Introducing the oneandonly Volkswagen Golf sportwagen. The sportier utility vehicle. From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. A truck slams into a Montgomery County school killing the driver and tonight at 11 00 the search for answers about this deadly crash. Good evening everyone, im natasha brown. Thank you so much for joining us much the crash happen at lower mooreland high school. Tonight a High School Janitor tells Eyewitness News reporter Steve Patterson hes lucky to be alive because he happened to walk into another room at just the right time. Reporter it was a matter of time. What took hours to pull out only took an instant to go in. It was bam and it was out. Reporter School Janitor dan said if that instant was just a few seconds earlier he would would be dead. I i would have been gone. No question. It blew it apart. Yeah i feel lucky. Reporter police say shortly before 2 00 this afternoon, this black pickup truck drove straight into a wall a
Yeah i feel lucky. Reporter police say shortly before 2 00 this afternoon, this black pickup truck drove straight into a wall at lower moreland high school. Eyewitness josh, says he watched the car accelerate with no sign of braking. I saw a black truck. I saw it rev its engine and smoke coming from it. I her it gun down the parking lot all the way down until iheard this gigantic whack. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck struck several water pipes causing flooding and cutting power to the high school school. Less a minute away from changing dans lifer. Ive already thanked god more than once. Reporter the work now is speedy repair. Not only patching that whole but fixing any flooding left over and restoring power after what happened in this accident. In the meantime, no word yet on if school will start on monday. School officials will make that decision on sunday. Reporting from lower mooreland Steve Patterson cbs3 Eyewitness News. Turning now to our weather. We saw
Excon gas station worker says a robber smashed his car windy. Police say he caught this guy and another man leaving the store without paying. It happened on the 3100 block of north broad street in franklinville sunday afternoon. He followed them outside. Police say one of them picked up a brick and threw it at the guy missing. He went after the brick picked it up again and smashed his car window. If you know who he is, you know what to do, call police. New details tonight on the deadly massachusetts plane crash that killed co known of the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. The National Transportation safety board just releasing the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder and a panicked pilots last words. One pilot is heard saying lock is on. Seven times. Followed by i cant stop it and oh no, no. Louis katz and six others were killed in may of 2014 as the plane sped toward the end of the runway crashed and burst into flames. A preliminary ntsb report in june suggested the two pilots did
Good evening, im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. They were on the rod road for hours before Police Tracked them down. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at the Police Headquarters with the story. Dave, pretty bizarre. Reporter dawn, that wild ride stretched from kensington to West Philadelphia and on into north philly before that car was finally stopped by police with the oneyearold was inside the car with a 14yearold girl behind the wheel. Tonight the 14yearold girl and her teenaged companion are being questioned by police and the little boy is home with his mother. This was the scene wednesday evening after police finally located this oneyearold boy after they say he was taken from his home by a 14yearold girl. Why she did this, why she took the child is unknown. Reporter police say the 14yearold took the child from his mothers home in the 1800 block of east clementine street in kensington around 2 30. She and 18yearold companion set off on two hour journey across the city w
the map. it should town out to be a nice day with mostly sunny skies into the afternoon hours and again with high pressure building in, we ll be nice and dry for the next several days. here is your forecast. mostly sunny skies and a little warmer than yesterday. high temperature of about 40 degrees. winds out of the west at 5-10 miles per hour. i ll return in a couple of minutes and look at the forecast at the end ofhe week. we have a nice warmup coming. we ll talk about that in a few minutes. it s total mayhem. there are people in the streets, there is lots and lots of damage. a devastating 7.0 earthquake hits the small country of haiti, leaving an estimated 3 million people in need of emergency help. the fear this morning is that thousands may be dead. the quakes epicenter just 10 miles from the capitol of port- au-prince. we understand a large part of the city have been leveled. we start with doug luzader on capitol hill. reporter: because communications are so dif