If the blazes were set by the same person or group. Katherine scott has the latest from overbrook. Reporter multiple fires were reported around the area three near the intersection of north 60th and columbia, now investigators are trying to determine who was behind them. Look out the window and saw the car fire. Reporter and soon he saw more, around 4 00 a. M. , the calls came in for three car fires reported for north 60th street and west columbia. A white dodge and chevy charred and destroyed. A mercury around the corner. Neighbors are hoping nearby surveillance cameras in the newly upgraded park caught something. Beyond so much positive things going on, now all of a sudden we have vandalism. The flames were shooting up right here. Nearby on jefferson, this man grabbed hose discovering flames coming from his car. My nextdoor neighborhood called me and said my car is on fire. I said on fire, you got to be kidding. Reporter firefighters were called to the dumpster safire outside this mi
Im gio benitez, kendis and diane are off today. And im adrienne bankert. Many people across the country are not taking the outcome of the election in stride. Protesters hit the streets in major cities. After deriding china throughout much of his campaign, trump has now spoken to the chinese president and says theyve established a clear sense of mutual respect. And trump sat down for his first tv interview since the election to clarify his came pan promises and address the anger on dislay. Dont be afraid. Were going to bring our country back. But certainly dont be afraid. We just had an election. And sort of like you have to be given a little time. Mr. Trump was also asked about acts of violence popping up in his name or against his supporters and reports of racial slurs and personal threats to minorities by some of his supporters. Im surprised to hear that. Im so saddened to hear that. And i say stop it. If it if it helps. I will say this. And ill say it right to the camera. Stop it. T
Can hopefully we have Team Coverage on your holiday, Trish Hartman is down the shore, first we head outside to the terrace and david murphy. Reporter for now at the noon hour and pushing into the early afternoon we have sunshine mixing with clouds in philadelphia. Satellite is showing you theres a thinning of the cloud cover over philadelphia and extending to points to the east. Out to the west you can see the bright white coming in thats the thicker cloud cover. On the other side of washington theres a line of showers were watching careful as we get late into the day and early this evening. 77 in philadelphia. Down in washington where the clouds are thicker youre only at 69. Theres the effect of not as much sun in play. Up in new york where its brighter central park is 81 degrees currently. The dewpoints are a bit of a factor. We had low humidity saturday and sunday, now its feeling stickier, 63 in philadelphia. Anything over 60 indicates a humid feel and, of course, theres more of th
Parkway and will get to the periphery. These crews have been busy for several weeks and it appears they have a few more days left. Parkway has been bustling with cleanup since pope francis left on shepherd one. Sidewalks are being blown off. Streets swept. If you saw it last night to how it is this morning, last night it was just everywhere all the water that was given free was in the street. All the trash. Reporter and then there are the many stage animal production facilities that dot the parkway. Cable has to be pulled and wrapped, infrastructure has been torn down. Ian put in 40 straight hours this weekend. From saturday morning to sunday night. On the clock straight threw. Three shifts. I like the pope he blessed us with a lot of the things especially a big paycheck. Reporter the parkway set up took two weeks to build. Stage handles hope to take it down in just two days. For many it was the biggest event in their crierms. Crierms career. It was the most prestigious thing i ever di
Flooding, some of the water froze overnight. We have meteorologist chris sowers at the action news big board, david murphy outside, everybody breathing a sigh of relief with the blizzard behind us. Reporter the big thing is cleaning everything up. Lets get the streets and sidewalks cleaned. We knew this was going to be a big storm, historic snowfall amounts for parts of the area. Blizzard of 2016. Allentown received 3 1. 9 inches. The largest snowfall for the Lehigh Valley. Philadelphia, 22. 4 inches, the fourth largest storm in the city of brotherly love. Some of the areas picked up an entire seasons worth of snow with the one storm. We cruise the blizzard of 96 as the benchmark. Blizzard of 96 dropped 37. 9 inches. In allentown this was a bigger storm than the blizzard of 96. In the Lehigh Valley 29. 5 inches. With this storm they saw 3 1. 9. Baltimore, heres another comparison, blizzard of 96, 22. 5 inches. This storm dropped 29. 2 and dulles received 30 inches of snow, as well. The