Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Driving can be hazardous to your health especially when you are being bombarded by Construction Equipment that is what happened to Lindsey Richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. Its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. A metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. Live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action News Reporter Christie Lleto christie what exactly happened there . Reporter its no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but Lindsey Richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. It hit right here shattering like the frame. Reporter a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the whee
Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Driving can be hazardous to your health especially when you are being bombarded by Construction Equipment that is what happened to Lindsey Richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. Its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. A metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. Live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action News Reporter Christie Lleto christie what exactly happened there . Reporter its no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but Lindsey Richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. It hit right here shattering like the frame. Reporter a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the whee
Matt pelman. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Starting this day off it is damp out there in spots and we have some showers trying to exit the coastline. This is storm tracker6 live double scan showing those showers have for the most part left center city. Were now seeing them move through wrightstown, new jersey, speed well and near surf city so if youre on the garden state parkway youre wet. For the rest of us no real showers but feeling kind of damp with a little bit of drizzle through the morning hours. Heres a look at satellite6 and action radar. That steadier rain from yesterday evening, thats off the coast. Nothing left but a little drizzle or two. Through the Early Morning but its a day with lots of cloud cover. Cant escape the clouds. The one area of concern again is up in the poconos in the Higher Elevations. The National Weather service has that freezing rain advisory until 7 oclock in the morning. And you can see were above freezing near quakertown and pottstown at 34.
Wont be pretty. Give yourself plenty of time early commuters. Patchy fog could impact your drive. David is off. Matt pelman is here and karen rogers, is it drizzling out there . No, it feels damp out here matt, the not currently drizzling very much. Kind of misty i would describe it as. Lets take a look right now at storm tracker6 live double scan and we can see that were really for the most part dry. Those showers have left the coastline but it feels damp out here a little mist and you could see a touch of drizzle at any point in the Morning Hours. Satellite6 and action radar showing how the rain has left us. As you look to the west were still seeing more clouds, a touch of drizzle here or there. So, it could feel rather damp through your Morning Hours but a northwesterly wind will help to dry us out later. Fog is not an issue in philadelphia with 9mile visibility but it is an issue in lancaster,. 3 of a mile, dover, millville, Atlantic City all less than a mile visibility so in some
Weekend both the governor and city hall signaled they backed the idea of an injunction to force strikers back by tomorrows election. Did that put pressure on the union. We were there for a week trying get the job done and we got it done. Reporter because it must be ratified no one is officially talking about settlement terms but sources say it does give unionized workers an enhanced pension. Union members will have to pay more for health insurance. As for a fare hike one was canceled this year. It will be needed next year. There will be fare increases but thats in the legislation now that we have to do fare increases every two years or three years. Reporter riders were curious about the unused portion of their trans passes. We going to get refunded having the monthlies and we bought it before the month and like its like six days we missed out of the monthly trans pass. Reporter well, the answer is yes to that septa announced it will issue a credit voucher for the unused portion of thos