If anything, i think it helps slow the spread, i support it. Reporter the governor issued the order thursday by statement instead of the usual video News Conference. Part of issuing this decree by statement was having to avoid the media and answering questions. About why he has been a hypocrite and why he has had such a difficult time managing through this crisis. All of those questions are things that he frankly did not want to deal with. You cant tell somebody dont do this and governess like that and they go out and do it. Reporter 41 of the 58 counties are in the purple tear, and the counties, and lest restrictive tiers. How the curfew will be enforced is still unclear, the state is reporting a weekly average of 9900 cases per day, or than double the average two weeks ago. Kenny, the governor has put himself in a tough spot, how has he responded since issuing the order . We reached out to the governors office, at times, soon after he issued the order via statement, but we have not h
Passes by. Not accumulating on the roads but just a tiny bit on the snow on the ground. The poconos the jackpot area of two feet if allentown and the Lehigh Valley, overa foot of snow closing into 14 inches there. Tral montgomery county, 7. 5 inches and the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management picking up 6. 8 inches in philadelphia. And some rain is mixing in with sleep in west depford. And the rain was a concern for mosh of the morning glasgow and delaware, a third inch of ice and mount holly. 25 inch and chester a third inch and philadelphia a. 10 inch on top of the nearly six inches of snow in the city. Windchill right now teens to 20. Its brutal with is the northwesterly winds and that continues into the overnight hours tonight. And rick when i come back well chat about a slow warm up into the weekend and we are not looking at a fast melt here in the sevenday forecast. Thank you adam. The storm brought snow and ice to parts of the area and along the jersey shore flooding and
Showing what is going on a code front just stalled to the east and a wave of low pressure is moving along that and that is providing the conveyer belt of moisture in our region, not everyone getting the heavy rain and philadelphia we get a lull in the action and we have a pretty heavy, steady rain in Montgomery County and pottstown over route 100 and parts of Chester County and malvern and westchester. As we move to the south we see more conventihicle shouldnt. This slow pressure is taking its time moving out. And throughout the evening hours we deal with heavy rain and periods of heavy rain, because of that the National Weather Service Posted a Flash Flood Watch for the northwest suburbs and the i95 corridor until 8 00 tonight, we are looking for 1 to 3 inches of rain the problem is that our ground is so dry, we barely had any rain over the past three weeks and the rain is running off and causing the flooding, periods of heavy rain tonight and a rumble of thunder southeast of philadel
Morning on her way to work. Police are still looking for the gunman and the motive for the violent attack that took place in broad daylight. Vernon odom is following the investigation and joins us live at the scene near 12th and jefferson. Vernon . So far it is a total whodunit and the question why . Robbery or domestic situation . Detectives are very much on the case at this hour. The murder occurred just after 9 30 this morning at 12th and jefferson. A 56yearold woman who lives in this normallyquiet neighborhood was shot once in the head as she waited for the bus to go to work. A longtime neighbor says it is part of her routine and is stunned by what happened. This is a quiet neighborhood and i cant figure that out. And then when i found up on the corner on the bus, i didnt know who it was. I am withholding the victims name for the time being. Neighbors tell me she is the longtime employee of an Insurance Company and mother of an adult son. No word yet on a possible motive here. Poli
home at that time. the dogs were humanely euthanized. in addition to the pit bulls, animal control removed an illegal ferret today. police discovered two shotguns in a truck parked in front of the house but don t believe they re connected to illegal activities. it s sad that it had to involve a killing of a little tiny 2-year-old child. you know? an innocent child for this, for this to happen. the boy s step grandfather is identified as a 52-year-old and facing two felony charges this evening, one for child endangerment. another for possessing a mischievous animal that causes death. he s in jail being held on $120,000 bail. coming up at 6:00 tonight i ll have more from other neighbor who s live here on this court who also had run ins with the pit bulls at this house. thank you. and he had a gun handcuffs and what looked like a police car and may have committed crimes while impersonating a cop. tonight a 27-year-old from san jose is under arrest. abc 7 is live for