The sky in the lehigh valley. Within row home caught fire and then quickly went in the wind from one to another and in the end, six homes were destroyed, seven families homeless. The lets get out to jenny joyce who is there at the scene, jenny. Reporter Allentown Fire Department is still on the scene here. They are staying here, to hon for the block. Several homes have stickers on the trent doors saying the structures are unsafe, sky fox was over the scene of the three alarm fire last night, and it broke out in the 400 block of north fulton street in allentown around 8 00 oclock, according to fire chiefly wohack, the flames spread to six homes before crews, placed it under control just before 1 00 this morning. A handful of volunteers were on the scene overnight working with seven families who lost everything, this week just weeks before christmas. Fortunately the fire chief is report nothing injuries at this point. We dont know where or how the fire started, once the sun does come up
Will describe the roller coaster were getting ready to ride. Its sunday, february 7, 2015 6. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us. Im jonathan hawgood. This is meteorologist Jennifer Schack. How are you . Jennifer good. Jonathan all aboard, huh . Jennifer which roller coaster, you heard the forecast, which roller coaster do you think well be on . Jonathan the beast . Jennifer i was thinking the vortex. There are a couple of loops coming up. Jbs. Jonathan we got a good break this winter. Jennifer today is 51 with sunshine. This morning, winds helping keep temperatures up a touch. Were in the 20s and 30s. Quite a variation in temperatures. Well climb nicely into the afternoon. All major reporting sites not expecting morning fog. By 1ug a. M. , were at 43. Well be in upper 40s and low 50s under partly to mostly cloudy skies. Dry conditions through the afternoon hours. Late this evening, we bring ba
News 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning, welcome to news 5 today. And jonathan hawgood, this is Jennifer Schack, city camp five showing as a welcome sight. I feel like a Fighter Pilot and top gun. Look at those yellow features on the other side of the sun. Just gorgeous. [laughter] we have got a great day, and we are lucky, because what follows . 9 in terms of jennifer in terms of comparison to where we are going, we have a spectacular day. My list day of the last couple, keeping on this warming trend. Still a dry day, get outside and enjoy your sunday, a strong cold doing a nice job with the sunshine, low 50 s this afternoon, 10 degrees above average. Partly to a times cloudy skies with clouds returning today, dry conditions on the wlwt radar this morning. Clear skies with high clouds from the northwest , we do have partly cloudy skies returning today. Scattered clouds with a southwest wind helping those temperatures climb nicely. Breezy with a few mor
A touch of orange in the mid section. Jennifer is the moon up yet . Jonathan its a new moon. Jennifer yesterday, it came up an hour, hour and a half before sunrise. Jonathan come to me for celestial information. I go to you for the forecast. I like today, not the rest of the week. Jennifer today, warmer than yesterday. A good amount of sunshine. A little breezy. Tomorrow, we start to change things up. This morning, visibilities are high. Temperatures, not too bad. 20s and 30s. Visibility, eight to nine miles for reporting sites. Temperatures have varied for the morning. We have temperatures in the 30s, lower spot, pooling air has dropped down to the 20s. The station is at 31 degrees. Everyone dry with clear skies. Note cloeds heading into our direction. Well quickly become partly cloudy for the late morning. Getting more active as the cold front arrives tonight. Snow showers for tomorrow and the first half of the work week. Jonathan thanks, jennifer. Several Police Agencies are investi
Temperatures in the 20s late tomorrow evening. Snow showers over the next couple days. We come out of that cold weather pattern and quiet down for thursday. Snow showers on friday. We stay below average into next weekend. Jonathan. Jonathan several Police Agencies are investigating a fatal crash that ended with a man dead in park hills, kentucky. It happened right outside Covington Catholic High School Saturday morning. Police say 68yearold roger Lee Stephenson was hit while crossing the street. He died at the scene. He usually waits for his bus coming this way. When he sees his bus, he crosses over. Looks like thats what he was doing, crossing over to get on the bus. Jonathan the driver is cooperating with the investigation. Kenton county police are overseeing the investigation. He was a father, husband, and avid cyclist. There was a huge show of support from the cycling xhunlt this weekend, honoring a man killed in a hit and run crash in the story. It strikes a nerve with everyone wh