Plus, iconic symbol of philadelphia the love sculpture but why is the l crooked . Nicole brewer finds out whats behind the statues design in tonights good question. Good evening, im jessica dean. Ukee washington has the night off. We begin tonight with a exam involving fake driveway pavers. Police say homeowners are giving them money but the job is never getting done. Eyewitness News Reporter david spunt talk to one woman who fell victim to the scam and shes speaking out in hopes of protecting others. Reporter its a beautiful spring night outside her wilmington home. But kimberly inn man cant even enjoy the weather. I feel like i want to trust people, and this gentleman who came to the house i trusted him. Reporter she still focused on getting her money back if its open possible after shelling out 210 bucks to a man she thought would pave her driveway. She says he claimed to have extra materials from a previous job. She says he seemed professional. He was out like measuring my driveway
Course turned into a kidnapping case that happened in West Philadelphia and we now know that the father of that child got in touch with the thief in order to get his baby back. Sarah bloomquist live at southwest detectives now and sarah, we just got brand new details about this investigation. Reporter brian and sharrie, thats right this appears to have been a crime of opportunity. The child is fine. This Afternoon Police looking for that stolen minivan and the young man who take it with the four month old on the back seat. We just obtained this brand new Surveillance Video showing the suspect and the crime in progress. This is video of the four month old baby and his parents as they left southwest detectives this afternoon. The child is fine but this could have turned out much differently. Just after 7 30 this morning the childs father parked his white town and country minivan near 49th and wall out in run into the corner store. Surveillance video shows the van parked outside. The infa
The temperatures will be climbing from the 40s and 50s. 45 right now in reading, trenton is at 49. 50 in wilmington. And 56 degrees at Philadelphia International. The forecast hour by hour, sunshine, we will see bright sunshine today. 55 degrees at 9 00, by lunch time well be in the 60s. Your hour by hour forecast when i come back. Jessica boyington right now is watching traffic. Jessica. And bill, we have an update for the vine street expressway closure and construction, reopened and were about a half hour ahead of schedule. So its good news there. Vine street expressway cameras looking live around 24th street westbound, you can see cars traveling east and west but westbound here to the schuylkill expressway no problem. Watch out for some cleanup and crew in the area. You want to be careful driving through the area. As for Chestnut Street bridge closed into penns landing. Traffic is being diverted on front. The best bet is dock to race and back on to columbus boulevard and get by seve
Reporter penn dot is getting ready for whatever is going to fall overnight, tonight ski resorts say they dont care what falls, they just need the extended cold. Fired up the guns this morning once it got cold again. Reporter by now they should have the 40s, theyve had one. We had a stretch over thanksgiving where we could make a bit of snow, had a stretch about ten days ago, but we havent had the sustained cold yet. Finally it looks like that may be coming at the end this week. Reporter so they are running the snow guns, the resort is optimistic a viable ski season is still out there. Camelback is also opened up the zip line and other mountain adventure activities to keep their guests at the water park from leaving. The bookings have stayed really strong through this holiday week. Theres a lot of pentup demand for skiing and snowboarding and snow tubing, obviously. Reporter no snow has taken its toll like kristen cox. I usually count on the money for school, making payments and stuff.
Wave heights a big problem. The strongest wave heights right now from lbi to rehoboth right off shore were looking at 12 to 15foot waves and this unfortunately is causing a lot of beach erosion and a lot of coastal flooding. And then we have the winds. They are whipping. A peak wind gust tuckerton 52 miles an hour. Were talking about Tropical Storm force winds and this has nothing to do with a hurricane. Delaware bay 48 Miles Per Hour, lbi47. The same in ocean city and North Beach Haven reporting a peak wind gust of 44 Miles Per Hour. Unfortunately the winds will still be a factor right into the weekend. Its going to take awhile for things to quiet down. For details on that and the latest on Hurricane Joaquin lets head over to meteorologist adam joseph. Yeah, these peak wind gusts are going to remain the strongest at the shore as we get into your saturday, so if we take a look at the map in total, from lancaster reading allentown through the day tomorrow wind gusts around 20, 30 miles