Now at 5 00 a dangerous gas leak forced evacuations at road closures in a south jersey community, and we are live with the details about what caused the hazard. Good evening everyone im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Gas leak in south jersey forced evacuations and shut down exit of the major highway railcar sprung a leak this morning near osprey court in Logan Township Gloucester County. This is a look at the closures exit number 10 of i295 north and southbound to Centre Square road remains shut down at this hour. Centre square road is also closed down between the 25 and pedricktown road. Eyewitness News Reporter joe holden joins us from the scene where he has been tracking this story all day, joe, good evening. I just check with Gloucester County Emergency Management and they have confirmed to cbs3 that officials have been able to contain that leaking, tanker truck, six and a half hours into all of this. Im told they put a secondary valve on top to make sure it stays secure, right
Watching. Yes. Katie, all right, matt, good to see you, happy friday, very busy in the worlds of travel. Very serious accident out there amongst flooding and whole other host of issues this morning, so were getting to all of that. Weather shouldnt be causing too much after problem, the big problem for us yesterday on the area roadways, of course we had all of the showers, and we had few areas of thunder as we move through the overnight house, but the good news that low now moving off the coast, with just few scattered rain showers here across the area this morning. Cloud cover is out there, as well. Shouldnt again cause too many problems on the area roads on this friday morning, of course, everyone trying to get going little early. Temperatures for us, in the 60s, actually race friend 58 degrees about an hour and a half or so ago, up to 60 in center city, looking at 60s down toward the shore point, dover, 59, 58 kicking off the morning in wilmington. It will be breezy day for us even t
When his helicopter went down. Witnesses describe a fiery and frightening scene. It sounded like a missile coming in. It was weird. You know, i just all die was duck. I was like, you know, didnt know where it was coming from. Reporter john hughes had just pulled into the Industrial Park on quigley boulevard in new castle to do some i. To work at a business here. Thats when he heard a loud noise from behind and witnessed a medical helicopter take a knows dive. Sounded like the propellers werent moving. Like it was struggling and kind of looked up and i seen it like going straight down, you know, at the last minute. Big explosion, names, felt, you know, the heat from it. Kind of just shocked. Reporter chopper went down in Drainage Ditch behind the us postal facility. Dominic kara bellow works across the street. The way it took this building and it rocked it. So i thought it was going we started running out this way when we look across we saw that big ball of fire and the smoke. Reporter
Pants . Her bracelet caught on the garage door and it is going up. And storms are still popping up as we head into memorial day weekend. Your news starts in 30 seconds. Black smoke and flames. Helicopter down in delaware. We just found out who was insi inside. Severe weather strikes. Thunder, even hail and of course a lot of rain and its not going away for your Holiday Weekend. Now fox 29 news at ten. First at ten do you need to change your Holiday Weekend plans . Drenching showers on the radar tonight. Not just rain take look at center city. Philadelphia a couple of hours ago that of course is hail, droves of people will head right there tomorrow. The jersey shore which is get be rain right now. The question on a lot of minds on this thursday night, when will things dry out . Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland a lot of folks already have the car pack, the cooler filled for the weekend barbeques and all of that. So is it going to be wash out because that doesnt look go