Area. First. One murder too many. 300, thats ridiculous. A grim milestone in philadelphia, 300 people murdered in the city this yea year. What police are doing to keep the murder rate from spiking higher. Its been several years since city has seen this many murders. Good evening, im jessica dea dean. Im uky washington. Families impacted by the startling fatics are pleading for change. Greg aring owe is here to stop those numbers from growing. Ukee, jess, the Police Department is not celebrating. As of yesterday theres been 00 murders so far this year thats a 13 increase since 2 2016 with still two weeks left to go in this year and its also the First Time Since 20 12 the city dealt with more than 300 murders. Each of these numbers all 300 means a family is in mourning. Glad youre here. Sorry for the reason youre here. Tiny room filled with mothers and pictures of loved ones lost. Every thursday we have a Grief Support meeting. Victims of violence, murder ird in the city of brotherly lov
Allentown and reading theres a chance of snow. Down south, though is where the Winter Weather advisory exists. Its kicks in at 1 00 p. M. And ends at 9 00 p. M. And 1 to 3 inches in this zone. Well have lack of of cloud cover, well see early sunshine, but the clouds thicken up in the morning. 25 degrees in philadelphia. 13 in allentown. 18 in trenton. 22 in millville. Not much wind well not bother you with big windchill this morning. Well get up to 32 ahead of snow. After 1 00 p. M. , the snowflakes come in from the west. 5 00 p. M. , 27 cold enough to support the snow on untreated surfaces and even on surfaces that have been treated. 7 00 p. M. , 26 degrees, the bulk of the snow beginning to wind down from there. Future tracker 6, looks like between now and 1 00 p. M. Get out there and get done whatever it is you want to get done. After that, the snow fills in by 5 00, 5 30, the rush hour tapering off in the northern and western suburbs. For the evening commute, the snow already in th
Right at beginning of the evening rush but also at the time kid were getting out of school. Very, very slow go here. It took me 30 minutes to go just over a mile over the bridge to come toward main street in bethlehem. Now it is looking picturesque everything back to normal but we will have risk for icy conditions tonight, and current temperature right here on mobile weather watcher is about 24 degrees, when just a coat to go an inch of snow that is leading to slick conditions outside. Look at storm scan three you can see heaviest of the snow started to shift to the southe of the city still snow on the back edge and still snowing here in the Lehigh Valley but doesnt look all that impressive there on storm scan three but heavier band of snow are over portions of south jersey what happened was it moved off coast trending more snowy as we talk about throughout the day yesterday and then banding set up and in these steady band we have got pretty quick snow fall rates as much as half inch t
So no one inside would come to the door or speak on camera. The cities licenses and Inspections Department tells me that the home owner who purchased the property in may does not have a rental license and that he is renting rooms he is doing so immediately. Everybody need to leave. Reporter rodgers contacted her landlord after the first racoon setting earlier in the evening, something neighbors say is common with trash in the area it is terrible around here with these racoon, yes. Reporter when home owner arrive, to help remove. He chased him out. Reporter after ate tacked the baby the landlord rush them to the hospital, the family says it intend to pursue legal action. It is his responsibility. Reporter i reached that landlord by phone earlier today and he initially hung up and then called me back a little while later to tell me that everything had been resolved and he to contact his lawyer if he had more questions but wow not provide me with that attorneys name or contact information
We go live to the scene and action News Reporter christie ileto. Christie, you have the full story. Thats right jim. Police say this started as a domestic dispute between a woman and her boyfriend. When the verbal dispute turned into a of verbal altercation thats when she called her Family Member for back up. The two vehicles blopg vehicles belong to her family. When the family arrived this quickly turned violent. One of and starts fighting the boyfriend. Cal altercatarts to lose the fistfight. He pulls a gun striking four people. There were six shots. It stopped. By the time we got down the steps, it and tried tlp those that of the c appeared to be unconscious and not breathing. There was another guy. We tried toalm. The cops came and they took everybody to the hospital. The fouraken to penn presbyterian. All of them are in crit critical condition. They were all shot in the arms and chest. Police say the suspect fled on foot. Its unclear which direction. He reportedly lives on this bl