who suffered cuts, bruises and a concussion when he fell to the ground. still trying to help his mother. the officer doctors tell me when they arrived he was trying to render aid to his mother. and he was sitting there with his mother when they got here. reporter: rushed from the scene to children s hospital to be treated, the little boy now has his grandmother at his side police say. meanwhile, video cameras i was bore the bus capture the entire tragic scene. that video now being analyzed by accident investigators. preliminarily investigators believe this is nothing more than a tragic accident. meanwhile i don t know the suffering for the victim s families there is the horror for the bus driver. behind the wheel during those horrifying moments. on washington avenue, walt hunter cbs-3 eyewitness news . also breaking late tonight there s been deadly hit-and-run in east mt. airy. a speeding suv ran a stop sign and hit a sedan at east gore gus lane and ardley streets. pol
they encountered when they raced here to the 1500 block of washington avenue. a mother run over boy a septa bus. her eight year old son still at her side. beneath the wheels of this septa bus, police say a 29 year old mother died as she was struck crossing washington avenue at 15th street with her eight year old son at her side. she was running in front of the bus. she s running that way and you could see the bus video you can see the front of the bus actually strike her. reporter: when officers raced to the scene around 7:00 p.m. they found the little boy who suffered cuts, bruises and a concussion when he fell to the ground. still trying to help his mother. the officer doctors tell me when they arrived he was trying to render aid to his mother. and he was sitting there with his mother when they got here. reporter: rushed from the scene to children s hospital to be treated, the little boy now has his grandmother at his side police say. meanwhile, video cameras i wa
system. been around 9:30 tonight. when firefighters arrived, this home was engulfed in flames. i took firefighters about 30 minutes to get those flames under control. no one was hurt. also developing tonight, philadelphia police chased a suspected car thief through north philadelphia in kensssing ton for more than a half an hour. sky 10 was over the scene. at one point during the chase, police tried to block the driver with their cruisers. but he pulled on to the sidewalk, ran over a sign and got away. the the suspected later ditched that car and simply walked away right there. police walked up to the man on the street, he put his hands up and police took him into custody. new at 11:00, police in bucks county are patrolling aggressively after a series of attempted break-ins, all in the same neighborhood. a flashlight was pointed inside one home. there have been four atempts just in the past month in the stover mill development. the most recent last night on tarleto
from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we begin with a heartbreaking story out of oklahoma where a college softball team trip ended in tragedy on a busy interstate. four young women were killed after the bus they were on collided with an 18-wheeler. all the victims were members of the softball team at north central texas college. the youngest of those killed was 18, the oldest 20. and tonight back in texas their tight-knit college community is gripped by a profound sadness. kerry sanders is in ardmore, oklahoma, tonight for us. kerry, good evening. reporter: good evening, lester. the women s softball team was about 40 miles shy of their destination when their bus was hit by a tractor-trailer that crossed that wide grassy median down there here on interstate 35. the crash happened on a stretch of interstate 35 in oklahoma where the speed limit is 70 miles per hour. a tractor-trailer headed north, a college t
in south philadelphia, a septa bus hits a mother and her child. we have learned the mother has died while the child is in the hospital. good evening, i m chris may. i m jessica dean. investigator say the child was trying to help his mother when the police arrived. the accident happened at 15th and washington around 7:30. investigator say the 29-year-old mother her eight-year-old son were crossing when her hit by the route 27 bus. that mother was pronounced dead at the scene, the child is now in good condition at children s hospital. police describe how it happened. trying to make a left-hand turn making a wide left-hand turn to go eastbound on washington avenue. she was running in front of the bus. you could see the bus radio, you could see the front of the bus actually strike her. no one on the bus was injured. we ll stay on top of this breaking story. tonight a woman is recovering from severe burns after a fiery gas station crash in kensington. this is cell phone vi