Legend and philanthropist jerry lewis but the big story on action news is final could down to the eclipse, first total Solar Eclipse visible in north america in 38 years. That is right, celestial event has a whole lot of people very excited, all across the country. So, folks every where are getting what they need while they can before the heavenly show begins. Lets look at the video posted on twitter. Traffic mess in organ but first lets go to adam joseph along pass of totality and very interesting, in missouri. Adam, good evening. Good evening, to you guys. Hey, atmosphere above is sunny way we want it. As more fear on the ground is electrified here, were in the festival called total eclipse of the arts and we have traveled 1400 miles to what he they called saint joes here for locals because it is a very rare celestial event here in the path of totality. Now if you have not witnessed totality in this spot in 214 years. Although it is a very small town about the size of wilmington, the
Passes directly from the sun and the earth tomorrow it will happen again and people all across the country including here this our region will be watching. Sunday night im Sarah Bloomquist along with walter perez and the big story on action news is the eve of the Great American eclipse. The last time the moon cast the shadow was february of 1979 and 14 hours the big celestial show continues. And Trish Hartman is in center city with the excitement and prep ra preparations and Melissa Magee tracking the forecast during the critical hours. And adam joseph is live from st. Joseph missouri a prime spot watching the eclipse on the so called path of totality. Hi adam. People here are pumped including myself and we made that 1400 mile trek here to missouri to see totality here tomorrow and we are at rose kranz airport a place where 20,000 people will congregate something this spot has not seen in 214 years. And do you know what a lot of people are already in position for that big show tomorrow
Red handed. 01 21 33 usually im not a person who does stuff like this yesterday was just like an unfortunate sernario. 18yearold tyrell slaughter was on his ways to school yesterday morning but instead ended up behind bars. He says he just made a bad decision. 01 19 04 i just walked in and from there i just started. I went through the house and just started grabbing things i liked i guess slaughter was in this home on Chimney Creek drive. The house was damaged valentines day weekend after a small fire. Restoration crews from Service Master showed up when slaughter was still inside. 01 19 43 i grab my book bag and i just bolted out the back door so they chased my though two cuts and then i got tired and i didnt feel like running any more the workers held the suspect down until police could arrive. 01 20 01 i offered to give everything up if i didnt have to come here green high school. Says this is his first run in with the law and he believes it will be his last. 01 24 40 im not going t
Others injured. Taken to triage areas a few blocks away where they were then transferred to hospitals, some in ambulances, some by helicopter. We have lost our aerial shots for now because authorities have asked requested that news helicopters move away from the complied. They are obviously cognizant of anything that might betray the tactics or what the s. W. A. T. Teams are actually doing right now inside the buildings as they try to secure the situation. In the bottom of your screen, you see knbc reporting as many as 3 day. We have some fatalities. Nbcs miguel almagear joins us on the phone right now. Reporter there are several Police Helicopters on the air. They have told our affiliate to back their helicopter away. I can tell you officers here on the ground, even several blocks away are heavily armed. They have rifles, shotguns, and they are trying to keep the public back as far as they can. There are several ambulances here on scene so clearly this is still a very active scene her
Out there which could be difficult if youre the young the elderly anyone with respiratory issues you want to watch for that in the height of the afternoon. Satellite6 and action radar showing this is that coastal low that kind of skirted right by us gave a few showers to the shore. Thats out of here. A lot of the clouds we have are already breaking up. Well see he a good amount of sunshine mixing with some clouds today. Its dry today. Its certainly chilly to start. 40 degrees in philadelphia, just sitting at the freezing mark in allentown, 29 in mount pocono. 38 in trenton, 37 in millville. Kind of similar setup to the way it has been. Were very chilly in the morning hours. Not so bad in the afternoon but temperatures not as mild as yesterday. We were up to 57. Today a high of 50. So, by 9 00 a. M. , 40 degrees. By noon, 47. By 3 00 p. M. , 49 degrees with sunshine and clouds, a flies afternoon. By 6 00 p. M. , 44 degrees. Not a lot of wind so certainly wont feel too bad today but afte