in northeast philadelphia we have a water main break at deer pass lane and greenmont road. that could be a cause of concern with the low temperatures. and here is a shot of the vine street expressway, a tapping of the brakes there westbound not too bad and eastbound you are heavy the length. brian i'll send it back of. >> thank you. >>> students in landed dale montgomery county are putting the finishing touches on their farm show entries. high schoolers perfected their projects, at arrangements and designs are delivered to the farm show in harrisburg tomorrow and that annual event kicked off one day earlier today with this, a buttery ohmage to pennsylvania's farmer heritage and they took the wrap off the butter sculpture and showing a landscape of farms and hills giving way to forest colored peaks and a couple of conshohocken created this using a half ton of butter it's on display at the farm show through january 14th. >> now to scrap the warm business kits to go with it. next on "action news" it seems a well known local rec center is popular among local thieves and excessi

other problems, crews are pumping water out of homes in northeast philadelphia. an 8-inch main gave way on millbrook road yesterday afternoon. that sent thousands of gallons of water gushing into streets and into people's basements. rs suspect a sinkhole from last year may have led to this. >> i'm angry, they are dragging their feet, i want ton why. >> reporter: the spokesman for the philadelphia water department could not say if there's a connection between the sinkhole when the water main break. >> let's talk about the snow, not so bad, kind of pretty, what can we expect for the rest of the morning. >> reporter: the snow is in the process of winding down. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows you right at the coast we have one bit of snow that's still fairly significant. a bright white band there. additional snowfall falling there. in our main travel areas, as we go in closer, you can see it's just light snow probably not producing a lot of additional accumulation in and around philadelphia. up around quakertown and allentown and getting away from easton, now,

breaking news, the action cam is live on the scene in northeast philadelphia. as we zoom in you can see the overturned septa bus completely flipped over on its side in the median. fortunately nobody was on board. the driver eject rejected from the scene. a horrible accident that's causing traffic problems on woodhaven road eastbound at knights road. we see snow and ice in and around that area, unclear if that was a factor in the accident that flipped over a septa bus. here's another look at the scene, woodhaven road eastbound. we see more crews on the scene with this. police completely blocking woodhaven road eastbound. there's the septa bus in the dark right there. the left lane is blocked on millbrook road as you see crews out there, as well. construction has cleared at route 1 northbound at oxford valley road. aramingo avenue at allegheny avenue to give you an idea of what the secondary roads look like. you can see the shine on the road. temperatures below freezing. watch for slick spots here and there. >> new on "action news," nearly all subway stations in

we're seeing light snow in northeast philadelphia, we're along the boulevard by tyson. of course now that we're live there's not a whole lot of cars, a bunch of them came through just a few seconds ago, when they come through you will see they are moving along just fine. the road surface is wet, but it's clear. use caution you might see slushy patches or slick spots on the side streets. neighborhood streets you'll see more coverage and less blacktop. you want to be careful as you head out the door this morning. the city has been getting ready for this, two nights ago the streets department crews brined the boulevard and some of the higher elevations of the city. they mobilized at 7:00 p.m. last night for crews to start their salting operation. they had 70 trucks out with 50,000 tons of salt available. so plenty of salt for us for this storm. drivers we have spoken to have not run into any major issues this morning in the area. hour the roads so far? >> so far not too bad. they plowed most of the streets so far. the major streets have been plowed. >> reporter: how about

you can follow knights red down to i-95 or use academy road out of northeast philadelphia, septa says that the root 78 butts is being detoured around that accident scene, and another situation we are watching here is closure of the lath bridge, coming and cutting off access to philadelphia international the airport. platt bridge closed on the westbound side, between south philadelphia, and 95, i'm in the quite sure what the scenario if i had to guess it would be because of ice. you want to use girard point double decker bridge heading to the airport. lets go to steve keeley life in northeast philadelphia at the scene of this september bus accident. what more can you tell us, steve. >> reporter: they have a problem now because they have dragged the bus, back, so it is not against concrete barricade but now they have steel guardrail in the way and they just hoff tow truck back and we heard steel guardrail give. they may have to bring some torches or some hacksaws and cut this guardrail away, just simly, to get the bus out of here. you can see a second septa tow truck waiting in the wing

if you are leaving say northeast philadelphia, bucks county area, and you typically use woodhaven, take academy road, contacted my road will get you back down to i-95 at around the situation where we will keep an eye on that as we begin our monday morning. a snow schedule, for the patco high speed line, which means trains are going to run anywhere between every ten to 15 minutes, instead of the normal, morning rush hour, schedule. so be readied for that. we did have the snow over weekend, saturday, sunday, frigid temperatures, everything is iced over, slippery conditions on the parking lot, front steps, and even a lot of the bus steps and trolleys as you try to board this morning. probably expect slower than normal speed on new jersey transit and dart. expect some slow going and company cold delays on the septa buses, trains, troll thinks morning. otherwise major roadways other than that situation on woodhaven road we are in good shape. karen and thomas, back over to you. >>> thanks, bob. >>> trial does begin for camden county man accused of killing his three-year old son , brendon. tha

new details on breaking news we've been following out of northeast philadelphia. just talked and learned this accident involves a shuttle bus regular full size bus. live look at the scene on woodhaven road and knights road. person driving the bus was a mechanic taking the bus to station for work. first alert reporter has been watching this since it happened more than two hours ago. >>> definitely at the worst time that we're watching. coming up at 6:30. beginning or morning rush. this has been out there all morning long, but now we're starting to get into the heaviest travel times. big delays here. eastbound side of woodhaven road. look like they're starting to make progress here. actually moved some of this bus off of the ramp. off of the center median that they have right here. just over to the center of that. at least we're seeing progress here. they have to get that back on its feet and out of way of eastbound side just around knights road of woodhaven road because we're seeing some big delays behind it. probably have to get around that if you're going to take

watching northeast philadelphia this morning. woodhaven road. 63 eastbound just around knights road is closed and blocked this morning with police activity due to overturned bus. see that towards the center of the screen there. that bus over on its side still. going to be a lot of cleanup and repair underway because of this. updates for you the rest of the morning and when i come back in 5:00 hour. >>> now to the transition to trump today begins a week of senate confirmation hearings for president elect donald trump's cabinet nominees. all starts tomorrow on capitol hill with jeff sessions for attorney general. alabama senator in support of mr. trump. tough views on civil rights and immigration. rex tillerson will face questioning for secretary of state. that's when election hacking issue could come up. mr. trump's top aides are still explaining refusal to blame russia. >> he's not denies that entities in russia were behind this particular hacking campaign. >> we need to sort of grow up here and get past that. need to have a pres

live in northeast philadelphia.ine scott channel 6 "action news." >> what a gentleman, we should give him one of our scrapers, 6abc scraper. >> thanks, katherine. crews are pumping water out of a half dozen homes in northeast philadelphia. an 8-inch main gave way on the 11,000 block of millbrook road yesterday afternoon and that sent thousands of gallons of water gushing through the street into people's basement. residents suspect a sinkhole led to this. >> i'm very angry with the city. this should have been prevented. they are dragging their feet, i want to know why. >> a spokesman for the philadelphia water department could not say if there's a connection between the sinkhole who the water main break. >> let's talk to david murphy about the wrapping up of the snow and what could be coming in overnight. >> reporter: looks like there's more stuff coming in tomorrow especially by the coast. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows we're dry across the region. you see a thin band of snow that has ballooned over south je

the action cam is live where this happened along woodhaven road in northeast philadelphia. crews are on the scene preparing to get the bus back on its wheels. the driver somehow was not strapped in and thrown from the bus, suffered minor injuries. therein no passengers on the bus at the time. >> let's go over to karen rogers she has been watching this what it means for the heavily trafficked road and the morning commute. >> reporter: you can see how the septa bus is on its side. there's two tow trucks on the scene. i want to show you this shot, woodhaven road past knights road, penndot has it zoomed off to the side. more details coming in with the breaking news, penndot on the scene heavy duty tow trucks as they try to get the septa bus up righted and pulled out of here. all lanes are blocked at woodhaven and knights road. you can take nights road to fair daily and millbrook. you can see the ice around the area, it's hard to tell if that was a reason for the problem. let's switch to the other issues. we have a problem with the water main break, kendall boulevard at washingt

this septa bus crashed along woodhaven road in northeast philadelphia leaving the driver injured. we have the story. >>> we're preparing you for another bitter blast of arctic air in the tri state region. snow and ice remains on the sidewalks that makes it hazardous for everyone. >> meryl streep gives a golden globe speech and has everyone talking including the in coming commander-in-chief. >> it is cold out there, let's go over to david murphy and karen rogers. >> reporter: it is cold out there, we'll have sun early and the clouds to the west dig in. overall we wind up with a mix of clouds and sun. 12 degrees in philadelphia. that's right these are temperatures not windchills. 10 in wilmington. 11 on the thermometer in allentown. 10 in trenton, 9 in reading and 3 below in millville. there's a small light wind going only 6 miles per hour in philadelphia. it's still giving us a windchill of 3. it feels like 1 in allentown. notice the temperature and the windchill are the same in trenton because every now and then the winds die down and become calm. when they are blowing you have a

actually the heaviest rain we've seen all day near the turnpike, near willow grove, jenkintown, northeast philadelphia. this heavy rain can really soften up the ground and that makes our trees even more vulnerable to falling down when you get the high winds. the heavy rain continues east of the pennsylvania -- or new jersey turnpike and it's all moving off the ocean. so, we'll continue to see waves of this as we head through the evening hours. peak wind gusts, winds really the main story with this storm. cape may reporting a peak wind gust 63 miles per hour, tuckerton 60, for the cues 58, downingtown 53, philadelphia

live look at the boulevard, out of the northeast philadelphia, in problems or

reporting live from northeast philadelphia tonight, joe holden for cbs eyewitness news >> thank you for that. >>> police in south jersey are asking for the public's help to hunt down the suspect in a road rage attack. the victim a teenager driving home, from work. "eyewitness news" reporter cleve bryan is in burlington township right now with clues that could lead to an arrest in the case, cleve. >> reporter: ukee, for weeks burlington township police department has been trying to locate this man, that they say he attack a local high school student over a simple traffic incident, and they want to hold him accountable. it started with a simple lane change, burlington township police say late december 14th a teen was attack by this man after accidentally cutting in front of him. >> victim explained to us that he was driving home there work , that he at some point as he was driving along the boulevard in our town he inadvertently cut off another vehicle. >> reporter: man started tailgating the 18 year-old for a quarter hyle. when teen got out of his vehicle the suspect pulled over and came

. >>> a road in northeast philadelphia is shut down where a septa bus crashed this morning, we're live. >>> we're getting you ready for another bitter blast of arctic air in the tri state region as we deal with ice and snow on the sidewalks and roads which can make it a hazardous start to the day. >>> award winning actress meryl streep gives a golden globe speech that has everyone silent in the audience and her words were directed to the president-elect. >> let's go over to david murphy talking about this cold and karen rogers talking about the bit of an icy commute. good morning. >> reporter: it's definitely a cold start if you were out yesterday you noticed the cold and the wind not as windy this morning, as you take a look at cloud cover it's out to the west. we'll start out with early sunshine, i think the clouds streak in pretty quick, we wind up with a clouds and sun mix through the day. temperatures are on the cold side. 15 degrees in philadelphia. that's a three degree improvement over the last hour. 12 in wilmington, and allentown. 11 in trenton. 1 in millville. the windchills

. >> in northeast philadelphia, they're michael signs for a women's march the day after the inauguration, now less than a week before taking office, the president addressed divisions in the country, saying, quote, to many years our country has been angry, divided and untrusting, some say it will never change, the hatred is too deep, it will change. and the events and rallies that we are seeing are a combination of grass roots activism like this and also elected officials, democrats having their say before the new president is sworn in. live in mt. airy, i'm lauren mayk, nbc10 news. >>> congressman dwight evans is passing on friday's inauguration, evans who's two months from being sworn in for his first term in office will not be attending the ceremony. the new jersey representative tweeted that she doesn't plan on attending the inauguration, instead, she's planning on having a prayer vigil. our live coverage from washington, d.c. starts wednesday on nbc10 news at 4:00 p.m. >>> and taking a live look now at the river rink, how busy is it out there tonight? penn's landing is packed with sk

. >>> three men climbed through a small glass window at a northeast philadelphia gas station.nce they come in, something else came out. what they put through that hole of that station moments later. >> thank you so very much especially for the cats. i never realized there were so many feel line lovers. >> a marine veteran is stunned by you kick to the curb and prosecute the. his crime, feeding kitties. but you stepped big time. his happily ever after courtesy of you straight ahead. ♪ >>> a local teen who's life came to a violent end lived a long life of abuse. that is what the lawyer for the girl's birth parent is saying tonight. this week prosecutors say 14-year-old grace packer died in a rape murder fantasy carried out by her adoptive mother sarah packer and packer's boyfriend jacob sullivan. lawyer for the girl's birth parents said her biological parents lost custody of her as a toddler. why? over allegations that other adults were sexually abusing their children. later her adoptive mother's ex-husband went to prison for molesting grace. investigators say grace died last su

. >>> well, septa bus flips in northeast philadelphia, traffic backing up behind it, how the driver is doing after being taken to the hospital. >> that is a live shot right there. what a mess. >> and, listen to this, the philadelphia 76ers in the playoffs? hear which star has his sights set on the post season, after this sixers beat up on the brooklyn nets yesterday. that was in brooklyn. >> welcome to the golden globe s, already the teleprompter down so this is a great way to start the show. i just got off the phone with mariah carey... >> holy award this season starts with the teleprompter malfunction right off the top of the golden globes, but the award were still handed out. see the big winners in the powerful political message from merrill streep. >> as you can hear he did make mariah carey joke but we are saving that for you. >> yes, true. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> prompter just, prompter just broke. >> what do we do. >> what do we do. >> well, i don't remember what take it is. >> it is monday though, right. >> is it monday. >> we just don't know the date >> see what h

colder in northeast philadelphia. west mount, all in the 20s along with philadelphia international. so it's cold start. and it's frozen. the good news is it's dry this morning. tomorrow morning, it's a different story. got wet weather moving in. completely dry right now. redding, allentown, in the clear too, but look to the west and you can see the clouds that are moving in to the ohio valley. that's the beginning of the wet weather that's going to come our way. the showers, the rain showers of the south will not impact us. we won't see any impact during the day today. clouds that are just to our southwest this morning, those will be increasing this afternoon. we will see enough sunshine to start the warming process. 29 degrees at 8:00 to 39 degrees in philadelphia. for the suburbs. 20s right now. near 40 degrees at noon. into the 40s this afternoon. look at the clouds increasing later this afternoon. you see that in the lehigh valley too. after sunshine this morning, clouds take over later today. delaware in the clear and cold just like the rest of the area. 29 degrees at 8:00. lea

a water main break sent rushing water into several homes in northeast philadelphia. chopper 6 hd was over the scene at 2:00 along the 11,000 block of mill brook road. it took the philadelphia water department more than an hour to shut off the water and crews are working to pump the water out of six homes, there is no word yet what caused the 16 inch main to break. >>> philadelphia police are trying to track down four men that forced their way into the hope of an 87-year-old man this afternoon in port richmond and they got away with a bundle of cash. "action news" reporter vernon odom has the story. >> reporter: this is the victim of the home invasion, 87-year-old richard, a former teacher at frankford high school. he told detectives at mid-day four men in their 20s somewhering hoodies knocked on his door on the 3400 block of emerald street and his nephew picks up the story from there. >> he said he was from the company and showed a badge and my uncle said he would call to verify, they pushed open the door. >> and said if he didn't give them money they would beat him u

winds calm in northeast philadelphia. look at millville. winds calm there too. actual temperature. 3 below zero. 11 in lehigh valley. some neighborhoods even colder. redding, you're at 9 degrees. lehigh county, single digits in to north hampton. frinld start this morning. clear start for many, but there are some clouds that are just starting to inch in. high clouds. no precipitation. not for us. that stays off to north and west. chance of wet weather returns later tomorrow. good news is by then the temperatures will be warmer. they will be warming up today. don't look for a huge warmup. not going to be sunshine all day like it was yesterday. 8:00 this morning, see the clouds start to move in. going to slow the warm up. 14 degrees at ha hour. philadelphia. 18 degrees by 10:00. while it's in the low 20s for atlantic city and cape may. notice how it stays below freezing even this afternoon. even with breaks of sunshine for redding and allentown. later this afternoon, peeking in the lower to middle 20s today. even at the shore. get closer to freezing for cape may. l

let's go out to katherine scott along the boulevard in northeast philadelphia. heavily traveled area, how is it looking katherine? >> reporter: the snow has stopped falling in northeast philadelphia. the roads are looking okay. let me get out of the way you can see the boulevard by tyson, the cars are moving along just fine, you just got a little nervous there for a second. the roads are wet, you want to look out for slushy spots, wet spots, the temperatures are valuables very cold, so there could be icy patches, you want to use caution as you head out the door. especially on the neighborhoods streets you might see more coverage there on the side streets and the back streets. the city has prepared for this. two nights ago the street department crews were out brining the boulevard and some of the higher elevations in the city. last night crews mobilized around 7:00 p.m. to start their salting operations. they have 70 trucks out with 50,000 tons of salt available. we've been speaking to drivers this morning, you we have not hd any major complaints for them, they a

northeast philadelphia. low 40s for philadelphia and getting colder overnight tonight as the clouds increase tomorrow morning. midnight tonight. tomorrow morning start with mostly cloudy skies. no snow tomorrow morning. that's 6:00 in the morning with temperatures in the 20s and 30s cold enough for snow. hoping for snow going to have to wait a little bit longer. comes in in the afternoon. not a lot of it. scattered light showers at noontime. on saturday, mostly cloudy and dry at that hour. here comes light snow. scattered snow showers developing in the afternoon. little steadier. nobody is going to get a lot out of this. most areas see an impk or less. the emphasis should be on or less. our region will stay cold into late saturday night and start with on sunday. then we have a warming trend. by saturday we have sunshine. and 40s sunday afternoon. even warmer next week. 42 degrees this afternoon. colder than it is right now. colder air blowing into the area. little bit of light snow sunday afternoon. looking g

live in northeast philadelphia, gray hall channel6 "action news." ank you. >>> a truck driver overturned his rig early this morning on the wet roads in center city philadelphia. this the scene on the 1500 block of arch street at about 5 o'clock this morning. the driver was trapped for some time. no word on their injuries. the crash and cleanup did cause some delays in the area. >> a woman in spring garden was robbed as she was walking to her vehicle in a parking lot. police released images of the suspect seen on surveillance video. it happened on december 29th in the 1300 block of mount vernon street. the woman said she saw the men coming up to her. she started to run when the suspects caught up with her they took her purse which had her wallet iphone and some cash in it. if you recognize the men in the video please you're asked to call police. >>> police in wilmington hoping to identify a man who stole a wallet off of a customer in walgreens. it happened today at that store at 1313 north union street. officials say the suspect took the woman's walle

fox 29's shawnette wilson joins us live from northeast philadelphia.hawnette, a big mess an big hassle for those families. >> reporter: no doubt about that, lucy. a lot of work for the workers who are here on scene. they have been work throughout the night and we were told that they expected to have this thing fixed by or around 11:30 tonig tonight. meanwhile, water had to be turned off to residents homes while repairs are being made. philadelphia water department crews are working throughout the night to repair a water make break in this northeast philly neighbor. after more than four hours, crews were able to shut it off. but not before gushing water got into a half dozen homes. >> it's pretty bad. you can see trying to get out. >> doris shows a picture taken from her home on millbrook road near deer path. water didn't get inside her home but she's one of 50 residents who don't have water right now. crews shut it off to make repairs. her family bought bottled water to get them through the night. >> we got water, and we're just waiting hopefully, um,

"eyewitness news" reporter david spunt is live in northeast philadelphia with more on this, david. >> reporter: philadelphia police are very much aware that this issue and jewish leaders with the local synagogue are concerned, because what you see behind me has happened more than once recently. philadelphia police detective are investigating, after someone sprayed this graffiti on the side of this jewish worship site in northeast philadelphia. >> it was a wrong thing to to, not the night thing to do. not the proper thing to do. >> reporter: rabbi simon isaac son of the congregation met us at this cleansing site, down the road from the main synagogue. >> this is special jerusalem stone that we imported for this place, which is a sanctity place with pools of water. >> reporter: isaacson said he believes this cities targeted because it is a jewish worship site. >> person who did this is not randomly choose this place but specifically chose this place. >> reporter: solomon called remarkings anti sematic but they are having a hard time to find out who did it because their surveillance came

winter left behind several inches setting off these christmas decorations quite nicely in northeast philadelphia. as picturesque as it may be it was not all welcome. >> i think it stinks. >> i am not a fan of snow or cold weather, not at all. >> a nuisance at this point. i wish it would have been more and i would have had off from work. >> instead of nestling up inside wendy weaver and in of her neighbors were brushing and wiping off the snow to head to work or school. damion was holding out hope. >> you were hoping for a delayed opening? >> yes, looking at the scroll delays, did they say philadelphia yet. no. not not. >> sure enough cars are moving along just fine on roosevelt boulevard and drivers were keeping an eye on for slush and slick spots before the sun came up. >> in the big roads everything is good but the small blocks, they are still icy. >> i am more careful than normal. i don't want accidents, i want to be safe pick up my wife at work and go home safe. >> many people have their eye on potential more snow overnight. >> i would love it, i'm ready. >> we'll see what comes our way but

. >>> a man in northeast philadelphia posted a new sugary tax drink taxes is hoping a digital protest will reach the mayor and city council. created an online petition last week. just checked this morning. about 90 signatures short of his goal of 1,000. send a petition to city leaders. told us he's not expecting the sugary drink tax to be major turned. wants to let leaders know it wasn't a good idea. >> hear the voice from the people who pay their salaries. people add more to that budget knowing it's going to be hard. >> lee says most of his signatures come from people in northeast philadelphia. coming up in the next hour, we'll clear up confusion as to which drinks are taxed under new law and which drinks are not. brings us to our question for today, sugary drink tax has been in effect more than a week. we would like to know your opinion. are you taking steps to avoid buying sugary drinks or still have questions about which ones are included and which ones aren't. aren't. our address is on your screen. >>> 4:37. this morning college football has a new champion. we'll show you how the

and plymouth township a crash at jolly road and don't forget about your water main break in northeast philadelphia at mill brook road at greenmont road. the best bet around that is knights road. >> thank you gina. more ahead on "action news" tonight. new details on russia's election cyber attack again the united states. how far top officials say russia went in the hack attack and how president-elect donald trump is responding. >>> and the change to peanuts in infanted diets and why you should introduce the foods at a younger age. oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signature move, the flying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> four people are facing felony charges after a vicious attack on a mentally challenged teenager that was streamed on facebook live. police in chicago say the white victim was bound, beaten and verbally abused and the tackers

"eyewitness news" caught up with some commuters in northeast philadelphia before they headed out to work. they found the snow a nuisance the others embraced it. >> so i was expecting like a dusting, but this sidewalk is deceiving. there was like, saturday morning i would be totally fine with it. >> this is nothing. this is nothing. this is peanuts considering what we usually get. it is a little late in the winter season to get started with snow. i like it. i think it is great. >> reporter: pam is all excited there. crew where is out plowing streets and salting sidewalks in an effort to cut down on the slippery conditions. over to collinswood now in new jersey, "eyewitness news" was there to capture the light dusting measuring about an inch of snow on the ground and 3 inches on top of cars. snow covered sidewalks, and lighted trees gave the streets a nice wintry feel this friday morning. more snow, again, is expected to hit the area this weekend. >>> as we track this new storm stay with "eyewitness news" throughout the day. we will have the latest on "eyewitness news" at 5:00 and update w

watch that and also watching northeast philadelphia. crash on the boulevard northbound around conley road. lights out around presidential boulevard and city avenue. vine street is open this morning. not dealing with construction. keep eye on those for you. update you all morning on the delays around the burlington bristol bridge. alternate and keep our eye on that for you and back in ten minutes with more information. >>> ten minutes past 4:00. it's going to be a difficult day for drives. >> get you updated on the timing. >>> it is a windy start this morning. little bit rainy too. you can see the camera shaking. view at philadelphia international. that's where the winds right now at the airport are 32 miles an hour. winds are stronger at the shore. wild wood where ted greenburg just reported. 39-mile-an-hour wind gust. one of the high tides occurring now for the jersey coastline and delaware beaches. next one this afternoon. through the day strong winds. looks like the strongest winds will be around during the afternoon, however. 44 deg

. >>> to northeast philadelphia where a frightening morning rush has neighbors there on edge.olice say a man got away from them while he was handcuffed and that resulted in a big manhunt in the middle of rush hour. fox 29's dave kipp chen joining us live from police headquarters with the story. dave? >> reporter: very strange case really, and police have been working all day investigating this and they're still working on charges. we can tell you this comes down to a man who tried to get away from the cops not once but twi twice. it was a messy early morning drive in northeast philadelphia after a multi vehicle crash near roosevelt boulevard in somerdale gave way to police chasing a handcuffed man on foot. >> i'm at work. i work at wal*mart, and on top of the ceiling i hear a big helicopter. like you know when the helicopter pulling up. >> reporter: detectives tell fox 29 it started just before 5:00 in the morning when police were responding to a reckless driver heading south on the boulevard even skid through a traffic light. a black cadillac according to witnesses crashed in

stretching from northeast philadelphia out to the mainline all wawa stores in each case the suspectstole thousands of dollars in cigarettes. carrying a hammer instead of a gun, this couple walked into a local wawa in northeast philadelphia monday morning and walk out with trash bags loaded with cartons of cigarettes. >> they load up the trash bags, and walk out of the store like there's nothing to it. >> it's still scary. you know, no matter what. i mean, you still putting people in danger. >> reporter: it happened around 5am the pair enter the the store on bustleton avenue and told employees to move out of the way. they started stuffing cartons of cigarettes into the bags. then started smashing the counters and registers with the hammer. >> got the cigarettes. there was no resistance by the wawa employee, and then he decides to vandalize their cash registers. but doesn't try get any money. >> reporter: this may not be the first time the bandits have done this. police say the wawa at richmond and allegheny was held up by two suspects carrying a hammer. on the mainline the robber stol

live in northeast philadelphia, john rawlins channel6 "action news." jim. >> thank you, john. >>> the fbi and philadelphia police are hunting for a pair of armed robbers who held up the td bank on east butler street in port richmond this afternoon and the duo may be responsible for three other holdups since the middle of december including two on the same day. the other robberies were in chestnut hill, wissahickon and upper darby. >>> in pasadena, california penn state is playing the grand daddy of them all, the rose bowl game against usc. currently usc winning 13 to nothing. "action news" reporter dann cuellar is lie at the field house in center city philadelphia where penn staters are watching the game and i note dann penn state is driving. >> reporter: that's right, they got a good drive going on right now in the second quarter, jim and these fans are getting a little excited. they bleed blue. don't get me wrong, they bleed blue no matter what. they gathered here early to watch the big game and they're hoping to start the new year right with a big wi

live in northeast philadelphia, john rawlins channel6 "action news." you guys. >> all right. it's definitely going to be an adjustment, john. thank you. >>> let's get another check of the roads in our first check actually this afternoon on monday. >> yeah, it's an unusual day here for us. gina gannon is in for matt pelman in the "action news" traffic center. light traffic day but no shortage of problems. >> absolutely. starting off with one on the vine street expressway. if you're making your way into center city philadelphia look what we have going on. this is an accident on the westbound side of the vine street expressway. as you approach 76 and you can see only one lane is getting by so just that left lane get buying. we have penndot on the scene, police. it's really a mess. take a look at the delay of the line behind it. typically it takes you two minutes. it's taking 12 minutes to travel on the westbound side of the vine between 95 and 76. the eastbound side getting heavy as well. delays are not bad. as you can see on the vine street expressway we

questions surrounding this graffiti on the outer wall of a jewish community building in northeast philadelphia'serton section. whatever it is, rabbi solomon isaac son says a sang tee to you wary has been defaced. >> it's a special holy place, and it's used for religious reasons only. >> reporter: rabbi says the graffiti was painted on precious stones imported from jerusalem on a building known as a mikvah where ritual baths are being built. >> this is the pool where we actually you put the water and this is for religious cleansing so to speak. >> reporter: tagging comes days after someone smash the windows on this jewish temple in tacony earlier this month. in this particular act a hate crime. >> it could be only because i think, because this was the only building in the entire shopping center that was vandalized so. >> reporter: police cannot say for sure although they are investigatinvestigating. with some challenges like no available surveillance video. numerous cameras watching the strip mall off damaged the most recent video shows a man hitting one camera with a paintball gun. another shows

. >>> the snow hasn't hit yet, of course, some residents in northeast philadelphia have another mess on their mine. look at all of that right there. water main break has flooded at least half dozen homes and now crews are working to try and get all of that cleaned up. fox 29's shawnette wilson live at the scene. last thing any of those residents need, shawnette. >> reporter: lucy, just moments ago, we saw more philadelphia water department trucks arrive here on scene and behind me you can see that crews continue working to try to get this main shut off. meanwhile, officials have also been going door to door to homes trying to assess the damage. we're told that at least six homes took water into their basements and that water can't be pumped out until the main is shut off. skyfox over 16-inch water main break on mill brook road near dear path in the northeast. philadelphia water department crews have been working for the past four hours to get it shut off. as water gushes down mill brook in just i was round the corner of the intersection. residents say they heard a boom or some sort o

this is what neighbors here along milbrook road in northeast philadelphia are dealing with. if you can see toward the middle of the road there's a metal plate neighbors tell me is covering what's been a problem sinkhole over the better part of the year. they're wondering if the two are connected. we're asking the water department about it and we'll hopefully get an update within the next hour. as you said, several homes, at least six, seven homes damaged. their basements are damaged watn flowing. neighbors say the water is three feet high in their basement. others have water coming in from their back yard. they're trying to get everything out of their basement. the water department says they have crews are working to make sure the water is shut off completely. we'll be out here talking to neighbors, we'll see you back here for a live report at 5:00. reporting live, i'm rosemary connors. >>> 20 minutes of non-stop news continued with intruders posing as utility workers. three men told an 87-year-old man they worked for ecw. we're live near the home. this serves as a warning?

. >> plus, the water main break causes a headache for people in northeast philadelphia. take a look at what some people are dealing with. the truck time neighbors saw before the you knmegared omega-3s... but did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too? introducing megared advanced 4in1... just one softgel delivers the omega-3 power of two regular fish oil pills... so give your body mega support with megared advanced 4in1. >> this is a live look outside. snow is covering our area. but expect slick spots this morning, another check on the forecast with katie, and the roads with meisha, in just a few minutes. >> well, overnight crews continued repairs on water main break, sent water gushing through homes in northeast philadelphia. chopper three, was over the scene on the 11,000 block of millbrook road. it was about 2:00 yesterday afternoon, the water department tells us, a 8-inch main gave way, sending water into about a half dozen homes. well, in some cases, it came in the front door, and gushed out the back. >> we did have a guy tell us the wa

i'm happy to report, just as katie predicted, the snow has stopped here in northeast philadelphia. and thank goodness, for that. but take a look here, people will still be having to deal with the snow from overnight. take a look at the cars over here, two, 3 inches on top of the cars that will need to be cleaned off. fortunately for everybody, it is that really light, flurry snow, that you can just kind of push off your cars here. this is frankford avenue. you're looking at. you can see, you know, traffic moving at pretty good pace as the morning commute starts up here. but this is a good location to show you some things, because you can also see all of the little side streets off frankford. which have yet to be plowed. so you will want to be extra careful on those streets. you can also see the sidewalks also are a little slippery, just the fine layer of snow on the ground. but the road here, the imagine or roads in the city, looking pretty good. that will was not the case overnight, technically for i-95. we saw at least six accidents on both the northbound and the southbound side.

if you are leaving northeast philadelphia heading south in city, just be ready to tap the brakes rollingthe betsy ross bridge interchange. we are in good shape. tuesday, expect some jammos, we have got everybody back to work. we're all going back to school kid, grab your lunch bag, let's go. further north and west you go things could get tricky this morning as sue just mentioned on the pennsylvania turnpike, route 309, allentown, here's a live look from our traffic cameras up there, crews put down that salt/brine, they have salt trucks ready to go because for the morning rush hour temperatures north and west of the city, they are lower then the air temperatures. so we're right on that tricky gray area where we could have some black ice. crews are still out also, on the extension, between the pocono interchange, and quakertown. if you use mass transit, grab your transpass and let's go, weekday schedule back on track where all of the septa buses, trains, trolleys, all of the patco new jersey transit and dart systems running on a regular weekday schedule and right after the rush hour we wil

fbi looking for a robber who knocked off a bank in northeast philadelphia on christmas eve.ere's the wanted man. authorities say he hande handeda teller a demand note at the citizens bank on the 2500 block of welsh road after getting money he ran off. if you recognize this guy, call the fbi's philadelphia division. >>> a local fire department needs your help for a family who lost everything in a fire. not much left of the family of seven's home in delaware county. >> we told you about the fire early yesterday morning in prospect park and now the prospect fire department has started a donation campaign. they're asking for clothing, gift cards or anything else you might think that might help. three adults and four kids living in that home when it caught fire. >> this is something new that we're, um, venturing into to kind of help out the family after the fire. >> you can drop things off at the firehouse. we've got information on our website at fox29.com about they need. >> text message shedding more light on the deadly trooper shooting in central pennsylvan pennsylvania. court

for now liver in northeast philadelphia, trang do, cbs-3, "eyewitness news", jim, jan, back to you. >> thank you, trang, stay warm out there. >> and you can track penndot's plows on line and see which once are in your neighborhood. we put link on our website at cbsphilly.com. >> onto other news now. intelligence officials are expected to meet face-to-face with president-elect trump at trump tower today. to brief him on their highly anticipated dollars report, into russia's interference in the 2016 election. cbs correspondent hena daniels with the latest from new york. >> in just a fewer hours, the nation's top intelligence chiefs will make their case to president-elect donald trump. that russia undoubtedly meddled in the election. among them, the director of national intelligence, james klapper. who testified on capitol hill yesterday. >> the hacking was only one part of it. and it also entailed class cam prom began did a, dis information, fake news. >> cbs news has learned the moves intend today hurt hillary clinton's candidacy. and that us investigators have intercepted the russian

reporting live from northeast philadelphia tonight i'm joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> joe, thanks very much. >>> a man shot sitting on a relative's porch in philadelphia's fair hill neighborhood last night remains in critical condition as police continue their search for the shooter. authorities say that the gunfire came from a park across the street in the 200 block of indiana avenue knew. forty-five year-old victim was hit in the head as he sat the outside with his family members. police hepp surveillance video will lead them to a suspect. >>> hundreds gathered in altoona, pennsylvania today to say good bye to a state trooper killed in the line of duty. family, friend, and law enforcement from all over, packed the blair county convention center this morning for funeral services, for trooper london weaver. the 23 year-old was shot last friday while responding to a domestic disturbance in huntingdon county. state police shot and killed the alleged gunman. >>> today a judge ruled monsignor william lynn can fight an attempt to retry him, on child endangerment charges. in 201

also that accident in northeast philadelphia.like this is the day to head out before it gets cold. >> yeah, this is a good day to get things done tam. right now we're at 47 degrees so the temperatures are continuing to climb through the 40's. 44 in allentown, a little bit on the breezy sidely we'll get a mild high of 54ly i'll caution you that comes in around noon and by the time we get to dinnertime we're probably back to 42 with the winds picking up but the afternoon not bad. tomorrow 36. friday morning there could be light snow. >> okay, thank you david. >>> coming up on "action news" at noon we're following breaking news out of long island where a commuter train has derailed and we'll have the late of the on the investigation into what happened inside a holmesburg home where man has been found dead inside a bedroom. again that's all ahead on "action news" afternoon. but right now "live with kelly" is in this case here on 6abc. i'm tamala edwards. have a great wednesday. >> ♪ >> announcer: it's "live with kelly!" today, from t

in northeast philadelphia, the almanac for today 55 was the high temperature right around 1:30 this afternoonell above the normal of 40 degree, shy of the record of 74 and speaking of that normal of 40, the last day it's that low. starting tomorrow we start to climb the latter in the normal high department. technically speaking we are now at the independent of the heart of winter for our region. between january 5th and january 26th today, what is the coldest stretch of the 30-year average for the winter season so starting tomorrow the normal high goes up to 41 and climbs through february but winter lovers we have not had much snow don't worry it's historically the snowiest move our winter that being february. we still have a chance here. windchills we start to cool it back off 30s to the northern and west and 40s in philadelphia and 41 in millville and 41 in dover, again these numbers quickly tumbling a far cry from the march like 55 this afternoon. satellite and radar some clouds still in the northwestern suburbs and breaking apart in the rain and snow showers west of the mountains and it wi

take you over to northeast philadelphia. where we have a downed pole on the boulevard, inner drive northbound between nabisco and calmly. thablgd be -- that is correct be an issue for you. take the outer drive. i-95 naamans road an accident reported with injuries, watch yourself as you travel there. we'll take you live outside to the boulevard, if you're heading up and over the twin bridges not a problem, southbound looking good approaching 76 we're not seeing many issues there. also we have a lot of downed trees out there, one edge hill road at manor house road in the willow grove area. it could be an issue for you. >> two suspects are in custody for a robbery that ended in deadly gunfire at a texas mile. as the armed robbers fled a jewelry store a good samaritan tried to stop them, the robber shot and killed the man. a second good samaritan shot that suspect the second suspect getaway. >>> >> president trump is expected to be in philadelphia to attend the gop retreat. british prime minister teresa may will be there to spea

they say he targeted a northeast philadelphia citizens bank on christmas eve that the suspect walked foot branch on the 2500 block of welsh road and walked out with cash. nobody was hurt but detectives want to catch the suspect before he strikes again if you recognize hit him can't police. >>> and the new agent in charge of homeland investigation for several mid-atlantic states. marvin miller will oversee more than 200 federal agents in pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. including child crimes, child exploitation and human trafficking and more. miller was a scholarship athlete for the hawks basketball team and got graduate degrees there. >>> time now for an update on the highways and by ways. gina is in for matt good we have the clash if you travel in upper providence township. on 422 westbound at 29 and still the right lane is squeezing by, we have police and penndot on the scene and look at your bigger problem, 37 minutes to travel out on the westbound side from 202 to oaks. definitely a set back for you and this delay reaching back to 202. lets look at the big picture, 9 miles