We have update on fire in the bronx. They think it started with a stove. Not that far from the bronx floor. Started before 7 last night and when a woman left her burning apartment she left her door open which allowed it to spread. The fire quickly spread up the stairs. Fire travels up. The stairway acted looicike a chimney. Took the fire so fast they had little time to react. Couldnt get back down the stairs. Those that tried a few of them perished. In fact, of the 12 people that died, five of them never even made it out of the burning building alive. There were more than 20 units in the building, but Officials Say the building wasnt new enough to require some of the fireproofing measures like sprinkler system. Four people remain in the hospital in critical condition. Chopper area. Five dozen people, including many children, were forced to evacuate the building off Georgia Avenue near hewitt. In the aspen hill area. More than 100 firefighters responded last night. And we just learned t
The dreaded early dismissal possibility today. Good morning, 4 00 oclock. Live look at i95 coming through northeast philadelphia passing our camera at fishtown we are looking good there. Example of the road, county line road up there in Montgomery County plus penndot this morning they said they will not put down any salt or brine in afternoons storm is there so much salt will be out on the roadway, fire locations in the neighborhood, fortyfourth and brown, which is just off of lancaster and haverford avenue, and the peco crews are work ago long race street that is closed this morning at fourth. Hopefully that will be opened up before we get in the height of the rush hour and airlines still playing catch up at a water main break at jfk yesterday and this afternoons travel mess with the weather conditions, may want to check with the airline, before you head down to the airport. Karen and thomas back to you. Happening right now with these cold temperatures things like bursting pipes and w
Abouts last night they were overshadowed by more serious issue rocking the industry. Good day philadelphia at 5 00 a. M. Starts right new. Good morning, thanks so much for waking up early and joining us on this monday, january 8th, gangs all here, good morning to everybody. January 8th already. Yes. Where did the year go. We do have some School Closures and delays to tell but, already Atlantic City Public Schools shut down today they are closed. Margate City School District will operate on a two hour delay. Upper darby schools are dismissing early and maybe others will make that call later. You can see that crawl at bottom of the screen showing other schools juniata park has frozen pipes. We will have a complete list on our web site as well. Two things we necessity for sure bob kelly will be busy and sue serio as well because that wintry mix is moving in. Nothing had a chance to melt over weekend so shore towns that got more than a foot of snow is still all there, and, now we have warm
Associated with it. Reporter and the bright colorful packaging sure to peak a childs curiosity. It does look like candy. Theres no doubt a kid would open this and think it was candy. Reporter backpack was discovered on december 20th. Fortunately alert School Employees noticed it and immediately called police. Last night, turning point in the investigation. Police arresting this woman, natasha willis, the 26yearold bensalem resident inadvertently left the bag behind. She was driving kids to school and wrong backpack came out, and got left on the curb and mom pulled away. Thats unbelievable. Unbelievable. Oh, my god. And shes a parent of someone at the School Reporter wendy almond is a mother of three cant not believe the deadly drug was within childrens reach. So this around children. The kids could gotten into it and anybody thats just disgusting. This is going to continue unless we really do something to stop it. You know i dont know what that is. But little kids now are so vulnerable
And this is it. Eagles fans are gearing up for the battle of the birds. Game day less than 24 hours away, and the hype is unreal. Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. Talk about a weather whiplash. This time last week, we had sn snow. Tonight rain, warm in the 60s. Hard to believe. And check out this video down at penns landing. Intense fog just hanging over the delaware river. Ice floating on top of the water just as we start to thaw out. But dont get too excited because we are talking about a dramatic drop in temperatures. Like 30 degrees. Thanks for joining us im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Folks starting to peel back some of those layers today. But if youre headed to the eagles game tomorrow, youre going to need to bundle up. Scott, i hope the Atlanta Falcons are watching from the hotel rooms tonight because were talking about freezing cold temperatures at kickoff. Absolutely. It will be a shock to the system, chris. Temperatures right now look at this. 62 degrees in philadelphia. But