Im jim donovan. Even though we are 10 days away from the first day of spring it felt like spring yesterday, and Mother Nature is reminding us it is still very much winter. Indeed Eyewitness News reporter anita oh is live with a look at conditions there. Good afternoon, anita what are you seeing. Reporter good afternoon jim and ra hell. I wish i was seeing these spring conditions that we saw yesterday but we are seeing snow, coming down, steadily, take a look at roadways here in quakertown. This is exit right off of the northe extension, and as you can see roadways are pretty clear, drivers are passing by pretty easily right now. Now in this video we shot a few minutes ago you can see much of the accumulation is actually on the grass areas where were seeing several inches of parked cars, as we were driving up here Road Conditions themselves were not too bad, although, visibility was poor at times and that is the concern, and, some potential, and, snowfall, and, area, and, drivers making
Everything in northern delaware. Trees toppled, power lines snapped, and crews around New Castle County working around the clock to restore electricity. For the first step it is to walk the whole thing down to identify what cast cause of the outage and what is damage we need to repair. Reporter then actual work, Shawn Kennedy is with peco but he with 200 other crews from as far away as chicago are helping del marva power linesman fix trouble spots. We can bring our own sister co in, doesnt cost customers money and we can use the strength to restore power in a more timely, quick manner. All the while, independent contractors are removing trees , many which snapped like twigs because of the ice, and wind. Were looking at the majority to get back on line by this evening. Reporter pal inner hopes his home is one of them. This is bad. I got no tv, no computer, that means i have to talk to my wife all day. Back here live in New Castle County delaware you can see what the situation is like he
Everything in northern delaware. Trees toppled, power lines snapped, and crews around New Castle County working around the clock to restore electricity. For the first step it is to walk the whole thing down to identify what cast cause of the outage and what is damage we need to repair. Reporter then actual work, Shawn Kennedy is with peco but he with 200 other crews from as far away as chicago are helping del marva power linesman fix trouble spots. We can bring our own sister co in, doesnt cost customers money and we can use the strength to restore power in a more timely, quick manner. All the while, independent contractors are removing trees , many which snapped like twigs because of the ice, and wind. Were looking at the majority to get back on line by this evening. Reporter pal inner hopes his home is one of them. This is bad. I got no tv, no computer, that means i have to talk to my wife all day. Back here live in New Castle County delaware you can see what the situation is like he
President ial election, confirm an investigation is ongoing, but refuse to release information. Im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Correspondent weijia jiang on capitol hill with a story. Ive been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian government effort to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. Fbi director james comey broke with normal protocol to reveal the buyer so looking into russian interferance in the 2016us president ial election. That includes investigating the nature every any link between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. President trump is likely paying close attention to this hearing. He sent out a flurry of tweets, just hours before it started. The president s tweets claim the russian connection was made up by the democrats, and the real story is the
Yes, standing here in the middle of 17th street. You can see it is empty normally. This is a bustling street, during midday here, rittenhouse square, all because of this. Take a look at this sinkhole, started around last night, pretty late when the Water Department determined it was happening. Then, you can see, theyve excavated more, working to repair it, you might notice no crews in the area working i just spoke with spokesperson, from the Water Department they tell me there is a live wire there, and theyre now waiting for peco to get here before they can continue their work. If you have had some trouble getting around center city, you can blame this socalled small depression. Last night we were called out to pump water in the street. We responded. Found small depression in the street, as well. John with the berth Department Says 3inch break on Water Service line which leads to this building is to blame. Tuesday morning, city crews removed large portion of 17th street, just south of