Jessica boyington, thank you. Overnight flames ripped through a home leaving one person dead and a firefighter injured. And we have heard another person jumped out of a window of the burning home. Matt delucia is joining us from the scene. What are you learning . Reporter the fire is out, but the question is whether or not foul play was involved. This is the scene in the 1800 block of east clementine street in east kensington. Some of the firefighters and police are still working here at the scene at the moment, but the fire started at 10 40 last night with heavy flames initially on the first floor of this home. Firefighters found a man dead on the second floor. Now before they got here, another man jumped out of a secondfloor window. He is at temple hospital right now in stable condition. A firefighter was also treated for heatrelated issues but is expected to be okay. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but the philly Police Crime Scene unit is here along with homicide investigat
And about enjoying nice weather but things will change late this evening. Take live look right now. You can see highlighted here, we are looking at very heavy rainfall. The red, the orange and yellow rainfall rates in excess of 4inches per hour now moving into sections of bucks county. Around perkasie, richland moving into sections of pottstown right now, limerick, montgomery county, also, as we move into Chester County very heavy rainfall and well put a tracker on this activity moving on off to the east. So moving forward wilmington, by 6 00 oclock. 6 01 philadelphia. Moving toward middletown around 7 07 as this line continues to move from west to east. Also, a lot of lightning if you struck by lightning. Take a look at the lightning strikes win this area. Almost 200 and as we take look at the set up, you can see how ahead of a cold front very tropical air mass so squeezing out a lot of that moisture thats why we have that severe thunderstorm watch in effect pretty much the entire are
Hand pointed at the officers or in that direction of them refusing their command to put the weapon down. At that. 1 of the u. S. Marshals discharged his weapon striking the male a couple times. Reporter investigators say robledos gun had an obliterated serial number warranted for the july shooting of a man on the 400 block of west huntington. Theres a individual sitting on the steps at that location. This male with two other individuals pull up in a vehicle. He exits the vehicle and begins firing at this individual. The name of the u. S. Marshall has not been released. Im live outside of Police Headquarters chad pradelli channel6 action news. Thank you chad. Former congressman chaka fattah is headed to prison for 10 years. Fattah sentence was handed down by a judge who said it was quote astonished at the long time congressmans actions. The democrat was convicted earlier this year. Prosecutors said fattah used government grants and charitable money to fund his personal and campaign expe
Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Driving can be hazardous to your health especially when you are being bombarded by Construction Equipment that is what happened to Lindsey Richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. Its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. A metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. Live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action News Reporter Christie Lleto christie what exactly happened there . Reporter its no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but Lindsey Richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. It hit right here shattering like the frame. Reporter a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the whee
Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Driving can be hazardous to your health especially when you are being bombarded by Construction Equipment that is what happened to Lindsey Richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. Its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. A metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. Live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action News Reporter Christie Lleto christie what exactly happened there . Reporter its no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but Lindsey Richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. It hit right here shattering like the frame. Reporter a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the whee