the most famous and largest example of the postwar suburbs was in levittown in long island, 25 miles east of new york city. where abraham levitt and his two sons buy 2000 acres a potato farm in 1946. and eventually build 70,000 houses. and do so in a way that is reminiscent of mass production. as you can see here. non-unionized workers would go from house to house and do the same task, oftentimes times very minute, over and over again. they really helped revolutionize the building process. as you can see from this aerial image, they had precut lumber that came from the levitt farms. they made these concrete slabs and dump the material out and they would quickly build a house. they were able to build a house at a rate exceeding 150 over. -- a week. the result is that the houses were very affordable because they were built so quickly. the earliest model sold for $7,900. it is hard to do economic comparisons to today. but it would probably be something like $85,000, $90,000 in today's money. it became very affordable for people in the middle class. people start moving in in 1947 to hous

fresc press user chrir candy takes to us a the scene of a house fire in levittown.broke out about 5:00 o'clock tonight on the 200 block of magnolia drive. foyer fighters were able to get it under control quickly. fortunately no one a hurt. >>> when you see news happening take out your phone and shoot it and then make sure to use the fresco app to certainly it to our newsroom. >>> now here's sean brace with what's on his hyped tonight. sean. >> today 76ers press conference, dawn, it was filled with rookie mistake only the man doing the talking brian co app jell-o he's been in the league for over 20 years. my commentary on sixers fans not buying what coangelo ♪ >>> sixers president brian coangelo said he never once tried to deceive fans. sean brace feels differently. his commentary in 15 seconds. ♪ >>> there's never, ever been any effort to deceive fans, to mislead fans, to mislead you, we give the information as we're given the information. >> yeah that is 76ers president of basketball ops bryan coangelo he apologized a few times handling of the injury reports the on

before that at a home in levittown the trailer park owner tipped off police after finding things we're to the going going to get into because they are that bad. police say he kept a journal of his deeds. he could have more victims out there. they're asking anyone to come forward among anything about this. >>> happening right now, extremely rare find in berks county. it has people from across the nation flock to go neighborhood and lower heidelberg township all to see this. a bird. but not just any burr. it's a black backed oriole indigenous to central mexico. only other one ever spotted in the us that was in california likely someone's pet. bird ers believe this guy is the first one found in the wild in our nation. when wore got out 700 people showed up since friday coming from dozen states. >> this could potentially be the first record of a bird ever seen in the united states, and we just like birds. >> the analogy i came up with today it's sort of like if you had a once in lifetime opportunity to go to the super bowl. and you had to take it now. that's what this was like for birders.

fresc press user chrir candy takes to us a the scene of a house fire in levittown.oke out about 5:00 o'clock tonight on the 200 block of magnolia drive. foyer fighters were able to get it under control quickly. fortunately no one a hurt. >>> when you see news happening take out your phone and shoot it and then make sure to use the fresco app to certainly it to our newsroom. >>> now here's sean brace with what's on his hyped tonight. sean. >> today 76ers press conference, dawn, it was filled with rookie mistake only the man doing the talking brian co app jell-o he's been in the league for over 20 years. my commentary on sixers fans not buying what coangelo is selling is neck. ♪ fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 150 meg internet. which means that in the time it takes mr. wagner to pour a 20oz. cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. that's the power of fiber optics. get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month for the first

to the west and extending toward the south and east toward buckingham and even into places like levittownyou can see a few passing flurries with these gusty winds. right now, in the poconos, it's 28. but wilmington 40. pottstown 36. but winds are gusting over 0 miles an hour right now a gust of 32 in lancaster. gusting to 35 in philadelphia. making it feel like it's only in the 20s and overnight wind chills in the teens. so it's back to blustery temperatures falling through the 40s into the 30s by 11:00 o'clock. setting up a cold winter's night but it won't stay that way. i'll talk about spring in the seven day later in the broadcast. i'll see you then. >> all right. kathy. thank you. well two, 911 operators arrested in atlantic city over drugs. investigators say shakia wade sold oxy cone don't to jennifer dalton while the two were on duty. two other employees have been suspended without pay. detectives say they were tipped off by a concern citizen all in employees are facing administrative charges. >> big blow to president trump during his first 100 days as his cabinet continues to form.

so if you're coming from levittown or bristol, no worries just yet. light volume to start you off. vine street expressway was closed overnight for construction. you can see traffic moving fine right now. however, the crews will return again tonight at 11 o'clock, shut the vine and all the ramps down in both directions then. on the big picture, no major issues on your highways. looking pretty good. now over in upper darby we continue to have victory avenue shut down near route three, that's for that train accident investigation from yesterday so just is it ick to state road as your alternate. live on your air bridges like the ben westbound traffic coming into the city moving just fine with no big problems matt and tam. >> thank you, karen. >>> work continues at this moment at the scene of that septa train collision in delaware county. "action news" reporter katherine scott is lie at the 69th street station in upper darby with an update. katherine. >> reporter: matt, crews have been here trying remove the cars from the tracks and you can see right now they have a huge light set up so

levittown 39.he numbers are milder the farther south and east you go, vienldz -- vienldz vineland and gandys beach 44, woodbine, 42. here's the close-up shot on satellite and radar. you can see how the clouds are beginning to thin out a little bit at the bottom of the screen. far southern portions, southern new jersey and the state of delaware are the clouds are thinning out a little bit that's allowing the temperatures to climb now. the wider view shows the back edge of cloud deck pushing through pittsburgh as i speak. we should see a combination of sun and clouds the rest of the way. gradual clearing, overnight tonight, the skies go clear, the temperatures don't drop that much, 47 degrees for the forecasted high. we should reach that around 5:00 p.m. the numbers slowly pull back later this evening, and into the overnight. when i come back in just a few minutes, we'll talk about the storm system heading this way, rain for tuesday and wednesday, you snow lovers there's a chance for you on thursday,

levittown, 26 degrees. 28 in ewing, 29 in glassboro, 33 in smyrna, 37 in the villas.ou fashion in the winds that tells the story. sthing as yesterday we're -- same thing as yesterday, we're dealing with the blustery breeze out of the northwest. you can see the numbers here. temperatures in the upper 30s, feels like the 20s, even the teens. trenton 19 with the wind. philadelphia, 22. allentown, 21. feels like 11 in the poconos, but that's leaps and bounds from yesterday, when it was minus 7 up there. 21 degrees with the breeze in dover. here's satellite and radar clouds quickly on the increase here, we'll see mainly cloudy conditions early on and some sunshine later this afternoon. that's the call from accuweather, starting out with gray skies. the skies will brighten up after the noon hour, 1, 2, 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon increasing sun. 47 degrees is the forecasted high. with the wind it never feels better than 37 or 48. when i come back in just a few minutes we'll focus on the big storm tuesday into wednesday, looks like all rain, temperatures could get up to 60 de

police say he lived at a trailer park in morrill listville and before that at a home in levittown.railer park owner tipped off police after finding things that we're just not going to dee tal because they are that bad. prosecutors say do say thomas kept records of his sexual assaults on the children then say they found more than a thousand images of child porn in his home as well as hundreds of pairs of little girls underwear on display. >> this was a pre verse shrine to his criminal conquests and we are merely scratching the surface of those couldn't requests today. to be blunt about it this is a real life boogie man. this is your parent's worst nightmare. >> investigators worry thomas could have more victims out there. so they are asking people to please come forward with any information they might have. thomas heads back to court next wednesday. >>> developing right now discovery at a haverford home. specifically in the freezer that few could imagine. >> not one but two bomb squads had to come out while neighbors sheltered in place. investigators say a family found eight sticks

thirty-five there in martinsburg, down towards levittown, fredericks berg,rede 34, those in the 40's this morning, seeing littleing rainfall activity, here is i storm tracker radar, again, through st. mary county southern consideration, steadyoi light rain this morning, fredericks berg, and through the northern neck of virginiairi also dealing with the steadier rain. here in washington, drizzle, maybe light shower here in d.c. through the next couple of hours, slowly it goes off g to the east. we go from clouds to some sunshine here, so again there is your set up, cold front rolling through, little later on this through, we dry it out. we start to get pretty strong northwest breeze in. that will bring in cooler air from theoole north, and our temperatures will kind of peak earl knit 40's, 50's, then the start to tumble down through the 40's, as we head through the second part of the afternoon. so keep that in mind. breezes will be starting toarti get gusty after the noon hour here. forty-four what it will feel fee like in washington at lunchat l time, feeling like 39 gaithersburg, ev

william in levittown 49 degrees. again, filtered sunshine there he says dew point about 34.up a little bit. further north we will check with peter furron in lawrence ville, new jersey at 58 degrees with more cloud then sun. so that has been the story for today. clouds have won battle. we have seen, sunshine earlier but now we're seeing more cloud winning out. 46 degrees at sandor's house. the hoist complaining. forty-six at this time of the the day in february? not bad at all. loving it. that is kind of what we're talking about earlier, that this is april, and may, we would be a cool east wind kind of a day. we all have been complaining, but this is still an above average day for february. so i want to show you a few bird pictures we have got. this one from phil showing robin in his yard this as well showing cloud that moved in the afternoon. wayne sent this one of the cute little will guy a male wood pecker looking for the cedar. cute little guy, out, enjoying mild temperatures. a lot of folks were out there today. they will be through the end of the week. lets see what the

the levittown, william is at 43 degrees with the dew point of 29 degrees. checking in cherry hill with lynn syringer at 42. she said cloudy morning, blue sky afternoon and then rain and pretty again. all thanks to the frontal passage. we will start day with cloud and that is thanks to the system that came by to the south. we talk about two pieces of energy, included in the morning, clear, nice late morning into mid take and then front comes through with the secondary system northern piece and that brought this showers in the afternoon. mullica john carroll at 40. mainly clear sky there and photos there our weather watchers, again, lynn showing us the clouds, early this morning and sunrise and then a beautiful blue sky afternoon, followed of course by some rain and then and some clearing, and, pretty colors in the sky there love this shot as well from phil, showing cloud building over the city of philadelphia, as that system, rolled in that cold front that brought colder air aloft, strong gusty wind and scattered showers. looking at storm scan three does sho

he lived at a taylor park in morrisville and before that at a home in levittown. trailer park owner tipped off police after finding things we are not even going to detail because they're just that bad. prosecutor do's say thomas kept records of his sexual assaults on the children. they say they found more than a thousand images of child porn in his home as well as hundreds of pairs of little girls underwear on display. >> this was a perverse shrine to his criminal conquests and we are merely scratching the surface of those couldn't requests today. to be blunt about it this is a real live boogie man. this is your parent's worst nightmare. >> investigators worry thomas could have more victims. so they are asking you to come forward with any information you might have. thomas heads back to court next wednesday. >>> happening now, septa once again trying to get back on track after cracks were discovered over the weekend. this time on subway cars the bad news is the agency doesn't know how long it's going to take to get everything back to normal. two cars on the busy m

he lived at a trailer park in morrisville and before that a home this levittown. prosecutors say that thomas kept record of his sexual assault on the children and he claimed they found more than a thousand images of child porn in his home as well as hundreds of pairs of little girls underwear on display. the trailer park owner tipped police off after finding those disturbing items. >> this was a per verse shrine to his criminal conquests and we are merely scratching the surface have of those conquest s, today. to be blunt about it this is a real life boogie man this is your parent's worst nightmare. >> investigators worry william thomas could have more victims out there. he will be back in court next wednesday. >>> 5:20. opioid epidemic has hit our entire area very hard. new jersey lawmakers right now are trying to work to fight this problem yesterday governor chris christie signed a new law to require medical professionals to discuss the possibility of addiction before they write that prescription to opioids for anybody under the age of 18 years old. this is just

heading up north of the city we are looking at 58 degrees and we check with william in levittown, andwe are seeing that across the area, our eyewitness weather watcher sending us photos of early, blooms here. this is from phil, daffodils peeking through already. you can see there, wayne hunter sent us shots of flowers blooming already. we have talk at length about this the past week or so. this is a problem. if we get another killing frost or freeze all these flowers hey dianne it is especially worrisome for farmers who could lose crops if temperatures do swing back below average. lets look outside right now on storm scan three not a whole lot to concern outside. if you are heading out and about this evening or tomorrow we could see a shower, overnight, especially in southern delaware, few more showers over portions of virginia but these should stay to the north and just looking at some clouds out there through the overnight time frame. better chance for showers, thunder showers come thomas this next boundary will slip through. doesn't look like a huge deal but mainly after the dinner

levittown, southern bucks county. we're sitting at 46 degrees right now.delaware, 41, a pretty popular number at this time from ewing to hammonton, to vineland. 39 in the villas and southern part there of cape may county. and also 45 in dover. and one thing to think of, we're talking about 60s and warm. if you are expected to hit the shore this weekend, if you're anywhere along the coastal communities, the water temperatures in the upper 30s or 40s, if you get a wind shift come off the water or bay, it's going to feel very cold. so if you're heading down there, definitely still bring a jacket. as you look at satellite and radar, a few high clouds streaming through, along a warm front that will lift to the north and that's what's going to punkture in the warmth starting tomorrow. so for tonight, just a few clouds around. not as cold as it was last night. these overnight lows, about five to six degrees warmer than last night. 27 in the suburbs. 32 for center city. and there's that wind shift from the northwest to the southwest. very light, though, at 3 to 6

we have 52 degrees in hazel town, levittown 52 degrees, moving further south sea breeze in ocean city6 and 51 in millvile, new jersey. lewis delaware 56 degrees. we're heading in to record territory potentially today and, it is going to 73 degrees yesterday, it is not out of the question we will even beat that record of 74 today but we will go with at least 74. seventy-two tomorrow before the thunderstorms hit. told but chilly daze on sunday but even that isn't going to last as we head into mardi gras on tuesday, and ash wednesday, after that, the chance of thunderstorms then but then notice warming trend back in the mid 60's by wednesday and cooling off a little bit on thursday. so wintry temperatures won't last long, bob kelly. >> little bit. but we will enjoy while we cannot 70's to toews and tomorrow. 6:16. live look from camden, new jersey folks rightly coming off the admiral wilson boulevard. there is sky line this is background. we have the ben franklin bridge. we are all ready to go through the tolls there heading in to philadelphia nice sunrise out here along 422, good mornin

levittown at 54.e will go down to south jersey ocean city is a chillier 48, sea breeze there, and 57 degrees in lieu is, delaware. that is your morning so far on radar, there is nothing to show you but we want to show you timing of the thunderstorms tomorrow because tomorrow will be another hield take but socked in with clouds , starting on saturday morning. don't expect a lot of sunshine then about 4:00 in the afternoon comes this line of showers and potentially strong thunderstorms, and it will hit about 6:00 o'clock here in philadelphia, and then, the line of the storms will continue into new jersey. by 8:00 it should be out of here and much colder air moves in, temperatures plunging back down in the the 30's on saturday night. average high as we have told you is 46 degrees. we did make it a above 70 as it turns out, even with the fog that lingered in the morning, yesterday, temperatures did zoom up. to take's record is 74. it was setback in 1985. it looks like we will at least tie that record and

under mostly cloudy skies and also still sitting below freezing currently at william's house in levittown, 29 degrees at this hour. under mostly cloudy conditions so lack every sunday shine today, at least close to average for the actual temperatures. a shot out chesterfield, new jersey, you can see the mid to high level clouds. kind of blocking the sun few peaks every sunday earlier in philadelphia. there is a shot, right now, overcast skies. i think by afternoon, see decent amount of sunshine or even few peaks at least to get to the sunset. cloudy skies at the shore, will stay cloudy. this there is the south breeze , chopping up the ocean lit bit. temperatures should remain in the lower 40's. >> no threat of any precipitation. temperatures will be all over the place next few days, that's been the pattern all went ip, winter long. still time to go for your winter weather fans, still get good shot every colder air through the month of february. but still think overall it will be warmer than average when you average the highs and lows together for the month. right now, average highs, 42 de

he lived in a trailer park in morrisville and before that in levittown. the prosecutors say thomas kept record of his sexual assaults on the children. they claim they found more than a thousand images of child porn this his home as well as hundreds of pairs of little girls underwear on display. the trailer park owner tipped off police after finding those disturbing items. >> this was a per verse shrine to his criminal conquests, and we are merely scratching the surface of those conquests, today. to be blunt about it this is a real life boogie man. this is your parent's worst nightmare. >> investigators worry william thomas could have more victims out there. he will be back in court next wednesday. >>> discovery at a home in haverford, specifically in the freezer that few could even imagine. two bomb squads were called out to this home forcing neighbors in the area to shelter in place. the investigators say there was a family there and they found eight sticks of tine might in the freezer when cleaning out the home of the loved one who had died this all hap

laurel, new jersey, upper three's, oops, in levittown. and philadelphia. degrees, even along the coast, that colder air is working its way into ocean city where james checks in at 37 degrees. big difference compared to yesterday. as far as the sky cover. and check it out. this is out of cherry hill saturday afternoon and evenings with the storms coming across, looking very rough out there. a lot of the storms were severe. numerous damage reports across the region. then this morning, cherry hill, weaver some clouds, but sunshine to peak through it, will turn out to be decent day, mixture of sun and clouds throughout the majority of the delaware valley. let's take you outside here. looking liver from our library camera at center city. skyscraper, good shape. little breeze think morning as the flags will be blowing on the parkway, if you are headed out, need the heavier coat. all-in-all much better compared to yesterday. especially during the afternoon hours. let's go back in time. and check out the radar. so we start you off at 2:00 yesterday afternoon, nice

thomas's previous address including a home on pleasant lane, and an complex on new falls road in levittown. >> i fear we may never know the complete scope of this man 's crimes. >> reporter: that is because, thomas ran his own construction company and could have had access to hundreds of homes, and potential victims. bucks county authorities and falls township authorities are asking anyone who may have had contact with this man to call them. for now live at falls township police headquarters i'm anita oh for cws3 "eyewitness news". >> anita, thank you. >>> chopper three over scene of the dangerous advertise coverry in lower merion montgomery county. authorities say relatives of man who recently passed away found several sticks of dynamite in the freezer of his home, on laurel lane this morning. the bomb squad is till working to stabilize the explosives, and neighbors are being told to shelter in place but authorities say there is no threat to the public. the explosives, can be taken to the site in delaware county where they will be disposed of >>> developing right now authorities say that

we saw 2 inches in hatfield at jeff moore's house, two and a half at levittown, john, in yardley bucksy about 3 inches, 2 inches in milton, delaware, gary liska and three in a quarter at chesterfield, new jersey at ed connor's place. nice snow to yield pretty pictures. ed measuring with his cbs-3 weather watchers yardstick there and he has three and a quarter inches he said there you can see it is looking beautiful, at the after shot, and the bird were enjoying it as well, look at these guys from phil, the birds enjoying their food, they didn't to have dig too far for it and snow falling in the background but it looks fantastic, loved this as well with the fat flakes drifting down early this morning when the heaviest snow fell early this morning and then cleared out very quickly. quick hitting storm and then a lot of the moisture really fell as rain for much of us and we will miss out the on the heavier snow band rain and then changed over to snow. here's what it is doing right now, not a whole lot of anything for most of the northeast this storm has really ended, and if you are in coa

william in levittown sitting at 65. mostly cloudy. overnight thanks to the cloud cover and thanks to warm air pushing from the south and southwest. david dutch in clementon at 65 as well. we are at 61 up in jeff moore 's house in hatfield. nice warm up as well. sixty as we go north john jenkins in perkasie at 60, mostly cloudy conditions, real nice day before the clouds moved in, and then cooled it a bit. we did hit our highs earlier in the day when we tied record here in philadelphia now those highs have fallen back just a little bit. you can see it is a nice day across the region. i like sunset shot, sunrise shotty should say from phil. sunset not quite as beautiful tonight thanks to the cloud that have rolled in. lets look at our palmyra cove camera looking west towards where the sunnies currently setting, but you cannot see much in the way of nice colors tonight. it is gray, glummy and that is way it will remain through the overnight hours. we will see some fog develop as well. so our large scale storm system impact impacting us o

they also say some of the assaults took place at his former home on pheasant lane in levittown. again, the d.a. is something anyone hoop suspects thomas may have had improper contact with their children while acting as a contractor to contact the falls township police or the d.a. office. live in morrisville, i'm nora muchanic channel6 "action news." brian. >> nora, thank you. >>> a teenager remains in critical condition following an early morning shooting. officers say the boy was shot several times in the arm, neck and shoulder. they found him in the 4,000 block of way may wood street in the city's juniata neighborhood. police are still looking for the shooter but believe the person left the scene in an older model pontiac grand prix. no word just yet on why that 17-year-old was shot. >>> police say this is the ma tn who stole high end jewelry from the king of prussia costco. he got inside the store on allandale road through an unsecured back road and kept his face covered. upper merion police responded to a burglar alarm about 1:00 a.m. and found the broken jewelry case. they

levittown, 33. glassboro, 35. smyrna, 35.e in the cape may area, the villas, dell haven checking in at 38 degrees, here's what it feels like with the winds. 29 in allentown. remember at the same time yesterday it felt like 13, a big improvement north and west, philadelphia feels like 25. satellite and radar we'll start out with a lot of the clouds this morning we'll see increase in sunshine as the day progresses. if you look closely, appears as if there's snow showers falling across the area. the air is dry, all of i told is evaporate -- all of it is evaporating before it reaches the ground. we'll go clouds and sun today, breezy and mild high of 47. but, again, that number is a little deceiving with the winds it will only feel like the 30s. speaking of mild we're talking about a big warmup in the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. some locations could hit 60 degrees all over again, i'll have that information in about ten minutes. >>> the travel ban that set off protests worldwide and later appealed was shot down again

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in levittown we have an accident here on green lane near mill creek lane and we have the closure of coursenia-new jersey turnpike connector and all alternates are jammed. looking at 7 miles an hour on route one near langhorne, 13 miles an hour i-95 near the scudder falls bridge. and in northern delaware, we've got an accident here on namaans road at ebright road causing problems as well. seeing restrictions in that area. one in delaware in newark on capitol trail. look at the slow go on route one northbound as you too it to head towards i-95 in delaware. tam at times just driving 18 miles an hour. >> wow thank you, karen. >>> let's go over to sky6 taking a look across the plaza in front of city hall over to the parkway. you can see the roadways are damp and it's kind of warm out there now tased. >> yeah, it is. not bothering with the coat this morning. the jacket is working out pretty well. take a look at temperatures tam. we've improved to 55 degrees in philadelphia. trenton is now up to 45. some of our northern suburbs really not tapping into the warmth just yet still in the 30's in alle

it tends to disproportionately affect the northeastern part of the united states, my hometown of levittown is being decimated. we know that they primarily come from three countries, mexico, colombia and afghanistan. we also know they're primarily taking the route across the southwest border. there is a lot of talk about securing the border and what is involved with that as far as physical barrier. we also talked about what else can be done. is there going to be, sir, a comprehensive strategy by your administration to focus specifically on not just slowing it down, we always -- the fbi we refer to physical barriers as a spoed b speed bumps for cartels. i wonder if you can expand on that a little bit. >> i'll let the demand reduction argument comments, i made them enough. i believe by reinforcing the southwest border and getting some level of control over it, it will make it harder for the -- for the importation of drugs that way. the phenomenon we're seeing now, i'll go back for a second on the opioid thing, the -- these cartels are absolutely brilliant in how they do business. and they --