Live from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. This was a horrific night obviously he was hell bent on hurting a lot of people. We still arent absolutely clear as to why. Right now on Eyewitness News, rampage in west philadelphia. A man targeting Police Officers shoots a total of six people leaving two officers wounded and a 25yearold woman dead. Good evening, im Natasha Brown. Thanks for joining us. Investigators called the rampage one of the most violent act the city has seen in a very long time. Police say the gunman was a 25yearold philadelphia man named Nicholas Glen. The shooting spanned four different scenes from the corner of 52nd and sansom down to 48th street before the gunman was shot and killed by officers we begin our coverage with Eyewitness News reporter alexandria hoff live at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where the officers are currently being treated tonight. Alex. Reporter well, natasha, all evening weve seen fellow officers drop
Will hold off until later today. That is a good thing. The it is weekend. People have outdoor lance. We have time to get out. But you we need rain and we will get it. That is a good thing. The later tonight, tomorrow we are talking about that chance before steadier rain which is great across the Delaware Valley. Until then waking up, muggy this morning. That will increase throughout the Morning Hours in the afternoon. It will feel like middle of summer with high humidity levels and temperatures running well above average. The in the city right now partly cloudy skies. Right now no problems as far as any precipitation. 70 degrees currently. South breeze at 7 miles an hour that will pump in that humidity. All across the region temperatures mid 60s in the the coolest spot to the lower 07s. Seventyone in allentown and reading. Quakertown one of the coolest numbers here. Sixtytwo in mount holly. Big jump in the dew point temperatures. The yesterday they were in the 40s and 50s indicating a
Of the area. We have live team coverages tonight but first, lets go to mike maze, mike how about it . First off, the severe warning threat is canceled it is not likely hayville it overnight. There is another issue. Flash flooding. Lets go to the radar view. Turned off the flash flooding and lightning i wanted you to see the rain out there. South and the charlotte. That is moving towards our direction, toward the triangle area our viewing area. Let me put this up. Some locations it is dying down. It is beginning to ramp up more from montgomery county. I also put the flash Flood Warnings on right now. I zoom into areas of concern. The first is up in our northern there is a flash flood in effect until here. Shifting farther south. Seeing heavy rainfall. Then, even farther south and west for parts of moore and montgomery and southern randolph county. Heavy rainfall, all of it moving to the northeast. Training over the same area. I would not be surprised if there is flooding in the next few
Too, in the leg. On 49th and sansom a man and a woman in their car would become the shooters next victims. The 25yearold female died at the hospital several hours later. In a nearby alley way police cornered glen, a shootout ensued. University of pennsylvania Security Guard eddie miller was shot but is expected to recover. The suspect was killed. Again, those two officers are in Good Condition and the three other bystanders are expected to recover. Reporting live in west philadelphia, im alexandria hoff cbs3 Eyewitness News. Alex thanks for that update. Our coverage continues with a much closer look at the suspected gunman in this case as Eyewitness News reporter joe holden tells us Nicholas Glen was in stranger to police. Stay behind cover. Reporter Nicholas Glen a known west philly drug dealer according to his family disliked Law Enforcement. This is audio from Philadelphia Police radio revealing the moment just before midnight when its alleged glen was hunting down officers and othe
Everyone except the pocono mountains where its 29 degrees. We will see sunshine break through the clouds and the temperatures will be climbing. 36 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00, pretty good, nice and sunny, 37 and 42 degrees with winds out of the west northwest at 12 miles an hour at noontime today. Your hour by hour forecast when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has a look at first alert traffic. Bill, we do have something already in the books right here, haddon township, a utility pole is down due to an earlier accident scene on the black horse pike southbound around nicholson road. Two right lanes are closed. No huge backups because of that. Heres vine street expressway. Moving through center city, of course, they moved this camera down but right in here, westbound towards the schuylkill, eastbound towards 95. Around 24th street, no problems to get to 30th street station as well. The rest of the drive times are okay. Actually seeing slowdowns on 95. Well have to check out what t