I am our Natasha Brown with breaking details tonight. Natasha . Reporter we can tell you at this hour that the fire here at 68th and woodland has been placed under control. But as you can still see, a very active scene as firefighters continuing to douse hot spots and control this area. We know that at least three row homes were directly affected by this fire with several people inside each home at the time. Two people jumped from second story windows just to escape the flames. We also understand that Philadelphia Police patrol officers were also helping to get people out of these burning homes so very heroic on their part as they jumped in to try to get people out of back doors and escaping the flames. Lets list never to the fire officials we spoke with here on the scene, moments ago explaining what happened in this block. Now work to go check all the dwellings, to make sure we have everyone out and that at this time we have unknown number of people that are affected. By that i mean s
Burning homes so very heroic on their part as they jumped in to try to get people out of back doors and escaping the flames. Lets list never to the fire officials we spoke with here on the scene, moments ago explaining what happened in this block. Now work to go check all the dwellings, to make sure we have everyone out and that at this time we have unknown number of people that are affected. By that i mean some of these homes had multiple occupant in one home. So were in the process every trying to get total count of the number of occupant we got in each home. Well, we can again tell you that three people were transport today area hospitals, the extent of their injuries is unknown at this point. As many as 15 homes here along the 2200 block of south 68th street have been ultimately affected now due to Power Outages or because of their proximity to the three fire homes that have been affected. So, an undisclosed amount of people at this point have been displaced from their homes while
Happy easter. We wanted to give you a quick look outside. There are clouds out there and their are storms headed our way. Well learn more about that in just a few minutes. You see that camera closing in on the bay ridge. There are high wind advisories for five bridges. We are not just expecting rains but also winds. Also, tahoe the resorts are expecting some snow. It looks like they got a dusting already. Lets turn to rose marry. You said blue canyon is getting snow. Reporter yeah thats down to 5,000 feet. If you head up the hill you will need your chains. That will last until the evening hours. Giving you a look outside our doors were we are off to a calm start. We have a bit of rain showing up in some spots. Santa rosa has a bit of clouds. Well get in closer here. We have a few scattered showers around. Santa rosa has some. A few scattered showers reported over the mountains. As we get into the second part of the morning it will be more widespread. Here we are at 7 00 a. M. We are no
About an hour and a half it came down an inch an hour, it was pouring. Now we have sunshine out to the southwest and baltimore and washington. Thats not necessarily a good thing, you get the sun in there it starts cooking things up making things more unstable and the additional precipitation out by cleveland and cincinnati arrives as a cold front and fires up decent thunderstorms. For now, the warmer air is to our south. Washington 74. 63 in philadelphia. 4 00 p. M. , 75, i think well see a high of 76. By 6 00 p. M. Well be in the 70s. By 10 00 p. M. , things may be settling down. Future tracker 6 shows the thunderstorms pushing into the immediate region and continuing to bug us through 8 00 or 9 00. Where they hit they may not hit everywhere, but where they do, we may be looking for the Severe Weather. The latest issue has us at a high risk for thunderstorms that could produce 60mile an hour wind gusts. Its only a moderate risk from philadelphia up through trenton and a low risk to th
Marcus mariota is the best pick in the draft but we wont mortgage our future. How about that, chip kelly says they are not looking to land marcus mariota, and that he did not bring in bradford to trade up. Is he the quarterback of the future, kelly says he doesnt know he is taking the wait and see approach but bradford is coming off tearing his acl each of the last two years bradford will talk for the first time today, and well carry it live on 6 abc. Will he ever play a snap for the philadelphia eagles, at this rate who knows what chip kelly and his front office is up to more moves are in the works for the philadelphia and the eagles. Im Jeff Skversky channel 6 action news. Thank you jeff, those changes are coming about as fast as chip kellys offense and leaving fans with no time to catch their breath. David henry is live in center city. As you can imagine they are eagles fans, and they are all over the map. And some say its time to shake up the team and bring in new blood, and other