it's a slow crawl with speeds in the teens by girard avenue.ou might want to use frankford avenue or the southbound boulevard. i-95 southbound is not moving so well at the moment. we're in the 30s on the schuylkill expressway, that could be worse, volume building in there. lots of icy patches this morning. one in bensalem if you use the ramp route 1 street road westbound watch it there. we have seen a bunch of accidents saturday easton road in horsham by the wendy's, we have one in souderton walnut and main street. couple of warnings for the week, they will close the northeast extension both ways at quakertown overnight saturday night into sunday morning. 6 hours at that point head to 309. that's assuming it won't be canceled because of the weather. in delaware, chapman road will close all weekend long, 273 or old baltimore pike are the alternates. >> developing this morning, an exroation -- explosion rocks a washington, d.c. suburb. the early morning blast sparked a fire and shattered windows and scattered debris over vehicles. firefighters ar

disable vehicle nine # a past girard, left lane block, still dark, still early. whenever it is dark and we have a disable vehicle, sometimes something as simple as that wealth roadways anding into can really start to pose issue for us. just heads up that that is out there. be mindful if you are headed out there on 995 pushing in the southbound direction around girard. also talking about overturned vehicle in pennsauken new jersey, john tipton boulevard at haines road, it is still out there. i'll let you know as soon that is it clears. a lot more to talk about in the next ten to 15 minutes. over to you. >> call for philadelphia district attorney seth williams to resign is getting louder black lives matter pennsylvania holding protest outside williams office 8:45 this morning. meanwhile williams' lawyer, michael diamondstein wants off the case. he points to ethical conflict in that williams would not have the quote financial ability to retain him. williams has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges. >>> president trump is pressing ahead with other items on his le

, nine board, six assists leading the way, girard college, coming up short, in the championship game, losing it, 73-56. >>> on to baseball former phillies manager dallas green, died yesterday at the age of 82. we think of him almost exclusively as a phillies guy but today chicago tribune says , no one transformed the cubs, in the 1980's like dallas. love for green obviously far and wide. the phillies and twins in spring training baseball today a moment of silence for green while his jersey hung in the dug out. he led fightins to their first , world series championship in 1980 and they could not have done it without him. >> we could have had 10 all stars, nine all-star and cy young award winner out there, we would not have won if dallas green wasn't the manager. he made him evaluate ourselves , look in the mirrors fist favorite line was anybody can win division titles trying win the whole thing. he confronted us. he will told us. you think you are better then you are. you haven't done anything. >> got best out of them. >>> to the game odubel herrera back from the world baseball classic

girard college stand out is one of the fastest young woman in the country and former coach rick leaks discovered her college almost by mistake. >> i was supposed to be playing basketball. i came out for the track team because my friends told me it would be fun. so one day it was just timing people, racing. i went and raced. he looked at the timer. he looked at me. he started laughing. >> reporter: diamond woolford seen it right away. >> when i seen her run, seeing times, i was like oh, wow we might have something here. >> reporter: having something might be an understatement. she has not lost during her current track season. she holds pennsylvania state

on the big picture, delays formed on i-95, southbound side 20s and teens past cottman into girard. we have a fire location north philadelphia darian and diamond. kennett square we have down poles and wires shutting downhillendale road. >>> freezing conditions have become a dangerous combination for drivers. those who neglect to clear their vehicles are putting other drivers in danger of flying snow and ice chunks. katherine scott has the story of one man's close call. katherine. >> reporter: matt, over the last several days we've seen drivers hacking away at the snow and ice clinging to their cars. it does take extra time, but it's the safe thing to do, not doing it could pose dangerous consequences. >> i was flying down the road and a sheet of ice flew off the semi. >> reporter: andrew duran said he he was driving on i-95 when ice flew off a tractor-trailer rig and crashed into his windshield. >> i tried to get the license plate number, but i was focused on getting ahead and pulling over for safety and precaution. >> reporter: police say he wasn't the only one this happened to yes

this is are a look right now at the schuylkill expressway near girard. we're seeing the schuylkill expressway looking good with no big delays currently. we found yankie frankie on the waze app springfield montgomery county right near the middle school. watch for that if you're heading out. weather wise we're clear and dry, 24 it's cold in martins creek, first day of spring, it's a transition period. 30 in center city. 30 in browns mills. 31 smyrna, delaware. sunshine, dry, high of 51. >> watch as a driver comes to the rescue after a serious crash in south florida. you can see the mantua -- man with a baseball bat use it to get to the driver. >>> hundreds of people hoping to return home later today as firefighters gain control of a wildfire burning in colorado. more than 400 homes evacuated near bolder yesterday morning. firefighters have worked through the night to contain the so-called sunshine wildfire. 62 acres and 50% contained. there are new reports of property loss or injuries. authorities do not know how the fire started. >>> horrifying discovery

this is frankford avenue at girard avenue. you can see the snow.an see they cleared the main lanes are looking okay but you'll see slick spots and as you turn off to the side you'll be driving through it a little bit so you just need to be careful let's take you to new jersey. we had a little bit of a light snow shower near this area in cherry hill camden county on route 30 at cuthbert boulevard. didn't seem to do anything to the roads. you're doing okay. looks like they've been cleared pretty nicely. >> reporter: regional rails back to normal schedules. trolley and speed lines, 13 different routes suspended dave. >> a couple light snow showers through ports of the northern and western suburbs and south jersey as karen mentioned. these are kind of nuisance snow showers but there could be a little bit more coming in later this afternoon that might slow you down just a bit. on the bus stop this morning partly cloudy overall and on the cold side. 21 degrees at 6:00 a.m., 20 degrees at 8:00 a.m. the wind are going to start to pick up a bit at about 8 o

this is at girard. we see northbound on your right, southbound on your left.d vehicle blocking the right lane and traffic is heavy passing the scene. southbound is heavy from allegheny to girard but as you look at that travel time, 16 minutes, that's really nothing between woodhaven and the vine. looks like a lot of people have off or going in later even though your main highway is looking good we have slick spots and some serious accidents in spots so you need to be careful. 42 we're seeing building volume here, no major delay and traffic is moving dave. >> all right karen. on the big board we're dressing the kids very warmly with lots of extra gear. we have wind chills in the single digits and this afternoon the winds are going to pick up. the of wind chills no better than the teens. 20 degrees by 7 o'clock. we may get early sun. the clouds fill in. we'll struggle to get to that late day high of 29 around 5 o'clock and there's the chance of some spotty snow showers coming through especially during the afternoon that could put down an inch of accumulation in

on torresdale avenue and girard.ads are wet but not raining too hard. we'll talk about a new accident where a car ran into a pole when we come back horns on their helmets. ostriches don't really stick their heads in the sand. a peanut is not a nut. and a real john deere is actually real affordable. you learn something new everyday. the surprisingly affordable john deere e series tractors. now you can own america's tractor for just $99 a month. learn more at your john deere dealer. >>> taking a live look at philadelphia city hall. which is the tallest amazing structure with the largest statue of any building in the world right here in philadelphia. >> you learn something new. one thing you do is when it rains, the commute not so good >> when it rains it pores, all of your traffic troubles seem to relate. we're looking live on the schuylkill expressway. you see the eastbound slowing, currently a 21 minute ride from the blue route to the vine. we were just getting reports of an accident on the schuylkill eastbound near

and more construction schuylkill westbound between vine and girard, the left lane blocked, that is afternoon construction that starts at 1:00 p.m. and should be clearing around 3:00 h gets underway. just a head up; we will tweet this out to you as well. jim, over toy. >>> authorities stumble upon an interesting find during a drug bust in chester county. take a look a tiny monkey. the monkey with 100 mature marijuana plants were found inside north coventry home. the plants could produce drugs worth a half million-dollar. police arrested three cuban nationals and charged them with felony drug trafficking. >> it is funny all these hard core drug guys that came out after the investigation not to tell us there was over a hundred plants of marijuana in there but to say there is a really cute machining i in there. >> hey, it is important, monkey business other monkeys at an unnamed sanctuary. >>> jim, thank you. >>> it is national an easy process but work continues to restore grave stones vandal ized at jewish cemetery in philadelphia "eyewitness news" reporter trang do is live, in wissonoming with

lets look at from earlier today and this is our "eyewitness news" cameras at sixth and girard as snowquall blew through. quick coating on that gentlemen's jacket right there these snow squals came through rapidly, they did leave coating in a few spots here and there but then moved out quickly but sun returns and then melted the snow, pretty much on contact. you can see flags blowing in the breeze there winds picked up with these snow squals that moved through, great video from sixth and girard. you have to get where you need to go quickly in weather like that. storm scan three showing snow squals winding down tapering tonight as we lose some sunshine and daytime heating, we don't have as much energy for these squals to develop as they move through but we have a couple more still out there, you may find yourself traveling through one at least through next hour or so, so see a couple moving across new jersey. these have started to wind down even as we looked at this radar and set this scene up here but tab nick california and down through shamong we are seeing a few right now. we have c

a boxaround 8:00 in the southbod lanes of girard skit. emergency crews had all southbound lanes while firefighters worked to put out t t led to pretty long delays but the good news is traffic is. >>> we are following developing tragic news out of texas dd afta accident near san antonio.rs of a church were on board when it t clear if the driver of that truck. >>> on your radar tonight, things are pretty clearn w take live look at the ben franklin parkway. today was just there and it shouldn't be too bad either tomorrow. but after that your. kathy, i know you're week. >> we've been talking about it for week, iain. days. tomorrow is day number two here comes thea of low pressure there is friday's rain planes states d bringing severe weather through the south during the day tomorrow. right now it's only 32 in and in pottstown pladelphia even wilmington checking inat 5am fr. so a goodveng rush. look at this timing for these morning commutes a evening. maybe maybe a little bit of region thw so a big impacnghe day on fridad ex27 in the poconos.

girard avenue, police are not even on the scene. see what is happening here, folks jammed up from the betsy ross bridge, to the left and right and we need police coming up in that traffic delay behind them there. live look at the freeway coming from new jersey, again, starting to see pockets of volume on a friday morning. everything is iced over, we are below freezing. even though we had sunshine, just enough to melt some snow or ice but that quickly we did a refreeze overnight. so we have had an accident all morning long on a lot of the on and off ramps, fire location we just showed you a few moments from sky fox in pemberton, cornell avenue at university with some local detours, iced up ramps street road from route one in bucks county and in souderton a main street and walnut the scene of an accident. crews have been clearing the snow piles, mound of the snow at turnpike interchanges overnight and so some of that clearing with the construction vehicles could lead to some icy road so be careful there down tree in factland road and

looking busy, one thing i will say 95 south at girard heating up little quicker than we typically see know it heats up every day. but i would say, for this kind of, for it to look like this already, at 5:00 a.m., that's busier than what we typically see. schuylkill eastbound near spring garden, little same story here, not maybe heating up as 95 south at girard but it is, see how many of your neighbors and friends are out there right now. heads up on that. now we do have water main break, it happened around 3:30 a.m., egg harbor city, main street at philadelphia avenue. you will want to use that avenue, south cologne avenue your best bet. also getting some tweets in this morning, just from activity going around here, so eagle, my buddy said good morning; there an accident at huntingdon pike in abington in the answer waist going on is a manhole cover came off and leaking water in the area. so huntingdon park at cedar avenue, you want to use this alternate, shady lane or fox chase road your best bet. if you see anything in your neck of the woods, send me a tweet, i'll use it on air and a

girard avenue no problems or delays. construction signs on the shoulder though it's not bothering anybody right now. eastbound, 13 minutes from the blue route to the vine street expressway and speeds into the 60s, rosemary. >>> we are following that breaking news out of same level county where a police chase ended with a car crashing into a house. officers say the car was packed with people and the driver escaped into the woods. nbc10's katy zachry is live in penns grove. tell us about the case, katy. >> reporter: rosemary, we just arrived a few minutes ago. take a look at the scene behind me. if you go in, you can see right below the step of the corner of the house in penns grove, there's significant damage. that's because a car crashed into this home earlier this morning. take a look at this video, they pulled over the car in penns grove several hours ago. they tried to pull over, however. police say the driver did not stop, continued on and didn't to a stop until the car came to a crash on this house. inside this home

ninety-five headlight moving in the southbound direction at girard, one area, nine # five, moving in the southbound direction, that was a mess, yesterday, not quite sure why, actually the driving conditions actually okay. but it is already heating up now. a lot of people probably thinking that they need to get out there early and they would be correct. a lot more to talk about when we come back in the next ten minute, rahel, jim, back to you. >> thank you. new report shows a rise in the u.s. in the number of pedestrian fatalities. >> trang do looking into what is causing the spike in numbers. she's live in center city this morning. good morning, trang, what can you tell us? >> good morning, jim, rahel. philadelphia was recently named the fourth most walkable city, with more and more cities striving to become more walkable, pedestrian deaths are just souring. 2016 saw the highest number, in 20 years. >> it is a heavy thing to be alive when your child is dead. >> casey feldman's dreams of becoming a reporter were cut tragically short by a distracted driver in 2009. the 21 year old from

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and has like a toy girard, girard head. >> mom said the baby was keeping her up kicking in the bell thattch the real giraffe going into laborer waiting to go into labor, april. and so she decided asked her husband can you order me a giraffe mask, what, what for? the and the rest is history. i think 8.1 million views. 287,000 comment. >> so she was watching april, and decided to do this, then had her baby. does this mean we need to show april erin's video, my goodness, been so long. >> where was giraffe mom's husband? because april in the video, real giraffe, i know it is confusing. >> really getting into the details of this. >> the real giraffe called april. then giraffe mom, so the real giraffe, the husband, oh, i'm confusing myself? >> sue knows all of this. >> so oliver, like he's behind the glass right watching or waiting april to give birth. so you almost needed the husband in the real video, the mom's video. >> i'm lost, just smiling and nodding. >> if you do it, do it right. >> for me, sue, for me the bottom line, april, come on, man. about if you if she had a baby 8 pounds, oh, h

that's your southbound traffic as we look at girard.dhaven to the vine, a 31 minutes jam on 95. although i've got to say this is a day where your majors we're not seeing a lot of accidents or problems out there. we have a new accident here in the suburbs in cheltenham. cheltenham avenue at mountain avenue but there you see the slow speeds on the schuylkill, 17 miles an hour approaching the boulevard to past belmont and i-95 that will 15 miles an hour near cottman so your usual slow goes and a you believe can accidents in the suburbs, dave. >> all right, karen, we have some damp roads although there's not a lot of rain. you see another batch of showers coming down through the northern and western suburbs. things getting wet in montgomery county. chester county. delaware county before too much longer. and that last batch now pushing halfway down through south jersey. by the time we get that -- on the other side of that stuff up in reading i think we're probably looking at the end of the morning rain. cloudy through the morning, sun return

there's the accident near girard creating a delay.miles per hour westbound to the boulevard. we have a disabled vehicle move to the shoulder westbound at university after an accident, as well. the vine is jammed, as well. westbound the length right now. the vine is jammed. an accident happening in chester county at pottstown pike approaching fellowship road. >> let's head outside to david murphy colder today than we started the week. >> reporter: absolutely, tam, let's look at temperatures, 33 degrees in philadelphia. with a bit of a breeze blowing it feels like the mid 20s. definitely winter coats and extra gear, too. 40 is the high, it will feel like the 30s even at the best of times with a decent wind blowing. there's a spotty snow shower popping through in the afternoon. sunny, windy and cold on saturday, 36. 38 on sunday, better with less wind. monday afternoon we're milder, 54 degrees, could be monday night rain, maybe more on tuesday, otherwise, tuesday is breezy and warm, 64. back in the 60s on wednesday, back in the 50s on th

southbound i-95 heavy from cottman to girard avenue.e look at 295 over here in south injuries which sun glare , even cool school bus work their way through that. look at line up for delays on the regional rail lines this morning, it is cold, so bundle up, especially here in center city. they have moved 15th and market bus stop a block away to 16th and market all due to construction, when will this cold come to an end? sueby has that answer in 152nd s it is another week of ups and down. right now temperatures still down in the 20's, not too much wind thank goodness or at lee feels like the 20's with that sunshine out there no precipitation to show you. lets go to the future cast and we will jump ahead to tomorrow morning about three or 4:00 in the morning. we will see some showers rolling through the area, precursor to a front that will come through, on tuesday night , into wednesday morning with scattered showers and heavier rain rolling through wednesday probably during morning rush but then it will be warmer after that. briefly. lets

just a reminder schuylkill westbound between vine and girard we have construction here left lane block between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. we have construction on the vine we were talking about yesterday westbound ramp to the schuylkill west bun right lane blocked and that will be blocked right after our morning rush starting right at tip of the 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. these areas will start to slow you down, they were slowing you down yesterday. they will slow you today, jim, over to you. >>> investigative report in the cities non-profit mayor's fund alleged that former aid with mayor michael administration made $220,000 in questionable purchases. some of the big's alleged expenses include about $60,000 at downtown marriott, more than $10,000 at sophie tell rome hotel, $8,700 in uber ride and $6,500 to u.s. airways. >> there were thousands and thousands of dollars in pretty expensive meals. in fact in liquor bills which is another wrinkle. >> now former mayor michael nutter has been asked to pay back $22,000, money used to fund a farewell party at university of the arts. according to t

traffic can get by on the left side headed westbound toward girard.slippery here but again, you can see some of the blacktop so we're not seeing snow pile up because here where the sleet and the freezing rain is happening right now. this is the tacony section of the city. cottman avenue, torresdale avenue right by the boston market and the sunoco station, some tracks there through the parking lot, tracks on the road as well. it looks really icy out here. watch it if you're driving and trying to stop at an intersection like that. look near langhorne bucks county, this is route one the super highway near highland avenue. just a few cars out here this morning. overall volume has been very light which we like. a lot of people are off work today. route one is still mostly covered as you can see and 422 here by route 29 the phoenixville-collegeville interchange is pretty much completely covered. a few eastbound cars headed in towards oaks but you can barely see any of the road surface here. time for the plow trains to come through once again. let's make one

the problem on i-95 by girard cleared. i-95 southbound a vehicle fire cleared, as well.ssway the only issue is a disabled vehicle eastbound past montgomery drive. let's show you the fog in some of the areas. it's worse in east. new jersey turnpike at the delaware memorial bridge, you can see the fog reducing visibility. here's what it looks like on 42, turnersville or deptford n bit n 42. franklin township, salem county our live sky6 live hd camera in firefighters on the scene me back on toh and mrske are st, continue the job. take a he, just to pour water on the structure. it's a commercial building. on the lower store and upper floors youadsev. we're along the 400 block of north marketrefighters respondel on sunday afternooncommercial b. upon arrival they found heavy aggressive and were and a couple of remained smoke,g you know we were getting rus don the street to evacuate. now we come to all that. i hope everybody is all right. >> reporter: and fortunately no injuries were have five people who are without a home right

ravioli day, national water ice good one today. 6:01 looking at i-95 southbound a disabled on the girard point double decker bridge taking out right lane between airport coming in from new jersey, north on the freeway, starting to see pockets of headlights as you head into philadelphia. now, what do you think of that septa proposed fair feign increase, first couple trains already delayed here, media elwyn line, equipment problems , 20 minutes oes trenton line running with delays. we had delays on the paoli thorndale line already, at 6:02 thisno problems on i-95, le slow down through broad street stadium area there, northe philadelphia tell but this in a second as police activity on academy road centered in the park wood shopping center, an accident in willingboro route 130, right at watch for construction of the new project that began yesterday for the next month, the e-z pass lanes of the pennsylvania turnpike here, at mid county, just watch for poli, construction crews there as you roll through the e-z pass lanes. otherwise we are looking good at the airport, alex and thomas back ight

from the blue route into the conshohocken curve again from this point to the boulevard in toward girard westbound is definitely backing up now from approaching this point to the boulevard out to gladwyn. westbound travel time is worse at 22 minutes, that's still not quite a ten minute delay. it's getting worse, but not awful on the schuylkill expressway. a crash in chester county along swan road stay on 41 to get around that swan road accident. meanwhile, we're talking construction around the area. delco, concord road closing in bethel township starting today 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day this week stay on 322 by clayton park with the closure of concord road. in lower chichester morton avenue is closed from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ridge road to the north 10th street to the south. crossing into delaware no major issues on any of the highways. the ramp from 141 southbound to go north on 295 heading toward the delaware memorial bridge will close at 8:00 p.m. for overnight construction starting tonight. crossing the bridge from south jersey into salem county looking good no issues on the n

northbound lanes of 95, right at girard. here is a example of this construction zone. it is a mess. you don't have any wiggle room. there is -- there is no shoulder, three lanes, headed northbound, leaving center city, into girard avenue. and then south on 995, extra heavy from cottman all the way down to center city we had earlier accident in the middle there, at bridge street. and septa running with some delays this morning on both the trenton line and the chestnut hill east. alex and thomas back over to you. >> thank you, bob, the nation closely followed lea stills battle with cancer, the six yeayear old is the daughter of devon stills. isn't she cute? >> the family has great news to share with you. >> they say lea is now two years cancer free. >> yes. >> devon still posted this photo of them together, back in 2014. just before lea received her diagnosis. he writes in part: we had extremely tough fight but no matter how hard it got we never gave up. so today, we celebrate your strength and persevere earns, lea. after lea's diagnosis, she created the still strong foundation to rai

and also an early truck accident southbound on the girard point double decker bridge. crash on 95 northbound at academy is gone as is the crash on the southbound boulevard at adams but now a crash and a broken down vehicle on the kelly drive near fountain green, and one inbound and one outbound. and the crash in havertown at westchester pike at eagle road. couple downed trees in delco, one blocking a portion of new town road and i would use 320 instead and 40 miles per hour because of the high winds at the delaware memorial bridge and in mercer county an eastbound parking lot with single digit speeds because of a crash at 130. we'll check it again in the next half ahead on "action news" at 5:00 tonight. the trans atlantic flight delayed because of an on board sight. we'll tell but the animal spotted on the plane . >>> health check tonight march is colon cancer awareness month and there are new questions about when the best time to start screening. ali gorman joins us at the big board with the details. >> we see more cases in younger people in the 30s and 40s and screen

good afternoonot soo see the heavy southbound delay as youome back thesy ross bridge into girard afternoon with accident and we are still trying to recover from bridg street to girard and normal stuff past penn's landing. an event in center city walnut street is blocked off at broad and 17th. astion on city avenue because of a crash near 51st street by the mattress firm. as you travel near st. joes watch for that. and one at argyle and windward: royersford we are watching a crash blocking the intersection of main street and 7th avenue. westbound head home on 422 in the pottstown area and gloucester county a crash along 55 past 553. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. traveling through delco just 25 miles per hour on the southbound side of 476, the blue route a crash reported south of route 3, westchester pike. a little extra busy this afternoon. i think it will be a busy afternoon we'll check it again in the next half hour. >>> still ahead on "action news" at 4:00 the white house responds to new reports about a trump associate's ties to russia and i pr

. >> reporter: we have building volume on i-95 southbound at girard heading toward center city. we'll check out 422 and take about an accident in pottstown coming up. >> an elderly woman gets caught between the crossing gates as the strain barrels down the tracks. see what one brave driver did to save her right after the break. ♪ ♪ with simply right checking from santander bank, just make one deposit, withdrawal, transfer, or payment each month to waive the monthly fee. and there's no minimum balance. you're alright with simply right checking from santander bank. ♪ are you feeling alright, baby? ♪ with an open floor plan, you need to separate it with furniture. it's perfect for our family. >> a man risk his life to save an elderly woman who was almost hit by a new jersey transit train in saddlebrook, new jersey. you can see the man jump from his car and rushed to save her with seconds to spare. he could tell time was running out. >> i saw the train was coming i sprenlted -- sprinted under the tracks, i pulled her by the arm, she was scared she stopped. >> i saw something and som

we had an accident earlier in the center lanes around girard avenue on the southbound side.ry right now. they zoomed in a little. try focus. either way we can see a little bit of the delay there. we have all these nasty delays that remain. even actually now, starting to see somes on the northbound side, very rare. i'll check in and see if there's anything going on, on the other side. there's a crash out in lower providence on ridge pike around summit avenue. here at 76 in gloucester city around market street. starting to see a little volume up at the top gather there. that's just before the split before the walt whitman bridge to head to the bend. not seeing major delays over the bridge. getting into philly shouldn't be a problem for now. vai and katy, back to you. >>> pro golfer took a big chance on the golf course. we hope you don't do this. this is cody gribb lechlt, who goosed an alligator at the arnold palmer invitational. the surprised garret scurried into the water. gribble later explained why he was unfazed by the gator sighting, saying he grew up in dallas and had m

a crash in west philadelphia at lancaster avenue and girard avenue, that means shuttle busing at the 10 and 15 trolleys, and a crash at markly street. lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report on this hump day afternoon. so watch out for that as well. we'll check it again brian and monica in the next half hour. >> see you then thank you. >> still ahead federal investigators are on the scene if mississippi looking into the deadly train crash there. we got the latest hearing that the train conductor tried to stop before hitting the bus. >>> and a key piece of american history tries for an upgrade to save thousands of dollars. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in cutomer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dv

. >> we are siting along 95 brian and sharrie drama up ahead at the girard point bridge, a truck accidentt just cleared out of the way. as we look live at 95 southbound at the walt whitman bridge we are still sitting in the southbound backlog approaching this point on down to the girard point bridge. the northbound side of 95 a crash on the shoulder attracting attention, you get speeds in the 40s north of cotman and the roosevelt boulevard southbound at adams avenue, that is in the inner drive, and one in north philadelphia at 13th and allegheny and a crash in havertown near westchester pike and eagle road. and a broke and down vehicle on the schuylkill by passyunk as is the broken down truck on the westbound vine. but it is busy in both directions. if you head up north on the northeast extension watch out for a crash at the lehigh tunnel northbound blocking a lane and causing delays and the affects of the whipping winds, intel conew town road is closed and conestoga gets you around it. and 252 partially blocked at rose tree park. a bunch of issues already this afternoon. we'll check it a

the fire in girard starting to slow down there. downed wires a problem on creek road. 282, swal police township in chester county. blocked at fair view road and park lane, three downed telephone poles causing an issue. fair view road is the alternate. ridge road downed trees a problem. camp green the alternate. 206 blocked by a tree in hammonton. the winds are d i spots ago. 30-mile an hour in millville. 40 in reading. watch for the gusty winds they are creating problems, matt. >> the reward for information on the person who killed who indiana teenage girls has grown. 13-year-old liberty german and abigail williams were found in the woods north of indianapolis. they found an audio recording of a strange man on one of the victim's phone. no arrests have been made. >>> shoppers were terrified when two men robbed a store in south florida. you can see the robbers waving and pointing their guns. the cashier said she got the money out of the register as fast as she could. the two men took off with cash without hurting anyone. 6 17. >> a.

septa says there is no express services on the market frankford line and girard avenue station, all ofoard on the eastbound platforms because of the medical emergency. that witt cause delays on the market frankford line. not a good day for subway or market frankford. regional rails running with delays and, 20 minute delays at chest knelt hill west. thirty minutes delays on the warminster line what is forecast like for rest of our tuesday? sueby has got it no 15 seconds >>> we have, some rain, continuing to make it way through, very scattered showers. we will zoom in on the location of the precipitation, and we will see, around bensalem and other parts on the north of philadelphia, across the river, in pemberton , new jersey and places around there in new castle county, delaware very light showers, around, red lion and newark, and then we have abington and bensalem and nothing going on in philadelphia, just yet, anymore but we have umbrellas up moments ago. atlantic city we have some rain as well. so temperatures, thankfully are well above freezing, which is why we're only talking about

. >> not watching 95 right around girard avenue. southbound side here moving towards center city it looks great. 13 minute trip. that's a good drive time for now. headed southbound from woodhaven road totreet expressway speeds in the 60s. no delays yet. ing in with drive times on the blue route. 15 minutes in both directions north and south from 95 to the schuylkill here's route 73 in berlin near that berlin circle. northbound. is moving down if you have to get to the palmyra bridge you'll find. watch for construction at the walt whitman bridge. speeds down 35 miles per hour. some construction over the burlington bridge. nice and clear. updates for you on the rest of the roads and more drive times when i come back in ten. >> ten after 5:00. breaking overnight president trump is facing growing battles on a couple of his most controversial policies. and the new ways to n on his protect sanctuary cities like philadelphia. plus this -- >> he would truly be honored. >> former vice president joe biden gets emotional as he honors his late

this one schuylkill westbound between vine and girard, left lane blocked and starting at 1:00 p.m. lifting around 3:00 p.m. just before evening rush gets underway and bridge inspections vine westbound ramp to the schuylkill right lane blocked between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. over to you. >>> in washington d.c. senate lawmakers will hold a joint news conference up to date public on the committee's investigation in russian meddling in the 2016 election. house intelligence committee's probe continues to come under scrutiny, cbs news correspondent hena daniels has more on the investigation. >> nobody ever told me that politics was going to be so much fun. >> president trump hosted senators and their spouses at the white house tuesday night, as lawmakers in the senate intelligence committee gear up to interview witnesses, into its russia probe. >> my hope is that sally yates would be someone that we'd like to talk to. >> yates, former acting attorney general fired by mr. trump was set to testify on tuesday before the house panel, investigating possible links between trump's administrati

disabled vehicle on the schuylkill eastbound by girard has cleared out.morning. but it is jammed on the southbound boulevard because of a crash near masher. one of a couple accidents we've had there this morning so i would watch out for a slick spot in that area, boulevard near masher. still jammed solid coming out of kennett square headed up towards chadds ford. crash on route one baltimore pike by hank's place still has everything blocked off. stay on 52. don't use 926, construction there. down on smith bridge to get around. also the paoli thorndale regional rail line up to 45 minute delays because of amtrak switching issues. matt. >> okay, thank you very much matt. >>> now let's go outside to meteorologist karen rogers in for david. hi, karen. >> hey, matt. i'm liking the sunshine but not the cold out here. let's check the wind chills. yes, feels like 6 degrees in philadelphia, five in allentown, minus seven in mount pocono. even down at the shore 7 degrees is what it feels like in atlantic city. and we're staying cold all day. never making it above fr

it's pretty heavy approaching cottman down to girard.about a 30 minute ride right there on the schuylkill expressway and i-95 so starting to jam up in some of your majors. i think it's time for a new battery matt. >> we'll get you one. dave murphy is up next. >> ♪ >> lots of clouds over the terrace this morning and a bit of drizzle. storm tracker6 live double scan shows lingering showers shooting toward the shore. one of them down along the coast, another one coming down through the northern suburbs and we should be drying out over the next hour or so pretty nicely. 44 degrees in philadelphia, not as cold as yesterday. and your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows some sun returning later this afternoon and a high of 59. pretty pleasant. tomorrow, windy and cooler, 41 degrees is the high with wind chills in the 20's so it's back to winter coats tomorrow. still in the 40's thursday. and the 50 friday. and matt, on saturday, 70. >> nice, david. thank you. this year's cinco de mayo celebration in south philadelphia is canceled. why on 6abc.com

, been like this since 4:00 in the morning, 95 south at girard, one area where it is getting very veryhis friday morning, give yourselves some extra time in that area. and also, we do have a fire here, just meanting this up teddies being, colonel avenue right now closed from university ave. and purdue avenue. use an alternate. grape town road will be your best bet in that area. also that's not it. we have another accident and construction kind of in the same area here, horsham road, accident, then construction crews here, old york road at butler avenue. they'll be out there until 7:00 a.m. we also have another accident, souderton, still out there, main street at west walnut st. a vehicle went right into a people. earlier we saw the same thing happening. that's long since cleared. but letting you know how slippery it still is out there. not as much as yesterday but certainly still ice out there. pa turnpike westbound from virginia drive norristown. this is where we have some snow removal taking place, so heads up on that. jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you shall meisha. the ice slowl

the chase started at midnight when troopers noticed the vehicle swerving on i-95 at the girard point bridge, after pulling the vehicle over and the police approached the driver the driver took off south on i-95. the pursuit went on in the city of chester and ended at mass son and east third. three people were in the car and one of them like we said was taken to the hospital. in stable condition, the other two were taken into custody. we're waiting to hear what type of charges they will face. reporting live outside the belmont barracks, annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." back to you. >> three businesses were robbed within a 45 minute period in northeast philadelphia abbey police are trying to track down the bandit. the suspect hit a family dollar and two miles and 30 minutes later, the beneficial bank on home avenue and metro pcs on rel rel -- welsh road. the suspect as hands on clothing may have red dye on them from the many from the bank. >>> a truck driver struck a boy and was told he was force to do leave the scene. police say the driver of the pick up tells him he left the

we're live in fishtown and girard avenue looking good at frankford avenue. the winds is causing an issue in spots. we'll talk about that one can you -- coming up. >> welcome back taking a live look on sky6 live hd across philadelphia international airport. if you have an early morning flight you might want to call ahead to see if the high winds interfere in anyway, and check flight tracker. >> how about the trucks blowing around on the roads? >> reporter: yes the pennsylvania turnpike has banned oversized vehicles because of the high winds. no oversized vehicles on the pennsylvania turnpike. looking live in plymouth meeting, the blue route, mid county tolls no other problems other than the ban on the pennsylvania turnpike. salford township, ridge road is shut down at moyer road stick to camp green road. downed trees a problem sycamore avenue at mill street at clifton heights. katherine scott has been talking about this one, fell on a house. stick to bishop avenue. 295 southbound a tree blocking the right lane past 206. other than that, you can expect debris

so, if you're leaving south philly, or the airport area, come over the girard point double dexter, right as you pass the stadium area, that sharp curve, bamm, that's the scene of the accident with the hazmat crew. if you are trying to get into the neighborhood, or get to the walt whitman bridge, exit at broad street, or go up to columbus boulevard, washington avenue. left over from yesterday, that peco substation fire, so peco crews are in the neighborhood. still a lot of power outage, and traffic lights out. so in the neighborhood here, this morning, is going to be difficult. sign of the times, parens in their cars with the cars running, merely so they can charge their cell phones and ipads, and computer laptops to keep the kids happy. so they're ready for school. so just watch for a lot of unusual traffic patterns, and until we see daylight, a lot of streets are in the dark but again creeping things back along the way here, making some progress, hear from steve in just a moment there in the neighborhood. north on the new jersey turnpike, northbound lanes, we had fatal motorcycle accide

surveillance video shows the man walking into family dollar store, girard avenue. an employee when she tried to stop him from stealing deodorant. shows the suspect shoving the woman into a shelf and taking off. if you recognize this suspect, please call police. >>> on wednesday night "eyewitness news" first told but nationwide outage that prevented at&t wireless customers from calling 911. now the fcc is investigating, delaware, chester, montgomery counties were getting just busy signal or lines kept drinking -- ringing. it started about 7:30 and wasn't fixed until about 10:30. non-emergency numbers in the county, alternate numbers should be able to work around the problem. >> the last thing we want is anybody to be delayed getting help. so if you can't get through to the service, get a neighbor, get a friend to make them aware. >> at this point at&t has not said what caused the 911 outage. >> healthcare moves front and center when president trump meets with key house committee chairs today. yesterday the republican planned to repeal and replace the affordable care

after a car crash on the schuylkill expressway, this crash happened between montgomery drive and girarde exits, just after 10:00 . four cars were involved. the three people were taken to the hospital just with minor injuries. closed several lanes while they cleared that scene, those lanes are back open now though. no word yet on what caused this crash. >> the dakota access pope line may be operating as early as tomorrow appeals court denied cheyenne river sue tribe for emergency order, stop the flow of oil. the $3.8 billion pipeline will move oil from north dakota to illinois. the tribes are afraid it could harm their water supply, the pipeline developer. >> well, porch roof has collapsed under the weight of heavy melting snow in west philadelphia. police is a no one was injured when this roof came crashing down in the 5,000 block of race street. you can see, chunks every snow on that porch. firefighters were called to the scene around 8:00 saturday morning. l & i is now investigating. >>> so, justin, actually whether coup we start to see the snow starting to melt? >> it will melt littl

northeast philadelphia heading to work, again working your way southbound, there is still between girard where they have construction zone lanes are tight. i came through this yesterday. there is still some of that dirty slush laying on both side of the roadway there, up in the north and southbound lanes. first train out of the gate little late on the paoli thorndale line, 10 minutes late, heading in to downtown. lansdale doyletown looking good and as we go for a ride on the blue route 476 e-z pass lanes with construction, new project that began on the overnight. be ready to hit brakes rolling through mid county interchange , karen and lauren, back over to you. >>> septa police stepping up patrols in this developing story, this is after they released video of the teens brawling inside a subway station. take a look at the new pictures. these or of the teens that were involved in that brutal fight. police say, it started on thursday, icy snowball fight outside, this is not the video we have for you here but it quickly escalated in the subway station at vine street station, students who att

ice and snow still kind of hugging that left or right lane there as we work our way through that girarde construction but mass transit looking good, karen and lauren , back to you. >>> thanks very much. one person is dead following a shooting in the cities logan section overnight. lets get out to steve keeley near the scene with the update for us, hi there, steve. >> reporter: we had a very violent weekend in fact we had a murder about seven blocks from here, captive weekend last night where man was pronounced dead after 8:00 p.m. here we are just a half mile away, still in the logan section of philadelphia where we have another murder to start week. this is five murders since midnight friday into saturday and this one, just called in, to 911 at 3:15, somebody heard one single gunshot and that gunshot was to the back of the hit of a man now lying on the sidewalk, dead, the bullet shell, just inches from his body. it looks like a point blank killing someone sneaking up from behind this guy's head or putting a gun to his head and pulling a trigger. there is a backpack next to this body an

hello northeast philadelphia, ride to go work here south on i-95 heavy from cottman in through girard avenue, just volume, i think we will all report to work this morning, make sure boss sees our face because tomorrow, could be a personal day for a lot of people. not just adults but for the school kid. live look at 42 freeway coming toward city, starting to see volume, plan ahead heading to the airport because look there is a ton of folks ahead of you we are looking live, airport, check in, here at philly international. now again if you intend to fly today, and even tomorrow, we were mentioning tomorrow, but here we go already, it looks like some folks we had over weekend seeing storms coming, some airlines did relax their ca we some of the change fees so they are getting out of town early. lets plan to travel check with your airline not just today, wednesday and remember, whenever we will get these big the airlines like to pull the planes out of the impacted philw york, it could take a day recov. so if you, if you are planning to fly would i get with that airline. as we mentioned ear

. >> good morning, looking outside, 95 south, push in the southbound direction right before girard. you can see some your neighbors already out there this early morning, still dark out, still very early, in the 4:00 hour see how that pans out. ninety-five will get busy progress through the morning, the vine not closed overnight for the construction project between the schuylkill and broad we are so used to, moving in the westbound direction and the eastbound side, eastbound side maybe heating up just a little bit. overall, it is okay. so we've got this bus construction, 15th and market bus stop is under construction, you are relocated to 16th and market. this is actually going to run all the way through october. it already out there for quite some time. water main, north and southbound, between rolling road, going to take place between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. in this also will be out there for little bit, running through april 7th. heads up on that. this construction project starts today. we also have some construction overnight, between 95 and stoney hill road. this again not overn

bet one girard: i will survey data.nk consumers and businesses are rightfully feeling confident about the outlook. even though in some ways, markets are concerned about the president to deliver on a lot of the progrowth stimulus. you can see companies remain very optimistic. in part because they are encouraged about what they see so far. what the president has been to do unilaterally. what i am sensing is consumers are positive. they see the labor market as very strong. l for theat bodes wel survey data winning out. the pc numbers that the fed focuses on. if michelle is right, is it behind or ahead as we heard from mr. dudley? travis kalanick: behind the curve. : behind theski curve but we understand why they have not. she said people are spending down savings in the short-term. you have to look at the bigger picture. 2012, consumers went through deleveraging. in 2014.evered given the confidence numbers and the sentiment among businesses and improving manufacturing, we tend to agree you go with the sentiment for now and