a water main break on minden. actually over here on minden road and right near mechanicsville road.ind of off some of the main drags here. it's not really -- north of this in the developmental area here. this is woodhaven in there. that's giving you an idea of where that is. you will be detoured around for a minute. other than that, looks good. mass transit on time for amtrak, septa, new jersey transit, and patco. back to you. >> thank you. >>> tour ends in tragedy. two families killed in a costa rica plane crash including people with ties to our area. >>> airport chaos. the computer crash that caused long lines at some of the busiest airport terminals. >>> and making changes for women in entertainment. trusted battery for your son's favorite toy?t maybe not. maybe, you could trust he wouldn't leave the upstairs water running. (woman screams) or, you could just trust duracell. ♪ downsizing. enrolling in medicare part d. these are moments when people realize that where you get your medicine matters. and they come to cvs pharmacy. for advice and ways to save money. including copays as

this is along minden and medford road.re around this area, you usually commute around this area you might want to avoid it for now as the water department gets to work on this and this is about the second or third water main break i've covered and i know the water depth just a few days ago have been saying they've been overwhelmed responding to these water main breaks so it will likely be awhile before this gets fixed up. of course we'll keep you posted as soon as we get new information. reporting live in northeast, jeanette reyes channel6 "action news." tam. >> thank you jeanette. >>> a fire hour train trip from chicago to detroit turned into a 13 hour ordeal for more than 140 passengers. amtrak says the train was first delayed two and a half hours leaving chicago because of an engine problem. then there was a one hour delay to fix a frozen track switch in western michigan. but the biggest delays were because crew members had to be switched out. >> it was panicky because we sat for six hours at one point waiting for a cre

minden near mechanicsville road, off into the neighborhood. a lot of houses actually without water now. with the cold temperatures, it might be a little traffic problem driving around the neighborhood. we'll keep our eyes on that. i'll have an update in about ten minutes. >> thanks. >>> we'll show you that mess right now. breaking in northeast philadelphia, an eight-inch main broke, causing water to pour into the street. this is minden off academy road. 125 homes are without water because of the break. crews will be out later to start repairs. nbc10's pamela osborne is on her way to the scene. as we get more information, we'll keep you updated. >>> the teenage suspect in a family massacre over the weekend will now face a new jersey judge today. investigators say the 16-year-old shot and killed his parents, his sister, and a family friend inside his parents' long branch home. law enforcement officials believe the incident was a domestic situation. >>> we are learning more about the local college student discovered at that murder scene. >> yeah,

"action news" reporter jeanette reyes is live at the scene on minden street.d morning, jeanette. >> reporter: good morning, matt. i just got off the phone with the water department. they're telling me they're barely keeping up with all of these calls of broken water mains. take a live look behind me. they did shut the water off, that's what the overnight crew does. however, repairs won't start until 9:30 and you can see the road is an icy mess made worse after hundreds of gallons of water came pouring onto minden road. take a look at this video here that we were able to get. hopefully you're seeing where one of the homes -- there are three homes impacted and by impacted i mean water in the basement, in the garage and one of the homes you can see the water is pretty leveled off. this is in a driveway that dips down quite a few feet. so, the homeowners, we tried talking to them, they are understandably pretty upset about this. they are looking at quite a bit of damage as a result. so, now, numbers that rye got from the water department, at this point we know 125

it's in a neighborhood off of minden off mechanicsville. this is woodhaven here. it's in this general area here. not going to affect tons of people heading up and down 95 or moving through woodhaven road. again, a little bit off course there. it's on minden near mechanics road, an active water main break, especially in this cold it might be more of a problem than we are originally seeing. i'm watching the vine street expressway, as well. cameras at 8th street, both directions good. here is eastbound moving toward 95. here, moving toward the schuylkill expressway. so far, so good, no problems. back to you. >> all right. thank you. >>> a star takes a spill. why singer carrie underwood says she might not look the same now. >>> and guest of honor. the special moment as a teen gets to meet the flyers. why it meant so much to him. >>> 5:45. millions of americans are in the grips of a deadly cold spell. the latest, a woman found froze tonight death in front of a detroit church. many are hoping and praying for some relief, even if we can just get above freezing. we'll hav

"action news" reporter jeanette reyes is live on the scene at minden street.eanette you say at the very least they've shut it off. >> reporter: they have shut it off. they shut it off a couple hours ago but matt, the thing is the crew that comes to fix the pipe doesn't get here until 9:30 in the morning. take a live look here behind me much the road is a pretty icy mess. they did have a salt truck come by and salt the road down just a bit. now it's kind of just a waiting game for that crew to come out and service can be restored to about 125 customers. take a look at this video though. it's just incredible to see one of the homes that was the most severely impacted. that water that you see there, it's actually leveled off in a drive way that dips down quite a few feet. so, we can expect that drive way to have quite a bit of flooding as well as the home next door. three homes were impacted in a similar way. so, again, 125 homes without water service at this point. and it will be about 9:30 until crews come out. we were just told that this is an 8-inch pipe that

let's go to jeanette who is at one of them the one on minden and medford streets in the northeast.'ve seen some of the pictures you've been tweeting outer and your heart just breaks for these people with all this water in their yard. >> reporter: yeah, tam, you can only imagine. another family i talked to, their entire basement had 4 feet of water. this family is looking at something similar. the water department looks like it's not going to get a break any time soon. the road was already iced over but add to it hundreds of gallons of cold water, that's beginning to ice over and that creates a slippery mess. take a look at this video here. it's the family that you were talking about, tam, their drive way kind of dips in a few feet and you can see the water has leveled off, meaning that garage is now several feet full of water. quite a mess. costly mess likely for them. so, what we know so far, 125 homes are currently without service. that is until 9:30 in the morning. the overnight crew, all they can do is shut off the water but that day crew that comes in at 9:30 they're the ones

water main break, trang do out here at this one, minden road at medford road, 25 homes are involved inone, another one, ashton road at grant road in the northeast. watch out for icy conditions, pat. >> good advice, thank you. this morning learning more about the ten americans who died in a new years eve plane crash in costa rica. >> university of pennsylvania, and family originally from montgomery county, were among the victims. here is news correspondent andrew spencer. >> reporter: amanda went on trip to costa rica acting ago travel guy, 33 year old among 12 people who died in a plane crash on new years eve. her family issued a statement saying in part: amanda's love for the outdoors, setting goals and crushing them, and adoration for her family and friends, are like none other. if amanda could leave us all with one thing it, would be right down -- write down whatever it is i want to do and make it happen. outside a home in bellaire, florida, flowers for four other victims. same plane crash, leslie and mitchell wise were both doctors. they work together at the same hospital. >> two o

steve. >> reporter: hopefully bob's still watching because bob the big problem is not at corner of minden and medford where water happened. it ran down medford and you can see here buses starting to stack up that is number 20 september bus that takes everybody to the frank for transportation center. i just talk to lynn, the driver of the first bus she's waiting for her supervisor to show up because they don't know where to detour and these are small road they are just horseshoe like loops going in one and out other. they would be driving in circles anyway. buses are affected. where that police carries that is inch thick of ice and slush because water stayed there in a valley. buses come down the hill. water all settled down there inn though they shut it off, damage was done from thousands on have gallons that went out for two hours and went dunn that hill and caused medford and lester to be even more treacherous then that is unless you are living here. watch how treacherous. watch what a water main down. we have seen holes in the ground. owner of this cadillac will wonder will they get th

and at medford road, minden road. here go. let me show you here, basement of one of the homes here.ust covered in mud after this water main break happened, sometime after 3:00 a.m. this morning. many homeowners waking up to this. here is one of them. this is tom? >> how are you doing? >> tell me what happened. >> i woke up in the middle of the night. there was a foot of water in the basement. and the water department came out. they shut the water off. and here i am now. >> wow, were you telling me that your car was also affected, too? >> yes, my car won't start. it is burried in mud, erroded. >> oh, my goodness. >> yes. >> have you her to deal with this before living here in park wood? >> no, never, never. >> so what are you going do now? >> i guess wait until tomorrow and call my insurance company. >> and try to figure it out from there. >> so you are were about to go to work? >> yes, i was about to go to work. now i got to call out. i'm sure they'll see this, they'll know i'm not lying. a mess. try to clean up as much as i can. >> how extensive is the damage here that you've been

northeast philadelphia we showed you this live picture yesterday morning, as an 8-inch main broke near minden and medford road. the break sent water flooding over sidewalks and into some homes. >>> we asked pennsylvania for how to keep pipes from bursting in your homes. make sure your basement or crawl space is heated so pipes don't freeze. seal up any basement windows. if you suspect your pipes are frozen use a hair dryer to heat the pipes and get water flowing. >>> stay with "eyewitness news", we will be closely monitoring bitter blast and tracking the impending nor'easter. >>> police are investigating a crash in south philadelphia that sent three people to the hospital, crash happened at forty-sixth street and wood land avenue just after midnight, medics rushed two housing authority officers and one other person to the hospital we are told all three were treated for just minor injuries at last check, in word on what caused that accident. >>> president trump is warning north korean kim jong u.n. that the u.s. has bigger nuclear button than, north korea latest threat came from twitter. he de

minute -- minden smaller side street, causing big problems for people in that area.cks between hamilton avenue and trenton, suspended. >> guys, out over to you. >> pat, thank you. >> for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> from the press of atlantic city 14 people took part on 7- mile hick in the vast river state poor else. temperatures are in the low teens with steady wind. it is part of first hike day. which is supposed to promote healthy lifestyles and year around recreation at state parks. >>> the morning call, alec town mayor ed took the oath for his fourth term, couple of weeks before he goes on trial. he faces 44 counts including bribery, conspiracy, fraud. and then alleged pay to play scandal, he has pleaded not guilty. >> and from the delaware county daily times, 12 year old jake kutcher becomes the younger he is captain to ever lead a string band in the mummers parade. his father, former captain teddy kutcher, passed away in october. >> and that's a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. coming up: colleg

philadelphia a broken 8-inch water main sent water flooding over sidewalks, and into some homes, on minden and medford road overnight. water service has been shut off until crews fixed the damage water main. there is no word when water will be restored. >>> new at 6:00 unexpected delivery forced a family out into the cold, local woman says an oil company accidentally pumped gallons of heating oil into the wrong house. "eyewitness news" reporter alycia nieves is live in the sat center with more on the costly mistake and what you can do to stop from it happening to you, alycia. >> reporter: is there certainly a lesson to be learned from this homeowners experience but first i want to show you this map that i had to work to get in this woman's home that is strong smell of oil despite the fact that the spill happened more than a week ago. at height of the holiday season this delaware county woman said that she was forced out of perfect home. >> december 23rd i woke up, my two god daughters in the house and i woke up to fumes, i didn't know what it was. >> reporter: janel parker is still out of

we brought you this scene live yesterday mornings main broke near minden and medford road. it sent water fo some homes. >>> police are investigating a crash that sent three people phadelphia. this happened at forty-sixth and wood land avenue just after midnight. medics took two housing authorities officers and another person to the hospital for minoreatening injuries we are told they have been treated and released. mo> gomery county are looking for cause of this three alarm fire at a car chopper three over chevy dealer in jenkintown last night. smoke in the showroom. in one was injury. >>> new developments innight kid president trump are exchanging rhetoric while sou may contact on a hot line that has been unused for years.penc . >> reporter: nor korean leader kim reopen a hot line for communication starting discussions on send olympics in south korea next movement call comes after a rare move by on monday offering an olive brand to much south korea. >> hwi his threats toward u.s. and then went on to makestoward south. i think this was very well played by northkhis might be

off on a bad note here we have three water main breaks two in northeast philadelphia latest one at minden, and medford, two blocks air affect, 125 homes, started around 3:00 o'clock. they got water shut off at five. 8-inch pipe. we have several resident there waking up to flooded basements this morning. so not a good way to start the tuesday first day back after the holiday, steve keeley's on his way. it is a residential area just off of woodhaven road and roosevelt boulevard. other one is right next to northeast airport grant avenue at ashton my only hope is it is more on the ashton side then grant avenue. grant avenue is your main drag off of the boulevard there there is northeast airport here's red lion road to give you an example. that is two situationness northeast philadelphia, and a break yesterday in manayunk causing delays today, james town avenue at henie avenue, and even though they may get water turned off it will be a construction project. as we have seen the last couple of weeks all that water just ices over on the road surface. kid going back to school, you are going back t

we're at minden and medford roads. they've put down salt on the road to try to melt the ice, but it's still there. neighbors waking up to find they don't have any water because of the main break. we know that crews are planning to be out here later this morning to address the problem and get it taken care of. they're hoping the water services will be turned back on by sometime early this evening. reporting live, pamela osborne, nbc10 news. >>> new overnight, a string of shootings leaves four people injured across philadelphia. in north philadelphia, a shooting near temple university's campus sent one man to the hospital. investigators say the gunman shot the victim in his thigh and took off. it happened near the intersection of 18th and norris streets. that victim was in critical condition at last check. >>> and another shooting in north philadelphia sent one man to the hospital and left a home riddled with bullets. it happened at an apartment complex near the intersection of north 23rd street and dauphin street. polic

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man walki a sheet across the street in the middle where we are and that police officer is there is mindenere you can see it with the sunshine. this corner house is owned by a great guy named tom and we talk to him because he waskind of the middle where all of the damage happen. water all came into his house and came down through here and here's how he is describing things in the middle of the night sound sleep and then suddenly wide a wake? i'm told no sound. what we would have heard him say was i a was asleep at 3:00 i heard sound of rushing water i thou that be? did i leave a faucet running snow gets up, opened up his front door, water comes rushing n he to his back door water comes rushing in. his cadillac in the front driveway full of mud and water will in the start.l not go into work at philadelphia gas works as he has called out already. he goes to his back, just watched eagles playing dallas. that is ruin. he had a foot of mud in his man cave entertainment area where he has all this great electronics, lazy boy you name it, and look at this backyard neighbors. water runs through and