Action news, delaware valleys leading news program, with meteorologist, medical list a magee, Jeff Skversky and walter perez. Im walter perez the big story on action news at 5 00 s been raining on and off all day long with another round moving our way tonight. Meteorologist Melissa Magee joins with us our first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. It is one of those weekends damp and dreary across delaware and lehigh valley, heaviest rain has stopped in philadelphia but we are starting to find that wet weather still to our north and west. We will go in tighter on street level Storm Tracker six you can see light rain in pena rgyl, easton, new hope, traveling on route 611 there. In Allentown Lehigh county on route 222, and fleetwood, hamburg and reading. This will continue as we go throughout the rest of the evening. Another round of, precipitation moves through overnight tonight. Despite moisture overhead, temperatures are fairly mild for this time of the year. It is 50 degrees
Able to get money from the cook and take his wallet and also a ring and a letter written in chinese. Reporter outside cameras record the thieves climbing over the fence in their get away but john fires from his gun striking the last crook. At that moment i tried to scare him. I dont know how many people they have. Reporter you tried to shoot to scare them you jed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you know you hit them at the time or no. No, i dont know. About 40 minutes after the incident occurred, a male shows up at Mercy Hospital with a gunshot wound to his back. The victim is brought over there and identifies the mail as one of the two robbers that were inside the business. Reporter interestingly john tells us the wounded suspect had been one of his customers for more than 10 years and allegedly denied any wrongdoing. He said, john, you know its not me. I got cigarette a lot from you. Reporter investigators say the injured suspect is in custody and will be charged while they look for thi
3 3 breaking overnight. A deputy with the Berkeley County Sheriffs Office has been shot. The Sheriffs Office alerted the public about this on social media. The popo says it happened shortly after midnight while the deputy was deputy is in stable condition. The suspect is still at large. We will l continue to follow this story. 3 3 a large number of vultures are causing problems for People Living in homes on fort jackson. Starting next week the base plans to start scaring vultures off with shotguns and lasers. But wildlife experts question the methods. Jay coles with the Carolina Wildlife Center says residents in that area need to make sure they are keeping their trash in a place where the vultures cant get to it. Jay coles the solution to that is to prevent the vultures from getting to the garbage, theyll go somewhere else to eat, vultures are motivated by food, its their primary interest and as long as its a food source there, theyre going to hang around and any effort to run them off
Another cool start to our midday here in the midlands. As were starting off friday at noon with temperatures in the upper 40s and 50s. Fifty, from lexington, and sumter. And newberry all the way to camden. Here in columbia, sitting at 50 degrees. Very strong wind. West, northwest at 14 Miles Per Hour. A lot of sunshine. And feels much cooler outside. The sunshine will continue throughout the afternoon. Looking at a high of 57 degrees as the wind continues out of the northwest. Very cold tonight. Light wind out of the north at 5 Miles Per Hour as we get to a 30degree low. Tomorrow, the wind shifts out of the west, southwest at 5 Miles Per Hour. A lot of sunshine. It will warm up to 60 degrees. We will look at the sevenday forecast and the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. The South Carolina democratic primary is tomorrow. The candidates continue to look for both throughout the state. Senator Bernie Sanders will be you will be hosting a rally at 3 00. At 4 00, sanders is sched
3 were just a 3 day away from the democratic primary here in the palmetto state. Today former president bill clinton will be campaigning in aiken and blufton for his wife Hillary Clinton. Their daughter, chlsea will be out at usc to rally support for mom as well. Yesterday Hillary Clinton was at a rally in kingree. Whe re she spoke about the need to go after them first through the internet. To stop them from recruting. I will do that 3 bill clinton was out in winnsboro last night campaigning for his wife. 3 clintons compeition. Bernie sanders will be in orangeburg today. Hes expected to attend a rally and tour claflin university. The event is free and is open to the public. Doors open at 3 30. He will also be at a get out the vote rally and concert this evening at the township auditorium. Doors open at 4. Yesterday, sanders was in ohio. Talking about his Grassroots Campaign at a rally Baldwin Wallace university. Its the second time the vermont senator visited the cleveland area since n