Off. This is a look at interstate 880 north and southbound. The traffic is moving well in both directions here. Its looking good all the way up to oakland. We have a little bit of road work in the south bay. 280 near 17. But again these commutes are sol light that traffic is doing very well any way. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Topping our news this morning. Southwest Airlines Passengers had to scramble to find alternate flights after the carrier grounded more than 100 planes due to safety concerns. Tara moriarty is at Oakland International airport this morning. The airline missed required safety inspections. Tara. Reporter that is right and five flights had to be canceled here at Oakland International airport. You can only imagine what it might have been like at the hub in dallas. They had to ground 128 flights yesterday. That is about a fifth of its fleet after it discovered the misinspections. It canceled about 80 flights and up to 19 more are expected today. Bay area a
Transit. Things at the airport look fine as well, ukee. Dash cam video catches a very moment natural gas explosion rips apart a home in ocean county, new jersey. The the firely blast injured 15 people and sent debris, as you can see shooting several feet into the air. Thinks aftermath from chopper three. Only the basement basement rhea mains intact. Eyewitness News Reporter jan carabao is live from the scene in stafford township where utility crews continue to work on that damage gas line, jan, good morning. Reporter ukee, good morning. Gas crews have been on the scene here around the clock trying to restore service to everyone in this neighborhood. We are being kept far from the scene right now. That is oak avenue just down there where Police Officers are stationed now. Police officers on the scene tell me gas crews are still there working to restore services. We have yet to hear from the gas company hoping to get an update from them very soon. Mayor of stafford township tells us that
Identifying the potential leak. So did they find where it was. To identify the source. Reporter the explosion injured more than a dozen first responders. Most of them hit by the shock wave created by the blast. It would knock you off your feet. I saw one of my guys get knocked to the ground. It was something i never want to experience again. Reporter literally hit by did he bro a shock wave that hit the person . I would say a shock wave. Reporter route nine was closed for most of the day as neighbors even those living several blocks away reflected on a blast that felt like it was leveling their own homes. I heard this big crashing noise or explosion or something. The whole house shook. I thought the house were you going down or something. Inside the house Drinking Coffee at the table when i feel an explosion on the house moving moving. I came downstairs. My Kitchen Cabinets were open. Basement my cubbyhole from the outside they were blown open, too. I can see cops were already there an
5 00 oclock on the nose, february 25th, 2015. So, what, march 21 winter officially ends, roughly . Yes. Well, we have 23 days until the first day of spring. Thank goodness. So yes, it is getting a little more in reach that spring time thinking. We got seven out of ten today in your weather by the numbers. 16 degrees with windchill of seven, this is not as harsh as it was yesterday when, if you recall, we had windchills below zero. And our days are getting longer. So our sunrise time is 6 40. Weve got temperatures mostly in the teens and 20s, out there there is morning. And we get to high of 20, not 25 like yesterday oh, no, 37 degrees, bob kelly your high today. Take the jacket off. Good morning everybody as you head eastbound on the schuylkill expressway, no problems at the moment. But, as you get close to belmont avenue, all that water thats been coming out of the rocks, forming a big Ice Sculpture, and the roads little wet that right lane is a little wet as you head eastbound, in to
American sniper murder trial. What they decided straight ahead. Good day, it is wednesday wednesday 25th, 2015. I felt like it should be friday. Bob said it is wednesday already. I thought it is only wednesday . Whether you get up at this hour, sue serio every day seems like a month. Okay. Ya some days it is absolutely like that. Weekends seem like a lunch break. I know, and just here to count degrees for you and we have more degrees on our temperatures map than we did yesterday. And we dont have a lot of wind but it is still 17 degrees. It is all relative, right . Because we were in Single Digits yesterday below zero windchills, 6 40 now our sunrise time, thats really the best part of all of this, is that these days are getting longer getting ever closer to spring. So temperatures in the teens everywhere. To the north of us, 11, though, the current temperature in trenton, eight in wrightstown, 14 in Atlantic City and big warm 21 degrees in wildwood. So the windchills are not that much