we're in glenarden, closed between johnson avenue and ardwick ardmore. they're detouring through the baptist church. and the 3200 block of reed street is close and investigators are collecting evidence. this is going to be the case for probably another hour or two hours perhaps. back to you in the studio. >>> i'm angie goff at the live desk. we are just minutes away from amtrak's first train out of philadelphia since last week's deadly derailment. right now, we are looking at maybe a ten minute delay. it was supposed to take off around 5:53 this morning. philadelphia as you recall is the scene of the crash that took the lives of eight people last tuesday. five people we know are still in critical condition. the faa told amtrak to add speed safeguards on the tracks before they started up the engines again today. we are standing by and we'll let you know how everything goes. eun, back to you. >> thank you, angie. angie is telling us about the delays if you're planning a trip north, amtrak says you don't have to worry about your safety. the federal railroad

an argument at the ardmore neighborhood park led to gunfire. four people were shot near the basketball court at the park on ard wick ardmore road in spring dale this sunday afternoon. died. sources say this may be connected to a fatal shooting saturday afternoon on horn beam court in glenn arden. >> some folks were using the park. it was a busy day in our park. and a car pulled up in the parking lot and opened fire on four people who weren't expecting that. and a tragedy has resulted. >> reporter: friends of one of the shooting victims gathered across the street from the park. they come here every sunday to play horseshoes. they say one of their friends was shot. >> we usually up here every sunday pitching horseshoes with one of the guys that pitch horseshoes with us i understand he got shot. it is not, from what i understand is not grave or anything. the information i got was it was a stray bullet that hit him. >> reporter: after the shooting two of the victims were driven to the st. wroteself fire station a mile away. this white chevy impala

families, including children, were enjoying ardmore park this afternoon when gunfire erupted. county police say a car rolled up, shots rang out from one of the vehicle's windows into a crowd of people on the basketball court. >> four people were hit. one is now dead. garrett is live on the scene in springdale where he talked to witnesses and police. >> reporter: you can tell by the size. crime scene behind me this is a very big and on the weekends a very active community park. i spoke to some folks

police say this happened around two: 30 this afternoon at the ardmore recreation center.as a crowd, people outside playing basketball, and believe say that a car rolled up, and somebody in that car opened fire. dozens of people scattered, but four people were hit. they are investigating, trying to figure out how and why this happened in the usually wyatt neighborhood. >> it is a sad, redundant narrative. some folks were using the park. it was a busy day in our car and somebody pulled up and opened fire. a tragedy. roz: so far, we do not have any suspect information. we expect to get some of that, and police say they are looking at several people and several groups, and we hope to get information on the victims we should tell you that last night, there was a shooting about five minutes from here at a different recreation center. they are looking to see if the two of those are connected. so far, they have not been able to connect the dots. we will stay with you and have more information for you. live in springdale, i am roz plater, abc 7 news. kellye: thank you roz. we are

families, including children, were enjoying ardmore park this afternoon when gunfire erupted. county police say a car rolled up, shots rang out from one of the vehicle's windows into a crowd of people on the basketball court. >> four people were hit. one is now dead. garrett is live on the scene in springdale where he talked to witnesses and police. >> reporter: you can tell by the size. crime scene behind me this is a very big and on the weekends a very active community park. i spoke to some folks who have been coming here sunday for decades and they have never seen or heard of anything like today's brazen midday drive by shooting. police say around 2:30 this afternoon a car carrying at the least one gunman rolled into the parking lot at the ardmore park and opened tire. the shooting happened near the back of the parking lot towards the basketball courts. bullets struck at least four people, including an older man here pitching horseshoes, who was hit in the stomach. he was able to walk to an ambulance. two other people suffered serious injuries, and one of them later died at

also martin luther king is closed between johnson avenue and ardwick ardmore in the glenarden area. police saying that's going to remain the case for an hour or two, at least. in terms of the shooters or a lookout for suspects, that information not available at this point. still very early in this investigation. back to you in studio. >> m >>> 5:03. you can take the train to new york city again starting today. in an hour amtrak will run the first trains between new york and philadelphia since that deadly train derailment last week. the federal railroad administration told amtrak to add safeguards on the tracks before they can start running again. about 20 people are recovering in the hospital from the derailment. five in critical condition. everyone is expected to survive. at the crash site philadelphia mayor michael nutter and several others held a memorial service to remember the people who died. >>> the victims of the crash left behind eight families who are grieving today and amtrak could have to pay hundreds of millions in damages to the victims. the law passed in the '90s thou

. >> ♪♪ >>> marching bands entertained a parade of people here in ardmore today.n's annual memorial day event stepped off this morning along greenfield avenue. the parade made its way to saint paul seminary in ardmore for a special memorial day service. >>> they also enjoyed a holiday parade in springfield delaware county today. among those in the parade the springfield high school marching band. the parade began at veterans memorial park and ended at the township building where they had a wreath laying ceremony. >> blackberry is going to be laying off an unknown number of employees worldwide. the job cuts will affect people who make the hardware, software and applications for its phones. the company is looking to reduce the size of its device operations to make it profitable again. >>> students all over the country are putting on their caps and gowns and getting ready to say goodbye to school. and loved ones are preparing to spend big bucks to congratulate them. the national retail federation conducted a survey and found americans are planning to spend close to $

. >> volunteers at all schools including the preschool at ardmore united methodist church where timothythompson hull is the counselor would need to be checked for child abuse history. >> i think mostly kind of ugh at first. because it's something they have to do as kind of a nuisance almost, is what it feels like. but then they realize well if it was my son or daughter i'd want them to be in a very safe place. >> under the law, volunteer is anybody who has direct regular contact with kids or is responsible for their well being. so for example baseball coaches like the one here. today i spoke with kathy watson a sponsor of the legislation. she says if there's any confusion, don't worry. she tells me she's working on a new bill to spell out exactly who would need to get a background check. keith, jacqueline? >> once a volunteer fills out the paperwork, how long does it take for them to be cleared? >> well initially dhs was flooded with applications in the beginning of the year when part of this law went into effect. however, dhs has hired more workers. state rep watson tells me that the t

just a career i start to the morning here in ardmore, and that is what we are find nothing other spotss well. let me take you to another one to the southwest 50 degrees, there we go, sent in from dan a, one of our gold star reporters or watchers in kenneth square with a mixture of clouds and hint of sunlight and light jacket weather this morning. refreshing they says but some not ready might think it is on the chilly side and 55 degrees sent in from greg who has a mixture of cloud and sunshine. specifically in new jersey and he said morning family. channeling ukee on that one. waking up to clouds, cool conditions and in upper township reporting with that observation. thanks for the reports. we will see a lot of variety here towards the afternoon with a a system that is just moving in. so here's is what happening. it looks lake is there a slug of moisture moving from west to east. much of this will be fizzling out, as it rolls our way and essentially guys, we will see wet weather moving in from south to north so, what you see on the radar looks awfully deceiving, and bottom line is you

headed out to ardmore right now, teachers not there everyone is glad about that.y, doing homework i'm sure. 67 degrees is the temperature at the present time. in front of lower merion high school, our temperatures are in the 60s. that makes an easy job for me, and also easy for you, you i'm sure, you get the idea what it is like in the 60s. you know how to dress headed out the door first thing this morning. it will get even warmer, though, so the 60s turn into eight's later today once again. comfort index dew point as we all know, when the humidity starts to climb the discomfort also starts to climb. dew point right now 66. and tomorrow, it is 63. okay so what's that mean? well weaver a scale for you. how convenient. if you have got dew points that are between 60 and 65 degrees, as we find them right now we're anywhere between steamy and oppressive. storm scan3 nothing but few very light showers see they're very light crossing across the delaware bay headed into south jersey, but really don't amount to much. later today we could be picking up more though in the fo

there's also a larger closure on mlk, martin luther king is closed between johnson avenue and ardwick/ardmore. i spoke to police a short time ago and they believe that investigators will be out here for another hour, perhaps two hours. so that closure will be in place for a little while. maybe during the start of this morning's rush hour. no other information about exactly who this person is who is found in this car dead early this morning, but certainly early in the investigation. back to you guys in the studio. >> megan mcgrath live for us thank you. >>> another developing story right now. the marine corps is looking into what caused a deadly hard landing of an osprey aircraft. an eyewitness said that osprey, quote, just literally just appeared to drop out of the sky. this happened yesterday morning in hawaii. you can see dark plumes of smoke in the video of the aftermath here. one marine guydied on impact. >>> a bus driver in georgia may pay a big fine for causing a crash after stopping on train tracks. take a look at this video here. it shows the csx train slamming into the back of a bus.

he grew up in ardmore, pennsylvania a suburb on philadelphia's mainline but his house was in a blue collar neighborhood. my people were plumbers he would tell you. young jimmy was spoiled by a big family that included grandparents aunts, uncles and cousins. he enjoyed school and excelled at academics and sports but he was left scarred by the death of his father an alcoholic who died from cirrhosis of the live when he was just 9 years old. soon after his mother took off and left vance in the care of his grandparents. >> let's put it this way. i've been depressed since i was born. for a long period of time i really considered myself a mistake. >> what do you mean you considered yourself a mistake in. >> my self-esteem has always been so incredibly low that for a long period of time i thought that my existence on this earth was an aberration that i was a mistake. >> as vance grew up and continued to find success as a news reporter and then anchor he says that low self-esteem continued to weigh heavily on him, pulling him down no matter how much he achieved. >> i can remember standing at a pod

volume and a broken down vehicle at allegheny giving us speeds in the teens and on the main line in ardmorenfield and spring and the planet fitness 95 in delco not looking good and northbound is looking good from naaman's road up to 320, that crash continues to block the right lane, as you head to the blue route this afternoon. in west grove chester county an accident brought down a pole. evergreen is blocked offp harmony gets you around it. big day in dover with nascar a dover downs it's going to continue the closures throughout the week. and in east windsor mercy county, a sinkhole near airport road. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >>> a canadian farm dog has adopted a pretty unlikely best friend. friend. that's stormy the baby bird, and a new mom in tammy a 1-year-old golden retriever that lives at the same farm, they are inseparable since they met and they play together and nap together how cute. the owner is keeping both of them on the farm so nothing gets in the way of their bond. meteorologist, adam joseph, is back with the exclusive accuweather forecast. >>> lets get ove

to pick up that golden glow of the sun, that's up, atlantic city looking nicety point. 58 degrees ardmore lower merion high school, teachers, kids, all thrilled about that. we have storm scan3 showing couple of showers that are showing up. and they are showing up to the north through williamsport, moving toward the poconos, and not totally out of the question that you see shower around here this morning. better chances through the second part of the day maybe specially the really second part of the day as we head into the evening. 59 degrees temperature in philadelphia, so we have lost one agree in the last couple of minutes, 57 in trenton, 59 in wilmington, 06 atlantic city and wildwood. we have temperatures philadelphia that will warm up like this. by 9:00 a.m. it will be 72, which is just about perfect. by noon, 81 degrees, partly sunny chance of some showers eight a, our high for the day again chance of shower or thunderstorm in the forecast. we will time it all out for your neighborhood and talk about the chances, the actual, what is the percentage chance we'll see some of this, that

cloud i think will be featured prominently in our skies today. 48 degrees, that is temperature in ardmore lower merion high school, it is there. the kid are thrilled. teachers might be happier, we are looking at storm scan three, and you can see that there are a few clouds out there but that is it, if you see a sprinkle today the chances are very remote but there is a slight chance of seeing a light little sprinkle or shower go by but that would be the extent of it and virtually everybody will be remaining rain free today and tomorrow. so 49 in philadelphia right now. forty-three in trenton. forty-six in wilmington with these temperatures in the 40's. we have a nice little jolt in temperatures this afternoon in the lower 70's. sun and cloud. high pressure continues to build in here. tomorrow is warmer, 80 degrees tomorrow, so a beautiful looking couple of days. this is a really nice weekend and if you make plans a year ago for this weekend i'm sure you think you were a genius and i have to agree. we have got temperatures on monday about 83 degrees. we will continue to add a couple degrees

he grew up in ardmore, pennsylvania a suburb on philadelphia's main line. in a blue-collar neighborhood. my people were plumbers he would tell you. young jimmy was loved and spoiled by a big family that included grandparents aunts, uncles and cousins. he enjoyed school and excelled at academics and sports of he was left scarred by the death of his father who died from cirrhosis of the liver. vance was nine years old. soon after his mother took off and left vance in the care of his grandparents. >> put it this way. i had been impressed since i was born. for a long time i considered myself a mistake. >> what do you mean you considered yourself a mistake. >> my self-esteem has always been so incredibly low that for long periods of time i thought that my existence on this earth was an aberration that i was a mistake. >> as vance grew up and continued to find success as a news reporter and anchor he said that low self-esteem continued to weigh heavily on him pulling him down no matter how much he achieved. >> i can remember standing at podium 1200 people on thei

ardmore, lower merion high school area, 65 degrees, some of the high clouds out there. monmouth county. expect to see shower or thunderstorm, as these temperatures rise from 67 in philadelphia, right now, all the way to 85 degrees, with shower and thunderstorm chances today tonight and tomorrow. nicole? >> all right carol thanks. that's it for "eyewitness news" this morning. you can always follow us on our website cbsphilly.com. i'm nicole brewer. make it a great day. narrator: today on lucky dog... brandon: can you sit? narrator: kobe's training should be a slam dunk. brandon: you got a "stay?" narrator: but this tiny terrier mix is creating matchup problems for brandon. brandon: muthee loves skateboarding. off. now, the average person would say this dog is untrainable, because he is putting me to the test. narrator: with draft day approaching, he'll need to embrace the fundamentals... brandon: no. narrator: ...and keep his head in the game... brandon: stay with me. narrator: ...before time runs out. brandon: i'm brandon mcmillan, and i've dedicated my life to saving t

he was last seen on ardmore road in springdale to the beltway at route 50. he is 61 years old.ore information on these stories and much more right now on good morning washington as it continues on news channel eight. we will see you back here in about 25 minutes. >>> good morning, america. and right now, we are -- tracking those deadly deadly storms. >> and right now, number one draft pick in the nfl, jameis winston, filing a countersuit against the woman accusing him of sexual assault. >>> and a new warning after a scary close encounter. plaque bears caught on camera chasing visitors. like bears are saying this is our turf. this is our home. >> crazy. >>> good morning america on this monday morning. closer to revealing the hidden worlds ginger is heading into. she's been on let's see, planes boats. now she's trekking to get to this morning's stunning location. incredible journey. you have to see this. she's about to take the plunge into a place most of us have never seen before. and we cannot wait to join her for that. >> she's gone so far for that. >>> we begin with the lates