Precipitation is in upstate new york and new england. The delaware and the lehigh valleys are seeing rain. Everybody is seeing the same thing, steady, driving rain. 35 in quakertown. Reporter pottstown, 35. Warring, 36 degrees. Kennett square, 37. Warm front in the lifting through, all these numbers are going to continue to climb over the next few hours. Vineland, 41, cinnaminson, 39. Glassboro, 38. Wide by any, 42, the villas, 47 degrees. Forecast for today, morning clouds and rain, peeks of sunshine this afternoon, High Temperatures topping out around 49 degrees, look at the weather headline, it turnings mild as we head it turns mild as we head into next week. Temperatures mild and cold shot new years weekend. Were counting down to christmas, santa arrives in the area in less than a day. 14 hours, 58 minutes 14 hours, 57 minutes, 53 seconds away from the area. He made rounds overseas and dropped off millions of presents to russia not long ago. Time is running out to check off things
Jumped cover fbi agent buy automatic weapons. Prosecute verse recommended an eightyear sentence. The defense hopes for five years and three months. Also set to be sentenced today, political consultant Keith Jackson who worked with yee on a couple of campaigns. He pleaded guilty to racketeering. It was jackson who Led Authority to yee a bay area man is behind bars for testing out a red corvette and killing a salesman in a wild crash. Kpix 5s anne makovec joins us in the newsroom with more on the test drive that ended tragically. Anne. Reporter that driver is from union city. Now under arrest in ontario down in southern california. Heres his picture. Police say 28yearold alex demetro took out a car on a test drive from a carmax car dealership. They say he was high on drugs and crashed into a tree. This man died in the crash. A carmax employee who came with demetro on that test drive named warren smale. Police say he was riding in the passenger seat of the red corvette when demetro sped a
Felony lane crews targeted day cares where a woman may leave a purse on a car seat. The d. A. Hogan says the financial strike involves female members of the crew. They use those women to go cash in what they have gotten from the i. D. s, they have the women use the credit cards to make purchases and use the women to actually cash checks at banks. Hence the name felony lane gang. A crew member trying to meet the image will stick to the furthest driveth drivethru lane. That is known to Law Enforcement as the felony lane. Someone went to her bank with her stolen i. D. And a stolen check from another victim. The check was written to me and this person used my license and said i would like to cash this. Because it wasnt a withdrawal. They were able to some how able to get around the system which is i guess what they are good at. Well, the financial fraud happens quickly and miss arch reported the theft to her bank and Credit Card Companies and police and someone walked away with 998 and the
Ok to be easy. Here at the trump event, they had more than 3,000 supporters. Bush has yet to see crowds that size. Tom llamas, abc news, in New Hampshire. The former ceo of a West Virginia coal mine goes on trial today. Don blankenship ran the Upper Big Branch mine which exploded in 2010 killing 29 miners. He is charged with conspireing to break health mine and safety requirements in hundreds of violations at the mine. If convicted he could face 30 years in prison. Still no sign of a convicted than a week after he was released from prison accidentally. Clayton sandell reports it was all because of an error in the paperwork. Reporter convicted killer Benjuiel Johnson didnt escape prison, he was let go. Mistakenly released saturday by a Louisiana State prison official who apparently never doublechecked to see that johnson was supposed to be serving time for manslaughter. It was an oversight on the staff. But its something that should have been caught. Reporter johnson was serving 35 year
We do thank you for joining us on this first day of october. The year is just moving by, but a lot of people are paying attention to what is moving off the coast of the eastern border right now. We begin this half hour with mothernaires double whammy impacting millions of people in the west. In the east. First flooding, now a hurricane. Joaquin taking aim at the bahamas and could steer toward Populated Areas of the u. S. East coast by sunday coast. Our coverage begins with abcs devin dwyer. Oh, my gosh. Reporter with tropical moisture already saturating several eastern states, virginias governor after this relentless rainstorm issued a state of emergency. From the midatlantic up to maine, roads have turned into rivers. About 30, 35 on the highway. Thats it. Portland, maine, getting hammered. Reporter 23 kids all aged 4 or younger were inside this daycare when water rushed in. In a matter of ten minutes, we were completely underwater with a couple of inches. Everyone ordered upstairs to