Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now rain and thunder moving in and a lot of it. Live look at wilmington bearing the brunt of these storms right now. Radar you can see the swath of green, yellow and or ranch covering a lot of our area. Look at our camera lense in reading covered in raindrops. The region getting hit with pretty heavy downpours right now. Were talking more than an inch of rain. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. This is only the first round. Meteorologist kathy orr is track wagon we can all expect. Kathy. Take look at ultimate doppler behind me. You can see yellow and oranges pockets of heavy rain moving through the area most of it to the west of philadelphia but you can see down through wilmington, dover, even toward the shore points seeing some heavy rain. In south jersey comer land county seeing heavy rain as well. So this is all going to be moving through courtesy an area of low pressure.
Morning. It happened at the intersection of southwest 9th and mckinely at 830 this morning. Police say the white suv was heading eastbound on mckinley. It went through a red light and hit a car that was going north on southwest ninth street. The driver of the car is recovering in the hospital this afternoon and his condition is unknown at the time. Police expect to issue tickets to the driver of the suv. Falling in a trench has a gofund me account set up for him. Fell in a trench in altoona yesterday friends and family have set up a go fund me account and have raised more than 2thousand dollars so far. Jorgensen was installing sewer lines yesterday afternoon, when the roughly 12 foot trench collapsed around him. Crews worked for several hours osha regulations say special walls to prevent a collapse are required for trenches deeper than 5 feet. The 12 Year Old Girl who went missing in december is now back home and safe. Charlene brown was found with her mom and her moms boyfriend in vic
Preference to a landslide win. Come january, kenney will become the 125th mayor in the history of the city. Tuesday night, the big story on action news tonight is the election of jim kenney as mayor. And these numbers tell the tale of kenneys victory over repupublican Melissa Murray bailey. 98 of the vote in. Kenney with 85 of the votes cast. Action News Reporter dann cuellar live outside of Philadelphia City hall. Dann . The poles are closed for 45 minutes when the mayor jim kenney emerged to give his victory speech thanking his parents, children and supporters for their help, and gave his vision. Tonight surrounded by all of you i am reminded it is not what i will going to do, it is what we are going to do together. [cheers and applause] in brief remarks, mayorelect jim kenney outlined his vision for the city of philadelphia under his administration in 2016. He talks about teachers having the resources to teach, and the smallest, most Vulnerable Children being able to go to prek. If
Poconos a quarter mile. 2. 5mile visible in allentown. Reports of big delays at Philadelphia International airport. This evening were in that lull. It will continue till about 11 00 oclock tonight. And then well see more showers moving into the region from the southwest. Were talking about reduced visibility. Less than a mile at times. We can see a dense fog advisory issued later tonight if this persists. Coming up well talk more iffy tale about the next storm coming in and the wind that follows for now well zen it back to you. You can track the rain prepare for tomorrow by downlo downloading fox 29 weather app. Look at live radar images and get alerts sent right to your phone go to the apple or Google Play Store and search fox 29. Breakings right now out of the new jersey. State Police Issued an amber alert for a threeyearold girl named rebecca. Authorities say her father 47yearold, took her from the bronx. Police say he assaulted his wife with a knife and then sped off with the child
Now and the resident hopes even more people Start Talking about it. Last night, cnn hosted a town hall with the president about guns. It comes just days after he spelled out new executive actions he hopes will cut down n gun violence. He says he was disappointed the n ra did not show up for town hall saying hes invited the group to the white house repeatedly. The president says he respects gun owners whh have them to protect themselves and to hunt. But all of us can agree that it do others harm. Or. To do themselves harm. The president says he will not vote for any ccdidate even a what he calls commonsense gun reform. There are new gun laws on the books in some states this year. In texas, thhres a new open carry law. One restaurant has been offering discounts to customers who legally carry guns. That restaurant is now the target of threats. Someone posted on facebook theyll shoot up the place tomorrow aa armed customers wont be able to stop the attack. Were gonna open on saturday as us