Bell. Excellent visibility for wrightstown, philadelphia international. Dover and wildwood in the clear. Just a clear spots of fog. Clear skies, this is a live view from here at the nbc 10 studio. Yesterday we started off with clouds. Today its sunshine on duty all day and a hot and humid afternoon. 90s today and this is not the end of the heat as well. Theres more on the way. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas will be heading into the 90s today when im back in ten minutes. Right now Jessica Boyington has a look at whats going to greet you as you head out the door. Starting to see a little bit of delay on 95, bill, right around state road. You can see on the southbound side, right in here where we typically see that volume first. 95 southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. We still see a 14minute trip there. If youre headed northbound, completely no problems at all. If youre headed out the door on the schuylkil
Tomorrow. We dont want our child on that bus again. We dont want her with this driver. Reporter tim furlong, nbc 10 news. New at 6 00, within the past 45 minutes, the owner of a West Philadelphia funeral home is explaining himself. This Afternoon Police say they found three unrefrigerated bodies, two of them decomposing, in the home. Today, state investigators showed up at hawkins Funeral Services, acting on a tip that the business was operating without a license. Inside, they found the three bodies. Now the Funeral Homes owner is saying the concern about storage and lack of refrigeration is based on a misunderstanding. The bodies we have paperwork, they are to be cremated. Reporter why arent they refrigerated . We dont refrigerate bodies that are being cremated. Hawkins says he is personally licensed to work as a funeral director but is still in the process of getting a license for the business itself. Hawkins Funeral Services has only been operating out of its vine street location fo
Homes in this city. Nbc 10s George Spencer has been working the story from West Philadelphia all evening long. George, some of the details are very graphic but the funeral director telling you its all a misunderstanding . Reporter jim, that is his claim, but there are major and lingering questions about his handling of these three bodies and late this evening we also confirmed in igs to the bodies investigators here discovered a bag of human organs, apparently cast aside like trash. Nbc 10 cameras were on scene as Philadelphia Police returned to this funeral home tonight. Theyve been active here since the discovery of three unrefrigerated bodies inside. Two of them, investigators say, nonembalmed and decomposing. Thats being irresponsible. As a funeral home, its being irresponsible. China furgess is a neighbor who had relatives buried by the previous tenants, apparently kimball funeral home and later gaither. Hawkins Funeral Services set up shop here recently and police say even though
Reporter police say miguel colon ran over alicea and his mother Josephine Rivera at lehigh and mascher. Investigator say colon was driving a friends 2006 infiniti with his brother when they smashed into the two at a high rate of speed. The owner of the car went to police shortly after learning about the accident but police had to build their case. These investigations are very difficult proving somebody was driving a vehicle. There was two people in the car at the time so we had a little difficulty in proving the fact that he may have been driving. So, it just took some extra investigation. Reporter an arrest warrant was issued for colon who remains on the run. Aliceas mother has recovered from the injuries but the emotional scars will be lasting. The family and police have message for colon. Turn yourself in. You ran the first time. You should have stopped the first time. Leaving my babies out like road kill, you know, man up. Man up. Reporter and police say colon likes to frequent th
Said it would never happen again. Reporter and you said. So i know it wont because hes not coming back. Reporter ortiz reported the incident to police and the state department of children and family. Dcs spent seven minutes trying to get someone to answer the door and only got in after Hamilton Police arrived. They were summoned after the day care called the cops on us upset that we were knocking on the door looking for a comment. We never got it. Its horrible. That means anyone can get out. I didnt i didnt have a clue that that even happened. Reporter some family members picking up children didnt know or didnt want to talk about the incident. But others are horrified that a threeyearold would be able to leave the building undetected by staff. But i dont know how the boy got out without anybody watching him, cars stopping because its so business z its pretty theyre pretty good here. I just dont know how it happened. Reporter right now authorities are working to answer that and yemaris