First up, meteorologist karen rogers in for david and matt pelman with traffic. Good morning. Good morning. Unusual here at 5 oclock in the morning and were seeing temperatures at 40 degrees in martins creek, line in quakertown and pottstown. Its already 51 degrees in coatesville, 52 in kennett square, 55 in chester and we just went up to 56 right now in center city. Had an update there n south jersey lets check these numbers. 57 in hammonton, 55 vineland, 56 in dover delaware. Usually our average high for this date is 42 so you see how these temperatures are way above average. Storm tracker6 live double scan showing maybe a couple sprinkles trying to pop up. For the most part were dry. But this is whats on the way. Some showers coming in our direction associated with a front thats going to bring a big change to our weather tomorrow. The first half of your day is going to be wet at times with showers moving through at 7 00 a. M. , 56 degrees. Still a few showers at 10 00 a. M. But were
Licensing was gunned down october 17th, his body dumped at eightysecond and lions avenue in southwest philadelphia. It was a thinking, really. Your stomach drops to the floor. Reporter his mother, long griffin, whose husband was murdered in 1992 is now making funeral plans, to the youngest of her three sons. You can say okay, they caught the person, but it doesnt bring him back. Reporter these pictures police say show jordan wearing a specially design 2,000 mask and wig to alter his appearance, holding up one of five banks he has allegedly robbed since june, here in Chestnut Hill and in bucks county. As police press their search for possible clues in the schuylkill, sources say that they are new looking into whether jordan may have killed as many as five others, whether their investigation turns up enough evidence to file additional murder charges beyond longs killing is for now an unanswered questions. Now as of right now, jordan is being held without bail on murder and other charges,
Were not missing any conduct that would be worthy of criminal prosecution. Reporter the bucks County District Attorney Says even the most disturbing of the hazing incidents on the central bucks west Football Team dont rise to the level of a crime. The superintendent canceled the rest of the teams season after learning seniors forced rookie players to touch the private parts of others while clothed and there was a shower incident. For instance, the socalled waterboarding involved children having towels or wash cloths put over their faces and then being taken under the shower. If you do that long enough, if you hold the kids head right under the shower and they start aspirating water, that could be very serious. Doesnt appear from the investigation that has been done so far, that that degree of conduct occurred. Reporter but if parents believe their childs physical health or safety was involved or there was inappropriate mental stress or embarrassment, the District Attorney wants it to b
Pat collins, news4. They are there to protect you if you get into an accident. But thousands of guard rails across virginia may hold a h hidden that could make a crash worse, even deadly. Transportation reporter, adam tuss, joins us live from fairfax tonight with more on the danger and what vdot plans to do about it. Adam . Reporter hey, jim. Virginia is now the first state in the entire country to say that it will replace detective guard rails. Take a look here on route 50 in fairfax. Of course, we drive past these kinds of guard rails on a daily basis. Dont think twice about them. But there could be a real danger with the design. When you hit a guardrail, the head of the rail is supposed to absorb the impact and push all the metal away from the vehicle. But Transportation Leaders say a company that manufacturers rail heads, as theyre known, made a costcutting Design Change in 2005, without telling federal officials. And that Design Change could turn rail heads into weapons. In essenc
But quite literally, they could be anywhere. A guardrail that could do more harm than good. What does that make you think of when youre out driving around . I dont want to hit a guardrail. Reporter you sigh, when you hit a guardrail, the head of the rail is supposed to absorb the impact and push all the metal behind it away from the vehicle. But Transportation Leaders say a company that manufactures rail heads, as theyre known, made a costcutting Design Change in 2005 without telling federal officials. And that Design Change could turn rail heads into weapons. In essence, the metal could act like a spear, piercing through cars. More than a dozen states now ban new purchases of this product from texasbased Trinity Industries. The rail heads are in use in maryland and virginia. And virginia is now the first state to say it will remove the guard rails. Drivers agree. I think its time to replace them. Reporter Trinity Industries has told federal and state officials, it will cooperate with