There usually is a big closure involved and a lot of cleanup underway. This is on east hunting park avenue and thats closed for a pretty big stretch. Your best bet for an alternate, you can see with that closure, that big strip of red. There are some slow speeds in the area, but east prairie avenue runs parallel to the scene directly underneath it and that will be just fine for now. Looks like its getting a little bit better in terms of volume. A few minutes ago, it was in the red. Speaking of red, were talking about the plu route, we have rolling work crews moving down the northbound side, creating some big delays. You can see those crews just actually moved through the scene. A 12minute trip right now. Average speeds down into the 20s, in between 95 and route 1 if youre headed northbound. Also the schuylkill, still looking a little bit slow, but this is typical for this time of morning. Eastbound and westbound, doing okay, but those drive times into center city with 21 minutes. Also
Information to escalate the situation. Reporter the victim and her boyfriend are in this car. You can see the blinking turn signal on the right side. But the officer claimed they didnt properly signal. Its clear as day that this individual used a turn signal. Reporter the this incident happened on april 5th and the victim went to prison but when police started digging deeper, they found all this new video that contradicted the officers story. So now hes the one facing charges. Arrest damage personal property are in violation of the statute entitled official oppression. Now hes on administrative leave expected to be turning himself in shortly much all the charges werchargeswere dropped against m and her boyfriend. By the way, all right loud to video an encounter with police says the District Attorney up here. Thats the very latest from reading. Im karen hem. Iain, back to you. Karen, thank you. A man is in the hospital after crews rescued him from burning home in south philadelphia. Fir
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
Extended through tomorrow afternoon. It will feel like its about 100 to 105 degrees. This evening temperatures not falling all that much staying basically in the 80s right through the 11 00 oclock hour. So coming up well talk more about the heat wave record heat in the forecast and potential for some weekend rain. We need it. My garden is scorched. Unfortunately i dont think well see a lot of it. Well talk more about that coming up later in the broadca broadcast. You and me both kathy. This extreme heat is behind some school troubles. Many schools are letting kids out earl ball its too hot. Fox 29s karen hepp is live in mayfair tonight. Early dismissal something students dont mind too much, karen. Reporter gosh, theyre cheering. Theyre so excited. We already saw with the trenton schools they had half day. Reading schools the same problems. Now it is phillys turn so the kids of course couldnt be happier. The parents sort of on the fence m say ive got scramble and get the kids. Others sa
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. New questions about safety tonight after two deadly crashes in one day on the same road less than mile apart. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. When it comes to getting drivers to slow down, police say their hands are tied. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live along route 1 in upper darby tonight. This is clearly a dangerous situation. Chris . Reporter lucy one of the most heavily traveled roads in delaware county, but lately, township line road has become one of the deadliest. Two fatal crashes in less than 24 hours has local police here begging for help. It looks and sounds more like a race track. Its constant. Um and down. People do fief tearing 60. Reporter from night to day its all the same along township line road in upper darby. Car after car they speed by the speedway gas station where you still see the evidence where motorcyclist was killed yesterday. Its almost like the blue route. Reporter Dave Oconnell