Passengers at the 30th street station seeing red during the evening commute im a little frustrated but i cant do anything about it. Reporter anger and frustration over massive delays, some well past the hour mark. Because of a total system shutoff at 5 35 we received reports that passengers were starting to evacuate from the train. Reporter lets back up 15 minutes when septas assistant general manager said the train lost power for some unknown reason, a breaker tripped not once but twice ylikely trishinged the passengers to believe something was wrong. They thought there may have been a fire and with possibly no communication from the crew to those inside. Do you know if anything was said at all i dont know. Reporter those passengers opened emergency windows and dropped four to six feet on to active rail lines. For that reason we had to stop service through center city. Reporter which leads us back to the red, delays and thousands of passengers stuck for waiting for the ride home they
All the captains hat. Youre right bob kelly the captains hat. Do you have a picture of the captains hat . Iconic right there. Youre right, alex. So who, who could it be. If you have to have somebody step in it might having to be me. Look at that. Wow. Wow do that. Well i you almost have to and im starting to look like him. Scott what do you think i can pull this off. Absolutely the resemblance is there owe do we have this other picture. I dont want to resemble him. There he is. I dont want to resemble him now. Look at that resemblance. Rest in peace though. Weather scale of 1 to 10 its a nine. Window change theres a cold front moving through right now. Tight Pressure Gradient High Pressure north and west maria exiting so we get that wind tunnel effect. Winds gust up to 30 miles an hour later today. Upper 50s. Mount poke me. 70 allentown. Low to mid 70s sections of south jersey. Heres that planner for today. Temperatures hold protest di steady. High temperature this afternoon a lot of s
The familys cat princess was missing for about 12 hours. She was later found hiding inside the home. This afternoon officers were back this time at a home two doors down from where the break in happened. Police have not said how or if its related to the home invasion. Now, the family does have a security system. They tell me it was not turned on last night. They say they will be arming that system tonight. They are also having security cameras installed. If you have any information about this home invasion, Philadelphia Police would like to hear from you. Were live in somerton, Trish Hartman channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, trish. The winners of that massive 430 million Powerball Jackpot have now stepped forward to claim their prize today. Valerie arthur spoke on behalf of the winners today at new jersey lottery headquarters. The Winning Ticket was bought by her 70yearold mother pearl smith at the 7eleven on chambers street in trenton. She spent six dollars to buy two tickets,
In the business for many years is skeptical and wonders if their haulers and some middle men who might find a way around much of that tax. So, how will the beverage tax be collected . The city says there are perhaps tens of thousands of stores and vendors that sell sweetened drinks but they wont be taxed directly. Instead, the city will target the next level up. It estimates there are only dozens of wholesale distributors each distributor would have to register with city hall and in theory every ounce headed to philadelphia would be taxed. Each retail order would include an invoice proving the tax had been collected. To enforce that collection, the measure self funds the hiring of new city workers. 1. 8 million. How many more revenue staffers. About 15 staffers performing a variety of functions to make sure this all goes smoothly. Reporter david day runs days beverages in yeadon in 18 states they sell 12 to 15 million cases in a lot of flavors. 24 flavors. Reporter days openly skeptica
Next 24 hours saturday is looking raw, damp and dreary. The steady round of rain again late tonight into early tomorrow morning. It will be breezy but not as windy as it has been, winds generally out of the northeast 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. We have to wait until sunday to see some peeks of sunshine but sunday is looking a lot better than saturday. We just got the latest in from the National Hurricane center on matthew. This storm is now a category four hurricane. This is a major hurricane, the first major hurricane in the caribbean since sandy and this could threaten the u. S. Next week. Ill talk more about matthew coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you cecily. Thanks cecily. New at 5 00 police and fire Officials Say heavy rain may have caused this Building Collapse in downtown wilmington. The building is home its home to a Property Management company in the 900 block of walnut street. It happened sometime this morning before anyone arrived for work. So