Experts as well as safety certification by state inspectors. On thursday a philadelphia sheriff sergeant was critically jrd when an elevator shot up from 11th floor through the ceiling of shapt. The collision rained debris on the second floor elevator is that the in basement and clerk inside that elevator suffered minor injuries. Theres still no word whoon caused malfunction and two elevators involved remain out of service. Now we had storms for first half of the weekend and second half gave us near perfect summer weather. Meteorologist lauren casey is in Weather Center now with the latest. Lauren. Natasha what a beautiful august day ending on the weekend. Sunshine. Comfortable, air in place and cooler even we have on hands right now checking in live with the neighborhood network. Philadelphia springdale reporting 74 degrees and down about 9 degrees over the last 24 hours and down about 5 degrees in birdboro reporting 71 and already 60s on the board. Pretty nice for august evening and
Memorial for the children. We picked these ones because we knew they would like these and for the boy or boys they would probably like monkeyes. Two years going okendo surprise pour aid benefit to raise money for willow who underwent a heart transplant at 6 days old. She later plan to her at a grocery store. She remembered me and shes very upbeat and very smiley person, warm, loving and thats the vibe you get from her when you speak to her. Earlier this year megan shared a struck well ptsd related to threatening health issues. The Organization Posted a tribute to the family on its Facebook Page that reads today an entire community is mourning loss of amazing mother and her children forever in our hearts. The District Attorney office is expected to hole a conference non reveal details. Investigators said the shorts had dom eggestic issues in the past. Sichinging springs, berks koumentsy, trandoe eyewitness news. Philadelphias criminal Justice Center will reopen after a mel elevator mish
Junior age 5 and willow, 2 years old. They all died of gun shot wounds and did a family dog and officers found them in the living room of a home. Police recovered a handgun close to one of the adults. Investigators say they found a handwritten note which they described as murdersuicide note and their youngest daughter willow is known with heart defect and one woman who met the family through a fundraiser tells me shes heartbroken. I was lost last night. I cannot sleep, either. I was think about it all night because a few months ago i had team megan and the kids at giant here. She remembered me and shes very upbeat and you know shes very smiley person warm being loving and thats the vibe you get from her when you speak to her. And little mended hearts, an organization that megan was active member of they released a statement posted on their Facebook Page and nraedz part today an entire community is mourning loss of amazing mother and children forever in our hearts. But for now, were liv
Because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. Reporter the Charity Hospital in jordan that is helping war victims recover from severe injuries. Ill have all your sport including number three seed andy murray crashes out of the u. S. Open and fails to meet a grand slam quarter final for the first time in five years. Now the u. N. Is saying an urgent system is required to relocate refugees to ease the worsening crisis in europe. The u. N. Unhcr say there are 30,000 refugees on greek islands with 20,000 on the island of lesbo alone and 11,000 syrians have arrived in neighboring macedonia on monday. Ahead of germanys biggest state northwest falia says the number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the earlier estimate of 800,000. Hundreds of Asylum Seekers have broken through police lines in hungrys southern border close to the border with serbia and more people are stranded within hungry at a camp that is just across the border from serbia and the
Performing stunts near fortyninth and green way in southwest philadelphia. We are told that these people are part of the funeral procession in center city for a dirt biker murdered last week. We will have, more on this story, tonight on Eyewitness News at 6 00 oclock. Blade runner oz cast pistorius is behind bars. He has begun serving a fiveyear prison sentence for killing his girlfriend reeva stein scam seven. Cbs reporter deborah pada has more on the sentence handed down by a judge in south africa. Reporter huge crowd gathered Oscar Pistorius as began a fiveyear prison term for killing his girl friend. Mr. Pistorius. Reporter sentence foreman slaughter comes 20 months after para olympic champion shot and killed reeva stein cam in his South African home claiming he thought she was an intruder. The judge said that double amputee known as blade runner showed gross negligence when he fired four fatal shots at steenkamp through his locked bathroom door. She said her decision balanced that