today before judge carpenter in room 232 in city hall. we re told that will begin as soon as a lawyer from the union arrives at that location. in the meantime, we are expecting a briefing here by septa folks including septa spokesperson carla lee and when that briefing begins we ll switch back to it live. right now live at septa headquarters, john rawlins channel6 action news. all right, we ll be standing by for that briefing to begin. john thank you. looking live at the ben franklin bridge at the start of the friday afternoon rush. commuters are still forced to find ways to get around the septa strike. we ll check in with matt pelman in the traffic center coming up in just a few minutes. of course we will continue to monitor the strike throughout today and into the weekend if necessary. be sure to check 6abc.com/septa strike. we ll have updates as soon as new developments happen and we re getting word that the news briefing is actually about to begin at this moment.
main breaks in that exact location. however they have not been on these same water mains. so we ll have to figure out which water main is broken. that could take some time to figure out which ones is shut down. i know we re in the process of valve operations working to reduce the water flow and that s the primary goal right now make sure that we get this water main turned off. let s go back now live to the scene. luckily no injuries have been reported. the fire department is trying to get a handle on this, get the water department to turn that main off completely. we think it is still clearly it is subsiding. the parking lot isn t nearly as deep as it was and there is no longer gushing water coming out of the ground so the situation is clearly improving and we are happy to say there we do not have any reports of any injuries and we will continue to bring you the details of this story and any developments as they occur tonight here on action news at 6:00 and clearly on 6
collided a tractor-trailer an box truck. the driver of the box truck was killed in the accident. he had to be cut out of the wreckage. they re now clearing that all off the highway. and hopefully they ll be able to get this thing all over before rush hour. that s what state police are telling us that before rush hour they re hoping to get the turnpike opened again but as you can see back out here live it is a complete stand still as traffic is being forced to exit here at quakertown and go onto route 663 and then over to 309 and i ll tell you out there in those side roads hardly anything is moving. a big mess out here. live in quakertown, david henry, channel6 action news. brian and shirleen. all right, a big mess indeed david. thanks very much. we ve got more breaking news right now. three people are dead after a fire today in chester county. this happened just a few hours ago in west caln township and chad pradelli is live near the scene with more on this. chad. r
good evening. i m chris matthews in philadelphia. let me start tonight with this. so look who is riding shotgun in the clown car. is it dick cheney, who refuses despite screeching popular demand to just leave washington? well, this strange dr. strangelove is now out there this weekend, pushing what he calls military action to get the rueggs out of crimea. this is the same dick cheney whose last push for military action, the lamebrain decision to invade, conquer and occupy iraq cost at least 186,000 lives. is he dick cheney, the meister sanger of the clown car? is he? or is it the caresatically clueless sarah palin who called this weekend for a nuclear confrontation with moscow. mr. president, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. wow. it s hard to get to the right of that thought. yes, this is the talk of the american right as of this weekend from seasoned warhawk to alaskan half governor. and this is, as scary as it is, makes for ap