Were still trying to figure out what that was at this point in time. Again, have not located a gun so unfortunately theres nothing about the investigation that suggests it was a gun at this time but we are still looking. Reporter as for how many shots were fired by the nine officers. As of right now that count is 109 shots fired. Reporter at this point commissioner ross thinks this might have been a case of something called contagious fire. In a high stress situation one officer fired first others reacted. Other officers hear gunfire and they believe they are now under fire and that they return fire in this case firing multiple times as i said 109 rounds that weve counted thus far. Reporter again a continuing investigation at this point. Apparently the nine officers have not been interviewed so far. Back to wednesday night its believed that sowell attacked his victims using a pair of knives. Those victims remain hospitalized but the commissioner says they appear to be improving. Live a
To your weekend, sky6 live hd taking a live look outside and conditions right here overlooking the city. You see it is dreary and cloudy, right there at the center city skyline. You can see barely the top of the skyscrapers there because of the low clouds. The question becomes, hey, where is the sun . When will we see it again . Reporter probably later next week. Actually youll see sunshine tomorrow, but its later next week when we start to get into a nice, sunny day. But not today, today is a cloudy damp and dreary afternoon and every now and then you may see an occasional shower, and mist. 54 in pottstown. Quakertown, 54. Slatington, 53. Center city, 58. Cinnaminson, 57. Glassboro, 58. Dover and smyrna, 62. Boy they have seen a lot of rain in southern delaware. Some areas picked up close to a foot of rain since wednesday afternoon. We dont need any more rainfall. As we look at satellite and radar theres plenty of it off to the southwest. Thats heading this way. We expect drizzle to b
Approaches. Rahel sulliman in trenton where Chris Christie is updating. Cleve bryan in ocean city already deaths brace for the store, first we check in with kyla grogan in the Weather Center with the latest on joaquins track. It is keeping us very busy, thats for sure, a category three hurricane causing big trouble in the bahamas, headed in our direction, as we start our work week next week. So, lets take a look right now, Hurricane Joaquin, you can see it is a very powerful storm, and again, the bahamas bearing the brunt of it right now, as theyre under hurricane warnings, at this hour, dealing with the winds, and the rain, and it is 125mile per hour sustained winds, by the way, very strong cat three, only about 5 Miles Per Hour away from being cat four, it is expected to strengthen briefly, and then, as it tracks along the coast, to weaken, as it makes its way toward us, you can see monday into tuesday time frame, when we would likely see the most impact from it here in philadelphia.
Shows it heading out to sea, but there is a pretty good consensus that steers the storm system toward the midatlantic and toward North Carolina but anywhere from the carolinas up through long island have to watch the storm system, a widespread 650 miles, if you look there is a good chance that this storm system will make landfall late over the weekend or early next week, in the meantime, well ahead of this storm we have rain to deal with. Double scan live radar, showing the rain last night has moved up over new england, we have this boundary that is draped there and it is pulling in tropical moisture thursday night into friday morning, future tracker showing well see the rain backing up and we have potential for heavy rain thursday through friday than is the next round and a third round sunday into monday, depending on the track of joaquin. We have details in the full accuweather forecast. Now lets switch to new jersey correspondent, nora muchanic, in ship bottom. Getting ready. The je
Strength as it sets its sites on the east coast. Live radar shows the cath 4 hurricane. It is bearing in the bahamas pounding into the shore and states getting up and down the east coast are getting ready for impact. Im ian page. Several states, including new jersey have declared states of emergency. Chris oconnell is live in wildwood night, but we begin with kathy ear. Were already seeing flooding down the shore, but it is not from joaquin. No, it is not. Were talking about a big strong shore flow. Joaquin a thousand miles away from the Delaware Valley as the crow flies. Max sustained winds 135 miles an hour. Its very close on the what ham a islands moving south, southwestly 5 miles an hour. Lets talk about the immediate future, the here and all. Ultimate doppler showing some heavy rain through south jersey, down the shore, everything lifting up from the south and pulling in from the east associated with a frontal boundary thats persistent easterly flow is creating wind, high serve an