Weekend and we are tracking heavy rain in the accuweather forecast. Plus, the time for the still exuberant deleerous fans to make room for baseball. The phillies head out for spring training. And the big cleanup aft parade. From south philadelphia to the or the museum steps they left a significant pile of trash behind. Jeanette reyes is live. Reporter speaking of massive. The Streets Department says this is a massive cleanup effort and the largest they have seen. The crews are still here, hundreds came out and found everything from lawn chairs to grills and crates. Trash is kind of gross. Its a mess but anyhow it was not so fun. After hundreds of thousands of eagles fans descended on the parkway to celebrate a super bowl win. Crew with the Streets Department whipped out a full gamut of tools to clean up the mess behind from a rake to a street sweeper. A leaf blower even heavy duty machinery like a front end loader. The amount of trash was nearly overwhelming and it didnt help that much
His name killed. This incident, not his first runin with the law. What hes now saying about the devastating crash. And a circus act on the baseball field. This blue jays star, turning into an acrobat. Leaping, flipping over the cardinals catcher, to score a crucial run. The manager saying you wont see anything like this in 100 years. Dont be scared, michael. Dont be scared. Good morning, america. Lets look at the moment at the plate. Chris coghlan. I think he hits the catcher and the catcher has possession of the ball. I thought he was out. Well, he was safe. They won the game. A little debate over here before we came on the air. There is a theres some other baseball news out there about look at these two. Derek jeter and jeb bush. They could be closing in on purchasing the Miami Marlins. Were tracking a lot of big stories. The whole senate coming to to white house this afternoon. And with the deadline for a Government Shutdown just two days away, the spt backing off his demapds to fun
County this hour. Right now police are looking for the driver that hit a 1yearold child twice and we learned it was not an accident but an intentional act. The driver hit the girl and backed up and hit her again near Delaware Avenue in newport. Police are on the scene since early this morning. The child is hospitalized and her condition is not yet released. Police trying to find the person behind this terrible act. Turning now to accuweather on your friday. A big cool down expected for your weekend fortunately. Accuweather says that temperatures drop and the steamy conditions fade away during the evening hours. But first there is an another hot and humid afternoon on tap. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee, has a check of the forecast for you. And we are talking heat wave today. Yes, if we hit 90 degrees this will more than likely be a heat wave in philadelphia. We are getting the numbers now above average. In the city 88 in philadelphia. That is 13 degrees above the average high and 87 for
The 64yearold victim was shot during an attempted robbery at the lancaster market in wilmington. Gray hall joins us outside of the store where the two suspects are now in custody. Reporter well, rick and sara, the suspects face a number of charges including first degree murder and robbery. As the Legal Process plays out people in the community are devastated. Youll see this makeshift memorial a reminder that folks in the area are still grieving. Police say that2yearold dorsett and another miner whose name is not given. He was a loving guy, i dont care if you were short or something, he would say come back another day. He had a lot of love in the community for someone to hurt him is devastating. The suspects were aat the present timing to rob the store owner in wilmington and police say he was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the hospital. Residents say its a big loss and they are heart broken. It makes no sense, the violence out here in the street should stop. Lives matter, no m
Cornell avenue was on fire. And police were there in the matter of minutesp rushed to the burning house. The owner 71yearold Esteban Rivera answered. He was removed but the area of the house on fire was fully involved. At this point the victim is not identified pending notification of her family. A female in her 40s unrelated to the homeowners, her body was found in the second floor bedroom. There was difficulty locating her because the portion of the room she was in collapsed. And so firefighters had to do extra searching the debris was on top of her. She was seriously burned to the point where we are not comfortable making a positive identification. Using dental records . The cause of the fire is under investigation and oxygen was used in the home and that may have contributed to the fire spread. Oxygen in a room where the fire spread and had something to do with the fire being fully involved. Two children live in the house but neither were in there when the fire broke out. The cause