little help from witnesses, especially, one man, who ended up chasing the driver, getting the vehicle on cell phone video. a little girl s fighting for her life after she was hit by a car. seven year old alore mcclane hit outside of her home before 7:00 sunday night near 42nd and pennsgrove street. the victim s family says she ran to retrieve a ball in the street when a car hit her, dragging her in the process. hit her, then ran over, then stopped, looked back, seen he hit someone or she hit someone, and took off and kept going. witnesses say a car stopped to let the girl cross, but the driver hine that person decided to go around the stopped car, and that s when the girl was struck. i heard a big boom sound. i looked behind. i seen them rolling over a little girl. then fly by me. sean smith was driving nearby, when he saw what happened. he chased down the driver, not nothing a seven year old was the one that got hit. i knew that it hit somebody. i didn t know it wa
brian, five two-year old daughter walked out of a id here a few hours ago, he and others on that street say they did what he they could to try to save that little boy. the sound of anguish rippled through this tioga nicetown neighborhood. family of the seven year-old boy watched investigators examine the car that struck and killed him. i heard tires screech and little girl scream. no. reporter: philadelphia police say around 4:00 p.m. wednesday boy was with his mother and sisters walking home from school on the 3600 block of north 15th street near erie avenue. when he walk between two parked cars into the street. this buick le saber ran over him, the driver stopped, but witnesses say because he was unsure of what he hit man started to backup and injure the child even more this neighbor who does not the want to be identified said he and the the driver used a carjack to lift the vehicle off of the boy. i knew it was bad. i didn t know whether he would be responsive or not
license plate number jky7458 and if you do see this, police ask that you do call them. family tells us the seven-year-old girl s name is aurora mclean. she ran for a ball. the car drug her outside her home on 42nd street. then they say the driver took off. her grandfather now pleading with that person to turn themself in. i wish you would just turn yourself in. be man enough or woman enough whoever it is, the person that was driving that vehicle and take responsibility for your actions for what you did. reporter: now, fortunately her grandfather does say that she is now in stable condition but we are still waiting on an official update from doctors. we re live outside the children s hospital of philadelphia, noel mclaren for eyewitness news on the cw philly noel thank you very much. also developing right now the ceo of cooper health system and his wife are found dead in their bedroom. this happened early this morning following a fire on meadow run driver in montgomery
of has acted as blanket through the overnight. that means temperatures just haven t had a chance to drop off as readily, so we ve stayed mitt 60s all morning in philadelphia, in atlantic city, certainly cooler by comparison in the poconos, but 55 even up in mount pocono this particular day of the year. that s not that bad. so, that said, while it isn t going to be as gorgeous of a weekends, or of a day as what we saw over the weekend, certainly still going to have a chance to warm up easily here, shooting for 80 in the city of philadelphia, yes, there will be at least little bit of sunshine, but at a bit of premium as well here today. vittoria? thank you, katie. good morning, everyone, full swing rush hour, ahead of thus morning, however, the good news is we had earlier opening on the talcony palmyra bridge, been put back down into place, you can access 73, but touch of traffic when you get there. speaking of touches, looking at 422 out of the area of 29, make your way down
it is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is traffic tragedy in tioga nicetown in philadelphia. action news reporter kenneth moton is live with the accident investigations division of philadelphia police and kenneth, you ve got the the full story. reporter: jim, the five two-year old driver of that vehicle walked out of a id just a few hours ago. he and others on the street say they did what they could to try to save the little boy. the sound of anguish rippled through this tioga nicetown neighborhood the family of the seven year-old boy watched investigators examine the car that struck and kill him. i heard tires screech and then little girl scream, no. reporter: philadelphia police say around 4:00p m wednesday the boy was with his mother and sisters walking home from school on the 3600 block of north 15th street near erie avenue. when he walk between two parked cars in the street. this buick le saber ran over him, the driver stopped but witnes