now, this is the 1200 block of mcdade boulevard.investigation actually started when a police officer from a neighboring community with inside nearby cvs literally block or so away from the location, he was buying gift for his wife. while there, he was alert today man possibly shoplifting. that suspect, heard what was going on, and ran from the store, then collingdale police were alerted so they track him here to this home in question. and when officers arrived, they were met at the door by a woman who confirmed that the man in question was indeed inside a house. so, when officers went in, they noticed some suspicious items. take a listen. >> while there they start today see things in the apartment that was raising their level of alarm due to the possibility of some sort of lab. the officers back out being secured the property, evacuated the second floor. >> now, the woman who opened the door, she was detained, so was the man who ran from the cvs. another man was detained as well. so three in all. police say the man in cvs was possib

moving in the southbound direction at mcdade boulevard, you can see, starting to heat up lit bit.l basically anywhere we look this morning, especially this early, especially given it is a friday, we are not going to see really any problems. how much, we do have the first accident of the morning, a.c. expressway eastbound, near 42 freeway, that right lane block, still photo of you for those every you just make waking up with us, see how many hit lights -- headlights are around here, most certainly will slow you down this morning, so take it east think friday morning, jim, jan, back to you. >> now, for a look at newspaper headlines all across our region. >> on the covers of the trentonian, department of sleep. the trentonian has obtained hands full of pictures showing mercer county department employees sleeping on the job, we've got one picture of worker caught with his pants down outside a county truck. my. photos taken over the summer respect source tells the pain their hot spot for the employees across the street from the old gent motors site? gluing from the reading eagle, berks

it is all unfolding in column inning down, alexandria joins us the 1200 block of mcdade boulevard. what led police to make this discovery? >> starting with a officer in a vvs up the block buying an anniversary card, a employee tipped him off about a customer potentially shoplifting. person fled the store, and the officer saw him run into this home behind me. >> when officers knock on the home of the door on the 1200 block of mcdade boulevard, a woman known to police offered up the man who fled. , what appeared to be a lab of some sorts inside of the home was observed. >> this all happened before 2:00 a.m. police evacuated three people from the downstairs, and a couple living in a upstairs apartment, along with their pets. after an investigation, state police chemists determined that the downstairs portion of the home was indeed being used for a small meth operation. >> i have to give credit to the officer in the css. i have to give credit again. >> thanks for that update. meanwhile in other news philadelphia police officer is fighting for his life, after being found unresponsive in

this is the blue route southbound before mcdade boulevard. that left lane is compromised. see the flashing lights out there. and it is causing some pretty significant backups. just heads up on that if you have to head out to this area. might want to give it couple every minute or at least give yourself extra time. you will definitely need that. also the schuylkill at king of prussia. you can see moving both directions, still trashed 55 miles per hour, hopefully i can keep you there as long as i can, coming around the s curve as you make your way into center city, looking there, starting to see brake lights, i'll let you know you may be slowing down just little bit now. starting to hit those brakes more and more vehicles hit those roadways. vine starting to heat up, overall things looking pretty good this morning, jim, brooke, back to you. >> developing right now, two more hurt shooting in the city mayfair section. >> fun fire happened right outside a playground, "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo live outside northeast detective, with the latest on the investigation. g

here is a live look, this is the blue route, 476 southbound, right near mcdade boulevard. got disable and already hitting the brakes as we head down to i-95. getting little built of sun glare popping here, with the orange glow, in honor of the flyers today. on 295, as you head south into the freeway. and crystal clear coming over the benny, nice cool shot of the skyline here as you come into south jersey. hey it is thursday. we pick different neighborhood go, to breakfast, today going across the bridge to collingswood. sabrina's cafe, one of the brand new ones, you know they're famous for the french toast. oh, we're having french toast today. see you there from 9:00 to 10:00. then south on 95, your normal delay into girard, then northbound, we had earlier accident up near cottman avenue. mass transit though looking good. mike and alex back to you. >> couple every phrases used last night during the debate, i'm not a potted plant, you're a nasty woman. >> hillary clinton said trump choked. >> choked. >> big league. >> hey, dave chin chen, i noticed donald trump was using the

this is on the 1200 block of mcdade boulevard, in collingdale. authorities have secured the home and are waiting for a state police chemist to test the materials they found. jan carabeo is there as well, gathering information. we'll have live report coming up in our next hour. >> meanwhile, developing this morning, in west philadelphia, the fire marshall is investigating yet another car fire. this after a string of car fires, in the nearby area. police and firefighters rush to the 5400 block of media street just before 2:00 this morning. while there is no official cause yet, the fire marshall believes may have started in the engine, and is not likely arson. >> meantime, arson task force is investigating a stream of car fires, not far away from overbrook. surveillance video caused someone starting a fire in a dumpster on 56 and master. the flames were so fierce, it damaged a maserati park nearby. here is the owner telling "eyewitness news" how he found out his car was on fire. >> i was asleep. and somebody was banking on my door. you know what i m

drugstore called police about a man acting kind of strange so when police caught up with him at a home on mcdade boulevard, they found bags with white powder, crushed pills, lighter fluid and other chemicals. police arrested three people what they call a small meth lab operation. they have charge timothy falls who was at the cvs as well as christine, and michael papale among the charges risking and causing a catastrophe. >> sad news tonight for the philadelphia police community. an officer has suddenly passed away. officer douglas bam berger suffered a heart attack while working at the criminal justice center this morning. medics rushed him to hahnemann hospital where doctors did all they could to save him. officers bam berger was 41 years old. and a 16 year veteran of the force with a wife and two children. >>> police say two armed men barged into a home on the 1400 block of lombard street and threatened a woman with a gun. she's very upset about what happened. which was just before 11:30 this morning. they're on the hunt for these people. victim's roommate was not home at the time. but tells u

damage done here, fire crews on the scene there's a fuel spill on the blue route northbound past mcdade at times blocking up a lanes, one lane sneaking by, southbound police on the scene, as well assisting. you're getting heavy on the blue route and traveling 18 miles per hour near the area. schuylkill expressway, 7 miles per hour. westbound boulevard toward gladwyn. i-95 southbound the accident at cottman is cleared, traveling 15 miles per hour. we're seeing problems all morning on i-95. burlington bristol bridge going up. i want to show you mass transit. we have slippery rails creating problems delays on the paoli thorndale line, 20 minute delays there. >> it's raining out there, let's go outside to david murphy for that. >> reporter: damp and chilly on the terrace. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows light rain, kind of a broken pattern extending up into allentown. the blue in the poconos is freezing rain until 11:00 a.m. 47 degrees and cool across the region. 38 in allentown. this afternoon we'll go to 58 for the high, cloudy and breezy. at times there will be morning showers and

an officer saw the man fitting that description staring out of a screen door at an apartment on mcdade boulevard. a woman also inside the apartment let the officers inside. that's when they say they found chemicals. the duplex was evacuated as a precaution. the three face charges and are awaiting anment. >>> 28-year-old alexander peters has been charged with criminal mischief. investigators say he confessed to damaging the football field in camden's fairview section last week. peters also admitted to spray painti painting swastikas on the field house. >>> an historic marker, that one there on your screen honoring louis lorenzo redding. his grand daughter said she hopes the marker makes a difference for people still experiencing prejudice. >> i would like people to remember that already broke through those barriers. >> the house is in a section of wilmington designated an african-american historical zone. >>> take a look at this statue of hillary clinton that just showed up on the street. now critics want to know where it came from and who put it there. katie: i'm katie mcginty and i ap

to a three-point so i would make you mcdade a great background what i've learned to do not pick a fightrator. i would disagree you say absolutely the soviet union feared an american nuclear attack. because of the succession of those statements by reagan. and what we used to deal with every year. into had the same argument every year. and we make the same point every year. and we only just come back from moscow. but going back and forth for basically they were scared out of their mind for the of nuclear attack. the last time i checked, all the submarines over 90 percent are imported anyone time. we were never have 50 percent of the bombers at anyone time. because the submarines were way over half if he was scared to death why didn't he do anything? they were there to talk about being attacked. so on the point about gorbachev to abolish nuclear weapons and some people in the illustration said it was propaganda. i was one of those people. it to say all the dead soviet leaders before that. i did not believe that for a minute and not and tell reykjavik to tell you the truth to believe he was

we have a multi-vehicle accident blue route northbound at mcdade boulevard.bound in the center lane, at cottman, 28 miles per hour crawling along. route 55 an overturned vehicle, a mess everywhere. >> at least the weather is nice right now. let's turn to meteorologist david murphy. >> reporter: lots of sunshine up over the horizon. a little bit on the cool side. 57 degrees in philadelphia. upper 40s in trenton and allentown. this afternoon, 75 degrees with partly to mostly sunny skies, nice. tomorrow cloudy showers arriving especially during the afternoon. it won't be raining all the time, but the afternoon damp, 70 degrees the high there. sunday we expect to return to mostly sunny skies and breezy conditions with a cooler high of 6. on columbus day monday, sunny and cool, 64 degrees. tuesday, sunny, 68 as we welcome yom kippur. cooler on wednesday, wednesday we expect showers. >> firefighters are heading to the hurricane zone to help with the rescue for hurricane matthew, we have details at 6abc.com. ♪ >>> nice happy friday crowd here. good morning, america.

c meth lab inside of the rear apartment mcdade boulevard thi robbery at a nearby drug store. spotted the suspect trying to get inside of a home a mile away. >> small town police officers, everybody knows the back streets and back short cuts where to go. officer mccauley new where to go, he went to the bacally way and there was the guy. >> they arrested the duplex the other apartment attached and were g graphic on thinking it's july and it's not it's october. nton and t record or not. it's exceptional. hot and a little muggy. lot of blue upstairs. at 83 degrees. down there the home of the philadelphia side with the south-southwestly wind at 10 miles per hour. and even the heat index is 1 degree above the air temperatur index this afternoon as well. and we are not the only ones, much of the parts of new england on the brink ofere and charleston west virginia 83 and roanoke and richmond still at 75. here is the reality winter like temperatures are brewing in western canada as well as alaska, fairbanks, 29 degreestime. and peace river below freezing at 30 degrees. the air mass wi

it is certainly dangerous enough, house located mcdade, collingdale, someone tried to steel products containing methamphetamine making ingredients. officer was nearby, and spotted the person, which led them to this house, dave kinchen reporting earlier this morning, there was a lot of officials that were out there. they had a chemical team. now they have confirmed it was a meth lab. >> interesting, the cvs where they were stealing and sometimes buying the stuff is like 200 feet down the street. >> 100 yards? tops. 100 yards away from the house. >> they didn't go far. >> convenient. >>> it may feel like summer. that's why we're all dressed up like this. but inside more than 7,000 student in philadelphia are getting winter coats. >> because we will need it soon enough. >> you got t convention center where lauren is. >> hey, mike, alex, karen, what's up? so look, this is the way of the land. the coats are ready in boxes and waiting for thousands of kids. kevin joins me to talk about this event. who is responsible for this good deed? >> the auto dealer caring for kids foundation, auto de

live look at the blue route, 476, right near mcdade boulevard. the ben franklin bridge kinds of quiet this morning, so do you have good start. shuttle buses on the market frankford and the subway continue to roll until 5:00. then they kick the trains in after 5:00 a.m. new jersey transit, again, on the heals of last thursday's train accident, a week ago, northeast corridor has the regular service, but service in and out of hoboken is still suspended. again if you are traveling in the air at all over the next couple every days, the airlines have been sending out travel advisories, steering planes away from matthew, pretty much from the carolinas all the way down to florida re shuffle them all so they don't get stuck in the storm. also the same deal with amtrak. they've suspended service in the southeast, including the silver liners, that come out of new york, and also the auto trains. so keep that in mine. contact amtrak if you intends to travel the rales over the weekend. back to you. >> thank you, bob, 4:49. in your health news this morning, new

drugstore called the cops about a man acting strange when police caught up with him at a home on mcdadeoulevard they found bags with white powder, crushed pills, lighter fluid somebody other chemicals. police say even though it appears to be a small operation, it is dangerous. >> i have to give the officers credit. they stopped and they back out and took us 8:40 from 1:20 we're in. we're all going home tonight. nobody got hurt. >> police have arrested three people timothy falls who was at the cvs christine andrews new and michael papale. risk and and causing a catastrophe. >> police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. they say someone shot a man minutes before his 30th birthday on the 700 block of east al gain me avenue happened right before midnight. police transported the man to temple university hospital where he died a short time later. so far police don't have any suspects. they are reviewing video from the area. >>> he's become a beloved bear in north jersey known for walking up right as if he was a man in bear suit. video went viral. but now officials say someone hunted and

police say a tip led them to a man and the man led them to a home on the 1200 block of mcdade boulevard i can dale. state police and forensic chemist also investigating the scene right now. >> checking the forecast with meteorologist, katie fehlinger. >> depending where you are finding either stellar sunrise or finding even little fog out there. here is a example of the former here, you've got gorgeous shot outside middle township high school at this hour, with nothing but blue sky obviously bill ball of sunshine, 63 degrees, to start the day off. but place like top hocking, here the low-lying cloud cover, almost looks like river of fog. typically clear day would you find baseball diamond. tough to see it right now. but eventually we heat up to nearing record warmth, we do set new record tomorrow, 80s in the middle of october. not completely out of the question, meisha, but it is atypical. >> i know absolutely. we are seeing some of the fog katie in our ben franklin shot. take a look at this those of you coming from new jersey westbound into center city see a how busy it is but also vis

good morning, look likes tractor-trailer and two squad cars, northbound lanes of 476 between 95, and mcdadend 206 come together. you know what thursday means, just voted the best of best, in salem county, we're going to the ems cafe, pattyscakes, somebody booted my car! and sue's going to have the forecast from my trip to pattyscakes in 152nd. >> tears continue to fall, now we get some precipitation to help with the situation. off to the north of us higher elevations some freezing rain around, but, temperatures have warm up, this is warmfront coming through, and so we don't have to worry about anything but rain today. 47 degrees, in philadelphia, already 51 in dover, 53 in wildwood, 40 in lancaster, so just about everybody except the mountains above freezing. 60 degrees today. with that rain around. 57 degrees tomorrow with plenty of sunshine, but will be quite winnie, blustery tomorrow. >> warmer wind saturday, check it out, 07 degrees, should be fine for the temple game, 71 sunday, halloween cools off little bit, but so far still good for trick-or-treating, alex? >> as long as still good

c meth lab inside of the rear apartment mcdade boulevard thi robbery at a nearby drug store. spotted the suspect trying to get inside of a home a mile away. >> small town police officers, everybody knows the back streets and back short cuts where to go. officer mccauley new where to go, he went to the bacally way