Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Flames shooting out of a bucks county business sending people to the hospital including firefighters. That fire has been so intense it took hours to get under control. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. One of the biggest problems tonights heat Shawnette Wilson is live in doylestown. Shawnette. Reporter well, three firefighters peco employee and bystander were all taken to the hospital treated for heat exhaustion despite officials actually rotating those fire crews to try and prevent that. Tonight heat and humidity proved to be too much. A stubborn fire took emergency crews three hours to get under control. Firefighters got the call just before 5 00 this evening that luxury bath fixtures on main street in doylestown was on fire. Flames, a lot of dark smoke and a lot of firefighters everywhere. Reporter marty, is one of dozens of people who stopped to watch. Officials say they had to call in companies from all
All second, 2016. Lauren dawn johnson well enough to come back to work. I feel better. You look fantastic. Sue serio, how are you today. Doing all right, i upped the number from yesterday six and we have a whooping, seven out of ten in your weather by the numbers today. We will start to see gradual improvement throughout the daytoday and emphasis on gradual. Good news is, we no longer have any showers at the moment throughout the area. Air mass though that we have in place is still very moist, still muggy out there and we just saw some rain, moving off shore but that is it, foggy in the poconos mountains this morning, threequarters of a mile visibility in mount pocono but that is about it for the fog, although, it looks like out by Lancaster County you might to have watch out this morning. It the is cooler with 67 degrees. We have 65 in mount pocono but muggy 73 in philadelphia, 72 in trenton. Seventytwo in dover. Seventyfive in wildwood. Still a humid start today. Here in philadelphia
Unbelievable. August 2nd, 2016 is the date. 73 degrees. Not bad out there. Sue serio tell us more about the weather on this tuesday. Thinks a transition day. We will have mugginess around to daze but by end of the day you will feel lower humidity. Especially if you are going to the phillies game tonight, you will feel more comfortable out there. Seven out of ten in your weather by the numbers today. Nothing much showing up on radar but you could still see a stray shower. We will see green around philadelphia ground is wet outside, and our studios right now. We just got a stray shower. That is the deal we have had since the weekend. These stray showers popping up here and there and could still happen today. Quarter mile visibility in mount pocono right now. Reduced visibility in lancaster but not too bad with the fog. We will keep an eye on that situation. Cooler in lancaster 65. Same in mount pocono. Everybody else is pretty much in the 70s this morning. We have 73 degrees in philadelp
Commutes. Please have all tickets and passes ready. Reporter instead tickets are being collected before you get to the platform on weekdays between 3 00 and 6 30. Stations include temple, jefferson, suburban, 30th street and university city. The confusion along with the first day rush of monthly rail pass sales translated into staggering long lines at suburban station. More people, missed trains, late trains. Reporter the recent defect with septas silver liner fleet translated into crowded trains and conductors unable to collect ticks. So now you must buy that ticket before you get on the train. Good news septa says the crowds will be much shorter tomorrow as people get used to the new system and perhaps get their ticks earlier but lucy tonight a loft frustrated commuters out there tonight. Here we go again. All right. Crisco connell thank you very much. Video making the rounds on social media and now Philadelphia Police have seen it, too. Theyre trying find who he have started this ch
Preliminary investigation reveals the two victims were having a sexual encounter in the back seat of the suv when an unknown individual opened the rear door and fired several shots at close range. Reporter police say they met at work a couple years ago and had an on and off romantic relationship. But they say he had another girlfriend. And shea she was involved with another man. I can tell you from the crime scene it appears to be very much a crime of passion. Youve got nine shots fired, all of them head shots to both of the victims. So it appears to be very much a crime of passion and like i said they both were involved with other people so obviously thats where our investigation is looking at right now. Reporter police have talked to arlines other girlfriend. Police say he lived on the 2800 block of girard not far from lemon hill. The owner of nicks pizza said he was a customer an nice guy. Thats shocking to think anyone like that as a neighbor would be found like that. Its just wild