Police urge residents to avoid area as active investigation continues in Crafton
TONIGHT TRACKING SEVERE STORMS. DOZENS OF COMMUNITIES REPORTING DAMAGE, AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE LEFT WITHOUT POWER. ROUND ONE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH EARLIER TODAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS. I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN ROUND TWO WILL ARRIVE. PLUS, MORGAN WALLEN SECOND CONCERT CANCELED THE LATE MESSAGE FOR FANS ON THE NORTH SHORE. THIS IS A PITTSBURGH'S ACTION WEATHER SEVERE WEATHER ALERT TONIGHT, TRACKING STORM DAMAGE THROUGHOUT SEVERAL WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITIES. SEVERE STORMS ROLLING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON, EVEN A TORNADO WARNING FOR PART OF THE DAY. AND LATER IN THE AFTERNOON, WE SAW SUNNY SKIES, THE STORMS CLEARING UP FOR A BIT. THANKS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. I'M CHANDI CHAPMAN. TODAY IS A SEVERE WEATHER ALERT DAY. STRONG STORMS PUSHING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. AND CHIEF METEOROLOGIST MIKE HARVEY IS HERE. MIKE. HAVE WE SEEN THE LAST OF THESE STORMS JUST YET? WE HAVE NOT. THAT WAS THE FIRST ROUND THAT MOVED THROUGH EARLIER TODAY. AND WE HAVE A SECOND ROUND TO GET THROUGH LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. YOU CAN SEE THE STORMS THAT CAME THROUGH EARLIER. THE HARDEST HIT WAS FROM PITTSBURGH DOWN TO THE SOUTH. THAT'S WHERE WE SAW MOST OF THE DAMAGE REPORTS. AND NOW WE HAVE OUR SECOND WAVE THAT'S GOING TO BE MOVING IN IN OVER TOWARDS CLEVELAND, OVER TOWARDS CAMBRIDGE. AND WE HAVE SOME CELLS THAT ARE LINING UP ALONG I-80 AS WELL. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. YOU SEE THOSE CELLS THAT ARE JUST STARTING TO GET GENERATED AT THIS TIME. THIS CONTINUE TO FILL IN AS WE GO THROUGH THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. AND THAT WILL DROP IN FROM THE NORTH. WE ALSO HAVE STORMS THAT ARE MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST IN ZANESVILLE. THEY WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA AS WELL IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER SET OF STORMS UP TOWARDS THE CLEVELAND AREA THAT IS GOING TO DROP IN FROM THE NORTHWEST, WILL BE CONTINUING WITH ALL THAT AS WE GO THROUGH TONIGHT, AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE REPORTS, WE'VE ALREADY HAD, MOST OF IT IS FROM PITTSBURGH DOWN TO THE SOUTH. EACH ONE OF THESE DOTS IS A TREE DOWN A POWER LINE, DOWN SOME SORT OF DAMAGE REPORT THAT HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY. AND WE HAVE MORE OF THIS TO GET THROUGH AS WE HEAD THROUGH TONIGHT. SO WE WILL STILL SEE SOME DAMAGING WINDS. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. HAIL CAN'T RULE OUT A TORNADO AS WE GO LATER INTO TONIGHT. YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE'LL HAVE THE HEAVY RAIN AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS. AND THIS WILL START TO MOVE OUT AND THEN WE GO INTO TOMORROW. WE'LL HAVE SOME FOG, SOME CLOUDS IN THE MORNING THAT WILL BURN OFF, AND WE WILL HAVE SUNSHINE FOR THE REST OF THE DAY ON SUNDAY. AS FAR AS HOW WARM IT WILL BE, SHOULD BE TURNED INTO A PRETTY NICE DAY. WE WILL BE LOOKING AT HIGH TEMPERATURES TOMORROW THAT WILL BE HITTING THE 80S ONCE AGAIN. THANKS, MIKE. AND WE'RE GETTING REPORTS OF DOWNED TREES AND WIRES THROUGHOUT SEVERAL SOUTHERN COUNTY COMMUNITIES, LIKE HERE IN 84 IN WASHINGTON COUNTY. ELMER AND DONNA JACKSON HEARD THE STORM MOVING THROUGH, AND WHEN IT WAS OVER, THEY LOOKED OUT THE BACK WINDOW AND SAW SEVERAL TREES JUST FLATTENED AND PART OF THEIR BACK DECK GONE OUT, BE SITTING THERE WATCHING TV. AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, MY WIFE SAYS, GET IN THE BASEMENT. AND I LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. YOU SEE THIS BIG WALL OF WATER. NEXT THING. NO, THE TREES ARE I MEAN, THEY WERE LIKE SIDEWAYS. ELMER SAYS IT LOOKED LIKE STRAIGHT LINE DAMAGE TO HIM BECAUSE ALL OF THE TREES WERE PUSHED IN THE SAME DIRECTION. HE SAYS HE PLANTED THOSE TREES HOUSE 20 YEARS AGO. AND A VIEWER SHARED THIS VIDEO OF DAMAGE FROM THE WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA AS WELL. YOU CAN SEE THE DEBRIS AND DOWNED TREES. THIS IS NEAR THE BENTLEYVILLE COAL CENTER DAISY TOWN AREA. SEVERAL ROADS ARE CLOSED THROUGHOUT THAT AREA AND RIGHT NOW, WEST PENN POWER REPORTS MORE THAN 17,000 POWER OUTAGES ACROSS WASHINGTON COUNTY AND MORE THAN 25,000 OUTAGES IN FAYETTE COUNTY. WESTMORELAND COUNTY HAS MORE THAN 7800 AND GREENE COUNTY REPORTS 7700. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL OF THIS WEATHER, WE SPOTTED THIS A SERIES OF BARGES HAD RUN AGROUND NEAR THE BIRMINGHAM BRIDGE, AND AT ONE POINT THE BARGES HAD CUT ACROSS THE MARNE RIVER. IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO FIX THAT SITUATION, THOUGH. A TOW BOAT WAS BROUGHT IN AND THE CAPTAIN WAS ABLE TO PUSH THE BARGES SAFELY TO SHORELINE. TODAY'S STORMS LEFT PLENTY OF CONCERT GOERS DISAPPOINTED. CANCELING TONIGHT'S SHOW AT ACRISURE STADIUM. THE MESSAGE COMING AS FANS HAD ALREADY GATHERED FOR THAT SHOW. PITTSBURGH'S ACTION NEWS FOUR REPORTER KALEA GUNDERSON CAUGHT UP WITH SOME OF THOSE FANS THIS AFTERNOON AND JOINS US LIVE. KAYLEE. CHANDI FANS WERE IN THE STADIUM LOTS FOR HOURS TODAY BEFORE THE GATES WERE SET TO OPEN A MUCH DIFFERENT SCENE. NOW WE HAVE THE TOUR EQUIPMENT BUSSES LINING UP OUTSIDE THE STADIUM AND THE TAILGATING LOTS EMPTY. THEY HAVE COMPLETELY CLEARED OUT, BUT WE TALKED TO SOME TICKETHOLDERS TONIGHT JUST MOMENTS AFTER THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE CHANGE OF PLANS THEIR NIGHT WAS GOING TO TAKE. I'M HOPING THREE TIMES THE CHARM, RIGHT THE SECOND TIME. NOW THE MORGAN WALLEN CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELED. DAY OF ON ALLISON SHUGART. SHE AND MICHELLE ROSCOE WERE READY TO WAIT OUT THE STORM. WE HAD OUR PONCHOS AND WE WERE READY TO GO. BUT WE UNDERSTAND SAFETY IS IMPORTANT, SO WE CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND. AHEAD OF THE SECOND NIGHT OF HIS STILL THE PROBLEM TOUR STOP IN PITTSBURGH, MORGAN WALLEN ANNOUNCING VIA INSTAGRAM AROUND 1:00 THIS AFTERNOON. QUOTE, AFTER TALKING WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS AND MY TEAM, THERE IS NO CHOICE BUT TO CANCEL TONIGHT'S SHOW DUE TO SEVERE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE DAY AND NIGHT. WE WERE ALL IN LINE TO GET IN FOR THE TAILGATE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE SEE ON THE INSTAGRAM STORY THAT MORGAN WALLEN CANCELED AND WE'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOODS PACKED, DRINKS ARE PACKED. I MEAN, THIS IS THIS JUST DOESN'T REPRESENT PITTSBURGH. WALLEN ADDING THAT REFUNDS WOULD BE AVAILABLE. MEGAN JOYCE ASKING, WHAT ABOUT RESCHEDULING? WE'RE SAD. WE WERE HOPING THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE RESCHEDULED, BUT RIGHT NOW IT SAID THEY WERE LOOKING FOR REFUNDS. SO WE'LL SEE IF THEY PICK A NEW DATE OR NOT. BY 245, WE SAW MANY TAILGATERS BEGIN TO CLEAR OUT WHILE OTHERS HUNKERED DOWN AND WAITED OUT THE STORM AND SOME TAKING THE NEWS HARDER THAN OTHERS BOYCOTTING THEM. HEY, JASON ALDEAN'S WE'RE GOING TO BE RIGHT OVER THERE. JASON ALDEAN'S BAR ALL NIGHT. JASON ALDEAN ONLY JASON ALDEAN. WE'LL PLAY GAVIN ADCOCK. WE'LL DO THAT ALL DAY. IT'S NOT HIS SHOW. NOT MORGAN. NOPE. AND WE SHOULD NOTE THAT WE SAW THE STORM PASS OVER THE NORTH SHORE AROUND 230. BY 330, THOUGH, WE SAW THOSE BLUE SKIES PEEPING THROUGH THE CLOUDS. BUT AS MIKE HARVEY SAID, MORE RAIN EXPECTED TONIGHT. WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED COVERING ALLEGHENY COUNTY TONIGHT ON THE NORTH SHORE KALEA GUNDERSON PITTSBURGH'S ACTION NEWS FOUR. AND TODAY'S STORMS COMING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY'S PRIDE FEST BEFORE THE RAIN, PLENTY OF PEOPLE PACKED ALLEGHENY COMMONS PARK ON THE NORTH SIDE FOR THE ANNUAL EVENT. ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE FORCED TO TAKE COVER WHEN THAT RAIN MOVED IN. PRIDE FEST CONTINUES TOMORROW IN THE PARK AND THE BIG PRIDE MARCH AND PARADE IS SET FOR SUNDAY AT NOON. THERE'S A BRAND NEW ROUTE FROM 11TH STREET DOWN LIBERTY AVENUE AND ACROSS THE ANDY WARHOL BRIDGE AND THE DOLLAR BANK, THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL CONTINUES TODAY AND TOMORROW. PLENTY OF PEOPLE PACKING ARTS LANDING IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. THE NEW VENUE WILL SERVE AS THE LONG-TERM HOME FOR THAT FESTIVAL. GUESTS WILL FIND DISPLAYS ALONG FORT DUQUESNE BOULEVARD AS WELL, AND ACROSS THE RACHEL CARSON BRIDGE, AN EVENT THIS WEEKEND IS GIVING COMFORT TO FAMILIES WHOSE LOVED ONES ARE MISSING. FAMILIES GATHERED AT SCHENLEY PLAZA IN OAKLAND TO SHARE A COMMON BOND AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER. THE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY PENNSYLVANIA MISSING PERSONS FOUNDATION. IT'S A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT HELPS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT SOLVE CASES AND FIND MISSING PEOPLE, THE GROUP SAYS. LAST YEAR, THERE WERE CLOSE TO 500,000 CHILDREN AND ADULTS MISSING IN THE COUNTRY, WITH THE COLD CASES AND SOME OF THESE OLDER, OLDER CASES, IT'S SO VITAL TO THE FAMILY TO HAVE THEM RESOLVED, SOME IN SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM THAT THEY'VE BEEN LOCATED DECEASED OR ALIVE. THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY HAVE BOTH ISSUED A PROCLAMATION FOR MAKING TODAY MISSING PERSONS AWARENESS DAY. TONIGHT, STATE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE PERSON WHO FIRED SHOTS AT A DELIVERY DRIVER EARLY THIS MORNING IN ALIQUIPPA, POLICE RESPONDED TO REPORTS OF GUNFIRE NEAR NOEL STREET AROUND 4 A.M. THE DRIVER TOLD INVESTIGATORS THEIR VEHICLE HAD BEEN HIT AT LEAST THREE TIMES. THE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO GIVE POLICE A DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT, BUT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO FIND THAT PERSON. POLICE ARE ASKING ANYONE IN THE AREA OF NOEL STREET, NEAR IRWIN STRE
Police urge residents to avoid area as active investigation continues in Crafton
Updated: 11:25 PM EDT Jun 6, 2026
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Police and SWAT responded to North Linwood Avenue, advising residents to shelter in place before taking a man into custody after several hours. VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4Police told residents to shelter in place Saturday night for their safety. Several hours later, a man was taken into custody. It is not clear what charges he is facing or what prompted the standoff.This is a developing story. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.
Police and SWAT responded to North Linwood Avenue, advising residents to shelter in place before taking a man into custody after several hours.
VIDEO: Top stories on Pittsburgh’s Action News 4
Police told residents to shelter in place Saturday night for their safety.
Several hours later, a man was taken into custody.
It is not clear what charges he is facing or what prompted the standoff.
This is a developing story.
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