Until 5 00. Coming from south jersey quiet on the 42 freeway but remember anything that did not evaporate or if it looks wet with the temp at 24 there is potential for ice as we roll out for first thing this morning. Karen and thomas, back to you. We will begin with break ing news, in the olney section of the city a crash involving a Police Officer, we know two people were hurt, including an officer lets get out to steve keeley at the scene, steve. Reporter this happened just past midnight at this intersection a pretty big one ogontz and ol knew avenue better known as front of the Central High School as traffic light intersection. Aftermath, in our video showing the Police Officer, had his, white unmark ford side air bags all deployed. It shows Police Officers dont just face every day danger that come with fighting crime, they face every man and woman daily dangers, we all face just driving around and patrol officer, spend the majority of their shift driving with less cars on the road
Up until this point everybody on the roadway had to put up with a heavy downpour along the way. It looks like things are damp, drying out. We have an accident here in center city. This is southbound i95 off ramp to come into downtown on the vine street expressway. It looks like a car crashed into that metal barrier, right at the center city exit. So basically i95 south is there only one lane here entering philadelphia, that is only a major backup from the betsy on down. Monday mornings in the summertime, folks like to stay down the shore and grab as much sunshine and another night on the boardwalk. They will come right from the beach into the office this morning and already a delay, at the lower end of that Atlantic City expressway where it becomes a 42 freeway, and that continues into center city. Up and over the benny, jammed up from the tolls into downtown at eighth and vine. Down tree on the Martin Luther king drive coming into philadelphia and typically use mlk drive, we will have
Know. Steve . Reporter yes, were entering a third hour of the eastbound lanes shutdown. And as we get further into the morning, traffic is building, and making the situation for commuters a lot worse. Because 5 00 a. M. Really starts to build up the morning rush hour around philadelphia and this may be the busiest rode through philadelphia. What happened was on the eastbound lanes, around 3 00 this white acura being driven by a woman got into a collision with one of two motorcyclists riding close together. The other cyclist, witness, is the man you see right along the median here, and maybe in the dark you can make out hes wearing Harley Davidson jacket. And hes 31 years old. And he called his father right away, and we got some information from what he told his father secondhand that they were riding, nothing unusual, and this car hit his friends. We dont know what happened beyond that. But we know his friends was killed, despite being this close to Penn Presbyterian Trauma Center prob
Reporter step outside, youre welcome to be complaining. We have satellite imagery showing cloud cover off the west. We have sunshine, but overall a clouds and sun mix. Some of the precipitation out to the west might rotate in. If you see rain its light sprinkles and very brief. 40 in allentown. 47 in trenton. 48 degrees in philadelphia. A little bit cooler than yesterday. Are 45 in wilmington, 44 in millville. Not a lot of wind out there right now, but the breeze will will start to pick up once we get past sunrise. Noon, 5 degrees, 55 degrees, clouding up a little bit. Noon, 59. 60 this afternoon around 4 00 p. M. On the bus stop were looking chillier than yesterday, bundle the kids up a little bit, 47 degrees as they wait for the bus in philadelphia. 42 in the outlying suburbs. Well be cool and breezy as we go through the afternoon. It looks like things gradually improve over the next couple of days, we have the rain coming on sunday, well have the entire sevenday forecast coming up.
Flight from Atlantic City airport to newcastle airport. First responders rushed to the scene and john hughes took this video after he watched the chopper crash. It sounds like it was out of gas, like the propellers were not moving and it was struggling and i looked up and seen it going straight down. Jay williams heard the crash and saw the after imagine. We heard the crash and felt the crash across the street. The investigation began immediately with authorities marking debris including this tank on the grown and getting footage with a drone. Its up to them whether they want to continue to conduct the investigation tonight or hold off until the daytime hours and start off fresh tomorrow morning. The ntsb, is expected to arrive on the scene here at 7 00 tonight and we do expect another briefing around that time. Again, we know the pilot was a franklinville, new jersey man 37 years old and his name is withheld pending notification of next of kin. Thank you. In other news a dangerous lea