Lets go over to david murphy and karen rogers with weather and traffic. Reporter its a miserable monday. Reporter yes we have rain in the poconos and sleet and making it down into the Lehigh Valley. Generally speaking just wet roads coming through. You can see how the blue and white the mixed precipitation and light snow up in the poconos at this point. We are not so much looking at that down around our neck of the woods, but we have steadier cells popping throw parts of montgomery and bucks county highlighted in yellow. Most of it is light to moderate rain, a little bit steadier. Most of this will be with us through the morning commute. 39 degrees in philadelphia. We dropped 36 in reading. 37 in allentown. Looks like well stay mild enough to avoid a freeze up on roads. There was an earlier concern about that. If youre in the Northern Areas in particular and you see 3 32 on your dashboard they remember slow it down. 48 will be the high. The rain will have a tendency to taper off early
Neighbors are calling them the heart and soul of the diamond street block. Nbc 10s drew smith is live in overbrook tonight. Drew, it seems like everybody knew the victims. Reporter denise, we heard so many stories. In fact, they say on a day like this, this family would be out cooking for neighborhood, but tonight instead we smell the smoke from this fire that tore through this row home claiming three lives and sending another to the hospital. The news hit hard for neighbors, friends and family and the smell of smoke woke them up and then they heard the sounds of screams. Hanging up to the window telling miss anne, miss anne, come out the window. Your house is on fire reporter Philadelphia Fire Department began attacking the fire from the front and the back of the home and a handicapped man in his 80s couldnt make it out and his wife couldnt leave him and they both died along with their grandson. When the fire was out neighbors remembered who they lost. He was fairly outgoing, yeah. My
By lunchtime our high of 80 degrees. We dont see a picture here but is there a slight, 20 to 30 percent chance of a then are storm popping up this afternoon but we will still give it a 10 because it is a nice day. And have a doughnut. National doughnut day just Little Things around here that gets us excited. 5 01 on a friday, live look at freeway pockets of volume but later on we will go the other way, singing on the way to cape may. It is friday as folks head down the shore and we are ready to open up the vine street expressway. Here we go, they have just moved barriers aside and these are first few cars, lucky won, that get a chance to roll on the vine, it has been closed overnight between the schuylkill and broad street. We will be good to go for rest of the weekend, they will come back next week as part of the demolition of the 18th street overpass. Using i95, anytime over next couple days be careful, northbound there is a new traffic pattern at girard avenue, they will move off ra
Facility. Lets tell you what is happening at this hour. Tonight deliveries are being made at that ups facility in San Francisco. They are also using drivers from other locates to cover for the San Francisco drivers who are taking much needed time off. The flag you can see it there at half staff as a tribute to the victims. Its now been nearly 40 hours since that rampage and we have inside information how the killer might have chosen his targets. We are also learning more about the very men, the victims, the coworkers of the gunmen, all ups drivers, michael afeety, benson louie, and wayne chan. Jean elle begins our special coverage. They are all special men. Thats right. We are learning all three of those ups drivers killed in that shooting are well loved in their communities. Mike lafiti was called a gentle giant. And this memorial continues to grow. Tonight about who the victims are is spreading. So is the grief. This morning i was walking to work and i saw the ups drivers around the
Unresponsive wakefulness. He shows no signs of understanding language. His family as you can imagine upset and furious as they share this new footage showing their son playing with north Korean Children just before he was detained. And coming together, republicans and democrats taking the field as one overnight. Praying and playing that Charity Baseball game after the shooting rampage targeting congressmen. One of the hero officers throwing out that first pitch. And the latest on representative Steve Scalises condition this morning. Good morning, america. Happy friday. We made it. Its great to have david. Start now with you guys. Great to have david with us. I know you were in d. C. Shortly after the shooting rampage and saw a sign of unity. So many lawmakers told us they hope this is a turning point in the country that we bring down the temperature of the rhetoric. You can see them praying, both democrats and republicans kneeling on that field just a day after the shooting and that wa