Good afternoon in the news this noon, a 16yearold girl survives a plane crash and then walks for to days to reach help. And we get an update from a school destroyed by a tornado and teachers are trying to save whatever they can. But the big story on action news is another day of upsetled weather and showers and thunderstorms moved through the area this morning, this is the scene along route 55 at vineland and Cumberland County. Some area could be hit with downpours and flooding today. Lets get to karen rogers in for david murphy. With the humidity in the air we are getting the downpours at times up to an inch an hour, we have flash flood warnings this morning where they had over 3 inches of rain. And there are flood advisories for parts of the region including philadelphia and bucks and montgomery and atlantic and cumberland and gloucester and salem county new jersey continuing until 3 45, we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan we have got some heavy rain in parts of this region an
Child welfare workers in new jersey. And former president , bill clinton is in philadelphia for the final day of the naacp convention, live report of the details of his address. And flooding caused by heavy rains, some roads are under water and covered with floating trash in Atlantic City over in absecon we found a homeowner with flooding on the first floor one of her cars got stuck on the road and people ran into high water wherever they turned. I when to the mall up to white horse pike and back, it was a mess, it took me an hour to get home. Flooding is just part of the issue overnight hundreds of Lightning Strikes hit the region and karen rogers is in for david murphy standing by with the latest for what we expect for the rest of the day. Stormtracker 6 live double scan showing at this point we have 364 Lightning Strikes in the area but they are currently off the coast where the storms have gone, trenton and wilmington light steady rain and storms blossoming to the south we can go c
Good afternoon in the news this noon, a radnor township man is facing child pornography charges, what investigators found on his kpouter and a busy highway interchange is back open after an accident that left trash on the roadway. But the big story is a crime that put Airline Passengers in danger someone pointed a laser over 11 nights last night. It happened in different parts of the state and Marcy Gonzales has the full details. Reporter a scare for pilots flying over new jersey last night, a bright green light like this filling their cockpits. Air Traffic Control getting call after call. For information there is someone shooting a laser off our left wing. It just happened again, 11 different flights targeted by someone on the ground pointing lasers at someone about to land at liberty airport. We are checking in with you and we got the laser here at 3,000. Flights ss forced to track down those responsible for this federal crime that authorities take seriously. Would you not think that
New plan will put body cameras on all state troopers in new jersey. And an arrest at a delaware intersection after a truck lands on a car. But the big story is the Camden County man that led police on a chase through philadelphia and south jersey. The suspect was stopped just before 10 00 last night when an officer clipped his van flipping the vehicle over. Ryan ritter was released from the hospital and is now facing charges. This chase began in oakland, new jersey a Police Officer tried to pull over ritter for some outstanding warrants but they went on a two state chase that lasts two hours this is how it ended a Police Cruiser clipping the back of the van and sending the cruiser side over side. He came out with his hands up, with a tiki barber jersey on. He went to the hospital for observation but was returned to southeast dsks early this morning. We are lucky that no one else was injured because of this. Lieutenant John Stanford says that Oakland Police led the chase with state poli
Attorney general, Kathleen Kane. And an investigation into sun roofs shattering without warning, why its happening to hundreds of drivers. But the big story is a violent robbery that ended with a woman shot in a bakery. The attack left the 56yearold victim in Critical Condition. Action News Reporter is live at the scene in haverford avenue where Police Released new details in the last half hour. We do know that the victim remains in Critical Condition and the bullet passed through her windpipe and spine and she was able to call 911. The owner pays her employees on fridays and it is likely the robbers knew she would have money on her. Shocked. Shocked that a nearby Business Owner was shot at her shop. She was smoking a cigarette outside of the best cakes bakery just before 6 00 a. M. , when she was robbed and shot, they took her apron where she keeps her money. If it was a setup robbery, people could case this out and know what she did and have familiarity with this business. I heard th