Saturday, i think well be tied for number one, looking nice with a mixture of sun and clouds and warm on sun and comfortable tomorrow, saturday though low pressure to the south will pull up some instability, so that mean the sunshine fading behind a lot of clouds and well have some showers on the way as well on saturday the 4th is not the best day but the weekend will not be a washout. Ill have more on the 4th coming up. Can you visit our website at 6abc. Com, there you can view our live radar including Storm Tracker 6 and look at the sevenday forecast. A young boy is expected to recover after falling out of a second story window of a north philadelphia home, it happened this morning and police say it appears to have been an accident. Chad pradelli is looking into the story on West Huntington street. Reporter yes the boy fell out of the window at 11 00 this morning, here is what police tell me happened. The boy was just inside of that second floor window you see there on the far right
When a young man knock to do the door of her home he pushed himself in. Reporter this began a burglary and saw that would last three hours. She said the man started by rummaging for cash, taking 40 before duck taping her hands head and mouth i said would you do this to your mother or would you like somebody else to bother your mother like youre doing me . He said. Reporter according to reynolds, the suspect removed her clothing and threw her face first on to the bed. She tried to kick him in the groin. Maybe i really hurt him. I dont know. And i really dont care. Reporter the 88yearold then said she relied on quick thinking to ward off a sexual assault. Thats when i told him they had hiv and my husband died of it. Which was a lie, thats when he got out this piece of wire that he had rolled up in his pocket with the tape and everything and tied my ankles together. Reporter this violent incident occurred just five days before is a similar Home Invasion took place 14 miles away in east br
Lesson she to can teach us all. Sharing her story only with eyewitness news. Good evening im Ukee Washington im jessica dean. That attack happened in the typically Quiet Community of. Eyewitness news alexandria hoff tells us how a womans quick thinking saved her even more pain. Taped up with duck tape. s and i bit it all off. Reporter helen should not be under estimated. 3 00 p. M. February 17th, she just returneded from the store when a young man knock to do the door of her home he pushed himself in. Reporter this began a burglary and saw that would last three hours. She said the man started by rummaging for cash, taking 40 before duck taping her hands head and mouth i said would you do this to your mother or would you like somebody else to bother your mother like youre doing me . He said. Reporter according to reynolds, the suspect removed her clothing and threw her face first on to the bed. She tried to kick him in the groin. Maybe i really hurt him. I dont know. And i really dont c
Philadelphia ahead of the nfl draft. The big story on action news is the unseasonable warm weather. Temperatures have been in the mid 60s and accuweather says the warmest temperatures in nearly 6 months are on the way for the start of the workweek. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee joins us outside with the details. Reporter it was gorgeous as we close out the weekend today, high temperatures in the 60s and plenty of sunshine overhead. 67 in philadelphia. 68 in lancaster. 62 in the poconos. Our shore communities, beach haven, 52. 53 in cape may. Satellite and radar weve got a mostly clear sky across the region thanks to High Pressure that is anchored to our south. Were tapping into the southwesterly wind flow for the rest of the evening e evening. If youre stepping out later on on the town. It will drop down to 6 of. 66. It will clear out tonight and 62. 11 00 p. M. , 55. We get warmer as we get into the workweek. 2 00 p. M. Numbers in the upper 70s, it will get warmer than that as we close
The ground and rosemary, you were inside when all of this happened. We were, pam. We were here for a separate Court Hearing. As soon as we got off the elevators to come outside and finish an interview, thats when the fire alarm went off and they told everybody to get out. As you can see, Philadelphia Police and fire are still on the scene here, investigating. They will most likely be here for the rest of the morning, into the afternoon. Meantime, anybody who was inside the criminal Justice Center, the cjc, is now evacuated outside. Take a look. Theyre waiting here on third and broad street. Theyre waiting for the allclear. I just spoke to the sheriff a short time ago who told me an elevator did fall. The details are unclear. We dont know how many floors that elevator fell. But we know one woman was inside. We have video of that woman being taken out on a stretcher, being loaded on to an ambulance to be taken to the hospital. She appeared to be okay. We spoke to her briefly about what s