Story as far as traffic this morning, bad accident overnight, bob kelly. Yes, good morning, everybody, lets go to skyfox over the scene after accident in hellertown. This is closing the eastbound lanes of i78. Just east of allentown. It happened shortly after 1 00 a. M. This morning. Twocar crash, not sure whether one of those vehicles crossed the roadway or not. The coroner on the scene. The westbound side, you see the tour bus here tour bus going west, but the eastbound side closed right now. Chopper, we can scan back. A lot of the vehicles were able to turn around, whether it be in the grass or able to back up, and go to the exit prior to. That will going to the maps here. But right now, eastbound side closed, at the hellertown interchange. So it is between route 412 and exit number 33, so there is major back up there, your best bet, if you are leaving allentown, and heading east, this is the exit for Lehigh University, the sands bethlehem in that area, just to kind of give you loca
Lawmakers to approve money now. Laura a camera crew driving through the pouring rain as Tropical Storm julia hugs the east coast. Now its dumping rain in georgia. Lets check in with Dave Osterberg and the weather center. Dave indeed. This is a big rainmaker, not a big wind maker, though. Its 30, 40 miles north of jacksonville. We do have the georgia coast to parts of the South Carolina coastline. This is going to rain itself out over the next couple of days. In the meantime, we have a lot of moisture hanging around. Weve had a few sprinkles along south tampa and along the coastline north. Overall rain chances today run 50 to 60 . Were starting at 79 degrees with high temps today back in the upper 80s. Courtney . All right. The accident. If youre just waking up with us, weve been talking about it this morning. Overnight fatal accident along eastbound ridge road still has lanes shut down about two miles east of little road at airway boulevard. This reportedly involved a motorcycle. Well
Roads. Not seeing any potential for ponding in the area. As you get closer to tampa, Pinellas County, things really start to dry out. We are keeping an eye on this fatal crash, unfortunately that happened overnight. We now know according to authorities that this was a motorcyclist who was killed when he hit a power pole there. So this is still an active scene, a lot of flashing lights. Eastbound ridge road still closed at airway boulevard. Well continue to watch this. I will let you know here and of tampabaytraffic as soon as that clears. 6 01. To breaking news scary moments for a tampa mother who woke up to the sound of a car crashing into the side of her apartment. Abc action news anchor james tully is live at the scene. You were able too give us a look at the damage earlier. What is that woman saying about what happened . Reporter at the apartment complex across the usf campus. Bushes. The gutter completely flattened. And look at this, a hole it left in the side of this apartment bu
The Sheriffs Office says its going to rerelease more information a little later this morning. Edward snowden is asking president obama to pardon him. As Andrew Spencer shows us snowden says the leaks were moral and ethical. Reporter president obama doesnt seem to be softening his stan o asked if theres a chance the nsa would pardon him the manner in which mr. Snowden chose to disclose the information damaged the United States. Harmed our national security. Put the American People at greater risk. Reporter Edward Snowden argues his leaks about massive government surveillance programs were a public service. In a video interview with the guardian he says without the off. The former contractor fled the country three years ago, hes charged with espionage. Not everyone agrees what snowden did was wrong. Oliver stone who directed a new film about him praised his actions in an interview with cnn. The United States government developed and deployed a massive global Surveillance System without d
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10. Still developing tonight, a neighborhood told it is too dangerous to go home. Forced from their houses hours ago. Schools even locked down. Montgomery county neighborhood is on alert of course right now. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. This is all because of whats happening inside one home. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in franconia township where shawnette this started think afternoon . Reporter yeah, lucy and iain, it has been more than seven and a half hours since police were called here to this home. Take look behind me. You can see the road that leads to that home which were told is actually on a culdesac at the end of the street. This road is still closed off as negotiators continue to try to make contact with the man. You have all these Police Activity shutting down the neighborhood it was kind of concerning. Reporter neighbors watch well into the night from their porch as surrounding streets remain