People in one philadelphia neighborhood want answers after a woman was murdered in her own home. Dozens honored winnie harris. Im dawn timmeney im joyce evans. The 65yearold Community Activist was found dead inside her home last week. Now, there are a lot of questions. Friends and family want answers. Fox 29 Jennifer Joyce is live at Police Headquarters tonight with more on the search for her killer. Reporter good evening, guys, a week later nonarrests has been made but people who know winnie say there will be justice. Raw emotion, music and prayer. We pray that she will give us comfort. Reporter candlelight tears. Friends and family came together to honor the life of winnie harris. She was a wellknown Community Activist to found murdered last week. Asking today for everyone here to stand for winnie today. This is not a big street. Somebody had to have seen something. Heard something. Reporter sally said she knew harris from the gardening community. She was everywhere. Reporter harris
Up at the poles. Reporter former pennsylvania governor ed rendell thinks republicans didnt give Governor John Kasich a chance that they should have. He was a very good governor, very smart, very bright and he never got a real hard look from any of the voters except in his home state. Reporter he doesnt hold back in describing the Presumptive Republican nominee. At best an eradic, blow hard show man. If you look at African Americans voters, hispanic voters and women particularly single woman, that probably is 65 percent or maybe even 70 percent of the voter base in the city of philadelphia. Reporter buts grease that some working class democrats could Cross Party Lines and support of trumps strongly worded stances. But i think for everyone of those he will lose one or two suburban republicans. Reporter so trumps move now. Because we want to bring unity to the republican party. I think a lot of people were interested in what will happen in the conn kes ted convention and now without that
Seat wind flow turn more southerly, bit of wider zoom, you can see just off in the distance, really off to the west of cleveland even, wet weather starting to pick up. Thats frontal boundary crossing through fizzling as it comes along, but bring in shot for wet weather. Not so much the speed, rather the direction, you have got couple of spots where you might actually notice that, wildwood, but that wind flow coming out of the south. So that l rye is the key here, start to see temperatures going on an uphill climb. Hour by hour where we stand, definitely warmer by comparison, milder day still above average as we expect it spike to 56 at the height of the afternoon here between the hours every one to 3 00. Meanwhile jump top christmas, christmas eve, this is the expected high. Yes, not typo. 71 degrees, what we expect by comparison, cooler Christmas Day coming up here, so just sort of sampling of what is yet to come. Merry christmas, but no White Christmas it time, goes guys, it will be
The big story on action news is a fiery crash that left three people dead. It happened early this morning in the city holmesburg section and a car slammed into a tractortrailer and burst into flames. This say live look at the scene of the crash. Of of they say its not unusual to speed down this stretch of torresdale avenue. Nobody drivers the speed limit theyre driving 50, 40 miles an hour down this road and its just been a hazard for years and they never do anything about it. Paul with the Upper Holmesburg Civic Association says hes working with city council hoping to ban tractortrailers for parking here. Its constant. The people are constantly hitting parked cars here. Its dark along here. And they just cant see it. Reporting in northeast philadelphia, trish hartman. Channel 6 action news. One person is incustody tonight accused of robbing a 9 91yearold woman inside her West Philadelphia home overnight. And police found him by tracking her stolen phone but where they found him was a
He says, hes a little banked up still but hes doing okay. Im still pretty sore. You know, a lot of pain in my leg and shoulder. Reporter Philadelphia Police officer mark kemsy is visiting with had brothers at the 17th district in south philly on crutches and healing from a concussion after this fiery crash saturday evening. He praised the quick rags of 17 year old did he Company Resident joe chambers and south philly resident Dante Johnson for saving his live pulling him to safety. Joe chambers came over end told me my car was on fire. He fold me i needed to get out and we tried the door. I was kind of disoriented. So i didnt know what was going on. He pulled me out through the window and drug me down the street a little bit to get away from the vehicle that was on fire. Im just really thankful they were there and they decided to act instead of watch. Well, the condition of the driver in the paying up truck is unknown at this time. That driver continues to recover and police are still