Revamping policing, but the thing that maybe i wanted to start the discussion with is maybe not so much policydriven. Hes really shortwinded when it comes to big things. His inauguration speech was only about 10 minutes. He left his Inauguration Party before, basically, everyone else, and back on Election Night remember when he won . You could have missed his acceptance speech if you went to the restroom. So you have a couple of guys one who ran against him, one who almost did. What does this is a humble and another one who ran for mayor, so. Before this, yes. And one who ran in delaware. So now we got all four of you guys. Is this a humble mayor . Ive known jim for probably over 25 years when he was working in vince fumos office as a staffer, and hes always been sort of a shorttalkative person. Hes never been longwinded. He just goes to the point, and he really doesnt have much time for busy talk, and so thats just his style. Thats just his personality, and hes not willing to spend a
Neighborhood by neighborhood to show you how warm it will get when you live when im back in ten minutes. Right now lets find out if . Xah fog is affecting traffic. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Not necessarily affecting traffic yet because we dont have much in terms of a lot of traffic around. The drive times are still doing okay on 295, still a 13minute trip. No increase here. This is around cherry hill, around 38. The southbound lanes are right in here. You can see as cars move through the area, they still are dealing with reduced visibility. Something to watch out for and be a little bit careful. If you are on the schuylkill expressway, drive times are fine. Westbound or eastbound from the vine street expressway up towards the blue route, 12 minutes or headed eastbound into the center city area, well be fine there also. We keep checking in with the Philadelphia International airport with the fog, no weather delays there. Well have a check on mass transit coming up
Deadly police shooting, and more on a family struck by a car in new jersey. But the big story on action news is the charges filed after decomposing bodies were discovered in a funeral home operating without a license. Annie mccormick is live with new information. Reporter sara, Philadelphia Police have charged the funeral director, blair hawk ins of three counts of abuse of a corpse and they have no record of hawkins Funeral Service ever applying for a license. The medical examiner carried out three bodies at 53rd and vine, state Department Investigators working on a tip called in southwest detectives after finding deplorable conditions, one body was embalmed in a casket awaiting cremation and one was waiting to be embalmed and one was in a body bag, the funeral director says he did not know where that body came from. And they say there is no fridge ration inside and the bodies must be kept under 40 degrees, he told dann cuellar that he brought in hawkins to turn the business around an
I95. But the big story on action news this noon, a new push to find a kidnapping victim and her attacker. The reward has jumped to 15,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Its two days since a young nurse was shoved into a car by her german townhome. The police say she didnt know the man e, police are putting a lot of resources behind this. We need to find this young laid yes and find the person responsible and get him into custody and get her home safely. By now we have all seen the terrifying video of the abduction. Carlisha was snatched off the street apparently by a stranger sunday night, is happened on westd coulter street in german town, she had gotten off a bus and was hustled into a green ford taurus and she managed to kick out the windows as the car took, it may be from out of state. The video is chilling and police are trying to enhance it. We are working with the fbi to get an enhancement of the video, police got a good description of the kidnapper, a black man 510, 3
U. S. Attorney Zane Menninger says the dominated the community. Authorities believe the group raked in about 1. 8 million in criminal proceeds from cocaine and crack sales. The group allegedly protected its territory with violence. At least 15 firearms and ammunition were seized. Investigators say the dealers would sometimes stash their drugs and firearms in playgrounds, abandoned houses and even mailboxes. Now at least 20 of the defendants face mandatory minimum sentences of at least ten years. People who live in the city of chester, particularly in the areas surrounding rose and upland street deserve a break. They deserve better. Well continue in that community until we eradicate as much as we can, block by block, gang by gang, the violence and the drugs in that area. Todays arrest marked the culmination of a twoyear investigation. This investigation is the third major multiagency Law Enforcement initiative in the city of chester in just the past year. Tonight we are following develo