From the 1950s ruptured. More than 60 of phillys 2800 miles of water mains are cast iron. Water Department Spokesman John Diguilio says its a good material but rigid broken to cracking in the winter months. The water were pulling into the system treating at our plant and putting into the Distribution System is at about the same temperatures as the river. So reporter nearly freezing. Nearly freezing. Reporter thats putting the pressure on these pipes . Correct. Reporter replace many pipes on boston street and elsewhere in the city made of duct al iron. Far more flexible able to withstand ice cold winter water. As for repairs on this block and more important restoration of water and gas service homeowners are asked to be patient. You miss those things when you dont have them. Reporter you dont realize how much you depend. Absolutely. Absolutely. Reporter yeah, back out here live, the good news is that while some folks do have their service back, those who lost Water Service yesterday, th
Doctors are scene seeing all kinds of cold related illnesses and cold is killing car batteries left and right. Triple a says its received more dead car battery calls in the philly five county area today than in the past three days combined. More than 1,000 in case you were wondering. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Its so cold a lot of could see freezing rain enlit little snow in the morning. Lets get over to kathy orr with those details. Kathy . Were talking about the deep freeze. Its still here the coldest air of the season is upon us. Its going to be get better. It will take a couple of days. Outside in old city philadelphia temperatures are still quite chilly in the 20s. Overnight tonight, were falling into the teens. Philadelphia 17. The poconos 12. Allentown 15. Dover will wake up to 16 degre 16 degrees. Cold enough for wintry mix especially north and west. Ultimate doppler you can see the clouds will rope in this is a warm front snow out through ohio and that will co
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Now, this person had punched two people, one of the victims so hard that that victim was knocked unconscious. The suspect took off from police in the area of 3rd and south. Thats where the assault occurred. The female officer who was injured heard that call for help, police say, she had lights and sirens on when she was driving to the scene. She was traveling eastbound on south when she crossed 11th. Thats when her patrol car was hit by a bread truck. Police are calling this collision an accident. They say the 29yearold Delivery Driver stayed onc the scene, was cooperating fully with the investigation and was not injured. That 45yearold Police Officer was transported to Jefferson Hospital with complaints of pain to her left side. She was talking and walking on her own when she left the scene. As for the victims of that assault, police tell me they did arrest that suspect. They say there was a positive i. D. Made by those witnesses, by those victims that were injured. Coming up in the
They just put those fires out and placed them under control moments ago. This call came in an hour ago. The location is a truck and van business called high gain ink on collide weight drive off the pennsylvania turnpike. Five minutes ago the fires were burning, you could see them from chopper 6. Again they are out. At least three tractortrailers and three pickup trucks originally caught fire. Nobody is hurt, no word on what caused the fire. Well bring the details as they come in. Lets go over to david and karen and find out whats going on in accuweather and whats going on on the roads. Reporter good morning, everybody, we have plenty of sunshine coming up over the horizon. We have additional clouds to the north and west trying to come in. Its a failure bright start an if i know fairly bright start and bright finish. Its chilly, 39 in philadelphia, 35 in allentown, milled 40s along the coast. Winds are not that strong, starting to pick up a little bit, a bit of a breeze adding to that r