The big story on action news tonight is the latest on the threat of collapse in West Philadelphia. A building that caught fire yesterday, is now the scene of tons of ice putting stress on an already damaged structure. A action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at the scene. Dann, are authorities any less fearful earlier tonight and earlier today. Reporter no, they are not jim. Roads remain closed to are three blocks around the scene because of the collapse fears. Now they are hoping that warmer temperatures will help melt the ice but that does ant appear to be likely anytime soon. Already, l and i has declared the building imminently dangerous after it was left covered in ice after monday mornings fire. Officials worry that the weight of the ice may collapse the already fragile charged structure. Pennsylvania Patrick Hanna owns the build ago attached to the wall of ice. Fit falls it will fall on this building. If i tear it down it will fall on this building. Reporter l and i tells act
Hospitalized. Let me show you what is going on at the scene. You can see district attorneys, Forensic Services unit is at the scene. Also if you look at the yellow cones that are on the pavement here. They mark crime screen evidence. Were not sure what they are marking, because were so far away but we can tell you that at least the four that we see, and if you go further down the road, theres several others leading into the plant that mark etched. We have also learned that a knife has been recovered. Looking at video that we captured earlier this morning, one person being air lifted to the hospital. Another person was taken by ambulance to abbington, landsdale. Were not sure where the person who passed away was taken to but we presume that the person who was in the most critical case was taken to paoli and that made be the person who passed away. Some is preliminary investigative information. Lets listen to kevin steele to bring us up to date. Appears theres not a danger to the communi
With karen and david. Good morning. Good morning. And were starting out with clear skies over most of the region. Take a look as satellite shows you cloud cover out to the west of us. That will dig in as the day goes on but we are starting out bright. Unfortunately its still cold. 15 degrees is the current temperature in philadelphia. Were still at one in allentown and in millville weve dipped below zero for your temperature. 1 degree below zero right now in millville and 12 degrees in wilmington, seven trenton. Not a lot of wind but obviously pretty raw conditions. Got a test tomorrow and i dont just mean on paper. Its going to be even colder but for now, on your way to school or work, 15 degrees on your Storm Tracker 6 app right now. 16 by 8 oclock and by noon, 27. By 3 oclock 31, so we will moderate a bit. Yesterday we only got to 28. Today well actually see a high of 32 late in the afternoon around 3 30 or 4 00. Now, there is colder air coming in, though, and theres a wind chill wa
The roads look at slick how slick the sidewalks are. We ran across at rittenhouse square. Good evening im lucy noland. Im iain page. The cold is not over yet. Chris oconnell spent the night out on the roads. Lets get started with Scott Williams tractor snow on the way, scott. Thats right. Right now were looking at those temperatures below freezing area wide. You can see 11 in millville. 11 in pottstown. 19 wilmington. 22 in the philadelphia area. So overnight lows were looking at 14 in the city. Six in the suburbs and watching out for that black ice. Any of that slush that melted with the sunshine today is going to refreeze causing a concern overnight and first thing tomorrow morning. So as we look at those temperatures hour by hour you can see Holding Steady in the teens. By 5am14 degrees. Well call it partly sunny early tomorrow morning. Before our next storm system moves inform you can see almost half of the United States is snow covered of course most of that snow across our area.
Temperatures will climb into the teens, by 9 00 19 degrees. By noon 26 degrees. Im tracking snow for this evening. Future weather hour by hour when i come back in ten. First well go to jillian mele in the traffic center. We are dealing with Fire Department in the taconey section of philadelphia. This is torresdale avenue and lecikk street. This was a fire that happened at 2 30 this morning with one person treated at the scene for minor injuries. This intersection will be blocked off. Take robin street as your alternate. Also keep in mind whenever you have firefighting efforts out there, expect to see ice on the ground and walkways nearby. Keep in mind to use caution there. 95, no significant slowdowns to report just yet with volume just starting to build southbound into center city. But the drive times dont indicate a big delay. 13 minutes in both ways near woodhaven. Two people are stabbed and one person is dead after a fight spilled out into the street. Matt delucia hoonas been on th