A scare. Skyforce 10 over a row home fire on Taylor Street near montgomery avenue in north philadelphia. They observed heavy fire on the first floor and heavy smoke on the second floor. Reporter flames shooting from the roof. One person trapped inside the home. Neighbors alerted officers that there was at least one person still inside the house trapped in the house. There was heavy smoke, heavy fire. These two officers entered the property, they tried to make a rescue, they were overcome by smoke. Reporter firefighters moved in to rescue a 45yearold man at one point while batting the flames a scare when crews lost communication. Communication could not be established with one of our crews on the inside. Our Rapid Intervention team was placed in service, subsequently there was a minor injury there also. Everybody was removed from the building. Firefighters got out safe. Reporter a fire lieutenant was injured when he was struck by debris. Two Police Officers suffered possible smoke inhal
Led to the charges of bank fraud. 15 minutes into todays testimony the judge sent the jury out and called the prosecutor and chip fattah to his bench. Testimonys testimony by Matthew Amato focused on when their friendship unravelled, who really owned and drove the bmw their business phones allegedly paid for and if amato attended the lavish parties with fattah. Amato testified he and fattah spent thousands of dollars from loans that were supposed to be for their businesses. Instead spent on electronics, a luxury car, and fancy parties. The federal Prosecutors Office tells us dozens of witnesses will be called over the next two weeks. Monique braxton, nbc 10 news. In july, a grand jury indicted chaka fattah, sr. , hes accused of misusing Campaign Funds and grants. His trial is scheduled for next may. He is married to nbc 10 news anchor renee chenaultfattah. Shes referenced in the criminal complaint against her husband, labelled as person e and an affiliate of the fattah enterprise. The
Jon . Reporter we are at the radisson hotel. The owners of the power plant are expected to hold a News Conference notice next couple of minutes to discuss the decision. They call it a very, very difficult one. The pilgrim plant will close by june of 2019. Boston edison opened pilgrim back in 1972 at a cost of 230 million. Entergy corp. Bought the plant in 1999 and has been under pressure to spend millions on safety upgrades. A month ago, the nrc downgraded the plants safety rating. The company says Energy Prices are depressed and lowcost natural gas is flooding the market. Making it hard for the plant to make money. In fact, pilgrim is expected to lose money over the next few years. Certainly, a lot of people were disappointed and sad. You know, the company has committed to helping them through the process. We still have a couple of years to figure out plans for them. As of right now, it is a sad day. Reporter governor baker released a statement saying the announcement presents a chall
Walter reed and beth swesda andh in the intersection. There was no construction today so it opportunity appear to be a constructioncaused accident. Instead, it appears to be a wssc, Washington Suburban sanitasa Sanitation Commission line. Crews have been looking for the source of the break. I talked to a crew member a few minutes ago. Heres what he had to say. How long will this take to fix . Probably all night until in the morning rush hour. Reporter shutdown Rockville Pike the whole time . Well have a couple lanes open after we get it under control. Reporter now, we are back live and youre looking at the reason why the southbound lane is shut. That is the wssc, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission crew, working on what they think is the source of the leak. You see the water cascading down behind the side of Rockville Pike here and as i already told you, they opened this fire hydrant trying to, its a 16inch pipe. Now, thats not the biggest weve ever had if you river on remember roa
Company back. Thats cookie. It is empire night tonight, good program. All right, weve got oh, what . A ten out of ten today. Why not . It is going to be 75 degrees. You reverse those numbers and you have your current temperature, 57. 6mile per hour winds, just little bit after breeze, it is nice out there this morning. 7 17 your sunrise time. Sure doesnt feel like it did on monday morning, when we were in the 20s in most places, and in the mid 30s, in others. Now, it is 50 degrees in mount pocono. I remember monday at this time it was 22, and we have 44 degrees in pottstown, 52 as we showed you in the city. Fiftyfive in wildwood. Wilmington, delaware at 47 degrees, right now, no rain to show you either. Thats all up toward the great lakes. Soap, we will check yesterdays high, we were calling for 68. We did better than that, we did 71 degrees, the normal high is 65. And well be above that, by 10 degrees today, with mild 75 degrees for hi, 54 tonight, and there is chilly change temperatu