Set a flag on fire, and patrons and an employee at a restaurant right across the street from the Police Department were harassed. One person pepper sprayed by a demonstrator and no arrests were made. We were eating our food, they started flashing lights in our eyes, screaming at us, there were no police, nothing. And were literally at the police station. We had nonuniformed officers watching from a distance. And had we seen assaultive behavior or Public Safety issues we would have jumped in right away. We were not aware of the assaultive behavior until after the fact. There was no order for officers to stand down. Supervisors made a decision not to intervene based on the circumstances of the crimes being committed. Graffiti and vandalism. He agrees with the call but says they are making changes moving forward. If this group comes back or any groups come back into town with the intent to vandalize or commit criminal behavior, we have every intention of taking action and holing them acco
First alert until tuesday morning. Feels like temperatures below zero with a live look in philadelphia from our Kimmel Center camera on broad street. The temperature in center city is 26 degrees. If youre heading out tonight, or tomorrow, youre really going to need to bundle up. In the Lehigh Valley, even colder. Downtown allentown is 19 degrees and falling, heading south to delaware, where its a few degrees warmer but still very cold. 26 degrees in wilmington and traffic moving but snow left over on the road. Will freeze tonight leading to more dangerous travel conditions and some snow falling right now in parts of delaware and at the jersey shore. Glenn schwartz is keeping his eye on the plunging temperatures. How low will they go tonight . Teens in most of the area. Single digits in other places and its going to feel like its near zero. And allentown, 18. Walnut port is already down to 17. Jersey shore got the most snow like Atlantic City international, 25. Already below frieeezing
The cold. Snow on the ground in the poconos, but its the tripped weather thats got everyone layering up. We got a windchill advisory, windchills ten to 20s below zero. In some area, and this as people are trying to ring in the new year, celebrations happening in philadelphia tonight and of course tomorrow but many are determined to see those fireworks in the annual mummers day parade, thanks for joining us. Im iain page, it is the kind of weather that makes you want to stay inside. Now, its only going to get worse, meteorologist kathy orr, let me guess, what to expect, cold more of the same, happy new year everyone. Penns landing is place to be for the fireworks at 11 00 and 12 00 were looking at busy conditions in old city and across the Delaware Valley. The temperature is only one, i should say 10 if youre going outside but the windchill around zero, winds out of the west at six miles an hour, we do have the windchill advisory for six to ten degrees below zero in the philadelphia are
The west of the philadelphia area. We have some really heavy rain coming into berks county, the western portion of berks just west of reading. This is an area thats already had probably more than two inches of rain in some spots so there could be flooding in that area. Another batch just west of allentown right along i78. This is moderate to heavy. Its headed up toward the pocono mountains. As you can see, theres more back to the west. Some big storms in northeastern maryland and even bigger ones farther to the west. Those are things we will have to watch through the evening hours because the future cast weather computers showing hour by hour that there will be more heavy showers and storms coming in later on this evening from that western area that we just showed you coming in perhaps even in the middle of the night. We did get up to 90 degrees just barely in philadelphia today, extending the heat wave, but its down to 79 right now with that rain. We will talk more about when the rain
How chase utley and joe blanton, yes, i said joe blanton, led the dodgers to victory. Thats not the phillies, though. It hurts blue and white . Dodger blue . Hi everybody. It is, is it wednesday . It is wednesday. October the 12th, now, back in the day, october 12th was columbus day. But that was monday. Which makes no sense any more. It doesnt . Nope. Okay. Good columbus day. Did he really discover america . Lets in the get into that whole controversy. Little early for. That will you know what does make sense . What . Going to sue to get some weather. You know, thats never made sense to me. Weve done it for 15, 20 years. You must endure anyway, im afraid. This might help. Ten, yes, ten out of ten. Make it feel little better . Here is bus stop buddy. Another chilly start this morning, he is wearing a jacket, but he may end up leaving it at school because it is going to be little milder today once the day is through. Temperatures are mostly in the 40s this morning. We have 39 degrees, t