Police officer for his actions. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is in south philadelphia and chris you spoke to that officer. Reporter yeah, i spoke with both officers, dawn. South philadelphia man is charged with making terroristic threats tonight after a confrontation with two Police Officers here on the corner of sixth and ritner last night. That 20yearold man remains behind bars tonight but even his own mother says her son is lucky to be alive. Officer Michael Edwards is back patrolling the streets of south philly a night after he was threatened with his life. I didnt know if he had a weapon a95 or a gun. Reporter edwards was sitting in his patrol car at Mifflin Square park when he was approached by a soaking wet 20yearold sharif haines. I asked him to get again if i can help him. His First Response was i should blow your fing head off. Edwards was able to get out of his car, pull his gun and called for backup. When officer eric tyler arrived on the scene, police say haines went after him.
Much different from yesterdays match a little bit warmer and some spots were up about three degrees in norfolk and eight degrees and wakefield it will get colder as we had throughout the day especially as we head into your sunday with a look at satellite and radar we were tracking some very light snow showers or snow flurries that moved through the Eastern Shore right now the south side weve got some light snow pushing just south and north but moving into chesapeake also into portions of Virginia Beach but the atmosphere still pretty dry eyes of some of that may not be making it down to the ground but if you are saying anything definitely let me know. Heres a look at what we can expect a rapid a woman to climb into them its one days or axe will fall a little bit and then will climb back into the mid twenties by midmorning will top out right about thirty degrees as we head into the softer note we will see more sunshine today especially compared to yesterday. I mean temperatures will dro
This morning it was mainly clear partly cloudy clouds been increasing. Weve had some flurries a lot but not quite making it down to the ground this is the view over norfolk village a couple more down at the oceanfront overcast conditions but still dry out theirs we take a look and then up at oyster point right now we also have cloudy conditions and we will find again the snow flurries perhaps reaching up that way as well little bit later before snow showers develop the airport at around wakefield down across parts of northeast North Carolina we have trees position across the northeast part of the tar heel state is were anticipating the snow to be a little bit heavier down that way lighter amounts farther to the north but weve been watching the development of an area of low pressure along the coast that would draw some moisture into our area give us the chance for the snow as you can see i talked about this this morning on thirteen years now daybreak wed see stop on the radar that would
Approached by a soaking wet 20yearold sharif haines. I asked him to get again if i can help him. His First Response was i should blow your fing head off. Edwards was able to get out of his car, pull his gun and called for backup. When officer eric tyler arrived on the scene, police say haines went after him. He started charging me. I said take your hands out of the your pants. He didnt. So i, as he took another step i discharged the taser. That was just training. It was an absolute threat. Reporter commissioner ross says the officers showed remarkable restraint in not using deadly force. Especially following the point blank shooting of fellow officer Jesse Hartnett last month. When you take into account the back drop of officer Jesse Hartnett and what just happen, it is absolutely remarkable that he did not shoot this male. Hes been having mental problems. Hes mentally ill. Reporter haines mother tells fox 29 her son doesnt even remember what police say he did. Thank god they just tase
Hes so what does this tell us they would do it together by the sutton grabbed was that we couldnt get the sun because of the fire is under investigation no one was harts snowfall across Hampton Roads today and down in to Eastern Carolina enough to cause some excitement and disrupt schools and create some traffic jam is not snowing now but will still be under the grip of Winter Weather this weekend of losses here to tell us about this. Teeth chattering cold drafty as this system pulls away were going to see really cold air coming into the region so cold that i actually went and made sure that i looked up the records for sunday the record low i didnt think we were going to quite get there and it turns out were not but i want to check the coldest afternoon weve ever had were not going to miss it by a whole lot as you can see the heaviest snow was gone just a couple really light flurries out there last hour or two mainly on the Eastern Shore you still can see a couple that northwest when c