Going on right now. Skyfox is life over the james t. Vaughn Correctional Center in smyrna where police say inmates took Corrections Officers hostage and some of those officers are still held up inside the prison right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. It is maximum security prison. Our Chris Oconnell has been at the scene all night. Chris, authorities have made it abundantly clear, this is not over yet. Reporter that is right, lucy. Very tense hostage negotiation still continues at this hour at delawares largest maximum security prison. Two Corrections Officers still remain being held as hostages at this time at james t. Vaughn correctional facility as the standoff with inmates now enters its 13th hour. Prison Officials Say tonight they are in communication with unknown number of inmates who have taken over at james t. Vaughn correctional facility. Its been a long and difficult day. Reporter delaware governor john carney reacting to the hostage c
Communication. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been in smyrna for hours as this continues to unfold. Joins us now live. Chris . Reporter lucy, it is now been nearly 13 hours since a group of inmates have taken control of a building inside of delawares largest mack mum security prison. Four employees including corrections officer taken hostage inside that. Two of them have been released today along with dozens of other inmates. Statewide prison lock down continues tonight. Four employees including Corrections Officers and a counselor were taken hostage by Prison Inmates in building c of the james t. Vaughn correctional facility. One officer was injured. Sources say beaten badly in the takeover. He remains in the hospital tonight. Two of the employees were released along with 28 inmates. Its believed nearly a hundred inmates remain unsecured inside. We dont know the dynamics of the takeover and we don know the dynamics of any inmates were held against their will or if these inmates simply req
Communication. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been in smyrna for hours as this continues to unfold. Joins us now live. Chris . Reporter lucy, it is now been nearly 13 hours since a group of inmates have taken control of a building inside of delawares largest mack mum security prison. Four employees including corrections officer taken hostage inside that. Two of them have been released today along with dozens of other inmates. Statewide prison lock down continues tonight. Four employees including Corrections Officers and a counselor were taken hostage by Prison Inmates in building c of the james t. Vaughn correctional facility. One officer was injured. Sources say beaten badly in the takeover. He remains in the hospital tonight. Two of the employees were released along with 28 inmates. Its believed nearly a hundred inmates remain unsecured inside. We dont know the dynamics of the takeover and we don know the dynamics of any inmates were held against their will or if these inmates simply req
Thing, it is groundhog day. Thats right. Phil is in hair and make up at this hour getting ready for his dig debut. Good morning. Good morning. Got the top hats, tuxes out there. Remember one year he peed on the guy. He is also a biter, too. Oh, do you have watch. Theyre not the nicest animals. Good thing we have you. Thats right. See if i see my shadow, and we will see what happens. Now, we do have sunshine in the forecast for us today, not necessarily for punxsutawney where it is probably going to be cloudy with some snow flurries out there. Western part of the state, we will check in on it in a moment. Seven out of ten for us today. And we just have a few clouds, may be flurry or two in Lancaster County right now, not a big deal. It is wintertime. Thats what happens. We have 38 degrees in philadelphia. Not much of a winds, we have sunrise at 7 08. Gets minute earlier every day. 38 degrees here. But only 18 in mount pocono. Thirtytwo in lancaster. And it is 39 degrees in wildwood. Dep
With clouds throughout the dayment probably get to the 45 degrees early, and then, very cold air moves in tonight, and sticks around for the entire weekends, talk all about it coming up. Bob kelly . Sue, good morning, 5 01 a thursday morning, looking good, nice and quiet on the schuylkill expressway, as we begin our trip at king of prussia, no problems at all, headlights here coming inbound, in toward center city. No issues there. But we do have a problem in new jersey, overturned tractor trail, it is on the new jersey turnpike onramp, from exit seven, which is route 206, to go north. So we will see how that develops, it is not on a straight away. It is actually on the onramp from exit seven to go north on the new jersey turnpike. Also, some left over construction out here along route 23 and gulf road. So far so good on the regional rails. Septa says no delays this morning out of the gate. We will keep our fingers cross that it stays that way. The blue route, all cleaned up, yesterdays