The low tonight. That takes care of your tuesday fox cast, we will check that seven day forecast coming up for you and show you the list of record that could be tied or broken before the day is through. That of course is coming up in just a few minutes but we have got to hear from bob kelly on this tuesday morning, good morning. Right back at you at 5 01. Good morning everybody to watching at home getting ready to kick covers off. In problems at all as we look at route 202 and 309. Kind of quiet but watch out for black ice. The it is out there. Conshohocken state road at hallow road. If you make that right turn. We will go slipping and sliding, that is the the situation in the neighborhoods at the moment. Westbound on the schuylkill expressway speedometer readings in the 50s but we have a disabled near conshohocken curve right before you get into the the conshohocken curve off to the shoulder. The heres what is closed as a result the of the Tanker Accident from yesterday. Coming over b
We begin with the lightest from stafford township, new jersey, in ocean county at least two were hurt and 75 homes were evacuated after a gas explosion on oak avenue. The gas crews were looking for the source of the leak when it ignighted this morning. Chopper 6 hd was over the scene after the explosion and it was leveled. Police say between 75 and 100 homes are evacuated right now and its affected area stretches from route 9 to perkins lane, that is the video from after it happened. This is the way it looks now, it looks like the fire is extinguished. We know that the gas company well its still burning there its an active gas leak here and they have evacuated the area because there is an imminent danger here, its unstable and the gas company is on the scene trying to turn off the source of the gas, they have evacuated a large area here to get people out of the way and they have been evacuated when the gas company was called out because of the odor of gas and they evacuated the homes a
Camera after the explosion. Once the explosion happened . He entered his car pushed the record button knowing that the recorder would caption 30 seconds prior to it being turned. Reporter one home was shredded two others left uninhabitable and more than a dozen others were damaged. New pictures of the scene show the devastation. This was where the house was. Other homes off foundations windows blown out doors landing across the street. A debris field of more than 75 feet in one direction. Ive been in Law Enforcement 29 years. Ive never seen the devastation total devastation like i saw today. Reporter neighbors heard the blast and felt their own homes shake. I heard this big crashing noise or explosion or something. The whole house shook. I thought the house was going down or something. Very violently. I call downstairs mine Kitchen Cabinets were open. Reporter the building was a familys guest home being renovated no one was there at the time. Theyre main home was next door and that too
Morning. Its funny, too, because temperatures right now, tam, are still in the cold zone but i agree with you you stepped outside and it was nothing like it was the last couple mornings. Weve had some cloud cover overnight but you can see that breaking up and i think were going to see a fair amount of sunshine early. Over all fairly sunny conditions with occasional clouds popping through. The temperatures this morning are still cold. Theyre just not as cold as theyve been the last couple days. 17 degrees in philadelphia, 14 in allentown right now, 16 in reading, 13 in wilmington. Only 11 in trenton and 10 in millville but of course theres not much wind this morning so were not worrying about wind chills and it does feel like were getting a break. Boy do we get a break this afternoon. Well zoom this morning with those temperatures. By 8 oclock well be at 21. By noon up to 34 and by 3 oclock, thats your high today, 39 degrees. So almost 40. In fact, center city could almost hit the 40deg
Heading there right now. We have a live report from steve keeley in just a couple of minutes here. Bob. As we are looking live, you are right, this is front street between york and dauphin. A two alarm fire that is unfolding here. As we pull out you can see the black smoke mike mentioned a pay less shoe store. This is a stretch of the avenue here in which bumper to bumper backed up row home of stores ape payless stories on be that one side of the block there but that is just one of many businesses being impacted, but as we pull out, front street between york and dauphin is also right there where the market frankford line comes into play and septa had just gave me word they are shuttle busing, bypassing, the smoke that is just billowing over the station. Now to give you an idea in the middle where that black smoke would be, that is the train station. That is market frank for the el. Front between york and dauphin you queen see Fire Fighters till pulling up to the scene here and the key