Im Monica Malpass and the big story on action news tonight is one womans new years nightmare mayor. And for a philadelphia neighborhood a sense of security shattered. This heinous attacked happened 17 and calohill spring guard and cross the street 1 Franklin Town apartments and around the corner from Community College of philadelphia. Whats the latest here dann. Reporter new years nightmare indeedch the pen of interest is 32yearold man frn pittsburgh. He has not been formally charged yet. His name is not released now. They expect to have him charged later tonight for this violent assault that is terrified this neighborhood. Im shocked. Its awful. It seems very safe the times ive been here. For some their sense of safety and security is left scattered by braves and tack on second level of parking garage before 11 aex and sources say the 33yearold victim was followed into the basement from the garage and the assailant trapped her forced her to undress and sexually assaulted her. A man dr
Cannot confirm if its lilly motivated. A large section of downtown sidney have been evacuated. Well bring you any updates as that information becomes available. Back here now donations are pouring in for a Delaware County family dealing with a terrible tragedy they lost their home and grandmother in a fire. Police are dropping off to drop off food toys and clothing and a mother and five children survived the applies the childrens father was injured while rescuing them. Action News Reporter Kenneth Moton is live in the Satellite Center with the full story. Kenneth. Sarah this is lower chichester first fire death in more than 40 years victim family members one of the only ones impacted weve seen that firsthand in the past 24 hours these firefighters emts, First Responders sort, folding and accepting donation fires family of 7. They were left with the clothes on their back after a fire destroyed their home saturday morning and killed their grand mother, 62yearold doris morgan. This small
Inches before it turns to rain and plenty of it. This is the way it looks live in University City in philadelphia right now. And the city should get out relatively easy as far as the snow is concerned and far northwest suburbs will get more than their fair shaivrment its snowing at Philadelphia International airport. Run way should be cleared of any snow in the morning. It could be a messy morning if you have plans to fly. Lets get the latest on noreaster from meteorologist cecily tynan and adam joseph. Weve got a live look at double scan radar. Snow began top fall just when you said it would. Jim just as expected this is not a pure snowstorm. Stormtracker 6 double scan showing these are about as many different colors as you ever see own double scan. We have a combination of light snow and heavy snow and sleet mixing in with rain and snow and heavy rain to the south. One great way to show this is through cold radar. This is a different mold. Differential reflect activity what this show
Sexually assaulted in a parking garage. The efforts of a Good Samaritan may have helped catch the suspect. Thursday night, jim is off. Im Monica Malpass and the big story on action news tonight is one womans new years nightmare mayor. And for a philadelphia neighborhood a sense of security shattered. This heinous attacked happened 17 and calohill spring guard and cross the street 1 Franklin Town apartments and around the corner from Community College of philadelphia. Whats the latest here dann. Reporter new years nightmare indeedch the pen of interest is 32yearold man frn pittsburgh. He has not been formally charged yet. His name is not released now. They expect to have him charged later tonight for this violent assault that is terrified this neighborhood. Im shocked. Its awful. It seems very safe the times ive been here. For some their sense of safety and security is left scattered by braves and tack on second level of parking garage before 11 aex and sources say the 33yearold victim
Chilly day from accuweather. A lot of you will head out to do shopping. Lets talk to david, matt has traffic. But the coat on and extra couple layers. Its a chilly start. Satellite showing us clouds. You can see a lot of breakup. Most of the clouds will have a hard time defeating relatively mild air in place over in the east and generally speaking a lot of sun up over the horizon later down the pike. 34 right now in philadelphia though and Still Holding mid 20s in the Lehigh Valley 31 reading, 32 wilmington, close to that millville. Mid you 30s. Even at the boardwalk its been milder last few weeks. Its still cold this morning. Bit of breeze out there giving you wind chills making it feel 20s in the region. 27 in philadelphia, 17 wind chill in allentown. Again numbers that reinforce the idea you want those gloves on this morning and those layers. If you will be heading out doing your shopping stuff, 34 degrees by 9 00, 38 by moon. Staying in 30s. Getting better by noon. 39 by 3 00. That