announcer: now from abc7, live breaking news. breaking news outside l.a. s staple center, fans gather to mourn the laker superstar who gave them 20 years of thrills, clutch shots and acrobatic highlights inside the arena. the sports world lost kobe bryant today in a helicopter crash that also killed his 13-year-old daughter and as many as seven others. he was a bigger than life superstar who came to the nba as a skinny teenager and almost immediately let everyone know he belonged. abc news reporter marci gonzalez begins our team coverage. reporter: this fiery wreckage in southern california, the scene of the helicopter crash that killed basketball legend kobe bryant and eight others. today is a tough day. reporter: witnesses report seeing the chopper in distress moments before it went down today in calabasas. i heard a helicopter just flying way too low, and i heard like a loud thud noise. reporter: bryant was drafted to the nba straight from high school in 1996
Degree temperatures today, were also watching the chance of thunderstorms rolling through for your saturday. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today, im katy zachry, it is just after 5 30 on your saturday morning. If you walk out the door youre going to feel some mist, it is muggy and its already warm outside. Lets get right to meteorologist karen thomas for our new neighborhood weather, a detailed forecast on where you live. Good morning, katy. Good morning, everyone. Yes, waking up this saturday morning this is the sort of weather outside where you say forget the hair because its so humid outside. I dont know what your hair does in the humidity but mine tends to go very big. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia,. 4 in wilmington. We are looking for temperatures especially in the city to be jumping back to the 90, 91 degree mark today as we go ahead and check additional temperatures, not much relief up here in the lehigh valley, 71 degrees early this morning, 74 in delaware and
Trees toppled, heavy rains close roads and tonight, hundreds of homes are still in the dark because of a storm system that worked its way along the entire east coast. Good evening, im maurice dubois. Cbs2 news Valerie Castro has more on the damage after the storm, live in yonkers where roads just reopened. Valerie . Reporter southbound lanes of the bronx River Parkway are now open, but stretches of the parkway were closed for hours today, so crews could deal with flooded streets and in fact, northbound portions are still shut down, just north of the springbrook parkway, the messageboard alerting drivers to the issues that lay ahead, the weather caused all kinds of problems around the tristate area. The tree basically on top of our house. Came home to this in englewood, new jersey and realized he had a big problem to deal with. Branches and debris all over the place. Thankfully no one was inside when it happened. Reporter his ninemonthold sons room was left a mess. Its messed up, the ce
And one manufacturers own cold air and change some of this over mix with some sleep weve been saying that as well as numerous reports of sleet to parts of Virginia Beach chesapeake announced a North Carolina as well especially on the pembroke section of Virginia Beach airport sports story now towards the oceanfront some sleet likely mixing in here even as reports from ocean view if you sleep palette mixing and continues down here across eastern parts of North Carolina around hartford and down across the outer banks now this rain and sleet will continue to spin as this area of low pressure moves off the coast line by nine oclock still dealing with the two coastal areas as we head towards Eleven Oclock and into tomorrow morning things will start to clear out and look for partly sunny day tomorrow but another chance for some Winter Weather by monday night and tuesday ill have details on that in the seventy forecasts coming up a few Minutes Police are looking for the person or people respo
Slice of what america is will be spent with tight knit bunch guy sorensen is one of many who are helping those forced from their homes because of this massive fire last week in the four alarm fire in norfolk. Went to several buildings leading nearly forty people without shelter. Many had their homes destroyed. Now several businesses like sunset grill in Willoughby Spit and residents are doing a fundraiser to how the fire victims. We pull together strong as community we really rallied to help those friends and neighbors and folks we dont even know until that whatever is raise will be split evenly among those affected by the fire but along with their help the American Red Cross has been providing temporary housing and assistance to victims but with several fires breaking out of quasi empty rows. This has been an unusually busy week for them they had this to share please greet and to just you know make sure that you your family know if a fire hits you how youre gonna get out and get out w