Also right now, at 11 00 a. M. , police in Delaware County in hot pursuit. A driver led police on a chase through several towns before it finally came to an end right inside that home there. Right now, police are trying to figure out what caused the driver to take off from officers. Nbc 10s jesse gary live where the chase ended. Youve been following this story all morning. What is happening there now . Reporter accident investigators have completed their work. Chester pike behind me reopened just minutes ago after debris and three wrecked vehicles were moved out of the way. This chase ended when a dark colored suburban slammed into the side wall of that duplex. I hear this big bang and then i feel the house shook a little bit. I came running down the stairs and there was an suv inside of my house. Reporter Carol Connolly says she didnt realize the poor park job was the result of a police pursuit. Officers spotted the suburban earlier this morning. Its driver driving erratically on rout
Coated everything around it with ice. It had been geysering out of a broken ten inch main in a wooded Industrial Area off grant avenue since 7 00 wednesday night. Because it is on a private property and private connection the plans are not always available to us so we had to work on our plans and see what could be feeding that line. Reporter philadelphias Water Department determined the line was a fire connection to a Sprinkler System for an abandoned property. It was extremely difficult to get close to it. Thats what we were trying to do last night and thats why we had employees in the immediate area but once the conditions became too dangerous, we did have to leave that area. Reporter the Water Department says they pulled back after one of their workers was injured and taken to the hospital. They were finally able to shut off the water just before 8 00 a. M. Today from a valve several blocks away. And philadelphias Water Department says one of the casualties of all of that and having
South brunswick, a vehicle fire. Were told two lanes are blocked there. One lane of traffic is going to get by. Chris . New from overnight, crews had to rescue two men on jet skis. That happened around 11 00 a. M. On the 2700 block of bayshore avenue. No word yet on how they became stranded. Happening today in philadelphia, jury selection beguns in the criminal trial of a woman charged withc kidnappi a 5yearold girl from her school and sexually assaulting her. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live outside the criminal Justice Center in center city. Jesse, you spoke with the defense attorney late last night. He thinks someone else should be facing charges. Tell us about that. Reporter Fred Harrison says several people are the true culprits and should be charged in this case. He concedes he won get a chance to make that argument during jury selection which begins in a little while. Lets take a look at the video. 1yearold Christina Regusters is charged with a long list of crimes for allegely taking
Wounds and the district veteran will go for counseling following what the commissioner says is a traumatic experience. We dont start our day wanting to shoot or hurt anybody. But when you have a situation like that, it is something that we dont take for granted, the officers ability to bounce back, the resiliency, it is a traumatic incident and we need to treat it as such. Korpalski was not the only officer to return fire. My colleague, katy zachry is at the shooting scene to give us the back story to this breaking news weve been following all day. Katie . Behind me, this is a scene where the shooting happened. Were live in the tacony section of the city. This police van you see some of the investigators crowding around right now, the side it on the drivers side as were zooming in, there is a bullet hole, police say. The suspect fired his first shot at the police van, making that bullet hole. The second shot is the one that hit the officer. Heres what we know happened, around 12 45 a c
But not a whole lot warmer this afternoon. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood to show you whos going to get warmer than other spots when i come back in ten minutes. Right now lets check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning. We continue to follow lane restrictions out of Hopewell Township right now. 95 northbound just past route 31, exit 4. Because of a serious accident that happened in the overnight hours. It was a fatal accident. You can take route 1 if you want to avoid that area but traffic is getting by. You can expect to see slowdowns right as you approach that scene. Heading into pennsylvania, the majors have been quiet all morning. We havent had a single accident on the highways. This is 422 at trooper road the eastbound side. Its still pretty quiet. No significant delays on 422. We do have some volume building on roads like 95 and 76. Lets get a check of your drive times on 76 right now. Which at this point are still pretty average. 76 bo