Flight from Atlantic City airport to newcastle airport. First responders rushed to the scene and john hughes took this video after he watched the chopper crash. It sounds like it was out of gas, like the propellers were not moving and it was struggling and i looked up and seen it going straight down. Jay williams heard the crash and saw the after imagine. We heard the crash and felt the crash across the street. The investigation began immediately with authorities marking debris including this tank on the grown and getting footage with a drone. Its up to them whether they want to continue to conduct the investigation tonight or hold off until the daytime hours and start off fresh tomorrow morning. The ntsb, is expected to arrive on the scene here at 7 00 tonight and we do expect another briefing around that time. Again, we know the pilot was a franklinville, new jersey man 37 years old and his name is withheld pending notification of next of kin. Thank you. In other news a dangerous lea
For tonight more evening showers and thunderstorms waiting on the bigger batch over d. C. There is potential that storms could have gusty winds and even small hail. Delaware and southern knowledge they broke into sunshine today and temperature theres near 80 degrees with the possibility of isolate the severe storms. Heading into the weekend i am tracking some unsettled weather it wont be a washout and ill talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. We have the latest now on helicopter tragedy in delaware a pilot was killed when his medical held cop crashed. It ended in smoke and flames. Sara bloomquist and vernon odom are on the scene. Sabra let start with you. This is the same company that supplied choppers for the university of Pennsylvania Health system. Reporter jim that is right, but the pilot was the only person on board. No patients or penn medicine employees we learned the pilot was a 37yearold man from franklinville, new jersey, the chopper went down in a Drainage Ditch
Trenton, princeton, lawrence, pennington, near 206. Lightning strikes with it as well. Closer to philadelphia, thunder and lightning is out of here. We have a soaking rain across chester county. The spin is the low pulling out. All of the rain is moving out overnight. We got soaked today. The average amount of rain month of may is less than four inches. We are closing in on six inches. Allentown and reading not as much. Wilmington close to two inches. We had soaking rain this morning, thunderstorm in the evening and the other round moving through tonight. This is what to expect. The storms exit the region overnight. Seasonal temperatures, a great start to the weekend. Im tracking showers for the holiday. Ill talk about in the full forecast. Cecily, thank you. A long tree in mount airy fell victim to earlier bouts of the storm toppling on johnson street, blocking traffic for a time. Nobody was hurt. A delaware trooper was involved in a collision at 8 45 at silver side road and benton co
Trenton, princeton, lawrence, pennington, near 206. Lightning strikes with it as well. Closer to philadelphia, thunder and lightning is out of here. We have a soaking rain across chester county. The spin is the low pulling out. All of the rain is moving out overnight. We got soaked today. The average amount of rain month of may is less than four inches. We are closing in on six inches. Allentown and reading not as much. Wilmington close to two inches. We had soaking rain this morning, thunderstorm in the evening and the other round moving through tonight. This is what to expect. The storms exit the region overnight. Seasonal temperatures, a great start to the weekend. Im tracking showers for the holiday. Ill talk about in the full forecast. Cecily, thank you. A long tree in mount airy fell victim to earlier bouts of the storm toppling on johnson street, blocking traffic for a time. Nobody was hurt. A delaware trooper was involved in a collision at 8 45 at silver side road and benton co
About the pilot who was killed in a Training Exercise and his final moments of flight. A Congressional Election stunner, a candidate who raced a ruckus by body slam ago slamming a reporter. Good morning everybody, david murphy and matt pellman are here to get us ready for the Holiday Weekend. Reporter we have sprinkles up by allentown and were seeing breaks in the clouds across the region. Looks like well wind up with a mix of clouds and sun, mainly dry conditions this morning. You can see the area of low pressure pinwheeling away from us up over new england. There are wrap around showers that will make a run at us, we could see another spotty shower today. 60 degrees in philadelphia. 60 in millville. Very even numbers across the region, a couple of suburbs slipping to 57. As we roll through the day, it looks mild. Noon, 72. 3 00 p. M. , thats the high, 75 degrees, a spotty afternoon shower for a time today. 5 00 p. M. , drying out, 74. 7 00 p. M. Tonight, 72 degrees were heading off i