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Parents, teachers. School leaders. They are all stepping in try to stop these racial tensions. Lets get out to Washington Township and steve keeley, steve. Reporter well, text on wednesday led to a brawl right inside of the doors of the school hallway, yesterday, in the morning, which led to suspensions in the afternoon and then an emergency meeting for parents, the public and even the police last night. So what will happen friday . Well, police themselves had to put out notice right on the Wash...

Allentown. And, 59 degrees, plenty of sunshine to take to us a high of 74 later on. That is your Weather Authority forecast, seven day is coming up but at 5 01 it is time to check traffic with a look at road work. It is on the schuylkill westbound on off ramp to conshohocken, it looks like they will pick this up soon, but neff not done so yet. Usually around 5 00 they do that and let traffic flow as smoothly as it will. We will look at road work on i95 in both directions between betsy ross, aram...

One happened in washington townsh township. Katie is showing us why racial tensions are running high and how students are making a statement about it. They are. Lets begin with what happened in coatsville. Earlier this week we told you how High School Students there posed for picture with racist imagery. It had leaders reacting pretty harshly. This morning students held a silent show of unity. They could be seen standing arm in arm in the football staid up. It was in response to pictures of thei...

Fans, philly fans were going crazy, chanting defense and of course trust the process. And if you brought it there i cannot imagine how loud this roar will be here tonight. When you look out on the floor and you see a healthy joel embiid, Markelle Fultz and ben simmons you just want to pin much yourself right now after i get myself up off the floor and stop crying they are tears of joy i swear. It is exciting. We have the young core. We have been talking about this for four years. It is here, fou...

Today remain silent on what they call a vital issue. Im a minority as myself. So this sort of relates to me. Reporter the students took the racist remarks personally. We have to make a difference as people. You know, incidents like this shouldnt happen. They shouldnt have hate towards someone because of the pigment of their skin. Reporter the School District admits there is a problem, citing other past racial issues with students. But the majority is now stepping in. Change something thats been ...

All throughout hunting park area and tie ups along the hunting park and allegheny intersection right there. Hazmat crews were called in to the scene to deal with all of this. Now its important to note we do not have any reports of injuries at this time but crews continue to work on this while peco is trying to reroute some of the power thats out there trying to reroute power to get it to people who still need it at this point but as we come back to the ground level here, we can tell that you thi...

Im rosemary connors. Lets start with the weather. Look at the temperatures across the board. 50 in mount pocono. 42 pottstown and near 50 for philly at 49. At 46 in wilmington. Look at the southern zones. Millville, mid 50s. Atlantic city, 56. A lot of us didnt see much cooling overnight. Yesterday we officially hit a high of 58 in philly. Only a 7degree drop there. That makes it very easy to talk 60s and 70s later this afternoon. Radar and satellite. One problem is, with the 70s. You dont get a...

Weather. First alert meteorologist krystal klei is tracking a warmup for our saturday. You had to differentiate saturday from sunday because weve got a little bit of everything in this weekend forecast. Right now, things are very mild. As rosemary said, it will warm up nicely today. At 52 already in philadelphia. 50 in wilmington. Atlantic city is now up to 58 degrees. Upper 40s, mount pocono. Low 40s allentown and pottstown. Across the map as we get into the later part of today, were talking 60...

Well take a closer look at the drop on sunday coming up. Its that time of year when the banks of the Schuylkill River are packed with people watching the regattas. This weekend, the murphy cup regatta. Randy gyllenhaal is live with a preview. Reporter a sure sign of spring in philadelphia is the Schuylkill River filled with crew teams. Take a look. There are a lot of them here, including local teams like temple. Drexel. Villanova and 40 others from all over the country for the 35th annual murphy...

Some time. Sadly theres not much left of the body. The number one priority is finding out the cause of death. Once thats determined then we know which route to begin that investigation. Reporter those in this neighborhood add on top of being alarmed theyre not surprised. They say this neighborhood is steadily getting worse. Drug activity on the railroad has been doubled increased. I dont know if its because they pushed it off of sommer street or tioga but weve had nothing but addicts and drugs. ...