lawrence Catholic Church, here, on west chester pike in upper darby, stole from the poor box a donation box, stuff people give to every week. Not something very becoming but, authorities they are looking for at lee one person possibly several people. The other one broken in to was the Calvary Presbyterian Church, that is on wayne avenue, in upper darby. Now, Authorities Say that at this point they dont have any Surveillance Video, from the actual buildings but they are looking at the possibility of private Surveillance Video from surrounding businesses, or surrounding homes, and police chief Mike Chitwood very out spoken about this case. Take a listen to what he had to say about these burglaries. You break into the poor box to steel money that his given by parishioners or church go ers for the poor . And then some scum bag walks away with the change. I mean give me a
Clock night, it will feel like four in philadelphia and as we continue to advance that clock ahead by 6 00 friday morning feeling like threely in physical. Feeling like one below far north and west. Were dry right now on ultimate doppler but, yes, we are timing another storm system that will bring a wintry mix to rain friday night into the first part of the day on saturday. So as we go hour with hour watch that moisture moving toward our area. Primarily rain for parts of south jersey and delaware. But north and west, we will see a brief accumulation of that snow before it changes over to rain. Coming up, well have much more on the bitter cold. That system and believe it or not, 60 degrees for a part of the weekend. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much, scott. People across our area layered up today as we got our first real taste of winter. Yeah its the coldest day of the season yet and its only just the beginning. Fox 29s brad sattin live along kelly drive with how people are br
Are saying this certainly steps things up a notch. We know that the u. S. Chapter there is saying this was designed to minimize the risk to afghan and u. S. Soldiers but maximize the damage to the islam tick state. This bomb was about 11 tons a few minutes ago i had a chance to talk to ed turzanski with the Foreign Policy Research Institute a terrorism expert i asked him about this target. We know that its a transit point for fighters moving in and out of northwest pakistan. So these fighters have been digging tunnels and mountains also have been trying to burrow themselves in through concealed structures the largest ordinance thats not nuclear in the world its 21,000 pounds. You drop it. It detonates above ground and actually spreads a blast that takes out anything in its path. Its non nuclear but is it a game changer . Well, it is in this sense. Were not going to bug hunt and sending troops into caves and that sort of thing. Although at some point that may be necessary. But we really
The storm in the port au prince. The hurricane, and flood throughout the that it. Fierce wind, downpours pounded island submerging coastal areas to the south and causing severe flooding. Reporter across the island in the Dominican Republic the deluge trooped multiple inches of rain forcing cars to drive, through the flood. In gentleman make at effects of matthew have been felt, this road was washed away in a mud slide. Along the eastern coast of the cuba people were urged to head for higher ground, more than 300,000 people have reportedly been evacuated. Matthew directly impacts florida there will be massive destruction we have not seen in years. Reporter Florida Governor rick scotties taking no chances declaring a state of emergency. Once this storm comes we can now put our First Responders in harms way. We must leave before it is too late. We cannery build home, rebuild a business you cannot rebuild a life. Reporter nor carolina governor path mcrory, declared a state of emerge soy fo