Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. The Philadelphia Police department in mourning tonight. A young sergeant killed after a weekend crash. Coworkers and neighbors trying to come to grips with the loss. The tenyear veteran of the force was killed when his truck hit a tree saturday night. Im natasha brown, thanks for joining us. Officers say the speed was a factor in this crash but plenty of questions remain about what happened inside the truck in the moments leading up to the accident. Steve patterson has the latest from the 39th police district. Reporter brothers and sisters in mourning. The district is crushed. Blinking back tears, lieutenant jeff describe add deep sadness after losing a man the brightest and best. Sergeant ali was knowledgeable shall, very friendly supervisor here, studying for lieutenant, bright future. Reporter sergeant raphael ali died shortly after midnight sunday morning. Saturday night, investigators is stay ali was off duty. Driving along the
From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. The Philadelphia Police department in mourning tonight. A young sergeant killed after a weekend crash. Coworkers and neighbors trying to come to grips with the loss. The tenyear veteran of the force was killed when his truck hit a tree saturday night. Im natasha brown, thanks for joining us. Officers say the speed was a factor in this crash but plenty of questions remain about what happened inside the truck in the moments leading up to the accident. Steve patterson has the latest from the 39th police district. Reporter brothers and sisters in mourning. The district is crushed. Blinking back tears, lieutenant jeff describe add deep sadness after losing a man the brightest and best. Sergeant ali was knowledgeable shall, very friendly supervisor here, studying for lieutenant, bright future. Reporter sergeant raphael ali died shortly after midnight sunday morning. Saturday night, investigators is stay ali was off
Hoping today is the same . Well keep it generally the same for you. It was like one of those weekends almost like you said you felt bad going inside. Wanted to make the most of it if you k hopefully you had the chance. Better part of the day looking at pleasant weather. We should expect to see more sun than anything, ben franklin bridge, overlooking the delaware here, over toward center city, all aokay on skycam 3, what you will find on storm scan3, as women. Completely clear for now. Things always have to change at some point, right . And they will eventually courtesy of let me zoom out one more time for you that guy, latest frontal boundary, which doesnt look all that impressive, right . Few speckles of green over the last few hours over eastern ohio, eventually will trigger shower or storm here, well also see the humidity ramp up with time. Dew point pretty darn low. Feels real comfortable outside yet again. Nice light wind if any at all, going to continue to see these dew point cli
Point where we are desperate for rainfall. So, lets enjoy. This storm scan is empty, beautiful view out in the live network, sun could become a problem since it is rising over the horizon, shouldnt shall too bad. 55 degrees at cut town area middle school. Comfort owl side. Area temperatures elsewhere reading berks county low 60s, cool spot of this particular batch of observations goes to mount pocono. And Still Holding tough at 68 in philadelphia. And because that dew point is still relatively low, yes, it is a tranquil, comfortable morning, but we do expect to eventually see that humidity reaching up with time. And up in the poconos, probably the first spot where you might see shower or storm. Also, further inland suburbs, like berks or Lancaster County as the next cold front starts to move, in but it point, in the talking any severe weather, anything that comes through would be scattered. So it is casino of in the a big deal, i guess could you say. Im seeing it coming off the weekend
Monique . Reporter its a tough day for not only the officers here but all Police Officers across the city. We have learned that grief counseling is being offered to the men and women here. Police say if youthey are at as to what happened. They dont believe the accident was alcohol related. Ali, he loved his children. Always had them here playing back and forth. Very friendly with the neighbors. Neighbors recall fond memories of sergeant raphael ali. One shares how the 32yearold ali touched his life. I got in an accident on henry avenue. A guy cut me off and my tire blew and he stopped by. He came by and said he saw me. Helped me change it. He was just, you know, awesome. Accident investigators tell us the ten Year Police Veteran lost control here on henry avenue just south of due pont. Sad day for police and our family. Police also say ali was wearing his seat belt but he may have fallen asleep and then unknowingly speeded up in the 35 mile per hour zone. There is no skid marks. No sto