Murphy. Reporter we have winds coming from the direction that would get us colder. The cloud cover that did pop up yesterday afternoon, off the maps now as High Pressure builds in. We have bright sunshine over the horizon. 50 degrees currently in philadelphia. Most suburbs in the 40s at this point. Allentown at 42. We as we take a look at the strap Storm Tracker 6 live app, 54. Noon 66 degrees, 73 degrees around 3 30 or 4 00 p. M. Before sliding back to 7. Low humidity and lighter wind and nice conditions this afternoon. Pollen count medium high, not as bad as earlier in the week. Looks like it stay in the same ballpark straight through under. Karen rogers what are the roads looking like this morning . Reporter we have a headon collision, four people injured northeast philadelphia. A serious accident that is shutting down welsh road blocked between alburger avenue and alton road. You can see the demolished vehicles and get a sense of how serious the accident is. Avoid the area in north
Noon, 66. 3 00 p. M. , 72 late day high of 73 striking around 4 00 p. M. Still holding on to the low 70s by 6 00 p. M. The pollen count is not as bad as early in the week were running medium high. Keeping that in play the coming weekend we see a warmup and up tick in humidity saturday and programs a spotty weekend thunderstorm. Karen youve had issues for commuters this morning. Reporter we have dave, we have a horrible accident scene in northeast philadelphia, headon collision the action cam was on the scene with this all happening on welsh road you get a sense of the severity of accident by looking at the damage done by the vehicles. Four people injured on the scene. Welsh road is shut down between alburger and alton road, stick to bloomfield we need to give the emergency workers time to do the investigation. A building fire north broad and susquehanna avenue. Stick to the numbered streets to get around north broad and the restrictions we see here. Lots of problems with mass transit.
We begin with breaking news in the federal corruption trial of Six Federal Police officers. All of them were found not guilty on all s. The officers were members of an elite squad. Prosecutors said they beat suspects and they faced additional charges as well. Again a federal jury acquitted all six of them within the last hour, vernon odom is at the courthouse and will have more in a live report coming up on action news at 12 30. Now to the amtrak tragedy in Port Richmond and a quest to find out why the train was going so fast. Mayor Michael Nutter is set to give an update. In the meantime the ntsb is back at the crash site and they are combing for evidence and removing the wrecked cars trying to open one of the busiest rail corridors in the country. Katherine scott is live with the latest now. Reporter we have an update abc learned there was an eighth fatality in this crash that should start within the next several minutes, meanwhile work continues today and federal investigators are t
And airborne at indy. The threetime champions spectacular crash, spinning out of control at over 230 miles an hour. The incredible video from inside the car. This morning, how he walked away without a scratch. And good morning america. We have a lot to get to this thursday. And we begin with all the fallout from that deadly Train Derailment. Theres the aerial footage right now. New details coming in overnight. A brandnew satellite image from google. It shows the train off the track, the cars toppled. At least seven people now confirmed dead. More than 200 injured. Were learning the name of the engineer of the train that was going more than 100 miles an hour. Well over the speed limit. Well hear from his attorney in a moment. But first, paula faris starts off our Team Coverage this morning. Good morning paula. Reporter good morning, robin. The mayor calling the driver reckless and irresponsible. Meanwhile, the ntsb acknowledging speed was a factor. They have a lot of long days ahead in
Instances occur at the site, certainly the Philadelphia Fire Department and Police Department and ems personnel stand ready to provide assistance to these two agencies who in essence have the major responsibility at this location. Ntsb will conduct their investigation and i believe the federal Railway Administration conducts an investigation for their purposes and amtrak is in the process of removing all of the train cars and repairing the significant damage to the railroad infrastructure. We will maintain a support role in that regard. With that in mind, i will provide answers to questions that i can answer. Gentlemen asked a question with regard to the person who was recovered. I think you have also experienced over the past few days, i, we have not released any information with regard to individuals recovered that is not within our protocol the medical examiner has the remains of those individuals, notification must be made out of respect of course to the families. And we do not as