Kensington avenue just north of lehigh a large and growing encampment of the addicted and homeless has turned this already rough neighborhood into a war zone. 39yearold Nicole Stevens walks through the battlefield every day on her way to the local methadone clinic. Its a struggle every day. Its not easy. Reporter addicted to painkillers after a car accident at 19 shes trying to get and stay clean. I go by every single dane it breaks your heart half them people out there. Are they going to freeze to death at night. The city of philadelphia teamed up with conrail to clean up nearby Railroad Tracks and roust addicts who made this round zero are to the citys heroin epidemic. The fear at the time was that those addicted would simply move to new location to get their fix. Those fears seem like theyve come about. Definitely came true watch did they expect people to do . , you know if they cant stay there they got to stay somewhere. Reporter Business Owners up stratt from the kensington say th
Expressway, closed until five or 5 30. Everybody push off here at 30th street and right back on. Live mass transit and bridges looking g karen and thomas back to you. 4 01. Search is on for driver who struck a woman in bucks county and left her in the street with life threatening injuries sky fox over the scene, hit and run happened right in front of the fire department, lets get out to steve keeley hoist working the scene in trevose this morning, steve. Reporter we can tell bob that the police have finished their investigation and heres a Vantage Point you didnt see from the sky fox shot, 45 miles an hour is the speed limit but where this happened, look, that driver was coming at your angle watching from home, and you can see they are coming ought on a curved hill, so, very, little chance to see anybody if they are walking in the middle of the street when you are doing 45 around a curve, coming down a hill which you cannot see over on the other side of the hill and right to the left o
57yearold kevin cullen beaten to death sunday night. They came to give each other support, neighbors, friends and family. Its wednesday night. The big story on action news is a candle light vigil for a victim of murder while police try to track down the killers. Action News Reporter Christie Ileto is live at the scene of the crime in mayfair. Christie . Jim, you can see the candles, flow tereflowers and cards are o mark the spot kevin cullen was beat to death sunday. His family said he was an easy target admitting he had demons like most people but didnt deserve to die like this. This means so much to our family. They greeted friends and even strangers where their brother was beaten to death. It doesnt matter if it was a teenager. To be that vicious my brother wouldnt harm anyone. Surveillance video show him walking down the street. A group of teens follow. Several minutes later, bludgeoned. Someone started calling and theianswered it and they hung u. This happens all the time around h
Strangers where their brother was beaten to death. It doesnt matter if it was a teenager. To be that vicious my brother wouldnt harm anyone. Surveillance video show him walking down the street. A group of teens follow. Several minutes later, bludgeoned. Someone started calling and theianswered it and they hung u. This happens all the time around here. Its not reported because its small crimes. Right now, no arrests have been made. Thats left many who live here on edge. That could have been my dad or me. The residents are forming a block watch. Kevins family sa want the kills to do the right thing. A go fund me has been started but his family has asked that, that be donated for a reward to find the killer. Police are investigating a pedestrian struck on the septa line. There is new information tonight in the deadly confrontation near drexel universitys campus when a man intervened in a spat between a boyfriend and girlfriend. Detectives charged joseph with murder. He shot and killed 21y
Windshields and possibly icy patches here and there. Generally speaking well have sunshine if we get rid of the lowlying cloud cover and sun comes in and we wind up with sun and clouds mix. 30 degrees in allentown. 26 in trenton. 29 in wilmington, 27 in reading, 26 in millville and Philadelphia Holding 36. As we go to the afternoon it will be milder, 35 degrees by 7 00. Noon, 46. 3 00 p. M. , 54 degrees, not a bad high, several degrees above average. 7 00 p. M. , 47. A couple of issues this morning, the first is the visibility you can see a lot of gray over the map. Actually this is a lower visibility down in millville than weve had so far this morning, wilmington dropping a bit. Ac low. Allentown, lowest of all. Lancaster is starting to drop. The issues is not so much wroo youve got the whether or not youve got the dense fog, wherever you see the gray close to the surface, you can see an icy patch. A heads up for drivers, patchy fog and icy windshields. Take it slow if you see the fog