At here is the past of investigative reporting. Well, thank you. Things, despite the makeup of the panel, i think things are changing in the newsrooms, there are a lot of women, africanamericans, hispanics and asians all taking posts of responsibility in all these groups so while we have been behind and not as aggressive as we should have been and be more diverse in our organizations thats very much a top line question. In terms of the topics tackled its a fair point that the people who are in the decisionmaking positions are perhaps not in touch as they should be with some of these other questions, like inequality and race but i think that by and large the main organizations are at least making efforts to address that. Look, its an absolutely excellent point, diversity is important not just for the sake of diversity, because it does give other perspectives on whats the story, and you know, this doesnt speak directly to the issue of women or africanamericans or minorities, but how you
Doctors are scene seeing all kinds of cold related illnesses and cold is killing car batteries left and right. Triple a says its received more dead car battery calls in the philly five county area today than in the past three days combined. More than 1,000 in case you were wondering. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Its so cold a lot of could see freezing rain enlit little snow in the morning. Lets get over to kathy orr with those details. Kathy . Were talking about the deep freeze. Its still here the coldest air of the season is upon us. Its going to be get better. It will take a couple of days. Outside in old city philadelphia temperatures are still quite chilly in the 20s. Overnight tonight, were falling into the teens. Philadelphia 17. The poconos 12. Allentown 15. Dover will wake up to 16 degre 16 degrees. Cold enough for wintry mix especially north and west. Ultimate doppler you can see the clouds will rope in this is a warm front snow out through ohio and that will co
Nicetown earlier tonight. Police say one was shot in the shoulder. The driver in the chest. He then drove them more than a mile to the hospital. The man shot in the chest is in Critical Condition but both are expected to survive. Police say the gunman got away in burgundy sedan saturn still on the loose tonight. Meanwhile media circus set hours before bill cosby walks back into a local courtroom. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. The comedian set for morning hearing in Montgomery County on sex assault charges. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in norristown tonight with what we can expect. Chris . Reporter iain, lucy, 11th hour denial by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has paved the way for the criminal case against business bee to proceed. As you said tomorrow morning a hearing inside the Montgomery County courthouse will set the next chapter of the criminal case against the legendary entertainly to begin. The stage is set at the Montgomery County courthouse. Security barricades
The vicinity of upper makefield where we did have report of hail about. 30 of an inch into diameter in this cell where we have tour ren al rain falling. Please beware that most of these are fast moving and should be in and out of your neighborhood win about 10 or 15 minutes. But more will be on the way through the evening. Once we get through the 8 00 oclock hour, all of this will be fading after the sun sets. And skies will begin to clear during the late night hours but it wont be over just yet. More on the way tomorrow. In the city overnight 57. In the suburbs 53. Scattered showers and storms through 8 00 p. M. A few scattered showers becoming partly cloudy overnight. The big story is when the weather turns much warmer. It will be happening this week. Temperatures back into the 80s. Ill see you with the seven day forecast later in the broadcast. Well continue to track those storms. All right, kathy, thank you. We are on top of breaking news in cherry hill tonight. A pedestrian was hi
Next chapter of the criminal case against the legendary entertainly to begin. The stage is set at the Montgomery County courthouse. Security barricades put up to control the anticipated crowds. A couple hundred media and spec tatters are expected to fill the courtroom to see bill cosby face charges of criminal sexual assault. And for the first time we may see his accuser prosecutors may call to the stand andrea constand. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting the former Temple University employee inside his cheltenham home back in 2004. Among those watching, civil rights attorney and philadelphia native gloria allred. Shes representing 30 women in separate civil lawsuit for accused cosby of similar crimes. We believe in equalizing power with power, and were used to david and goliath battles, and we look forward to the battle. Reporter included in the evidence against cosby, his own words. In the 2005 deposition in the civil case against cosby, attorneys asked him if he ha