People we spoke to on scene said they saw the man after the scene happened, the man who was able to get the child out of that car. They say he was wearing some sort of official uniform but no word yet on that man mas identity. Live outside Temple University hospital tonight, matt rivers, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Matt thank you very much. Elsewhere today, one worker is electrocuted, another is shocked when a ladder falls onto a wire. This happened on wynton avenue in havertown. Eyewitness News Reporter Steve Patterson has more. Rest in peace god rest his soul. Shocking. Reporter it is the first word that came to mind for neighbor Bob Strickland after spending most of the morning way deadly accident scene across the street. Im sorry for his family. Reporter investigators say they have a good grasp on what happened but how it happened is going to take some work. Were investigating as far as the as far as how contact was made with one of the wires. Reporter contact was made shortly after 9 00
9 00 friday morning when workers from a private Roofing Company were putting up this ladder at a corner home on win 10 of a that made contact witness power lin lines. At this time were investigating as far as as far as how contact was made with one of the wires which would be the upper wires. Reporter investigators say a worker in his mid 50s died at the scene much his coworker was taken by ambulance and airlifted to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania with injuries. Its an unfortunate incident that at this time we investigating poe company has recharged the electricity to the residents. Bob strickland lives across the street from where the accident occurred on this quiet havertown street. All the cops were here and no one wanted to touch him because he could have been still charged with electricity in these power lines. Reporter peco work crews cut power to the area causing 1600 customers to lose electricity for a couple of hours. Detectives, osha and peco Safety Experts ar
Time for the weekend. With the skies clear, the temperatures are rising, a welcome warmup at the shore. Lets look outside at the people at cape may taking in the sun while they can. Dont put away that bathing suit just yet. Just perfect addition to bid farewell to baseball. Citizens bank park where the phillies open up the final series of the season tonight. Good morning, im keith jones. Bill henley, says the first weekend of fall is a winner. Nice to see this beautiful sunny weather. What a gorgeous day, crystal clear. The wind is blowing, nowhere near as strong as the gusty winds we had yesterday. Of course that brought the driving rain. Right now 70 degrees in philadelphia, humidity has come way down since this morning. There were some areas of fog north and west. They are obliterated are the sunshine. The winds have picked up, 15 miles an hour, gusting to 22 miles an hour at philadelphia international. Thats still a lot lower than yesterday. 69 degrees in trenton, wilmington also 6
Today skyforce 10 was in Delaware County over havertown where two workers were shocked by power lines, one of them was killed. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante has been on the ground gathering new information since we first brought you this story live as breaking news this morning on nbc 10 news at 11 00. What have you found out since then . Reporter we do know those two men worked for a philadelphiabased roofing kpp. If you take a look behind me at the scene, peco crews are still here. We can see the ladder that those two men were using when trying to get on to the roof of this home. Its still on the ground here. Crews from peco tell me they will be removing the rest of this, this as investigators are talking to a 24yearold mp the only survivor of this construction accident. Sitting on my front porch, i saw the policemen going down this way. At first Susan Callahan said she had no idea what was happening until she looked over to her neighbors house. I saw the men in the street. Reporter they we
Defendanting sold and distributed drugs in protected locations including widener university, the Frederick Douglas christian school, the Chester Upland School of the a arts, sun village park and the 11th upland streets play ground. To further their Drug Trafficking operations members used juveniles and drug addict to package, sale and distribute drug. Reporter and you heard there just how insidious this group was. The dea, fbi local and state police all involved in this operation. They say they took down the hierarchy of the group. Theyre hoping the rest follows. Dawn, back to you. Sabina, thank you. Developing now a development in the search for the man cued of killing a Pennsylvania State trooper. Investigators uncovering a computer hard drive that this man used Authorities Say he shot and killed Corporal Brian Dixon and wounded his colleagues two weeks ago. It happened outside the State Police Barracks in Blooming Grove and what they have gathered they say he has been planning this