Karen rogers ill talk more about that in the accuweather 7day i can see your Traffic Camera bouncing a little bit. Yeah, winds shaking the cameras a little bit so watch for that as youre heading out. Were looking live here burlington bristol bridge. Traffic is just starting to move once again. We had a bridge opening but traffic moving again so looking a little bit better right there. Sticking with your bridge overview, the ben franklin bridge looking pretty good. Westbound traffic just a few cars coming into the city. Yesterday morning you were driving in the rain. Today you are clear. We do have an Early Morning accident though here in horsham right on easton road so watch for it near moreland avenue. Were hearing there are injuries on the scene so emergency workers coming there. Live outside of i95 at broad street thats your southbound traffic headed towards the girard point bridge. No problems right now. A good look at i95 with no problems. Hopping into new jersey this is what it looks like on 42 if youre coming up from deptford or turnersville youre looking good so far. We have pretty light volume. Matt and alicia. Thank you karen. We continue to follow breaking news overseas. A highjacked egyptair plane has landed safely in cyprus an island in the Mediterranean Sea and the president of that country is now saying the incident is not pr related to terrorism. A passenger claiming to be armed with an explosive belt forced the flight to change course. So far negotiations with the highjacker have resulted in the release of all passengers except for the crew and four foreigners. The highjacker is said to be an egyptianamerican with dual citizenship and hes a doctor demanding a translator and political asylum. Stay with action news and 6abc. Com as they try to get all of those people including the highjacker off the plane. Developing right now, the search for a hit and run driver who struck the victim so violently the mans body ended up in a burger king parking lot. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live where this happened along route 130 in pennsauken. Katherine. Reporter matt, at this point police havent released a description of the vehicle but we do know theres front end damage to that vehicle. They also have not released the identity of the victim. Now, this happened last night here along route 130 in the southbound lanes in pen salk can ken. The road is opened right now but it was closed for hours for the police investigation. Police say a man had been crossing right around here on route 130 near browning road around 11 30 last night. According to police, he made it out to the median before being struck by a vehicle traveling south. The man was then thrown across the southbound lanes and he landed in a parking lot near a burger king and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police were here looking for evidence and they did recover a front bumper that came off the striking vehicle and again, we dont have a description of the vehicle but there are a lot of businesses around here and the hope is that there are some surveillance cameras that can can provide more information to police. We are live in pennsauken, Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. All right, katherine, thank you. New this morning, flames broke out inside a sheep barn in new castle county, delaware. A farmer on the ground noticed smoke on the Cranston Heights property just before midnight. He was able to rescue about a dozen animals. The barn sits on an Historic Property from the 1700s. Now operated as green bank mill, a living history museum. Dozens of bricks fell off of a building and crashed right onto north broad street overnight. Fortunately it happened at an hour where there werent a lot of people outside. No one was hurt. Building inspectors are now on the scene in north philadelphia to determine a cause. Police have closed off the sidewalk and one lane of broad street while crews clean up the debris. The Capitol Visitors Center in washington will be opened today following a Security Breach that forced police to open fire. 66yearold larry dawson of tennessee is charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon and assault on a Police Officer while armed. Police shot him yesterday saying dawson pulled a gun in the center. He is in stable but critical condition. A female bystander also sustained nonlifethreatening injuries. Now, police say they arrested dawson last year and issued a court order for him to stay away from capitol grounds. The American Airlines copilot who was taken off a flight bound for philadelphia over the weekend has been charged with operating under the influence. John maguire was escorted from the plane on suspicion of being drunk. Maguire is from chadds ford delaware county. Happening today, president barack obama will address the heroin and Prescription Drug epidemic that is sweeping the country. The Obama Administration will issue a proposed rule today that aims to increase medication based treatment for people addicted to opioids like codeine and morphine. In addition, 60 medical schools will committee to increased training for prescribing opioids. Deaths linked to those drugs soared to more than 29,000 in 2014. Thats the highest number on record. The fbi has hacked into the iphone belonging to one of the San Bernadino shooters without any help from apple. The government has now withdrawn its court order against the Cell Phone Company which refused to unlock device. The fbi wont say how it managed to access the data on syed farooks home. Apple with the final word here saying it will continue to increase the security of its products and also reiterating its position that the governments demand on them was unethical. Turning now accuweather. Not as windy as yesterday but still a little still pretty blustery. Yeah, tomorrow saturday where High Pressure settles over us and knocks those winds down. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows you were dry as we take a look outside. We have the camera shaking a little bit out there as we try and focus in on the platt bridge. And thats cause there is still a wind blowing around. It really built in yesterday afternoon and last night and its still there. 49 degrees is your current temperature in philadelphia. Your winds westnorthwest at 20 Miles Per Hour. And a lot of us are looking at winds in the teens across the region. 49 degrees in philadelphia, so it is cool. 45 at allentown and reading. 47 in both wilmington and trenton. I knew that was going hit me. 47 degrees by atlantic city. Part of the weather story this morning by the way is how the pollen count is back up and you are seeing evidence that of right now. We have satellite showing you some cloud cover. High and thin enough where i think it is going to probably filter out pretty quickly this morning once the sun gets over the horizon and we will wind up with plenty of sunshine. But one of the big stories today will be the fact that we have more gusty winds on the way. The winds wont be quite as strong as yesterday. Out of the northwest at 15 to 30 Miles Per Hour, gusting up to 35. Yesterday, of course, we were worried about gusts up to 45 or 50 so not as strong but still Strong Enough to cause a concern about debris on the roadways whether it be tree branches or crash cans, Something Like that. Temperatures are going to be cooler today, too. Well still be in the 40s through most of the morning and staying in the 50s this afternoon instead of the 60s like we saw yesterday. Your high about 57 degrees or right in there around 3 30 or 4 oclock this afternoon. Windy, sunny and a little cooler. High temperatures across the region 52 degrees in allentown, 53 reading, 56 trenton, 58 wilmington and millville and 54 in cape may. Tomorrow things get a little bit better. High pressure rolls in and with that high right over us that will knock those winds down plus well get more sunshine and well bump that temperature up to about 60 degrees and its going to get even warmer than that as we head into thursday and friday. Your exclusive accuweather 7day forecast, windy and cooler today with a high of 57 degrees. Tomorrow sunny and cool, less wind and a high of 60. And then sun gives way to clouds on thursday as a front approaches but ahead of that front we will get up to 72 for an afternoon high. There will be some rain arriving eventually. It may hold off until the evening hours which would give us a pretty nice day and then some of that rain spills into friday. By friday afternoon were hoping for the return of some sunshine. Another high of 70 degrees as we wont see that cool air rush in right away behind the departing front so a couple of nice afternoon highs on thursday and friday. Then we get into the weekend and on saturday its breezy and cooler. 57 degrees, a spotty shower cant be ruled out and real chilly air comes in for sunday and monday. At least for this time of year. 49 degrees sunny and chilly on sunday and mostly sunny on monday but a high still only around 50. All right, david, thank you. Still to come can on action news this morning, a raging inferno rips through a skyscraper forcing hundreds to run for their lives. A postal worker in new york is speaking out about his controversial arrest that was caught on camera. Karen. Looking live here at 309 near the pennsylvania turnpike. Traffic moving nicely at this point. No issues there. Were going take a look at the blue route coming up. Plus, the crafty crook who used a toothbrush to escape prison. That story later on action news this morning. 5 42 this tuesday morning. Thanks for waking up with us. It is a little bit better than yesterday. The sun is going to make an appearance today. Youre looking at sky6 hd over the ben franklin bridge there. Nice looking shot. Meteorologist dave murphy says well get up to about 57 today. Lets turn to traffic and karen rogers. Karen. Good morning. Looking at suburban traffic report. Lets show you what these roads look like. Still gusty winds this morning so you may see some debris flying around out there. But this is the blue route near the schuylkill and traffic here moving very nicely unlike yesterday morning with the rain were looking good weatherwise at least dry conditions for you as you head out on the blue route. We do have some construction going on out there. County line road between park road and fairmount closed until april 8th. Use horsham road as your alternate. Thats new construction starting this week. Same situation in northampton. Willow road near Bustleton Pike is shut down until june. Tanyard road is your alternate for that one. We have crews on the scene right now on the a. C. Expressway eastbound between the parkway and route nine blocking two lanes. Thats going to be out there for about another hour so watch for about until about 6 30 theyll open that up again. Lets go to your commuter traffic report. We found johnny bravo up early telling us about an object on the road north Church Street in parkesburg. Not surprising you might find a few objects on the roads with the gusty winds that we have out there so look for that. 49 degrees currently in philadelphia. Its 45 in allentown. And 48 in millville. Now, yesterday we made it up to 70. Today its much cooler, 57 degrees for your high but we will have mostly sunny skies. It will still be windy, though, matt. Got you karen, thanks. A strange wreck left a driver dangling from a power pole for nearly two hours. This is new video of the rescue effort in tennessee. Crews reached the 56yearold driver by smashing in a window then lowering her down in a bucket truck. The vehicles fronts tire appeared to be caught on a guideline. Its not clear how the car ended up in that position. The woman was not hurt and no charges have been filed so far. Fire raced up the side of a highrise tower in the United Arab Emirate last night. The flames quickly spread to a second building. Hundreds of residents were evacuated. So far only minor injuries have been reported. Officials say they have brought the fire under control. Now, this comes just three months after a similar blaze at a hotel in dubai on new years eve. Police in west deptford, new jersey, have charged a man with aggravated assault after a video of a violent attack against a teenager went viral on the internet. Police say 26yearold Paul Cojocaru confessed to the crime. He was caught on cell phone video profusely beating a 17yearold boy at a National Park home. Police will not detail the motive behind the attack but they do say that the two are acquaintances. They say the 17yearold victim is okay and not in danger. New York City Police commissioners says an investigation is under way after officers arrested a postal worker. The march 17th confrontation was caught on cell phone video and that video shows four plainclothes officers and a lieutenant arresting postal worker glen graves. Gravers says he was delivering mail when an Unmarked Police car nearly hit him. He says he shouted something at the car and then the officer got out and demanded identification. Graves ended up handcuffed and then placed in the back that of Unmarked Police car. Africanamericans are targeted by cops. I thought it would be even different if i put the eagle on my chest and uniform and go to work every day. Situations are being looked at different, ill be looked at different but obviously i wasnt. Police have also gathered Surveillance Video from the time of the incident as part of this investigation. Alaska airlines plans to resume dozens of flights today that were canceled due to a cloud of volcanic ash. A passenger on a plane captured this image of the pavlov volcano erupting on the allusioaleutian islands. The cloud had stretched 400 miles and 37,000 feet in the air yesterday. Conditions around the volcano appear to be calming down. The ash though he can cause jet engine failure. 5 frick. Two roaming roosters were shot dead and the woman who pulled the trigger is now facing some pretty serious criminal charges. Well tell you which celebrity is no more on dancing with the stars. David. All right, guys, we are dressing the kids a little warmly this morning because we do have temperatures in the 40s and a pretty blustery wind blowing. This afternoon it gets a little bit better. We will have your day planner forecast coming up next, let you know right where those numbers are going today. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Only fios has the Fastest Internet on the most awarded network. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good, only fios can. Gusty winds brought down a metal billboard in bristol bucks county last night the pole took down some power lines and utility poles as it toppled to the ground. This happened along airport and runway avenue. No Power Outages were reported. But man i heard those winds howling last night. As you know i dont usually wake up at your hour of the day. Right. So, i didnt get a lot of sleep to begin with. My cats were like the wind were howling and we found a couple spots where we had debris on the roadway. You need to be careful. Were looking at the platt bridge by i95. We had an overturned vehicle that shut down the platt late last night. You can see everything is fine this morning. Its opened and things looking good. Roads are dry. Just watch for those gusty winds and debris out there. Heres a new problem coming in. The Thorndale Paoli line 15 minute delays. Theyre having some signal problems dealing with there, david. Cool temperatures an cross the region this morning karen in the northern and western suburbs. Low to mid 40s. Upper 40s as we get down toward philadelphia. And over in south jersey and up and down the state of delaware looks like upper 40s from hockessin down to dover. Spline dain a doesnt feel like telling us this morning. 46 in vineland, 57 cinnaminson and 48 in sea isle city. As we roll through the day look for plenty of sunshine after a little quick Early Morning cloud cover that should burn off fairly quickly but its going to be windy again with winds gusting 30 to 35 Miles Per Hour at times. Obviously its cooler, a lot of us got into the upper 60s yesterday. Philadelphia briefly touched 70. Your high today only 57 degrees with those strong blustery winds, matt and alicia. Thank you david. And you can get the latest sevenday forecast and take a look at storm tracker6 radar any time by going to 6abc. Com weather. A popular nascar driver plans to donate his brain to science. Dale earnhardt jr. Lopes to help concussion research. He suffered two of them in 20s 12 tha2012. Nascar has mandatory baseline concussion testing. The policy has only been in effect since 2014. A young fan called his own press on basketball star carmello anthony. The little boy sprinted onto the court to embrace the new york nicaragua las nick last ni. Maybe the boy thought the player needed a hug. Anthony patted him on the head and kept him in place until the referee directed the child back to the stands. Hugs, always the answer. Geraldo rivera leading on the and a high note getting a low score but a lot of laughs on dancing with the stars. Rivera got the boot after sporting a blond wig and a spray tan channeling his inner donald trump for the salsa. Rivera says he believes the republican president ial candidate would have enjoyed the routine. Actor Harrison Ford is going auction off his han solo costume to help find a cure for epilepsy. His 25yearold daughter has it. Ford says proceeds will go to new york universitys langon center which is where georgia goes for treatment. It is 5 55 this tuesday morning. Thanks for waking up with us. Sky6 hd taking a live look at the camden aquarium there. Imagine a lot of them are still sleep at this hour. Going get up to the high 50s today. A criminal proved to be a real stick in the mud for police in houston, texas. Take a look at this new video. The suspect got stuck at the bottom of a river bank yesterday. He bailed out of a truck with a busted tire in an attempt to escape a police pursuit. Police eventually pulled him out of the muddy river. Thats where they got him and took him into custody. No getting out of that. Authorities have not said what prompted the man to run from police in the first place. The search is on for an inmate who escaped a North Carolina jail with the help of a toothbrush. The sheriff says 26yearold Kelvin Singleton somehow turned a toothbrush into a weapon and then forced an officer to let him out of the detention facility on sunday. The officer was not harmed. Singleton has been jailed on charges of robbery and Second Degree kidnapping. A Schuylkill County woman faces animal cruelty charges for killing two roosters. She says she did it because she he woke her up. The two roosters had been donated to the pioneer tunnel coal mine tourist attraction in ashland about a year ago. Police say 21yearold jena case so was sleeping when she heard the roosters coast guard just after 6 00 a. M. Last wee crowing just after 6 00 a. M. They never bothered anybody. I never heard of them attacking anybody. They seemed pretty friendly. Police say they didnt have any previous complaints about the roosters. The pennsylvania spca is offering a 1,000 reward in connection with a shooting death of a cat. The dead cat was discovered saturday on the 500 block of cantrell street in south philadelphia. If you know who killed the cat, contact the spcas cruelty hotline. Heres the number 866601spca. A highjacker diverted an egyptian plane to cyprus. More on his demands and who is still on that plane next. Wawa puts up the help wanted sign and it is no junior or shorty sized job list. Ive always taken on the status quo. In harrisburg, they didnt like it when i stopped their perks and pushed for reform. As head of pennsylvanias thirdlargest county, i cut out wall street middlemen to protect pensions, stood up for Marriage Equality and protected our environment. Now im fighting for criminal justice reform. Im proud to be backed by tom wolf, ed rendell and people who care about our families. Im josh shapiro. Ill be an attorney general who always fights for you. Youre unpacking already . Yeah, help me find some mugs. Sure. beep hey. O. K. Theyll do. Wake up to the mountain grown aroma of folgers. The best part of wakin up so, where do you want to start . I think this is a pretty good place. Is folgers in your cup action news. Delaware valleys leading news program. With matt odonnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. Its 6 oclock on this tuesday march 29th. Tam is off. Alicia vitarelli joins us and were following several breaking stories. Scare in the air. A highjacked airliner full of passengers makes an Emergency Landing in cyprus. A driver takes off after striking and killing a plan on a south jersey roadway. Were live with the police search. After a windy start to the work week more sun will peek through today. Accuweather is tracking the very latest. And who is divvying up that slice of nice . Is it karen or is it david . Theyre both pretty nice. Not too bad today. Its better tomorrow. Were still dealing with winds today and i can file on the terrace right now. Lets get you the satellite. We have cloud cover but its high and thin and it is going to be breaking apart pretty quickly this morning. We should get plenty of sunshine back in play in a hurry. 48 degrees is the number keeps dipping in philadelphia. Just 44 in aen
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