Anything that happens here. I am a part of the community. Residents living in chester Delaware County are fed up. Federal officials already consider it one of the most violent cities in the country and so far this year things are worse than before. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Community members came together to try to stop the violence that is killing their friends, their family and their neighbors. Our bruce gordon is live in chester. Bruce, what an a emotion packed evening. Reporter yeah, it sure was. Look, seven weeks into the new year and already seven homicides in a steve 34,000 people. To night as you say some of those people came here to city hall to say theyve had enough. Youve heard the expression, preaching to the choir . Well, meet the choir. More than 100 chester residents who care enough about their community to come out on a bitter cold night to search for solutions to an out of control crime problem. In the middle of the chaos, theres the
Back so are fightin phillies and they swung for fences. We will tell what you they had to say. The great to have you with us on this fridays, it is tgif. Weekend is upon us, long weekend for some. That is some, kid are off. My children to come to your house. Oh, yeah. On tuesday. Uncle thomas house. There is nothing in the fridge anyway. That is true. She has seen my fridge. I know. Where is the tissue. I know. Here we go, with a great start to the weekend, it is in the as windy and it is a little bit mild tore day. Today is seasonal. We will give you eight out of 10. Tens coming later. Wind gusts we have calmed down quite a get 23 in mount pocono seventeen in wildwood. Here in philadelphia we have 29 degrees but it feels like 20 outside, so, dont let the promise of the warm weekend, dissuede from you bundling up this morning because we have many wind chills that are in the teens, this morning. No precipitation, in fact, clear skies, hardly any included, that is why it got the so cold
Prison sentence at Columbia Correctional Institution in portage. Halbachs murder trial gained National Attention this past winter when the documentary making a murderer was released on netflix. Stay with fox6 for more on this developing story. The rain has been coming down for a while now. Our entire viewing area is under a Flash Flood Watch. How much rain can we expect . Tom wachs is in the Weather Office to fill us in. Tom . Until 12am for all of se wi scattered thunderstorms with locally heavy rain will continue this evening before tapering off overnight. Temperatures will fall into the upper 60s by sunrise. Mostly cloudy with a chance for a few isolated showers saturday and a high around 80. Mostly sunny on sunday with a high in the lowtomid 80s. Dewpoints will drop from the upper 60s saturday into the mid thunderstorms. Locally heavy rain. Low 68 dewpoint 68 wind ne 510 mph saturday mostly cloudy with a chance for an isolated shower. High 80 dewpoint 69 wind nw 510 mph sunday most
Seven others. Tonight bostons stalled Body Camera Program is back on, a judge ruling in the commissioners favor today, allowing the Pilot Program to go on. Reporter it means those 100 officers assigned to the program will begin wearing the cameras on the streets next week. The union said it was a breach of contract to force them to do so, but commissioner has the authority to make something voluntary mandatory. Its lousy that its weighed out. I dont like to say its a victory. Were just going to move forward. Reporter they faced off in court over the voluntary body camera Pilot Program that was supposed to start last week. But no one volunteered, so 100 mandated service. Today the court called the quest a selfinflicted wound. The injunction for the successful implementation. I have a great department. We have nothing to hide. Hopefully this will show that we want to be transparent, accountable, and show some of the challenges we cited studies that body cameras put officers at greater ri
Weve been hearing all day that gronk was not on the plane to arizona with his teammates, but wondered if he might travel tomorrow instead. Now the patriots have ruled the tight end out for the game sunday night with a hamstring injury. Offensive linemen nate solder and Jonathan Cooper did not make the trip either and will not play. Much more coming up in sports. For now, live in the newsroom, josh brogadir, wcvb sportscenter 5. Breaking news, a young woman hit by a car in ashland. Police say the 18 year old from milford was crossing pleasant street around 8 oclock, when she was hit. Hospital, with serious injuries. The driver, a 24yearold ashland man, is cooperating. Jc turn them off and dont recharge them. The warning tonight for owners of the Samsung Galaxy note 7 smartphone. Federal Safety Experts saying the risk of explosion or fire is just too great. All this happening as samsung prepares for a huge recall. Right now, our mary saladna is live in boston with the dangers you need to