Can take petersburg, cut the supply line to the army in Northern Virginia, and finally defeat lee. The union plan works like clock work. Sheridan heads off on his raid. It will end disastrously at the battle of torrian station, but it serves its purpose for the time. And on the morning of the 13th of june, lee and his men look across and discover that the union earth works are empty. Grant once again has managed to pull his army away without lee figuring out what had happened. The union army swings south, down to the james river. Grant intends to cross. But lee does not understand what grant means to do. Lee thinks that what grant might be preparing to do is to swing back toward Richmond North of the james river. So lee stays here at cold harbor, sends some of his soldiers to the south, but doesnt do a major shift, because, again, hes uncertain as to what grant will do. Well, as you civil war historians know, by june 15th, union forces are attacking at petersburg. Lee is now alerted to
Not really affected yet. Theres a little crossing the delaware bay into places like cumberland and cape may county. It is very light at this point and very slowly pushing up the i95 corridor and heading toward philadelphia. We do have temperatures that are cold, 22 degrees in philadelphia right now. 18 degrees in allentown, 22 in wilmington, 25 at the boardwalk in Atlantic City. And wind chills even though the winds arent as strong as theyve been the last couple days making it feel like its just 14 in philadelphia, 11 in allentown, 16degree wind chill in wilmington and 16degree wind chill in sea isle city. If youre headed out the door to catch that school bus between 6 and 8 oclock expect it to be cold. 21 by 6 oclock, 22 by 8 00 a. M. Some of you by the end of that period might start seeing a snow shower and as we move through the day, 22 by 8 oclock, 25 by noon and 3 oclock 28. Most of your snow shower activity is probably going to be between 8 oclock and noon, maybe into early after
Including the Levittown Shopping Center where we are at this point. We did talk to police who sent out emergency order for all of this area of bucks county, and take a listen to what chief daniel doyle told us earlier. Reporter you have possible way to contact him. Do you have an idea of who he is . No, not at this point. Were working on that. Like i said, i mean, you know, were hailing him through a pa system at this point for him to try and communicate with us. Maybe we can throw a bag phone up to him to communicate. But hes not responding. And just for in the area, the shelter in place order affect the entire boro of tullytown . Correct. It affect the sections of lakeside, stoney brook kenwood, and this general immediate area, we did send message out through the bucks county emergency management, advising the residents that there was Police Emergency and to shelter in place and that we will be update that shortly. So, whats happening at this point Emergency Response teams are negoti
Yesterday. Sunshine to start with and clouds building as we head into the afternoon hours. We will be in the 80s today. 81 degrees. That changes tomorrow. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood. The forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now lets check in with Jessica Boyington in the first alert traffic. Good morning, bill. Were still monitoring an accident in new jersey on bellmawr 295 northbound. Overturned vehicle. Not a lot of volume as well. Youre heading into philadelphia over the ben franklin bridge still dealing with ongoing construction coming into philadelphia. Losing part of that righthand lane. Not a lot of volume on the bridge but something to Pay Attention to if youre heading into philly a little bit later on. Schuylkill expressway currently no problems along south street. Westbound or eastbound, all the drive times there under 12 minutes in or out of the city. Mass transit. No delays for septa, new Jersey Transit or the patco speed line. Chris. A man is in
Notice the clouds increasing and the rain moves in at 10 00 p. M. More details on what to expect in the full sevenday forecast. But first well go to first alert traffic reporter Christine Maddela. Good morning. Happy friday. Well take a live look outside right now with our photographer on the scene of this crash since we started this morning. So before our newscast at 4 00 a. M. Theres peco crews out here. What happened was a car hit a utility pole and also flipped over in this intersection of Germantown Pike. And because of that utility pole being hit, you can see the low hanging wires and the utility pole leaning. So peco has to go in and fix that. That is taking so long to repair the wires. Germantown pike one westbound lane is open on the eastbound side. Both eastbound lanes are open. So you can get by but because theres a heavy presence of peco crews, it is going to take some time. This stretch, the peco crews are on Germantown Pike near pleasant road. On the maps you can see a sl