Hot spots, also, all around the area of olde city road is still remain closed, every where including portions of market street, Chestnut Street tonight. Fire officials are still investigating the cause, luckily no one was injured. Just after 3 00 a. M. Four alarm blaze broke out at third and chestnut, the flames and thick smoke forced 160 people out of their apartments at 239 chestnut and guests at best western hotel. The Philadelphia Fire Department responded with 150 Fire Fighters and medics, and at this point residents believe that the fire started on the top floor of the apartment building, officials are still assessing the total damage to build goes on the block, the museum of the American Revolution was not damaged and will reopen monday the owner, little lion said shes still waiting to find out the extent of damage to his building, he has a staff of 80 people that just closed for the night before the fire erupted. We have about 80 employees. Eighty people depending on little lio
Generated by the pa traderade doesnt remain on the ground long at all. Were awaiting comments from the mayor on the cleanup process and whats next for the city. Shes lyeive at city hall. Reporter at 11 30 city officials are going to get tokt and assess just how well yesterday went or some of the challenges they faced. We hope to hear more about how many people showed up for that parade. Also expecting to hear more about transportation and arrests, but take a look at that video. The cleanup continues for eakins oval this morning. The crews are out with blowers and rakes moving the trash for the heavy machine troy pick it up. A bare bush is littered with beer cans and bottles, thankfully students from saint franziska breenny, theyre close by and theyre helping clean up and learning at the same time. Were work on conservation efforts in school right now. Theyre doing big projects where were working on ways to improve the environment so we figured this say great way to kick off that progra
Coming up and impacting southern delaware and the jersey shore. Well all see some rainfall today, but during the day today and through tonight at the shore, right along the coast and the delaware beaches, high winds. High surf if the potential for heavy rainfall. The rain has started in cape may. Already coming down. Just light rain. See in clear live view from marquis de lafayette hotel. Atlantic city area as well. Slowly spreading to the north. Hasnt reached wilmington yet. Drying out in philadelphia. More on the way. Its part of the system that potentially could become a Tropical Storm. Hasnt happened yesterday. Running into some problems. Becoming a Tropical Storm. Looking less likely today. Even if that doesnt happen. Still going to see a lot of rain and strong gusty winds and high surf making for some treacherous conditions for the shore. 60 degrees right now in new jersey. Suburbs 59 degrees. Another cool start for the lehigh valley. 67 degrees in delaware. During the day, rain,
Rico. 80 of people still dont have power, a third dont have drinkable water. And only 8 of the islands roads are passable. But puerto rico is not the only u. S. Territory that still needs help. Were shown how families that fled the Virgin Islands are forced to take matters into their own hands. A lot of times women, families have to choose between waiting in line for food or waiting in line for gas. Reporter this was the view from her house when irma made landfall. She lives on the island with her husband now, but evacuated from the hurricanes wrath. The government housed u. S. Virjen islands facebook warns todays the last day fema will hand out emergency food and water. This concerned her. I can only imagine the desperateness and hopelessness people will feel. Talk about kicking someone when theyre down. Reporter its been about a month since irma. She cant go back for at least another three months. Many still feel the island needs more attention. I was so relieved these guys reached o
Im rosemary connors. Im via sikahema. Well get to meteorologist krystal klei with most accurate weather forecast. Radar and satellite is a much better picture than yesterday. Cloudy and dreary. Were not going to have the type of rain that we had yesterday. It was steady in spots for a couple of morning hours. Instead, cloudiness remains. Sprinkles are trying to come up from the south. Sussex, Cape May County may see rain, light drizzle. Overall, this is a drier morning than what weve seen the last couple of days. Current temperatures, cooler, which depends on how youre feeling. This is closer to fall feeling. 53 in allentown. Same for trenton. 55 at mt. Holly. Atlantic city, 62. Philly at 58. The fall feel meter. Weve moved from is it still summer to the morning chill. The question, when do we break out the flannel and sip on the Pumpkin Spice coming up in a bit. Now to traffic and pamela osborne. Im watching an accident in cineminsen. There was a pole knocked down, so there are poles