Heat from furnace that blasts hot air into classrooms. But it is not just the furnace, the Elementary School of 300 kids has pool of rain watt their forms on its olds roof and leaks right into classrooms. When it leaks, and i have to double up classes, or move them to the library, juster relocate them. It is an interference to the instructional needs. The School District says the windows, furnace, leaking roof are among 12,000 of what it calls out standing repairs identified in assessment of the conditions in district billion dollars action, stunning price tag, 4. 5 billion, 3 billion of which, theyll need to spends in the next decade to fix urgent problems. Fran burns, districts chief operating officer, believes the assessment provides a road map of the districts building repair needs. We understand the need. And i think, you know, if there was a place and time foreign if a structure investment, were ready for it. City schools will have to look to the state legislature to cover some r
Hitandrun accident. Skyfox live over the scenes many scene on the 600 block of north 57th street. Heres what we know. Police believe a newer model white minivan hit her and drove away. This happened around 8 oclock tonight. Medics transported the woman to penn Presbyterian Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. If we have any more information were bring it to you. Right now at 10 00 several fires in Queen Village caught on camera but police say these are no accident. Investigators say someone is lighting trash cans or fire. Im dawn timoney. And im chris oconnell. It is not just garbage being destroyed in these fires. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi live. Reporter police are trying to figure out if these arson fires respect connected. There have been four fires set intentionally in Queen Village in the last month and a lot of people as you ised are concerned that the next time could be much worse. In the Surveillance Video theres no mistake. This guy uses a lighter or matches and sets fire
Wednesday at the prison in smyrna. It was given to his son during a ceremony for cadets who completed initial training. There were many here to show their support for the floyd family and that they did with a huge round of applause after the commissioner promoted floyd to lieutenant. Action news was there today as floyd was salute from the medical exams office in wilmington to the funeral home in dover. Its been a horrific three days for the department. Floyd was one of four hostages taken by inmates. There were cuts. We have less correctional officer positions now across the state than we had in 2008 when governor markel took office. Reporter he says the focus now is to figure out which inmates were responsible for the attack. Ive expressed that to their family and i know this is hard time for them but when this is all said and done and you guys all go away we will still be there 100 percent for the family. Reporter nice to hear that. Here another live look at the flags that are at ha
Freezing up on the roadways so if youve got roads that look a little wet up there, slow it down up until about 10 oclock just in case there is some iciness. The rest of us are just going to see all rain. And speaking of which, there is more of that coming east of pittsburgh now plowing toward the Center Portion of pennsylvania and we think after about nine or 10 oclock this batch is going to come through and well have periods of rain up until about midday, maybe 1 oclock and then we start to dry out a bit. 41 degrees in philadelphia ahead of all of this so getting the table set for all rain in the i95 corridor. 42 in wilmington. Again, a little cooler up in allentown, 35 degrees. 34 in the poconos and up in here in some areas between these reporting stations it is possible that we have temperatures below freezing so if more rain comes in, again up until about 10 oclock slow it down. The rest of us are dealing with all rain and boy are we going to see mild temperatures today. 44 degrees
Through philadelphias Rittenhouse Square. We continues to follow the latest train troubles for septa as commuters try to tackle new problems along the market frankford el. Lets talk about that a little bit more. Karen is going to discuss that. David is taking a look at accuweather. Good morning. I may change into the lighter jacket as were only about 41 trees in philadelphia with not much wind. Take a look at Storm Tracker6 live double scan. No big need for a umbrella as one batch of showers is moving off the coast the other one departing the allentown area but some additional sprinkles and showers to the west of gettysburg are rearing their heads and if you do see even a sprinkle up in Northampton County or the poconos this morning, up until 10 oclock be careful because there is a freezing rain advisory. There could be some spots where the rain freezes up on road surfaces up until 10 00. Big batch of rain is farther to the west and thats going to be the main issue probably arrives aft