Chance of some showers will return. Temperatur temperatures, 42 degrees currently in philadelphia, while its in the upper 30s for pottstown and allentown. Its just dropped to 32 degrees in mt. Pocono, down a degree in the last hour, while its 40s for most of delaware and south jersey. So, not a bad start at all. Clouds will break for some sunshine this morning. 40 degrees at 9 00. By lunchtime, the clouds will be increasing once again, and that will lead to a chance of some scattered showers this afternoon. Well go through it hour by hour when i come back in less than ten minutes, but right now, first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is standing by. Good morning, jillian. Good morning, bill. A live look at the boulevard. Things are quiet on a lot of the major roads, including the boulevard. This is right by broad street. Traffic moving along just fine both directions. We have an accident on 76, eastbound near gulph mills. The left lane is still blocked. The right lane gets by. No de
Expressed his unhappiness after a racially charged photo was posted by one of his paramedics. We are a professional organization. And i expect my members to act in a professional member. But he said he did the complete op sit while disregarding the policy. The message says our real enemy. Need to stop pointing guns at each other and at the ones thats illegally killing us and innocence. The paramedic who posted the picture works at medic 23 in southwest philadelphia, which, interestingly enough, shares the same building as the 19th police district. As a person who services this community, its just something that shouldnt be said and expressed. When we shared the photo with southwest philly residents, they were floored. This is unfail thomble considering this person works in conjunction with law enforcement. Reporter the picture was followed up saying reporter hours later, he posted an apology saying that post was out of anger of what is going on around the world, mike brown, eric garden
First female firefighter in philadelphias history to lose her life in the line of duty. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live for us in West Oak Lane, where that fire took her life and where investigators, monique, will be back on the scene later this morning, right . Reporter thats right, chris. We can show you that a firefighter excuse me, a Police Officer remains on guard here. They have just switched out, changing guard here, letting you know that there are two investigations under way. One conducted by the Fire Marshals Office into the cause of this blaze, the other by federal investigators checking into the personal safety gear of the firefighters. Also while you were sleeping, weve been gathering stories about the beloved firefighter who rushed into this house to save an elderly womans life. She was called a firefighters firefighter. Thats how commissioner Derrick Sawyer describes 36yearold joyce craiglewis. She was assigned to engine 64 in lawncrest but was working overtime when fire
Mccormack was there for the funeral in west oak lane. Reporter casket of fallen fighter joyce craig a arrived on top of engine 64 draped with an american flag. Today she received a posthumous promotion to lieutenant and later full honors in a procession to her final resting place. Hundreds came to saturdays funeral, many stayed in the cold to watch the services televised outside. Come free, high spirited, gutsy, and last one sponge roy are the rorrer inside, collogues described craig who died early Tuesday Morning fighting a fire in west oak lane. Highly decorated 11 year veteran received citations for heroism and suffered serious injury early in her career. She served at four fire stations and was one of 150 female officers in the philadelphia fire department. Now she is the first philadelphia female fire fighter to tie, in the line of duty. I was stunned the first time she got hurt on the job, i was with joy. I was was with her the last time. I was mad at god that day. Craigs family
Looking good on my end for sure. Thats definitely the case for us right through the weekends, in fact, as weve got some quiet weather unfolding right now. Generally, just stuck in a little bit of cloud cover out there. Dow think youll see at least some sunshine, but it may be somewhat limited. We take you out, there show you the view first and for most, storm scan three which again doesnt have anything to detect on the radar at this hour. You can tell shroud of clouds, casino of like what we saw yesterday, start with clouds, maybe eventually yield for sunshine, mixed bag clouds cover, but everyone stays dry, 37 at the airport, into the mid 30s around the rest of the region as a whole. Dow expect you are again going to see at least some sun today. We call it sort of the split difference of sun and clouds, partly sunny, however you want to say that, thats generally the gist here. And it does appear as though we will keep it dry through the weekend for that matter since storm that will be