He will be remembered to a generation as the owner of the flyers. But ed snyder meant so much more to philadelphia and its fans. Ed snyder was born Edward Malcolm snyder on january 61,933rd in washington d. C. His First Venture in philadelphia sports was as a minority owner of the eagles in 1964. But when the nhl was awarded conditional franchises in the middle of the decade ed snyder made his move. At 33 years of age i ended upstarting the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team. Reporter in 1967 the Philadelphia Flyers were born. He needed a building for his team to play in. So he had ed snider built the spectrum. It was beginning of the unique relationship between a man, a team, and a city that would stand close to 50 years. But in seven years of buying in, and building, ed snyder brought a championship to philadelphia. The flyers win the stanley cup. The flyers win the stanley cup. The flyers won their first of two consecutive stanley cups. The flyers have won the second in a row. Justin e
Something hit the train ever happened at this point. Heres what we know. On friday the ntsb said assistant conductor on the train that derailed said she heard radio conversation between the engineer, and a septa engineer. They both said their train had been hit by objects just before crash she said. But on several National News shows this morning the ntsb said the septa engineer recalls no such conversation. And investigate verse listened to the dispatch tape and heard no communication from the amtrak engineer to the dispatch center to say that something struck the train. But, the nssb says a mark on the windshield does point to something hitting it. And the fbi is going to examine it tomorrow to try to figure out what happened here. Right now service of reflection at the site of the amtrak 188 derailment. Brad satin there in the crowd as he showed you this service. Reporter lucy, youre right, were listening to a prayer as the ceremony winding down, mayor nutter, wanted a service of re
76 in sea isle city. Might still feel a tad humid to you early in the day but that humidity is going to drop as the day goes on. As we head outside to get that car rolling, 72 degrees by 6 00, 74 by 8 oclock, some clouds, less humid and all your buses and rails well find out from karen rogers in a little bit whether or not theyre running. 75 today by 9 oclock. By noon, 82. And then 87 degrees by 3 oclock. It looks like well get a high today of 88 probably around 3 30. So obviously it is still a very warm afternoon ahead but at least it wont be as oppressively humid as yesterday. Karen, ill have the rest of the seven day including the return of another round of humidity coming up be okay. All right, dave. Yes, those buses and rails are doing okay. How about the roads . This is i95. Some construction here in southwest philadelphia right at enterprise avenue. You can see penndots got the arrow board, weve got the cones set up as well blocking the left lane so watch for this right now and