Concerns. First alert traffic with Jessica Boyington. Were watching the vine street expressway, just for an update here, good news, all lanes back open, through center city. These are cameras around 18th street. See traffic is moving along eastbound and westbound, even through the work zones, though they cleaned up and now youre good through center city on the vine. Also an accident out in the west norton on west main street and colonial avenue. Well check on delaware roads in the next ten. Today, philadelphia soda tax proposal could become law after City Councils final vote. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live at city hall this morning. Pamela, mayor jim kenny tells us he believes the soda tax will happen. Why is he so confident . Reporter well, he says at this point he feels like council has really done their homework. Hes provided them all the information they need to know the questions they had about the tax hes answered. He feels like they understand how important Early Education is an
In parts of interior. Involving Hillary Clinton. A state Department Audit has faulted clinton and other secretaries of state for poorly managing email and computer information and for responding slowly to new Cyber Security risks. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the state Department Inspector generals report. It says, quote, there were longstanding systemic weaknesses related to communications before clinton became secretary of state, however, the report does single out clintons actions as more serious. This review comes after looking at her email accounts on her server in her office. A deadly shooting in the germantown neighborhood. They found a victim at the abandoned supermarket parking lot. They took him to the Medical Center where he died. Witnesses say there is a fight between two or even three people before gunfire erupted. Investigators believe there were at least two gunmen. Worked for the Temple University Womens Basketball team. The defense contends the encounter was
Thats beautiful. Already 61 degrees. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema, closer to the memorial day weekend, which many regard as the unofficial start to summer. Lets start with today and get the first alert meteorologist bill henley who has the neighborhood forecast. Today is the unofficial start of summer. It will be in the upper 80s. Humidity will be low. Wilmington, 81 by noontime. For philadelphia, sunny skies and into the 60s at 8 00. Near 80 degrees at 11 00. Bright sunshine will warm temperatures into the 80s. T exception is the jersey shore where its 74 degrees. When i come back, a look at the weekend forecast. Right now Jessica Boyington has a look at traffic. This is 422 around oaks. Eastbound we have Police Activity because of a car that rolled off into the center embank. Here. You can see that down in the bottom corner of your screen. The Police Officers are actually blocking off that left part of the shoulder, left part of that and part
Route 422 and indian head road. The vine street expressway looks great. We were open all morning. Didnt have to deal with construction. Right now headed westbound towards the schuylkill, were doing just fine. Some construction signs but nothing tying people up. Eastbound towards 95 doing okay. Were following breaking news in philadelphia. One person is dead and two men are in custody after a shooting in the germantown section. Pamela osborne is live on scene. Pamela, police say they found the victim in the parking lot. Reporter thats right. They say, according to witnesses, they were telling police the victim was in an altercation with at least one or two other men in the parking lot moments before the shots were fired. The victim was shot in the chest. Police tell us he had two graze wounds to his head. He was transported to einstein where he was reported dead. All of this happening before 2 30 this morning. Investigators say at least 11 shots were fired from two separate guns. Were t
Township. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has details on both of these issues. Sticky backup this morning. We have seen these backups on 95 all morning long. Now, this is because of, of course, like you saw from 95 northbound around gerard avenue, that tractor trailer accident has caused a big mess. Now, were at a 72minute drive time headed northbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Shouldnt be that high. Its completely in the red right now. This is a shot of 95 right around wolf street, where all traffic is being forced off right now around columbus boulevard. So at a standstill because all of this traffic has to get off one small exit ramp. Definitely big delays there. Also seeing some delays onto the vine street expressway because a ramp from the vine street expressway through center city is also blocked so theres no exit to 95 northbound there either. Theres also an accident of the p. A. Turnpike eastbound which is closed around mile marker 357. An