begin with breaking news, police in wilmington owe searching for an inmate that escaped this morning isiah thompson was on work detail on governor prince boulevard, and was serving time for an attempted carjacking and ran away toward stoney creek at 10:30 and was last seen wearing a prison uniform and a vest. he may have ditched the clothing and was wearing a dark t-shirt underneath. police are searching with k-9s aat this hour, we ll bring you updates on action news and at 6abc.com. investigators determined the cause of a fire that damaged 20 homes in new jersey the destructive blaze spread through an entire block of row homes on thursday. katherine scott has new details from the scene. we learned from the fire chief this morning that the fire was caused by a roofer s blow torch and the roofer spoke with police and the fire marshal yesterday, some residents are able to return home and some in the hardest hit homes are able to go in with firefighters to retrieve some of
the person seemed to be pulling a gun from his pocket so he drove away and called police and circled back and saw childs had had been shot. is he about 5 5 with a gray mustache wearing a hoody. it s a sign of times it s dangerous and rampant gun violence is an issue. he is a family man and his boss said he did not carry cash, and his wallet was found if his pocket when he was found. a senseless situation and i don t think he had any money on him. we don t understand it. police need help from the public and ask if you recognize that guy in the sketch you call and get him off the street you can get a closer look at that sketch at 6abc.com. david henry channel 6 action news. thank you david. a sizable sinkhole continues to cause major traffic delays tonight on the northeast extension, chopper 6 hd was over the southbound lanes in minneapolis county last night s rain caused the sinkhole to open up in a construction zone and crews are working to repair filling the h
is off and an escaped prisoner is back in custody find out how police captured him in delaware today. and a woman claims they was raped in a hotel her new lawsuit. we learnd this morning that the engineer was not talking or texting on his cell phone when he was operating the train when it derailed last month and brandon bostian suffered a head injury and does not remember what happens during the deadly accident. john rawlins has the report from the 30th street station. reporter: hi rick, this is interesting, it takes off the table the idea that a cell phone call or texting or an active data search some how became a distraction for the engineer but it does not take off the table that the device it self may have been a distraction. the analysis of the phone records show that no calls texts or data occurred during the derailment of the train. and the engineer did not access the wifi system while operating the locomotive. that was the big question when the ntsb chair was on
phelps school for seven years and there is concern that there are other students victimized by him as well. the phelps school had no common. i m live in westchester chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. hope we hear from the phelps school soon thank you. authorities announced one of the biggest drug busts in philadelphia history. this is some of the $3.3 million worth of heroin that they recovered on the 1800 block of bergan street. i hope that today s announcement sends a clear message to the citizens of philadelphia. shutting down drug houses like these to make our city safer. three men were arrested. all three are accused of manufacturing drugs and conspiracy. the ntsb unveiled brand new information today in the crash of amtrak 188, john rawlins is live now at the scene of the accident. he was not on the phone but they left over the door that the engineer may have been using the phone in some fashion. that is correct, the agency says that there is no evidence t
continuing to investigate. in terms of cause of the philadelphia accident, do we know anymore about that yet? the senate hosting rail safety experts including an ntsb board member was engineer brandon bostian using his cell phone prior to the crash the latest finding analysis of the phone records did not indicate that any calls texts or data occur during the time before the crash and he did not access the train s wifi system while operating the locomotive, the board member put it this way. we have determined that there was no talking or texting or data usage involved however however the safety agency went out of its way to explain it can rule out that the phone was connected to wifi or a cellular system but cannot tell yet if it was connected to an outside system. the significance in airplane mode the phone could be a potential distraction if someone was accessing video or email. there are 400,000 pieces of data involved in the analysis because of the exten of tha