One person was injured after an oil truck overturned on the New Jersey Turnpike Wednesday morning.
The oil truck flipped over on its side on the exit ramp for exit 7 in Bordentown, Burlington County.
The driver of the vehicle was briefly trapped inside the vehicle following the crash. He was removed and transported to a nearby hospital for treatment.
No oil leaked during the crash, officials said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
A New Jersey man took a gamble that backfired over the weekend.
William Robert Compton, 53, of Manalapan, was arrested on Friday after he allegedly relieved himself in the coin tray of a slot machine at Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Police arrived on the gaming floor at 4:35 p.m. for the report of the man urinating on a slot machine. Compton resisted arrest, getting physical with officers when they attempted to take him into custody, police said.
Parx Casino management issued a permanent eviction banning Compton from all its properties.
Compton was taken to Bucks County Correctional Facility. He remained there on Monday in lieu of $50,000 bail.
What caused the beautiful sunset over the area following severe storms that rolled through? NBC10 Chief Meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz said it could be hail.
NBC10 was flooded with amazing photos of pink, orange and even yellow sunset skies over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware following a line of strong storms Tuesday evening.
NBC10 Chief Meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz said the striking orange sky that followed the storm was created by the way the setting sun reflected off the heavy clouds as the storm moved out.
“The clouds are so dark, and they may have hail in them,” Schwartz said. “The sun reflects off the hailstones.”
Schwartz said the timing was key for the stunning skies. “At 2 in the afternoon, we wouldn’t have seen that,” he said.
You can always submit photos to NBC10 through the NBC10 App or right here.
What do you do when the electricity goes out? Now, you can Plug In, and Power Up!
NBC10 and Telemundo62 are partnering with Comcast to offer viewers who lose power the ability to recharge their devices at participating Comcast/Xfinity store locations in the region. As power outages occur, listed locations will become active Plug In, Power Up sites to assist viewers in need.
This is a FREE service and anyone is welcome to visit participating locations.
To find your closest Plug In, Power Up location and to determine which locations are active during power outages, please refer to the list below.
LOCATIONS:
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Four people, including two children, were taken to the hospital after a carbon monoxide incident in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday morning, fire officials confirmed.
It happened along the 6400 block of Castor Avenue in the city’s Oxford Circle section before noon Wednesday.
According to fire department officials on scene, two children and two adults were taken to the hospital. Three of them were found unresponsive, fire officials said.
The conditions of the victims were not immediately known.
Two other individuals were evaluated and treated at the scene.
The location was reportedly a store front with apartments on top.
The incident remained under investigation.
After Tuesday's massive storms, the National Weather Service did not immediately hit the streets to determine whether any tornadoes were to blame for the widespread damage in several areas.
NBC10 Chief Meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz said there's a good reason for that: The damage was so widespread there wasn't any one location to pinpoint early on to inspect for evidence of a tornado.
"You can see on the damage reports from yesterday ... there are so many of them, and they're so widespread across the area, so many reports of 70 mph winds, so many reports of multiple trees down, that basically, you don't know where to go to search for any kind of potential tornado," Schwartz said.
"You look at every report, so what are they going to do? Are they going to go to 200 different neighborhoods and look around?" Schwartz explained. "So what they're going to do is they've contacted the local officials, asked them to take a look at the areas that have been damaged the most, and see if there's anything suspicious."
Schwartz said there are usually some telltale signs that indicate whether straight-line winds or a tornado may be the culprit of storm damage.
"With tornadoes, generally you'll have trees blown down in different directions," he said. "With straight-line winds, they'll all be blown down the same way, and sometimes it's obvious it's a straight-line wind, so you don't need to call the Weather Service and have them come out there."
Surveillance video helped Philadelphia Police track down and arrest a man for a car break-in in a section of the city that has seen dozens of cars burglarized in the past month.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Dennis Wilson said the man broke into a Honda along the 900 block of S. 23rd Street in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood earlier this week.
The act was caught on surveillance video and after reviewing the clip, 17th District Officers Madara and Allen identified the man and took him into custody, according to Wilson. The suspect has 36 priors.
"I thought the officers did a great job and I wanted to recognize them for that," Wilson told NBC10 after tweeting praise about the arrest.
Police have been investigating more than 67 car break-ins in the neighborhood — between Washington Avenue and Lombard Street and Broad Street to the Schuylkill River — over the past month.
The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, has only been implicated in the one break-in. Wilson said police are looking into whether he was involved in any others.
A man was killed and three people were injured after a car flew off of the New Jersey Turnpike and landed upside down in a business parking lot Wednesday morning, police said.
Police said a 22-year-old Jersey City man was driving a 2010 Honda Civic southbound on the turnpike in Linden when he lost control of the car, running off the right side of the road, going across a grass embankment and hitting a utility pole and fence before falling upside down into the parking lot on Trmpley Point Road, hitting four parked cars.
There were three passengers in the car, all teenagers who are also from Jersey City, police said. Two of them were ejected.
Those passengers, Jose Cruz, 18, and Richard Donan, 19, were airlifted to University Hospital in Newark. Cruz was pronounced dead at noon, police said.
Donan is critical condition with life-threatening injuries. The third passenger, 14-year-old Christian Donan sustained moderate injuries and is in stable condition at University Hospital.
The driver, Jonathan Donan, was treated for moderate injuries at University Hospital and released.
The Glenside baby pool has been shut down as officials try to determine what is causing children to get cuts to their hands and feet during swims.
Cheltenham Township officials closed the pool along Keswick Avenue Tuesday after a number of parents complained their children were injured.
Township manager Brian Havir tells NBC10 the pool was resurfaced over the summer and they were reaching out to the company to see if the bottom needed to be smoothed out. A slightly rough texture is typically left on the bottom to provide traction and prevent falls, officials said.
The pool will remain closed until the issue is fixed. The adult pool remains open. Havir said there have been no complaints after swims in there.
A gunman stole $20,000 during a robbery in North Philadelphia Wednesday night, police said.
The robbery happened just after 8 p.m. along the 4400 block of Whitaker Avenue. Police said the armed suspect demanded the money and the victim complied without being injured.
Police provided a vauge description of the suspect: a man wearing a grey shirt and blue pants.
A 2-year-old boy was critically hurt after being hit by a car in West Philadelphia Wednesday night, police said.
The incident happened just before 9 p.m. along the 4100 block of Cambridge Street.
Paramedics rushed the boy to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for treatment, police said.
The driver stayed at the scene.
Police are investigating.
In the aftermath of the severe storms that walloped the region Tuesday evening, power outages continued to affect tens of thousands of people throughout the area Wednesday.
More than 260,000 customers across the region remained without power Wednesday night.
In Philadelphia and its suburbs that included more than 82,300 PECO customers and the power company said service was expected to be restored to most customers by Friday.
For Atlantic City Electric customers, it was a different story: Lendel Jones, a spokeswoman for the company, said that although power had been restored to more than 100,000 customers who were among the 280,000 who lost power at the height of the storm, the company was unsure when service would be fully restored.
Jones said she expected an update with a timeline later Wednesday. At 11 p.m., roughly 150,000 remained in the dark.
More AC Electric customers lost power in Tuesday's storm than in Hurricane Sandy, Jones said. During Sandy, 220,000 lost service, she said, but the severity of the damage to power equipment was much worse, so outages lasted longer.
Both Jones and PECO spokeswoman Deb Yemenijian said additional workers were being brought in from as far away as Ohio to repair damage caused by the storm and restore power.
Jones said AC Electric is working with the Red Cross and the Office of Emergency Management to get ice and water for residents affected by the outages.
Yemenijian urged residents to check on relatives and neighbors during the duration, and to call to report any additional outages, downed power lines or dangerous conditions.
"We want all our customers to be sure to stay safe," she said.
PECO's emergency line for reporting outages, downed power lines and other issues is available 24/7, she added. Customers can call 1-800-841-4141.
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PSE&G set up three locations where people can get ice, drinking water and power strips to recharge their devices: Cherry Hill West High School, Medford Fire House and Lenola Fire House.
Here is a list of regional power outages:
PECO:
- Delaware County: 46,145
- Chester County: 32,608
- Philadelphia: 1,090
- Montgomery County: 2,546
Atlantic City Electric:
- Atlantic County: 8,763
- Burlington County: 12,035
- Camden County: 45,808
- Gloucester County: 71,951
- Cumberland County: 2,816
- Salem County: 8,999
PSE&G:
- Burlington County: 5,914
- Camden County: 11,180
- Gloucester County: 4,221
Delmarva Power:
- New Castle County: 7,195
