Seniors lives began. They were running back in right into the fire. At that time it was raging. Reporter neighbor and witness Larry Kingsland says the fire crews never flinched. He says he and his neighbors knew they couldnt do it alone so he and others went in to help. Instead of waiting i went in myself and other people just were going in the building, we were getting people out. Reporter he also describes a checks and Balance System that was happening inside to prevent further confusion. One of the administrators from barclay was in there putting little red stickers on the doors as we were taking the people out just to signify that when the firemen came in, in case it was smoky. Reporter at a News Conference about three hours ago officials told us at least 27 residents inside had been injured. No word yet if anyone was trapped and killed. At this point theyre still trying to account for everyone after the chaotic night. You can see residents were wheeled out carried out on makeshift
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For 50 years. Reporter police say the 17yearold driver turned himself in. Hes been charged as a juvenile. The 15yearold is fine and was practicing with his sports team. He went to practice the next day and the he was worried that he was in trouble. I dont know how you worry about that getting run over but hes a good boy. Reporter well, again that 15yearold not seriously injured. When we spoke with him briefly today he was preparing to go to his lacrosse practice this evening. The 17yearold driver turned himself in the next day. He is facing various assault related charges as a juvenile. Live in ridley township, john rawlins channel6 action news. Thank you john. President trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner appeared on capitol hill today as part of that ongoing russia investigation. Kushner spent more than two and a half hours meeting with the Senate Intelligence committee about the trump campaigns contacts with russian nationals. And tomorrow kushner will have a similar conversation with hou
With very heavy bands of rain. Theyve already seen tornado warnings and it likely will continue to rain there through the middle of next week. And if you look at the buoy report you can see wind gusts 68 Miles Per Hour just off the coast of Corpus Christi. So, hurricanes come with a whole package of problems. Youve got flooding rains, the storm surge and really the rain will be the biggest problem. This storm once it makes landfall will basically stall. It will be a lumbering slow moving disaster so were looking at some areas that could get close to 30inches of rain in a period of several days. Thats about a years worth of rain. So, these are the latest facts on Hurricane Harvey. Category three landfall likely tonight on the verge of a cat four. Catastrophic flooding, Power Outages for days and that storm surge could be up to 12 feet. Ill have more details on the storm and also our local weather coming up in the seven day. Jim. Thank you cecily. Were going to go live to center city and
Action News Delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Driving can be hazardous to your health especially when you are being bombarded by Construction Equipment that is what happened to Lindsey Richards as she drove on the pine street expressway in philadelphia this morning it was bad and it could have been worse. Its tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is a close brush with catastrophe for a motorist on 676. A metal bar being used for construction on the ben franklin parkway above her crashed on to her moving car. Live at 20th and the parkway tonight is action News Reporter Christie Lleto christie what exactly happened there . Reporter its no secret that construction crews have been in the area making repairs to bridges for quite some time but Lindsey Richards never imagined metal would fall on her car and shatter some windows and land on her dog. It hit right here shattering like the frame. Reporter a mid morning drive became petrifying behind the whee