Betsy ross bridge, kind of quiet this morning, virtually no overnight construction because of the holiday. Couple of fire locations, one here in abington, Huntingdon Pike, police and fire crews on the scene, with the fires comes the water. Then that gets iced over just like here in the neighborhood. The fire location, we will tell but in a moment at that church, corn well just off of f street. So watch for some local detours. Septa had some problems last night, signal problems, causing big delays on the Airport Media elwyn and wilmington line late last night. Were still wait fog find out if those signal delays will carry into the start of our morning rush hour, well have that update the next time around, thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank youment lets talk about the developing story. Still breaking right now, overnight fire at old Vacant Church. This is in kensington. Sending 19 Homeless People back into the bitter cold. That cold weather certainly made it hard for crews to get all o
Before per filing confrontation ended. Alicia live at the scene in south philadelphia, with the latest developments, good afternoon, alicia. Reporter good afternoon, jim, rahel, were told this whole ordeal played out here on 730 this morning, you can tell, just behind me, hours later, investigators are still out here mapping out how this happened and why. Were told investigators are currently interviewing the officer involved along with several witnesses, some of whom were amongst those nearly hit and had to dodge the driver of that black honda this morning. Irradic driver in south philadelphia shot this morning by an offduty cop. Just heard pop, pop, pop. I knew something was going down. Police believe the driver of this black honda was targeting pedestrians, trying to hit them as they walked down broad street. The driver succeeded hitting at least one pedestrian, but thats when police say a concerned citizen blocked the erratic driver with their suv then an offduty officer approached
Defensive end Brandon Graham yesterday. Hes excited about the week ahead. You know, im excited. Im like, you know, i got to enjoy it, you know, but we here to we here the take care of business. Its cold. Yeah, its cold. But you know, we going to be in 70degree weather and we going to be all right. But im excited, you know, just to be down here just to be in this atmosphere and im just going to go out here and enjoy some food right now and see what minnesota is talking about. Yeah, so Brandon Graham talking to us last night. We were gentle compared to what theyre going to see in this building at the excel Energy Center later on this evening for super bowl Opening Night. I got to come up with some crazy questions. You got a little time. Im going to work on it. For now im jaime apody live. Back to you guys in the studio. Thank you so much. And now lets go to brian and sharrie inside of the mall of america in emergency bloomin. Hey, guys. Reporter yeah, hey, monica, hey rick, youre right,
Evacuated. The exterior of one Apartment Building was slightly damaged. No one was hurt. Four firefighters wounded, one seriously while battling a wildfire in the sierra foothills. They were airlifted yesterday to Uc Davis Medical Center in sacramento for burns. The lowell fire began saturday and burned about 1,500 acres near alta and nevada county. That fire is just 15 contained. About 1,800 structures are threatened including homes in nevada and placer counties. In madeira county the willow fire has grown to 1,500 acres. Its just 5 contained. People have been evacuated from 450 homes and a campground southeast of bass lake. There are concerns about rising temperatures forecast for later this week. Heres a map showing the major wildfires in the west. Much can be blamed on the lingering drought. Last year at this time 1. 6 million acres had burned in the u. S. , that number has more than tripled this year to about 5. 6 million acres. I was up in the sierra foothills over the weekend ne
Reporter we have rain in south jersey and delaware, the other issue is heavy downpours and lightning. Those of you in surf city, Atlantic City and cape may, in the next 30 minutes youll get the showers and thunderstorms. Again it is starting to die down a little bit in the i95 corridor. In the wide view you cant see the movement. It is pushing toward the east and toward the south. Theres a wave of low pressure thats triggering this this morning. Some of the downpours from the storms have been heavy. We have flood advisories in southeastern pennsylvania. They have been dropped but we have them for camden, Gloucester County salem and Current County new jersey. You never drive through flooded roads find another way around. 70 in wilmington and allentown and trenton. 74 in sea isle city. Its humid out there. Dewpoints up above 7 in spots down south thats extremely humid. The high 60s to mid 60s across the rest of the region indicates sticky air still in place. 71 degrees with the rain fall