Gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former classmates, teachers and alumni pour into the very same building to honor her memory. As the flags fly at half staff. Everybody wanted to be like her. Reporter monique barracks was murrays teammate on the lady birds basketball team. She would keep our hearts and heads into every game win organize losing, and she just knew the right words to say and how to build us up to as team. Reporter hundreds fill the auditorium in a private vigil led by School President brother Richard Kessler who himself struggled to find the words of comfort for the west catholic family. One of the characteristics of the school is that we are a family when this type of situation happens in any family, family gathers togeth
Right now the city of philadelphia lit up to honor the victims and survivors of sundays orlando massacre. You can see from skyfox rainbow lights shining from the ben franklin bridge tonight, and in center city both the Sirius Center and comcast building are lit up in rainbow colors. Philadelphia Community Coming together tonight to youngest victim who host her life when that gunman end fire. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Cun eightyearold akyra murray had draft from there west catholic prep and was in orlando celebrating with friends. Chris oconnell has been talking with those who knew akyra. Hes live in west philadelphia. Chris . Reporter thats right, lucy. The west catholic family gathered together tonight to come together to pray and real toll make sense of a senseless tragedy that claimed the life of a stand out student athlete. It was less than two weeks ago akyra murray was here graduating third in her class from west cathedral rick prep high school. Tonight, former
Excitement here today palpable. Reporter hes in third with delegate count. Folks worried about giving you their vote, knowing it would have to be contested convention in order for you to win, what do you say . I dont think anybodys going to have enough delegates. Cruz has to get 70 of the remaining delegates. Were going into where my strength is. Reporter he believes thats like pennsylvania, where the Ohio Governor was born and closed with a simple plea. If you like me, we need your help. Reporter now, governor kasich is facing a challenge here in pennsylvania, a court challenge. Marco rubio supporter challenging some of the signatures that the Governors Campaign submitted to get him on the ballot here in pennsylvania. It is unclear what is going to happen to that now with marco rubio sus spenting his campaign. I checked with the secretary of States Office and told as of now, hes on the april 26th ballot unless a Court Decides otherwise. Status quo for now. Despite kasichs victory in o
Breaking news, more than a dozen people are dead this morning after explosions in brussels. Four explosions at the airport, several more at a nearby metro station. Weve been following this breaking news for 2 1 2 hours now. We continue to get new information and pictures into our newsroom. Im tracy davidson. Im vai sikahema. We have complete coverage of the breaking news that weve been following. First, well get a quick check of weather and traffic. Lets check in with meteorologist sheena parveen. Its a cold start. You want the jacket, maybe the heavy coat. 20s on map still, 25 in pottstown, 28 in allentown, 35 philadelphia. 24 in millville, 32 wilmington and dover at the moment. Well stay cold like this until the sun comes up. Once the sun comes up, temperatures start to climb. 9 00 a. M. , low 40s. By lunch time, closer to 50 degrees. Well take a look at the afternoon forecast plus a bigger warmup, coming up. Lets get a check of the roads with jessica boyington. A lot of the majors a
Monitoring new information, new video coming in. Katy, what have you learned . New information, new video coming in constantly, tracy and vai. At least one explosion we happened in the checkin area of the airport, specifically the checkin area. Here are pictures that have been confirmed by nbc news of what it looks like inside the airport. You can see the widespread damage, structures are destroyed and we blurred out, in this picture, what appears to be several victims lying on the ground severely injured. Heres more evidence of the several large, were hearing, four explosions now, upgraded from two explosions we were reporting in the last half hour. Theres a large emergency presence at the airport right now. First aid teams are there. Theres a picture of smoke pouring from outside the building. There was widespread panic throughout the airport. The airport has been evacuated. Passengers were rushered on to the tarmac. This happened just after 3 00 a. M. East coast time. But over in br