Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to ride the rails into philadelphia to see pope francis. And now we know that if you want to ride septa in from the burbs, youre going to have to win the lottery. Tuesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is septas mass transit plan to take transit to the mass. Live at the station septa finally disclosed how the new system is going to work. Thats right, jim. After the first plan proved to be a disaster septa thinks it has found a solution. It has a plan b a lottery system that will be open for a 24hour period for anyone wishing to buy the regional 10 passes. Last week septa placed 350,000 Regional Rail passes up for grabs on the website, but the agency did not anticipate the stampede it would create. A rush ever of people trying to get their hands on tickets, crashing after selling only 201. An e commerce site is not a viable solution. And causing the stampede
Miller and sal dinubile was killed, at 12th and ritner. Most of these murders are preventable. They dont have to happen. It is as a result of the impulsive behavior. This is no different. Reporter hundreds attended vigil for the two victims but still no killer in custody. Late thursday, a Philadelphia Police officer tweeted Brandon Oliveri photograph, name and home address just a few hours later his home was riddled with 14 bullets. No one was injured. First i just thought that is what it sounded like, it sounded like gunshots but then there was no noise going on after it. Reporter not even 12 hours later frantic parents rushed to Roman Catholic high school to take their kid out of school early. Police source tells Eyewitness News an on line threat surfaced involving oliveri who used to go to school there source says that the threat wasnt credible but that didnt stop parents were worried about their kid. Really concerned, you know. As long as kid are safe. We have police out here in go
To the murder of these two south philadelphia teens. Sure im worried. Im concerned. These are children up the street. These are all people young, babies, toddlers. Reporter it happened around 1 30 this morning. Shortly after we caught up with Police Commissioner richard ross who has asked for the suspect to turn himself in. Hes 16yearold Brandon Olivieri. Come down and have a talk with us before this gets out of hand. Reporter also today a possible threat via social media caused a lockdown at Roman Catholic high school. It, too, was in connection to the suspect olivieri. We spoke with many parents who were upset and pulled their kids out early today because of that. They did the right thing. They let the parents know. They locked the school down in a timely manner. Everybody is aware of it. Nobody got hurt and thats all that counts. Reporter four days ago tuesday evening when 16yearold Salvatore Dinubile and Caleer Miller were shot and killed at the intersection of 12th and ritner. Com
School pretty much. Reporter a statement from the archdiocese of philadelphia said roman was placed on lockdown because of general threats against the safety of the School Community on social media. This all ties back to the murder of two teens in south philadelphia on tuesday evening. Sal dinubile and Caleer Miller both 16 were shot and killed at the intersection of south 12th and ritner. Philadelphia police say they are looking for a person of interest in the killings, 16yearold Brandon Olivieri. Early this Morning Police say at least eight bullets were fired into olivieris home on the 1600 block of south juniper street. No one was hurt but neighbors and olivieris parents were left shaken. Then according to police, someone posted a photo of olivieri on social media saying he was headed to the area of Roman Catholic high school and posed a threat. The school was placed on lockdown around 11 30 a. M. Police say they investigated and found the threat to be unfounded. Still, parents foun
The winds were howling, a peak wind gust of 43 Miles Per Hour so you combine the winds with the current temperature, the wind chill in philadelphia 26 degrees, wind chills have been in the 20s all day long and the winds will be diminishing tonight but temperatures will be dropping very quickly. Satellite and radar showing we dont have any cloud cover to trap in the heat of the earth, some very good radiational cooling tonight and temperatures dropping near record low levels and a freeze warning has been posted for essentially everywhere where we havent had a freeze yet. This is the end of the growing season. Actually in philadelphia we even havent had a frost yet but tonight a freeze, temperatures dropping very close to the record low. Philadelphia the record low 21 set back in 1961. Probably within 2 degrees of that but allentown likely a new record low of 16. Trenton a new record of 20, shattering the record low of 25. Wilmington a new record of 21, Atlantic City all the way down to