Hours time. The row over hs2 continues as senior conservatives warn against axing the rail project despite spiralling costs. Well be debating is it time to derail all hs2 or not. 7 and as always, paul coyte is here with the latest from the world of sport. I do. I do. I do. To the ryder cup preparations are hotting up, which happens at the end of the week. The ecb have vowed to change cricket for the better and the Manchester United feud continues and feud continues. The ten hag sancho continues. The ten hag sancho feud. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, that feud. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, that feud. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, that feud. Feud. Oh, yes indeed. Oh, yes indeed. Ah ha. And you can join in any of our discussions if you knew anything about that feud or any other feud youd like to discuss with us. Gb views or gbnews. Com but can tweet us gbnews. Com but you can tweet us at. Gb news. At. Gb news. So later today , the home so later today, the home secretary will make a speech in washington calling on the Un Re
So it will be arriving during the evening hours, so 8 00 oclock we are looking clear but by 10 00 we are seeing flakes flying in and around Center City Philadelphia we will see a period of light snow before things taper off as we head in the overnight period. We will talk about accumulation by morning and if we can get these temperatures to warm up anytime soon coming up in your full forecast in just a few. Lauren, thanks. Now that winter is kicking in it is more and more tempt to go cozy up inside after work. A lot of philadelphians dont get a break from the cold. Our greg argos spoke with some of the people who work to keep people out of the frigid weather, greg. Reporter that is exactly right were talking about philadelphias homeless population. Of course you and i can go in and warm up after this but many people in philadelphia cannot do. That we are under is what known as code blue. That means there are teams of people you the there right new on the streets helping out the homeles
Reporter though there is still plenty of evidence of the parade left behind. The cleaning operation continues, we are detailing around the eakins oval area where there was a large majority of the crowd. Reporter friday afternoon mayor and city officials gave details of the event there were two total arrests one for assaulting a police officer. No real injuries to speak of. Reporter two people were stabbed one near art museum both are expect to be okay. There were five citations for disorderly conduct. To be able to have that type of an event with those numbers and to have as the mayor said, some small hiccups , you know, it is remarkable in myes nation. Reporter so what were the numbers . One crowd safety estimates 700,000 people attended, the head of the Cities Office of Emergency Management though believes, it is much higher. Based on our experience with other large events on the parkway, we feel that it was well above 700, certainly below some of the higher numbers we have seen circ
And i was kind of scared. Reporter firefighters and paramedics rescued the man his burnt clothing lay strewn across the sidewalk. Investigators spent much of the morning on the scene looking for clues including Surveillance Video from homes along the block. I believe they have cameras down here so i hopefully they caught everything. Reporter the victim was taken to Temple University hospital with second and third degree burns over about 50 percent of his body. Police are expected to provide some new information and just about a half an hour we will be there and we will have a live report coming up on action news at 6 oclock. Live at the special victims units in hunting park im Sarah Bloomquist channel6 action news. Back to you. Sarah thank you. A camden firefighter injured on the job was released from the hospital today. The action cam was there at his home as captain Robert Eckert was greeted by the mayor and fellow firefighters. He spent much of the last two weeks at cooper Universit
Right now, drenching rain is expected to arrive soon. City officials releasing details how things went through the eagles parade of champion. Well tell you just how many people were arrested and how big the crowds were, according to early unofficial estimates. Today is saturday february , im jan carabeo, lets start off with the forecast, here is Chelsey Ingram with eyewitness weather. Good saturday morning, chelsey how are you . Pretty nice out there right now. Even feels extremely mild out there, especially for february standards. So it is feeling like spring this weekend, thats the trade off we will get some rain headed our way very, very soon jan. Dry for now. If you have anything you need to get done outside, any errands you need to do, do them now, first part of the day, because rain will be moving on in later today. This is actually tonight. So looking at weekends soaker headed our way. Going to be milder as i mentioned. But wet. High temperatures will be in the 50s. Showers deve