Burned plastic. Reporter all that come from the back pocket of darren lovety where he typically keeps his cell phone while in class at mount laurel campus of Rowan College at Burlington County. It is a hole. Reporter that is where he used to keep it. I smelled smoke, i stood up, and i went upward because it was burning my leg, so as i switched up i noticed i was smoking. I threw through the phone on the ground and lit up into flames. I kicked it down, made the fire go out. Reporter by all account his cell phone had simply ignited. Super embarrassing, the whole class got evacuated. Reporter darren has had his iphone six plus for about six months and that it has been working normally. Earlier this month samsung suspended their galaxy note seven phones after reports that battery issues were causing the phones to catch fire. Darren says he didnt expect this from an iphone. I have always heard about samsung, blowing up and actually harming people. I guess i got lucky. Reporter we did reach
In this sport, in all sports, thats hard to do. Youre making 25 million a year. Its hard to be the same guy and he is. He stayed humble. You brought back one of the ryan howard cutouts. The big head yes, my desk. It was freaking you out he will always be close. Thank you so much hes in the house. As we head back to work meantime, we may see something we havent seen in quite some time. That would be the sun. Meteorologist lauren casey joins us with what we can expect for the start of the work week. Thanks natasha. We know its there but we havent seen it in a number of days. The fog settled back in across center city philadelphia. You cant see the skyline, 64 our current temperature, close to the due point temperature, three mile visibility in reading, eight mile visibility in Atlantic City and dealing with spotty showers, mainly light in intensity, seeing a little cluster trying to work bucks county. Up in and around mount pocono. As we head into the overnight period, chance of a few pa
Emotional day at the ballpark there was a lot of water works at the ballpark. A lot of it well deserved when you think about all thats happened. Since 2005, the big piece has been the center piece of the phillies during a fouryear stretch. He averaged 50 home run as year. Today, it wasnt all about the numbers. It was more about the memories. Howard was honored before the game in a 15 minute ceremony. He gripped the mic and tear fully thanked the fans and reminiscing about the good times. His 15yearold son was part of the fleflts. He was 0 for 4 is at the plate. Fans cheered his every move. I spoke to him while he was carrying his baby daughter what was the most emotional part of the day for you . I believe just the video and just you know, just seeing all the fans and just my team mates and everything kind of taking it all in. Just watching the video of all the different, you know, different times and moments was what i think got me. Reporter youve had a lot of great moments. I heard y
10 00. Cat 4 Hurricane Matthew is bearing down on caribbean. Kathy orr is in the weather center. She has the latest showing matthewss track but we got several days before worries about matthews around here. We to take a live look at reading, some are hoping that strange yellow globe reappears. Whats on your radar . Kathy, i dont know if you got your finger on the pulse of matthew. Right now we have areas of fogs, mist and clouds continued. I counted them up six days. Were seeing some drying going on but expect fog overnight and start the day tomorrow. Ultimate doppler that upper level low pressure system spinning nearly a work to our northwest is slowly weakening. You can see it right now over toronto. Its bringing in a few more spotty showers, possibly through bucks county, the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Otherwise, mainly dry as these continued to move toward the north and east and will be drying it out during the day tomorrow. 63 in philadelphia. Allentown, 62. 65 in millville, 6
Thats what we got. Meanwhile the weather stopped a ground stop at philadelphia international. No flights going out or coming in. Wednesday night, the big story on action news is a night of heavy, heavy rain and wicked winds. And while the tornado threat is now ending, we are facing serious flash flooding. The system sparking tornados down south barrelled into the Delaware Valley and it took a toll on trees, intern causing considerable damage. This is how it looked after a tree crashed into a house in new jersey. This was the scene in downingtown tonight where street lights were out. No electric treesity here. The storm has plunged tens of thousands of people in our area into the dark tonight. Peco has nearly 15,000 pse g 8300 outages mostly camden county. And Atlantic City close to 10,000 and Delmarva Power under 800. And live in sheltonham, first we go to meteorologist cecily tynan. We had a Tornado Warning in Lancaster County. Does it mean its likely a twister did touch down there .