15 unstoppable wild fires destroying over 1500 businesses and residents. There is not a whole lot you can do. Massive flames engulfing homes charring at least 7500 acres. Vice president mike pence in california announcing federal assistance for the state. We will be with you every day until we put the fires out and stand with these families to rebuild these communities. Officials have received more than 100 calls to the missing persons hot line and they hope its people that could not cant their family and friends before evacuating. And our coverage of the wild fires continues on 6abc. Com and well have the latest updates as the disaster unfolds along with videos and photos of the scene. A septa employees life flashed before his eyes on his way to work. He was shot by a would be robber who opened fire. Vernon odom is live now outside of Temple University. You talk to the victim inside of the hospital recovering . Reporter good evening. The victim a 13 year septa vote rank is in great pa
How could, you know, things escalate with, you know a5foot two, 5foot 3100pound young lady who couldnt harm a fly could it escalate to this . Reporter her father says cariann was in miami celebrating her 22nd birthday. We can also tell you that the person she was in the car with a man she was in the car with got out of the car right before the second attempt to flee, and police are talking to him as well. Police dont know why all of this happened. Why she ran the red light and all of this took place. The incident still under investigation. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, dave. Well check back in a little bit. Developing right now, the fight is not over to pursue charges against the engineer in the deadly amtrak crash in philadelphia. The state Attorney Generals Office today announced its appealing last months court ruling where a judge dismissed charges against brandon bostian. Bostian of course was at the controls of the train that derailed in Port Richmond in 2015. Eight
Eat some food. Reporter this season has put temples Football Program in a National Spotlight and tomorrow phillies start, too. Even notre dames early arriving fans admit this will be a tough fight. They are a good team, they are coached really well and we cant take them lightly. For philadelphians, i think even if youre not a temple graduate or an alumni or student, you have to be proud. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise reporter coming back to the live pictures, the timing could not be better, Temple Owls Football Team passing through this rally right in the middle of campus right now, and you can see the reaction they are getting from the students here. This is an excited crowd, a crowd that is eager to show their support for a team that is 70 for the first time in school history. Live pictures right now as these students, are, of course, headed to their event. Students around here have been rallying. A lot of these students will be down at the link for the game tomorrow night. Y
40s and 50s, wilmington is 48 degree, 51 in northeast philadelphia. And mount holly. A cool start, a sunny day. And the temperatures will be climbing though we wont reach the low 70s like yesterday. 50 at 6 00, 9 00, a little bit cooler and then the sunshine to warm us back in the middle 50s by lunch time. The temperatures will be climbing. Go through the forecast, neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has a look at your friday morning commute. Were in bordentown, new jersey right now off of the new jersey turnpike there is an accident inside the exit ramp off exit 7 around 206. Reports of Property Damage right there and one toll lane blocked so watch for that if youre heading out the door off of the p. A. Turnpike this morning, for these are 0 our cameras above the schuylkill expressway. Just to show you the closures as you can see signs blocking off the ramp from the schuylkill into the vine street expressway thats closed this morning between the
Got knock out inside 69th street terminal. I was just trying to enjoy the game. I wasnt going there trying to pick a fight. Just i happened to be a giants fan from philadelphia. Reporter septa released new video of the incident where you see rider from upper darby in the red eli manning jersey getting off the el after the eagles beat the giants. He admits what the video shows. Running his mouth with eagles fans that goes on for about two minutes. But shortly after, it turned violent. As i was walking up the stairs, they grabbed my giants hat thirty nine it on the ground. Reporter moments later a woman his friend begged everyone to stop then anthony is slugged by a guy in eagles jacket he never saw coming. Cell phone video even he posted on his Facebook Page viewed over a millio million times shows thy septa police want to find. People were drunk. Yeah. You think that had anyththing to do with it. Probably. Probably lifted the situation to what happened, but its still no reason for that