Was the father of one of the best known basketball players to come out of philadelphia in a generation. Its tuesday night and the big story is the murder victim identified as Wayne Ellington. His son by the same name is now a member of the los angeles l. A. Sharrie williams. Reporter jim, this news is hitting the family very hard. They are saddened and shocked and puzzled. Tonight they want Wayne Ellington reflects on the textmessage. It was from his biggest fan, Wayne Ellington sr. He was the person that gave me the basketball, put me in the league at 5 years old. They won the game on sunday. After the victory, he got the message that his father was shot. Its tough and unbelievable. It was crazy. I went to a very high feeling of excitement and joy to the lowest i ever felt in my life. Reporter ellington sr. Was found inside of his car with a bullet to his head. Ellingtons wife of 34 years got the news over the phone. I heard crying in the background. They called me back to let me know
Reporter well, it has been raining for most of the overnight hours, now were do you know to a very fine rain on the terrace. Lets look at Storm Tracker 6 live double scan. Its a broken pattern of precipitation coming up the i95 corridor and heading toward new york. Starting to get into a lull. The streets are wet, and we have a lot of leaves out there. Looking southen southwest theres another batch of rain on the way, the majority of the afternoon and early evening will remain wet. We have a Winter Weather advisory in the poconos until 9 00. At times overnight we have had snow ensleet mixing in with the rain, after 9 00 it will be mild up there. A word to the wise if youre traveling to the, poconos peculiars. 37 in allentown, 38 in reading, all these numbers too mild outside the poconos for anything other than rain this morning. If youre catching the school bus over the next couple of hours, it will be raining, even though we have the lull underway. Well be in the 50s this afternoon, 3
Fortunately the building was built with fire walls in place which helped us tremendously to confine the fire to one section of the market. It was confined to one of the four buildings at the market. That was built in the 1920s. Officials say that ten businesses were lost. The coowners of not just bagels says theres was among them and it couldnt be at a worst time. Before the thanksgiving holidays. According to the firefighters, everybody is gone. Busiest day of the year, so we dont know what we are going to do. The only consolation is that the market was close today. If it was a busy thursday, it would have been sheer chaos. Back here outside of the cluckous farmers market, firefighters are remaining on the scene keeping an eye on things, one firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation but is said to be okay. Officials say its unclear if the market will be able to at least partially reopen for the busy Holiday Season which begins next week on thanksgiving day. We are live here in burl
To washington, d. C. The first time we are seeing the evidence. What they were told happened right before he shot and killed 18yearold Michael Brown. This morning, a city and a nation on edge. And a massive noreaster heading for the east coast. Tens of millions of people in its path heading home for thanksgivi thanksgiving. Up to a foot of snow about to affect the busiest travel time of the year. And we do say good morning, america. As you know, a very tense night after the grand jurys decision not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. George is live in st. Louis, missouri, thankfully seems quiet right now, george. Reporter right now it appears calm. But last night, chaos. The reaction was swift, it was violent. Shots fired. Protesters set fire to buildings, looted buildings throughout ferguson. National guard marched in, tear gas. And look at the police cars burning after the National Guard comes in. And it resonated all around the country. A n
Like it will last the first half of the weekend. Reporter chapter 25 got to be getting near the end of the book. Reporter they ended the construction in king of prussia, david. They had crews working in the westbound laidges of route lanes of route 23. We have an on going zone where the accident happened north cover tree, Chester County. Route 202 between stowe. You need to drop the speeds and expect delays, expect to use 724 as an alternate. We have a traffic light troubles along the boulevard, both ways the at welsh road by the tiffany diner, no cross traffic allowed. Watch out for a broken down vehicle at route 41 blocking the acceleration lanes. Emotions are running high in philadelphia and across the nation over another grand jury decision about a police choke hold death of an unarmed man. This comes after the controversy decision in ferguson, missouri. We go to Carolyn Costello live in new york city. Reporter matt this is where the deadly encounter occurred. Candle lit a sign pos