This was the second time in two months that united flights were grounded by computer problems and the Company Stock was taking a nose dive on wall street, and that ended abruptly when they halted all trading at 11 00 this morning the exchange blamed technical issues blaming stocks from other exchanges that was not effected. It ended just after 3 00 this afternoon while that was going on, the wall street journals home page went off line, the glitches came one after another, and leading some to speculate that the economy could be under cyber attack and president obama is monitoring the situation and there is no sign of outside interference united certainly interfered with travel plans for a lot of people. People are so dependant on technology that we condition get the flights going without it we should have been able to leave. Frustrating day . Yes very frustrating. A frustrating day for a lot of folks whose lives are ruled by computers, we are all relying on them but no word from the go
Sentencing day for a doctor that told people they had cancer. And how the soak Receipt Service is getting ready for the big challenge this fall. But the big news is the cleanup from normal possible tornado in pennsylvania, chopper 6 hd gave us a better look at the instruction this morning. It left an Elementary School in ruins and most of the roof is gone and class roms are torn apart. Lets go live to john rawlin has as the National Weather is arriving to survey the damage. They say it may take them an hour to two hours to assess the situation to determine the cause of all the damage. Could it have been a tornado, whatever the case, it was an intense storm it happened while a staffer was still inside. This cell phone video of the Early Morning storm that could be a tornado forming, taken west of the school as neighbors ss hunkered down in the school as the intense winds tore the flat roof apart. We dont have a ceiling light in this school, why am i seeing daylight. She dug herself out
Back. The crooks are so brazen they strike all the time. Breakins happen every day. Daily, breakins, they break the windows and smash and grab and has one more thing to say, it will only get worse on chestnut unless something is done. But he may not be here to see it. We are considering closing, you may come here and we are not here. No word on what was taken but boyds high end merchandise worth a lot of money. Bob brooks channel 6 action news. Thank you bob. Maryland state police shot and killed two suspects wanted in tell wear, the incident happened shortly before 10 00 this morning at the new eastern inn on polanski highway over the delaware border. Police say they were serving a search warrant when the unidentified man and woman raised weapons at officers, they shot the suspects after the suspects ignored commands to dron their guns, the suspects believed to be from dover were wanted on felony firearms charges in delaware. And the northeast extension is back open tonight after a bi
Investigation. Authorities believe it happened in a bedroom. A gun was recovered. We have a 4yearold little girl thats dead here, so thats our number one priority finding out how this happened. Reporter and back here live where you can see investigators are right outside the home. They have obtained a warrant and they have been inside gathering evidence. Again, they have recovered a gun. However, they dont know who it belonged to. They dont know yet if it was legal. We are live in north philadelphia. Katherine scott, channel 6 action news. Bribe . Brian . Thank you. Also developing this afternoon, sheriff sheriff has resigned from chaka fattah has resigned effective immediately. That comes, of course, in the wake of his conviction earlier this week. And as a change in course what he said just yesterday. Action News Reporter john rawlins live in wynnefield, this afternoon, with details on todays announcement. John . Reporter well, word of the resignation came down shortly before 1 00 to
11 00. 7 00 in our far western suburbs, sec at the shore. We are looking at a solid line of storms, the strongest is along the i95 corridor to the west. As it moves closer to the shore it encounters the cooler air and that helps the storms die out. With this storm the main threat is damaging winds, this is associatied with a cold front. We have a pair of 90s, todays high is 95 degrees, well talk about cooler weather coming up in the full accuweather forecast. The Philadelphia Fire Department has issued a data filled defense to its response to a tragic blaze. One day after police dragged protesters from a firehouse and the day after a fire killed four children, commissioner sawyer used timelines and 911 calls to show there was no delay. Action News Reporter john rawlin was at the News Conference and sara bloomquist is back in the newsroom. Reporter the Fire Commission under and chief of staff pushed back against critics today and said that someone, a civilian, used a fire extinguisher t