President trump reportedly using language so bad we had to have meetings about how to report it. The president calling some countries, well, blank holes. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Remembering a hero. Friends, family, fellow First Responders even those who have never met him paying respects to one phillys bravest. Theyre remembering the life of lieutenant Matt Letourneau who died saturday trying to save a man from a burning home. Thank you for joining us at 10 00 im lucy noland. Fallen firefighters viewing began late this afternoon and did it not take long for a long line to form for a final goodb goodbye. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in center city now. Shawnette. Reporter lucy, that viewing just wrapped up about an hour ago. And you could actually see the heart ache on lot of face whos were here this evening and some of them were just talking about the good times they had with lieutenant letourneau who they say died doing what he loved. I was actually watch your news at 6 00 ocloc
Service has issued a Winter Weather advisory for lancaster, berks, lehigh, northampton counties in the poconos. It goes in effect until 1 oclock in the morning until 10 00. I think icing would likely occur around 4 oclock in the morning or so and then behind this system we do dry out tomorrow but find the layers. You will need them. Future tracker showing 8 30 tomorrow morning, were already dropping. The wind chills into the teens in philadelphia, the north and west suburbs into the single digits. If youre planning on skiing in the poconos, the wind chill down to 10 below, big weekend for skiing in the poconos. Then heading into the afternoon, going to the eagles game, look at that at 4 30 when the game starts the wind chill only 16 degrees and next week im tracking a chance of snow. Ill talk about that in the sevenday forecast. Jim. Thank you cecily. And we are urge you to stay with action news throughout the weekend for updates on the forecast and be sure to check out the 6abc app to
Clea dropping down to the teens and do be careful areas will be freezing over and from you tired of this cold january, i have good news on the way. Im tracking an exten thaw and i have warm numbers coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Come on inside thank you. Police believe that ice may have caused a crash in the winfield section of philadelphia. Action news was on the scene as redirected traff and two vehicles collided at 7 00 this morning. Both drivers were treated for minor injuries and a salt truck was call out to salt the roadway. Now, to the eagles as the nfc championship game fast approaches. We are all green here and the team held practice indoors as they prepare for the vikings. And quarterback nick followed talked to reporters a little while ago. Jaime apody joins us live in south philadelphia. Then busy transforming that area to the center of what will be the center of the nfc championship world. It had such a different feel it got real. I mean it. I walked i peterso
Well still have to deal with the windchill factor this afternoon. Temperatures will warm above freezing in neighborhoods, the exception in the lehigh valley, 31 this afternoon. Even at 31 with bright sunshine, a lot of snow will be melting during the day today. Ill break it down hour by hour, show you whats ahead for your neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. First Jessica Boyington with first alert traffic. Thanks. Were watching one of the first accidents of the morning here. Route 309s northbound side. A crash around highland avenue. A second ago, it was off to the lefthand lane. They just moved it off to the shoulder. Now traffic is squeezing by to the lefthand side. The northbound side around ft. Washington, slow. Also watching the schuylkill expressway following construction. Back to normal now. Not seeing any big increase in drive times yet. Theyre the same. 13 minutes eastbound from the blue route to the vine. Speeds into the high 50s. Ill end with bridges, just checking the
Maria is potentially catastrophic and has the entire island of puerto rico bracing for a direct hit. But as you may know, there is another Natural Disaster thats already happened and is already killing a lot of people. It is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a major earthquake in central mexico. The death toll has reached 139. It will almost certainly go higher. The 7. 1 magnitude quake was centered in the pueblo town of riboso ands close enough 76 miles to cause havoc in mexico city. At least 40 buildings have collapsed. Rescue operations are under way. At least 60 people have been rescued alive in this city of 9 million people. Cameras were rolling in a Television Studio where you could see lights swaying on the ceiling. Cruel irony here, just this morning mexico city held earthquake drills on this, the anniversary of the earthquake in 1985 that killed almost 10,000 people. Now the latest on jose and the storms impact at the jersey shore. Weve got action News