Good afternoon the big story on action news this noon is breaking news. Two Young Brothers were killed when flamesd through their Montgomery County home overnight. Firefighters were called to summit avenue in shanksville at 5 30 this morning. The boys parents and sister were hurt in the fire and the home was left in ruins. John rawlins joins us live from the scene with the latest. Reporter well, we are kept some distance from the liukins home. The liukins family here in shanksville. The family suffered an incredible loss. Two of the three children. Brian jr. And 4yearold parker, the parents and sister survived. The father of the family brian liukin liukins a member of the Sheriffs Office since 2013. They confirm they were at the home of brian liukins and his family apparent his wife and young daughter got out of the home but the two brothers did not. There were two males located on the second floor deceased. One was taken to the hospital by helicopter. Well update as further rmat. We d
Doug jones is going to the doug jones is going to the senate. The democrat won a razor thin victory over republican roy moore in a very contested election. Well have more on that all morning. All right, but were going to continue to the other news were following. The largest fire scorching Southern California is expanding after nearly a week. The thomas fire is nearly 240,000 acres. Its moving into Santa Barbara and ventura counties. Many residents are Wearing Masks to avoid breathing in smoke. Heres new video overnight of embers raining down on firefighters. The fire is 25 contained, but you see why its a difficult effort for many of those. Investigators say the fire that forced people out of belair started at a homeless encampment. Its being blamed on an illegal cooking setup. The fire started last wednesday and destroyed six homes. And now to key advice for online shoppers. A Record Number of americans are shopping from home. Theres Something Else to think about. Absolutely. Abcs Re
As promised all of us pretty much stayed in the teens to low 20s today. Earlier today we were below zero in mount pocono for the feelslike temperature. 17, what it feels like in philly right now. Vineland, 17. Atlantic city at 20. The numbers will level out as we go throughout the night. The wind, which plays a big factor in a feelslike temperature, are starting to weaken. Earlier today gusts were consistently between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour. Gusts are not reporting in any locations except for wildwood at just 22 miles an hour. It will be cold enough so that any flakes that do fall will stick to the ground. First off, ill say no snow day, kids. There will be snow on the ground when you wake up in the morning. Doppler radar is not picking up any snow in philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, south jersey or delaware, but theyve seen snow in pennsylvania. Theyve seen it in pittsburgh. Its headed towards williamsport and harrisburg. Further west we are looking at another band of snow unwinding
Something he now says he regrets. The vandalism happened in the store. You were in the store . Yes. Ill sorry to hear about that. It also caught the eye, she drops her daughters off at a daycare nearby. She posted it online will. I didnt want to be too aggressive. I wanted people to care. Sinhell have to pay the 50 deductible to remove the paint. They met for the first time in a lot. She talked about starting a go fund me page. A suspicious duffle bag wreaked hacking today. It was all a hands on deck with the bomb squad called in. With Court Hearings underway, a young man coming into the main entrance to the alameda country courthouse left his wheeling backpack outside the steps. When tracked down and questioned about it, he became violent. He assaulted our staff. Several of our deputies ended up having a struggle with him. He was taken to the ground and ultimately deteenaged. We definitely realized that he was suffering some psychological issues. Hes on probation for that. The cagine
Reporter it made for a very unnerving morning at the courthouse near lake merritt. I was inside the building for the ghost ship preliminary hearing and heard all the commotion when the bomb squad was called in for the second time today. Streets were blocked off by Oakland Police after a man left a backpack outside the building at 10 30 a. M. The 26yearold man then went inside the courthouse and was confronted by deputies who asked why he left the backpack there. Authorities say he got into a struggle with the deputies and attacked them. He was detained and will be placed on a psychiatric hold. Now, as for his backpack, the Sheriffs Office did not want to take any chances. We were overhead in skyfox as the sheriffs bomb squad suited up to inspect the backpack with an xray. It turned out not to be an explosive device and the all clear was given at about 12 30. The man doesnt appear to be connected to two firebombing incidents at the courthouse. The first happened about 1 a. M. On decembe