Thousands of trees. Shortly after harris death Police Released this grainy interview of two persons of interest. Its not known if investigators have an idea why anyone would want to harm the 65yearold harris who was so highly regarded for her devotion to her community. A correction right now, miss harris lived for many, many years here at holly street in powelton, not rose street. My misspeaking there. Still, a lot of elements we dont know at this point but the suspect or a suspect is in custody for the murder of miss harris with charges pending that we are told and that is what we do know to be a fact. Live in powelton, john rawlins channel6 action news. Rick. All right, john thank you. A dire situation tonight in california where several wildfires have sparked thousands of evacuations there. Officials in napa valley say more than a dozen fires have killed at least one person and destroyed more than 1500 buildings. At least 20,000 people have been evacuated. Schools and hospitals have
And comes home sick. The first week coming back to school going to the doctors will i cant breathe her eyes so bloodshot i really thought she was going to literally start bleeding from the eyes. Reporter the decision to cancel all classes was made by the district early this morning. Part of a Statement Released reads this morning the leadership of every union came together to form the air Quality Task Force in conjunction with the Central Administration and board of education. The process of checking each buildings air quality takes time and it is the reason we will not be in school for the week of october 9th 2017 but many parents argue this was clearly an issue before it was made known to the public and its because of that theyve lost trust in the current administration. Im heartbroken. The kids have to lose time from school because of that. These children shouldnt have to. Reporter what youre seeing right now is the entrance into the high school. Thats where the meeting is set for t
Were looking at a pretty nice autumn day today that will feel like summer. 84 in new jersey. At the shore, 78 degrees. Ill break it down hour by hour, show you how quickly the temperatures will warm up for each part of our area when im back in less than ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Thanks. Starting on the schuylkill again around 30th street, now some of the construction vehicles that i was watching earlier on the westbound side have already cleared. Some of them pulled out of the way. I havent seen any cars move through yet. Theres still some left beyond the reach of our camera. Were not seeing any of that open yet. Were getting ahead of schedule, looks like. Ill keep my eyes on that. For now theyll detour you off at 30th street station. And you can hop back on. Route 202. Drive times okay so far. Ten minutes in both directions. North and south, route 30 to the schuylkill, speeds into the mid 60s. Ill end with mass transit because we have no delay
Ill show you what to expect coming up. First Jessica Boyington. Cameras showing open both directions, 24th, westbound toward the schuylkill. No problems. The schuylkill was closed earlier at 30th because of a construction project. That is all clear. Youre good to go there, too. You dont have to use the vine as an alternate. Eastbound toward 95, looks good there, too. The blue route is all right. Watching drive times in both directions, right now north and south, a 15minute trip 95 to the schuylkill. Speeds also into the 60s. Ill end with mass transit, septa, 16 minutes late. Amtrak, patco, and new Jersey Transit on time. This is deplorable, and theres no excuse passionate parents say this isnt right. The Monroe Township School District in Gloucester County has closed all of its schools for a week to test for mold. This started with one school, and now the district is testing the other buildings, and families wonder if their kids health is at risk. Matt delucia is live at Holly Glen Ele
Forcing it to close. This problem has gone on way too long and somebody new about it and it was just pushed under the rug. Reporter the district then made the sweeping move of closing all schools for the rest of of the week as a pro caution. Im just like really disappointed that, you know, it has come to this. Because we had so much planned this week. We had our spirit week. Our homecoming game. Reporter some parents grilled the districts director of plan operation who said they have an outdated airconditioning system. Did you personally report that information to any member of the board . Not that i recall. Reporter director says he told some School Officials and had the Health Department check things out three times but one board member said they were in the dark early on. We new nothing. This board absolutely new nothing. Reporter there was more love in the room for the air Quality Task Force formed by unions made up of teachers and support staff. Our children are just as important