Skversky, Sarah Bloomquist and walter perez. The flags along the ben franklin parkway are already whipping in the wind but this is nothing compared to what we will see in a few hours a high wind warning in effect starting tonight and that means wind gusts could top 50 Miles Per Hour, sunday night and the big story on action news tonight is a windy start to the workweek. The forecast is already prompted the city of philadelphia to issue a warning metrologist Melissa Magee is tracking the situation and she has the first check of the accuweather forecast melissa. Walter and sarah big changes ahead for the start of our workweek, the weekend ended with a wet and dreary finish and now we have those winds out of the westerly direction so its chilling down in philadelphia to 37 degrees, 33 in allentown, 35 in bloomington and a westerly wind and wind chills right now are in the upper 20s in philadelphia. Sustained winds certainly are not bad right now at 3 Miles Per Hour in wilmington but as hi
Sports and all indications are that Jahill Okafor is numbered. He was not on the team today and not with the sixers tonight his big man did not travel with the team to charlotte where they will play tomorrow the sixers are trying to complete a trade for okafor before next thursdays deadline. The sixers are hoping they can with talks heating up okafor will not play for the second straight game tomr not want to risk an injury a move coach brett brown made last night as well and since the general manager Bryan Colangelo took over in the summer they have been trying to trade the big guy. Although speculation is rampent all throughout stuff yu learn that as the deadline gets closer that the reality that something could happen goes to a high level. Reporter bead will miss the next few games because of a fracture and meniscus and will not play next week on the riding challenge and big man big problems tonight on action news sports sunday coming up, at 11 45 and just a few moments. The flyers
Okafor are heating up im Jeff Skversky with our one and only jamie apody and we will get to the okafor situation in a second but wait a second, bead has a minor tear in his knee and the sixers have known for weeks. That is not cool, look, they have not necessarily been forthcoming for a while. Yeah, i think so. I guess they are protecting themselves, they dont like you know people panicking. And the problem with not being forthcoming though is you get into all the scenarios where people are like oh, are they trying to lose games, you dont trust them about anything do you agree . They have lost, they asked a lot from the fan base over the last four years, the first three years in the first round they won 47 games and to not be honest with your fan base that is your number one star and the only reason to come to games because they are benching Jahill Okafor and he is the star and to be honest he has a knee injury and if its not serious and does not require surgery just be honest, they kn
Thief sho shooting him and thers a mad scramble as people rush to stuff the money in their pockets and police grab the suspect and the money grab continues and im walter perez and violent scene outside of a laundromat when he him but the owner pulled a gun and chasing him up the street and opening fire and suspect was captured but getting that money bob brooks is there withstory,. Reporter a violent and wild afternoon indeed walter and most of the incident again was captured on Surveillance Video and tonight we will let that video speak for itself. How far would you go to defend yourself, defend your business, according to police the owner of the laundromat in 20 street and it was wild and caught on tape and what you see is the aftermath and according to detectives it started when the suspect walked in the store. He had a knife on him and pointed it at the owner and demanded cash. Reporter police say the owner gave the cash but then gave chase and before he ran after him he grabbed his
It, it was miserable out there yesterday. We had rain, fog be downpours, lots of water on the roads. Just a miserable, miserable day. Today well start out dreary and low level clouds and slow improvement by mid morning and some of you will see sunshine by afternoon. Not a bad day, tomorrow promises to be the better of the two weekend days. 34 in quakertown and pottstown. Fleetwood, 36 degrees, tanersville, 31. Center city 40 and chester checking in at 38. Same thing for south jersey and delaware, lots of upper 30s and low 40s this morning. Hammonton, 39. Glassboro, 38, cape may, 43. Smyrna, 42. Satellite and radar there goes the storm, ill tell you one area thats seeing snow this is not an april fools joke new england they are picking up a ton of it. They are expecting 6 to 12 inches of heavy, wet snow. They will see Power Outages up here. Te too mild even though it was chilly. Today a day of transition starting out with lowlevel clouds that will hang tough early. Sunshine this afterno