Walk out with trash bags loaded with cartons of cigarettes. They load up the trash bags, and walk out of the store like theres nothing to it. Its still scary. You know, no matter what. I mean, you still putting people in danger. Reporter it happened around 5am the pair enter the the store on bustleton avenue and told employees to move out of the way. They started stuffing cartons of cigarettes into the bags. Then started smashing the counters and registers with the hammer. Got the cigarettes. There was no resistance by the wawa employee, and then he decides to vandalize their cash registers. But doesnt try get any money. Reporter this may not be the first time the bandits have done this. Police say the wawa at richmond and allegheny was held up by two suspects carrying a hammer. On the mainline the robber stole 18 cartons of newports from this wawa on belmont avenue. The suspects may be selling the cigarettes as socalled loo loose sees on the street for up to 20 bucks a pack. A lot of
Walk out with trash bags loaded with cartons of cigarettes. They load up the trash bags, and walk out of the store like theres nothing to it. Its still scary. You know, no matter what. I mean, you still putting people in danger. Reporter it happened around 5am the pair enter the the store on bustleton avenue and told employees to move out of the way. They started stuffing cartons of cigarettes into the bags. Then started smashing the counters and registers with the hammer. Got the cigarettes. There was no resistance by the wawa employee, and then he decides to vandalize their cash registers. But doesnt try get any money. Reporter this may not be the first time the bandits have done this. Police say the wawa at richmond and allegheny was held up by two suspects carrying a hammer. On the mainline the robber stole 18 cartons of newports from this wawa on belmont avenue. The suspects may be selling the cigarettes as socalled loo loose sees on the street for up to 20 bucks a pack. A lot of
And that, will make for another day of slippery and low driving. So our team is standing by tonight to get you ready for deep freeze. Dann cuellar is live at University City tonight where the snow fell, that fell today, not likely to melt anytime soon. But we will get with meteorologist Melissa Magee who is tracking the arctic front live at the big board tonight and melissa, we will be in the freezer for a few days. That is right, brian and shirleen. Temperatures all day with that Alberta Clipper moving through had been well below freezing, well below 32 degrees and that chill continues for rest of tonight. Looking at wind chill numbers it feels like 20 in philadelphia Single Digits north and west of town. Allentown feels like 9 degrees. 4 degrees current wind chill in the poconos and it feels like the teens foresee aisle city into dover. So that is a big concern as we head into the rest of tonight enjoying the the overnight hours. We are concerned with icing and wrapped freeze up. Tem
And if you you are behind the wheel, please be careful of black ice. It is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the aftermath of this years debut snow, but the big concern now is the frigid cold moving in for the rest of the week. We will go to cecily tynan in a moment but first action News Reporter dann cuellar is live in University City, dann, it didnt. It didnt take long for the city to freeze up. Reporter right now city looks cold under a full moon covered in the first snow of 2015 albeit the result of the nuisance storm that is like a cat disappeared leaving only messes behind for to us clean up. Either by hand or by machine you can hear them all over the city dealing with a nuisance snow that was turning to ice. By 6 00 oclock peco crown lights read 24 degrees in center city and this meant trouble for one motorist tonight. It looked like he didnt have control. Reporter just after 6 00 a motorist tells police she hit the a patch of black ice in the 2400 block
Advisory because as temperatures drop later today and tonight and the winds continue to pick up were going to actually see wind chills that are going the make it feel well below zero, down negative 15 across much of the region. The poconos could go to 20 degrees below zero in terms of your wind chills so very cold air on the way. For this morning a drivers alert, possible icy patches on nontreated roads and sidewalks its kind of a pedestrian alert as well and right now temperatures are already treating us pretty unkindly. 23 degrees in philadelphia, 18 wilmington, 14 in allentown. Over the last hour the winds have started to pick up so when we started the broadcast at 4 30 i talked about how the wind chills werent all that bad. Now with the hourly posts coming in and winds picking up it feels like its 12 degrees. Nothing like its going to feel overnight but still very uncomfortable. Temperatures today it stays cold 23 degrees by 9 oclock 25 by noon. Technically well get a high of 26 pr