who lost both legs to diabetes. homeless for years he now has roof over his head but not much else. i m still panhandling but that s only to supplement my income and it s hard it s practically always near the end of the month. reporter: right. when his ssi check comes. walk further you ll meet peter welch whose homeless and makes no excuses. failures in my life have come because of decisions and things i ve said and cup and i see that happening in this country far too often. reporter: homelessness is up in the city this year. panhandling is well according to homeless services director liz hirsh puts it down to one key element. take wild guess. this is the opioid epidemic. some of the folks you re seeing may not be homeless. they may be panhandling out here for money, but, um, yeah, it s a big hairy problem. reporter: that s the up tick hyped you and liz another that the demographics prove it more young people for instance. now, if you meet valerie who is homeles
it was a gorgeous day yesterday. lots of sunshine and another nice spring day, 51 degrees. right now clear in philadelphia. the suburbs running cooler in the 40s now, 43 degrees new jersey, interior new jersey has dropped down to 40 degrees and 42 degrees in the lehigh valley. cool start. we ll see enough sunshine these temperatures will be warming into the low 70s this afternoon. right now, society içill is 53 degrees, 43 degrees in chestnut hill. when i m back in ten minutes, we ll go through futurecast hour by hour to show you what is on tap for today. traffic wise, let s find out. jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. jessie? we re starting off on the vine street expressway right now around 24th street. we are open in both directions so you don t have to worry about the ongoing construction that might set you back. a lot of times we have it closed between broad street and the schuylkill expressway until about 5:00 in the morning. right over here, no problems
right now police are on the scene and they re looking for the man who escaped from prison in south jersey. they re focusing on a service area along the garden state parkway. let s show you where that is. the forked river service area in lacey township, nbc 10 s matt delucia is live there. police say they ll decide sometime in the next couple of hours whether or not nearby schools will be open today. tell us what you know about that. reporter: well, tracy, at this point, we re still waiting for daylight as far as whether there will be anything more in the way of a plan for the search. we have seen state police vehicles throughout this service area and around the garden state parkway within the last hour. we saw some of the vehicles leave as well. every now and then, another vehicles come back in and around this area. as far as the schools are concerned, we do not know that at this point. lacey township posted a notice to its residents within the past few hours saying there
that was not true. reporter: that were under construction. cops were here looking under the houses that are under construction in case he tried to get in there which is something he might have done. reporter: today after being taken into custody, bob kel was transported by the department of corrections in this white van to the state prison in trenton. he s to be medically evaluated and then interrogate bide 57 special investigative team. passaic county man escaped last week from a minimum security facility in harrington. correction officials have not said how buckel escaped. previously the 38-year-old had spent 14 years behind bars for man slaughter and causing the death of a 10 month old baby. well, buckel was discovered missing may 3rd. part of the ongoing investigation how he got out, was it something he engineered by himself or did he have yup? whatever the case most likely when he s recaptured his escape will likely add years to his current sentence. live in trento
different as compared to most homicide cases and we were very pleased that the jury saw fit to hold him criminally responsible for homicide. reporter: sharrie, the sentencing date for griffin campbell is set for january 8th. live at the criminal justice center in center city, i m vernon odom, channel6 action news. all right, vern, thanks very much. meanwhile the family of one of the victims ann brian just released a statement on the verdict. it reads in part, this criminal trial focused on the responsibility of just one person griffin campbell. for the rest of our lives we have to live without our daughter, anne. so we will not stop fighting for justice in her name and for all the victims and that means holding everyone responsible fully accountable. we now focus on pursuing justice in the civil trial where the fault of everyone involved, not just one individual, will be determined. we ve got developing news right now in port richmond. police say a man was sho