Wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is an armed swat team raid on a home in southwest philadelphia. It happened overnight, last night, on elmwood avenue. Just one problem the raid was a mistake. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at Police Headquarters, dann, how could this happen. Reporter well, jim, this is a classic example of what can happen when Police Mistake you for violent culprits they are looking for. In this case one southwest philadelphia family says that is what happened to them, in the misunderstanding led to their home being raided in the middle of the night. Incident happened here on 2 30 this morning in the 1600 block of elmwood avenue. Police were looking for culprits in the violent Home Invasion involving weapons. Surveillance video from the Police Real Time Crime center led heavily armed swat officers to this house. I opened the door i saw six or seven or eight swat team members with m16s, or, high powered weapons, like it was a radar so
Was a mistake. Action News Reporter dann cuellar is live at Police Headquarters, dann, how could this happen. Reporter well, jim, this is a classic example of what can happen when Police Mistake you for violent culprits they are looking for. In this case one southwest philadelphia family says that is what happened to them, in the misunderstanding led to their home being raided in the middle of the night. Incident happened here on 2 30 this morning in the 1600 block of elmwood avenue. Police were looking for culprits in the violent Home Invasion involving weapons. Surveillance video from the Police Real Time Crime center led heavily armed swat officers to this house. I opened the door i saw six or seven or eight swat team members with m16s, or, high powered weapons, like it was a radar something. Coming out of the shower and pump action rifle in my chest. He just like put your hand up. Rifle in my chest. I said wow. Reporter fortyeight yearold mrs. Jardine who was shot in the head by a
Unaudible. Disturbing video of the an arrest in vine happened this man died while in custody. New is there a vigil being held in his memory. More of that video taken by a man saw it all happen. And how safe do you really feel when you visit the the airport. Philly international is one of the worst in the country, when it comes to perimeter breaches. What the airport is doing to make sure incidents dont happen in the future. Well good morning everyone. We have made it to friday. Wow. Yeah. Good morning, everybody. All right. And it is also a special friday. Even though it is raining we are having our spring fling day. Yes, that is true. You guys will fling your way up to reading this evening. Yes. So we have people there already this morning. We have quincy, Bill Anderson, Lauren Johnson is on the way, Scott Williams. We will have fun. It will be at the fair ground market if you want to head out and be on tv and get to see everybody. You and sue are heading up later. Alex and i will be
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And class project for a cop killer, why did third graders sent get well card to Mumia Abujamal . Hear from parents who say this assignment was completely out of line. All right. Good day, it is friday april 10th 2015. It feels like friday the 13th because you are in rare form. You are in rare, rare, rare form. So lets talk about the number here, sue because when you come up with the number if it is a beautiful day, phenomenal day it is easy. It is like tail of threetive represent weather days. We have milder temperatures which we all love, but then the then are storms around. How about a seven because it is in the in the 40s anymore and on you high will approach 07 degrees. We have then are storms moving through. A few in Atlantic County here. Rain down to the south in cape may county. Look at this one downpour that just moved through our area in olde city. It doesnt look like much on radar but boy, it is really coming down, and that one area where you see, that orange, and the red, an