8 30 in the morning. Call came from the childrens mother, authorities wont say what she told police, but that first officers on the scene, thought they were simply doing a quote, wellbeing check. The buses, met the mother outside and at the location, and actually saw two children that were deceased. Reporter there was a strong smell of gas coming from the home, so strong that officers had to pull back and evacuate building. But despite gas concern that at this point in the investigation, it appears that two little boys who lived here may have died from something else. Right now we believe, and there were reports and what were looking at is the children looked like they might have been drowned. Reporter at this point Wilmington Police chief did say mother is believed to be only one who was with the two little boys. Speaking with the mother to find out details of what happened with these children, and trying to gather witnesses and, as early in this Investigation Police are not calling t
Really a chilly, chilly start. It makes you feel like its actually the middle of october. These temperatures are going to lead to an afternoon on the cool side. Temperatures will only make their way to the upper 50s and some low 60s. Heres the radar and satellite. Clear picture for us. Thats what helped temperatures plummet. We had cold air surging in from the north, on top of the fact there were no clouds to hold in the previous days heat. Yeah, the temperatures fall completely. Lets track the trend over the next couple of hours here. 7 00 a. M. , were at around 43 degrees. Very close to where we currently are. Look at that, 10 00 a. M. , still in the 40s. Plenty of sunshine. That lasts for a while. Well look at how long the dry spell lasts in a few minutes. Well go to traffic and jessica boyington. Thanks. Were starting on the schuylkill expressway morning and cameras just around Spring Garden street. Back here, center city. You can see no problems or delays in both directions here a
Lots of sun as we move forward. Well talk about how long the dry spell lasts coming up. Right now, well go to traffic and jessica boyington. Thanks. Starting off on the roosevelt boulevard, the cameras around 17th street. So far, so good. No problems or delays here. The southbound side moving up toward the schuylkill. You see a little more traffic heading that direction than we typically see for the morning commute. Any commute. Also watching the crash out in hatfield township on bethlehem pike around orville road. In horsham, the clearing of the fire should be out by now. Either way, there could be lane restrictions in place. Sorgum way at horsham road. Back to you. And flames jumped through a unit at a cherry hill apartment complex forcing neighbors to run from their homes. One neighbor told us their cat helped them escape. Matt delucia is live at the Colonial Park apartments with that story. Matt . Yeah. People thanking their pets this morning. Also thanking their neighbors for help
Construction project. Here we are around conshohocken. They lifted this construction where we had this westbound ramp closed down. You can see the Police Activity is gone. Might be some crew over here, but, again, still pretty dark. Its hard to see. Either way that should be opened shortly. Traffic still getting by on the westbound side and eastbound doing okay, too. Well show you that here on the drive time. Schuylkill from the vine to the blue route. Whether youre going east or west. At the most take you 13 minutes. Also watch for this crash on lower merion. Jessica, thank you. Right now the man accused of two shootings in two states is in custody and awaiting arraignment. Nbc o10 was there when radee prince was captured in New Castle County last night after a tenhour manhunt. Prince shot six people and five coworkers in maryland and one in a targeted attack in delaware. Three were killed. The violence left two communities in shock as we learn more about princes troubled past. Live a
Not a whole lot of wind, certainly no chance of rain. As we go through the rest of the day, nothing but sunshine. Zero chance of rain across any part of the area today. And that really does continue for a while. You could see near 70 at delaware and much of new jersey, even the jersey shore getting up pretty close to 70 degrees today and then warming up as we head through the weekend. Well get into those numbers and when rain is actually going to be coming in in just a few minutes. Jess. Thanks, glenn. On 95 and around girard avenue. Southbound side still moving. So, from the vine street expressway to wood haven road or north or south or either direction right there. Still seeing pretty low drive times and speeds into the 60s. Dropping a tad on the southbound side and traffic moving towards center city and also watching a crash on lower merion right rock creek road and watching for Police Activity there. Route 10 right now is blocked in both directions due to a fire in west philly. Shu