the incident happened at 3:00 at east county line road and bittle street. the man was working in a truck that lifts try wall into buildings. the worker was shocked when part of the truck came in contact with a high tension wire. there is no word yet on the victim's condition. the driver involved in a deadly hit and run in northeast philadelphia has turned himself in. it happened at cotman and bustleton, at 12:30 this morning. that is when they said the driver plowed into a bus stop killing 50-year-old molina, the driver ran away leaving his car behind. he is not yet charged and police believe that speed was a factor. >>> a railroad overpass bridge rebuilt in 2011 needs another overhaul. the bridge on newport road in marshallpton, delaware needs to be raised six inches. they realized it was too short. del/dot says the repairs will cost $472,000 and the construction is set to begin mid-june and should take two months to complete. >>> our daisy days phone bank is still working and will be working until 6:30 tonight as we partner with childrens hospital to rais

that is thi pretty much the latest.heat first here on the scene so as ss soon as we get a little bittle more information and the story t develops we'll let you knowps what we learn.at wlear back to you. >>♪♪ >> investigators are stilles trying to determine whattitermia brought down an egyptair jetliner last weeks.t w >> egyptian officials are using submarines to search forer the black boxes. ly the crashed into the mediterranean sea.me 66 people were on board. >> iraq military has begun a fight against isis.agai i >>> in afghanistan the> in a taliban's most senior figure was killed in a u.s. drone.sdroe strike saturday.atur officials say he was a in western pakistan when multiple i unmanned drones fired and tookre him out.hit reports say president obama personally authorized that strike. >> the german company behr hasbe made a company he to buy b monsanto to $62 billion.62 bill. monsanto is the largest seed isa company in the world.mp they are also one of the largest manufacturers ofture >> bear made the announcement last t week. the company says it is prepared to proceed immediate to q

coming south of bittles corner south of odessa, an earlier crash there didn't help us out. you'll make it there eventually, have patience and stay safe this afternoon. safety is the key, thank you matt. >>> philadelphia city council has called for an investigation into the revenue made by red light cameras and parking violations. at a hearing today councilmen said they want to know where the money generated is going, some of that is suppose to go to the city and school district. it has generated more than 7$70 million in recent years. >>> and now a man is behind bars for selling heroin in newcastle county. he was arrested during a traffic stop on old capital trail in newcastle. police found more than 23 grams of heroin and crack cocaine in his car. he faces a long list of charges. >>> philadelphia police have released this surveillance video as they work to track down the teenager who purged a man in the face while walking his dog. it happened on the 1100 block of north 56th street. he walked up to the 61-year-old man and asked him for the time and purged him several times.

jon: bruce bittles, thank you for sticking with us.res of office depot and staples plunging after we saw their planned merger collapse. more details after this. ♪ jon: we are eight minutes away from the market open. shares of office depot and staples probably seem a little bit like that picture right there, dead and gloomy. those two stocks plunging in premarket trading. the company's called off their planned merger following a -- by ay a federal job federal judge siding with antitrust officials. amanda: we are just seeing crossing the wire here that gap is facing a downgrade by fitch, cut to junk. ofer a painful couple sessions already forget gap, it will have a couple of test sessions -- a couple of tough sessions today. , the first question you asked is, did they not see this coming? ed: i think they probably did. , thatas an assessment this thing will get destroyed by regulators, and obviously they failed. theregulars came out and judgment has gone against them and they are now abandoning it. the spread on the steel was so much, pl

thisrs thi afternoon.af a little bit of drizzle isdrizz possible as well.s wel not a lot but a little bittlith the shower activity lateria on this afternoon.his afternoo not super wet.et temperature of 51 degrees1 degr right now here in town. tow see, i told you it was prettyret cool.. gaithersburg is 48.he i think these temrsperaturesres could trop off a little bit more.more we might have in the way of upper 40's for several areasre over the next couple of hoursf u or so before it's all said and done. it does look as we start to t get brighter for the weekend, fr not necessarily drier, butrier, brighter for the weekend as wetn head on through and a littletl bit more optimistic fortic mother's day as well and's day that's always good news. alw that's always what we try totr t do is bring in a nice mother'smh day forecast. we always try to do that.y to here's erin como this morning. i it's not quite friday but almost. >> on-time traffic brought toicg you by toyota.you by visit buy a toyota.com for f special offers.ers. >> it's 5:05. it'5:0 it's almost it's friday eve.day it's cinco de mayo.

we could drop a little bittle bt more but clouds are starting srn to move on in and given the next threely cloudy by 9, 10dyy 9,1 o'clock this morning. mni showers a good possibilitysi later on this afternoon.fternoo. we could have a spotty showerav around this morning be ut realll this afternoon is the best ie bt chance of a few showers coming m on across. acrs. there's your monday morning forecast. here's your monday morningr commute and traffic and allmd ta that good stuff.that good stuff. erin como is in for that. >> metro gary 5:26 right now, n fire activity on the tracks.e tr this is right near stadium-armory along benningarmb road. what happened was metro was running -- they were doing doi track work overnight on thehtn weekend. they ran a test train. tin that test train got stuckot right here. it start add small fire.dd sma r that fire completely underely ur control but this train isl but t stuck on the tracks right near stadium-armory after that fireer between minnesota avenue and stadium-armory stations.tations. they're trying to get thato tha train moving and unfortunatelynf o

bittle, wrote a memorandum for j edgar hoover, in which he instructed j edgar hoover to get rid of the list, and to stamp on each document in which a person had been given a classification for the purpose of being locked up, the following legend. this classification is unreliable, it is hereby canceled and should not be used. attorney general biddle told hoover that after full reconsideration of these classifications, i am satisfied that they serve no useful purpose. there is no statutory authorization or other present justification for keeping a custodial the pension list of citizens. the department fulfills its proper functions by investigating the activities of persons who may have violated the law. it is not aided in this work by classifying persons as dangerous. within a few days of that instruction, the very flat instruction from the attorney general, the director of the fbi indicated to all fbi agents that the instruction, in effect, indicated the instruction should not be carried out. he told them that what they should do is simply to change the label on the files, from "securi

t 1 seven day looks little bittl brighter. i'll have it in just a minute.a.rin >> even though there's drizzle'i and clouds in the area not thed same rainy commute we hadmute we yesterday and monday morning.and crash activity in princey george's county, five just past birch hill road delays back too 301. so watch out for slow downslo there.ther 210 issued still a bit slow al also. in addition to we'll take look k at our twitter update from dcc police letting us know -- to 95 has been backed up all morning m knew southbound crash nearsh bureaus of a right lane isight s blocked. stay to the left.st there's also an accident 3,000it block of connecticut northwest.t watch out for that.tch oua units on that location as well.w you can see a lot of red in thee district. worst of our morning commute 39m inbound from the beltway to the 14th street bridge earliertreeir crash on the eastbound side ofas the freeway by the third streetr tunnel. really overflow traffic. gw southbound jams up from 123ro to the 14th street bridge. b roosevelt bridge is heavyea traffic on clara

is this a personal vendetta against sam bittle, the man who wrote some of the stories about your friendsnaire, dude. don't pick on individual writers like that. >> is -- do you look at gawker and think to yourself two or three years from now that it will be an independent company and you'll be involved with it? what do you think will happen? >> right now it's up in the air. it's been a whirlwind this week, as you have said. after this ten-year-long plot, we finally have seen what was -- what's going on. i think we're going to need to wait and see a little bit. and, you know, maybe a debate -- this is what i've challenged peter thiel to yesterday. i think a debate could actually have -- it's our chance of actually turning this from something which is kind of purely destructive and conflict ridden and adversarial into at least an exchange that might help to educate people a little bit better about the issues. and it's not like there is all right on one side and all right on the other side. >> i do agree it is worthy of public discourse. >> can you provide just to me -- i don't care -- just