Good afternoon in the news this noon, people are cleaning up the damage from another tornado outbreak. And owners of a fitness club are vowing to rebuild after a destructive fire. And a kidnapping attempt in delaware. They believe this attack is similar to two cases in Newcastle County last month. Annie mccormick is live in newark where the police are acti actively looking for the suspend. Reporter the victim is lucky because she was not assaulted. We spoke to a man who lives here in the apartment complex, a marine, and the man that the victim and her boyfriend ran to for help after she escaped the grip of that dangerous man who Police Believe is a serial sexual predator. He came up from behind and held a gun to her head and said this is a stick up. The man that chased down the man that put a gun to a womans head walked us through it. She came down the steps and he came up and she went for this and as he put the gun to her head, she went down and hit the security buzzer. A woman return
Swath of snow from washington, new york and into southern new england, as we go through the morning rush tomorrow, its smack dab in the middle of rush with the ban of snow and low visibilities between 6 00 and 10 00 in the morning and it starts to backoff into the lunch time hours, region by region along that pennsylvania turnpike north. Its slick and the roads become snow covered. In and around philadelphia snow covers and low visibility and mainly wet roads and there could also be some snow covered roads if it coming down quick enough and southern delaware and new jersey mixing with wet snow and no issues on the roads, well look at the updated suspected snowfall in the full accuweather forecast. Adam, thank you. We turn now to gray hall live in rittenhouse square. Gray you are talking to people that say they are not ready for winter to make this come back. Reporter they are not sharrie. I have to tell you that spring lovers are actually in love with this winter because we havent seen
Its march and its not january, when it moves in it will be fighting dry air and a lot of that moisture will be lost initially to evaporation and its grown is warm. Three days in a row of temperatures in the 60s and the high march sun angle to fight and we have to consider the melt factor, a lot of this is location and elevation dependant and the National Weather service post aid Winter Weather advisory for all areas northern of philadelphia for the potential of slushy calmlation on roads that could create problems for the morning commute. Breaking it down region by region. Pennsylvania and turnpike and areas north this is all snow and not rain. Roads are slick tomorrow morning. Philadelphia i95 corridor could start briefly as rain but all snow and the main problem in south jersey and delaware a mix of rain and wet snow. Thank you. And you wont be surprised to hear that the Action News Morning Team will be off to an early start tomorrow to help you navigate the forecasted snow. Please j
Cycling alone. And all of these victims were fighting him and terrorized and he would rob them and rape them. And the da gave details on all nine cases this one from december of last year case number eight. He grab a young lady at 7 00 on a sunday morning and pulls her into a park playground area and brutally rapes and attacks her. Lee had done jail time on a gun charge when it was february of last year he was arrested again and authorities decided to do a dna tax. And two more attacks occurred before the dna matches came back in february. The da says it can sometimes take a year to get the report from the Pennsylvania State police lab. They were able to pull a sample in february of 2016 and the results came back in january of 2017 and we were able to match dna results to this individual. Lee was arrested in early january at the eddie stone supermarket when one alleged victims recognized him and called police. Reporter jim, tonight police say that if you recognize dejohn lee as your at
Daylight on the b and tioga streets in philadelphia was caught on camera. Police are working to find the three men seen here viciously beating the 25yearold victim. Its hard to see something of that level of brutality and what appears to be that random looking and in that broad daylight conditions, it gets a little startling. The crime happened this past saturday at 12 30 as the victim was leaving a restaurant, you see the group in question walking and looking in windows like they were looking for someone. The victim was there to get a job application and they were too afraid to talk on camera but couldnt believe what happened as the man left the restaurant. No sooner he turned to the left he is confronted by three males one hits him in the face so hard he falls to the ground and one repeatedly kicks him and punches him while removing items from him. At tacker his no mercy and repeatedly punched and kicked the helpless man. The brutal beat down gets worse and the suspects knock him unc