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A disturbing social media threat has parents and students on edge in south jersey. And a former aide to the president is expected to plead guilty. But the big story on action news is the inferno that destroyed or damages dozens of school buses in the lehigh valley. It tore through a bus garage and forced the entire Parkland School district to cancel class. Bob brooks is live with the lightest. Reporter hey there rick, officials up here think this has caused quite a few dollars in damage and in excess of 20 million in damage behind me. We are up next to it. You can see how charred the buses are. 16 damages and totally destroyed and 14 others around here badly damaged bought of the heat coming off the fire. But the good news is no injuries. Let take a look. Officials say within minutes the bus garage on Stadium Drive was fully engulfed. 16 buses and plenty of fuel for a fire to ....
Well this morning with no delays for patco, new jersey transit, septa and amtrak. This morning thousands of students in the live will return to class just days after a fire destroyed dozens of school buses. Matt, whats the district doing to get the students to class today . Reporter well, tracy, the Parkland School district had to borrow buses from other School Districts that they had on loan that there were spare buses that they were able to bring up here so they would have enough to pick up all the students. And they brought those buses in so the kids can get back to school today. More than two dozen buses were destroyed or damaged early friday morning here. Those buses were housed in a garage just behind the Orfield Middle School where we are. Each one of the burned buses runs about 90,000. Classes did have ....
Now, we have a couple of advantage points to show you. First lets take to you a Traffic Camera provided by the Delaware Department of transportation showing in the back ground a smoking bus and those three dozen passengers stranded along the highway. Were told another driver was able to flag down the bus driver to alert him to the fire burning in the bus rear engine compartment. Now the incident closed the 495 northbound onramp to i95 for hours as natasha just said it just reopened a short time ago. Now, those who had to flee their smoke filled bus were taken here to the Pennsylvania Welcome Center in boothwyn. There were no injuries. They get here and they see fire coming out of the row engine compartment of the bus. Luckily all the occupants were able to get off the bus unassi unassisted so there were ....
30es a. Make sure you have a warm enough coat on, at the bus stop, flyers gear in order as well since they won last night but been will talk about that in a minute. 36 degrees in philadelphia right now. Sunrise time 6 37. We should see sunshine all day long, about 41 by 9 00 by lunchtime mid 50s, topping off at 57 degrees, we will call that a nice afternoon, and sunset time is 5 51, so, bob kelly, not too bad on Market Street right now. Oh, look the at moon. Check that out. Ahh. Love it. Hang, you can watch it moving, going down. Right. Over the city, there is billy penn. Profile, i love this. The great work that you see there to the right of billy penn pens hat, i bet that is the top of the new comcast center. And then psfs sign, cool. Wow. Yeah. We were talking earlier bob kelly, we looked it up, february moon is the full moon is the snow moon and it will be full on march 3rd officially. Because it wasnt quite 100 u are waking up ....
Westbound between south philadelphia, and center city down that would one lane traffic pattern and double closure here in olde city this one has been with us a couple weeks Chestnut Street blocked from fourth to second, that was the scene of that nasty fire, there, along Chestnut Street, and now right out front of our building here on Market Street closed between third and fourth, Water Department crews out here in the hole and as we just saw sue was doing weather septa buses are getting through, to the detour, we are going to walk out front and see how long the guys will be out there rest of the day. Septa keep in mind they kick in the spring schedule for city and suburban lines. Couple changes on the following bus numbers but otherwise mass transit is off to a ....