Were street racing on roosevelt boulevard back in july 2013. Tamara banks and her children were crossing a busy intersection when they were hit. The oldest son survived that crash. Last year philadelphia renamed a crosswalk in honor of banks. A man accused of shooting a Camden County Police Officer is behind bars today after going to court. Unless he can come up with serious cash thats where he will be staying. A judge doubled victor bennetts bail to 2 million at a hearing this morning. We counted at least 20 Camden County Police Officers on hand for todays hearing. Among them was officer prince reed, seen here leaving the courtroom. Police say bennett shot reed last wednesday night on kenwood avenue while the officer was working undercover. Officer reed took a bullet fragment in the arm. Authorities captured bennett after a chase in collingswood. Prosecutors want to make sure this man stays locked up. With regard to whether or not the defendant is a flight risk i dont think theres any
As this moment because hes been putting the heat on people in his own party and pursuing allegations against the state attorney general Kathleen Kane, among others. Is this just a political retribution . What do you make of it, ajay . Well, first of all, lets make a couple of things clear. You can be under investigation. You dont even need probable cause all you need is an allegation to be under investigation. Then, you can be a subject of an investigation. That doesnt mean that an incitement is coming forth. Its only when you become a target. And right now, all we know is that theyre looking into the feds are looking into whether or not there has been misappropriation of his finance public, you know, his Political Campaign funds for personal use. Its too early to speculate anything other than that. Anybody can get investigated doesnt mean that it amounts to anything. It is the irs and the fbi jointly, reportedly. And he is in his second term, having run just in 2013, and starting his
Lurk out to sea but latest track keeps it far enough off shore, that we dont expect any direct, impact from this system later this week here in philadelphia impact will be starting tonight, and then through the day tomorrow, especially, and mostly felt along our coastline. And that is where they are making preparations, this afternoon, and evening, for a brush, from an intense hurricane working its way up eastern see game. Meteorologist lauren casey joins us from North Wildwood with the very latest on then part of the story, lauren. Thanks, so much kate. Yeah, definitely night the best beach day, cloudy, quite breezy, winds have pick up in the last couple of hours since we got here but most notable are the waves. They are ferocious and rough surf will be a main impact we will see down the shore as hurricane jose sits off shore, and crashing waves, of course will present the threat have beach erosion that could be locally significant, and that is why crew where is out earlier in the day
You can tell from this loop, there cloud cover rolling on through, so, it may skew the sunrise little bit, because what you see with the rain there, dont worry about that is correct thats post Tropical Cyclone jose, remnants of what had been a hurricane, and we had expected this, still hanging out nearby so maybe you see sprinkle at the shore. But the overall theme here staying dry. For the most part, little rain bands are, in fact, just rolling away. So, were looking good here. Generally, going to find some sunshine throughout the day. We look outside here, at one of the live Neighborhood Network cameras, very quiet very tranquil beginning to the morning outside palmyra cove nature park, overlooking center city in the distance, shacking in the camera not because of the wind but because somebody driving across the bridge where this camera stands, so again, pretty tranquil beginning to the morning here. Seventyone the current temperature at the airport, a warm start to the day. Mid 60s,
Yes. Reporter while dozens of families enjoyed the beach friday afternoon in North Wildwood it business to get much more crowded. Yeah. Reporter revelry is well underway for 26th annual irish fall festival in North Wildwood. The four day event put on by cape may countys anxious order of high ber yans is one of the largest irish festival. Over weekend maybe 150, 175,000 people, amazing. Reporter with warm weather expect, town officials anticipate those in the sea of green will venture in the sea of rip currents so beach patrol pulled some life guard stand back out of the winter storage and called in every guard that they could fine. We talk with the mayor, council and we decided to put life guard on the beach this weekend. We werent supposed to be but we had this irish weekend. It will be very crowded. Reporter five beaches between seventh and 22nd streets will be guarded, and officials strongly recommend swimming only in protected beaches, and if you are partaking in the drinking, do i