Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Dash cam video of an attack on police, today, sent a chill up the spine of everyone who worries about the safety of our men and women in blue. It starts with the rock thrown at a cop car, but it doesnt end there. Monday night, jims will be joining us shortly from the Republican National Convention Im monica malpass. The big story on action news tonight is a a Coatsville Policeman hospitalized another nursing bruises and suspect in handcuffs. Action news dann cuellar is only reporter at Coatsville Police tonight with that full story, dann . Reporter monica a 48 yearold Police Detective is hospitalized in stable condition, following the attack on police, another officer scuffed up but otherwise doing okay tonight. A 29 yearold man is in custody in connection with the attack. This is the cruiser involved in the a tack, windshield smashed by a large rock all capture on the cruisers dash cam. Police say it was 1 50 p. M. T
Elderly mans philadelphia home overnight forcing him to land over cash and more. Airport workers plan to rally today leading the fierce that a strike could disrupt travel during the Democratic National convention here next week. Dave murphy is off. Lets give you accuweather from karen rogers. Matt pelman has traffic. Good mor good morning. Were starting to take a look at the storm reports because i know for a lot of people its still time to clean up after strong storms yesterday in allentown, tree limbs down haverford township one of the hardest hit areas, trees down, upper darby several trees down, wilmington same situation as so some serious storms that came through and caused a lot of damage. Satellite6 and action radar slowing thats out of here many we still have just a fair amount of cloud c front kind of limps through but today is a day of change. 74 degrees for your current temperature but just in the up are 60s in the lehigh valley. 73 in and 73 in dover, delaware. Todays high
Thrown at a cop car, but it doesnt end there. Monday night, jims will be joining us shortly from the Republican National Convention Im monica malpass. The big story on action news tonight is a a Coatsville Policeman hospitalized another nursing bruises and suspect in handcuffs. Action news dann cuellar is only reporter at Coatsville Police tonight with that full story, dann . Reporter monica a 48 yearold Police Detective is hospitalized in stable condition, following the attack on police, another officer scuffed up but otherwise doing okay tonight. A 29 yearold man is in custody in connection with the attack. This is the cruiser involved in the a tack, windshield smashed by a large rock all capture on the cruisers dash cam. Police say it was 1 50 p. M. That 27 yearold officer jared davis was on patrol in the 500 brook of east lincoln. Video then shows a man running toward the car and throwing a large rock smashing the windshield. Officer davis maneuvers the car a little bit forward. He
Man, but he later died. One mother tells us her daughter was inside the starbucks when the shooting happened kim plank, daughter inside store during shooting she just said she heard a guy with a gun got down and then as soon as she had a chance she jumped out the drive thru window. Kirsten Joyce the area was evacuated. And police say the alleged gunman initially came out with the other customers. And called police to give a fake suspect description. However, witnesses identified the man and Police Arrested him. The suspect told officers there was a bomb in his backpak along with the bomb squad and fbi agents. Responders used a robot to investigate the bag, but didnt find anything dangerous. Again police are expected to release the name of the suspect later today and we will continue to keep you update on 8 news now both on air and online. brian loftus and metro police were also on the scene of another barricade yesterday. Near farhill and the 215. It went on for several hours. And said
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