Carlos arrogozo our photographer, youll see the power lines. The crews see it dangling there. Several of them dotting the landscape. That i moved those off the roadway. Strong winds and lightning going right through the area. And Iris Hermosillo has been following this for us at this very moment. Right now. A without power in the area. We saw a lot of lightning as storms moved through quickly. The bulk of the storm activity is moving northeast of the valley. And still racing to heber and cibecue. If youre in these areas, know that this batch of thunderstorms is moving your way and its going to produce a lot of lightning and dangerous conditions in the area. A heads up over the higher terrain northeast of the valley. Showers south of wickenburg. And we have a few spotty we have a little bit of light rain from surprise and just to the northeast of there in cave creek just light spotty showers. Theres a chance for rain here through the early morning. We have the thick clouds and that chan
Whitle who spent 17 years in prison for child abuse has now been released. It is a lot of different emotions. Reporter especially when he looks at one of his brothers, now in a wheelchair. How can you do this to a kid . It is not fair to him. He would be like us but he is not because of what happened to to see his mother. Reporter for her sake his family has helped getting through. They were so damaged and hurt now they are really good young adults. All of the children live here in arizona i am told they are very close. Whitle released on thursday currently under state supervision for two years. There have been a lot of questions about why elizabeth whitle was released after only serving 17 years. We took a closer look at what happened. Whitle received a 172 year prison term after her conviction in 1999. In 2005 a judge later found that her case needed a retrial. Instead whitle took a plea deal for a 17 year already served six years so she finished out the remaining 11 years until her
Assaulted is suing the school. Alyssa leader says harvard mishandled the case and didnt do enough to protect her from harassment and retaliation. At 5 30mbda is taking anxious mbta is take action. Smoke filled one of the trains last night what motor overheated. One of the passengers was soscared they kicked out the windows to get out. Chantee lans has a look at how they plan to prevent it from happening again. Reporter the t. It was fine. Reporter is up and running. A big difference from tuesday night. Smoke from the state street station after two trains including this one stalled after running over a metal panel that came off and fell into the tracks. People are were in panic. Reporter images show passengers climbing out of a window after kicking it to escape. It was pretty chaotic. Scares me to think Something Like that happened and the panic people must have felt. But mflt bta says 120 mbta says all 120 orange line trains have been inspicked and pass inspected and passed. Transportt
Run out of so much money. Reporter you guys are making noise out here, do you think mayor kenney is listening. Whether he is listening, we are here to make a point. What is the point. No more taxes. Time to stop squeezing the middle class. All of these drivers from coca cola and canada dry and the unions honking their horns in support of this protest of the soda tax. The public hearing starts tonight at city hall and the state of the soda tax will be decide when City Council Makes their decision in june. Quite the scene down there. Thank you. As you saw we are once again dealing with the drizzly and gray day. Lets head to cecily tynan live at the action news big board. Reporter yet again we are stuck in this gloomy weather pattern, we should be used to it its four days straight now. Double scan live radar showing a little bit of drizzle. Finally the storms that are lashing out at is the jersey shore are pulling off the coast but they got a lot of rain. Stormtracker 6 live double scan s
Bay bridge and theres the spectacular new eastern span and really good news tonight. The first full day of work is finished, construction right on schedule and they are heading for that opening day on tuesday at 5 a. M. Tonight be surprised if they decide to open it up a couple hours early because things are going well tonight. Christen ayers was on the upper deck tonight. It really looks like everythings on schedule. Reporter yeah, ken, tonight, officials confirming to me they are definitely on track to wrap all of this up on deadline. And if you look behind me, you can see what im talking about. Tonight, you see the buzz of trucks up and down the approach to the toll plaza, flashing lights, you see workers out here hard at work. Theyre on a paving project. They finished grinding asphalt and an entire new roadway is being installed, as well as an entire drainage system. This will continue aroundtheclock in this area along with another massive project on the actually bridge. We went up