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our coverage of this deadly derailment continues at 4:40. positive train control is the technology that can automatically slow down a train to avoid an accident. that s ahead at 4:30. now to south jersey where two people are dead after this crash, where one of the cars went right into a pole. state police on the scene right now of this creek. it happened around noon in tab p bett tabernacle. ted greenberg is there. what can you tell us? reporter: the investigation is well under way. new jersey state police confirmed to me two people are dead. they were inside that vehicle, a gmc yukon, which is wrapped around a pole right near the intersection and it hit the pole and caught fire just before noon today. right now there s no word from state police on what led to the crash. it did prompt authorities to evacuate. more than 50 students and employees from the sequoia alternative program, which is part of the school district, and that program is housed in that building a ....
headed to south, it usually clears around 5:00. by the time you get out the door, i don t think they re running behind, you ll be fine once you get there. eastbound schuylkill, almost in the clear. watching the crash in delaware county out in rose valley borough. west rose valley road at school lane, a fatal accident scene. an intervention with cleanup underway, as well. ke we re keeping an eye on that and will have more on the drive times when i come back. now to breaking news in philadelphia s overbrook neighborhood. a family s evening shattered by gunfire in the basement of their home. a 27-year-old man lay dying from numerous wounds. the shooting happened on oxford near north 60th street, and the shooter remains on the loose. nchlt . we re following the deadly train derailment out west. it was going more than double the speed limit when it crashed. the derailment happened in washington state, south of seattle outside tacoma during the busy morning rush. the ....
you told us about it in your first alert forecast. we have clear skies now. the wind is starting to diminish. that s going to allow the temperatures to drop sharply. and just a few hours, our first alert continues through 8:00 a.m. for the entire area in the poconos and lehigh valley. but we re likely to issue another first alert for sunday and monday. just want to give you a heads up because that s a holiday. and we ll have less winds during the night tonight. so we ll be more looking at the actual temperatures than the feels like temperatures. right now it s 21 degrees. that s as warm as it s gotten all day. hasn t gotten out of the teens in areas north and west. and it is just by the rer cold. we still have enough wind to make it feel like the single digits. it s not felt any better than this all day. we have been telling you about this that it was going to be like this. it feels like 4:00 in pottstown. as we go through the night tonight, the feels like temperature ....
you can. it s a steamy start, a warmer one, too. 76 degrees right now. just a few scattered showers to the north. these are quickly coming to an end in the area. there s a chance we ll see showers developing this afternoon. look at the numbers. 70s from allentown, philadelphia and dover. we re headed into the 90s this afternoon. 75 at 6:00. breaks in the clouds at 9:00 79 agrees and by lunch time we ll be up to 85 degrees. then we ll be watching for those pop-up showers, a chance of showers, i ll go through it hour by hour with the futurecast when i m back in ten minutes. let s see if the roads are moving along nicely. jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. we got away with it yesterday, we didn t have the ongoing construction being an active scene on the vine street expressway but we re back in bids again this morning. you can actually see, we have police activity here on the scene. this is the vine around broad street actually. so we re blocking off th ....